Terms of service

Who we are

jonathanarvay.com is Jonathan Arvay's website business, based in Valparaiso, Indiana. Write to the address on the contact page about anything on this page.

What we do

We design, build and host websites, connect your domain, and make changes when you ask by email. Every site we build also gets free advertising and placement across the other sites we run, as described on Services.

How a project works

1. You write to us about what the site is for.
2. We send a written quote for the work, after any questions, and nothing starts until you accept it.
3. You review the real site on a private preview link and tell us what to change.
4. Once you approve it, we point your domain at the site and switch on HTTPS.

Paying for a build. Half the quoted price is due when you accept the quote, and the rest when you approve the site, before it goes live. Invoices are due within 14 days.

Work past the quote. If you ask for more than the quote covers, we tell you the price in writing first. Nothing extra is charged without your yes.

Who owns the site. Once the build is paid in full, the site we made for you is yours: its design, its words and its images. We keep our own templates, tools and code components, which we reuse on other work; you may use them in your site for as long as it runs.

Care plans

Every site we build can stay with us on a monthly care plan:

• Care, $49 a month: hosting on our Cloudflare standard with your domain connected and HTTPS; up to one hour of changes a month by email; a monthly report (uptime, speed, search visits and what changed); replies within two business days.
• Care Plus, $149 a month: everything in Care, up to four hours of changes a month and one new page, the monthly report with written recommendations, and replies the next business day.

Plans are billed monthly by invoice. Hours that go unused don't roll over. You can stop any month by replying to the invoice.

When a plan stops. The site stays up to the end of the last paid month. If you ask within 30 days, we hand over the site's files. Your domain is always yours.

Late invoices. If a care plan invoice is 30 days late, we pause changes and tell you. If it is still unpaid 30 days after that, we may pause hosting, and we tell you before we do.

Your content

You are responsible for having the right to the words, photos, logos and other material you send us to put on your site.

We may show the finished site in our portfolio and in the free advertising across our sites. If you would rather we didn't, tell us in writing and we will take it out.

The free advertising

Placement across our sites is included with every site we build and is not a paid service. Because it is free, we may change or end those placements at any time.

Our responsibility

Hosting runs on Cloudflare's network, and the monthly report shows its uptime, but we can't promise a site will never be unavailable. Our liability for anything to do with our work is limited to what you paid us in the three months before the claim.

Privacy

What this site collects and how to turn it off is in the privacy policy.

Changes and law

We may update these terms; the date at the top says when they last changed, and a change never applies to work already quoted. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Indiana, and disputes are heard in the courts of Porter County, Indiana.