Terms

Terms of service

Last updated: August 15, 2026

These terms cover how work is quoted, paid for, revised, and owned. Every project also gets its own written proposal — where the two disagree, the proposal wins.

Who these terms are between

“I” and “Argus” mean Argus Digital Works, LLC, a Connecticut limited liability company in Stamford, Connecticut. “You” means the person or business engaging me. Using this website, or engaging me for work, means you accept these terms.

Quotes and scope

Estimates are free and carry no obligation. Project work is quoted as a flat price, not hourly, against a written scope. Prices published on this site are starting points — the quote for your project is the number that binds, and it holds for 30 days from the date I send it.

Prices listed on this site hold through December 2026.

Work outside the agreed scope is quoted separately before it starts. I will not do out-of-scope work and bill you for it afterward.

Payment

• Half up front to reserve time on the schedule. That deposit is what makes the booking real, and it is non-refundable once I have begun work.
• The balance at launch, before the site goes live or the final files are handed over.
• Maintenance plans are billed monthly in advance.
• Invoices are due within 14 days. Work may pause on accounts more than 30 days overdue.

Revisions

Each stage of a project includes two rounds of revisions. A round means one consolidated set of feedback, not a series of separate requests over several days. Further rounds, or changes that alter the agreed direction after it was approved, are quoted before they start.

Your responsibilities

Projects stall for predictable reasons, so: please supply content, access, and feedback within a reasonable time, give one point of contact who can approve decisions, and make sure you have the rights to any text, images, or logos you hand me. If a project goes quiet on your side for more than 60 days, I may close it out and invoice for the work completed.

Third-party costs

Hosting, domains, plugin and font licenses, stock imagery, and similar third-party costs are billed at cost with no markup. Wherever possible these are bought in your name, on your account, with your card.

What you own

Two narrow exceptions: I keep ownership of generic tools, snippets, and techniques I use across clients, and I may show finished work in my portfolio unless you ask me in writing not to. Third-party components stay under their own licenses.

Maintenance plans

Maintenance is month to month, with no minimum term. It covers updates, tested backups, uptime and certificate monitoring, and one hour of small changes each month. Unused hours do not roll over. Either of us can cancel with 30 days’ notice; on cancellation you keep every account and every backup.

Maintenance does not include new features, redesigns, or recovery from problems caused by others changing the site without telling me. Those are quoted separately.

Repair and security work

For hacked, broken, or locked-out situations, I start with a paid assessment, credited in full toward the cleanup, and give you a written scope and a flat quote within 48 hours. I will tell you honestly if the problem is outside what I can fix, and I will say so before taking your money rather than after.

Security work reduces risk; it cannot eliminate it. I do not warrant that any site is immune to compromise, and neither can anyone else.

Warranty

I will fix defects in my own work — things that do not function as the agreed scope said they would — for 30 days after launch, at no charge. That covers my mistakes. It does not cover changes made by others, third-party software breaking on its own, hosting failures, or new requests dressed up as bugs.

Beyond that, the work is provided as is, without implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, to the extent the law allows.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by Connecticut law, my total liability arising out of the work is limited to the amount you paid me for the work in question. I am not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption. Nothing here limits liability for fraud or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Ending an engagement

Either of us may end a project in writing. If you end it, you pay for work completed to that point and keep everything produced so far. If I end it, I refund anything paid for work not yet done and hand over the files and access as they stand. Deposits cover work already begun and are not refunded.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes belong to the state or federal courts located in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Before filing anything, please call me — nearly everything is fixable with a conversation.

Changes

These terms may change; the date at the top will change with them. The version in force for your project is the one in effect when you signed the proposal.