Terms of Service
Last updated: August 27, 2026
These are the terms for working with Vilas Studio. Plain language, and they mean what they say.
What you're buying
A website, built by us, for your business. Pricing is a one-time build fee plus a monthly fee, quoted before we start. Nothing starts until we’ve both agreed on scope and price in writing.
Payment
Half the build fee up front, half when the site is ready to go live. The monthly fee starts when the site launches. We send invoices through Stripe — you pay by card. If you cancel after we’ve started building, the deposit isn’t refunded; it covers the work already done. If we can’t deliver a site you approve, we refund it.
What the monthly covers
Hosting, your domain registration, reasonable content updates — text, photos, hours, prices, new services, and the ongoing SEO work described on our site.
If a payment lapses, the site pauses until it’s caught up. Nothing gets deleted, and your domain stays registered. After twelve months unpaid we may take the site offline and release the domain, and we’ll email you first. Pay for the year up front and you get two months free. Annual payments don’t auto-renew — we invoice you before year two.
Your domain
We register and hold your domain as part of the service. It’s yours. If you leave, ask us and we’ll transfer it to you at no charge.
Who owns what
You own your content — your text, photos, logo, and business information — and you own the finished site we deliver. We keep ownership of the underlying components, layouts, and code patterns we use across projects, and we reuse them on other builds.
We show finished work in our portfolio, on this site, and on social media. Tell us you’d rather we didn’t and we’ll take it down.
Some parts of a site are licensed from other people — fonts, stock photos, generated video. Those licences cover your site. They don’t transfer to you for other uses.
Your content
You’re responsible for having the right to use anything you send us, and for the accuracy of your hours, prices, services, and claims. We’ll build what you give us. We won’t verify it. If someone comes after us over something you supplied, that’s on you, and you’ll cover what it costs us.
Revisions
We revise until you’re happy with the build we agreed on. New sections, new pages, or a change in direction after approval is new work, quoted separately. If we send a preview and don’t hear back for 14 days, we’ll treat it as approved and send the final invoice.
What we don't promise
We don’t guarantee search rankings, traffic, leads, or revenue. Local search takes months and depends on things outside anyone’s control. Anyone who promises you otherwise is lying.
We build to reasonable modern standards, but we don’t warrant that your site conforms to WCAG or any specific accessibility standard unless we’ve agreed to that in writing as part of the scope.
We can’t promise the site is never down. Hosting, domains, and email run on services we don’t own, and they occasionally fail. We’ll get it back up.
Your legal pages
Your site is your business. You’re responsible for your own privacy policy, terms, and any other disclosures your business needs. We’ll include a basic privacy page in the build; making sure it fits your business is on you.
Cancelling
Cancel the monthly any time. We’ll transfer your domain and hand off your content. Build fees already paid aren’t refundable once the site is delivered.
Liability
Our total liability for anything related to this work is limited to what you’ve paid us in the previous twelve months.
Governing law
New York. Any dispute gets handled in the state or federal courts of Nassau County, New York.