Terms and Conditions
1. Acceptance of Terms
These Terms of Service (this “Agreement”) between Adzept Creative Agency (Adzept Creatives), PBC (“we”, “us” or “Adzept Creative Agency”) and you govern your access and use of our graphic design platform made available through www.adzeptcreatives.com (this “Site”) and the subscription or other services we provide (the “Services”). By using this Site and accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Agreement.
This Site is controlled and operated by us from our office within the Harare, Zimbabwe. We make no representation that materials in the Site are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to them from territories where its contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this site from locations outside the Zimbabwe are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws.
We may update this Agreement from time to time. By continuing to use this Site and the Services after the update, you accept the update in its entirety. All updates are effective upon posting. We encourage you to check the “Terms of Service” link on the home page each time you visit this Site, so you are aware of any updates.
2. Description of Services
2.1 Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, as well as your subscription for an applicable plan and our timely receipt of your associated payment(s), we will make the applicable Services available to you during the term to which you have subscribed. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Services available subject to planned downtime and any unscheduled emergency maintenance. We may modify, replace, or discontinue the Services at any time, for any reason, without notice to you.
2.2 You may only access and use the Services in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. You agree to: (i) provide accurate, current and complete information about you as may be prompted by any form on this Site (“Registration Data”); (ii) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data, to keep it accurate, current and complete; (iii) maintain the security of any password and identification information; (iv) notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account; (v) accept sole responsibility for any and all activities that occur on your account. Each person who uses any Services must have a separate username and password. You must provide a valid email address for each person that you authorize to use your account. You agree to provide any other information that we reasonably request.
2.3 You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telecommunications, broadband and computer equipment and services needed to access and use the Services and for paying all charges related thereto.
2.4 We may terminate your account without prior notice or liability to you, if we find, in our sole and exclusive discretion, that you: (i) have violated this Agreement; (ii) are not in alignment with our model; (iii) are sharing usernames or passwords; (iv) violate our core values; or (v) are abusing our services or team in any way, including using our services for illegal purpose.
2.5 “Licensed Content” means content that we own or license, including artwork, stock photographs, audio, typeface, video, designs, and writings. While you are, and will be, the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title, and interest in and to your graphic design project, the Licensed Content incorporated in your graphic design project is subject to the license described in Section 3 below. No rights are granted to you other than as expressly set forth herein. You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, nonexclusive, transferable, sublicensable right and license to commercially exploit in any manner any feedback, suggestions or recommendations that you provide to us.
2.6 Subject to your continued compliance with this Agreement, including timely payment of associated amounts due, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferrable license to access and use the Services for your internal business purposes. You may not access or use the Services in order to monitor its availability, performance, or functionality for competitive purposes. You may not, and may not permit any third party to: (a) reverse engineer (except to the extent specifically permitted by statutory law), decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover source code, object code or underlying structures, ideas or algorithms of the Services, (b) modify, translate or create derivative works based on the Services, (c) use the Services for any purpose other than its own internal purposes; or (d) use the Services other than in accordance with the Agreement and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations (including but not limited to any applicable privacy and intellectual property laws).
3. Use of Services
3.1 You may use the Services for any number of projects and scope that you have that you have subscribed for under the applicable plan and as are appropriate based on the size of your account. While we accept unlimited requests and revisions, our output volume depends on many factors, namely depending on the total request volume and complexity. We will do our best to work with you to accommodate any priority items and your timelines, but we suggest you do not use our Services for time-sensitive projects.
3.2 We do our best to minimize any mistakes. However, due to the nature of creative design, we cannot guarantee all files delivered will be 100% error-free. When we deliver a file to you, you agree to review and proof all files for any errors or omissions and notify us if any changes or corrections are needed within seven (7) days of receipt. We will do our best to rush edits to correct any mistakes that you notify us about during this time period. If you notify us of any errors after that time period, we are not required to but intend to try to work with you to make corrections.
3.3 The speed of your account is determined by how many subscriptions you have. A subscription is a measurement of output and represents what we can accomplish in a business day, with our team, our software, and our graphic design platform. What we can create with a single subscription depends on many factors, including, but not limited to: (i) the type of plan; (ii) the volume of requests; (iii) and the complexity of requests. We do not guarantee the amount of work that we can create with a single subscription. To increase the volume of work we can complete within a business day, we suggest you add subscriptions to your account.
3.4 You are the owner and/or controller of all of your information, data or materials that you provide to us to use the Services (“Customer Content”). By submitting Customer Content to us, you are representing that you are the owner of such Customer Content and/or have the necessary rights, licenses, and authorization to distribute it. You grant us a worldwide, royalty free, non-exclusive license to access and use Customer Content to provide the Services.
3.5 You are, and will be, the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title, and interest in and to the deliverables, including all intellectual property rights therein. We agree that with respect to any deliverables that may qualify as “work made for hire”, such deliverables are deemed a “work made for hire” for you. To the extent that any deliverables do not constitute a “work made for hire,” we irrevocably assign you all right, title, and interest throughout the world in and to the deliverables, including all intellectual property rights therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the terms of this Section 3.5 are subject to your compliance with this Agreement, your full payment of applicable amounts due and the terms of Sections 3.6 and 4 below.
3.6 In the course of providing the Services, we may use certain pre-existing materials. We and our licensors are, and will remain, the sole and exclusive owners of all right, title, and interest in and to any pre-existing materials. We grant you a perpetual, limited, royalty-free, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide license to use, display, and distribute any pre-existing materials to the extent incorporated in, combined with, or otherwise necessary for the use of the Services or deliverables. We expressly reserve all other rights in and to such pre-existing materials.
3.7 Adzept Creative Agency does not support and will not tolerate its Service being used to discriminate against others, especially when based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin. You are not permitted to use the Service in a manner which would or would likely incite, promote or support such discrimination and you must not use the Service to incite or promote hostility or violence. If we believe in our sole determination that your use of the Service is being used to discriminate, especially if based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin, we may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend your access to the Service, without notice and liability for any reason.
4. Privacy Policy
4.1 Our privacy policy, which can be found at https://adzeptcreatives.com/privacy-policy/ (the “Privacy Policy”), describes how we may use your personal information. By continuing to use this Site, you accept the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference. If you object to your personal information being used as described in the Privacy Policy, please leave this Site immediately. You must be at least age 18 to access this Site.
5. Fees
5.1 Use of our Services requires payment of recurring fees. Before we have any obligation to provide Services, you must pay the fees (as well as applicable taxes) in full, in such amounts and for such billing frequency as specified during registration, as updated (prospectively, not retroactively) by you from time to time. You agree that, upon registering for the Services, you authorize us to charge your method of payment (e.g., credit card) for the fees and applicable taxes from your registration date based upon your chosen billing frequency (e.g., monthly, quarterly, annually). Overdue charges will accrue interest monthly at the rate of 1.5% of the then-outstanding unpaid balance, or the maximum rate permitted by law, whichever is lower. We reserve the right to terminate your account in the event of non-payment of amounts owed to us. All amounts owed under this Agreement are non-cancelable and non-refundable, except as specifically provided in this Section 5.
5.2 We reserve the right to change our fees upon 5 days’ advance notice. By continuing to use the Services, you accept such changes. We are not required to notify you of temporary promotions or reductions in fees.
5.3 We hope you are pleased with our Services. If, for whatever reason, you are not, you may cancel your subscription with us at any time as your sole remedy. Upon cancellation, you will continue to have access to the Services and your design files through the end of your current paid billing term. Once the billing term has ended after cancelation, you will no longer have access to the Services and may lose access to your design files through the Site.
5.4 You may request a refund from us if you cancel your subscription either: (i) within 30 days of signing up. After this 30 day window, we will not issue a refund. From time to time, we may refuse a refund request if, in our sole discretion, we find evidence of fraud, refund abuse, or other manipulative behavior. Promotions, upgrades, and adjustments to existing plans are non-refundable.
6. Copyrights & Trademarks
6.1 All the rights of the designs and creative artwork Adzept Creative Agency has created and designed for specific client belong to the client for which it was designed. Adzept Creative Agency does not hold any rights to the designs created for a client.
6.2 Adzept Creative Agency does not file a trademark application with respect to the artwork designed for its client. The client is free to register as a trademark the design created for it by Adzept Creative Agency.
6.3 In the event that payment for any design is not made in accordance with the payment policies of Adzept Creative Agency., then all of client´s rights in and to the design created for it, including any trademark property, will immediately revert back to Adzept Creative Agency.
6.4 Adzept Creative Agency warrants that its designs are of its own creation and are not copied from or inspired by existing designs or trademarks but does not warrant that a design the same as or similar to that designed by it, but of which it was not aware at the time of its creation, does not exist.
6.5 If for some coincidental reason a artwork designed or web designed by Adzept Creative Agency looks identical to another party´s artwork, Adzept Creative Agency will provide a free redraw session with a new set of logos.
7. Checkout
7.1 Adzept Creative Agency uses Cash on Delivery as an option for local clients, Nostro Bank Transfer method and PayPal and Stripe to process your payment. Stripe is a level 1 PCI compliant payment processor, the most stringent level of certification available. We do not retain your credit card information on our server.
8. IP Ownership / Use license
8.1 The copyright in all material provided on this Site is held by Adzept Creative Agency. Except as expressly permitted by Adzept Creative Agency, none of the material may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Adzept or the copyright owner.
8.2 Permission is granted to you to download and use the materials on this Site for personal, non-commercial use only, provided you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the materials.
8.3 You may not:
- Modify or copy the materials
- Use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial)
- Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Adzept Creative Agency’s website
- Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials
- Transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server
8.4 This permission shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Adzept Creative Agency at any time. Upon termination of your permission, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format. Adzept Creative Agency reserves the right to terminate your account at any time for any reason.
9. Indemnification
9.1 YOU AGREE TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY, AND HOLD US HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIMS, LIABILITIES, DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND EXPENSES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, REASONABLE ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO CUSTOMER CONTENT OR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ANY DELIVERABLES. YOU SHALL COOPERATE AS REQUIRED BY US IN THE DEFENSE OF ANY CLAIM. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO ASSUME THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENSE AND CONTROL OF ANY MATTER SUBJECT TO INDEMNIFICATION BY YOU, AND YOU WILL NOT, IN ANY EVENT, SETTLE ANY CLAIM WITHOUT OUR PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT.
10. Links to Third-Party Platforms
10.1 If this Site is available through any third-party platform, or if we provide links from this Site to any third-party platform, then we do not accept responsibility for any content or practices of such third parties.
11. Term and Termination
11.1 This Agreement will expire and terminate upon the expiration or termination of your account or subscription to a Service. All sections of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination will survive termination, including but not limited to, accrued rights to payment, confidentiality obligations, warranty disclaimers, and limitations of liability.
11.2 We may terminate this Agreement at any time upon notice if you default or breach this Agreement. Upon expiration or termination of your account or subscription to a Service, all rights under this Agreement relating to such Service will immediately terminate, you will lose all access to the applicable Service, including access to your account and Customer Content or other files. If we terminate the Agreement for your breach, any licenses to Licensed Content will terminate.
Disclaimer
THE MATERIALS ON ADZEPT CREATIVE AGENCY’S WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS”. ADZEPT CREATIVE AGENCY MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AND HEREBY DISCLAIMS AND NEGATES ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER VIOLATION OF RIGHTS. FURTHER, ADZEPT CREATIVE AGENCY DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING THE ACCURACY, LIKELY RESULTS, OR RELIABILITY OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS ON ITS INTERNET WEBSITE OR OTHERWISE RELATING TO SUCH MATERIALS OR ON ANY SITES LINKED TO THIS SITE.