Who you're dealing with
gabs-builds is the trading name of Gabriele Sinis, a sole trader based in the United Kingdom. There is no company and no team: you deal with me directly, from first email to launch. Contact is hello@gabs-builds.com, and my service address is available on request and appears on all invoices.
When these terms apply
They apply once you accept a written quote from me. The quote is the specific agreement - what I'm building, for how much, by roughly when - and these terms are the general rules sitting behind it. If the two ever disagree, the quote wins.
Nothing on the rest of this website is a contract. The prices published here are real and I stand behind them, but the binding number is the one in your quote.
Quotes and prices
You get a fixed price in writing before anything starts. That price covers exactly what the quote lists. If you later want something outside it - another page, a feature that wasn't discussed, a redesign after approval - I'll tell you what it costs before I do it, and you decide. I won't do extra work and invoice you for it afterwards.
Prices are in pounds sterling. I'm not VAT registered, so there's no VAT to add.
Paying
- 50% when you accept the quote. This books your slot in the schedule and is when work starts.
- 50% on launch, before the site goes live on your domain.
- Invoices are due within 14 days.
- Small jobs charged by the hour are invoiced after the work, at the rate published on the site.
- The care plan is billed monthly in advance and you can stop it at any time, effective from the next month.
If an invoice goes unpaid for more than 30 days I may pause work and, for business clients, charge statutory interest under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
What I need from you
Your text and images (unless you've bought copywriting), the answers to my initial questions, and prompt feedback during revisions. If I'm waiting on you for more than 30 days, I may treat the project as paused and reschedule it. That doesn't mean I keep your deposit for nothing - the work already done still stands and we pick it up when you're ready.
You confirm you have the right to use whatever you send me - text, photos, logos - and that it isn't someone else's to license. That matters because I'm publishing it on your behalf.
Timings
The timescales I publish and quote - about a week for Starter, two to three weeks for Business - are honest estimates based on a normal run, not guarantees. They assume your content and feedback arrive when needed. If a date genuinely matters to you, such as a wedding, tell me at the start and I'll either commit to it in the quote or tell you I can't.
Revisions
Each package includes the number of revision rounds listed on the site. A round means one consolidated set of changes from you, not an open-ended stream. Further rounds are charged at the published rate. On the bespoke wedding tier, "edits until the big day" means text, photo and detail changes to the site as built - not a new design.
Changing your mind
If you're a consumer rather than a business, and we agreed everything at a distance (email, phone, this website), you have 14 days from accepting the quote to cancel for any reason under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. If you asked me to start within those 14 days and then cancel, you pay for what I've actually done up to that point, and I refund the rest of your deposit. If work hasn't started, you get all of it back.
After 14 days, or if you're a business client, cancelling means paying for work completed to that point. Anything already paid beyond that is refunded.
I can also cancel - if the project turns out to be something I can't deliver well, or if we simply can't work together. If I do, you pay only for finished work and I refund the balance.
Who owns what
On final payment, the site's code and design are yours. You can host it anywhere, hand it to any developer, and change it however you like. There is no licence to renew and no lock-in.
Before final payment, it stays mine - that's the only leverage a fixed-price contract has, and it exists to be unnecessary.
Two carve-outs, so nothing here is a surprise: fonts, stock images, plugins and similar third-party components stay under their own licences, which I'll pass through to you. And I keep the right to say I built your site and to show it in the Work section of this website - tell me if you'd rather I didn't, and I won't.
Domains, hosting and accounts
Your domain is registered in your name and paid by you, typically £10 to £15 a year direct to the registrar. Hosting for most sites I build is free or nearly free. Where I set up accounts on your behalf, they are yours and I hand over the credentials at launch.
I'm not responsible for outages, price changes or policy decisions at third parties like registrars and hosts - though if something breaks I'll help you sort it.
The care plan
The care plan covers hosting, software updates and small edits each month - typically text changes, swapping images, adding a section. It doesn't cover redesigns, new pages or new features, which are quoted separately. Unused time doesn't roll over. Either of us can stop it with a month's notice, and stopping it doesn't affect your ownership of the site.
If something goes wrong
I'll fix genuine faults in what I built - things that don't work as agreed - free of charge for 30 days after launch. After that, fixes are chargeable, or covered by the care plan if you have one.
Beyond that, my liability to you is limited to the amount you've paid me for the project. I'm not liable for lost profits, lost business, or lost data. None of this limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't allow me to exclude - and if you're a consumer, your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 are unaffected by anything on this page.
If we disagree
Email me first - most things are a misunderstanding and get fixed in a day. If that fails, these terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you're a consumer living elsewhere in the UK, you can also bring proceedings in your own part of the UK.
Changes to these terms
I may update this page. The version that applies to your project is the one published when you accepted your quote, so a later change can't move the goalposts on work already agreed.
Written to be read, like the privacy policy. If any part of it isn't clear, ask before you accept a quote rather than after.