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Terms of
Service.

Overview - Thanks for being our success partner!

Baianat offers many services for businesses to help accelerate their activities. By requesting Baianat services, using its tools and resources, you acknowledge and agree that you have read, understand and fully accept to be bound to our terms of services and privacy policy. These terms and conditions govern the use of Baianat services so kindly read the following lines of agreement carefully and if you don't agree with any of the listed terms you may choose not to proceed with your service request. In case you have any questions contact us for further clarification.

Baianat services

Baianat provides businesses with authentic digital solutions that include (business, branding, animation, advertising, type design, technology, development devops, interaction, product design). These services are designed to enable our clients to execute their ideas and turn it into reality through a tailored process that suits each project reality. We comply with an iteration mindset that requires producing versions of the project until we finally feel satisfied with the end result. And by the end of the project, we deliver all the open source files and the deliverables to our clients in case he/she needed to presume to work with another agency in the future.

Using our services

We provide our services in the boundaries pretermitted to us by law. We may suspend or stop providing our services to you if you don’t comply with our terms or policies or in case of discovering a misuse. Using our services, tools and resources don’t give you the ownership of the intellectual property rights over our services or the content you access. While providing our services, we may need to communicate with you through administrative messages, pop-ups, emails and other forms of communication without the need for your confirmation.

Your Baianat account

By requesting our services, you may need to create a Baianat account to better monitor and communicate with us during the project execution period and to access the rest of our websites and products. Your Baianat account may be created by you or assigned to you by one of our customer care agents. If it’s assigned to you, you’re required to reset the account setting (e.g. password and username) to secure your information. To protect your account, keep your account login information confidential and use a different password than the one you use with other platforms. In case of noticing unauthorized account access or activity you are not responsible of, kindly notify us immediately through: privacy@baianat.com. In this case, we may require you to provide us with certain information to be able to validate your identity and recover your account.

We have the right to assume that all the transactions and communications between you and us through your account are made by you in person, not another third party. Baianat is not responsible for any damages, loss or liability that may incur from someone else using your password or account either with or without your acknowledgment.

Eligibility

If you are using our services on behalf of your company, then you must be authorized to accept this agreement on behalf of the company you are representing. In case you have been suspended from using our services kindly don’t submit orders through any means of ordering available on or off the website.

Requesting a service

By requesting any of Baianat services, you may be asked to provide certain information during the project review period including, without limitation, contact data, project details, budget, and proposed timeline. When providing your data, you need to make sure that your information is accurate, current and complete. All the information collected is used by Baianat to better determine the scale of operation and the needed services for the business. Everything you provide is fully protected by our privacy policy terms from unauthorized access or disclosure.

After reviewing the project, we maintain the whole right of accepting or rejecting the project. We may choose to clarify the reasons behind the rejection or not. However, our reasons for rejection may include:

  • The project business type and size ( whether too big or with no concrete value).
  • The budget set for the project execution.
  • The timeline, deadlines, and delivery dates of the project.
  • The required specifications of the project.
  • Having a culture, business, ethical or legal conflict with the project idea.

The project duration period starts counting from the date of the first payment transfer. As the first payment transfer marks the real commitment from your side towards the project execution.

Privacy

If you would like to know more about how we collect and use the data we collect from you, kindly check our Privacy Policy section.

Third party external links and services

Our website may include external links to different websites and services which we don’t control, or own. We are not responsible for the availability of such links and resources and we don’t endorse it by any means. We also don’t hold any responsibility of the content, privacy policies, errors or practices maintained by any or such of these websites. And by agreeing to our terms of service, you confirm that Baianat shall not be responsible directly or indirectly for any damage caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such websites or services.

Termination and changes

In case of breaching our terms of service, we may use our right of terminating the service immediately and without prior notice and no legal liability. Baianat has the right to preiodecally check, review and edit the terms of service and provide a notification of any modifications in the updates section or through an email. In case you don’t agree with the new modifications, kindly don’t request Baianat services and raise a flag by contacting us. You are always welcome to talk if you have any questions regarding the privacy policy or its modifications through:

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Web terms
and conditions.

Overview

These are the Terms and Conditions on which Baianat will carry out work for you. They will apply each time that you ask us to do work for you or carry out a Project. They set out our professional services and what you can expect from us. Please read them carefully.

Our Professional Services Schedule of Fees will be supplied in your quotation/estimate.

These Terms and Conditions are subject to change without notice and may be superseded.

1. Engagement

You may engage us to carry out a Project for you by:

(a) Accepting a Quote in writing; or

(b) Giving us written, or emailed authorization to commence a Project.

Unless we notify you otherwise, we will accept that engagement subject to these terms and conditions. The Project will commence when we accept the engagement.

2. Quotes and estimates

(a) Is based on the Specifications, and is subject to change if the parties agree to amend the Specifications;

(b) is valid for a period of 6 days from the date we issue the Proposal unless otherwise agreed by Baianat.

3. Services

(a) The Services that we provide to you may include some or all of the following:

  • Website consultancy and planning, as described in clause 9;
  • Website design, as described in clause 10;
  • Website development and uploading of content, as described in clause 11;
  • Website modification, as described in clause 12;
  • The provision of website Tools as described in clause 13;
  • Training, as described in clause 15;
  • Post-implementation warranty as described in clause 16;
  • Post-implementation support and maintenance, as described in clause 17;
  • Website hosting, as described in clause 18.

(b) You acknowledge that website and other electronic serves are subject to interruption or breakdown, and therefore:

  • the Services will not be error-free or uninterrupted; and
  • Your access to the website and the operation of the website will not be error-free or uninterrupted.

4. Hours of service

All support activity is carried out between 9:00am and 6:00pm (GMT +2), Saturday to Thursday excluding public holidays and office closures times for standard Egypt public holidays and the Christmas / New Year closure periods.

5. .is-normal and materials supplied by you

(a) You must supply to us all the required materials you want us to use in the Project, and all other content and materials we reasonably request (Client Content). Refer to 7b. Scheduling and Production; Or if you don’t have content, you can add a content writing request for your order which will be charged extra fees.

(b) You must supply all Client Content in the following digital formats/methods:

  • Text/Copy: Microsoft Word or Rich Text (Clearly labeled and in correct order);
  • Tables: Microsoft Excel (Clearly labeled and in correct order);
  • Images: High resolution where possible (JPEG, PNG files);
  • Logos: Vector format (Illustrator EPS/AI);
  • Diagrams/Maps: Vector format (AI) or (JPEG files);
  • if required, access to your current website and database via ftp and/or CMS/Hosting Control Panel login;
  • Brand Style guidelines (if applicable).

(c) We may charge Additional Costs if the Client Content is not provided in the appropriate format set out in this clause.

(d) You warrant that the materials or content you provide to us, or that are provided to us on your behalf, will not:

  • breach any rights (including Intellectual Property Rights or Moral Rights) of any third party; or
  • Compromise the security or operation of our computer systems, through a virus or otherwise.

(e) You indemnify, and agree to keep Baianat, its directors, officers and employees indemnified, against all Loss arising out of the breach of any rights (including Intellectual Property Rights and Moral Rights) of any third party in connection with materials or content that you supply to us, or that are supplied to us on your behalf.

6. Your approval

(a) Your approval will be required for the following items that we deliver to you (Approval Item):

  • the project brief;
  • the project/site/app map;
  • the project design concept;
  • the project design concept;
  • the completed project including uploaded content; and
  • Any other item for which we request your approval.

(b) When we provide you with any Approval Item, and you do not request any further alterations, then you must notify us in email or through our CRM that you accept the completed Approval Item.

(c) You will be deemed to have accepted the completed Approval Item if we do not receive from you, within 8 days after providing you with a completed Approval item, either notice in written (email/system ticket) of acceptance or requests for further amendments.

(d) Your acceptance of the completed Approval Item in accordance with paragraph (b) or (c) means that the Approval Item is complete, and no further amendments are necessary. However, we will not proceed to the next stage of the Project until we receive your written (email/system ticket) approval of the Approval Item. There may be added cost in having to reschedule projects, staff or facilitate continuance. If unable to perform continuance, the client will have to pay a shutdown and subsequent restart fee commensurate to the labor and resource costs incurred.

7. Purchase of images

(a) The Fees do not include any searches or purchases of photo images, audio or video.

(b) You can purchase photo images, audio or video directly, or we can purchase photo images, audio or video on your behalf. We may charge Additional Costs in respect of such purchases. We will attempt to advise you of the expected Additional Costs before purchasing the photo images, audio or video.

8. Scheduling, production and project management

(a) If we consider it to be necessary, we will develop a Production Schedule for the Project in consultation with you. We will use reasonable commercial endeavors to carry out the Project in accordance with that timetable.

(b) If you delay in providing Client Content or in providing feedback we request, then this may result in:

  • a change in the delivery deadline set out in the Production Schedule; or
  • if the delivery deadline cannot be changed, extra costs being incurred, including necessary overtime costs. We will charge these extra costs as Additional Costs.

9. Website consultancy and planning

Our website consultancy and planning services may include:

(a) Discussing and developing options for your online marketing, search engine optimization, and social media strategy;

(b) Planning and developing a site map, information architecture, and project management

10. Website design concepts

(a) Our website design services may include:

  • delivery to you of up to one website design concept; and
  • up to two sets of alterations of this design concepts. Upon each alteration, we will supply an updated version of the website design concept to you.

(b) If you request further alterations, or the addition of new information, after the second updated version, resulting in any further updated versions of the website design concept being supplied, the additional work will be charged as Additional Costs at our then current Professional Rates.

(c) The alterations referred to in paragraph (a) do not include a change to the Specifications. If there are any changes to the Specifications after the Project has commenced, the additional work will be charged as Additional Costs at our then current Professional Rates.

(d) Where possible, we will attempt to provide you with an estimate of Additional Costs prior to undertaking the additional work. However in some cases due to deadline constraints, this will not be possible and we may proceed with the work without providing an estimate.

11. Development of website and uploading of content

(a) Our website development services include developing a website based on the Specifications, the approved website brief, sitemap and final version of the website design concept.

(b) Our website services may also include uploading and styling/layout of the Client Content to the developed website. If applicable we will complete a specified number of standard pages of the website. If we complete additional pages for you, the additional work will be charged as Additional Costs at our then current Professional Rates.

(c) A content management system will be provided with the website or a control panel. The Fees for our website development services do not include customization of this content management system, its extensions, plug-ins or components. Our standard projects include the WordPress CMS – unless otherwise specified.

(d) If we carry out any customization work for you on the Content Management System or build any extensions for you, then:

  • the work will be charged as Additional Costs at our then current Professional Rates;
  • the customization or extension remains licensed under the following terms and conditions: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gql-2.0.html and/or;
  • You accept and must comply with those terms and conditions in relation to your use of the customization or extension.

(e) You acknowledge that the Content Management System and many of its extensions are provided by third parties, and therefore:

  • we have limited control over the functionality or operation of the Content Management System and any third party extensions;
  • Baianat is not affiliated with or endorsed by the WordPress! Project or Open Source Matters; and
  • you accept and must comply with the terms and conditions of those third parties relating to the Content Management System. Each extension usually has it’s license or Terms and Conditions as a link or text inside the control for that extension in each clients website administration interface

(f) A Standard Page is: up to 300 words; up to 3 images; and up to one implementation of any tabular data.

12. Website modification

(a) Our website modification services consist of modifying your website based on the Specifications.

(b) Unless otherwise specified, the Fees for website modification do not include any provision for training or post-implementation support.

(c) The provisions of clause 10(c) to 10(e) apply to the website modification services.

13. Provision of website Tools

(a) Upon your request, we may provide to you Website Tools as part of the Website.

(b) You acknowledge that some of the Website Tools are provided by third parties, and therefore:

  • we have limited control over the functionality or operation of the Website Tools;
  • If the third parties provide data or other information for use with the Website Tools, we have no control over the accuracy or completeness of that information; EG: ASX data.
  • you accept and must comply with the terms and conditions of those third parties relating to the Website Tools; and
  • those third parties may invoice you directly for ongoing costs relating to your use of the Website Tools.

(c) The fees for updates and upgrades for the Website Tools may change from time to time. The new fees will apply from our notification date to you.

14. Baianat extensions

(a) All of Baianat's WordPress! Products (Template, Modules, Components, and Plugins) are released under subscription. However, the PHP code portions of these products are released under the GNU/GPLv2 license. All images, cascading style sheets (CSS) and included javascript (JS) files are NOT GPL (unless specified), and are released under Baianat's Proprietary License unless specifically authorized by Baianat. Elements (images, CSS, JS etc.) of the products released under the Baianat proprietary license cannot be redistributed or repackaged for use other than those allowed by the subscription as set out in 13(b).

(b) Proprietary Use License: Baianat Proprietary Use License controls non-PHP code elements, such as images, cascading style sheets and JavaScript elements in the released Baianat Products (Templates, modules, components, plugins etc.). The elements set out in 13(a) are not compiled together but are sent independently of GPL code and combined in a client's browser, so, do not have to be GPL themselves. This file is not released under the GPL and is supplied to each paying user for non-exclusive usage per number of registered domains. You may not modify, duplicate, redistribute, sell or include the elements set out in 13(a), without the prior written consent of Baianat.

15. Training

(a) The Fees for website development may include training sessions of two hours for a maximum of two people per session. During these training sessions, we will provide information to attendees about using the Content Management System or the control panel to upload content to the Website. Training sessions will be conducted at our premises in Damietta.

(b) If additional training sessions are required, or you wish to have additional attendees at a training session, the additional attendees and sessions will be charged as Additional Costs at our then current Professional Rates.

16. Post-implementation warranty (28 days)

(a) The Fees for website development include the provision of a limited warranty for a period of 28 days following the website launch.

(b) The determination of warranty efficiency is at Baianat's discretion.

17. Support and maintenance packages

Support and maintenance service is a paid service and is primarily carried out and provided via our support ticketing system, it’s also provided for free after development for a period of 1 year after launch. For payment methods for support and maintenance services, please refer to 25. Payment Method.

(a) Our support and maintenance services consist of, but are not limited to:

  • answering your technical questions relating to the Website, its operation, and the Content Management System and the extensions provided with it or the control panel; and
  • Resolving technical issues that arise in relation to the Website or its operation, except as set out in 17 (b).

(b) Our support and maintenance services do not include resolving:

  • issues that relate to your networks, computer systems or software used to access the Website;
  • Other technical issues not arising directly from the Website.

(c) If we provide you with services that are not included in the support and maintenance services, we will charge you for the work at our current Professional Rates.

(d) You must provide us, at your own cost, access to the Website and your computer network and systems in order for us to provide the support and maintenance services. If you do not provide us with such access within a reasonable time after we request it, then:

  • we are not obliged to provide you with any support and maintenance services;
  • we are not obliged to return to you any portion of the Fees that you have paid to us for the provision of support and maintenance services; and
  • an invoice will be issued for any work carried out.

(f) Support Package reduced hourly rate requires that the Agreement is in place for the full term of any work undertaken - work undertaken outside of the support package Agreement period will be charged at our full hourly rates. (The support package does not generally include major website design or website development tasks, but this can be assessed in consultation on a case by case basis.) Pricing is available on request.

(g) Support, consulting and analysis provision is dependent upon access to the website to perform the required tasks and to assess/view the requirements.

(h) Response times are indicative and not guaranteed.

(i) Support time is accrued in 15 minute increments.

(j) Estimated time to complete requested support tasks may be provided when and if possible at client's request.

(k) Commencement of support tasks

  • Support will commence upon receipt of written support brief/request by Baianat from The Client and confirmation of time estimate provided for the specific task/s from Baianat to The Client.

(l) Limitation

  • The website support for this package is limited to the Client website built components built by Baianat.

18. Hosting

If we provide hosting services for the Website, those hosting services are governed by our Hosting Terms and Conditions, which can be found at:

19. Archiving / retrieval

(a) We will endeavor to store or archive all electronic files used in the production of your website project. However, we provide no guarantee that any stored or archived files can be retrieved in the future.

(b) Once your website is launched, archiving of the files and database and copies of these files becomes the responsibility of the client. Baianat can at the request of the client provide this service.

(c) Baianat by default is delivering the open source design files and code used in production to its clients for free.

20. Disbursements

Disbursement charges are not included in the Fees. If we incur any disbursements or expenses in the course of the Project, we will charge these to you as Additional Costs. These may include but are not limited to the disbursement items set out in the Schedule of Fees.

21. Professional liability

(a) We shall under no circumstances whatever be liable to you, whether in Agreement, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, for any loss of profit, or any indirect or consequential loss arising under or in connection with the agreement;

  • our liability to you for any Loss, however caused (including by our negligence), suffered or incurred by you in connection with this agreement, whether or not you were aware of the possibility of such Loss to you when this agreement was entered into, is limited to the amount of Fees received by us from you under this agreement;

(b) our total liability to you for any losses resulting from errors that would have been prevented had we exercised due care in performing the Services is limited to the amount of the fee paid by you to us to the value of the relevant Stage and/or owed by you for the specific work performed under the Agreement from which the error resulted;

  • the maximum amount you may claim from us for Loss suffered or incurred by you in connection with this agreement is limited to the aggregate amount of Fees which you have paid us at any time and relevant to the cause of the loss, or otherwise, shall in no circumstances exceed the total charges paid by you for the Services during the 12 months prior to the date of notification by you of the claim to which such losses relate, less any amounts already paid out or due to be paid out by us to you for any reason; and
  • we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or any loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of business opportunity, or payment of liquidated sums, penalties or damages under any agreement sustained by you or any other person arising from or in connection with the Project or this agreement;
  • Loss you suffer or incur in connection with this agreement that is caused by (or to the extent contributed to by) the acts or omissions of a third party;
  • Loss you suffer or incur that arises out of the Content Management System/control panel or the Website Tools, and if the modification can be shown to be counter to current and common or recommended industry practice; or
  • Loss you suffer or incur due to factors outside our reasonable control.

(c) lf the Services are carried out for more than one person the limitation of liability in this clause 21 shall apply in respect of all such persons jointly. It shall be the responsibility of such persons to apportion any damages payable under the Agreement amongst themselves and we shall have no responsibility for any such apportionment.

(d) The agreement is between you and us exclusively. You agree that you shall exercise any rights of action or recourse under the agreement exclusively against us, and not against any of our directors, our shareholders, our employees, or any auxiliary persons engaged by us.

(e) Any condition or warranty which would be implied by law as a term of this agreement is excluded.

22. Intellectual Property and Supply of Raw /Editable file

(a) All Intellectual Property Rights and all other rights in the Deliverables and any existing Pre-existing Materials shall be owned by us. Subject to clause 22b, we licence to you all such rights free of charge and on a non-exclusive worldwide basis to such extent as is necessary to enable you to make reasonable use of the Deliverables and Services. If this agreement is terminated, this licence will automatically terminate.

(b) You acknowledge that, where we do not own any of the Pre-existing Materials, your use of rights in Pre-existing Materials is conditional on us obtaining a written licence (or sub-licence) from the relevant licensor or licensors on such terms as will entitle us to licence such rights to you.

(c) Baianat by default is granting free open source files (Designs and Code) for you under a non-transferable, non-exclusive license to:

  • Publish one copy of the Website and supporting project intellectual property unless otherwise stated by Baianat; and
  • use and reproduce the other Project Intellectual Property, subject to the restrictions set out in paragraph (d).

(d) You must not, without our prior written permission:

  • adapt, create derivative works from or merge the Website design/code or other Project Intellectual Property;
  • use the Project Intellectual Property for any purpose other than the specific purpose for which we have provided it;
  • reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile the Project Intellectual Property;
  • distribute, lend, resell, transfer, assign or sublicense the Website or other Project Intellectual Property, or allow any other person to use it except in the course of visiting the Website; and
  • Remove or attempt to remove any proprietary or copyright notices or any labels on the Website or other Project Intellectual Property.

These restrictions do not apply in relation to:

  • extensions that are licensed to you under the terms and conditions; or Some extensions are licensed per domain or via a license key.

(e) Commercial fonts remain the property of Baianat, under license or its licensors at all times and are governed under licensing restrictions and rules and are not transferable.

(f) We do not warrant that your use of the designs, materials or content produced by us for you in the course of the Project will not infringe any third party’s Intellectual Property Rights or any person’s Moral Rights, but we will advise you if we become aware of any infringement.

(g) Client agree to carry the Baianat logo or 'Developed with love by Baianat' text hyperlink in or under the website footer.

(h) Client should be prepared to provide testimony or feedback on request post the release/close of the project.

23. Confidentiality

(a) Each party agrees to keep confidential, and not to use or disclose except as permitted by these terms and conditions, any Confidential Information of the other party. The parties agree not to disclose these terms and conditions (including any schedules), or any details of a Purchase Order or Proposal. This obligation of confidence extends to Confidential Information obtained by a party before entering into this agreement.

(b) The obligation of confidence in paragraph (a) does not apply to Confidential Information to the extent that is required to be disclosed by law or the rules of any stock exchange on which the recipient’s securities are listed, provided that the recipient discloses the minimum amount of Confidential Information required to satisfy the Law or rules.

(c) The Party required to disclose the other Party’s Confidential Information as set out in paragraph (b) must:

  • provide a reasonable amount of notice to the other Party of the proposed disclosure;
  • consult with the other Party as to the form of the disclosure; and
  • take all reasonable steps to maintain such Confidential Information in confidence.

(d) Each party must take all steps and do all such things as may be necessary, prudent or desirable in order to safeguard the confidentiality of the Confidential Information of the other party.

24. Calculation of fees if not specified

(a) If the Fees are not specified (in a Purchase Order, Proposal or otherwise) at the commencement of the Project, then we will charge you at the Professional Rates for all work that we carry out for you in the course of the Project.

(b) The Professional Rates may change from time to time. The new Professional Rates will apply from the date that we notify them to you.

25. Payment method

(a) You must pay the Fees and Additional Costs to us within 14 days after the date on which we issue you an invoice for those Fees and Additional Costs in accordance with this clause 25.

(b) In relation to our services, we may issue invoices for:

  • Payment as indicated in our proposal or estimate, on the “Terms and Conditions” page, under the title “Payment System for this Proposal” and / or
  • “Work in Progress” invoice at the end of each calendar month for the Fees and Approved Expenses incurred up to the date of the invoice.

If the Fees do not exceed $1,000, or if the Fees are not specified (in a Purchase Order, Proposal or otherwise), we may issue an invoice for the Fees and Additional Costs either at completion of the Project or as “Work in Progress” at the end of each calendar month at our discretion.

27. Duration of agreement and its termination

(a) Upon execution by both parties this agreement will take effect: immediately and remain in effect until the purpose of the Project has been achieved, unless it is terminated earlier under this clause 27.

(b) A party may terminate this agreement by notice in writing to the other party if:

  • the other party commits a material breach of this agreement that is capable of remedy (including failure to pay any amount due under this agreement) and fails to remedy that breach within [14] days after receiving notice from the other Party to do so;
  • the other party commits a material breach of this agreement that is not capable of remedy (including a breach of clause 22or clause 23); or
  • the other Party becomes Insolvent.

(c) We may terminate this agreement if:

  • you do not provide any information or materials requested within a reasonable time after being asked to do so; or
  • we consider that mutual confidence and trust no longer exist.

(d) Upon termination of this agreement under paragraph (b) or (c):

  • our obligation to carry out the Project ceases;
  • each party’s rights and obligations accrued prior to termination are not affected;
  • the licence granted in clause 22(c) ceases; and
  • each party must immediately return to the other party (or destroy or delete as the other party directs) all Confidential Information of the other party in its possession or control, except to the extent that the party needs to keep such information to comply with its record-keeping obligations; and
  • except as provided in this paragraph (d), 21, 22, 23, 28 and 29 will continue.

28. General

(a) Any notice given under this agreement must be in writing, addressed to the other party’s contact persons as notified by the other party.

(b) This agreement does not create a relationship of employment, agency or partnership between the parties.

(c) We may sub Agreement our obligations under this agreement.

(d) The failure of a party at any time to insist on performance by the other party of an obligation under this agreement is not a waiver of any of its rights.

(e) If part or all of any of the provisions of this agreement is illegal or unenforceable, it will be severed from this agreement, and will not affect the continued operation of the remaining provisions.

(f) We may change this agreement from time to time, by notifying you of the changed terms and conditions. The new terms will apply to any Project that commences after the date that we notify you of the changed terms and conditions. Your engagement of our services after that date signifies your acceptance of the amended agreement.

29. Interpretation

In this agreement:

(a) a reference to “this agreement” means these terms and conditions (including any schedule) together with a Purchase Order or Proposal (if any);

(b) headings and bold type are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these terms;

(c) the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular;

(d) words of any gender include all genders;

(e) other parts of speech and grammatical forms of a word or phrase defined in this agreement have a corresponding meaning, unless the context clearly requires otherwise;

(f) an expression importing a person includes any company, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation or other body corporate and any government agency as well as an individual;

(g) a reference to any legislation includes all delegated legislation made under it, and amendments, consolidations, replacements or re-enactments of any of them;

(h) a reference to a party to a document includes that party’s successors and permitted assignees;

(i) a promise on the part of 2 or more persons binds them jointly and severally;

(j) no provision of this agreement will be construed adversely to a party because that party was responsible for the preparation of this agreement or that provision; and

(k) specifying anything in this agreement after the words “include” or “for example” or similar expressions does not limit what else is included.

30. Dictionary

Additional Costs means all additional costs that we are permitted to charge you under this agreement.

Approval Item is defined in clause 6(a).

Claim means a demand, action or proceeding of any nature whether actual or threatened.

Client, you or your means, in relation to any work that we do for you:

(a) the person named as the client in the Purchase Order;

(b) if there is no purchase order, then the person named as the client in the Quote; or

(c) if there is no Quote, then the person for whom we are undertaking the project.

Client Content is defined in clause 5(a)

Confidential Information of a party:

(a) means any information:

  • regarding that party’s business or affairs;
  • regarding that party’s customers, employees, or other people doing business with that party;
  • which is by its nature confidential;
  • which is designated as confidential by that party at the time of disclosure or within 14 days after disclosure; or
  • which the other party knows or ought to know is confidential;

(b) includes without limitation (unless excluded under paragraph (c) ) that party’s Intellectual Property Rights and these terms and conditions; but

(c) does not include information to the extent that information is developed or known by the other party independently of this agreement and independently of any obligation of confidence (including because it is in the public domain).

Consumer has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Egyptian Consumer Law

Consumer Goods means “goods of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, household or domestic use or consumption” as that expression is used in section 3 of the Egyptian Consumer Law.

Consumer Guarantee means a consumer guarantee applicable to this agreement under the Egyptian Consumer Law, (including any ‘express warranty’ within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Egyptian Consumer Law)

Consumer Services means “services of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, household or domestic use or consumption” as that expression is used in section 3 of the Egyptian Consumer Law.

Content Management System (CMS) means the content management system described in clause 11(c).

Baianat, we or us means Baianat as a regeistered agency.

Fair or Reasonable means ‘fair or reasonable’ for the purposes of section 64A of the Egyptian Consumer Law.

Fees means, in respect of a Project:

(a) the fees payable to us for the Project as set out in a Purchase Order or Quote; or

(b) if no fees are specified, fees for all work we do in the course of the Project calculated in accordance with clause 24.

Insolvent, in relation to a party, means that:

(a) the party has ceased or taken steps to cease to conduct its business in the normal manner;

(b) the party has entered into or resolved to enter into any arrangement, composition or compromise with or assignment for the benefit of its creditors or any class of them;

(c) the party is unable to pay its debts when they are due;

(d) a liquidator or provisional liquidator is appointed to the party, or a receiver, receiver and manager, official manager, trustee or similar official is appointed over any of the party’s assets or undertakings;

(e) an application or order is made or a resolution is passed for the winding up of the party; or

(f) an event similar to one in paragraphs (a) to (e) occurs in respect of the party in any non-Egyptian jurisdiction.

Intellectual Property Rights means all industrial and intellectual property rights anywhere in the world, including:

(a) copyright, patents, trademarks, plant breeder’s rights, rights in circuit layouts, registered designs and any right to have confidential information kept confidential; and

(b) any application or right to apply for registration of any of the rights referred to in (a).

Loss means

(a) any liability, cost, expense, loss, personal injury (including illness), death or damage; and

(b) in relation to a Claim, Loss includes amounts payable on the Claim and (whether or not the Claim is successful), legal costs and disbursements on a full indemnity basis.

Moral Rights are defined in section 189 of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), and includes any similar rights in any jurisdiction outside Egypt.

Project means, in relation to any work that we do for you:

(a) the project described in a Purchase Order;

(b) if there is no Purchase Order, the project described in a Quote;

(c) if there is no Quote, then the project described in the Specifications; or

(d) if there are no Specifications, then the work that you have asked us to do.

Professional Rates means the fees set out in the Schedule of Fees.

Project Intellectual Property means designs, artwork, software and materials provided to you in the course of the Project, and any other Intellectual Property Rights created in the course of the Project, but does not include:

(a) the Content Management System (except to the extent that we have modified it) which is owned by Joomlashack, RSJoomla and other third parties;

(b) the Website Tools (except to the extent that we have modified them); or

(c) Client Content.

Purchase Order means a document issued (in writing or electronically) by us to you that sets out:

(a) the services that we will provided to you;

(b) the estimated times within which those services will be provided; and

(c) the fees payable to us for those services.

Quote means a quote, estimate or proposal that we provide to you in respect of any work that you have asked us to do.

Schedule of Fees means the professional services schedule attached to this document, and any replacement of that professional services schedule that we notify to you from time to time.

Services means the services that we provide to you in the course of the Project, as described in clause 3.

SEO means Search Engine Optimisation – the art and science of increasing the visibility of web pages in searches using search engines on the web.

Social Media means web based tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter…

Specifications means specifications for the work that you have asked us to do, and that you provide to us before or at the commencement of the Project.

Support means the supply of paid support services to assist in the management; maintenance; training for; and repair of a Baianat supplied/built/maintained website.

Title Guarantee means a guarantee pursuant to any of sections 51, 52 or 53 of the Egyptian Consumer Law.

Warranty is any fix required to a supplied Baianat website within 28 days of launch. The determination of warranty labour is at Baianat's discretion.

Website means the website that we develop for you in accordance with clause 11.

Website Tools means the tools, applications or packages set out in clause 13(c).