Terms of service.

These terms apply when you use aethel.digital, its free tools, a client account, or an app or website we deploy for you. Project work itself — scope, price, timeline, ownership — is set out in the agreement you sign with us; where that agreement and these terms differ, the signed agreement wins. By using the site you accept these terms.

• Submit only websites you own or are authorised to act for.
• A website reading loads the public page in an automated browser and measures it. Results are indicative — a starting point, not a guarantee of rankings, sales or legal compliance.
• A preview is a private draft built from the business's public website. Example figures and sample reviews are marked as such and must be replaced with real ones before anything is published. A preview does not license its design or content for use until we agree a project.
• We may limit how often the tools are used, and refuse requests that look automated or abusive.

You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email, so keep that inbox secure: whoever can read it can open your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has. We may suspend an account that is misused.

• Prices are set in US dollars. Outside Ethiopia, the amount shown in your currency is a conversion at the day's rate, for information only: you pay the US-dollar amount, and your bank may apply its own rate and fees.
• Clients in Ethiopia are invoiced in Ethiopian birr and pay with the Ethiopian methods listed on the invoice — bank transfer or mobile money such as Telebirr, CBE Birr or M-Pesa.
• Automatic confirmation. When you enter a transaction reference or upload a receipt on a birr invoice, it is checked with your bank or wallet through our verification provider. A payment is recorded automatically only when it was made to our account, completed, dated no earlier than the day before the invoice, and not already used for another payment; anything else is reviewed by our team. Submitting a receipt that is not yours, altered, or already used is prohibited and may be reported.
• Payment terms, deposits and late payment are set out in your agreement and on each invoice. Work may pause while an invoice is overdue.

• Unless agreed otherwise, we host the apps and websites we build or set up for you on our hosting account (Vercel). We rely on that provider; availability beyond what a care plan states is not guaranteed.
• Services your app connects to — payments, email, maps, social platforms — run on your own accounts, under those providers' terms and charges. You are responsible for those accounts and for the keys you give us. We use the keys only to run your app; you can replace or revoke them at any time.
• If you give us code — yours or another developer's — you confirm you have the right to use it and to have us run it. We may decline code we cannot run safely or lawfully.
• When a project or care plan ends, we hand over or remove the app as your agreement says; removal deletes the hosting project and the stored keys.

The content and code of aethel.digital are ours. Who owns a project's deliverables, and when, is set out in your agreement — usually they become yours on full payment. Material you send us (logos, text, photos, code) stays yours; you let us use it to do the work. We may show finished work in our portfolio unless you ask us not to.

Do not use the site or anything we host for you to break the law, infringe others' rights, send spam or malware, attack or overload systems, get around rate limits or security, or scrape the site at volume. We may remove content or suspend hosting that does.

The free tools are provided as they are, without warranty. For paid work, our total liability for a claim is limited to the amount you paid us for the work concerned in the twelve months before the claim, and neither of us is liable for indirect losses such as lost profit or data — except where the law does not allow such limits.

Links to other websites are for convenience; we are not responsible for their content.

We may update these terms as our services change. The date at the top shows the current version; continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it. Changes never alter an agreement already signed.

These terms are governed by the law named in your signed agreement. Where there is none, they are governed by the laws of the United States, and disputes go to the courts there.

Questions about these terms: hello@aethel.digital.