Terms & Conditions

“Owners In Portugal” hereinafter referred to as OIP provides services using its website, on and offline marketing activities and registered suppliers including its own resources and those of other businesses and other individuals and partnerships hereinafter referred to as “suppliers”, OIP reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's or suppliers access to any or all services provided by OIP or its suppliers when OIP decides that the account ( customer or supplier) has breached the Terms of Service.

All of our design work, including website design is covered by individual contracts which must be signed by both parties before commencement of work.

The following generic terms and conditions are included in all contracts.
Both parties will agree on a specification for the project which will be signed by both parties. Any additional work which does not form part of the specification will be charged to the client at OIP´s standard hourly rates.

Unless agreed in a separate maintenance contract, OIP is not under obligation to provide ongoing support via telephone, email or any other means.

Any functional errors or agreed revisions will be fixed up to 1 month after the delivery of the project. After this time all additional work will be charged at OIP´s standard hourly rate.

Payment policy

OIP does not perform any work without prepayment unless specified in a separate contract. Customers may pay by sterling or €uro cheque or BACS transfer or through the Paypal system. All funds must be cleared by the end of the 30 days, at which point OIP may withdraw ongoing services and/or take necessary steps to reclaim any monies owed.

Intellectual property rights

All pre-registered marks and names remain the intellectual property of the customer, including all domain names.

All design and graphic work (front-end design) undertaken by OIP, including logos will remain the intellectual property of OIP until payment is received.

Any reports produced or source code produced including all HTML and JavaScript remains the intellectual property of OIP at all times and OIP is free to re-use this work as they wish. OIP is under no obligation to supply copies of any reports or source code unless otherwise agreed. Any such work may not be copied or distributed to any other company or individual without the written consent of OIP.

Copyrighted material

If any copyrighted material other than the holder of the account's own is to be used in any design work undertaken by OIP, OIP must receive a signed photocopy or original letter giving explicit, specific permission from the copyright holder.

OIP cannot be held responsible for copyrighted material supplied to OIP by the customer to be used in design work. It is the customer’s responsibility to ensure it is the owner of any copyrighted material used.

Dispute resolution

If case of any dispute arising during this project, the Managing directors of both companies or Principles of both parties should meet to attempt an amicable resolution.

These terms and conditions are governed by English law and in the event of litigation English courts will have jurisdiction.

Indemnification

Customer or supplier agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold OIP harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against OIP, its agents, suppliers, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by any customer, supplier, its agents, employees or assigns. Customer or supplier agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless OIP against liabilities arising out of (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with OIP´s suppliers (2) any material supplied by customer or supplier infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party (3) copyright infringement and (4) any defective products sold to customer from OIP.

Disclaimer

OIP reserves the right to revise its policies at any time.

In conjunction with The Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 OIP will carry out our work with reasonable care and skill. If the service is not carried with the requisite level of care and skill, the customer would be entitled to seek reimbursement for damages suffered as a result of this.

Statutory rights

This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.

OIP provides web site design and reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by OIP or its suppliers when OIP or its suppliers decides that the account has breached the Terms of Service.

Website use

OIP reserves the right to refuse service and /or access to its website to anyone.

OIP does not allow any of the following content to be stored on: its website

Illegal Material - This includes copyrighted works, commercial audio, video, or music files, and any material in violation of any Federal, State or Local regulation.

Adult Material - Includes all pornography, erotic images, or otherwise lewd or obscene content.

Warez - Includes pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, password cracking. IP spoofing, etc., and encrypting of any of the above. Also includes any sites which provide "links to" or "how to" information about such material.

Cancellation and refunds

OIP reserves the right to cancel any services at any time. In this event customers or suppliers will be entitled to a pro rata refund based upon the remaining period of membership. If a customer or supplier contravenes OIP´s Terms of Service a refund will not be issued in the event of a cancellation.

If not entirely happy with the service provided by OIP, customers or suppliers may cancel their order within 14 days from order date without reason. Any payment made will be returned within 30 days of cancellation.

Fees charged on a prepay basis are non-refundable. Customers or suppliers are not entitled to receive a refund unless the service is cancelled by OIP or in circumstances where OIP are in breach a refund may be due.

Indemnification

Customers or supplier agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold OIP harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against OIP, its agents, its customers, suppliers,officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer or supplier, its agents, employees or assigns. Customer or Supplier agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless OIP against liabilities arising out of (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with OIP´s website or offline marketing activities (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party (3) copyright infringement and (4) any defective products sold to customer from OIP´s website or offline marketing activity.

Disclaimer

OIP reserves the right to revise its policies at any time.

Statutory rights

This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.