Terms & Conditions

By using this website, requesting a quote, or engaging the studio, you agree to these terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.

DoodleByte Design Studio is a creative technology studio providing web development, mobile app development, AI solutions, business automation, and branding and design services. Work is bespoke: what we deliver is defined by the written proposal for your project, not by this page.

We do not sell fixed packages. Indicative price ranges are published on our pricing page as a guide only. The figure for your project is agreed from its own scope and your budget, and is confirmed in a written quote before any work begins - that written quote, not the published range, is what binds either of us. A quote is valid for 30 days from issue unless stated otherwise.

Timelines depend on complexity, not on a fixed schedule. A single feature can ship in a few days; a large system typically runs two to three months end to end. Any dates we give are good-faith estimates based on the agreed scope, and assume we receive the content, access, approvals and feedback we need from you when we need them.

Work outside the agreed scope is not automatically included. If you ask for something new mid-project, we will tell you what it changes in cost and time before we start it.

• All fees are quoted and payable in INR unless the proposal states otherwise, and are exclusive of applicable taxes, which are added at the prevailing rate.
• Projects are normally invoiced against milestones, with an advance payable before work begins. Your proposal sets out the specific schedule.
• Invoices are payable within the period stated on the invoice. We may pause work on overdue accounts after giving you notice.
• Third-party costs - hosting, domains, paid APIs, licensed fonts, stock assets, app-store fees - are yours, and are either billed at cost or bought in your own name.

Delivering on time depends on you as well as us. You agree to provide accurate information, supply content and brand assets you have the right to use, give timely feedback and approvals, and nominate someone who can make decisions on the project. Delays in these will move the timeline.

You own what we build for you. On receipt of full payment, all rights in the final deliverables prepared specifically for your project - source code, designs, and assets we created - transfer to you. Domains and accounts are registered in your name. There is no proprietary lock-in and no hostage situation.

Two things sit outside that transfer. First, third-party and open-source components remain under their own licences, which we will identify. Second, we keep ownership of our general know-how, internal tooling and reusable techniques - the things that are not specific to you - and grant you a perpetual licence to use them as part of your deliverables.

Unless you ask us in writing not to, we may show the finished work in our portfolio and marketing. We will never disclose your confidential information in doing so.

Each of us will keep the other’s non-public information confidential and use it only to carry out the project. This does not apply to information that is already public, that you or we already knew, or that we are legally required to disclose.

We will perform our services with reasonable skill and care, in a professional manner. Where the proposal includes a defect-fix window after launch, we will correct genuine defects in our work free of charge within that period. Ongoing maintenance, new features and changes to third-party platforms are not defects and are quoted separately.

Beyond that, this website and its content are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or in connection with a project is limited to the total fees you have paid us for that project. Neither party is liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profits, lost revenue or loss of data.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including for fraud.

Projects often rely on third-party services - hosting, payment gateways, analytics, AI providers, app stores. Those services are governed by their own terms, their availability and pricing are outside our control, and we are not responsible for their acts or omissions.

Either party may end an engagement by giving written notice. If you end it, you pay for all work completed and irrevocably committed up to that date; refunds are handled under our Cancellation & Refund Policy. We may end an engagement if invoices remain unpaid after notice, or if we are asked to do something unlawful or against our professional judgement.

You may not use this website to break the law, attempt to gain unauthorised access to it, disrupt it, or scrape it at a volume that degrades service for others. The content, design and code of this site remain our property.

These terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Chennai, Tamil Nadu have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, though we will always try to resolve things by discussion first.

We may update these terms. The version published here on the date you engage us is the one that applies to that engagement.

Questions about these terms: doodlebyte.studio@gmail.com, or see our contact page.