Domains –
All domain registrations and renewals are to be paid in advance. Expiration of a domain can result in service disruption and loss of the domain.
Gigante Technologies will not be responsible if a domain expires due to non-payment / late payment of the charges. All payments must be made by seven working days before the expiry date.
It is the client’s responsibility to renew their domain names with us. All invoices and dues must be paid in full before we release the requested domain name. Gigante Technologies has the domains in a common pool account and therefore cannot give access to its domain control panel.
Gigante offers packages in coordination with third-party providers. Changes to the third-party provider’s rules and policies may ultimately affect the services we provide or the terms and conditions herein.
2. Project Terms –
All estimates/quotes are based on our understanding of your requirements and as per the given time frame. Any changes to the functionality including micro-improvements may incur additional costs accordingly. Please ensure and clarify our understanding in a face-to-face meeting or any online meeting platform like Zoom, Google Meet.
3. Annual Maintenance Terms – Basic Annual Maintenance Package Terms:
All maintenance packages are for a minimum of 12 months period.
Maintenance packages are billed annually, however are paid monthly via direct debit on the 1st of every month.
Packages may include 12 months of basic website hosting, email hosting, and DNS hosting.
Packages are designed to serve website maintenance tasks only. The hours may not be used for projects such as full redesign or major functionality add-ons.
Does not include any Digital Strategy, Business Analysis, Solution Architect, SEO, and Digital Marketing work.
Work-hours are tracked in 15minutes blocks. The support time is used once every month to take a full backup of your website. After that, we work on updating your CMS and plugin versions along with any website fixes that may arise as a result of the updates. Any remaining hours can be used to make changes to the website. Any additional work hours are requested for your approval.
Gigante employs fair use policy, which means that although we don’t formally transfer over any unused time to the next month or formally accumulate unused man-hours, we do understand that your needs may change from month to month, and we allow flexibility in good faith sometimes.
Any extra hours used will be billed separately @ Rs. 1000/hour incl GST.
Support requests need to be sent via email to connect @gigante.co.in
Any urgent tasks will be charged separately.
The package is auto-renewed every year on its anniversary date.
Payment terms:
Monthly maintenance package fees require credit card payment only. No other forms of payment will be accepted for monthly maintenance.
Monthly maintenance package fees will be charged to the client’s credit card on file on the 1st day of every month.
An administrative fee of Rs. 1000 will be charged to the client’s account for any late payments or declined credit card charges.
More than three missed payments in a year may attract termination of the package and the client will need to pay immediately the entire remaining amount on the package.
There are absolutely no refunds for any fees related to the monthly maintenance package.
Termination:
In case the Client needs to cancel the auto annual renewal, please inform us in writing (email) at least one month prior to the renewal date.
Ongoing term: For any reason, if the Client decides to terminate an ongoing maintenance package, then they will need to pay the balance amount of the remaining months.
Gigante reserves the right to terminate annual maintenance at any time with written notice to the Client.
4. General Approach – For general website design & development projects we employ the following steps
• Upon quote acceptance/signoff, initiation payment is processed to start the project. As required by the project, we may hold a Scoping Workshop to discuss the requirements in detail.
• Once we have the brand details such as logo, images, branding materials, etc., we will have a mock-up for your review within 5 to 10 working days.
• You can review the design and suggest improvements accordingly. Depending upon your project, generally up to 2 to 3 design modifications can be done within the given estimates. Please refer to your allocated design and development hours for details.
• Once the design is finalized & approved, we’ll proceed with the HTML development. At this stage, we generally need around 3 to 5 banner text and/or images for rotation.
• Once, HTML is done, if CMS is included in your project, we will proceed to set up your website on your selected Content Management System (CMS). Please provide all content and copy prior to the development phase.
• Depending upon the time and resources allocated to your project, we’ll transfer as much content as possible from the old website to the new website. The remaining content can be transferred via the CMS by your designated staff. We can provide the instructions needed to help you do this.
• Once the site is ready from our end, we generally hand it over to you for further review, test, and/or to upload/change contents as necessary.
• At this stage you need to give us a Go-Live date for us to make the new website/project live.
• Your website can be made live within 3 to 5 working days of a Go-Live approval, assuming that the accounts are clear. Kindly note that we require full payment prior to transferring the website on any external servers.
• Kindly note, there are limited man-hours allocated on the project. The estimates for all websites under Rs. 50,000.00 is based on an assumption that projects will be completed over two to four working weeks depending upon the size of your project. Any further delays may increase the project management costs. If you do not believe the project to be completed within this time frame, please do let us know prior to starting the project.
• Also, generally speaking, going back and forth takes a lot of time. We encourage you to provide all necessary details, at the start of the project to ensure that the project team’s time is efficiently utilized on your project and you do not incur any unnecessary additional costs.
• You will be kept updated via emails and/or telephone calls as the project demands. However, please do not hesitate to contact us any time you require a project status. Also, please always keep us updated with your relevant email addresses/contact details.
• Once the website/application has been made live on the client’s domain, it is their responsibility to take regular full back-ups and to update all components and third-party software.
We consider ourselves to be very flexible and adaptable and approach all requests with a ‘can-do attitude. If you require something changed, please feel free to discuss it with us. Please contact us if you require further details or have any questions. We look forward to working together with you on your project!
5. Payment & Refund Terms –
All prices are quoted in Indian Rupees are exclusive of GST unless specified.
• All invoices are to be processed as per the schedule via your preferred method of payment.
• There is a surcharge charged for payments made via Accounting Software. This is charged by Stripe for credit card payments.
• Milestone payments must be made within 5 working days of each milestone/schedule unless mutually agreed otherwise. Final payment must be made prior to the website/application/project going live.
• Receipt of payment is deemed as acceptance of the quote, milestone, delivery, project, and terms & conditions.
• Gigante Technologies reserves the right to negotiate and refund an appropriate portion of the amount paid by the customer towards the requested service. If you cancel your order after making the payment, but the work has not commenced, we will refund 75% of the payment that you have already made. If the order is canceled after the commencement of work, the maximum refund or charge will be 50% of the invoice. There will be no refund or adjustments if cancellation is called when more than 50% of the work has been completed. All cancellations must be received in writing and can be sent via regular mail, email or fax. Telephone requests on cancellations will not be accepted.
For minor or once-off works, payments need to be made either in advance or as per the terms mentioned in the invoice/proposal. If you require any changes to the terms, you must inform us in writing (emails accepted) within two working days of the receipt of the same.
• Late fees and charges: All outstanding invoices will incur a late payment fee of 10% of the pending amount and an administration fee of Rs. 500 per month, from the due date.
Due date: This is the date on which the payment is due as per the terms on the invoice/proposal
Outstanding Invoice: An invoice is deemed to be outstanding if the payment is still due after 14 days of the expiry of the due date.
Debt Collection: The client is provided a further 7 days after the late payment fee is applied to pay the invoice. Failure to pay will result in the outstanding amount referred to a debt collector. Gigante Technologies will not be liable for any costs or charges associated with the recovery of the outstanding amount. Any charges associated with the recovery of the outstanding amount (debt collectors, administration charges, legal fees) will be referred to the client for processing.
• If you are late with a payment or have any queries regarding the Invoice, please contact the Accounts Manager immediately on receiving the invoice or reminder emails.
• All communications/correspondences are generally done via emails. It is the client’s responsibility to keep us updated with their relevant email addresses.
• Any payment relating to the domain name registration renewal or hosting or any 3rd party products or service purchased on behalf of the client will have to be paid in full and is non-refundable. In case of all renewal cancellations, we must be notified at least 30 days before the renewal date.
• Gigante Technologies generally builds and tests the websites/applications on our own servers or hosted domains. The website/application will be transferred off to the nominated 3rd party server upon full payment of all invoices and dues.
6. Disputes, Liability & Indemnity –
In an event of a dispute, Gigante Technologies reserves the right to charge the client in full for the work done as well as for the resources spent in managing the dispute. In such an event, Gigante Technologies reserves the right to charge the client without honoring any discounts that were previously honored in good faith. Under no circumstances will Gigante Technologies be liable for any damages arising from misrepresentation or misinformation.
Gigante Technologies reserves the right to refuse service to any client if these are not aligned with our business operating principles and policies.
Gigante Technologies provides its services as is, without any guarantees on security or other issues leading to loss of data, sale, or reputation. We ensure to the best of our ability that our systems and servers are protected from hackers, viruses, intruders, and other online and offline problems; however, we will not be held liable for any disruption of services if such a situation arises.
The relationship of Gigante Technologies with its suppliers, partners, and sub-contractors is of an independent nature. None of the parties have any power, right, or authority to interfere or bind the other or assume or create any obligation or responsibility, whether expressed or implied, on behalf of the other or in the other’s name.
The client will indemnify and hold Gigante Technologies, its licensors, content providers, service providers, employees, agents, officers, directors, contractors, and sub-contractors (the “Indemnified Parties”) harmless from your breach of any of these Terms and Conditions or any other terms, conditions, policies or procedures herein, including, without limitation, any use of the Content other than as expressly authorized in these Terms and Conditions. Client agrees that the indemnified parties will have no liability in connection with any such breach or unauthorized use, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Indemnified Parties from any and all resulting loss, damages, judgments, awards, costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees in connection therewith. You will also indemnify and hold the Indemnified Parties harmless from and against any claims brought by third parties arising out of your use of the information obtained from Gigante Technologies.
Gigante Technologies will not be liable for any breach of the agreement which is caused by a matter beyond its reasonable control including but not limited to Act of God, fire, lightning, explosion, war, disorder, flood, earthquake, industrial disputes (whether or not involving their employees), extremely severe weather, or acts of local or central government or other competent authorities
7. Hosting –
Hosting is an annual charge which must be paid in advance for the whole year. Except if the client is under one of our Maintenance packages.
It is the client’s responsibility to renew the hosting in time i.e., before the expiry date. Failure to renew in time can lead to loss of files, data, emails, backups, etc. All unpaid hostings are disabled or deleted from the server.
All renewals must be paid by seven working days prior to the expiry date. Gigante will not be responsible for issues relating to the delayed payment.
Hosting is on shared and non-shared servers hosted via third-party providers. Gigante Technologies ensures best to our ability that our systems and servers are protected from hackers, viruses, intruders, and other online and offline problems, however, we will not be held liable for any disruption of services if such a situation arises.
The client is solely responsible for the content stored on and served by the hosting service purchased and the activity of any scripts or email services created under the hosting service. The Customer must maintain the security of all account passwords and applications or scripts and ensure all scripts under the hosting service are free from malicious content that may harm any part of the Server, other client accounts hosted, or the external systems of visitors viewing the hosted content.
In case of a malware attack, Gigante reserves the right to delete files on the hosting service without giving any prior notice.
Cancellation/Termination:
Hosting Cancellation requests must be sent in writing or by email one month prior to the expiry of the same. Once the hosting has been renewed, it cannot be canceled and must be paid for the full year.
If the hosting is not paid and renewed before the expiry date. We reserve the right to disable the hosting and all associated services including emails and DNS records. Additional charges will be applicable to re-enable the hosting. Gigante will not be responsible for any loss of data, files, emails, backups, restoration costs, etc.
If a hosting has been canceled / disabled then all files, emails, databases, and backups will be deleted from the server without any notification to the client.
Once all invoices are paid, it is the client’s responsibility to request the files subject to the below:
– Gigante CMS is a proprietary CMS of Gigante Technologies. Gigante owns copyrights of all codes written for any client unless arrangements are made prior to the start of the project. Gigante warrants a license to use any custom-built software for the client, for their use only. This license is granted while paying for the hosting. Gigante CMS cannot be transferred to any external host; this includes any access to the software codes. FTP and Control panel access is not provided if the website is using Gigante CMS.
– Gigante CMS is a proprietary CMS of Gigante Technologies and cannot be transferred to any external host.
Emails:
All emails are to be downloaded on the client’s computer periodically. Email boxes must be kept within their quota limits. Periodical maintenance may be carried out on the email box and emails older than 6 months are deleted.
Client’s must not use the email hosting for inappropriate content and other undesired emails which can result in spamming or infecting the server. Under such circumstances, immediate action will be taken and the required files and data will be deleted without any prior notice.
Gigante offers packages in coordination with third-party providers. Changes to the third-party provider’s rules and policies may ultimately affect the services we provide or the terms and conditions herein.
Hosting is on shared and non-shared servers hosted via third-party providers. Gigante Technologies ensures best to our ability that our systems and servers are protected from hackers, viruses, intruders, and other online and offline problems, however, we will not be held liable for any disruption of services if such a situation arises.
8. Digital Marketing/ Strategy Terms –
Digital Marketing Package or Digital Strategy Package Terms:
All digital marketing/strategy packages are for a minimum of 6 months period. Thereafter, cancel anytime with a clear one-month email notice.
They are billed monthly and are payable by the 1st of every month.
Packages are designed keeping in mind the Digital Marketing/Strategy requirements of our clients. There are specific man-hours allocated each month and any unused man-hours are not rolled over to the next month. No third-party software or marketing expenses are included.
GIGANTE employs fair use policy, which means that although we don’t formally transfer over any unused time to the next month or formally accumulate unused man-hours, we do understand that your needs may change from month to month, and we allow flexibility in good faith sometimes.
Any extra hours used may be billed separately. Any urgent tasks will be charged separately.
Support requests need to be sent via email to connect@gigante.co.in
Payment terms:
Payable by the 1st of every month. We strongly recommend our clients to have a direct debit set-up for the same.
An administrative fee of Rs. 1000.00 will be charged to the client’s account for any late payments or declined credit card charges.
There are absolutely no refunds for any fees related to the digital marketing/strategy package.
Termination:
All digital marketing/strategy packages are for a minimum of 6 months period. Thereafter, cancel anytime with a clear one-month email notice.
GIGANTE reserves the right to terminate at any time with written notice to the Client.
9. Intellectual Property –
All content of this website is a property of Gigante Technologies unless otherwise specified. Gigante Technologies reserves the right to change the content or policies without any prior notice.
The project-related copyrights can be transferred to the client at an additional cost, after the full payment of the project and upon signing the Certificate of Acceptance. Gigante Technologies reserves the right to refuse the transfer of ownership if irregular circumstances arise.
Copyrights handed over to the client do not include rights to re-use the code for another website or re-sell the programming codes for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. In the case of business restructuring or ownership change, ownership of the website may be transferred from one owner to another. New owners are not allowed to re-sell or re-use for any commercial or non-commercial purpose. Gigante CMS is a proprietary CMS of Gigante Technologies and cannot be transferred to any external host.
In an event of a Webmaster change, site owners are not allowed to display the credits to the new website, unless such time that the website functionality and appearance is changed by over 50% of our original work.
“Gigante Technologies ” is a trademark of Gigante Technologies Pvt Ltd of India, along with the symbol which consists of a ‘globe’ surrounded by the letter ‘GT’ and also the logo “Gigante ”. Clients, Partners, Suppliers, Sub-contractors, and any other 3rd party organization or individual are not allowed to use Gigante Technologies trademarks including the name, logo, and symbol in any way shape, or form without written permission from us.