Legal Contract Templates How to Write the Web Development Contract (Client Centered)

Writing the Web Development Contract (Client Centered) document

WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT is made this current day day of current month current year by and between company name Developers and company name Customer Recitals A. Developers have experience and expertise in the development of web sites. B. Customer desires to have Developers develop web site for them. C. Developers desire to develop Customers Web Site on the terms and conditions set forth herein the Web Site

Agreements In consideration of the mutual covenants set forth in this Agreement Customer and Developers hereby agree as follows. 1. Development of Web Site. Developers agree to develop the Web Site according to the terms listed on Exhibit attached hereto. 2. Specifications. Developers agree to develop the Web Site pursuant to the specifications set forth in Exhibit attached hereto the Specifications

3. Delivery of Web Site. Developers will use reasonable diligence in the development of the Web Site and endeavor to deliver to Customer an operational Web Site no later than delivery date. Customer acknowledges however that this delivery deadline and the other payment milestones listed in Exhibit are estimates and are not required delivery dates. Developers will be retaining the source code for the entire project and providing Customer with the output formats only. The output is to be used only within the scope of the project as outlined in Exhibit and does not included the following. Multiplying the site across other domains or servers creating new web sites based on the code or selling or distributing the code to third party. Customer shall retain all of its intellectual property rights in any text images or other components it owns and transmits to Developers for use in the Web Site. 4. Ownership Rights. Customer shall retain all of its intellectual property rights in any text images or other components it owns and transmits to Developers for use in the Web Site. Customer shall hold the copyright for the agreed upon version of the Web Site as delivered and Customers copyright notice may be displayed in the final version. Developer retains exclusive rights to pre existing material they use in Customers project s. Customer does not have right to reuse resell or otherwise transfer material owned by Developer or third parties. Developers materials shall be defined as set forth in Exhibit attached. 5. Compensation. For all of Developers services under this Agreement Customer shall compensate Developers in cash pursuant to the terms of Exhibit attached hereto. In the event Customer fails to make any of the payments referenced in Exhibit by the deadline set forth in Exhibit Developers have the right but are not obligated to pursue any or all of the following remedies. terminate the Agreement remove content from servers owned by Developers bring legal action. 6. Confidentiality.

Customer and Developers acknowledge and agree that the Specifications and all other documents and information related to the development of the Web Site the Confidential Information will constitute valuable trade secrets of Developers. Customer shall keep the Confidential Information in confidence and shall not at any time during or after the term of this Agreement without Developers prior written consent disclose or otherwise make available to anyone either directly or indirectly all or any part of the Confidential Information. Excluded from the Confidential Information definition is anything that can be seen by the public on the Web Site when each page of the Web Site is first accessed. 7. Limited Warranty and Limitation on Damages. Developers warrant the Web Site will conform to the Specifications. If the Web Site does not conform to the Specifications Developers shall be responsible to correct the Web Site without unreasonable delay at Developers sole expense and without charge to Customer to bring the Web Site into conformance with the Specifications. This warranty shall be the exclusive warranty available to Customer. Customer waives any other warranty express or implied. Customer acknowledges that Developers do not warrant that the Web Site will work on all platforms. Customer acknowledges that Developers are not responsible for the results obtained by Customer on the Web Site. Customer waives any claim for damages direct or indirect and agrees that its sole and exclusive remedy for damages either in contract or tort is the return of the consideration paid to Developers as set forth in Exhibit attached hereto. 8. Independent Contractor. Developers are retained as independent contractors. Developers will be fully responsible for payment of their own income taxes on all compensation earned under this Agreement. Customer will not withhold or pay any income tax social security tax or any other payroll taxes on Developers behalf. Developers understand that they will not be entitled to any fringe benefits that Customer provides for its employees generally or to any statutory employment benefits including without limitation workers compensation or unemployment insurance. 9. Equipment. Customer agrees to make available to Developers for Developers use in performing the services required by this Agreement such items of hardware and software as Customer and Developers may agree are reasonably necessary for such purpose.

10. General Provisions. 10 Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any and all prior agreements or understandings written or oral between the parties related to the subject matter hereof. No modification of this Agreement shall be valid unless made in writing and signed by both of the parties hereto. 10 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of state or province. Exclusive jurisdiction and venue shall be in the county County state or province Superior Court.

10 Binding Effect. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Customer and Developers and their respective successors and assigns provided that Developers may not assign any of his obligations under this Agreement without Customers prior written consent. 10 Waiver. The waiver by either party of any breach or failure to enforce any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time shall not in any way affect limit or waive such partys right thereafter to enforce and compel strict compliance with every term and condition of this Agreement. 10 Good Faith. Each party represents and warrants to the other that such party has acted in good faith and agrees to continue to so act in the negotiation execution delivery performance and any termination of this Agreement. 10 Ownership of Photographs.

Developers may use some of their own photographs for the Web Site. Developers maintain ownership of the photographs and only grant Customer non exclusive right to use those photographs and only on Customers Web Site. 10 Right to Remove Web Site. In the event Customer fails to make any of the payments set forth on Exhibit within the time prescribed in Exhibit Developers have the right to remove the Web Site until payment in full is paid plus accrued late charges of 2% per month. 10 Indemnification. Customer warrants that everything it gives Developers to put on the Web Site is legally owned or licensed to Customer. Customer agrees to indemnify and hold Developers harmless from any and all claims brought by any third party relating to any aspect of the Web Site including but without limitation any and all demands liabilities losses costs and claims including attorneys fees arising out of injury caused by Customers products services material supplied by Customer copyright infringement and defective products sold via the Web Site. Further Customer agrees to indemnify Developers from responsibility for problems disruptions caused by third party services that Customer may use such as merchant accounts shopping carts shipping hosting services real time credit card processing and other services that relate to the ownership and operation of the Web Site or multimedia project. 10 Use of Web Site for Promotional Purposes. Customer grants Developers the right to use the Web Site for promotional purposes and or to cross link it with other Web Sites developed by Developers. 10. 10 No Responsibility for Theft. Developers have no responsibility for any third party taking all or any part of the Web Site.

10. 11 Attorneys Fees. In the event any party to this Agreement employs an attorney to enforce any of the terms of the Agreement the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its actual attorneys fees and costs including expert witness fees. 10. 12 Identification of Developers. Customer agrees that Developers identification may be annotated within the code or on the Web Site as the authors. Customer also agrees to put on Developers copyright notices on the Web Site and the relevant content therein. 10. 13 No Responsibility for Loss. Developers are not responsible for any down time lost files improper links or any other loss that may occur in the operation of the Web Site. 10. 14 Transfer of Rights. In the event Developers are unable to continue maintenance of the Web Site Customer shall have non exclusive rights to use pre existing material see Exhibit owned by Developer in connection with Customers Web Site. 10. 15 Domain Name.

Any domain name registered on Customers behalf will be made in Customers name for both the billing and administrative contacts. The technical contact is generally required to be the hosting ISP. Developer will not register domain names in Developers name. Each party represents and warrants that on the date first written above they are authorized to enter into this Agreement in entirety and duly bind their respective principals by their signature below. EXECUTED as of the date first written above. company name By signator authorized signature or signer. Job title of signator authorized signature or signer. Date when the contact was signed company name

By signator authorized signature or signer. Job title of signator authorized signature or signer. Date when the contact was signed Customer Initials Developer Initials

Writing the Exhibit F (Project Change Form) document (alternate or related contract document)

EXHIBIT F CONTRACT ADDENDUM THIS AGREEMENT is made this current day day of current month current year by and between company name Company and company name Customer The following requirements are made and are to be included as part of the attached contract. ADDENDUM A. Project Change Request Insert Addendum A. Information Here

ADDENDUM B. Financial Impact and Schedule Impact Insert Addendum B. Information Here Each party represents and warrants that on the date first written above they are authorized to enter into this Agreement in entirety and duly bind their respective principals by their signature below. EXECUTED as of the date first written above. company name By signator authorized signature or signer.

Job title of signator authorized signature or signer. Date when the contact was signed company name By signator authorized signature or signer. Job title of signator authorized signature or signer.

Date when the contact was signed Customer Initials Company Initials

How do you write a General Project Work Order (No Deposit) document? (alternate or related contract document)

WORK ORDER company name address address city state or province zip or postal code Phone phone number DATE. current date Order WorkOrder Bill To. company name city state or province zip or postal code

Phone phone number For. Insert what you are doing for the customer here DESCRIPTION* HOURS RATE AMOUNT TOTAL Agreements In consideration of the mutual covenants set forth in this Agreement Customer and Company hereby agree as follows. 1. Development of Project or Services. Customer agrees to engage Company to develop the Project as described above*. 2. Delivery of Project or Services. Company will use reasonable diligence in the development of the project and endeavor to deliver to Customer an operational project no later than delivery date. Customer acknowledges however that this delivery deadline is an estimate and not required delivery date. 3. Ownership Rights. Company shall hold all right title and interest in and to all copyrights patents trade secrets and other intellectual or industrial property rights in the project or any component or characteristic thereof which are proprietary to the Company. Customer shall not do anything that may infringe upon or in any way undermine Companys right title and interest in the project as described in this paragraph 3. Notwithstanding the above Customer shall retain all of its intellectual property rights in any components it owns and transmits to Company for use in the project. 4. Compensation. For all of Companys services under this Agreement Customer shall compensate the Company in cash the amount specified in the total above. In the event Customer fails to make any of the payments referenced by the deadline set forth as invoiced Company has the right but is not obligated to pursue any or all of the following remedies. terminate the Agreement remove the project from public access bring legal action. 5. Limited Warranty and Limitation on Damages. Developers warrant the project will conform to the Specifications. If the project does not conform to the Specifications the Company shall be responsible to correct the project without unreasonable delay at the Companys sole expense and without charge to Customer to bring the project into conformance with the Specifications. This warranty shall be the exclusive warranty available to the Customer. Customer waives any other warranty express or implied. Customer acknowledges that the Company does not warrant that the project will work on all platforms. Customer acknowledges that the Company is not responsible for the results obtained by the Customer. Customer waives any claim for damages direct or indirect and agrees that its sole and exclusive remedy for damages either in contract or tort is the return of the consideration paid to the Company. 6. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Customer and the Company and their respective successors and assigns provided that the Company may not assign any of its obligations under this Agreement without prior written consent of Customer. ACCEPTANCE OF AGREEMENT. The above prices specifications and conditions are hereby accepted. The Company is authorized to execute the project as outlined in this Agreement. Payment will be made as proposed above.

company name By signator authorized signature or signer. Job title of signator authorized signature or signer. Date when the contact was signed company name By signator authorized signature or signer. Job title of signator authorized signature or signer. Date when the contact was signed Customer Initials Company Initials

How to write my Breach of Contract Notification Form document (alternate or related contract document)

GIVING NOTICE OF BREACH OF AGREEMENT DEMANDING CORRECTIVE ACTION current date company name address address city state or province zip or postal code Phone phone number Fax fax number Re. Our Agreement Dear salutation last name

The purpose of this letter is to give formal notice of your breach of our Agreement Insert the title of the contract or agreement which was breached dated start date. Specifically you are in breach of paragraph Insert Paragraph Breached here of the Agreement which provides that Insert description of what was breached Please be advised that if Insert corrective action that must be done will have no choice but to refer this matter to legal counsel for appropriate action. Thank you in advance for your immediate attention to this matter. Sincerely

first name last name job title

How to write my Project Copyright Transfer Contract document (alternate or related contract document)

TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT is made this current day day of current month current year by and between company name hereafter referred to as Author and company name hereafter referred to as Client PART A. The purpose of this Agreement hereafter referred to as the Agreement is to act as transfer of copyright for the attached work Exhibit hereafter referred to as the Article from company name to company name effective as of the date of this agreement. Note. If article was prepared as part of the writers duties for his her employer work for hire this agreement must be signed and authorized by the employer as the Author. If the Article was prepared by U. S. Government employee as part of his her official duties please refer to Part B.

Copyright to the above work including without limitation the right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms of media now or hereafter known is hereby transferred to company name for the following publication uses. Insert details of the specified usage of the content. Copyright to the listed original and unpublished article and subsequent revisions errata or abstracts submitted by the above author the Article is hereby transferred to company name for the full term thereof throughout the world subject to the following rights that the author may freely exercise and to acceptance of the Article for publication and use in company name business. company name shall have the right to register as claimant copyright to the Article in its name whether used individually or as part of another work or medium in which the Article is part of. The author shall retain the following rights so long as the author agree that all copies of the Article made under any of these following rights shall include notice of the company name copyright. 1 All proprietary rights and patent rights other than copyright and the publication rights transferred to company name.

2 The nonexclusive right after publication by company name to give permission to third parties to republish the Article or translation thereof or excerpts therefrom without obtaining permission from company name provided the company name published version is not used for this purpose and provided the Article is not to be published in another journal or web site. If the company name version is used permission from company name must be obtained. 3 The right to post their own author versions of reprints and revisions to use all or part of the Article without revision or modification including the company name published version in personal collection or other publications of the authors own works so long as the company name copyright notice is attached. 4 The right of an employer to make copies of the Article so long as it was prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment and only for the employers own internal use. 5 In the case of work performed under United States Government contract Publisher grants the U. S. Government royalty free permission to reproduce all or portions of the Article and to authorize others to do so for U. S. Government purposes. In the event that the Article is not accepted and published by company name this agreement becomes null and void. By signing this Agreement the author warrants that the Article is original with the author and does not infringe any copyright or violate any other right of any third parties and that the Article has not been published elsewhere and is not being considered for publication elsewhere in any form except as provided herein. If each authors signature does not appear below the signing author represent that they sign this Agreement as authorized agents for and on behalf of all the authors and that this Agreement and authorization is made on behalf of all the authors. The signing author or in the case of work made for hire the signing employer also warrant that they have the full power to enter into this Agreement and to make the grants contained herein. If any provision of this agreement is held to be unenforceable the enforceability of the remaining provisions shall in no way be affected or impaired thereby. This agreement and any disputes arising here under shall be governed by the laws of state or province state without regard to conflicts of laws principles. failure by any party to exercise or delay in exercising right or power conferred upon it in this agreement shall not operate as waiver of any such right or power.

company name Name. Signature. Date. PART B. In the case of work that was performed under U. S. Government contract but you are not U. S. Government employee please sign the transfer form above and review Item above. The following certifies that the author of the listed Article see Exhibit are employees of the U. S. Government and the work was performed as part of their employment and that the Article is not subject to protection under U. S. Copyright. Name. Signature.

Govt. Organization. Date. Author Initials Client Initials