Terms of Service

1. Agreement to Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding agreement between CodeCrafters.ai (“CodeCrafters,” “we,” “us”) and the business entity or individual (“Client,” “you”) accessing our website or executing a Statement of Work (SOW).

By visiting codecraftersai.com, submitting a discovery request, or signing an engineering proposal, you confirm that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age, authorized to legally bind your entity, and agree to these Terms in full.

2. Engineering Services & Statements of Work

CodeCrafters provides custom software development, frontend and backend engineering, mobile app development, database architecture, AI workflow automation, and technical advisory services.

• Deliverables, sprint milestones, acceptance criteria, and project fees are defined in individual Statements of Work (SOWs) or proposals.
• Scope alterations requested during active development will be evaluated under a written Change Order detailing cost and timeline adjustments.
• Upon milestone delivery to staging, Client has ten (10) business days (“Review Window”) to test and report reproducible bugs. If no reproducible bugs are reported within this window, deliverables are deemed accepted.

3. Fees, Invoicing & Payment Terms

Engagements are structured as milestone-based projects, time-and-materials, or recurring sprint retainers:

• Invoices are payable upon receipt or according to the payment term (e.g., Net 14) agreed in the SOW.
• Invoices overdue by more than thirty (30) days will incur finance charges of 1.5% per month or the maximum permissible by law.
• CodeCrafters reserves the right to suspend development sprints, withhold production deployments, and pause staging environments if payment defaults occur.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

IP ownership is structured to protect both bespoke client IP and our development assets:

• Custom Work Product: Subject to receipt of full and final payment for the corresponding work, CodeCrafters assigns to Client all right, title, and interest (including copyright) in the bespoke code and visual assets created specifically for Client.
• Background IP & Tooling: CodeCrafters retains exclusive ownership of pre-existing boilerplates, developer tools, algorithms, internal utility modules, and architectural templates. CodeCrafters grants Client a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use such Background IP solely as integrated within the delivered software.
• Open-Source Packages: Third-party open-source components remain subject to their respective open-source licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD).

5. AI Systems & Model Governance

Where deliverables incorporate machine learning, large language models (LLMs), or third-party AI APIs (including OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-weights models), Client acknowledges that AI outputs are probabilistic and non-deterministic. While CodeCrafters builds enterprise guardrails, validation schemas, and evaluation test suites, Client remains responsible for validating accuracy, user safety disclosures, and regulatory compliance within their target market.

6. Confidentiality & Non-Disclosure

Both parties agree that all proprietary product specifications, source code, financial details, customer data, and technical designs shared during the engagement constitute Confidential Information. Neither party will disclose Confidential Information to any third party without explicit prior written authorization, except to contractors and legal advisors under equivalent confidentiality covenants.

7. Portfolio & Attribution Rights

Unless explicitly restricted under a separate bilateral NDA, Client grants CodeCrafters the non-exclusive right to reference Client’s company name, logo mark, and a factual overview of the delivered engineering scope in our portfolio, case studies, and marketing decks.

8. Limited Warranty & Disclaimers

We warrant that our engineering services will be performed in a professional, workmanlike manner adhering to modern software engineering best practices.

• 30-Day Defect Warranty: We provide a complimentary thirty (30) day warranty period following production launch to fix reproducible code defects directly attributable to our implementation.
• Disclaimer: EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED, DELIVERABLES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS.” WE DISCLAIM ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND THIRD-PARTY CLOUD API AVAILABILITY.

9. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY). CODECRAFTERS’ TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO ANY SOW SHALL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL FEES ACTUALLY PAID BY CLIENT UNDER THAT SOW IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE CLAIM.

10. Term & Termination

Either party may terminate an engagement for convenience with thirty (30) days’ prior written notice, or immediately if the other party materially breaches these Terms and fails to cure such breach within fourteen (14) days. Upon termination, Client will immediately pay CodeCrafters for all milestone deliverables completed and billable work performed up to the effective termination date.