Terms of Service

These terms cover use of the four13studios.com website. Separate written statements of work govern client engagements — nothing here supersedes a signed proposal.

Use of this site

You're welcome to read, link to, and share this site. Don't scrape it at a rate that disrupts service, don't attempt to break our contact form or rate-limit protection, and don't impersonate us in communications with anyone else.

Contact form

By submitting the contact form, you confirm the information provided is accurate and that you're authorized to contact us on behalf of your organization. We rate-limit submissions to protect the inbox; see our privacy policy for details.

Intellectual property

Everything on this site — copy, design, code, illustrations — is ours unless marked otherwise. The Next.js and React marks and source belong to their respective owners.

Client engagements

When we accept a project, a separate written proposal governs deliverables, timeline, pricing, IP assignment, warranties, and termination. Headline terms we use by default:

• Fixed-price. The quoted number is the price. Scope changes require a new mini-quote before work proceeds.
• Payment by invoice. 50% on kickoff, 50% on delivery unless the proposal states otherwise.
• Ownership transfers on final payment. When the final invoice is paid, you own the code and deliverables outright. We retain the right to mention the engagement publicly unless the proposal states otherwise.

Refunds — phase-gated

We don't offer mid-project “walk away with everything paid back” refunds, because by then we've done real work. We do refund work we haven't started. Each project moves through five phases: Discovery, Design, Build, Review, and Launched. When you sign off on a phase, that phase becomes non-refundable. Cancel during a phase and you pay for completed work plus an agreed portion of work in progress. The full schedule lives on our pricing page.

Launch warranty

For 30 days after launch, we fix any bug in code we shipped at no cost. This covers regressions, broken integrations, accessibility issues we missed, and browser/device behavior we should have caught. It does not cover new features, scope additions, or changes to third-party services. New work needs a new mini-quote.

Intellectual property — client engagements

Defaults that apply unless your proposal overrides them:

• Source code & deliverables. Yours, on final payment. Custom application code, configuration, and content live in a repo we transfer to you at launch (or anytime on request).
• Design files. You own the final exported deliverables (production assets, exported PDFs, brand assets). Working Figma source files stay with us and are made available on request.
• Shared components and patterns. Some UI components and patterns are reused across our projects. You receive a perpetual, unlimited license to use them in your delivered product; we retain the right to reuse them elsewhere. Truly custom code we wrote for you is yours exclusively.
• AI-assisted work.We use AI tools (Claude, Copilot, GPT) the same way we use any other tool. Output we ship to you is yours, with the same warranty as any other code we write. We'll disclose specifics if you ask.
• Third-party dependencies.Open-source dependencies carry their own licenses (mostly MIT or similar permissive licenses). After launch you're responsible for keeping them current, unless you're on a hosting tier — we patch dependencies on your behalf as part of the subscription.

Hosting subscriptions — cancellation

Site, Site+, App, App+, and Platform tiers are month-to-month. Cancel anytime. We keep a frozen mirror of your site, repo, and data for 90 days after cancellation, and email you reminders at 60, 30, 7, and 1 day before purge. During that window we can one-click transfer the repo to your GitHub org or zip-export the code on request.

Business continuity

Every repo we build for you ships with a CONTINUITY.mdat the root that documents how to take over the project — deploy steps, environment variables, third-party service relationships, and a contact list. If Four Thirteen Studios ceases operating, you have everything needed to either run the project yourself or hand it to another developer. We don't hold the keys to anything you can't recover from your own accounts.

Disclaimer

This site is provided "as is." We try to keep everything accurate but don't warrant that it will always be available, error-free, or current. Use of the site is at your own risk.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Four Thirteen Studios is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from use of this site. For client engagements, our total liability is capped at the fees paid for that engagement.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oklahoma. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

Contact

Questions about these terms: legal@four13studios.com.