1. Website use
NikoStudios provides information about digital systems, automation, dashboards, internal tools, software products, and related services. Website content is general information and is not a binding offer, professional legal advice, financial advice, or a guarantee of any particular result.
You may use the website for lawful purposes. You may not attempt to interfere with, damage, probe, overload, reverse engineer, or gain unauthorized access to the website, its infrastructure, accounts, forms, or connected services.
2. No client relationship from an inquiry
Submitting a contact form, sending an email, booking a call, or discussing an idea does not by itself create a client relationship, obligation to accept a project, exclusivity arrangement, partnership, employment relationship, or duty to begin work.
A project begins only when NikoStudios and the client accept the applicable written project terms, such as a proposal, statement of work, service agreement, or other written confirmation, and any required initial payment has been received.
If a project document conflicts with these website terms, the project document controls for that project.
3. Quotes, payments, changes, and refunds
Prices, deposits, milestone payments, due dates, included revisions, delivery assumptions, recurring fees, maintenance, expenses, and taxes are defined in the applicable proposal or invoice. Unless explicitly included, third-party subscriptions, hosting, domains, software licenses, advertising spend, API usage, transaction fees, and similar external costs are separate.
Work outside the agreed scope may require a change request, revised timeline, and additional fee. Refunds and cancellation charges are handled according to the applicable project terms and mandatory law. Nothing in these terms removes rights that cannot legally be waived.
4. Client responsibilities
Clients are responsible for providing accurate instructions, timely feedback, approvals, credentials, lawful data, and materials reasonably needed to perform the work. Delays in approvals, access, content, or decisions may move delivery dates.
The client represents that it has the rights and permissions needed for any text, images, trademarks, databases, personal data, credentials, software, documents, or other materials it asks NikoStudios to use. The client remains responsible for the legality and accuracy of its business content, offers, claims, customer data, and instructions.
5. Intellectual property
Ownership and licensing of project deliverables are defined in the applicable project document. Unless agreed otherwise, final client-specific deliverables are transferred or licensed only after all amounts due for that work are paid in full.
NikoStudios retains ownership of pre-existing materials, reusable code, templates, libraries, methods, know-how, internal tools, development utilities, generalized components, and improvements that are not unique client deliverables. Third-party software and open-source components remain subject to their own licenses.
Unless a project is marked confidential or the parties agree otherwise, NikoStudios may identify completed public-facing work in a portfolio and describe the general nature of the work without disclosing confidential information.
6. Third-party platforms, automation, and AI
Projects may depend on third-party services such as hosting providers, databases, email providers, payment systems, APIs, analytics products, AI providers, or client-owned accounts. NikoStudios does not control those services and is not responsible for outages, pricing changes, policy changes, account suspensions, provider security incidents, deprecated APIs, or other failures outside its reasonable control.
Automation and AI-assisted features can produce unexpected or incorrect outputs. Unless specifically agreed otherwise, clients remain responsible for reviewing business-critical outputs before relying on them and for maintaining appropriate human oversight.
7. Security, backups, and maintenance
NikoStudios will use reasonable care appropriate to the agreed work, but no website, software system, integration, or network can be guaranteed to be completely secure, uninterrupted, or error-free. Unless an ongoing maintenance or backup service is expressly included, the client is responsible after handoff for account security, access management, backups, renewals, updates, monitoring, and operational use of the delivered system.
8. Confidentiality
Non-public information identified as confidential or reasonably understood to be confidential will be handled with reasonable care and used for the project. Confidentiality obligations do not apply to information that is public without breach, independently developed, lawfully received from another source, or required to be disclosed by law.
9. Warranties and limitation of liability
Except for commitments expressly stated in an accepted project document, services and website materials are provided without guarantees of uninterrupted operation, specific revenue, rankings, lead volume, regulatory approval, business performance, or compatibility with future third-party changes.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, NikoStudios is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or purely economic losses, including lost profits, lost opportunities, loss of goodwill, loss of data, or business interruption arising from use of the website or services.
Where liability may lawfully be limited, aggregate liability connected with a specific paid project will not exceed the fees actually paid to NikoStudios for the affected project or service during the period giving rise to the claim. This limitation does not apply where applicable law prohibits limitation, including liability that cannot lawfully be excluded for intentional misconduct, fraud, or other protected categories.
10. Indemnity for client-provided materials
To the extent permitted by law and subject to the applicable project agreement, a business client is responsible for claims arising from materials, instructions, data, or content supplied by that client where the claim results from the client's lack of rights, unlawful instructions, or unlawful use of the delivered system.
11. Suspension and termination
NikoStudios may pause work where required payments are overdue, required client access is unavailable, instructions would be unlawful or unsafe, or continued work would materially exceed the agreed scope. Either party may terminate according to the applicable project document. Amounts earned, approved expenses, completed milestones, and non-cancellable third-party costs remain payable to the extent allowed by law.
12. Applicable law and mandatory rights
The governing law, venue, and dispute process for paid work should be stated in the applicable project agreement. If they are not, the rules legally applicable to the relationship will apply. Mandatory consumer, data-protection, and other statutory rights are not excluded by these terms.
NikoStudios primarily markets project services to businesses. If a customer is legally treated as a consumer, any mandatory consumer protections take priority over conflicting provisions in these terms.
13. Changes and contact
These terms may be updated when services, law, or business practices change. The date at the top shows the current version. Changes do not retroactively alter a signed project agreement unless both parties agree or applicable law requires otherwise.
Questions about these terms: [email protected].