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Terms & Conditions

Last updated: 1 August 2026

About these terms

These terms apply to everyone who uses bellarinewebsites.com.au, and they form the starting point for any work we do together. By using this site you accept them. If you don't accept them, please don't use the site.

 

If we send you a written quote, proposal or agreement for a specific project, that document takes precedence over anything on this page where the two differ.

Who we are

Bellarine Websites is a small web design business run by Paris Halkidis, based in Victoria, Australia, serving Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula and surrounds. In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean Bellarine Websites, and "you" means the person or business using this site or engaging our services.

Using this website

You may browse this site, and use it to contact us about work. You may not:

 

  • Use it for anything unlawful, or in a way that interferes with other people's use of it.

  • Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, its server, or any connected system.

  • Copy, republish or resell our content, layouts or code without written permission.

  • Use automated tools to scrape or harvest content or contact details from the site.

 

We try to keep the site available and accurate, but we don't guarantee it will always be online, error-free, or up to date. We can change or remove anything on it at any time without notice.

Using this website

Prices shown on this site are indicative starting points, not fixed offers. A quote becomes binding only once we've sent you a written quote for your specific project and you've accepted it in writing.

 

Written quotes are valid for 30 days unless we say otherwise. All prices shown on this site and in our quotes are in Australian dollars and include GST where GST applies. If the scope of your project changes after you've accepted a quote with additions such as extra pages, extra features, a redesign of something already approved, we'll tell you what it costs before doing the work.

How a project runs

  • Deposit. We ask for 50% of the quoted price before we start, with the balance due before the site goes live. Your project holds its place in our schedule once the deposit is paid.
     

  • Revisions. Two rounds of revisions are included at each design stage. Further rounds are charged at our hourly rate, quoted to you first.

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  • Timelines. Any timeline we give you is an estimate made in good faith. It assumes you get us content and feedback when we ask for it. Delays in receiving those push the launch date back accordingly.

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  • Approval. Once you approve a design or a page in writing, we treat it as signed off. Changes after that are new work.

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  • Payment terms. Invoices are due within 14 days. We may pause work on overdue accounts, and we won't transfer a finished site or its files until it's paid in full.

What we need from you

To build your site we need content from you: text, images, logos, product details and so on. By sending us that material you confirm that:

  • You own it, or you have the right to use it and to let us publish it on your site.
     

  • It isn't misleading, defamatory, or in breach of anyone's copyright, trade mark or privacy.
     

  • It complies with Australian law, including the Australian Consumer Law's rules on advertising claims.

 

If someone brings a claim against us because of material you supplied, you agree to cover our reasonable costs in dealing with it.

 

You're also responsible for keeping your own copies of any content you send us. We're not a backup service.

Confidentiality

Working on your website often means seeing things you wouldn't publish: draft pricing, supplier details, customer numbers, plans you haven't announced. We keep that to ourselves. We won't share your confidential information with anyone outside the project, or use it for anything other than doing your work, unless you agree in writing or the law requires it.

 

The same goes the other way: our quotes, proposals and pricing breakdowns are for you, not for passing on to our competitors.

 

This doesn't cover information that's already public, that you've published yourself, or that we already knew before you told us.

Intellectual property

  • Your site. Once you've paid in full, you own the design, page content and images we've produced for your website, and you're free to use them however you like.
     

  • Our tools. We keep ownership of the underlying techniques, templates, code patterns and know-how we use across projects. Nothing stops us reusing those for other clients.
     

  • Third-party material. Stock photos, fonts, plugins and platform templates stay owned by whoever made them, and remain subject to their licences. We'll tell you if a project depends on one that carries an ongoing fee.
     

  • Portfolio. We may show finished work in our portfolio, on social media and in marketing material, and describe our role in it. Tell us if you'd rather we didn't and we won't.
     

  • This site. Everything on bellarinewebsites.com.au — content, design, logo and code — belongs to us, except third-party material used under licence.

Platforms, hosting and domains

Websites we build often run on third-party platforms such as Wix, and depend on domain registrars, hosting providers and other external services. Those services have their own terms and their own fees, and you're responsible for paying and complying with them.

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We're not responsible for outages, price rises, feature removals, policy changes or data loss caused by a third-party platform. Where we can, we'll help you sort it out, but the platform's own support is the place those issues get resolved.

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Unless we've agreed otherwise in writing, ongoing hosting, security updates, backups and maintenance are not included after launch. We're happy to quote for them separately.

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Your domain name is registered in your name and belongs to you, not to us. If we pay for a domain, a platform subscription, a stock image, a font or a plugin on your behalf, that cost is added to your invoice, and we'll hand over the account details once it's paid.

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We may bring in another designer, developer, copywriter or photographer to help with part of a project. We stay responsible to you for their work, and they're bound by the same confidentiality obligations we are.

What we can't promise

We build websites that are well made, fast and easy to use. We can't promise business outcomes. In particular, we don't guarantee any specific search engine ranking, volume of traffic, number of enquiries, or increase in revenue — those depend on your market, your competitors, your pricing and how search engines behave, none of which we control.

 

We don't guarantee that a site will display identically in every browser, on every device, or in every future version of them.

Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where our services come with such a guarantee and we fail to meet it, you're entitled to the remedies the law provides.

Beyond that, and to the extent the law allows:

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  • Our liability for any claim connected with our services is limited to re-supplying the services, or refunding what you paid us for them, whichever we choose.

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  • We're not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profits, lost data, lost business opportunities or loss of goodwill.

 

  • We're not liable for anything caused by a third-party platform, by content you supplied, or by changes someone else made to your site after we handed it over.

Cancellation

You can cancel a project at any time by telling us in writing. Deposits are non-refundable, and you'll be invoiced for work completed up to that point at our hourly rate, less the deposit already paid.

 

We may cancel a project if an invoice stays unpaid, if we can't get the content or feedback we need to continue, or if the working relationship becomes unworkable. If we cancel, we'll invoice for work completed and hand over what you've paid for.

Links to other websites

This site links to other websites, including client sites. We don't control them and aren't responsible for their content, accuracy or practices. A link isn't an endorsement.

Privacy

How we handle your personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The current version always lives at this address, with the "last updated" date at the top. Changes apply from the date they're published, and don't retroactively change the terms of a project already underway.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia. Any dispute will be dealt with by the courts of Victoria. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest of them still stand.

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