Terms of service

These terms apply between you and Rubics Code (ABN 40 440 756 434), an Australian business. They cover this website and the software work we do for clients. By using the site or engaging us, you accept them.

Loggerhead, our Mac app, has its own terms at getloggerhead.com/terms.

Nothing in these terms removes a right you have under the Australian Consumer Law or another law that cannot be excluded. Where a clause limits our liability, it does so only to the extent that the law allows.

1. This website

You may use this site to learn about our work and to contact us. Do not use it to send spam, to probe or attack it, or to copy its content for another site. The content is ours or used with permission. We try to keep it accurate, but it is general information and not advice for your situation.

2. Software work for clients

Each project has a written quote or agreement that sets out the scope, the price, and the timeline. That document comes first. These terms fill the gaps.

• Payment. We invoice as the quote sets out. Invoices are due 14 days from the invoice date unless the quote says otherwise.
• Your code. When you have paid for the work, the code we wrote for you is yours. We keep the right to reuse general techniques, tools, and libraries that are not specific to your business.
• Third-party services. Hosting, domains, APIs, and licences from other providers are billed by those providers under their own terms, unless the quote includes them.
• Confidentiality. We keep what we learn about your business confidential, and we ask the same of you for our methods and pricing.
• Changes. A change to the scope is agreed in writing before the work starts, with any change to the price and the timeline.

3. Warranties and liability

This site is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we exclude every warranty that is not in these terms, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of data, revenue, or profit. Where the law does not let us exclude liability, our liability is limited, at our choice, to supplying the software or the service again, or to paying the cost of having it supplied again.

For client work, our total liability for a project is limited to the fees you paid us for that project in the twelve months before the claim, except where the law says otherwise.

4. Changes to these terms

When we change these terms, we update the date at the top of this page. A change does not affect a project already under way, unless you agree to it.

5. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Australia. The courts of the Australian state in which Rubics Code is registered have jurisdiction over any dispute, and both of us submit to them.