Terms

By using this site, requesting a quote, or paying a demo fee, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site. If you are acting for an organization, you confirm you are authorized to accept on its behalf, and "you" means that organization. Our services are provided for business purposes, including to individuals building a business; rules that apply only to purchases for personal, family, or household use do not apply.

"We," "us," "our": DCI Brands LLC. "Catalog": the systems described on this site. "Catalog System": the software, architecture, tooling, and know-how underlying a catalog entry, owned by us. "Quote": a written proposal we send you. "Demo": the branded instance described in section 6. "Engagement": work performed under a signed agreement. "Agreement": the engagement agreement signed by both parties, including any statement of work, data processing agreement, or Business Associate Agreement. "Your Materials": content, data, trademarks, and systems you supply.

Every entry describes a system we have built and run. Descriptions, feature lists, screenshots, videos, timelines, and delivery modes are illustrations, not a specification and not an offer, and nothing on this site is sold or licensed as-is. Your scope is the scope in your Quote and Agreement.

A Quote is free, and we aim to send it within one business day of a complete inquiry; that target is not a guarantee. Written discovery, scoping a bespoke requirement before quoting, is also free.

A Quote is a proposal, not an offer capable of acceptance. It lapses on the date it states, or 30 days after issue if it states none, and it may be withdrawn or corrected before both parties sign. It is priced on the assumptions it records; if those assumptions change, so does the price.

The first hour is free for enterprise, public sector, and regulated projects. For personal and business projects the call is priced in your Quote. Any charged call is credited in full against the build if you sign an Agreement within the Quote's validity period.

A Demo is one of our systems, branded for you, running on a private address, which we aim to deliver within 7 days of cleared payment, with a written note of what is live and what would be built during the Engagement. The fee is a flat US$2,500, payable in advance, exclusive of taxes.

The fee is credited in full against your first invoice if you sign an Agreement within 60 days of delivery. It is not refundable if you do not. If we fail to deliver within 14 days of cleared payment for reasons within our control, your sole remedy is a full refund.

A Demo is provided as is, for evaluation only. It is not a deliverable, it grants you no license to keep, copy, deploy, or use it, and we may take it down after the evaluation period. Your branding applied to a Demo stays yours; everything else in it stays ours.

No contract exists until both parties sign an Agreement and the first invoice is paid. Where an Agreement conflicts with these terms, a Quote, or anything on this site, the Agreement controls. Nothing said in a call, an email, or on this site varies an Agreement unless it is signed by both parties. Signature and notices may be electronic, and you consent to contracting and receiving notices electronically.

Fees are stated in US dollars and are exclusive of taxes, duties, and withholding, which are yours to pay. Maintenance, hosting, and license renewal are separate line items in the Quote and are not charged twice for the same period. Scope changes are handled by written change order at the rates in the Agreement.

Subject to payment in full: we deliver the source code for your build, and we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use the Catalog System components embedded in it, on the terms and for the term the Agreement states, for your internal business purposes.

We retain all right, title, and interest in the Catalog Systems, our tools, libraries, frameworks, methods, know-how, and anything we develop independently, including anything of general applicability we learn or improve while performing an Engagement. Delivery of source code is a license, not a sale, an assignment, or a work made for hire, and nothing here transfers ownership of any Catalog System by implication. Third-party and open-source components are licensed to you under their own terms, which we identify on delivery.

Your Materials stay yours; you grant us only the license needed to perform the Engagement. We may use your name and a general description of the work as a reference unless the Agreement says otherwise. Any feedback you give us, we may use freely. Vavus® and our other marks are ours; nothing here grants a license to them.

Quotes, discovery documents, and Demo materials are our confidential information. Use them only to evaluate whether to engage us, disclose them only to your own people and advisors who need them and who are bound to keep them confidential, and do not share them with our competitors. This obligation lasts three years from receipt.

You may browse this site and send genuine inquiries. You may not scrape, crawl, or bulk-download it; submit inquiries you do not intend, or false details; probe, scan, or test its security; interfere with its operation; or copy, republish, or reuse its text, images, or video without our written permission. We may refuse service, remove content, and block access at any time.

This site, its content, and any Demo are provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, and statutory, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted or error-free operation. This applies to everything published on this site, including descriptions of systems, security, hosting, timelines, and delivery modes. Warranties for an Engagement, and only those, are the ones written in the Agreement.

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost goodwill, business interruption, or the cost of substitute services, even if advised that they were possible.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to this site, a Quote, a Demo, or an Engagement will not exceed the greater of (a) the fees you actually paid us under the applicable Agreement in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) US$100. This cap applies across all claims in the aggregate, whatever the theory.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including fraud, willful misconduct, and death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your obligation to pay fees. An Agreement may set a different cap and different exclusions for the Engagement it covers, and where it does, it controls.

You will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims, and the resulting losses, arising from your use of this site in breach of section 11, from Your Materials, or from your breach of section 10. We give no indemnity under these terms; any indemnity we give is in the Agreement.

For healthcare, finance, insurance, and public sector engagements we will execute the compliance instruments the Agreement identifies, including a Business Associate Agreement where protected health information is involved, and we price that work on its own model.

We may suspend or terminate your access to this site at any time, with or without notice. Sections 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, and 19 survive.

We may change these terms by posting an updated version with a new effective date. Changes apply to your use of the site from the date they are posted. They do not change an Agreement already signed.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Before filing anything, the complaining party must send written notice describing the dispute, and both parties will negotiate in good faith through senior representatives for 30 days. If that fails, the exclusive venue is the state and federal courts sitting in Natrona County, Wyoming, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction. Either party may seek injunctive relief for infringement or misuse of intellectual property or confidential information in any competent court without waiting.

Each party waives trial by jury and waives participation in any class or representative action. Any claim must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is barred.

Notices to us go to constantine@vavusai.com and to the address above; notices to you go to the email address you gave us, and are deemed received one business day after sending. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them with the business. These terms, plus any Quote and Agreement, are the entire agreement about their subject and replace anything said earlier. A failure to enforce a term is not a waiver. If a term is unenforceable, the rest stands and that term is narrowed to the minimum extent needed. There are no third-party beneficiaries. You represent that you are not subject to US sanctions and will not use our work in breach of export-control law, and that you will not offer anything of value to a public official in connection with our work. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control.