This website design consultation agreement template has 8 pages and is a MS Word file type listed under our software & technology documents.
Sample of our website design consultation agreement template:
WEBSITE DESIGN CONSULTATION AGREEMENT This Website Design Consultation Agreement (the "Agreement") is made and effective [DATE], BETWEEN: [CONSULTANT NAME] (the "Consultant"), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the [State/Province] of [STATE/PROVINCE], with its head office located at: [COMPLETE ADDRESS] AND: [YOUR COMPANY NAME] (the "Customer"), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the [State/Province] of [STATE/PROVINCE], with its head office located at: [YOUR COMPLETE ADDRESS] RECITALS Customer desires to receive the services of Consultant, acting as an independent contractor and not as an employee, joint venturer, partner or any other legal relationship, to perform certain services in connection with the development of the Customer's website. For good and valuable consideration, including the mutual agreements and covenants contained in this Agreement, the Consultant and the Customer hereby agree to the following terms, covenants and conditions: NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties agree to the following: TERM This Agreement shall be effective commencing [Date], and shall continue until terminated at the completion of the Scope of Work which shall occur no later than [Date] or by either party as otherwise provided herein. SERVICE TO BE PROVIDED BY CONSULTANT Appointment Customer hereby appoints and retains the services of the Consultant, and Consultant accepts such appointment, to perform the services described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and made a part hereof, in connection with the design and development of the Customer's website (the "Consulting Services"). This Agreement shall only cover the specific services described in Exhibit "A" and shall not include any other services that may be performed or provided by the Consultant. Any services beyond those described in Exhibit "A" shall be subject to separate agreement between the parties and a separate schedule of compensation to be paid by Customer for such services. Notwithstanding the above, the parties by written agreement between them may expand the scope of services to be performed subject to this Agreement. Reasonable diligence Consultant shall use reasonable diligence to promptly perform the services described herein and to meet any delivery dates or project deadlines agreed to by the parties and to provide services that are in compliance with agreed specifications and project parameters. All services shall be provided in a professional and workmanlike manner and in compliance with standard industry standards and by qualified and experienced personnel secured by the Consultant. Work progress Consultant shall continually communicate with the Customer regarding progress made by the Consultant in performing the services. Upon request from the Customer, Consultant shall prepare and deliver to the Customer written reports summarizing progress in providing the services called for in this Agreement. The Customer agrees that any time devoted to the preparation of written status reports shall be billed at the Consultant's hourly rates if the service to which the reports pertain are being billed on an hourly basis. If the service to which such reports pertain are billed at a fixed fee, a reasonable number of written reports shall be included within the fixed fee for such service. Commitment Consultant represents and warrants that it has no current commitments or obligations that will conflict with or otherwise interfere with or impede the performance of the services called for under this Agreement. SCHEDULE OF COMPENSATION Customer shall compensate the Consultant at the rates set forth in the Compensation Schedule attached hereto as Exhibit "B" or as agreed between the parties in any written amendment hereto. Consultant shall provide Customer with monthly invoices for services rendered for the preceding month. All such invoices shall be due and payable within [NUMBER] days after receipt thereof by the Customer. Consultant shall be responsible for any and all expenses or costs incurred by Consultant in the performance of the services subject to this Agreement and which are not specifically identified in Exhibit "B" attached hereto. OWNERSHIP AND USE OF PROPRIETARY PROPERTY Proprietary rights acknowledgment Consultant expressly acknowledges and agrees that any and all proprietary materials created by Consultant in the scope of providing service hereunder shall be created as "works made for hire" as defined in the [COUNTRY] Copyright Act and that Customer shall be the true and lawful owner of all copyrights and other proprietary rights in and to such items and shall be considered to be the sole and exclusive author of such materials within the meaning of the [COUNTRY] Copyright Act. These items shall include, but shall not necessarily be limited to any and all deliverables resulting from the Consultant's services or contemplated by this Agreement, all tangible results and proceeds of the Consultant's services, work in progress, records, diagrams, notes, drawings, specifications, schematics, documents, designs, improvements, inventions, discoveries, developments, trademarks, trade secrets, customer lists, databases, software, programs, middleware, applications, solutions, (collectively referred to as "Proprietary Products") conceived, made or discovered by Consultant, solely or in collaboration with others, during the period of this Agreement which relate in any manner to the service provided by the Consultant to the customer. Furthermore, Consultant agrees to execute any and all documents and take all other actions necessary to vest full rights and ownership of such materials and the copyrights, patents, or other proprietary rights therefore in the Customer, including but not limited to executing confirmations of the work for hire status of the Consultant, executing copyright assignments irrevocably and fully assigning all copyrights to the Customer. Consultant hereby waives any other rights in and to such Proprietary Products that may attach or arise under any federal, state, local, international laws or the laws of any other country or jurisdiction, including but not limited to so-called "moral rights." Previously created work In the event that Consultant intends or plans to integrate any work that was previously created by the Consultant into any work product to be created in furtherance of the performance of services hereunder, the Consultant shall first provide written notice to the Customer and seek customers written approval of the incorporation of such items. In the event that Customer consents, in its reasonable discretion, to the incorporation of such items into the work product to be created for the Customer, the Customer is hereby granted a worldwide, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, distribute,, modify, publish, and otherwise exploit the incorporated items in connection with the work product that is developed for the Customer. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION Nondisclosure Consultant will not, during or subsequent to the term of this Agreement, use Customer's Confidential Information for any purpose whatsoever other than the performance of the Services on behalf of Customer or disclose Customer's Confidential Information to any third party, without the advanced written authorization of the Customer
