Terms of Service

Prime Nova is the trading name for Roman, a solo freelance web developer based in San Diego, California. Anywhere these terms say "I" or "me", that's the same person. The site lives at prime-nova.com.

I design and build small-business landing pages and websites, and I make updates to existing ones. The work runs on a fixed-price, fixed-scope model: you tell me what you need through the intake form, I send a quote, we agree on the scope in writing, I build it, you approve it, and we ship it. The standard timeline is 7 days for a new landing page, faster or slower if your scope warrants it.

These terms cover the use of this site and the conversation that starts when you submit the form. Once we agree on a project, that scope-of-work email is the contract for the actual work, and it controls anything specific to that engagement. These terms cover everything else.

Submitting the form is not a contract. It's a request for me to take a look. I read every submission and decide whether it's a fit. If it is, I reply on the channel you picked with questions, a quote, or both. If it isn't, I'll tell you that too.

Either of us is free to walk away at this stage at no cost.

The site advertises a $250 intro price for a new landing page, available to the first 10 clients I take on at that price. After that, the standard price for a new landing page is $497. Updates to existing sites are quoted per project.

Once we agree on scope, I take a $100 deposit before the briefing call. The deposit is what locks in your slot on my calendar and counts toward the total. The balance is due when you approve the final build, before I push the site live or hand over the code.

• Payments are accepted in U.S. dollars.
• Late balances accrue no interest, but I won't go live or release the code until the balance is paid.
• All prices on the site are in U.S. dollars and exclude any taxes you may owe in your jurisdiction.

Each project includes 5 to 10 free revision rounds before launch. The exact count depends on scope and we'll write it into the scope-of-work email. A "revision round" is one round of feedback from you and one round of changes from me. Substantial scope changes (new pages, new features, moving the goalposts on what the site is supposed to do) are out of scope and quoted separately.

After launch, every project includes 30 days of free bug fixes. Anything broken because of how I built it, I fix at no charge. Content changes, design changes, or feature additions in that 30-day window are billable at my standard rate, and I'll tell you the cost up front before doing the work.

The $100 deposit is refundable if you change your mind before launch. Email me, tell me you're out, and I'll refund the deposit minus any third-party costs already incurred (a domain name, a stock photo license, etc., if any).

Once the site is approved by you and goes live, the deposit and balance are not refundable. The work has been delivered at that point and you have the code. If something is broken because of how I built it, the 30-day post-launch fix window covers it at no extra charge.

Either of us can step out of an active project, but the consequences differ depending on where we are.

If you change your mind before launch, the deposit refund rules above apply. Send me an email, tell me you're out, and I'll close the project on my side.

If you go silent — no response to messages I've sent on the agreed contact channel — I'll follow up twice over two weeks. After 30 days of silence past my last attempt, I'll consider the project paused. You can pick it back up by getting in touch, but if the pause runs long, current pricing or a refresh of the scope may apply, since what I was building gets stale.

If I'm the one who has to step out (rare — illness, a scope mismatch I missed up front, anything that means I can't deliver in good faith), I'll refund the deposit and any partial payment in full. I'll flag this to you as soon as I see it coming, not at the deadline.

When the balance is paid in full, you own the custom code I wrote for your project and the design as it exists for your site. I keep the right to put screenshots and a write-up of the project in my portfolio (including this site), unless we agree in writing that the work is confidential.

Stock assets (fonts, photos, icons, third-party libraries) come with their own licenses from their respective owners. I license them on your behalf for use on the site I built. If you want to use a stock asset somewhere else, you'll need your own license for it.

Any pre-existing tools, snippets, or templates I bring into the project remain mine. You get a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use and modify them as part of the site I delivered, including handing the site over to another developer to maintain it. You can't extract those pieces and use them on a different site.

I don't host your site. I'll deploy it to a hosting account in your name (Vercel, Netlify, your existing host, whatever you prefer) and hand over the credentials. The hosting bill is yours from day one. Same for your domain name and any third-party service the site depends on (a CMS, an email-sending service, a payment processor).

If you'd like me to manage hosting or third-party services on an ongoing basis, that's a separate agreement at a separate price.

I'll do the work to a professional standard, but I can't promise specific business outcomes. Nobody honestly can, since too many factors sit outside the website itself. I won't promise a number of leads, a search ranking, a conversion rate, or revenue from the site. If a service does promise that, walk away.

I provide the site "as is" once it's delivered, with the 30-day bug-fix window described above. To the extent allowed by California law, my liability for any claim related to the work is limited to the amount you paid me for that project. I'm not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost business or lost data on a service I don't run.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for things California law doesn't let me limit (gross negligence, intentional misconduct, fraud).

You're responsible for the content you give me to put on the site. Logos, photos, copy, product info, business details — the assumption is that you have the right to use them. If a third party comes after me because something you provided turned out to infringe their rights or otherwise broke the law, you'll cover the legal costs and any settlement that results.

On my side, the same goes the other direction. If something I created from scratch (custom code, original design, copy I wrote) turns out to infringe someone else's rights, I'll cover those costs. Stock assets I license on your behalf carry their own terms with the asset provider — neither of us is liable for misuse outside the site.

Don't try to attack, overload, or bypass the site. Don't submit the form on someone else's behalf without their permission. Don't put illegal, defamatory, or fraudulent content in the form. The honeypot field will catch most automated abuse. If you're a real person and you accidentally trip it, email me and I'll sort it out.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. If we disagree about something and can't work it out by talking, the dispute will be heard in the state or federal courts of San Diego County, California, and we both agree to that venue.

If I change these terms, the date at the top will change. Updates only apply to engagements that start after the change. Whatever was in effect when you submitted your form is what governs your project.

Roman, doing business as Prime Nova, based in San Diego, California. Reach me at info@prime-nova.com.