Terms of Service

01 · Scope

What these terms cover

We are a website studio. Depending on what you buy, these terms cover four things:

• A bespoke website build: we design, build and ship a site for your business.
• A noboringsites plan (the “Plan”): an optional monthly subscription that keeps a built site live, hosted and current.
• The template marketplace: where, once it opens, we license template source code you can build with yourself (section 08).
• The referral program: where you can earn a fee for sending us clients.

We sell worldwide. Our launch market is Australia, and we contract under Australian law (see Governing law). Wherever you are, the consumer protections of your own country that cannot be waived still apply to you.

If documents disagree. If anything on our refunds page, your quote or your checkout screen conflicts with these terms about the same order, the statement more favourable to you applies to that order. Nothing we say anywhere reduces a right these terms or the law give you.

02 · The build

How a build works

You tell us about your business, you see your price and pay it, we design and build your site, you tell us what to change, and the site goes live. We build clean, original work; your site is not a resold template.

A build includes the scope stated on your quote. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately before it is built. Nothing is quietly absorbed and nothing is quietly billed.

The stages of a build. Every build moves through the same five stages:

• Brief. Once your payment clears, you give us your brief: your words, images and preferences.
• Draft. We design and build a complete draft and show it to you as a hosted preview on our infrastructure. Until handover, drafts are supplied as hosted previews only: we do not supply source code, files or exports of a draft, and the preview may not be copied, scraped or extracted.
• Revisions. You tell us what to change and we revise the draft until you are ready to approve it. Revision of anything within your quoted scope is included; a request that adds new scope is quoted separately before it is built.
• Approval. You approve the build in writing: by email, or through the approval step in your account. Nothing goes live without your approval.
• Go-live and handover. After your approval we publish the site. “Handover” in these terms means the earlier of: (a) the site being published for you following your approval, or (b) our delivery to you of the site’s source code or a full export. At handover the build service is complete.

If a build is waiting on your brief, feedback or approval, we will follow up a reasonable number of times and may then pause the build until you come back. A paused build is never forfeited; it resumes where it stopped.

03 · Money

Price and payment

Prices in AUD, charged in AUD wherever you are.

Builds start at $1,500. Your exact price is computed from your answers, shown to you on your quote, and confirmed at checkout before you pay anything. The price on your quote is resolved on our servers and is the only number we ever charge. If you order from outside Australia, you still pay in AUD and your bank handles the conversion.

Every quote shows two real prices. Not a discount off an invented number. Two prices we actually charge:

• The full price, the standard number for your scope. A build is charged once, in full, at checkout, whether you pay by card or by bank transfer / PayID; nothing is built before that payment clears.
• The pay-in-full price, up to 12 percent less, for settling the whole build today, at checkout. Paying on the day saves us collection risk and admin, so we pass that back.

A quoted pay-in-full price is honoured for 7 days from the date of the quote. After 7 days the quote genuinely reverts to the full price. It does not quietly come back, and there is no hidden countdown reset.

Payment is by card, processed by Stripe. Card details go to Stripe, never to us. We also accept bank transfer and PayID. You are responsible for any bank or conversion fees your own provider charges.

Tax. Every price you see is the final amount you pay: it already includes any tax we are required to collect on the sale, and nothing is added at checkout. Genesis Vanguard Pty Ltd is not currently registered for GST; while that is the case, no GST is charged on our prices and our receipts are not tax invoices. If we register for GST, displayed prices will remain the total charged amount and we will issue tax invoices from that point.

04 · Founding offer

Founding clients

The founding price is $990 for the first 100 builds, and it applies to the $1,500 entry build. It is a genuinely capped cohort: the cap is counted and enforced on our servers, and when the last place goes, the offer ends. It does not quietly continue for anyone else. The founding price is charged as a single card payment; it is not offered on the bank transfer / PayID rail.

A founding client’s rate is locked for as long as they remain on the Plan. If the Plan ends, the locked rate ends with it, and standard pricing applies from then on.

05 · Your plan

Your noboringsites plan

The Plan is an optional subscription that keeps your site live and current: noboringsites Standard at $129 a month, noboringsites Pro at $249 a month, or noboringsites Max at $497 a month. Hosting is included while your plan is active. Each tier is also available annually at ten times the monthly price, which is two months free against paying month to month; the annual price and what it saves are shown before you choose it. The exact inclusions and limits of each tier are stated where you subscribe; work outside them is quoted before it is built.

Your first month is free on a monthly plan, with every build. An annual plan is billed up front and already carries its two free months, so the free first month applies to monthly billing only; the two are never stacked.

The Plan renews automatically. It is a recurring subscription that keeps renewing, monthly or annually as you chose, until you cancel, sometimes called auto-renewing or negative-option billing. Because of that, we do not begin charging until you have given express, informed consent to the recurring charge. Before your first paid cycle we show you, in plain words: the price, the billing interval, that it renews on its own until you cancel, and exactly how to cancel. We never pre-tick that consent for you, and we keep a record of it.

• Cancel anytime, from your account or by emailing us. No retention maze, no phone call, no “are you sure” loop designed to trap you. Cancelling by email is effective when you send it.
• Cancelling stops the next charge. A billing period already started is not refunded, except where the law provides otherwise (see Refunds).
• After you cancel, your hosted site stays live through a 14-day grace period. After the grace period, the hosted version goes dark. Your assets are always exportable and stay yours (see Ownership).

06 · Refunds

Refunds and cancellation

This section is a summary of our refund policy for builds and the Plan. The full version, the same policy set out in detail with nothing extra hidden in it, lives on our refunds page.

• The approval gate is the reassurance. You review every page and approve the build in writing before it goes live. Nothing goes public without your sign-off, and we revise within your quoted scope until you give it.
• Cancelling before handover. If you cancel the build before we start work, we refund what you paid, less any amount we have reasonably incurred on your order. If you cancel after work has started, we may retain a fair amount for the work done to that point and refund the balance; we tell you the figure and how we got to it.
• At handover the build is complete. Any cancellation or refund arrangement in the point above ends at handover (defined in section 02). From handover, your remedies for a problem with the build are your statutory rights, including the consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law, which nothing in these terms excludes or limits.
• The Plan cancels anytime. A billing period already started is not refunded, and the Plan stops at the end of that period; then there is a 14-day grace period, after which the hosted version of your site goes offline. If a build payment is refunded, any Plan attached to it stops immediately and nothing further is charged.
• Your assets stay yours. You always keep your domain, your site code, your content and your data, and you receive a full export. Our hosting switching off never takes your assets with it.
• Template purchases are digital source code and follow the marketplace licence terms below, not this build-and-Plan policy.

07 · Ownership

Who owns what, and no lock-in

• Your content, your brand and your domain are yours. At every stage, whether or not you stay with us.
• You own your finished site. On handover following full payment, we assign to you the copyright in the bespoke design and content of your delivered site, to the extent we own it and excluding only the retained tooling described below. If any further document is needed to perfect that assignment, we will sign it promptly at your request, at no charge. Until and to the extent the assignment takes effect, you have a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, run, host, modify and have others modify your delivered site. Either way: run it, host it anywhere, change it, and have others change it for you. There is no lock-in.
• Export on request. Ask and we hand over a full export of your site (code, content and data) in a usable form, at no charge, whether you are leaving or just want a copy. There are no exit fees.
• We keep our own tooling. We retain ownership of our underlying templates, build systems, internal tools and pre-existing components. Where any of them are embedded in your delivered site, you have a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to keep using them as part of that site. Owning your delivered site does not include the systems that produced it, and it does not permit reselling your site code as a template or product.
• Content you supply is on you. You warrant that content you give us is yours to use and lawful, and you indemnify us against claims arising from content you supplied.

08 · Marketplace

Template marketplace licence

We also license template source code through our marketplace, once it opens. A template purchase is not a build service: it is a licence to source code, governed by a separate single-site End User Licence Agreement (EULA) shown to you at the point of purchase. In short, and subject to that EULA:

• Each purchase licenses the template for one live production site, unless the listing says otherwise.
• You may build on it, change it and deploy it, but you may not resell or redistribute the source, or offer it as a competing template or product.
• Because source code cannot be handed back once downloaded, refunds on template purchases are limited to what the marketplace EULA and the law require.

The EULA presented at purchase is the controlling document for anything you buy in the marketplace.

09 · Referrals

Referral and partner program

If you refer a client who buys, you can earn a referral fee. Joining the program means:

• Promote us honestly. No spam, no false claims, no bidding on our brand name in ads, no cookie-stuffing, and no referring yourself or your own orders.
• Fees accrue when the referred build is paid and are released once that customer’s Plan has three settled monthly invoices behind it; a referral that never takes the Plan, or whose Plan lapses before then, does not vest. A referral tied to a refunded, cancelled or charged-back order is not paid, or is clawed back if it was already paid.
• Payouts are made by Wise, PayPal or PayID, at our choice, once you reach the minimum payout threshold stated in the partner terms (currently A$50).
• Tax is yours. You are responsible for any tax on referral income, and we may need to collect tax or payout details before we can pay you.
• We can change or end the program with reasonable notice; a change never touches a commission you have already earned. We can decline or reverse a referral we reasonably believe breaks these rules, and we tell you when we do.

The full partner terms you accept when you join control if anything there conflicts with this summary.

10 · Acceptable use

What we will not build or host

No unlawful or deceptive content. Nothing that breaks the law where it is published, infringes someone else’s rights, or misleads the people it is shown to. No malware, phishing, or content that abuses our hosting or a payment processor’s rules. If we find a site being used that way, we can decline the work or take the hosted version down, and we will tell you why. Unless the content is unlawful or puts other people or our infrastructure at risk, we give you notice and a reasonable chance to fix it before anything comes down, and taking a hosted version down never touches the assets you own (see Ownership).

11 · Data

Your data and privacy

How we handle your personal information is covered in full by our Privacy Policy. In short: card details go only to Stripe; your account and order data live in Cloudflare (Pages hosting and the D1 database); transactional email such as receipts and build updates is sent through Resend, our email provider; and partner payouts run through Wise, PayPal or PayID. If the site editor’s assistant is enabled for your site, the edits you ask it for are drafted through OpenRouter and the AI model operators it routes to. Our own site uses Meta advertising measurement and Microsoft Clarity session analytics. Each of these is disclosed in full in the Privacy Policy. We do not sell your personal information.

12 · Consumer law

Consumer law and liability

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law, or any other law that cannot be excluded, restricted or modified by agreement. Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded, including that they will be provided with due care and skill and be fit for the purpose we agreed.

Where a consumer guarantee applies and the law lets us limit our liability for failing to meet it, our liability is limited, at our choice, to supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again.

For everything else, and only to the extent the law permits: our total liability for any claim arising out of or in connection with these terms is capped at the amount you paid us for the services the claim relates to, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost data or business interruption. This cap never applies to liability that cannot lawfully be limited, to a consumer-guarantee remedy beyond the limit above, or to loss we cause by fraud or deliberate wrongdoing.

13 · Law

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the courts of New South Wales and the federal courts of Australia have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. If you contract with us from outside Australia, you keep any rights under the consumer laws of your own country that cannot be excluded, and nothing in this clause stops you relying on them or bringing a claim in your local courts where the law gives you that right.

14 · Changes

Changes to these terms

We can update these terms. When we do, the date at the top of this page changes, and clients with an active order or an active Plan get notice by email before a change applies to them. The terms in force when you placed an order keep governing that order. If a change to these terms or to the Plan’s price or inclusions would leave an active Plan subscriber worse off, it takes effect for them no earlier than their next renewal after notice, and they can cancel before it applies. A change never operates retrospectively and never takes away a right you have already accrued.