Terms of Service

Your contracting party. The supplier is Genesis Vanguard Pty Ltd trading as noboringsites (ABN 45 675 551 783), called the Company, we or us. People dealing with you for the Company act as its representatives. This agreement does not make a director, officer, employee or contractor personally responsible for the Company's contractual obligations or give you a personal guarantee from them.

These terms apply to the parts of your accepted order that concern our services:

• A bespoke website build, with any separately scoped app, integration or business-system work described in your accepted written scope.
• A noboringsites plan, optional hosting and maintenance under the scope, availability and annual price shown in your accepted order. Existing subscriptions retain their agreed terms.
• A marketplace template, licensed under the separate per-site template licence described in section 8.
• An accepted referral arrangement, governed by its applicable partner or separately agreed written terms. A waitlist registration does not enroll you in an arrangement.

Which document applies. Read the documents for your order together. An express variation agreed in writing for that order takes priority on the point it changes. The accepted quote or order controls the agreed scope, price and payment schedule. These Terms control services, and the Template Licence controls a template purchase. The Refunds page states the applicable voluntary refund and cancellation arrangements. A general marketing description does not silently vary an express order term. Nothing here removes a legally binding representation, an express promise made for your order, or a right the law protects.

Earlier orders. The terms accepted for an earlier order continue to govern it, including any more favourable refund, cancellation or remedy promise. These revised terms do not operate retrospectively. We sell worldwide; mandatory rights you have where you live remain unaffected.

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 design your site for your business rather than reselling you a template someone else already bought. Your build may use our own reusable components, open-source libraries and standard web tooling, which is how every studio works and is covered by section 7.

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. A round is one written list of changes from you, answered in full. Your quoted scope includes two rounds. Extra rounds are available, always priced before you commit to one, and anything that adds new scope is quoted before it is built, never after. Two things are never rounds and are never charged: a build that does not match what your quote described, and anything broken. We keep working on those until they are right.
• 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.

Scope and dependencies. You are responsible for providing the materials, decisions, approvals and authorized access identified in your agreed scope. If these are delayed, we may reasonably adjust the delivery timetable and pause the affected work after telling you what is missing. A pause does not forfeit your paid build. We agree any new scope or additional charge before doing that additional work.

What the build promises. The agreed scope and acceptance requirements define the deliverables. We do not guarantee a particular search ranking, revenue, number of leads or business result. A third-party provider controls its own approval process, terms, charges and technical availability. We remain responsible for the integration or other work we agreed to perform and for obligations the law does not let us exclude.

Prices are shown and charged in US or Australian dollars. The price you are shown is the price charged, in that currency, and nothing is converted at checkout. Australian prices include GST.

Builds start at US$1,500 (A$2,250) for the base build, plus whatever you add to it. 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. Ordering from outside Australia or the United States, you are charged in US dollars and your bank handles any conversion.

Your build price. Your quote shows the total for your selected scope, including any bundle savings shown. A self-serve build is charged once, in full, at checkout, whether you pay by card or, where that option is shown to you, by bank transfer or PayID. Nothing is built before that payment clears. A different payment schedule for separately scoped work must be agreed in writing.

Quote validity. A self-serve quote is valid for 30 days from the date it is issued. After expiry, ask us for a current quote. Any updated price must be shown to you before you agree to pay it. There is no separate pay-in-full discount on top of the savings shown in your quote. Existing accepted quotes and agreements retain the terms agreed for them.

Payment is by card, processed by Stripe. Card details go to Stripe, never to us. On complex builds we also accept bank transfer and PayID for Australian orders, shown at checkout when that option is available to you. 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 (ABN 45 675 551 783) is registered for GST. Whether GST applies to your purchase depends on where you are and what you are buying. Where it applies it is already inside the price you see, never added at checkout, and your receipt shows the GST amount, our ABN and who it was issued to. Where it does not apply, your receipt states that no GST amount is shown for the sale, and tells you how to have the treatment confirmed. If you need a full tax invoice, reply to your receipt and we will issue one within 28 days.

Separately agreed staged payments. Where a written order permits staged payments, we may pause the affected unpaid work after reasonable written notice of an overdue, undisputed amount. We will identify the amount and the work affected and give you a reasonable opportunity to pay or raise a genuine dispute. This does not permit us to withhold a statutory remedy, suspend a separate service that is paid and current, or charge for new scope you have not agreed.

Standard Hosting and Care is an annual plan for a site you already own, at US$190 or A$290 a year. Australian prices include GST. There is no monthly Standard plan to buy. Availability and the hosting, maintenance and security scope are confirmed before an order is accepted. Domain registration, domain renewal and third-party service charges are additional. A waitlist entry is not a subscription and does not authorize a charge.

Annual payment and renewal. A new Standard subscription accepted under these terms is paid in advance for twelve months of service, with no free trial. It renews annually until cancelled. Before you subscribe we show the total, billing interval, renewal and cancellation terms and obtain your express consent. We do not pre-select that consent.

Cancel the next renewal. You can cancel at any time by emailing [email protected], or by an account cancellation control where available. An email cancellation is effective when sent and stops the next renewal; it does not by itself end the current paid service period. We confirm the cancellation in writing. You keep the service for the current paid period, followed by the fourteen-day grace period described below.

Current paid term. For a new annual subscription accepted under these revised terms, we do not provide a change-of-mind refund for the unused part of its paid term. Any different refund or early-termination arrangement expressly agreed for your order still applies. This rule does not limit a statutory cancellation, refund, compensation or other remedy, including for a service failure, nor does it apply when we agree to a refund.

After the paid service ends. The hosted site remains available for a fourteen-day grace period. Hosting then ends and the hosted version goes offline. Your ownership and licence rights remain; the free export service and its availability window are described in Refunds, section 5.

Existing subscriptions. A subscription accepted under an earlier version keeps its agreed cancellation and refund rights, including an unused-month refund if that was promised. We do not use this new change-of-mind rule to reduce an existing entitlement.

If your accepted order includes a service, allowance or purchased balance that is no longer offered to new customers, the terms accepted for that order continue to govern it. Closing an offer does not remove an entitlement you already bought.

A purchased balance sold as non-expiring remains non-expiring after cancellation. Existing rules for included allowances, failed work, refunds and review requests remain available on the terms you accepted. Ask us for a copy of the terms for your order.

Before a change to those service entitlements would leave you worse off, we give you at least 30 days notice. You may cancel before it takes effect and recover the unused part of the subscription period you prepaid, pro rata. A change does not apply to a top-up pack you already bought. Your statutory rights remain unaffected.

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. Your quote includes two written rounds of changes to get there, and if the build does not match what your quote described, we put that right at our cost, however many rounds that takes.
• 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 2). 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 can be cancelled at any time. For a new annual subscription accepted under these revised terms, cancellation stops the next renewal and service continues through the paid period. There is no change-of-mind refund for that paid term, subject to statutory remedies and any different promise accepted for your order. The fourteen-day grace period and export arrangements are in section 4 and the Refunds page. An earlier subscription retains its original rights. If a build payment is refunded, an attached Plan stops as described in the Refunds page.
• Your assets stay yours. Ending hosting does not take ownership of your content, brand or domain, or rights in a delivered build or licensed template. You can request the free export while we host your site and during the exit window described in Refunds, section 5. Mandatory access and portability rights remain unaffected.
• Template purchases are digital source code and follow the marketplace license terms below, not this build-and-Plan policy.

• 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 license 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. During hosting and the exit window in Refunds, section 5, ask and we send a ZIP of your delivered site source, its files and licence records, and the site data we hold for you. There is no exit fee for that export. Ending the export-service window does not change your ownership or licence rights or remove a mandatory data-access or portability right.
• 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 license 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.
• Materials and instructions you supply. You must have the rights, permissions and lawful authority needed for the materials, data, access and instructions you give us. You indemnify the Company and its Protected People, as defined in section 12, against reasonable third-party claim liabilities and reasonable defence costs to the extent directly caused by your breach of that obligation or your unlawful use of the deliverables. This does not cover loss caused or contributed to by an indemnified person or by our breach, negligence, fraud or unlawful conduct. We must notify you promptly, take reasonable steps to limit the loss, allow you a reasonable opportunity to participate in or assume the defence, and not settle a claim at your expense without your consent, which must not be unreasonably withheld. No indemnity applies to a liability the law prohibits you indemnifying.

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

• Each license covers one live production site. You choose how many licenses you buy at checkout.
• 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.

The public affiliate page currently accepts waitlist registrations. Joining that waitlist does not create a commission entitlement. The following summary applies to referrals accepted under the affiliate program. A separately agreed private referral arrangement is governed by its own written terms and does not change another participant's agreement.

• 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 eligible settled subscription 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 affiliate 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 affiliate partner terms you accept when you join control if anything there conflicts with this summary.

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).

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.

Rights the law protects. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies a right, guarantee, remedy or liability that the law does not allow us to exclude, restrict or modify. This includes applicable Australian Consumer Law rights and mandatory rights in another country. A limitation below applies only to the extent the law permits us to rely on it. It does not apply to liability for fraud or deliberate wrongdoing.

Consumer guarantees where limited remedies are permitted. Only for services of a kind not ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic or household use or consumption, and only where section 64A of the Australian Consumer Law permits and it is fair and reasonable to rely on the limit, our liability for failure to comply with a consumer guarantee is limited, at our choice, to supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again. Otherwise the applicable statutory remedies remain available in full.

Other liability. Subject to the protections above, the combined aggregate liability of the Company and its Protected People for claims arising from or connected with an affected order, whether in contract, tort including negligence, or otherwise, is limited to: (a) for a fixed project, the fees paid or payable for that project; or (b) for an ongoing subscription, the fees paid or payable for that service for the twelve months before the first event giving rise to the claim, or the first twelve months of agreed charges if the service has operated for less than twelve months. Related claims arising from the same event do not create additional caps. This cap does not restrict a consumer-guarantee remedy beyond a limitation lawfully available under the preceding paragraph.

Indirect loss. To the extent the law permits, we and our Protected People are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Lost profit, revenue, business opportunity or anticipated savings is excluded by this paragraph only to the extent it is indirect or consequential. This paragraph does not label every loss of data or interruption as indirect, remove liability for a service we expressly agreed to provide, or exclude a non-excludable remedy.

Our people. In this section, Protected People means our current and former directors, officers, employees, agents and contractors acting for us in connection with your order. This agreement does not make any of them a personal guarantor of the company or a separate supplier. The lawful exclusions and limitations in this section are also intended to benefit each Protected Person for that work. We obtain those benefits for ourselves and, where we have their authority, as their agent. A Protected Person may rely on them to the same extent available to us. This does not remove any personal liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

One recovery for the same loss. To the extent the law permits, the company and the Protected People share the applicable aggregate limit; naming more than one of them does not create additional limits. Amounts recovered for the same loss are counted together. There is no restriction on a remedy or claim that the law does not permit us to restrict.

Raise a problem promptly. Tell us enough to identify the order and the problem and allow a reasonable opportunity to investigate and provide a remedy. This is not a shortened limitation period, a forfeiture of rights for late notice, or a requirement to wait before seeking urgent relief or a statutory remedy.

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.

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.