Terms of Use

The conditions that apply to using this website. They're short and ordinary, and they don't govern work we do for a client. That work is covered by a separate signed agreement.

Summary

This site is a brochure. Read it, quote it with a link, and write to us if any of it is useful. It isn't a contract, and nothing on it is an offer capable of acceptance by clicking. Where an engagement follows, a signed agreement covers that work, and where the two disagree the signed agreement governs.

What This Site Is For

Everything we publish here, including the practice pages, the case studies, the journal, the process descriptions, and the job adverts, is a description of what we do. We publish it so you can decide whether to start a conversation.

Three consequences follow.

No material on this site is an offer capable of acceptance. Sending the contact form doesn't create an engagement, and neither does our reply to it.

Nothing here creates a professional relationship, a duty of care, or an obligation on us to accept a project. Work begins when both parties have signed a document stating that it does.

The timelines, capabilities, and approaches described here are our normal practice. The terms of a specific engagement are recorded in its own proposal, and that document is the version binding on either party.

Using the site is an ordinary thing to do and we ask almost nothing in return. Don't attempt to break it, scrape it into another product, or use it to reach systems it doesn't belong to. That's the whole of the acceptable-use section.

No Professional Advice

The journal is written from experience, and experience is specific. An article about lead times, or about testing a board in the field, is a general account of an approach to a problem. It isn't engineering, regulatory, legal, or financial advice for your situation, and your situation almost certainly carries a constraint that the one we described didn't.

Acting on anything you read here without consulting somebody who knows your project is your decision and your risk. Writing to us is the better course.

Ownership of Content

The words, the drawings, the diagrams, the photographs we produced, the code that builds this site, and the Sunlab Digital name and marks belong to us unless the page credits another party.

Permitted without asking:

  • Reading, printing, and forwarding to a colleague
  • Quotation of a reasonable extract with attribution and a link to the page it came from
  • Linking to anything here, from anywhere

Not permitted without asking:

  • Republication of a whole article, case study, or page, in any medium
  • Sale of the material, or placement behind another paywall
  • Presentation of the material as your own work or your own capability
  • Use of the studio name or marks in a manner implying endorsement

Client names, logos, product images, and anything else belonging to the companies described in the case studies remain theirs. They appear here with permission, and nothing on this page transfers any right in them.

If what you want to do isn't obviously covered by this section, ask us. The answer is usually yes and it usually takes a day.

We link out to clients, to suppliers, to documentation, and to other people's writing. Those sites belong to other parties. We don't control what they publish, what they collect, or whether they still exist by the time you follow the link.

A link is a pointer rather than an endorsement, and it isn't a warranty. Once you leave this site, the terms and the privacy notice of the destination are the ones that apply.

No Warranty

We maintain this site for accuracy and parts of it will still fall out of date. Some of it is lists, and lists decay. The site is provided as it is, and as it happens to be available.

No warranty is given that it is complete, current, uninterrupted, error-free, or free of anything harmful, and to the extent the law allows the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement are disclaimed.

Nothing in this section removes a right that cannot lawfully be removed.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent the law permits, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss arising out of your use of this site, including lost profits, lost business, and lost or corrupted data.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is capped at one hundred United States dollars, or at the amount paid to the studio for access to this site, whichever is greater. Nothing has been paid for access to this site.

None of that applies to fraud, to fraudulent misrepresentation, to death or personal injury caused by negligence, or to anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

We'll say it plainly, because it's the point most often misunderstood: this section concerns the website. Liability for work we perform for a client is set by the agreement covering that work, not by this page.

Separate Agreement for Project Work

Where you engage us, the engagement runs on a signed document: a proposal, a statement of work, a master services agreement, or some combination of those. That document is where scope, price, schedule, change control, ownership of the intellectual property produced for the client, confidentiality, warranties, and liability are established.

These terms do not override any of it. Where this page and a signed agreement disagree about anything relating to a project, the signed agreement governs, in full, and without requiring argument. This page covers use of the website only.

If you're reading this page to establish what was signed, write to us and we'll send the copy on file.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute about this site or these terms goes to the state or federal courts sitting in Florida, and both parties agree to that.

Where you are a consumer in a jurisdiction with mandatory local protections, this clause does not remove them.

Changes to These Terms

This page may change. When it does, the date at the top changes with it, and continued use of the site after that point means the new version is the one that applies to you.

A change here never alters an agreement that has already been signed. Those are amended in the manner that document specifies, which is in writing, by both parties.

Contact

Sunlab Digital, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. Questions about anything on this page go to hello@sunlabdigital.com. A person answers.