Terms of service

Conditions générales de prestation de services

1. Who these terms are between

These conditions govern services supplied by Eddy Ekofo, trading as Canon Fidei, entrepreneur individuel registered under SIREN 106 843 857, R.C.S. Paris, whose full particulars are on the mentions légales page. “The client” is the person or company named on the accepted quote.

2. What they apply to

They apply to every quote, order and engagement accepted from the date they take effect, and they prevail over any purchase conditions of the client unless a signed document says otherwise. Accepting a quote means accepting these conditions.

3. Quotes and acceptance

Work begins from a written quote setting out the tier, the scope, the setup fee, the monthly fee, the timetable and, explicitly, what is out of scope. A quote is valid for thirty days from its date. It becomes binding when the client returns it signed, or confirms acceptance in writing by email.

Anything not written in the quote is not included. A request that falls outside it is quoted separately before it is built; it is never assumed, and never invoiced as a surprise.

4. Price and payment

Prices are stated in euros, or in pounds sterling where the quote says so. As a micro-entreprise below the VAT threshold, no VAT is charged: TVA non applicable, art. 293 B du CGI.

An engagement has two parts. The setup fee is invoiced on acceptance and is payable in full before the build begins. The monthly fee begins on the day the site goes live and is collected by direct debit, monthly in advance, under a mandate signed alongside the quote.

The monthly fee covers what the accepted tier lists: hosting, security, backups, the agreed visibility work, and minor updates. A minor update means changing text, swapping photographs, or amending prices and opening hours, up to one hour in any month, and unused time does not accumulate. Anything larger — a new section, a shop, a booking system, a change of design — is a new scope and is quoted before any work starts.

Where a tier includes managed advertising, the management is covered by the monthly fee and the advertising spend itself is not: it is paid by the client to the platform, or recharged at cost with the invoices attached.

Late payment carries interest at three times the French legal interest rate, applied without a reminder being necessary, together with the fixed recovery indemnity of €40 required by articles L.441-10 and D.441-5 of the Code de commerce. Where a direct debit is refused or an invoice remains unpaid, service may be suspended after written notice.

5. Timetable

Dates in a quote assume the client supplies content, access and decisions when they are asked for. Delay on that side moves the delivery date by at least the same amount. Dates are commitments made in good faith, not guarantees against events outside reasonable control.

6. What the client provides

The client supplies text, images, logos and any other material to be published, and warrants that it holds the rights to them. The client also names one person empowered to make decisions. Reviews are consolidated: one round of revision is included at each agreed stage, collected in a single pass, and further rounds are quoted separately.

7. Intellectual property

Two things are separated here, and the separation is the agreement.

What is the client's. The domain name, the hosting and registrar accounts, the text, the photography commissioned for them, their trade marks and their customer data are registered in the client's name from the day they exist and belong to the client permanently. They are not affected by the ending of a subscription, and they are never held as security for a debt.

What is licensed. The platform the site runs on, the framework, the design templates and the modules built on top of them remain the property of Canon Fidei. The client holds a non-exclusive licence to use them, for the client's own business, for as long as the subscription is current. That licence is what the monthly fee buys.

On the ending of a subscription after the minimum term, the client may take, at their choice: a working static export of the published site, including its text and images, supplied at no charge; or full ownership of the source code, on payment of a buyout fee stated in the quote. Third-party components keep their own licences, which are passed through unchanged and listed at handover. Generic know-how, methods and non-client-specific tooling remain the studio's, and nothing prevents their reuse elsewhere.

Canon Fidei may name the client and show the work as a reference only once the work is live and the client has agreed in writing. Silence is not agreement.

8. Confidentiality

Each party keeps the other’s non-public information confidential, during the engagement and for [period] afterwards. This does not cover information that is already public, or that must be disclosed by law.

9. Correction of defects

For [warranty period] after delivery, defects in the delivered work are corrected at no charge. That covers the deliverable failing to do what the accepted scope said it would. It does not cover new features, changes of mind, content edits, third-party services altering their own behaviour, or faults introduced by changes made by someone else.

10. Liability

Liability is limited to direct damage and, in aggregate, to the total sums invoiced for the engagement concerned. Indirect loss — lost profit, lost turnover, lost data, loss of opportunity — is excluded to the extent French law permits. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Hosting, domain registration, payment processing and app-store review are supplied by third parties under their own terms. They are configured carefully and monitored, but their availability is not something this studio can warrant.

11. Ending an engagement

A subscription runs for a minimum of twelve months from the day the site goes live. After that it continues month to month, and either party may end it by giving thirty days' written notice. Notice given inside the minimum term takes effect at the end of it.

Either party may end the agreement immediately for a material breach that is not put right within [cure period] days of written notice. Where the client ends it early for any other reason, the remaining months of the minimum term fall due; where Canon Fidei ends it other than for breach, no further fee is charged and the exit under clause 7 is provided at no cost.

On ending, whatever the reason, the client keeps everything listed in clause 7 as theirs and takes the export or the buyout described there. Work is not held hostage in a dispute.

12. Personal data

How this site and this studio handle personal data is set out in the privacy policy. Where the studio processes personal data on the client’s behalf as part of a build, a data-processing agreement under article 28 GDPR is signed alongside the quote.

13. Consumers

Where the client is a consumer rather than a business, the mandatory protections of the Code de la consommation apply and are not reduced by anything above, including the fourteen-day right of withdrawal where it is applicable and the right to refer a dispute to a médiateur de la consommation. The mediator for this business is [mediator not yet appointed].

14. Applicable law

These conditions are governed by French law. The parties will try to resolve any dispute between themselves first. Failing that, and subject to the consumer rights above, the courts of Paris have jurisdiction.

Draft of 9 September 2026. Not yet in force — see the note at the top.