The terms of working with us

Who you are dealing with

BINES is the trading name of BINES Web Development Services, a sole proprietorship owned by Aeros Salaga, registered nationally with the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry.

• Registered business name
  BINES Web Development Services (national scope)
• DTI Business Name No.
  8416165, valid 12 August 2026 to 12 August 2031
• Registered address
  Del Carmen Village, Matina Aplaya, Davao City, Region XI, Philippines
• Contact
  [email protected], +63 917 505 8583

Below, “we” and “us” mean that business, and “you” means the person or company engaging us.

What these terms cover

They cover your use of this website and any work you engage us to do. If we send you a written proposal, a scope, or a statement of work and you accept it, that document and these terms are read together. Where the two genuinely conflict, the signed proposal wins, because it was written about your project specifically and this page was not.

We can change this page. The version that applies to your project is the one live on the day you accepted the proposal, so a later edit here does not quietly rewrite a deal already agreed.

Prices, quotes, and what a plan commits us to

The prices on this site are our standard rates and are a starting point, not an offer capable of instant acceptance. The scoped plan you get from /start/ is free and carries no obligation on either side. It is a proposal, not a contract. Nothing binds either of us until you accept a written scope and we confirm it.

A quote we give you holds for 30 days. After that we may need to requote, usually because third-party costs moved.

Prices are shown in US dollars or Philippine pesos depending on where you are. The currency we quote you in is the currency you pay in. Prices exclude third-party costs such as domains, hosting, licences, and paid plugins, which we will always tell you about before you commit. Philippine clients receive a BIR official receipt for every payment. Any taxes due in your own country are yours to handle.

Paying us

• Fixed-scope projects (Sprint, Website): 50% to start, 50% before we hand over or push live.
• Subscriptions (Studio, Care, Concierge): billed monthly in advance, from the day you start.
• Audits: paid in full up front, since the whole thing is delivered within two business days.

Invoices are due within 7 days. We accept bank transfer, card, and, for Philippine clients, GCash. If an invoice goes more than 14 days past due we may pause work and hold a handover until it is settled. We will always email you before we pause anything.

The Studio subscription

Studio gives you a build lane: an unlimited backlog with one task actively in build at a time. It does not mean unlimited simultaneous work, and we would rather say so here than have you discover it in month two.

Pause or cancel anytime means what it says. Tell us before your next renewal date and you will not be billed again. We do not refund part of a month already started, and there is no cancellation fee or notice period. Pausing holds your spot and your rate for up to three months.

The founding-client rate of $1,995/mo is locked for six months from your first payment. Locked means we will not raise it during that period. It does not tie you in: you can still cancel at any time. If you cancel and later come back, you return at the rate current then.

The audit, and the refund we promise

The audit is a fixed-fee, written report delivered within two business days. We say on the pricing page that if you do not learn something worth more than the fee, we refund it. That is a real promise and here is exactly how to use it: email us within 14 days of receiving the report and ask for your money back. We refund in full, we do not ask you to justify it, and you keep the report.

The fee is also credited in full toward any build you start with us within 60 days. You can use the credit or the refund, not both.

What we need from you

Nearly every project that runs late runs late for the same reason, so we would rather be direct. We need timely feedback, the content and access we ask for, and one person empowered to approve things. Timelines we quote assume replies within two business days.

If a project goes quiet for more than 30 days, we may close it out and invoice for the work completed to that point. Restarting later is fine and we will not charge you a penalty for it, but we cannot hold a build lane open indefinitely.

You confirm that any content you give us, including text, images, logos, and data, is yours to use, and that our using it as you have asked will not infringe anyone else's rights.

Who owns what

You do. Once you have paid in full, the code, the repositories, the hosting, the domain, and every account we set up are yours, in your name. This is not a licence we can revoke, and we do not hold your project hostage to a maintenance contract. If you leave, you leave with everything.

Two narrow exceptions, stated plainly. We keep ownership of the generic tools, boilerplate, and internal libraries we bring to every project, and you get a permanent right to keep using them inside your project. And third-party components keep their own licences, which we will tell you about.

We would like to show your project in our portfolio, but we will ask you first and we will not do it if you say no. Anything you tell us stays confidential either way.

Where AI fits

We build with AI and we are not coy about it, since it is the reason we can move as fast as we do at these prices. Claude does a large share of the drafting and implementation. A senior engineer reviews every release line by line before it reaches you, and we are accountable for the result exactly as if it had been typed by hand. AI is not an excuse we get to use when something is wrong.

What that means for you: the work we deliver is yours, on the ownership terms above. We do not put your confidential material into third-party tools beyond what is described in our privacy policy, and if you would prefer we did not use AI on your project at all, tell us before we start and we will quote it differently.

What we promise, and what we do not

We warrant that the work will materially match the scope we agreed. If something we built is defective, tell us within 30 days of delivery and we will fix it at no charge. That is a genuine fix, not a credit note.

What we cannot promise is an outcome that depends on other people. We do not guarantee search rankings, traffic, leads, conversions, or revenue, because Google, Meta, and your market are not ours to control. Anyone who does guarantee those things is guessing. We also cannot be responsible for third-party services going down, changing their terms, or changing their prices.

Websites need looking after. Once a project is handed over and you have declined Care, keeping software, plugins, and backups up to date is yours to manage.

If something goes wrong

Our total liability for any engagement is limited to the fees you paid us for it in the three months before the problem arose. We are not liable for lost profits, lost data, or business interruption.

That limit does not apply, and we do not try to make it apply, to fraud, to death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or to anything else the law does not permit us to exclude. If you are a consumer in Australia or New Zealand, your rights under the Australian Consumer Law or the Consumer Guarantees Act stand alongside this page and nothing here reduces them. The same goes for Philippine consumers under the Consumer Act.

Ending an engagement

Either of us can end a project with 14 days' written notice. If you end it, you pay for the work done up to that point and we hand over everything paid for. If we end it, we hand over the same and refund anything you have paid for work not yet done. Subscriptions follow the cancellation terms above instead.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, and the courts of Davao City have jurisdiction. If you are outside the Philippines, the consumer protections of your own country still apply to you where the law says they must.

Before anyone goes near a court, email us. Almost everything is solvable in a conversation, and we would rather have that conversation than a dispute.