Terms of Service

Last updated: September 8, 2026

• Acceptance
• Use of this site
• The product
• What "actually coded" means
• Price and the founding price
• Payment
• The 48 hours
• Cancellations and refunds
• The round of changes
• Defect window
• Your responsibilities
• Ownership and handoff
• Hosting and domains
• Third party services
• Dae Calendar
• No performance guarantee
• Warranty disclaimer
• Limitation of liability
• Termination
• Governing law
• Contact

1. Acceptance of these terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Caleb Pierce, doing business as actuallycoded ("actuallycoded", "I", "me"), a sole proprietorship located in Orlando, Florida, United States.

By using this website, or by paying for a site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site or place an order. If you are ordering on behalf of a business, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.

If we sign a separate written agreement for a project, that document controls where it conflicts with these Terms.

2. Use of this website

This website exists to describe and sell one product. You agree not to use it to break the law, to attempt unauthorised access to it or its infrastructure, to disrupt its operation, or to copy it for the purpose of impersonating actuallycoded.

All content on this site, including text, layout, design, code, and graphics, is owned by actuallycoded or used with permission, and is protected by copyright. You may view it and share links to it. You may not copy the site wholesale, resell it, or present it as your own work.

Concept pages

The pages linked under "Proof" are clearly labelled fictional businesses, built to demonstrate the standard this site describes. They are not clients, their content is illustrative, and nothing on a concept page is a claim of completed client work, a testimonial, or a business result. Stock photography used in concepts remains licensed to its original source, credited on each page.

3. The product

actuallycoded sells one thing: a custom one-page website. It includes:

• One page, designed and coded for your business from the brief you send.
• A layout, typography, and colour chosen for your business against the published standard on the homepage.
• Your text, edited for the page, and your images placed. If you have no images, I will tell you what is needed or use licensed stock with your agreement.
• A mobile and desktop check, an accessibility check, and a working contact path (a phone link, an email link, a map, or a link to a booking tool you already use).
• One round of changes, section 9.
• The finished files, yours to keep, section 12, and help putting the page live on hosting you control, section 13.

It does not include additional pages, ecommerce, online payments on your site, customer accounts, blogs, booking systems, databases, migrations of an existing site, logo design, copywriting from nothing beyond editing what you send, photography, hosting, domain registration, ongoing maintenance, or search engine marketing. I am glad to discuss multi-page work after a finished one-page site; it is quoted separately and agreed in writing first, and it is never sold from this page.

I may decline or cancel an order, with a full refund, where the request is unlawful, deceptive, infringing, abusive, or outside what I can competently and honestly deliver in the time promised.

4. What "actually coded" means

"Actually coded" is a promise about what you receive. Your site is delivered as plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files that any developer can read and edit. There is no page builder underneath it, no template it was cloned from, no proprietary platform it depends on, and no build step required to change it. You can host it anywhere and take it to anyone.

It is not a promise about which tools were used to make it. Building a site involves software, including AI assisted tools, in the same way it involves a text editor and a browser. What the promise means is that a person, Caleb Pierce, designs the page, writes and reviews the code, checks it against the standard, and stands behind the finished result. The homepage says exactly this and no more, and nothing in these Terms should be read as a claim that no software assisted the work.

5. Price and the founding price

The price is shown on the homepage and on the Stripe checkout page. The price shown at checkout at the moment you pay is the price that applies to your order, and it is honoured even if the published price changes afterwards.

The founding price of $495 applies to the first ten paid orders. After the tenth paid order the price is $850. The count of founding places remaining on the homepage is updated by hand as orders are paid; it may lag by a short time, and where it does, the price on the Stripe checkout page at the moment of payment controls.

Prices are in United States dollars. They exclude any taxes that apply to you, and they exclude third party costs such as hosting, domain registration, paid stock imagery, or software you choose to use, unless a written quote says otherwise.

6. Payment

• Payment is made in full, up front, through Stripe on Stripe's own checkout page. actuallycoded never sees or stores your card details.
• Payment is what starts the work. No design or coding begins before payment is confirmed, and no order exists until it is.
• If Stripe declines, reverses, or holds a payment, the order is paused until the payment clears.
• If you believe a charge is wrong, contact me first at the address in section 21 and I will sort it out, usually the same day. Opening a card dispute for a service you received, without contacting me, is a breach of these Terms.

7. The 48 hours

Your finished page is delivered within 48 hours, counted from the later of: your payment being confirmed by Stripe, and a complete brief arriving by email. A complete brief answers the questions on the homepage: what the business is, who the page is for, the one thing it must make a visitor do, links to anything that exists, and an email address to reply to.

• The 48 hours are counted on business days, Monday to Friday, excluding United States federal holidays. A brief paid and received on a Friday afternoon is delivered by the following Tuesday afternoon; one received on a Tuesday morning is delivered by Thursday morning. All times are Eastern Time.
• "Delivered" means a link to the finished page on a private preview address, sent to the email in your brief, together with the finished files or an offer to put the page live on hosting you control.
• If I need something from you to finish, for example an image you referred to but did not send, I will ask once and the clock pauses until you reply.
• If I miss the 48 hours for a reason on my side, you choose one of two remedies: cancel the order for a full refund, or keep the order and receive $100 back when the page is delivered. Tell me which by email. That is the whole remedy for late delivery.

8. Cancellations and refunds

• Before the work starts, meaning before the 48 hours have begun under section 7, you may cancel by email for a full refund, no questions asked.
• If you pay but no brief arrives within 30 days, I will email you once to ask. If there is still no brief 14 days after that, I will refund your payment in full and close the order.
• Once the work has started, the payment is for a bespoke page being made for you, and it is not refundable, except for the late delivery remedy in section 7, the defect window in section 10, or where I cancel the order under section 3.
• If you are unhappy with the finished page, use the round of changes in section 9. It exists for exactly that.
• Refunds go back to the card you paid with, through Stripe, within 10 business days of my confirming the refund.

9. The round of changes

Each order includes one round of changes: one consolidated list of change requests, sent together by email within 14 days of delivery. The round covers edits to the page that was delivered: text, images, colour, order of sections, spacing, small layout changes, and fixing anything that is not what your brief asked for.

A change of direction, a new section that was not in the brief, a second page, a new feature, or a request that would take the page outside the published standard is new work. I will tell you which it is, quote it separately, and only do it if you agree in writing.

Changes are delivered within 48 business hours of the list arriving, on the same terms as section 7.

10. Defect window

For 14 days after the final delivery, I will correct at no charge any defect in the work I delivered: something that does not function as agreed, is broken on a current mainstream browser, or was built incorrectly. This covers my work only. It does not cover changes of mind, new requests, issues caused by later edits by you or another party, changes made by your hosting provider, or problems in third party services your page links to.

11. Your responsibilities

To deliver on time I need, in reasonable time: your brief, your text and images, and, if you want the page put live, access to the hosting or domain account it will live on. Delays in providing these pause the clock under section 7.

You confirm that any material you give me is yours to use, or that you hold the necessary licence or permission, and that it does not infringe anyone's rights or break the law. You agree to indemnify actuallycoded against third party claims arising from material you supplied or instructed me to use.

You are responsible for the accuracy and legality of your own business claims, prices, offers, and any regulated content, and for any privacy policy, terms, licence number, or disclosure your own industry requires on your page. If you need those, tell me and I will place what you provide.

12. Ownership and handoff

• Because payment is made up front, ownership of the custom page created for you transfers to you on delivery. From that moment the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and layout of your page are yours.
• Third party components remain under their original licences, and those licences pass to you as-is. The typefaces used are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, which permits you to use and redistribute them with your site. Any stock imagery is licensed as noted at handoff. They are not mine to give and I cannot re-license them.
• I retain ownership of my own pre-existing tools, techniques, patterns, and general know-how, and may reuse non-confidential generic components on other projects. The standard on the homepage is mine and stays mine; your page's use of it is yours.
• Your domain name, hosting account, and third party service accounts remain yours and under your control at all times. I never register a domain or open a hosting account in my own name on your behalf.
• Unless you ask me in writing not to, I may show the finished page in my portfolio and describe my role in it. I will not publish confidential material, your private data, or credentials. Tell me at any time and it comes down.

13. Hosting and domains

Hosting and domain registration are not included and are paid by you to the provider you choose. As part of delivery, if you give me access, I will put the finished page live on hosting you control, or I will give you the files and clear written instructions to do it yourself. Once the page is live and the round of changes is done, I will tell you that access is no longer needed and you should revoke it.

I am not responsible for the availability, performance, pricing, or policies of any hosting or domain provider.

14. Third party services

Your page may link to third party services you already use, such as a booking tool, a map, a menu, or a social profile. Those services are governed by their own terms and pricing, are outside my control, and their fees are your responsibility. I am not responsible for outages, policy changes, price changes, or discontinuation by a third party provider, including Stripe, GitHub, or your hosting company.

15. Dae Calendar

Dae Calendar is an internal scheduling tool operated by the business for its own use. It is provided as is, without warranty, and is not offered as a product or service to the public. Its handling of Google user data is described in the privacy policy.

16. No performance guarantee

I build pages well. I do not control search engines, advertising platforms, algorithms, competitors, or markets. actuallycoded therefore makes no guarantee of search rankings, traffic, impressions, leads, enquiries, conversion rates, sales, or revenue, and any example, estimate, or discussion of potential outcomes is illustrative rather than a promise.

17. Warranty disclaimer

This website and its content are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. I do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free.

The page you buy is made in a professional and workmanlike manner. Beyond the round of changes in section 9, the defect window in section 10, the late delivery remedy in section 7, and any express written commitment, no further warranty is given. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

18. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, actuallycoded is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost business, lost goodwill, or lost or corrupted data, arising out of or relating to this website or the product, even if advised of the possibility.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, actuallycoded's total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to an order is limited to the amount you actually paid for that order. For claims relating to use of this website where no fees were paid, total liability is limited to one hundred United States dollars ($100).

You are responsible for keeping your own copies of your website files, content, and data once delivered. I take reasonable care, but I am not a backup service.

19. Termination

Either of us may end an order in writing. If you end it, section 8 says what is refunded. If I end it other than for your breach, you receive a full refund. Sections covering ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and governing law survive termination.

20. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules. The exclusive venue for any dispute is the state or federal courts located in Orange County, Florida, and you consent to that jurisdiction.

Before filing anything, we agree to first try to resolve the matter in good faith by direct discussion. Most problems are solved with an email.

General

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable part is applied as closely as the law allows. A failure to enforce a term is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with your brief and any written agreement between us, are the entire agreement on this subject. You may not assign an order without my written consent.

Updated Terms are posted here with a new date and apply to orders placed after that date. Existing orders continue under the terms in place when they were paid.

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