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Terms of Use

Effective October 5, 2026. These terms cover your use of this website. They are not a contract for web design services; client projects are covered by a separate written agreement.

  • Written in plain English
  • Photo licenses respected and credited
  • Questions welcome by phone or email

By using a1awebsitedesign.com, you agree to these terms. In short: use the site lawfully, do not copy our content or code without permission, respect the licenses of the photos we credit, and understand that the information here is general and comes without warranties.

About These Terms

This website is operated by A1A Web Design, a studio of AldoMedia, LLC., a New York limited liability company located at 656 N French Rd #2, Buffalo, NY 14228. In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean A1A Web Design and AldoMedia, LLC., and "you" means anyone who uses the site. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use the site.

These Terms Are Not a Services Contract

Nothing on this website is an offer that you can accept to form a contract. Descriptions of our services, process and typical timelines are general. When you hire us, the scope, price, schedule, ownership and other terms of the project are set out in a separate written quote or agreement, and that document controls.

Acceptable Use

You are welcome to browse, read, print and share links to this website for personal or business purposes. You agree not to:

  • use the site in any way that breaks the law or infringes anyone's rights;
  • send spam, malicious code or knowingly false information through our contact forms;
  • try to gain unauthorized access to the site, the server or our private files, or probe the site for security weaknesses without our written permission;
  • interfere with the site's operation, for example by flooding it with requests or trying to get around its anti-spam checks;
  • copy the site's content in bulk to republish it or present it as your own;
  • impersonate us or misrepresent your connection with us.

We may block access from any connection that we reasonably believe is misusing the site.

Who Owns the Content

Unless stated otherwise, the text, design, page layouts, code, graphics and logos on this site belong to AldoMedia, LLC. and are protected by copyright and trademark law. You may quote short passages if you link back to the page they came from. Any other copying, republishing or reuse requires our written permission.

Some photos and graphics on this site were created by other people and are used under their licenses: a Creative Commons Attribution license, Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedications, and public domain works of the United States government. Each one is listed on our photo credits page with its author, its license and a link to its source. Those images are not ours to license to you. If you want to reuse one, follow the license terms shown at its source.

The screenshots in our portfolio show websites built by AldoMedia. The names, logos and content visible in them belong to the businesses they represent and appear here only to show our work. Product names mentioned on this site, such as Google or ChatGPT, are trademarks of their owners, and mentioning them does not mean those companies endorse us.

Information on This Site Is General

We write our pages to be accurate and useful, but they offer general information about web design, search and accessibility, not professional advice for your particular situation. In particular, nothing on this site is legal advice. Our pages about the ADA and website accessibility explain technical standards; if you have a legal question, such as how to respond to a demand letter, please talk to an attorney. Search engines and AI tools change often, so information about them can go out of date.

Messages You Send Us

When you contact us through the website, please give accurate information, and do not include sensitive data such as passwords, payment card numbers or health information. How we handle what you send is explained in our privacy policy.

Links to Other Websites

This site links to other websites, including our social media profiles, photo sources, standards bodies, government agencies and sites we have built for clients. We include those links because they are useful, but we do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, availability or privacy practices. A link is not an endorsement of everything on the linked site.

No Warranties

This website and everything on it are provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not promise that the site will always be available, uninterrupted or free of errors, or that it will be free of viruses or other harmful components, although we work hard to keep it fast and secure.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, AldoMedia, LLC., A1A Web Design and their owners and staff will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data or business opportunity, arising out of or related to your use of, or inability to use, this website, even if we were told such damages were possible. Because this website is provided free of charge, our total liability for any claim arising from your use of it is limited to one hundred US dollars ($100).

Some places do not allow certain warranties to be excluded or certain damages to be limited, so some of the limits above may not apply to you. These limits cover your use of this website only. Work we do for clients is governed by the separate project agreement.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute about these terms or this website will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in the State of New York, and you agree to the jurisdiction of those courts.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the new version on this page and change the effective date at the top. The version posted when you use the site is the one that applies.

The Rest of the Fine Print

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we do not enforce part of these terms right away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later. These terms, together with our privacy policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about your use of this website.

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