Terms of Service

Last updated: September 23, 2026

These terms cover launchdraft.net and the design, hosting, and care we provide. By using our site or signing up, you agree to them. We keep them short and readable on purpose.

LaunchDraft is operated by Teresa Harvey (South Carolina, USA), the responsible party for contracts and billing. By signing up, you confirm you are at least 18 and can enter this agreement for your business.

1.What we provide

LaunchDraft designs, builds, hosts, and maintains websites for small businesses. Your build details (pages, features, and price) are set by the plan you choose and the agreement you sign before we start.

Every site we build includes a small "Built by LaunchDraft" credit in the footer, linking to launchdraft.net. It stays while your site is on a LaunchDraft plan and comes off if you buy out your site.

We aim to launch within 2 weeks of receiving your content, though busy builds can take up to about a month. Timing depends on you sending content and approvals promptly.

2.The free draft

We may build you a free homepage draft so you can see your site before paying anything. It comes at no cost and no obligation, and until you sign up, the draft and its code stay ours.

3.Plans, billing & auto-renewal

Our plans have two parts: a one-time setup fee and a monthly fee covering hosting, security, upkeep, and your edits.

• 3.AThe setup fee is paid before we begin the full build (PayPal or Zelle).
• 3.BThe monthly fee begins when your site goes live.
• 3.CYour plan renews automatically each month through PayPal until you cancel. By signing up you agree to this recurring charge; the amount and billing date are in your signed agreement.
• 3.DYou get a receipt for every payment. PayPal emails one automatically, so a charge is never a surprise.
• 3.EWe won't change your price without at least 30 days' notice.
• 3.FMonthly edits are small content changes (text, a photo, hours, a price), capped by your plan and used within the month; they don't roll over. Larger work or a redesign is quoted separately.

4.Cancelling

• 4.ACancel any time by email or by replying to any billing message. No phone calls, no hoops, and never harder than signing up.
• 4.BHosting and edits run until the end of your paid month, then the site comes offline. Your site is part of your subscription, so we don't hand over its code by default, but you can buy out a working copy any time to host it yourself (see 6.B).
• 4.CThe setup fee is refundable before the build starts. Once we begin, it covers work already done and isn't refundable, except that if we fail to deliver your initial site, we refund it. Paid monthly fees aren't refunded for partial months.
• 4.DWant to keep your web address? When you cancel, ask and we'll transfer the domain to your own account (see section 5). You pay the actual transfer and renewal cost, quoted up front and passed on at cost with no fee added. If you don't ask, we let it expire.
• 4.EIf a payment fails, we'll reach out and give you a few days to fix it. If it isn't resolved within about 7 days, we may pause your plan and take the site offline, like a cancellation.
• 4.FAfter your site goes offline (from cancelling or unpaid fees), we keep your files for 30 days. In that window you can restart, buy out your site, or have your domain transferred. After 30 days we permanently delete the files, and a buyout is no longer possible.
• 4.GA chargeback or reversed payment is treated as non-payment: we may take the site offline and pause any code or domain rights until it's resolved.

5.Domains

A custom domain is included with your plan. We register and manage it under our own account as part of your monthly fee, so you never get a separate domain bill or have to touch it.

Your web address is never held hostage. While your plan is active, the domain stays in our account and isn't transferred, so your live site is never disrupted. When you cancel, ask us to move it to your own registrar account; you pay the actual transfer and renewal cost, quoted up front and passed on at cost with no fee added. If you don't ask, we stop renewing it and let it expire. After that it sits in a hold period (often a month or more for a .com) before anyone can register it again, and we can't guarantee it will still be available, so ask for the transfer when you cancel rather than letting it lapse.

6.Who owns what

• 6.AYour content is yours: the text, logo, and photos you provide.
• 6.BYour site is part of your subscription. The setup fee covers building it; your monthly plan keeps it hosted, maintained, and online. To own the code outright and host it elsewhere, buy it out any time for a one-time fee equal to 12 months of your plan. On a buyout we hand over a complete, working copy of your finished site (pages, styles, images, and text) that runs on any standard web host. A buyout ends your monthly plan and our hosting, and transfers your domain to you at the actual cost, quoted up front.
• 6.COur reusable building blocks (starter templates, code libraries, and tools we use across projects) stay ours. A buyout gives you a copy of your own finished site, not our toolkit.
• 6.DIf we ever stop offering the service, we'll give you reasonable notice and help move a working copy of your site and your domain to you, at cost.

7.Your responsibilities

• 7.AGive us accurate information, and only content you have the right to use (your own or properly licensed).
• 7.BYou are responsible for the content you give us and for following the laws that apply to your business.
• 7.CUse your website and our services lawfully and honestly.
• 7.DAny testimonials or reviews on your site must be real. We never create fake reviews, and demo-site content is clearly fictional.
• 7.EIf someone claims content you gave us infringes their rights, that's yours to resolve: you agree to cover and defend us against such claims, and we may remove the content.
• 7.FWe can decline or end service, and take a site offline, for content or use that is illegal, deceptive, infringing, or that we reasonably choose not to host.

8.No guarantees on results

We build every site to be fast, secure, mobile-friendly, and SEO-ready. But we can't promise specific rankings, traffic, or sales, since those depend on things outside our control. We follow reasonable accessibility practices, but we can't guarantee your site meets every accessibility standard for your industry, which stays your responsibility.

9.Liability

We provide our services with reasonable care, as they are. To the extent the law allows, we aren't responsible for indirect or unexpected losses (like lost profits) from your website or our services, and our total responsibility is capped at what you paid us in the 3 months before a claim. We can't guarantee uninterrupted service, and we aren't responsible for outages or losses caused by things outside our reasonable control, such as your domain registrar, our web host, the payment processor, or internet failures. Nothing here removes rights that can't be waived under the law.

10.Changes to these terms

If we update these terms, we'll change the "Last updated" date above and tell current clients about meaningful changes. Using our services after a change means you accept the updated terms.

11.Contact us

Questions about these terms? Email douglas.launchdraft@gmail.com. You'll always reach a real person.

Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina, United States. Please email us first to sort out any dispute; if it can't be resolved that way, it will be handled in the courts of South Carolina. See our Privacy Policy for how we handle your information.