Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between Argon Domains LLC, a Florida limited liability company ("Argon Domains," "we," "us," or "our"), and you, the customer or website visitor ("you" or "Customer"). They govern your use of our website at argondomains.com (the "Site") and the website design, hosting, and related services we provide, including our ClientSign electronic document signing platform (the "ClientSign Service") (collectively, the "Services").

By accessing the Site, requesting a sample website, purchasing or using any of our Services, or by sending or signing a document through the ClientSign Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site or the Services.

1.About our Services

Argon Domains provides affordable websites and website hosting for small businesses. Our standard offering includes the design of a website, basic hosting of that website with an SSL certificate (secure HTTPS), and automated monitoring that checks whether your website is reachable. The standard offering is intentionally basic and is limited to the website design you sample and approve, together with the hosting and monitoring described in these Terms. Anything beyond that scope is treated as additional or custom work under Section 6. In brief, our process is: you may preview a sample at no cost, pay the setup fee to move forward, receive up to two (2) rounds of revisions, and then start your monthly hosting so we can publish your website live on your domain (see Section 3).

We also offer ClientSign, our electronic document signing platform, which lets an authorized user upload a document, mark places for signatures, initials, dates, and similar fields, and send it to a recipient to sign electronically through a secure, single-use link. Your use of ClientSign is subject to these Terms generally and to the specific terms in Section 21.

2.Sample websites

We may design and show you a sample website for your business before you purchase. Creating or previewing a sample places no obligation on you to buy, and no obligation on us to continue hosting or developing it.

Until you pay the setup fee described in Section 3, any sample website, including its design, layout, code, and arrangement, remains the property of Argon Domains. We may modify, take down, reuse, or repurpose unpurchased samples at any time. You may not copy, host, publish, or otherwise use a sample website, in whole or in part, unless and until the setup fee is paid.

When you decide to move forward, you pay the setup fee described in Section 3 to begin. Your setup fee includes up to two (2) rounds of revisions to your sample so we can refine it into your final website. Revisions beyond those two are available as additional or custom work under Section 6.

3.Fees, billing & payment

Our standard pricing is:

• A one-time setup fee of $300, due when you agree to move forward, which covers designing your website — including up to two (2) rounds of revisions — based on the sample we prepare for you; and
• A recurring hosting subscription of $9.99 per month, which you must start before your website goes live, and which covers hosting, the SSL certificate, and automated downtime monitoring.

How it flows. When you agree to move forward, you pay the one-time setup fee, and we build and refine your website (including the two rounds of revisions). Once your site is approved and ready, your website is published live on your domain only after your monthly hosting subscription is active. An active hosting subscription is required for your site to go live and to remain live.

Payments are processed through our third-party payment processor, Stripe. By providing a payment method, you authorize us (and Stripe) to charge the one-time setup fee when you agree to move forward, and to automatically charge the recurring monthly hosting fee beginning when your site goes live and on each billing cycle thereafter until you cancel. You are responsible for keeping your payment information current. The monthly subscription renews automatically each month on or around the same date.

All fees are stated and payable in U.S. dollars and, except as expressly stated in these Terms, are non-refundable. You are responsible for any applicable taxes. If a payment fails or is reversed, we may retry the charge, suspend the Services, and/or take your website offline as described in Section 17.

We may change our prices or introduce new fees. For the recurring hosting fee, we will give you reasonable advance notice (for example, by email) before a change takes effect, and the new price will apply to your next billing cycle. If you do not agree to a price change, your remedy is to cancel before it takes effect.

4.Subscription, renewal & cancellation

Hosting is provided on a month-to-month basis with no long-term contract. It renews automatically each month until you cancel.

You may cancel at any time by contacting us at [email protected] (or any cancellation method we make available). Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current paid monthly period; we do not provide partial-month refunds. When your subscription ends, we will take your website offline and may delete the associated files and data. It is your responsibility to obtain a copy of any content you wish to keep before your subscription ends. We may also cancel or decline to renew your subscription as described in Section 17.

5.Refunds

The $300 setup fee is non-refundable once we have begun or completed the design and revision work it pays for. Monthly hosting fees are non-refundable, including for partial months and for periods during which you did not use the Services. Nothing in this section limits any rights you may have that cannot be waived under applicable law.

6.Additional & custom work

Anything beyond your sampled and approved website design and the basic hosting, SSL, and monitoring described above is out of scope. This includes, for example, online stores or e-commerce, payment or booking systems, large numbers of pages, custom applications or integrations, revisions beyond the two included with your setup fee, copywriting, logo or graphic design, ongoing redesigns, search-engine optimization, email hosting, accessibility audits, testing, remediation, or conformance work (such as WCAG 2.1 AA or WCAG 2.2 AA — see Section 7), and similar work.

We are happy to provide additional or custom work, but it must be agreed in a separate written scope of work that describes the work and its price. Additional work may be billed as a one-time charge, an increased monthly fee, or both, as set out in that scope of work. These Terms continue to apply to all Services unless the separate agreement expressly says otherwise.

7.Accessibility (ADA & WCAG)

Accessibility compliance work is not included in our standard Services. Our website design, development, and hosting services do not include auditing, testing, remediating, certifying, or maintaining any website for conformance with accessibility laws, regulations, or standards. These include, without limitation, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, state and local accessibility laws (such as California's Unruh Civil Rights Act), the European Accessibility Act, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), including WCAG 2.0, 2.1, or 2.2 at any conformance level (A, AA, or AAA). While we may follow general good practices in our designs, we make no representation that any website we design or host conforms to any accessibility standard unless expressly agreed as described below.

Accessibility services must be specifically requested. If you want your website designed, audited, remediated, or tested to a particular accessibility standard — for example, WCAG 2.1 AA or WCAG 2.2 AA — you must specifically request that service. Accessibility work is a separate service: it is not included in the setup fee, the monthly hosting fee, or any web development work, and it will be provided only under a separate written scope of work pursuant to Section 6 that identifies the specific standard and conformance level, the pages and content covered, and the price. Unless and until such a scope of work is agreed in writing and signed by both parties, we have no obligation to design, build, test, remediate, or maintain your website to any accessibility standard.

You are responsible for your compliance obligations. Accessibility requirements vary by jurisdiction, industry, and the nature of your business, and only you — with the advice of your own legal counsel — can determine which requirements apply to your business and website. As between you and Argon Domains, you are solely responsible for: (a) determining whether your website or business is subject to the ADA, WCAG, or any other accessibility law or standard; (b) specifically requesting, and paying for, any accessibility services you require; and (c) monitoring and maintaining ongoing conformance, since content changes, plugins, third-party services and embeds, and evolving standards can affect accessibility at any time after a website is delivered.

No warranty of compliance. Even where you purchase accessibility services from us under a separate scope of work, conformance with a technical standard such as WCAG does not guarantee compliance with any law and does not provide immunity from claims. We do not warrant that any website will be accessible to all users, compliant with any law, or free from accessibility-related complaints, demand letters, or lawsuits.

8.Domain names

A domain name (such as yourbusiness.com) is separate from your website and hosting. We recommend that you purchase and own your own domain so that it always belongs to you, and you simply point it to our hosting.

Alternatively, by separate written agreement, we may register, purchase, or hold a domain name on your behalf and manage it for you. In that case: (a) you will pay us for the domain and any related management fees in addition to your hosting fee; (b) the domain may be registered in our name or accounts; (c) registration is subject to the registrar's terms and availability; and (d) the separate agreement will govern what happens to the domain if you stop paying or cancel, including any conditions for transferring it to you. Domain registration fees are paid to third-party registrars and are generally non-refundable.

9.Your responsibilities & acceptable use

You agree to:

• Provide accurate account and billing information and keep it up to date;
• Provide the content, text, images, and materials needed for your website in a timely manner, and ensure you have the right to use them;
• Determine the legal requirements that apply to your website and business — including any accessibility requirements under the ADA, WCAG, or similar laws and standards (see Section 7) — and specifically request any services needed to meet them;
• Keep your account credentials confidential, use strong and unique passwords, and enable any security options we make available; you are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account;
• Keep any software you or your representatives install or use through the Services (including content-management systems such as WordPress, themes, plugins, extensions, scripts, and custom code) properly configured, licensed, and promptly updated with security patches, and not knowingly install or run software that is outdated, vulnerable, malicious, or unlawful;
• Comply with all applicable anti-spam and email laws (including the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act) and not use the Services to send unsolicited bulk or commercial email;
• Use the Services only for lawful purposes and in compliance with all applicable laws.

You agree not to use the Services to host, transmit, or link to any content or activity that:

• Is unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, harassing, or infringes anyone's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights;
• Contains malware, viruses, or malicious code, or is used for phishing, spamming, or unauthorized data collection;
• Is sexually exploitative of minors, or otherwise illegal or harmful;
• Imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or interferes with the Services or other customers;
• Is sent, uploaded, or signed through the ClientSign Service fraudulently, without authority, using a false or misattributed identity, or in violation of Section 21 or applicable law.

You are responsible for all content and activity on your website and account, and for the security of, and any compromise, data loss, resource overuse, or other issue arising from, the applications, plugins, scripts, content, and credentials that you or your representatives control. We may remove content or suspend Services that we reasonably believe violate these Terms.

10.Resource limits & fair use

The Services run on shared infrastructure, and each account is provided with a reasonable allocation of computing resources — including, for example, data transfer (bandwidth), disk storage, email accounts, databases, and processing capacity (CPU, memory, and processes). Resources are not unlimited, even where a specific limit is not stated, and are intended to support a normal small-business website of the type described in Section 1.

We may establish, publish, communicate, and update reasonable resource limits and fair-use requirements from time to time, including as part of your hosting plan or in a schedule or notice we make available. Where a change would materially reduce the resources available to an active account, we will make reasonable efforts to give you advance notice (for example, by email or a notice on the Site), and the change will apply on a going-forward basis. Your continued use of the Services after a change takes effect means you accept the updated limits.

If your account exceeds its resource limits, or uses resources in a way that is excessive, abnormal, or that degrades the performance, stability, or security of our infrastructure or of other customers — whether caused by high traffic, inefficient or outdated code, misconfiguration, a security compromise, or malware — we may take reasonable action to protect the platform and our other customers. That action may include notifying you, throttling or limiting resources, temporarily disabling resource-intensive processes or features, requiring you to upgrade to a plan with a higher allocation, or suspending the account under Section 17. Where the situation threatens the security or stability of our systems, we may act first and provide notice afterward.

11.Content & intellectual property

Your content. You retain ownership of the text, images, logos, and other materials you provide for your website ("Customer Content"). You grant us a non-exclusive license to host, copy, display, and modify Customer Content as needed to provide the Services.

Our materials. Except for Customer Content, the Services, including our website templates, designs, code, and systems, are owned by Argon Domains or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Once your setup fee is paid and while your subscription is active, you receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the website we deliver for your business. We retain ownership of the underlying templates, code, and design components, which we may reuse for other customers.

Portfolio. Unless you ask us in writing not to, we may identify you as a customer and display a screenshot of and link to your website as an example of our work.

12.Third-party services

We rely on reputable third-party providers to deliver the Services, which may include cloud hosting (such as Akamai/Linode), DNS (such as Cloudflare), payment processing (Stripe), and domain registration (such as Squarespace). Your use of the Services may be subject to those providers' terms, and we are not responsible for acts, omissions, outages, or changes by third-party providers that are outside our reasonable control.

13.Availability, monitoring, maintenance & backups

We use commercially reasonable efforts to keep your website available and include automated monitoring that checks whether your site is reachable. However, we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free service or any specific uptime percentage. The Services may be unavailable from time to time due to maintenance, updates, third-party outages, or events beyond our control. We may perform maintenance that temporarily affects availability and will try to minimize disruption.

Security & monitoring

We may monitor the Site, the Services, and our infrastructure for security, performance, capacity, and compliance; scan for malware, vulnerabilities, and abuse; and apply security configurations, patches, and updates. We may access your account, files, databases, and data as reasonably necessary to provide, maintain, secure, support, or troubleshoot the Services, or to investigate suspected violations of these Terms or applicable law. If a website or account is compromised, insecure, or is abusing resources, we may take protective measures — including isolating, disabling, cleaning, or suspending it — with or without prior notice, to protect our systems and other customers. We are not obligated to monitor customer content, and we do not assume responsibility for software, plugins, scripts, or content that you or your representatives install or control.

Backups

As a convenience, we may make periodic backups of hosting data, which are typically retained for a limited period (for example, up to fourteen (14) days) before being overwritten or deleted. Backups are provided on a best-effort, "as is" basis. We do not guarantee that any backup will be performed, available, complete, current, or recoverable, and backups are not a substitute for your own records. You are responsible for keeping your own independent, up-to-date copies of any content, data, or materials you cannot afford to lose. We are not liable for any loss, corruption, or unavailability of data, as further described in Sections 14 and 15.

Email

Where email is provided as part of, or in addition to, the Services, we do not guarantee that email will be delivered, received, or free from filtering or blocking by third parties, and we may apply reasonable limits, filtering, and anti-abuse controls to protect mail delivery and our infrastructure. You must not use the Services to send spam or unsolicited bulk email.

14.Disclaimers

15.Limitation of liability

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

16.Indemnification & recovery of legal fees

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Argon Domains and its owner, members, employees, contractors, and agents (the "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all claims, demands, legal actions, lawsuits, arbitrations, regulatory investigations, damages, judgments, settlements, penalties, liabilities, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs, and costs of investigation) arising out of or related to: (a) your Customer Content; (b) your website or your business; (c) your use of the Services; (d) your violation of these Terms; (e) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party; or (f) any claim, demand letter, complaint, investigation, or lawsuit alleging that your website or business fails to comply with the ADA, WCAG, or any other accessibility law, regulation, or standard (see Section 7), regardless of whether you requested or purchased accessibility services.

Defense. We may, at our option, either require you to defend the Indemnified Parties with counsel reasonably acceptable to us, or assume and control the defense ourselves with counsel of our own choosing, at your expense. You may not settle any claim in a way that imposes any obligation or liability on, or requires any admission by, an Indemnified Party without our prior written consent. You agree to cooperate with us in the defense of any covered claim.

Recovery of legal and attorneys' fees. If any legal action, claim, demand, subpoena, or proceeding is brought or threatened against Argon Domains or any Indemnified Party by any third party arising out of or relating to your website, your business, your Customer Content, your use of the Services, or your violation of these Terms or of any law, you agree to reimburse us, on demand and regardless of the outcome, for all legal and attorneys' fees, court costs, and related expenses we incur in responding to, defending, or resolving that matter. Amounts not paid when due may accrue interest at the highest rate permitted by law, and these obligations survive termination of the Services and these Terms.

17.Suspension & termination

We may suspend or terminate the Services, in whole or in part, with or without notice, if: (a) you fail to pay any fee when due; (b) you violate these Terms or our acceptable-use rules; (c) we are required to do so by law or by a third-party provider; (d) your account is compromised, insecure, or is using resources in a way that exceeds your limits or threatens the security, stability, or performance of our infrastructure or of other customers; or (e) we choose to stop offering the Services. On termination for any reason, your right to use the Services ends and we may take your website offline and delete associated files and data. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 5, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, and 21) will survive.

18.Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date above and, for material changes, make reasonable efforts to notify you (for example, by email or a notice on the Site). Your continued use of the Services after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

19.Governing law & disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Before filing any formal claim, you agree to first contact us and try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Florida, and you and Argon Domains consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. If you bring any claim or action against Argon Domains arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services and Argon Domains prevails, Argon Domains will be entitled to recover from you its reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs, and related expenses to the fullest extent permitted by law.

20.General

These Terms, together with any separate scope of work or written agreement we sign with you, are the entire agreement between us regarding the Services and supersede any prior understandings. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a sale or transfer of our business. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control. Notices to you may be sent to the email associated with your account; notices to us should be sent to the email below.

21.Electronic signatures (ClientSign)

This Section applies whenever you use ClientSign, our electronic document signing platform. ClientSign lets an authorized account holder (a "Sender") upload a document, place fields for signatures, initials, dates, and similar information, and send it to a recipient (a "Signer") to complete through a secure, single-use link. To help confirm identity, ClientSign emails the Signer a one-time passcode and records information such as network (IP) address, device details, and the date and time of each step, and it produces a completed PDF, a certificate of completion, and a tamper-evident audit trail.

Roles and acceptance

By using ClientSign to send a document, you act as the Sender and agree to these Terms and to this Section. Before signing, a Signer is shown an electronic-records consent disclosure within the product; by continuing, the Signer consents to use electronic records and signatures for that transaction and agrees that these Terms govern their use of the platform.

Legal validity

Electronic signatures made through ClientSign are intended to be valid and enforceable under the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN, 15 U.S.C. §7001 et seq.) and the Florida Uniform Electronic Transaction Act (Fla. Stat. §668.50). Each participant agrees that their electronic signature is intended to have the same legal effect as a handwritten signature and that they will not contest a signature's validity solely because it was made electronically.

Documents that cannot be signed this way

Some records may not be signed electronically, or require additional formalities, and must not be processed through ClientSign — including, for example, wills, codicils, and testamentary trusts; certain court, adoption, and other family-law documents; and notices where the law requires paper delivery. Documents that must be notarized or recorded, such as deeds, require separate notarization procedures that ClientSign does not perform, and ClientSign is not a substitute for a notary or a remote online notarization service.

Sender responsibilities

As a Sender, you represent and agree that: (a) you are authorized to send the document and to request the recipient's signature; (b) the recipient's name and email address you enter are accurate and belong to the intended Signer; (c) you have any consent needed to contact the Signer and to process their information; (d) the document is lawful and does not infringe or violate anyone's rights; and (e) you will keep your account credentials confidential and use the security features we provide, including the administrator sign-in code and network restrictions.

Identity verification and its limits

ClientSign's single-use links, emailed one-time passcodes, and logging of IP address, timestamps, and device information are designed to provide a reasonable level of assurance about who signed. They are not government-issued identity verification or notarization, and we do not guarantee the identity of any Signer or that a signature will be admissible or enforceable in any particular matter. Where a transaction needs a higher level of assurance, you are responsible for obtaining it by other means.

Records, audit trail, and your copies

For each completed document, ClientSign generates a sealed PDF, a certificate of completion, and a tamper-evident audit trail recording events such as sending, opening, consent, passcode verification, signing, and completion, together with associated IP addresses and timestamps, and a copy of the completed document is emailed to the Signer. We store these records so they remain available to the account holder, but storage and backups are provided on a best-effort basis as described in Section 13, and you are responsible for downloading and retaining your own copies of completed documents and certificates. When your subscription or access ends, we may delete stored documents and related data as described in Sections 4 and 17.

As is

The ClientSign Service is part of the Services and is provided "as is" and "as available" under Sections 13–15. Without limiting those Sections, we do not warrant that any particular electronic signature, sealed document, or audit record will be accepted or enforced by any court, agency, or other party, and we are not responsible for the legal consequences of the documents you choose to send or sign.

22.Contact us

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at:

Argon Domains LLC
Email: [email protected]
Website: argondomains.com