Terms of Service

Last updated: July 2026

Overview

These Terms of Service govern your use of the Conspired Minds website and any services we provide. By using this site, requesting a proposal, approving a statement of work, or otherwise engaging Conspired Minds LLC, you agree to these terms.

For client work, the signed proposal, statement of work, order form, or written agreement for that engagement controls the specific scope, fees, timeline, and deliverables. If those documents conflict with this page, the signed or explicitly approved engagement terms control.

Use of this site

You may use this website for personal and business research. You may not use it to impersonate Conspired Minds, interfere with the site, scrape it abusively, test security without permission, copy protected materials, or use the site in a way that harms us, our clients, or other visitors.

Services

Conspired Minds provides web design and development, website support, hosting coordination, SEO and GEO strategy, content and brand strategy, AI workflow and automation support, analytics, privacy and security consulting, and related digital infrastructure services.

We may use trusted third-party platforms, software, APIs, hosting providers, analytics tools, AI tools, payment processors, and subcontractors when appropriate to deliver the work. Third-party services remain subject to their own terms, policies, pricing, uptime, and limitations.

Proposals, retainers, and payment

Most projects begin only after written approval of scope and payment of any required retainer, deposit, or setup fee. Unless a proposal says otherwise, retainers and deposits are non-refundable because they reserve time, planning, and delivery capacity.

Invoices are due according to the schedule in the applicable proposal or invoice. Late payments may pause work, delay launch, suspend support, or result in late fees, collection costs, or legal fees where allowed by law. You agree not to initiate a payment dispute or chargeback for amounts that were properly invoiced under an approved proposal without first giving us a reasonable opportunity to resolve the issue.

Ongoing services and retainers

Ongoing support, hosting coordination, SEO, content, AI workflow, security, analytics, or advisory services are billed according to the applicable proposal. Unless that proposal says otherwise, ongoing fees are billed in advance, unused time or capacity does not automatically roll over, and either party may end future recurring work with written notice before the next billing period.

Retainers reserve availability and priority. They do not guarantee immediate response at all hours unless a separate support agreement explicitly includes emergency or after-hours coverage.

Estimates, timelines, and approvals

Estimates and deadlines are planning targets, not guarantees, unless a written agreement says otherwise. Timelines can change when scope changes, approvals are delayed, required access or content is missing, third-party platforms change, or issues are discovered during the work.

You are responsible for timely feedback, approvals, content, credentials, access, and accurate information. Delays on your side may affect schedules without changing payment obligations for work already performed or reserved.

If requested feedback, approval, access, or content is not provided within a reasonable time, we may pause the engagement, adjust deadlines, move the work to a later production slot, or treat the deliverable as approved for the purpose of invoicing and project progression.

Scope changes and revisions

Each engagement includes the services, deliverables, and revision rounds described in the approved proposal or statement of work. Work outside that scope may require a change order, additional estimate, or separate approval before it proceeds.

Ownership and intellectual property

Until full payment is received, Conspired Minds retains ownership of custom work product, design files, code, strategy documents, and deliverables created for the engagement. After full payment, ownership of the final custom deliverables transfers to you, except for pre-existing tools, reusable systems, templates, frameworks, know-how, and third-party materials.

Third-party assets such as fonts, stock media, plugins, themes, SaaS products, APIs, libraries, or hosting services remain governed by their own licenses. You are responsible for maintaining any required third-party licenses unless we have explicitly agreed otherwise.

Client content and permissions

You represent that content, data, logos, trademarks, images, videos, audio, testimonials, personal information, and other materials you provide are owned by you or properly licensed for the intended use. You are responsible for permissions, releases, accuracy, accessibility of source materials, and legal compliance of client-provided content.

Regulated industries and compliance

If your business operates in a regulated industry such as healthcare, finance, insurance, education, legal services, or professional licensing, you are responsible for reviewing content, claims, disclosures, forms, tracking, privacy practices, and marketing materials with the appropriate legal, compliance, or professional advisors before publication.

We can support privacy-conscious implementation, technical cleanup, and practical risk reduction, but we are not your law firm, compliance officer, medical reviewer, financial advisor, or regulator.

AI-assisted work

When useful, we may use AI-assisted tools for research, drafting, coding, analysis, image concepts, workflow design, QA, or automation. We remain responsible for reviewing work before delivery, but AI-assisted outputs can still require human review for accuracy, originality, legal compliance, privacy, and fit for your business.

Do not provide protected health information, payment card data, government identifiers, trade secrets, regulated client data, or other highly sensitive information for AI-assisted processing unless we have specifically agreed in writing on the tools, safeguards, and permitted use.

Confidentiality and access

Each party agrees to handle sensitive business information, credentials, and private materials with reasonable care. We may need access to accounts, hosting, DNS, analytics, repositories, or other systems to perform the work. You remain responsible for granting appropriate access and removing access when the engagement ends.

Accounts, domains, and credentials

Unless a proposal says otherwise, you are responsible for owning and maintaining your domain names, hosting accounts, DNS, email platforms, analytics accounts, advertising accounts, social accounts, and other third-party accounts. We may help configure or recover access, but you remain responsible for account ownership, renewals, billing, two-factor authentication, and administrative control.

We are not responsible for losses caused by expired domains, lapsed subscriptions, revoked access, missing credentials, platform lockouts, weak passwords, third-party account compromise, or changes made by someone outside our control.

Hosting, maintenance, and third-party platforms

Unless a proposal says otherwise, launch, hosting, maintenance, backups, monitoring, domain renewal, email delivery, software updates, and third-party account management are separate responsibilities from the initial project build. We are not responsible for outages, data loss, deliverability issues, platform changes, plugin conflicts, security events, or pricing changes caused by third-party providers.

Security, backups, and emergency work

No website, automation, AI workflow, or digital system can be guaranteed completely secure or continuously available. Unless an agreement specifically includes managed security, backups, monitoring, or incident response, those services are not included by default.

Emergency work, urgent recovery, malware cleanup, account recovery, DNS repair, email deliverability triage, or after-hours support may be billed separately and depends on availability.

Portfolio use

Unless confidentiality has been agreed in writing, we may reference completed work in our portfolio, case studies, proposals, marketing, and internal documentation. We will avoid publishing confidential details that were not already public.

No warranty

This site and our general educational content are provided for informational purposes. They are not legal, financial, tax, medical, security, or business advice for your specific situation. Services and deliverables are provided using reasonable professional care, but we do not guarantee specific rankings, revenue, traffic, uptime, AI visibility, security outcomes, or business results.

Search, advertising, and AI visibility

Search engines, AI answer systems, advertising networks, social platforms, analytics tools, and local listing platforms are controlled by third parties. We can improve technical foundations, content quality, tracking, schema, visibility signals, and operational clarity, but we cannot guarantee rankings, ad approvals, cost per lead, search traffic, AI citations, map placement, reviews, or revenue.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Conspired Minds harmless from claims arising from client-provided materials, inaccurate information, unauthorized content, infringement, privacy or publicity violations, defamation, regulatory issues, or your misuse of delivered work or third-party services.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Conspired Minds is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or lost-profit damages. Our total liability for a claim is limited to the amount you paid us for the specific service giving rise to the claim during the six months before the claim arose.

Cancellation and termination

Either party may terminate an engagement according to the cancellation terms in the applicable proposal or written agreement. If no separate cancellation terms apply, you are responsible for work completed, expenses incurred, time reserved, and approved third-party costs through the termination date. Retainers and deposits remain non-refundable unless we are unable to begin the work.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Venue for disputes will be in the state or federal courts located in New York, unless a signed agreement states otherwise.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The date at the top shows the latest revision. Continued use of this site or our services after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to [email protected] or mailed to Conspired Minds LLC, 67 West Street, Suite 401, Brooklyn, NY 11222.