Draft terms. These are the terms we plan to use; they have not been reviewed by a lawyer yet and may change before you sign. Your signed order form is what counts.

CornerWick service terms

Last updated: October 7, 2026 (version 0.1, draft). These terms go with your CornerWick order form, which lists your plan, price, and start date. If the two disagree, the order form wins. This is not legal advice.

The short version

  • Plans: Tier 1 is $99 a month and Tier 2 is $399 a month. The Google Ads add-on is $200 a month more and requires Tier 2. No setup fee. The first 10 paying customers get a founding rate for as long as they stay.
  • First term is 3 months, then month to month. A yearly option is 12 months for the price of 10.
  • You keep your domain, Google Business Profile, reviews, and ad account. You get a zip of your site when you leave.
  • You pay Google directly for ad spend, and you set the cap.
  • We do not promise rankings, traffic, calls, leads, or sales.
  • Illinois law applies.

Contents

1. The service

  • What we provide. During the Subscription Period we provide the plan in your order form (the "Service"). If something is not written in the order form, it is not included.
  • Our method. We choose the tools, vendors, software, and methods we use to deliver the Service. We use AI tools and other software vendors to do the work. Zach or our team reviews output before it goes live.
  • Business use. You are a business and buy the Service for business purposes only.
  • Changes. Up to 2 change requests a month, as listed in the order form. We aim to complete a request within 5 business days. Anything else is extra work. We email a quote first, and nothing starts until you say yes in writing (email is fine).
  • Your job. You give us accurate information and the photos and text we ask for, keep your own accounts and logins safe, and give us the access we need (for example, manager access to your Google Business Profile and Google Ads account).
  • Feedback. We may use any feedback you give us without limit.
  • Use of your Content. You let us copy, display, edit, and host your Content (your text, photos, logo, name, and brand) as needed to provide the Service and to show your business in the site and listings we run for you. We do not use your Content to train AI models. Our AI vendors process it only to perform the Service for us.

2. Rules

  • You will not (a) use the Service to break the law or another party's rights, (b) give us content or claims you cannot back up or have no right to use, (c) ask us to place fake, bought, or rewarded reviews, or to screen which customers may leave a review, or (d) resell the Service, or use our templates or code outside the site we build for you (except as section 10.3 allows).
  • Pausing. We may pause the Service if an amount is unpaid 7 days after it is due (your order form explains what pausing means), if you break the rules above, or if something you ask for puts us or others at real risk (for example, a business type Google or the law does not allow). We will email you first unless the law or urgent risk prevents it.
  • Some things we will not do. We do not run online stores or pages that collect card details, we do not record phone calls, and we do not store the contents of quote forms (forms go straight to your email).

3. Privacy and data

  • You are responsible for what you put on your site and for any privacy policy choices we have not written for you. We add a privacy policy and a consent banner to sites we build and keep tracking off until a visitor accepts.
  • Do not send us card numbers, bank account details, government ID numbers, passwords, or health information. If you do, we may delete it.
  • See our privacy page for what we collect on this website.

4. Fees and taxes

  • You pay the Fees in the order form. Fees are in U.S. dollars, do not include taxes, and are not refundable except where these terms say so. You pay any sales, use, or similar taxes that apply to the Service.
  • We charge the card or bank account you authorize in the order form, monthly in advance. You authorize those charges until you cancel.
  • Disputes. Tell us about a billing error within 30 days of the charge.
  • Ad money is separate. You pay Google directly for ad spend, on your own card, and that amount is not our Fee and not our debt. We never pay ad spend for you, and we cannot control Google's billing. Keep a working payment method in your Google Ads account. If Google stops your ads because of a payment, policy, or account problem, we are not responsible for the lost time.
  • Founding rate. If your order form shows a founding rate, it applies for as long as you stay in continuous service. If you cancel (or are cancelled under section 5.3 for your own breach), the founding rate ends for good.

5. Term and ending the deal

  • Term. The first term is 3 months. After that, the Service continues month to month until ended. A yearly plan runs 12 months and renews for another 12 months only if we send the reminder described in the order form and you do not cancel by the date in the reminder.
  • Cancel. After the first term, you may cancel at any time by emailing us. Service ends at the end of the month you have already paid for. Before the end of the first term, you owe the Fees for the whole first term, and the Service ends when it ends. A yearly plan runs to the end of its 12 months, and we do not refund the unused part if you cancel early, except in the cases in 5.4.
  • Ending for cause. Either side may end the agreement if the other side materially breaks it and does not fix it within 30 days of written notice, or at once if the breach cannot be fixed, or if the other side goes out of business or becomes insolvent. We may also end the agreement with 30 days' written notice for any reason (a "no-fault exit"). If we do, we refund any Fees paid for a period after the end date.
  • Refunds when we are at fault. If we end the agreement without cause, or the Service is down for 30 days in a row for reasons within our control and we do not restore it, we refund the unused part of any prepaid period.
  • Handover. When the agreement ends for any reason, (a) you keep your domain, your Google Business Profile, your reviews, and your ad account, (b) we send you a zip of your site, (c) we keep the site online for 30 days after the end date so you can move it, and (d) then we may take it down and delete the files. We send the zip once Fees through the end date are paid. Ads stop being managed by us on the end date.
  • Survival. Sections 4 (amounts owed), 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 survive.

6. Promises we make and do not make

  • Mutual. Each side has the legal power to sign this agreement and will follow the laws that apply to it.
  • Ours. We will provide the Service in a professional way and will not materially reduce what the Service does during a term. If we fall short, email us. We have 30 days to fix it. If we do not, you may end the agreement and get a refund of prepaid Fees for the period after the end date.
  • Yours. You promise that you own or have the right to use all Content and facts you give us, that your facts are true, and that you have any license, permit, or authority you claim.
  • No promise of results. We do not promise or guarantee any result, including search rankings, placement on Google Maps or in AI answers, traffic, calls, leads, sales, reviews, ad performance, or that Google or an AI tool will mention you. Estimates, examples, and scoreboards are information, not guarantees.
  • Third-party services. Google, AI tools, payment processors, hosting, and directories are run by others under their own rules. We do not control them, and they can change or refuse service at any time. You agree to follow the terms of the ones you use (for example, Google's ad policies).

7. Disclaimer

Except as written in section 6, we and you each disclaim all other warranties and conditions, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not promise the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the site will never go down. We run a daily check that the site is up, and that is a check, not an uptime guarantee.

8. Limits on what either side owes

  • Cap. Each side's total liability to the other for all claims under this agreement is limited to the Fees you paid to us in the 12 months before the claim arose (and never less than one month's Fees) (the "General Cap").
  • No lost profits or indirect damages. Neither side is liable to the other for lost profits or revenues (direct or indirect), or for consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive, or incidental damages, even if warned they might happen.
  • Ad spend. We do not pay for, and are not liable for, amounts you spend with Google, including spend that does not bring customers. If we make a mistake that causes you to be charged for ad spend above your budget cap, our only responsibility is the General Cap.
  • Not limited. Your duty to pay Fees, and any liability the law does not let a party limit (such as for fraud or willful misconduct), is not capped.
  • These limits apply even if a remedy fails its main purpose. The parties agree the prices reflect these limits.

9. Claims from outsiders (indemnification)

  • Ours. We defend you against a third-party claim that the site we build (not counting your Content, third-party materials, or changes you make) infringes that third party's copyright or trademark, and pay the amounts a court finally orders or we agree to settle. Our share counts toward the General Cap.
  • Yours. You defend us against a third-party claim arising from (a) your Content or the facts you give us (for example, a false claim, an unlicensed photo, a wrong price, a missing license), (b) how you run your business, including your products, services, and offers, or (c) you breaking the rules in section 2. You pay the amounts a court finally orders or the parties agree to settle.
  • Process. The protected side tells the other promptly, lets it control the defense and settlement (no settlement that admits fault for the protected side without its consent), and helps at the other's expense. Delay only matters if it harms the defense.
  • If an infringement claim arises, we may get the right to keep using the work, change it, or remove it, and end the affected part with a prorated refund.

10. Who owns what

  • You own your Content, your name, logo, and brand, your domain, your Google Business Profile and reviews, and your ad account. Your Content is not ours. Any domain we register for you is registered in your name, with us added as a helper or manager, so nothing needs to be transferred if the agreement ends.
  • We own our templates, code, tools, methods, report formats, and know-how (the "Provider Materials"), and any improvement to them, including anything based on feedback.
  • Licence to the site. While you are paying, we give you a non-exclusive right to use the site we build for you. When the agreement ends we give you a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to keep using and modifying the copy of the site files in the zip for your own business only. You may not resell the templates or code or use them to build sites for other businesses.
  • Third-party materials (stock photos, fonts, open-source code) stay under their own licences. We tell you in the zip which ones they are and where they are not ours to pass on.
  • Publicity. Section 12.9 lets us list you as an example of our work.

11. Confidentiality

  • Each side keeps the other's confidential information private, uses it only for this agreement, and protects it with at least reasonable care. This covers non-public business, pricing, login, and customer details.
  • It does not cover information that is public without a breach, was already known, was given by someone else with the right to give it, or was developed independently. A side may share it with its advisers, contractors, and vendors who need it and are bound to protect it, or as a law, court, or government order requires (with notice when legal).
  • Either side may ask a court for an order to stop a breach of this section or of section 10 without posting a bond.

12. General

  • 12.1 Entire agreement. The order form, these terms, and anything they list are the full agreement and replace earlier talks. Purchase-order terms from the customer do not apply.
  • 12.2 Changes to the agreement. Both sides must agree in writing (email is fine). We may update these terms for future renewals or new orders with 30 days' written notice. A change does not apply to a current term unless you agree or the law requires it.
  • 12.3 Approval of recommended changes. Each monthly scoreboard lists changes we recommend. You authorize us in advance to make each listed change unless you email us "no" (to all or to numbered items) within 5 days of our email. If you do not reply within those 5 days, we may make the changes. The 5 days count from the day we send the email to the notice address in the order form. Three limits apply: (a) we will not raise your ad budget cap or add any new cost to you without your clear "yes," (b) we will not change a price, offer, guarantee, or legal or license claim on your site or ads without your clear "yes," and (c) you may ask us to undo any change and we will within 5 business days. A lack of reply is authorization to act within the plan, not agreement to any other term.
  • 12.4 Notices. In writing, by email to the address in the order form (effective when sent, unless it bounces), or by mail (effective 2 days after sending). Each side keeps its notice address current.
  • 12.5 Assignment. Neither side may assign the agreement without the other's consent, except we may assign it to a successor in a merger, sale, or change of control.
  • 12.6 Independent parties. We are independent contractors, not employees, partners, or agents of yours. We may use subcontractors and vendors.
  • 12.7 No outside beneficiaries. No one else can enforce this agreement.
  • 12.8 Force majeure. Neither side is late or in breach for something outside its reasonable control (for example, outages at Google or hosting providers, storms, strikes, or government action), except you must still pay Fees. If the Service is down 30 days in a row, section 5.4 applies.
  • 12.9 Publicity. We may list your business name and site link as an example of our work unless you opt out by email.
  • 12.10 Governing law and courts. Illinois law governs, ignoring conflict-of-law rules. The state courts in DuPage County, Illinois, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois have exclusive jurisdiction, and each side agrees to them.
  • 12.11 Electronic signing. The parties may sign in counterparts and electronically, including by accepting the order form online.
  • 12.12 Anti-bribery. Each side follows the laws that ban bribery.

13. Key words

  • Content: text, photos, logos, names, marks, facts, offers, and other material you give us or that we take from your current site and listings.
  • Fees: the amounts in the order form, excluding ad spend paid to Google.
  • General Cap: section 8.
  • Order form: the signed CornerWick order form.
  • Service: section 1.
  • Subscription Period: the first term and each later month or year during which you are paying for the Service.
  • We, us, CornerWick: the business behind cornerwick.com (a legal entity is still being set up and will be named in your order form).

Credit

These terms are adapted from the Common Paper Cloud Service Agreement, Version 2.1, by Common Paper, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Changes made: rewritten for a managed website and local-marketing service (not software access); removed the AI-training, export-control, government-rights, beta, insurance, and data processing provisions; added sections on changes, recommendations, ad accounts, reviews, handover, and pausing; shortened definitions; shortened and simplified throughout. Common Paper does not endorse this version.

Questions

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