Terms of service

Who you are dealing with

This website is operated by Robot Studios IT Consultancy BV, a company registered in Belgium under enterprise number 0732.991.584, with its registered office at Hemelshoek 277, 2590 Berlaar, Belgium. VAT number BE 0732.991.584. It's my company, and you can reach me at mattias@robotstudios.be.

Using this website

What's on robotstudios.be is here for information. I keep it accurate and current as best I can, but I don't guarantee that every page is complete, and nothing here is a binding offer on its own. An engagement exists once we've agreed it in writing, and not before.

Don't use this site to break the law, to attack the infrastructure behind it, or to scrape it hard enough to degrade it for everyone else. Traffic that does gets blocked.

Intellectual property

The text, design, logos and code of this website belong to Robot Studios IT Consultancy BV unless stated otherwise. Quote from it with attribution and a link, that's fine and I'd rather you did. Republishing it wholesale or passing it off as yours isn't.

The free tools are exactly that: free, for anything, no account. They come with no warranty and no uptime promise. If one of them is down on the day you need it, that's the deal.

Consultancy work

An engagement runs on the written quote or contract we sign, which sets out the scope, the rate and the schedule. Where that document is silent, this is the fallback. Work is billed in euro. Invoices are payable 30 days from the invoice date. Late payment carries statutory interest under the Belgian law on late payment in commercial transactions. Either of us can end an ongoing engagement on 30 days' written notice, and whatever's already been done gets invoiced.

Unless we write down something else, you own the code and configuration I deliver once it's been paid for. Anything either of us learns about the other's business along the way stays between us.

Liability

I'm liable for damage caused by my own gross negligence or wilful misconduct, and for anything Belgian law doesn't let me exclude. Past that, liability for an engagement is capped at what was invoiced for it. I'm not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit or lost data included, and not for downtime or damage caused by third-party services, hosting providers or software I don't control.

Applicable law

Belgian law applies. Disputes go to the courts of Antwerp, division Mechelen, unless mandatory consumer law points somewhere else.

Changes

I update these when they need updating, and the date at the top moves with them. The version that governs an engagement is the one published on the day we agreed it.