TERMS & CONDITIONS

These Terms & Conditions (the "Terms") explain the rules for using the Anicaytion website and for working with us on animation and creative production projects. They form an agreement between you and [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] ("Anicaytion", "we", "us", or "our").

Please read these Terms carefully. If anything here is unclear, contact us at [CONTACT EMAIL] before using the website or commissioning a project.

Anicaytion is an independent creative animation studio producing character design, claymation, stop motion, 2D and 3D animation, real-time Unreal Engine work, game character animation, and full post production.

The studio operates as [COMPANY LEGAL NAME], based at [BUSINESS ADDRESS]. Our website exists to present our portfolio, describe our capabilities, and let potential clients and collaborators reach us.

By visiting the website, submitting an enquiry, or engaging us for a project, you confirm that you have read, understood, and accepted these Terms.

If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, please stop using the website and do not submit project requests.

If you are accepting on behalf of a company or organisation, you confirm that you have the authority to bind that organisation to these Terms.

You may browse the website, view our portfolio, and contact us for legitimate personal or business purposes.

You agree not to interfere with the website's operation, attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of it, or use automated tools to scrape, copy, or reproduce its content.

We may update, restructure, or temporarily suspend parts of the website without notice, for example while publishing new work or performing maintenance.

Descriptions of services on this website are illustrative. The exact scope, deliverables, revision rounds, formats, and timeline for any project are agreed separately in writing before work begins.

Unless a written agreement says otherwise, timelines are estimates made in good faith and may shift when scope changes, feedback is delayed, or third-party materials arrive late.

We may decline any project that falls outside our capabilities, conflicts with existing commitments, or does not align with our creative and ethical standards.

Clients are responsible for providing accurate briefs, references, scripts, brand guidelines, and any assets needed for the project, and for supplying them in usable formats.

Clients must confirm that they hold the necessary rights to any material they send us, including logos, music, fonts, characters, and footage.

Timely feedback and approvals are essential to animation production. Extended delays in review may affect delivery dates and, in some cases, project cost.

Submitting an enquiry through the website does not create a binding contract. A project begins only when scope, price, and schedule are confirmed in writing by both parties.

Project communication normally happens by email or an agreed messaging channel. Please keep a single main point of contact so feedback stays consistent.

We aim to respond to enquiries promptly, but we cannot guarantee specific response times during active production periods.

Pricing depends on scope, complexity, animation length, technique, and turnaround. Quotes are valid for the period stated in the quote.

Unless agreed otherwise, projects require an upfront deposit before production starts, with the remaining balance due at the milestones set out in the project agreement.

Late payment may pause production. Additional work requested beyond the agreed scope is quoted and invoiced separately.

Deposits cover work already planned, scheduled, and begun and are generally non-refundable once production has started.

All content on this website — including animations, renders, character designs, images, videos, text, layout, and the Anicaytion name and logo — is owned by us or used with permission and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

Nothing on the website transfers any licence or right to reuse our work. You may not reproduce, redistribute, remix, train models on, or commercially exploit our content without written permission.

Ownership of final commissioned deliverables transfers to the client once all invoices are paid in full, to the extent set out in the project agreement.

Unless expressly agreed, we retain ownership of our working files, rigs, source scenes, shaders, node setups, internal tools, and production techniques.

Concepts, drafts, and unused directions produced during a project remain our property and may not be used publicly without written permission.

Unless we agree in writing to a confidentiality period, we may display completed work in our portfolio, showreels, social channels, and marketing materials.

If a project is sensitive or unreleased, tell us before production so we can agree an embargo or a non-disclosure arrangement.

Projects may include third-party assets such as fonts, music, sound effects, stock models, textures, or plugins. These remain subject to their own licences.

Where we source licensed assets on a client's behalf, the licence scope is limited to the agreed use. Extended use, such as broadcast or paid advertising, may require an upgraded licence at additional cost.

We work to keep the website accurate and current, but content is provided for general information and may change without notice.

Portfolio pieces may show work created for clients, personal studio projects, or research and development, and are not a guarantee of identical results for future work.

You must not use the website or our services to break the law, infringe someone else's rights, distribute malware, send spam, or misrepresent your identity.

You must not attempt to reverse engineer, resell, sublicense, or claim authorship of our work, nor use our materials to train machine-learning systems without written consent.

We may restrict access to the website or end a project if these rules are breached.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential losses, including lost profits, lost data, or missed opportunities arising from use of the website or our services.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability for any project is limited to the fees actually paid to us for that project.

The website is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

We do not warrant that the website will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, and we are not responsible for the content of external sites we link to.

We may update our services, pricing structure, and these Terms from time to time. The current version always appears on this page with a revised "Last Updated" date.

Material changes do not retroactively alter a signed project agreement already in progress.

Either party may end a project in line with the cancellation terms in the project agreement. Work completed up to the cancellation date remains payable.

We may suspend or end access to the website at any time, particularly where these Terms are breached.

These Terms are governed by the laws of [COUNTRY/JURISDICTION], without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Any dispute will be handled by the competent courts of [COUNTRY/JURISDICTION], unless a project agreement specifies another dispute resolution process.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to [CONTACT EMAIL].

Postal correspondence: [COMPANY LEGAL NAME], [BUSINESS ADDRESS].