Agreement between a company proposing to develop website and the developer for design and maintenance of website

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AGREEMENT BETWEEN A COMPANY PROPOSING TO DEVELOP WEBSITE AND THE DEVELOPER FOR DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE OF WEBSITE

THIS AGREEMENT made at………………..on this………………..day of..........2021 between ABC Ltd., a company incorporated under the Companies Act,1956 and having its registered office ........... .........(hereinafter referred to as the "ABC Ltd" which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context or meaning thereof, be deemed to includes its Successors and Assigns) of the ONE PART and XYZ Website Developer Ltd., a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 and having its registered office ..................... (hereinafter referred to as the "XYZ Ltd" which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context or meaning thereof, be deemed to includes its Successors and Assigns) of the OTHER PART.

WHEREAS

(1)The ABC Ltd is interested to develop a World Website on Internet for furnishing information of its products and for advertising for the products of other companies/manufacturers/vendors.

(2)The XYZ Ltd is a company having professional knowledge and experience of developing and maintenance of websites

(3)The XYZ Ltd has offered to develop and maintain Website for ABC Ltd, which the ABC Ltd has agreed on the terms and conditions mentioned hereafter

NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED BETWEEN THE PARTIES AS UNDER:

1. The ABC Ltd is engaging XYZ Ltd as an independent contractor for the specific project of developing and maintaining a World Website to be installed on the ABC Ltd's web space on an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer. The ABC Ltd authorizes XYZ Ltd to access the account and authorizes the ISP to provide XYZ Ltd with "write permission" for the ABC Ltd's web page directory, cgi-bin directory and any other directories or programmes which need to be accessed for this project. The ABC Ltd also authorizes XYZ Ltd to publicize their completed WorldWebsite to web search engines, as well as other Web Directories and Indexes.

2. The XYZ Ltd will provide the following services in the Website to be developed for ABC Ltd.

• (a) E-Mail/Phone consultation (Upto 3 hours marketing and Web Design consultation. Telephone long distance charges are to be paid by ABC Ltd in addition to the rates payable to XYZ Ltd under clause of this Agreement).
• (b) Providing text of 50 web pages containing 200 words of each page. (The 200 words per page approximate maximum, if not supplied via diskette. Web pages of more than 1,00,000 words of text may be subject to additional fees, especially if they require a great deal of formatting).
• (c) Link to external pages upto an average of 2.5 per page.
• (d) Masthead graphic on first page (Simple custom graphic incorporating ABC Ltd's logo).Top-of-page graphic for all pages in the Website, colour full lines and bullets, and coloured and textured background. Minor manipulation of graphics Le. enlargement, reduction, etc.
• (e) Photo and other miscellaneous graphic. The images will be supplied by ABC Ltd or XYZ Ltd (The photo and graphic will be upto an average of 1.3 included per page in standard websites and regular on line store pages, in addition to masthead and top-of page graphic. The colour originals larger than 5" x 8" will be charged extra). Installation of Web pages on the ABC Ltd's ISP host computer
• (g) Minor updates and changes to existing Web pages for 1 year (This updating and changes only include upto one hour per page total, subject to the limits outlined below. Additional changes will be charged at hourly rate).
• (h) Site publicity to at least a dozen major Web search engines, such as Yahoo, Hot Mail, Alta Vista, InfoSeek, WebCrawler, Lycos, HotBot, etc.
• (i) E-Mail response link on each web page to any e-mail address as desired by ABC Ltd Feedback or guest book form. (The Basic CGI programme upto 20 fields included. If the ABC Ltd's ISP does not use a Unix Operating System, the XYZ Ltd will have to incur extra charges which will be reimbursable by ABC Ltd).
• (k) Image Map for internal navigation.

3. The ABC Ltd will supply the contents of the Web Pages and will be executed by XYZ Ltd as specified by the ABC Ltd.

4. The parties agree that they will work together to complete the website in a timely manner. The XYZ Ltd agrees to complete the website not later than The ABC Ltd will supply the complete text and graphics contents for the website within 14 days of signing of this agreement.

5. The fee for the services described in this contract will be Rs. 10,00,000, which will be payable as under
   Rs. 1,00,000 on the execution of these presents
   Rs. 4,00,000 within one month of these presents
   Rs. 5,00,000 on the completion of the job
   The payment of Rs. 5,00,000 shall be paid after the construction of web pages according to the ABC Ltd's original written specifications
   The above fee includes upto 50 web pages. The graphics or photos beyond the allowed average of 1.3 per Web page shall be charged at an additional Rs.1,000 each. Transparencies will be charged extra @ Rs.1,200 each. If the ABC Ltd requests "Custom Graphic Package" the said job will be billed at the hourly rate specified below.
   In case the ABC Ltd has not secured Web space on an ISP computer by the time the Web pages are completed, the Web pages may be delivered to the ABC Ltd on diskette or attached to an e-mail message. The advertising the pages to Web search engines and updating will be done after the receipt of the payment by the XYZ Ltd. If the ABC Ltd does not supply the text and graphics contents of all Web pages within six weeks of the execution of this agreement, the entire amount of the contract will become due and payable. If the ABC Ltd does not submit complete text and graphics contents within one month after signing of this agreement, an additional continuation fee of 10% of the total agreed price will also be assessed each month until the Website is advertisement or agreement is terminated

6. This Agreement includes maintenance of Web pages for a period of one year upto an average of one hour per regular page, including updating links and making minor changes to a sentence or paragraph. The maintenance does not include removing nearly all the text from a page and replacing it with new text. If the ABC Ltd or an agent other than the XYZ Ltd attempts updating the XYZ Ltd's pages, time to repair Web pages will be assessed at the hourly rate, and is not included as part of the updating tie. The one year maintenance period commences from the date of execution of this Agreement. The changes requested by the ABC Ltd beyond those limits will be billed at the hourly rate of Rs. 250. The hourly rates shall also be payable for the work authorized beyond the maximums specified above for such services as