Client terms
The terms for your website
Last updated September 28, 2026. These terms apply when you complete checkout. "I" and "me" means 8th Layer Solutions. "You" means the business paying for the website.
What you get
A new website for your business, put live on your web address, plus hosting, the security certificate, backups, a monthly check that your call button and quote form work, a weekly refresh, and small edits every month. I aim to put the site live within 5 business days of getting your domain access and anything else I ask for.
Weekly refresh
Once a week I check your Google reviews and the public social media pages you tell me about, and add new reviews, job photos and news to your site. Reviews are quoted word for word with the reviewer's name as published. You can tell me to leave anything off, or to stop the refresh. The refresh doesn't count toward your hour of small edits. I only read public pages; I don't post to your accounts.
Price and payment
There is one plan. You pay no setup fee, then the monthly fee shown at checkout. The first month is charged at checkout. After that, Stripe charges the same fee automatically each month. If a payment fails, Stripe tries again and emails you. There is no late fee.
Minimum term and cancelling
Start date. Your start date is the date on your Stripe checkout confirmation, even if a bank payment clears later. Your minimum term and your first billing period start that day, not the day the site goes live. I put your start date, minimum-term end date and next payment date in the email I send after you pay.
The minimum term is 3 months. After that, the plan renews each month at the monthly fee shown at checkout until you or I cancel. To cancel, email me at jonathan@8thlayersolutions.com with 30 days' notice. You can give notice so the plan ends right when the minimum term does.
You owe the monthly fees for the first 3 months, less any payments or credits already applied. Giving notice, or the agreement ending because a payment is 60 days overdue, doesn't cancel those fees. They stay due on their normal payment dates. There is no separate early exit fee.
Your website after you leave
After the minimum term, if you cancel, I send you a full copy of your site's files for free within 5 business days, and you can host it anywhere. Moving it to another host for you is billed by the hour.
Your domain
Your web address is always in your name. If you already have one, it stays with the company you bought it from, and you give me access. I copy your email settings before I change anything, so your email keeps working. If I register a new web address for you, you are listed as the owner, I pay the renewal while you are a client, and it is yours to keep if you leave.
Your content
Your words, photos, logo and reviews stay yours. You confirm that you own, or have permission to use, every photo, logo and piece of text you give me.
Small edits
A small edit changes something already on the site: hours, phone number, prices, a service description, a photo, a new review, a holiday notice or a staff name. New pages, new sections, a redesign and new features are not small edits. You get up to 1 hour of small edits a month. Unused time does not carry over. Edits go live within 2 business days of your email. If a request will take more than the hour, I tell you and quote it before I start.
If a payment is missed
At 7 days unpaid, I email you. At 30 days unpaid, edits stop and the site shows a short "back soon" page until you pay. At 60 days unpaid, this agreement ends. Your domain stays yours.
What is not included
Ads, ongoing search ranking campaigns, promises about where you appear on Google, photo shoots, and managing your Google Business Profile, social media or email accounts. I can quote extra work separately.
Limits
I keep the site online and fix problems I cause as fast as I reasonably can, but I can't promise the site will never be down, since hosting companies and the internet can fail. My total responsibility to you is limited to the fees you paid me in the 3 months before a problem. This limit doesn't reduce any responsibility the law doesn't let me limit. Illinois law applies to these terms.