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Summers Management Terms of Service:

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Effective Date: August 6, 2026

 

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of summersmanagement.net (the “Website”) and any services offered by Summers Management LLC (“Summers Management,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By using the Website, requesting a consultation, purchasing services, approving a proposal, or otherwise engaging Summers Management, you agree to these Terms.

 

If you enter into a separate written proposal, statement of work, service agreement, or other contract with Summers Management (a “Service Agreement”), that Service Agreement will control if it conflicts with these Terms.

 

1. Eligibility and Authority

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a binding agreement to use our services. If you act on behalf of a business or organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it to these Terms.

 

2. Services

Summers Management may provide services including:

  • Website design, redesign, maintenance, and e-commerce setup;

  • Search engine optimization and Google Business Profile support;

  • Branding, digital marketing, social media, and content support;

  • Business systems, organization, workflow design, and automation;

  • Business strategy, operations, and consulting; and

  • Other related services described in a proposal or Service Agreement.

 

The exact scope, deliverables, schedule, fees, revision limits, and responsibilities for a project will be stated in the applicable Service Agreement. A free consultation is exploratory and does not require either party to begin a paid engagement.

 

3. Proposals, Scope, and Changes

Unless a proposal states otherwise, it may be accepted only during the period shown in the proposal. Work outside the agreed scope—including additional pages, features, integrations, revisions, meetings, content, or expedited work—may require a written change order, revised timeline, and additional fees.

We may rely on approvals and instructions provided by you or by a person you identify as authorized to act for your business. Approvals by email, electronic signature, project-management platform, or other agreed electronic method may be treated as written approval.

 

4. Client Responsibilities

You agree to:

  • Provide accurate, complete, and timely information, content, access credentials, approvals, and feedback;

  • Ensure that you have the right to use all names, logos, text, photographs, videos, data, trademarks, and other materials you provide;

  • Review deliverables carefully, including spelling, pricing, claims, links, contact information, accessibility, and legal or regulatory requirements applicable to your business;

  • Maintain appropriate backups, security controls, account access, and internal records;

  • Obtain any legal, tax, accounting, licensing, privacy, accessibility, industry, or regulatory advice your business requires; and

  • Cooperate reasonably so we can perform the services.

 

Delays in receiving required materials, access, approvals, or feedback may extend deadlines. If a project remains inactive because of the client for an extended period, we may pause it, revise the schedule, charge a restart fee if disclosed in the Service Agreement, or terminate the engagement after written notice.

 

5. Fees, Invoices, and Taxes

Fees and payment schedules will be stated in the applicable Service Agreement or checkout page. Unless otherwise stated:

  • Deposits and payments for work already performed are nonrefundable;

  • Invoices are due by the date shown on the invoice;

  • You are responsible for applicable taxes, platform fees, advertising spend, domain fees, software subscriptions, stock assets, printing, postage, and third-party costs not expressly included in our fee;

  • We may pause work or withhold unpublished deliverables while an undisputed invoice is overdue; and

  • Chargebacks or payment disputes do not cancel amounts legitimately owed under an agreement.

 

Any late fee, collection cost, cancellation fee, or refund rule applies only if disclosed in the applicable Service Agreement or permitted by law.

 

6. Cancellations and Refunds

Cancellation rights, notice requirements, and any cancellation fee will be stated in the applicable Service Agreement. If an engagement is canceled, you remain responsible for completed work, approved third-party expenses, non-cancelable commitments, and work performed through the effective cancellation date.

 

If Summers Management cancels a project without client breach, we will refund any prepaid fees attributable to services not yet performed. Refunds are not available for completed services, delivered digital work, consultation time already provided, or third-party costs already incurred, except as required by law or expressly stated in writing.

 

7. Revisions and Acceptance

Included revisions, review periods, and acceptance procedures will be described in the Service Agreement. Revision requests must remain within the agreed scope. A change in direction after approval may be treated as additional work.

If you publish, launch, distribute, use, or approve a deliverable, it may be treated as accepted, subject to any written warranty or correction period in the Service Agreement. Summers Management remains responsible for correcting its own errors when required by the applicable agreement, but is not responsible for client-supplied errors or changes made by the client or a third party.

 

8. Intellectual Property

Client Materials

You retain ownership of materials you provide. You grant Summers Management a limited license to use, reproduce, modify, and display those materials as reasonably necessary to perform the services.

 

Final Deliverables

Unless a Service Agreement states otherwise, after full payment you will own the final, client-specific deliverables expressly identified as transferable. Drafts, rejected concepts, unused designs, working files, internal notes, and preliminary materials are not transferred unless specifically included in writing.

 

Summers Management Materials

Summers Management retains ownership of its pre-existing materials, processes, templates, know-how, reusable code, frameworks, systems, methods, and tools, including improvements made during a project. If any are embedded in a final deliverable, you receive a nonexclusive, perpetual license to use them as part of that deliverable for your business.

 

Third-Party Materials

Fonts, plugins, themes, stock media, software, platform features, and other third-party materials remain subject to their own licenses and terms. You are responsible for ongoing license or subscription fees disclosed to you.

 

Portfolio Use

Unless prohibited by a Service Agreement or requested by you in writing before public display, Summers Management may identify you as a client and display nonconfidential, publicly released work in its portfolio, website, social media, proposals, and promotional materials. We will not disclose confidential business information through portfolio use.

 

9. Confidentiality

Each party agrees to use reasonable care to protect nonpublic information received from the other party and to use it only for the engagement. Confidential information does not include information that is publicly available through no breach, already lawfully known, independently developed, or rightfully

received from another source.

 

We may disclose information to employees, contractors, and service providers who need it to perform the services and are subject to appropriate confidentiality obligations. Disclosure may also occur when required by law, legal process, or a valid government request.

Do not send passwords, payment-card information, health information, Social Security numbers, or other highly sensitive information through ordinary email or website forms. Use secure access-sharing methods when available.

 

10. Accounts, Platforms, and Third-Party Services

Our work may involve third-party services such as Wix, Shopify, Google, domain registrars, social networks, advertising platforms, analytics providers, email tools, plugins, and automation services. Those services are governed by their own terms, policies, pricing, availability, and technical limitations.

You are responsible for reviewing and accepting third-party terms, maintaining your accounts, paying ongoing fees, and keeping account ownership and recovery information current. Whenever practical, client business accounts should be created in or transferred to the client’s name.

Summers Management does not control and is not responsible for third-party outages, policy changes, suspensions, algorithm changes, data loss, cybersecurity incidents, rejected advertisements, removed listings, search-ranking changes, integration failures, or discontinued features. We may recommend alternatives or assist with remediation under a separate scope of work.

 

11. Marketing, SEO, and Business Results

Marketing, search rankings, website traffic, leads, sales, revenue, conversions, audience growth, platform approval, and other business outcomes depend on factors outside our control. We do not guarantee a particular ranking, result, number of leads, level of revenue, return on investment, or timeframe for results.

Forecasts, estimates, examples, recommendations, and past results are informational and are not promises of future performance. You retain responsibility for business decisions, advertising claims, product and service quality, pricing, customer service, legal compliance, and the use of our recommendations.

 

12. Automation and Artificial Intelligence

When authorized by the project scope, Summers Management may use automation or artificial-intelligence-assisted tools to improve research, drafting, organization, design exploration, coding, analysis, or workflow efficiency. We will exercise reasonable professional judgment in reviewing client-facing work, but such tools may produce errors or require human verification.

You agree not to rely on automated output as legal, medical, financial, tax, or other regulated professional advice. Client confidential information will not knowingly be submitted to a tool in a manner inconsistent with our Privacy Policy or an applicable Service Agreement.

 

13. Website Use and Prohibited Conduct

You may use the Website only for lawful purposes. You may not:

  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, accounts, systems, or data;

  • Introduce malware, harmful code, automated scraping, excessive traffic, or security attacks;

  • Copy, republish, sell, or exploit Website content except as permitted by law or written authorization;

  • Misrepresent your identity or authority;

  • Use the Website or our services to violate another person’s rights or any applicable law; or

  • Interfere with the Website’s operation or another person’s use of it.

 

We may restrict or block access when reasonably necessary to protect the Website, our business, our clients, or others.

 

14. Website Content and Links

Website content is provided for general informational purposes and may be updated without notice. It is not legal, tax, accounting, financial, or other regulated professional advice. Links to third-party websites are provided for convenience and do not imply endorsement or control.

 

15. Privacy

Our collection and use of personal information are described in our Privacy Policy. By using the Website or services, you acknowledge that policy. If an engagement requires Summers Management to process personal information on your behalf, the parties may enter into additional data-processing terms when appropriate.

 

16. Honest Reviews and Feedback

You may provide honest reviews, ratings, and feedback about your experience. Nothing in these Terms prohibits or penalizes a lawful, honest review. This section does not permit disclosure of trade secrets, confidential information, unlawful content, threats, harassment, or knowingly false statements.

 

17. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Website and services are provided “as is” and “as available.” Summers Management disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and noninfringement. We do not warrant that the Website or any third-party platform will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or compatible with every device, browser, system, or future platform update.

Nothing in these Terms excludes any warranty or right that cannot legally be excluded. Any express warranty in a Service Agreement will control for that engagement.

 

18. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Summers Management and its owners, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, business opportunities, goodwill, anticipated savings, or data, arising from the Website or services.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the total aggregate liability of Summers Management arising from a particular engagement will not exceed the fees actually paid to Summers Management for the services giving rise to the claim during the six months preceding the event that created the claim.

These limitations do not apply where liability cannot legally be limited, or to liability resulting from fraud, willful misconduct, or other conduct for which limitation is prohibited by law.

 

19. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Summers Management and its owners, employees, contractors, and agents from third-party claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from:

  • Materials, instructions, claims, products, services, or data you provide or approve;

  • Your violation of law, third-party rights, these Terms, or a Service Agreement;

  • Your misuse or unauthorized modification of a deliverable; or

  • Your business operations, products, services, advertising claims, or customer relationships.

 

This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim was caused by Summers Management’s fraud, willful misconduct, or material breach of the applicable agreement.

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20. Termination

Either party may terminate an engagement as permitted by the applicable Service Agreement. Summers Management may suspend or terminate services after notice if you materially breach an agreement, fail to pay undisputed amounts when due, request unlawful or unethical work, abuse or threaten personnel, or create a material security or legal risk.

Upon termination, accrued payment obligations and provisions that by their nature should survive—including ownership, licenses, confidentiality, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, and dispute provisions—will remain effective.

 

21. Force Majeure

Neither party will be liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including severe weather, natural disaster, fire, epidemic, war, terrorism, labor disruption, utility or internet failure, cyberattack, government action, or failure of a critical third-party platform. The affected party will make reasonable efforts to notify the other and resume performance.

 

22. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Before filing a lawsuit, the parties agree to make a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute through written notice and direct discussion for at least 30 days, unless immediate relief is reasonably necessary.

Any legal action that is not resolved informally must be brought in a state or federal court of competent jurisdiction located in Connecticut, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction there. Nothing in this section prevents either party from bringing an eligible claim in small claims court or seeking urgent injunctive relief.

 

23. Electronic Communications

You consent to receive agreements, invoices, notices, approvals, and other communications electronically at the contact information you provide. Electronic records and signatures may be used to form and document agreements, subject to applicable law.

 

24. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms periodically. The revised version will be posted on the Website with a new effective date. Changes apply prospectively and do not retroactively alter a signed Service Agreement unless both parties agree in writing. Continued use of the Website after updated Terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Website terms.

 

25. General Provisions

These Terms and any applicable Service Agreement constitute the entire agreement concerning their subject matter and replace prior discussions or understandings on that subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be limited or removed only to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will continue in effect.

Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign an engagement without our written consent, except in connection with a lawful merger or sale of substantially all relevant business assets. Summers Management may use qualified employees, contractors, and service providers to perform work while remaining responsible for its contractual obligations.

Headings are for convenience only. The words “including” and “include” mean “including without limitation.”

 

26. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms may be directed to:

Summers Management LLC
Website: summersmanagement.net
Email: nick@summersmanagement.net
Phone: (860) 337-1033

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