These Terms of Service govern the relationship between any visitor, enquirer or client and Exordium LLC, the computer integrated systems design office led by the developer Exordiumy. When you read this site, send us an enquiry or engage the office for design work, these terms describe the ground both of us agree to stand on.
The registered office stands at 1941 W 13400 S, Riverton - 84065-6213, United States (US). The company is reached at agent@exordium.hair and at +12676548808.
By opening this website you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service to the extent they govern your reading of the pages. If you then send Exordium LLC an enquiry, your use of the contact surfaces confirms your agreement that these terms, together with the privacy policy of the office, form the ground of your approach.
By instructing Exordium LLC to carry out computer integrated systems design work, whether through a formal scope of services or through a signed engagement, you accept these terms as the setting within which the written scope of that engagement runs. Where a signed agreement between the client and the company states something different for a particular matter, the signed agreement governs that matter.
These terms are written to be read by a human on the bridge, not only by a machine scanning for a trap. We say plainly what we owe you, what you owe us and where the two obligations meet in good order.
Exordium LLC is a company organised and operating within the United States, providing computer integrated systems design services. The office is led by the developer Exordiumy, who carries the design standard for enterprise systems integration, custom software architecture, cloud infrastructure design, legacy system modernisation, data pipeline engineering and IT service management platforms.
The company keeps its seat at 1941 W 13400 S, Riverton - 84065-6213, United States (US). Correspondence may be sent to agent@exordium.hair or by telephone to +12676548808. In these terms the words Exordium, the office, the company and we all name Exordium LLC.
The word client names any person or business that instructs the office to carry out work, and the words you and your may name a client, an enquirer or a reader according to the part of these terms that attends to that role.
The website of Exordium LLC is offered to give operators a truthful account of the design services the office carries out and a clean channel through which to raise an enquiry. You may read the public pages, share the content of your own accord and otherwise use the site for a lawful purpose that does not interfere with its working.
You agree not to use the site in a way that harms it, that attempts to break into systems that do not belong to you, that files a torrent of automated traffic, that scrapes the content for resale or that pretends to be someone you are not while dealing with the office. We reserve the right to keep such trouble off the deck and to deny its author the use of our surfaces.
The design motifs of the site, the waterline drawings and the written passages are the property of Exordium LLC and are shown to describe the office rather than to be lifted for a competitor hull. You may quote a short passage for the purpose of honest review if you name the source; you may not reproduce the whole design language as your own.
All design work carried out by Exordium LLC begins from a written scope of services. That document sets out the services the office will perform, the systems they touch, the boundaries of an engagement and the things that sit outside it. These Terms of Service do not try to describe every technical detail of a job; the scope of services does, and the two are read together.
The office will provide services within the six named hulls of its catalogue: enterprise systems integration, custom software architecture, cloud infrastructure design, legacy system modernisation, data pipeline engineering and IT service management platforms, each shaped to the written need of the client.
If a client asks for work that lies outside an agreed scope, that new work is treated as a separate order. The office will quote it honestly and carry it only when both decks have agreed the addition, so no silent enlargement of the original job escapes a defined price.
A proposal or estimate that Exordium LLC issues stands as an invitation for you to instruct the work on the terms it names. It is not a contract until the client accepts it in writing and the office confirms that acceptance. A figure given over the phone is an early sounding and may be refined once the true size of the berth is known.
Estimates are given in good faith on the information a client supplies at the time they are written. If the client later reveals that the estate is larger, that systems are missing or that access is harder than the first survey suggested, the office may revise the figure and will tell the client before it does.
Nothing in a proposal guarantees a cost that has not yet been borne by a real task on the client water. Price is a forecast, not a promise about the weather, and the office keeps the client alive to any swing that would change the agreed number by a material margin.
Fees for the design services of Exordium LLC are agreed in writing before work begins and are quoted in United States dollars unless the client and the office agree otherwise. The fee structure may be a fixed price for a bounded scope, a time and materials rate for a running engagement, or a blend of the two, and the structure is always named in the scope of services.
A fixed price is payable for the whole of the agreed scope at the price agreed, whether the office finds the work easier or harder than it had forecast, provided the scope does not change. A time and materials fee is charged at the agreed rate for the hours truly spent and the materials truly consumed, recorded legibly so the client can read the rise and fall of the bill.
Expenses such as travel to a client site, software licences bought for a specific job and approved third-party fees are charged at cost where they are agreed in advance and shown on the invoice. The office will not slip a surprise cost aboard without first telling the client.
Invoices from Exordium LLC are raised on the schedule the written scope names, commonly upon signed acceptance, upon agreed milestones and upon final delivery. Each invoice sets out the sums, the currency and the range of time it covers so the client can reconcile it against the work delivered.
Payment is due within the days the scope of services names for the invoice net, which is thirty days in the ordinary run unless an agreement states otherwise. Payment is made to the bank details or other lawful channel that the office supplies on the invoice. A late payment may carry a small interest charge at the rate law allows from the day payment became due, and the client agrees to meet any fair collection cost it provokes.
An account that falls seriously behind its agreed course may pause the running of further work until it is set straight, because no convoy proceeds usefully on a dry coal bunker. This section does not waive the right of the office to payment for work already delivered and accepted.
A design voyage is a shared watch, and a client carries its own honest share of the duty. The client agrees to give the office accurate and timely information about its systems, to provide reasonable access to the people and platforms the survey must reach, and to answer the questions a design needs so the office is not left steering on a guess.
Where the client controls the systems the office is to integrate, the client agrees to provide the access rights and environment that make the work possible, and to keep that access working while the engagement runs. Delays a client causes may extend the calendar of a job without making an extra cost to the client, because a crew cannot break ice that is still on the other side of a locked gate.
The client names a single point of contact on its own deck who can make decisions in reasonable time on scope, approvals and payment. Clear pipes between the two offices keep the whole watch calm and are worth far more than a fine clause.
The treatment of ownership is agreed to be fair to both decks, and it is written plainly. New work that Exordium LLC specifically designs and builds for a client under a paid engagement is owned by the client upon full payment of the agreed fees, subject to any third-party licences the work necessarily carries. That means the client may use, change and keep the finished work as its own.
The office keeps the reusable craft it already held when the job began: the underlying design methods, the library of standards, the drawn patterns and the tooling the company had before the engagement. Those pre-existing materials remain the property of Exordium LLC and are licensed to the client only to the extent needed to run the delivered work.
Nothing in a normal building job assigns to the client the trademarks, the wordmark EXORDIUM or the visual character of the office itself. Any special deal on ownership is written into the scope of services and signed by both decks before it is relied upon.
Much of what crosses between a client and Exordium LLC is not for the open deck. Both sides agree to treat as confidential any non-public information that the other marks as confidential or that any reasonable crew would understand to be private — such as client data structures, business grounds, costing and the working of the office.
Confidential information is used only for the purpose of the engagement and is shown only to the people who need it to carry that purpose. Each side protects the other information with at least the same care it guards its own, and neither side hands the other secrets to a stranger without the consent of the owner.
These duties do not bind against information that was already public, that is disclosed under a lawful order after reasonable notice where permitted, or that the receiving side already held in good standing before it was shared. The duty of confidence outlives the engagement and holds for as long as the information stays private.
When a piece of work reaches a milestone or its close, Exordium LLC hands it to the client for review. The client is expected to test it against the written requirements and to say clearly and in time whether it is accepted or what must change for it to be accepted.
Acceptance happens when the client confirms in writing that a deliverable meets the agreed requirements, or when the client makes use of the deliverable in its own live operation in a way that shows it is satisfied. Where the client finds a defect that is genuinely within the written scope and is not a change of mind, the office will repair it on the course of the engagement without an added fee.
Handover includes the files, the working keys the client is entitled to, and a written account of how to run the thing handed over. The office does not quietly keep the steering of a client system that belongs to the client, and it explains what continues to need its help under a separate care arrangement.
Exordium LLC warrants that it will perform the services with the ordinary skill and care of a competent computer integrated systems designer, that the work will be carried out by people who can stand behind it, and that the work will conform in all material ways to the written scope of services through the grace of its own fair skill.
The office warrants that the custom work it builds and delivers is its own or is lawfully licensed, so that handing it to the client does not knowingly drag the client into a dispute over borrowed design. In the unexpected event that a third party does raise a claim of that kind against the client over the office own work, the office will answer as described in the indemnity section of these terms.
These warranties live for the working life of the deliverable under honest use, but they are not a promise that a system is forever free of fault. Software is built by hands and faces weather; the office promises care, not a wall that can never crack. Any repair promise, once the grace period named in the scope of services has passed, is set out in that scope.
Other than the warranties the office makes in these terms and in a signed scope of services, Exordium LLC provides its website and its work as is, to the fullest extent the law of the United States allows. The office does not warrant that a delivered system will never fail, that third-party platforms it is asked to integrate will hold their own covenants, or that a design built to one client need will also serve a wholly different need that was never written on the chart.
The public pages of the site are a description of the office and not a technical guarantee of a particular outcome for an unnamed job. Reading the site does not create an obligation for the office to achieve a result that no engagement has yet defined, and a general statement of craft is not a promise about your particular water.
Where a state of the United States does not allow a disclaimer to be pushed this far, the disclaimer is read only as far as that state still permits, and the rest of these terms continue to stand untroubled. This honest limit protects both decks from a promise neither could honestly keep.
Exordium LLC accepts that a failure of its work can cost a client more than the fee for the job. Even so, and to the limit the United States law allows, the liability of the company arising out of or relating to an engagement is capped at the total fees the client paid the office for the particular engagement that gave rise to the claim, unless a signed scope of services states a different and higher ceiling for a particular matter.
To the fullest extent the law allows, neither the office nor the client will be liable to the other for loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of business or business opportunity, loss of data that the other failed to guard, or any indirect or consequential loss, however it was caused, in each case arising out of or relating to these terms or an engagement.
The company does not exclude or limit liability where the law of the United States does not permit it to — such as liability for death or bodily harm caused by its own negligence, or liability for fraud it cannot honestly disclaim. Where a limitation cannot apply, it will not apply, and the rest of this section still stands where it may.
The client agrees to answer for, defend at its own cost and hold harmless Exordium LLC against any claim that arises because the client supplied the office materials, data or directions that a third party then contests, where the contest flows from the client own contribution and not from any wrongful act of the office.
Exordium LLC agrees that where a third party claims that custom work the office delivered under a signed engagement breaches that party right in design, the office will, at its own election, either defend the client against the claim or procure the right so the client can keep using the work, or replace the offending part with a clean equivalent. The office will not be bound to do so where the breach flowed from the client instruction, a third-party component on the client side, or unauthorised change the client made after delivery.
Each side that owes a defence duty will keep the other promptly informed of the claim, will not settle the claim in a way that burdens the other side fairness without consent, and will allow the other side to take part in the defence at its own cost where that is lawful and sensible.
In the course of a design engagement, Exordium LLC may lawfully receive personal or business information from the client. The office handles that information in accordance with the privacy policy of the company and with the scope of services of the engagement, and it treats any client data it is given as confidential material in the manner that section on confidentiality describes.
Where the client holds personal data of its own customers and passes it to the office for a design purpose, the client agrees that it stands in a lawful position to share that data for that purpose, and it keeps its own notices to those people in good order so the sharing is a clean pass rather than a quiet lift.
The office will not use client data for a stranger ambition, will not sell it and will not keep it longer than the reason for which it was received. When an engagement ends, client data is returned or destroyed at the client instruction, with a note kept to prove the close. Details of how the office handles cookies and website logs are set out in its privacy policy.
Nearly every design estate leans on third-party platforms, and the office builds for them with respect for the fact that those platforms answer to their own masters. Where the office integrates a client estate with a third-party service, the client may be bound by that service own terms, and the client agrees to read and honour them.
Exordium LLC will draw the client attention to any third-party term that matters to the work, such as a platform rule that changes pricing, that ties data to a particular region or that limits how its connection may be used. The office will not hide a relevant third-party rule under the ice; it will put it where the client bends over the chart with it.
Where a third party changes its interface, its terms or its survival, the office will carry a client redesign to fit where the change falls within the work already agreed, and will quote separately for a response that reaches beyond that agreed work. The office does not answer for the conduct or the disappearance of a third party that governs a service it does not operate.
The office may pause work on a ground that is real and stated rather than quiet and unspoken. If a client fails to pay on the agreed course, fails to supply what the scope requires, or acts in a way that puts the office in clear breach of law, Exordium LLC may suspend the running of work, telling the client of the ground and the steps that would lift the suspension.
During a suspension, the milestones and the calendar extend fairly to the length of the delay a client cause or the length needed to clear a lawful obstacle. No suspension wastes the work already done, and no suspension lets a paid deliverable rot for lack of care while it waits for the pipe to reopen.
Where suspension continues beyond a fair run without the ground being cured, either deck may treat the engagement as ended under the section on ending an agreement, and the close-up for work already delivered and accepted is still respected on both sides.
An engagement may be ended by either side on proper written notice where the other side has committed a material breach that is not cured within the days the notice names, or where an insolvency or a similar collapse means the other side can no longer fairly stand behind its part of the voyage. The side ending the agreement will say the ground plainly rather than fade from the watch.
When an engagement ends, each side pays for what it fairly owes. The client pays for the work delivered and accepted up to the run of the close, and for expenses properly committed on the client behalf. The office returns to the client the deliverables and the client information it holds, less any sums lawfully owing, and gives the client a clean handover of what can responsibly be handed.
An end to work is not a blank pardon for what has already gone by. The clauses of these terms that are meant to travel — ownership of finished work once paid, confidentiality, the limits of liability, indemnity and the choice of law — all ride out the end of the voyage and keep holding the two decks to the standard they signed.
These Terms of Service and every engagement they host are governed by the federal law of the United States and by the law of the State of Utah, where the office keeps its seat, without regard to any rule that would drag in the law of another place by the simple accident of where someone first clicked a page.
The office is a United States company serving United States operators, and a dispute that needs a court at all is best settled in a court that both decks already sail past, rather than in a jurisdiction a room shy of the facts. The federal and state courts sitting in the district that holds the office address will hear any such dispute, and both sides agree to their proper venue and to personal standing there.
Nothing in this section stops a fair effort to settle a dispute out of court first, through the first harbour described below. But if that harbour fails, the governing law named here is the law that answers the question, so no visitor is left guessing which flag governs the water.
A good dispute is one that never reaches a court. Before either deck takes a disagreement to litigation, both agree to make a genuine attempt to settle it through the first harbour: a written account from the side that is aggrieved, sent to the other side and answered within a fair window, with both sides speaking to each other rather than at each other.
The office finds it is worth a great deal to sit at a table and hear the whole client story before a letter is sharpened into a writ. Both sides agree to try that route first, and the ordinary time limits called statutes of limitation are paused or extended only as far as the law of Utah allows while the two decks are genuinely talking settlement.
If the first harbour cannot hold the matter, the dispute may proceed under the governing law and venue this document names. This section does not stop either side from seeking an emergency order, such as a hold meant to stop the disclosure of a confidence, where waiting for the harbour would let the harm sail clean away.
Ending an engagement is not the same as untwining every thread of the agreement. Several obligations are written to survive the close and to keep the two decks honest long after the last invoice has settled, and they hold because they protect what cannot be boxed and posted back.
The ownership of finished work, once it has been paid for, survives so the client keeps running its own vessel without the office standing behind a later door demanding it back. The duties of confidentiality survive so that nothing learned aboard is spent as currency on some other quay. The section that limits liability and the section that answers indemnity survive so that a claim that reaches back to the running of the work still has a fair floor to stand on.
The clause on governing law and on the settlement of disputes survives so that even the question of who should have said what, long after the work closed, answers to the same flag the agreement was signed under. No paragraph of these terms is meant to quietly expire just because the work has.
An office that grows its craft may from time to time need to set a new edition of its terms. Exordium LLC will bring any material change to these terms up on this very page, in plain view, and will mark the new date at the top of the document so no regular visitor is asked to trust a version that changed in the dark.
A material change will be dated and will apply to work first instructed after the new terms are posted, unless the client and the office expressly agree in writing that a change reaches back to a running engagement. An ordinary change of wording that keeps the same sense will apply to new reading of the site and to new enquiries from the day it is posted.
Continuing to use the site or to instruct new work after a new edition is posted counts as agreement to the newer terms for the use and the work that follow. If a reader prefers the older terms, they may simply not rely on the newer ground for any new matter, and the older understanding still governs whatever engagement it already signed.
Any notice, question or written step that these terms call for may be sent to Exordium LLC at the office address, by email to agent@exordium.hair or by telephone to +12676548808 during the office watch of Monday to Friday from 0800 to 1700 Mountain time.
A formal notice, such as the notice that ends an engagement or the written rejection of a proposed change, is best put in writing and sent by a channel that records its sending, so the day the notice was given and understood is a day neither deck can later pretend never came.
The office listens to the small voice of an enquiry as readily as it does the letter of a lawyer, and it answers both in the same plain language it has used through these pages. A good question asked early aboard is worth a whole file of fine print argued later at the quay, and Exordium LLC would rather take that question than take a dispute.