Terms and Conditions.

Last Updated: 06-18-2025
Effective Date: 01-01-2025

Introduction

Welcome to ELLOS Marketing, Inc. and thank you for being our Client. By purchasing or using our website services (“Services”), you (“Client”) agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”). These Terms outline the conditions under which ELLOS Marketing, Inc. (“ELLOS Marketing”) provides website services and the respective responsibilities and obligations of ELLOS Marketing and the Client.

Please read these Terms carefully. By accessing or using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to abide by them. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you should refrain from using the Services. For information regarding cancellation, see Termination of Services below.

Services Provided

The following services are included for a single website hosted on a single domain, unless otherwise agreed in writing.

Hosting

  • Website hosting on one of ELLOS Marketing’s dedicated servers.
  • Regular website backups for restoration and disaster-recovery purposes while Services remain active.
  • Monthly updates for website themes and plugins to support compatibility and performance.
  • Server-side caching and code minification for improved user experience and performance.
  • Domain-management assistance.
  • SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate to protect website data.
  • Regular malware scans to detect and remove suspicious files.
  • ReCAPTCHA anti-spam protection for forms.
  • Measures intended to reduce spam, hacking, and unauthorized access.
  • Secure administrative login URLs.

Backups maintained by ELLOS Marketing are operational backups for ELLOS Marketing’s use in providing the Services and do not constitute a transferable website copy, migration package, or deliverable unless otherwise agreed in writing.

Licenses

ELLOS Marketing may use developer licenses for select tools, plugins, frameworks, software, and services used to create, maintain, or operate the website framework, including tools such as Elementor Pro and Gravity Forms. Such licenses are provided only as part of the active Services and do not transfer to the Client.

Cookies and Privacy Policy

Installation and configuration of a cookie-policy widget and privacy-policy page using standard language or customized content supplied by the Client.

Analytics

Google Analytics integration for tracking website visitors and activity, when applicable.

Service Restrictions

Website storage is limited to 4GB. Clients requiring additional storage may incur additional charges. Monthly unique visitors are limited to 5,000 unless otherwise agreed. Websites exceeding these limits may require additional traffic, storage, or server resources at an additional cost.

Third-Party Services

ELLOS Marketing does not control third-party companies or the performance, availability, security, licensing, or continued operation of third-party plugins, software, tools, APIs, frameworks, hosting components, or extensions.

ELLOS Marketing is not responsible for issues caused by third-party services. ELLOS Marketing may update, replace, discontinue, or substitute third-party tools when reasonably necessary to maintain website functionality, security, compatibility, or performance.

Support

For website support, general inquiries, or service estimates, please visit:

https://ellos.marketing/support/

and complete the support form. This ensures the request is added to ELLOS Marketing’s ticketing system and prioritized in the support queue.

Email inquiries are not automatically added to the ticketing system and may not receive the same response priority as requests submitted through the support form.

Payment Terms

Schedule

  • Invoice Date: Invoices are sent electronically on the 5th of each month.
  • Payment Due Date: Payments are due by the 10th of each month.

Pay Online

Invoices include a secure payment link for credit-card or ACH payment through Stripe. Clients may save a payment method for automatic payment.

Pay by Check

Monthly payments by check are not accepted. Clients wishing to pay by check must pay an annual invoice for the full year of Services in advance.

Late Fees

  • Payments more than 30 days late will incur a $50 late fee and may result in suspension of Services, including temporary removal of the website until the account is brought current.
  • Payments more than 60 days late will incur a $100 late fee.
  • Payments more than 90 days late may be referred to collections, with permitted collection costs billed to the Client.

Additional Costs

Services outside the scope of the Client’s website plan are billed separately.

Website Development: $150/hour or $1,000 for a 10-hour block, unless otherwise agreed in writing.

Renewal

This monthly plan automatically renews each month unless cancelled in accordance with the Termination of Services section.

Termination of Services

How to Cancel

To cancel Services, visit:

https://ellos.marketing/cancel-services/

and complete the cancellation form.

30-Day Notice

A minimum of 30 days’ written notice is required to process a cancellation. The Client remains responsible for all payments due during the notice period.

Effect of Termination

At the end of the applicable notice period:

  • ELLOS Marketing’s obligation to host, maintain, update, support, secure, or operate the website ends.
  • ELLOS Marketing may disable and remove the website from its servers after the Services terminate.
  • Any license granted to the Client to use ELLOS Website Technology terminates unless a separate written license, purchase, or transfer agreement expressly provides otherwise.
  • The Client may retain and continue to use Client Content and other materials expressly identified as transferable under these Terms.
  • The Client may not continue operating, migrate, copy, export, reproduce, modify, adapt, sublicense, distribute, or provide ELLOS Website Technology to another hosting provider, developer, agency, contractor, or service provider without ELLOS Marketing’s prior written authorization.
  • If the Client wishes to continue using substantially the same website or any ELLOS Website Technology after termination, ELLOS Marketing may, at its sole discretion, offer a separate license, sale, or transfer agreement.

Termination of Services does not itself constitute a sale, assignment, transfer, delivery, or license of the website’s technical implementation.

Ownership of Client Content

The Client retains ownership of all text, photographs, graphics, logos, trademarks, documents, videos, and other materials supplied by the Client to ELLOS Marketing.

The Client represents and warrants that it owns or has permission to use all materials it provides and assumes responsibility for claims or disputes arising from those materials.

Upon termination, ELLOS Marketing will, upon request, provide copies of Client-owned content reasonably available to ELLOS Marketing in a standard, non-proprietary format.

At ELLOS Marketing’s discretion, final client-facing copy, graphics, images, documents, or other marketing content created specifically for the Client may also be provided in a non-proprietary format for the Client’s future use, provided such materials do not contain ELLOS Website Technology or third-party licensed materials that cannot legally be transferred.

Client Content does not include website layouts, page-builder templates or data, themes, source code, custom code, database architecture, plugin configurations, integrations, development files, proprietary tools, frameworks, technical workflows, or other technical elements used to construct or operate the website.

Client-specific branding, content, photographs, business information, property information, financial information, and Client Data incorporated into ELLOS Website Technology remain Client Content or Client Data as applicable. Their incorporation into ELLOS Website Technology does not grant the Client ownership of the underlying software, architecture, frameworks, code, tools, templates, systems, calculations, workflows, or functionality used to store, process, organize, calculate, map, generate, display, or otherwise use such content or data.

Ownership of Website Design, Development and Technology

Except for Client Content and other materials expressly identified as transferable, ELLOS Marketing retains all right, title, and interest in the website design and technical implementation created, configured, adapted, or maintained by ELLOS Marketing, including without limitation:

  • Website architecture and structure
  • Page layouts and design systems
  • Templates and themes
  • Page-builder structures, templates, and data
  • Custom PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and other code
  • Custom functionality
  • Calculators and calculation engines
  • Interactive maps and plat-map systems
  • Community mapping systems
  • Property-data frameworks and custom plugins
  • Automated flyer-generation systems
  • Automated pro forma-generation systems
  • Document-generation systems
  • Authentication and gated-content systems
  • Forms, tools, workflows, and processing systems
  • Database structures, schemas, relationships, and configurations
  • Integrations and API implementations
  • Plugin configurations
  • Reusable frontend and backend components
  • Reusable components, libraries, APIs, and data models
  • Development files
  • Technical processes and deployment methods
  • Proprietary systems, methods, frameworks, and platforms
  • Updates, replacements, improvements, enhancements, and successor versions of the foregoing

Collectively, these materials are referred to as “ELLOS Website Technology.”

ELLOS Website Technology may be developed initially in connection with a particular Client project or may currently be deployed only for that Client. Technology does not become Client-owned or cease to be proprietary to ELLOS Marketing merely because the Client is the first or only current implementation, because the technology was developed in connection with the Client’s website, or because the Client paid for development services.

ELLOS Website Technology includes technology designed, structured, or capable of being reused, adapted, configured, licensed, or deployed in other websites, applications, projects, clients, or industries, whether or not ELLOS Marketing has previously deployed the technology elsewhere.

Payment for website development, customization, hosting, maintenance, support, or other Services does not constitute a sale, assignment, or transfer of ELLOS Website Technology unless ELLOS Marketing expressly agrees to such transfer in a separate written agreement.

Limited Website License

While the Client maintains an active website-services agreement with ELLOS Marketing and remains in good standing with no outstanding invoices, ELLOS Marketing grants the Client a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license to use ELLOS Website Technology solely as part of the website hosted, maintained, and operated through ELLOS Marketing’s Services for the Client’s intended business purpose.

This limited license:

  • Does not transfer ownership of ELLOS Website Technology.
  • Does not permit the Client to copy, export, migrate, sublicense, sell, distribute, or provide ELLOS Website Technology to another developer, agency, hosting provider, contractor, or third party.
  • Does not include ELLOS Marketing’s proprietary frameworks, reusable code, tools, developer accounts, agency licenses, subscriptions, credentials, internal systems, or other internal resources.
  • Does not permit another developer, agency, contractor, or service provider to maintain, modify, extend, enhance, adapt, update, or create derivative works from ELLOS Website Technology.
  • Automatically terminates when the applicable website Services terminate, unless a separate written agreement expressly states otherwise.

Permitted Use vs. Modification

Where the Client is authorized to use ELLOS Website Technology, the Client may use the functionality made available through the website for its intended business purpose and may use existing Client-facing or administrative interfaces made available by ELLOS Marketing to add, edit, remove, or manage Client Content and Client Data.

Authorization to use ELLOS Website Technology does not authorize the Client or any third party to modify, maintain, extend, enhance, adapt, update, reverse-engineer, decompile, create derivative works from, or add functionality to the underlying technology.

For example, a Client may use an existing interface provided by ELLOS Marketing to add a property, community, image, document, or other Client Content where that functionality is available. The Client may not authorize another developer, agency, contractor, or service provider to modify the underlying plugin, framework, mapping system, calculator, document generator, database architecture, integration, or other ELLOS Website Technology to add or alter capabilities without ELLOS Marketing’s prior written authorization.

Website Access and Third-Party Developers

Clients are not entitled to full administrator, server, file-system, database, source-code, migration, deployment, hosting-control-panel, repository, or developer-level access to the website or ELLOS Website Technology unless ELLOS Marketing expressly agrees otherwise in writing.

ELLOS Marketing determines the type and level of website access provided to the Client based on the Services being provided. Any access credentials or permissions provided to the Client are limited to their intended purpose and do not grant ownership, transfer rights, source-code rights, migration rights, or development rights in ELLOS Website Technology.

The Client may not provide credentials, access, files, exports, screenshots of non-public technical systems, source materials, database access, administrative access, or other technical access to another developer, agency, contractor, hosting provider, or third party for the purpose of copying, exporting, extracting, migrating, reverse-engineering, reproducing, modifying, maintaining, extending, or creating derivative works from ELLOS Website Technology without ELLOS Marketing’s prior written authorization.

Nothing in this section prevents the Client from engaging another provider to create a new website independently using the Client’s own content and data, provided the new provider does not copy, extract, use, reproduce, derive its work from, or otherwise access ELLOS Website Technology in violation of these Terms.

Reservation of Rights

All rights not expressly granted to the Client under these Terms are reserved by ELLOS Marketing.

No license, ownership right, transfer right, development right, migration right, source-code right, or other right in ELLOS Website Technology arises by implication, estoppel, payment, commissioning of development work, funding of development work, access to the website, possession of website credentials, use of an administrative interface, or the Client’s use of ELLOS Website Technology.

Content Handover After Termination

Upon request following termination, ELLOS Marketing will provide reasonably available Client Content in a standard, non-proprietary format suitable for use by the Client in future marketing or in a separately developed website.

A content handover is not a website migration and does not include:

  • A WordPress installation
  • A website backup or clone
  • A migration package
  • A database dump
  • Theme files
  • Page-builder templates or data
  • Source code or custom code
  • Plugin files or configurations
  • Integration code
  • Framework or platform files
  • Development files
  • Server configurations
  • Repository access
  • ELLOS-owned credentials, API keys, subscriptions, or license keys
  • Any other ELLOS Website Technology

If reasonably available, Client-owned lead or form-submission data may be provided separately in a commonly used data format such as CSV. Providing Client data does not require ELLOS Marketing to provide the website database, database architecture, source files, or system configuration containing that data.

Authorized Transfers or Continuing Licenses

If ELLOS Marketing separately authorizes the Client to receive, host, operate, or continue using any portion of ELLOS Website Technology after termination, such authorization grants only the rights expressly stated in the applicable written agreement.

Unless the applicable written agreement expressly provides otherwise, any post-termination authorization is limited to operating the specifically authorized technology in its existing form for the Client’s own internal business purposes.

Such authorization does not include the right to modify, maintain, extend, enhance, adapt, update, reverse-engineer, create derivative works from, sublicense, redistribute, sell, reuse, commercialize, or authorize third-party development of ELLOS Website Technology.

ELLOS Marketing may exclude or remove proprietary frameworks, reusable tools, custom plugins, source code, libraries, APIs, developer tools, licenses, credentials, integrations, and other ELLOS Website Technology from any authorized website handover unless the written transfer agreement expressly identifies those items as included.

Third-Party Technology and Licenses

Third-party software, plugins, frameworks, APIs, libraries, fonts, subscriptions, developer licenses, and other services used by ELLOS Marketing remain subject to their respective owners’ terms and licenses.

No ELLOS-owned or agency-level license, subscription, account, credential, API key, access right, or developer entitlement transfers to the Client upon termination.

The Client may independently obtain licenses to commercially available third-party products for use in a separately developed website. Obtaining such third-party licenses does not grant the Client rights in ELLOS Website Technology and does not authorize migration or continued operation of the ELLOS-developed website.

ELLOS Marketing may remove, deactivate, disconnect, or revoke access to ELLOS-owned licenses, credentials, subscriptions, tools, and third-party services when Services terminate.

Prohibited Use and Modifications

Except as expressly authorized in writing by ELLOS Marketing, the Client may not:

  • Copy, export, migrate, reproduce, modify, maintain, extend, enhance, adapt, update, reverse-engineer, decompile, or redistribute ELLOS Website Technology.
  • Create or authorize the creation of derivative works based on ELLOS Website Technology.
  • Provide ELLOS Website Technology, development files, code, credentials, or technical access to another developer, agency, hosting provider, contractor, or third party.
  • Sublicense, sell, assign, distribute, commercially exploit, or make ELLOS Website Technology available to any third party.
  • Use a backup, export, database, source file, template, plugin, framework, repository, or other technical asset to operate substantially the same ELLOS-developed website outside the active Services.
  • Permit another developer, agency, contractor, or service provider to maintain or continue development of ELLOS Website Technology without ELLOS Marketing’s prior written authorization.
  • Remove, bypass, disable, or circumvent technical or licensing controls intended to protect ELLOS Website Technology or third-party licensed materials.

Unauthorized use may constitute a material breach of these Terms and may subject the Client to available contractual and legal remedies.

Portfolio Usage

The Client grants ELLOS Marketing the right to showcase marketing, artwork, screenshots, website designs, and other work created for the Client in ELLOS Marketing’s public and private portfolios.

ELLOS Marketing may use screenshots, descriptions, or case studies of the work for marketing purposes unless the Client provides a written request to exclude specific materials.

Attribution and Footer Link

While ELLOS Website Technology is used under an active Services agreement, the Client agrees to keep the attribution:

Website Marketing by ELLOS Marketing, Inc.

with a link to:

https://ellos.marketing

in the website footer unless ELLOS Marketing provides written approval for its removal or alteration.

The Client may remove the attribution after replacing the ELLOS-developed website with a separately developed website that does not use ELLOS Website Technology.

Any agreed fee for removal of attribution while ELLOS Website Technology remains in use must be stated in writing.

Refunds

Due to the nature of digital services, ELLOS Marketing does not provide refunds or prorated adjustments for unused time unless otherwise required by law or agreed in writing.

Changes to Terms, Services and Pricing

ELLOS Marketing may update these Terms, Services, or pricing from time to time.

Material changes affecting the Client’s rights or obligations will be provided to the Client at least 30 days before the stated effective date unless a shorter period is required by law or affirmatively agreed to by the Client.

ELLOS Marketing may require affirmative acceptance of materially revised Terms. Where affirmative acceptance is requested, the revised Terms will become binding upon the Client’s acceptance or on the stated effective date following acceptance, as applicable.

Non-material administrative, technical, formatting, or clarifying changes may become effective upon publication or notice.

Continued use of the Services after the effective date of properly noticed updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Client Responsibilities

Active Domain

The Client must provide and maintain an active domain URL for use with the website.

Email Functionality

The Client must provide access to a working email address as reasonably necessary for website forms and other email-related functionality.

Account Updates

The Client will promptly notify ELLOS Marketing of changes to logins, domains, email accounts, social-media portals, or other accounts related to the website. ELLOS Marketing is not responsible for downtime or performance issues caused by outdated or incorrect account information supplied by the Client.

Account Security

The Client agrees to keep login credentials secure and confidential. ELLOS Marketing is not responsible for unauthorized access resulting from the Client’s failure to maintain secure credentials or access practices.

Website Content Responsibility

The Client is responsible for the accuracy, legality, and regulatory compliance of content published on its website, including content supplied or approved by the Client.

ELLOS Marketing may provide general guidance or implementation assistance but does not provide legal advice and does not guarantee that website content satisfies all laws, regulations, accessibility standards, industry rules, or other legal requirements.

Privacy and Data Management

The Client is responsible for managing personal information and other data collected through the website and for complying with applicable privacy, disclosure, retention, consent, and data-protection requirements.

Compliance with Laws

The Client is responsible for ensuring that its business and website comply with applicable laws and regulations, including industry-specific requirements, required disclosures, privacy obligations, accessibility requirements, licenses, and certifications.

Legal Guidance

ELLOS Marketing may provide general information and share common industry practices, but the Client should consult its own legal, tax, compliance, or other professional advisors regarding legal or regulatory requirements.

Survival

The provisions concerning ownership, intellectual property, licenses, ELLOS Website Technology, prohibited use, third-party technology, restrictions on access and modification, payment obligations, limitations of liability, dispute resolution, and any other provisions that by their nature are intended to survive will remain in effect after termination or expiration of the Services.

Relationship to Prior Agreements

Upon the Client’s acceptance of these Terms, these Terms supersede prior website-service terms concerning ownership, licensing, website technology, website access, hosting, termination, website handover, migration, source code, development rights, and post-termination use to the extent those prior terms conflict with these Terms.

A separate project-specific agreement will override these Terms only if that agreement expressly identifies the provision being overridden and expressly states that the conflicting provision of these Terms does not apply.

The existence of an earlier agreement, proposal, statement of work, invoice, website plan, hosting arrangement, or prior version of these Terms does not expand the Client’s rights in ELLOS Website Technology beyond the rights expressly granted under the controlling agreement.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

  • ELLOS Marketing will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from the Services, third-party services, suspension, termination, downtime, data loss, or service interruptions.
  • ELLOS Marketing is not responsible for damages or losses caused by third-party services, software failures, cyberattacks, internet outages, force majeure events, or circumstances outside ELLOS Marketing’s reasonable control.
  • ELLOS Marketing does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free service but will make reasonable efforts to maintain the Services.
  • ELLOS Marketing’s aggregate liability arising from the Services will not exceed the amount paid by the Client to ELLOS Marketing for the affected Services during the three months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, except where a different limitation is required by applicable law.

Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be resolved through binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association in accordance with its applicable rules, unless the parties agree otherwise in writing or applicable law requires another forum.

Unless otherwise required by law, arbitration will take place in San Diego County, California.

To the extent permitted by law, the parties agree to bring claims only in their individual capacities and not as a plaintiff or class member in a purported class or representative proceeding.

Force Majeure

ELLOS Marketing is not liable for delays, interruptions, or failures caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, government actions, public emergencies, power outages, internet failures, cyberattacks, labor disputes, failures of third-party providers, or similar events.

In such circumstances:

  • Services may be temporarily suspended without constituting a breach.
  • ELLOS Marketing will make reasonable efforts to restore Services when practicable.
  • ELLOS Marketing is not responsible for losses or damages resulting from the interruption.

Technology Updates

Website technology changes over time. Themes, plugins, browsers, hosting requirements, security standards, design conventions, integrations, and software may become outdated or unsupported.

Work required to redesign, rebuild, replace, or materially update website technology may fall outside the Client’s existing website plan and may be separately quoted or billed.

Contact Information

For more information or support, contact:

Acceptance of Terms

By purchasing, accessing, or using the Services, the Client acknowledges that it has read, understood, and agrees to be bound by these Terms.

If the Client does not agree with these Terms, it is not authorized to use the Services.

Continued use of the Services following properly provided notice of updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law. Where ELLOS Marketing requests affirmative acceptance of materially revised Terms, the Client must provide such acceptance for the revised Terms to apply as specified in the notice.