Terms of service

Agreement to these terms

By creating an account, generating a site, or otherwise using websitev0, you agree to these terms, our privacy policy, and our cookie policy. When you first publish a site you’ll also click to confirm you accept them. If you don’t agree, don’t use the service.

What websitev0 is

websitev0 resolves a business’s Google Maps link, reads public details, generates an editable site spec, renders a static marketing website, and publishes it to a live URL — on our domain or a custom domain you connect. Optional add-ons — Voice, Scheduling, Quoting, Web-chat, and Email/SMS — extend a site when you switch them on. We provide the tooling and hosting; the site’s content and brand are yours.

Accounts

You’re responsible for your account and everything done under it. We sign you in with a magic link rather than a password, so keep your email inbox secure, give us accurate information, and tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access. You must be at least 18 and able to enter a contract.

You may use websitev0 only where the law allows it. You confirm you’re not on a US or applicable government sanctions list and aren’t located in an embargoed region, and that you won’t use the service in breach of export-control or sanctions law.

Electronic communications

We run on email — including magic-link sign-in — so you agree we can give you agreements, notices, disclosures, invoices, and other communications electronically, and that these meet any legal requirement to be “in writing.” You can withdraw this consent by closing your account, but we can’t run the service without it. Keep your email current so our messages reach you.

Prototype & published sites

Every site moves along one axis, and each state has different terms.

Acceptable use

Use websitev0 for real, lawful businesses. You may not:

• Generate sites for businesses you have no right to represent, or misrepresent a place.
• Publish content that’s illegal, deceptive, infringing, or harmful, or that violates Google’s or a payment provider’s policies.
• Abuse the add-ons — for example, using Voice or SMS for spam, robocalls, or unsolicited marketing.
• Probe, scrape, overload, or reverse-engineer the platform, or resell it without a written agreement.

We may suspend or remove any site that breaches these rules, and we’ll tell you why when we can.

Your content & the site spec

You keep ownership of your business content, brand, and the site spec you edit. You grant us a limited licence to host, render, cache, and publish it so we can run the service. You’re responsible for having the rights to everything you upload — logos, photos, copy — and for the accuracy of the business details on the site. Export your content any time; it’s yours.

Google Places data & attribution

Sites are seeded with public data from the Google Places API, and your use of it — on prototypes and published sites alike — is subject to Google’s terms. The "Powered by Google" attribution and any third-party review attributions we render must stay intact. Place IDs may be stored indefinitely, but the approximate coordinates we cache are refreshed within Google’s 30-day limit; you may not scrape, export, or re-host Google content outside what Google allows, or use it to train models. Because your published site shows Google content, it must carry publicly accessible terms and a privacy policy that incorporate Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. We surface the mandatory attribution automatically; don’t remove it.

Add-ons & metering

Add-ons are opt-in per site and billed by usage against a cap you set:

• Voice — a phone agent that answers and books; metered per answered call and minute.
• Scheduling — online booking; metered per confirmed booking.
• Quoting — instant price ranges; metered per quote generated.
• Web-chat & Email/SMS — metered per conversation and per message sent.

You set the cap; when a site hits it, the add-on pauses rather than running up an unexpected bill. Usage counts are visible in the portal and on each invoice.

Calls, texts & your TCPA obligations

The Voice and Email/SMS add-ons let your site call or message your customers. US law — chiefly the TCPA — puts the legal responsibility for those messages on you, the business sending them. By turning these on you confirm that:

• You have each recipient’s prior express written consent before any marketing call or text, and you keep a record of it.
• You honour opt-outs immediately — a “STOP” reply or any reasonable request by any channel — and don’t message anyone who’s opted out.
• You only send between 8am and 9pm in the recipient’s local time, identify your business, and include an opt-out in every message.
• You’ve completed A2P 10DLC registration where your messaging needs it (we help you register, but the campaign is yours).
• For the AI Voice agent, you have the consent that automated and artificial-voice calls require, and you don’t use it for robocalls or unsolicited marketing.

You’re responsible for TCPA, CTIA, and carrier compliance, and you indemnify us for claims arising from your calls or messages. We honour opt-outs at the platform level and may suspend an add-on we reasonably believe is being used unlawfully.

Fees & billing

Preview is free. You pay when a site goes live. A published site carries a flat fee plus metered usage for any add-ons you switch on. Fees are billed through our payment processor, are exclusive of taxes unless stated, and are non-refundable except where the law requires or we say otherwise in writing. We’ll give at least 30 days’ notice before a price change takes effect for your existing sites.

Stripe & taking payments on your site

We use Stripe to process payments. When you pay us for a published site or an add-on, that runs through Stripe, and your use of Stripe is subject to the Stripe Services Agreement (stripe.com/legal/ssa). We never see or store full card numbers.

If you switch on payments on your own site, you’re using Stripe Connect: your customers pay you, the money lands in your own connected Stripe account, and we take a per-transaction application fee that we show you before you turn it on. To use this you must open or connect a Stripe account and agree to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement (stripe.com/legal/connect-account) — by accepting these terms you also accept that agreement, and you authorise us to share the information Stripe needs to set up and run your account.

websitev0 isn’t a party to the sales you make, doesn’t hold your funds, and isn’t responsible for your refunds, chargebacks, taxes, or fulfilment — those sit between you, your customer, and Stripe. You’re responsible for chargebacks and any negative balance on your connected account.

Intellectual property

websitev0 owns the platform — the portal, the generation pipeline, the templates, and our brand. These terms grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the service; they don’t transfer our IP to you. You own your content and the rendered output for your own site. Feedback you send us we may use freely to improve the product.

Copyright complaints (DMCA)

We host the sites we generate, so we follow the DMCA notice-and-takedown process. If you believe content on a site we host infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at copyright@websitev0.com including:

• Your signature (electronic is fine).
• The work you say is infringed, and the URL of the material to remove.
• Your contact details.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn’t authorised.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you’re authorised to act for the rights holder.

We remove or disable infringing material expeditiously, tell the operator (who can file a counter-notice), and terminate repeat infringers. Our designated agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.

Disclaimers & warranties

We work hard to make the service fast and reliable, but it’s provided "as is" and "as available." We don’t warrant that generated content is error-free, that a site will be uninterrupted, or that Google Places data is complete or accurate. You’re responsible for reviewing a site before publishing it. Prototypes especially carry no warranty of any kind.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, websitev0 is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the fees you paid us for the affected site in the 12 months before the claim. Some jurisdictions don’t allow these limits, so parts may not apply to you.

These limits don’t apply to your indemnity obligations, to either party’s liability for infringing the other’s intellectual property, or to anything that can’t be limited by law.

Indemnification

You’ll defend and indemnify websitev0 and our people against claims, damages, and costs arising from: your content and the sites you publish; your use of the service; representing a business you don’t have the right to represent; your calls, texts, or emails to customers; disputes with your own customers, including refunds and chargebacks; and your breach of these terms or of the law. We’ll tell you promptly about a claim and let you run the defence, as long as you don’t settle anything that admits fault for us or binds us without our consent.

Termination

You can stop using websitev0 and unpublish your sites at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these terms, don’t pay, or use the service unlawfully. On termination we’ll give you a window to export your content before we delete it under our retention schedule. Sections that by their nature should survive — IP, disclaimers, liability, and billing owed — do.

Governing law & disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing anything formal, email legal@websitev0.com — most issues are faster to fix directly. If we can’t resolve it, disputes go to the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and we consent to that jurisdiction.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product evolves. We’ll post the new version here and, for material changes, notify operators in the portal and by email before they take effect. Continuing to use websitev0 after that means you accept the updated terms.

The rest (general terms)

A few standard but important points: these terms plus the privacy and cookie policies are the whole agreement between us. If any part is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. If we don’t enforce something right away, we haven’t waived it. You can’t transfer these terms without our consent; we may transfer them to a successor if our business is sold. We’re not liable for failures caused by events outside our reasonable control. We reach you by email or in the portal; you reach us at legal@websitev0.com.