These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your access to and use of the website designdigitalstudios.com (the "Website") and any content, services, communications, and resources we provide through it. The Website is operated by Design Digital Studios — FZE, a Free Zone Establishment organized under the laws of the United Arab Emirates, operating the trade name DesignDigitalStudios ("Design Digital Studios," "we," "us," or "our").
By accessing or using the Website, requesting information, booking a discovery meeting, subscribing to our communications, or otherwise interacting with us, you ("you" or "User") agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and our Disclosures. If you do not agree, do not use the Website.
These Terms form a binding agreement between you and Design Digital Studios. By accessing or using the Website, or by entering into a separate Service Agreement with us, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms.
We may modify these Terms from time to time. Updated Terms will be posted on the Website with a revised "Last updated" date. Material changes will be communicated through reasonable means. Your continued use of the Website after the effective date of the updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the changes. If you do not accept the updated Terms, stop using the Website.
To use the Website or engage our Services, you must:
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Website for your lawful, personal, internal business purposes. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
The Website, including its design, layout, copy, graphics, photographs, video, audio, software, code, branding, and the selection and arrangement of all of the foregoing, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. You may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, scrape, frame, mirror, deep-link, or create derivative works from any part of the Website without our prior written consent.
You agree not to, and not to permit any third party to:
Through the Website, we describe the DesignDigitalStudios framework: a marketing and content-production engagement designed for professionals such as financial advisors, registered investment advisers, advisor practices, certified public accountants, attorneys, and other professional-service firms operating primarily in the United States and Canada.
Our Services may include, depending on the engagement: content strategy, audience research, scripting, video coaching during recording, professional editing, thumbnail and short-form derivatives, written posts, search-oriented optimization, posting and management on platforms a Client owns or grants us access to, performance reporting, and a separately scoped landing page, video sales letter, and email nurture sequence at the Client's election.
The Services described on the Website are illustrative. The specific scope, deliverables, fees, and timeline applicable to any engagement are set out in the Client's executed Service Agreement.
To engage our Services, you must enter into a written Service Agreement with us. Until a Service Agreement is executed and any required initial payment is received, no engagement is in effect, and any discussion, proposal, or quoted scope is non-binding.
If there is any conflict between these Terms and a duly executed Service Agreement, the Service Agreement controls solely with respect to the engagement it describes. These Terms continue to govern the Client's use of the Website and any matters not addressed in the Service Agreement.
Fees, billing schedules, payment methods, and any minimum-term commitments are set out in the applicable Service Agreement. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, all fees are stated and payable in U.S. dollars and are non-refundable except as expressly provided in the Service Agreement.
By providing payment information to us or our payment processor (Stripe), you authorize us and our payment processor to charge the applicable fees on the schedule described in the Service Agreement. If a payment is delayed beyond seven (7) days, we may pause the Services and resume them when payment clears, with the timeline adjusted to match the delay, all as further described in the Service Agreement.
You are responsible for any taxes, duties, currency-conversion charges, bank fees, or similar amounts imposed by any authority on transactions with us, except for taxes on our net income.
Our Materials are and will remain our exclusive property. Our Materials include, without limitation, our content frameworks, scripting templates, editing frameworks, intake questionnaires, project-management workflows, performance-reporting structures, scoring rubrics, prompt libraries, internal documentation, naming conventions, and the underlying systems we use to produce client work. Engaging us does not transfer ownership of, or any license to, Our Materials except to the extent expressly granted in the Service Agreement.
The marks "DesignDigitalStudios," "Design Digital Studios," "The YouTube Content-to-Client System," and any related logos, taglines, and brand assets are our trademarks or those of our affiliates. You may not use any of these marks without our prior written permission.
Client Materials remain the Client's property. The Client represents and warrants that it owns or has secured all necessary rights, licenses, and consents to provide the Client Materials to us and to authorize their use as contemplated by the Service Agreement. The Client is solely responsible for the accuracy, legality, and propriety of all Client Materials.
Once the Client has paid for a given month under the Service Agreement, the Client owns the corresponding Deliverables produced for that month, on the terms and to the extent provided in the Service Agreement.
The Client grants us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license, during the term of the engagement and thereafter as reasonably necessary, to use, copy, modify, display, distribute, store, and process the Client Materials and Deliverables for the purpose of (a) performing the Services, (b) producing and delivering the Deliverables, (c) operating, securing, and improving our internal systems and Our Materials, and (d) maintaining records reasonably necessary to defend against potential claims and to comply with our legal obligations.
Unless the Client opts out in writing, the Client grants us a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reference the engagement in our portfolio, case studies, sales conversations, and marketing materials, without disclosing the Client's confidential business information. Where required for accuracy, we may identify the Client by name, logo, and engagement scope. Specific outcome figures attributed to a particular client will be used only with that client's written consent.
All rights not expressly granted in these Terms or in a Service Agreement are reserved by the granting party.
Each party agrees to keep confidential and to use only for purposes of the engagement any non-public information disclosed by the other party that is marked confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential. Confidentiality obligations do not apply to information that (a) is or becomes publicly known without breach, (b) was independently developed without reference to the other party's confidential information, (c) is rightfully received from a third party without restriction, or (d) is required to be disclosed by law, regulation, or court order, provided the receiving party gives reasonable prior notice where lawful.
This Section 12 supplements, and does not replace, the confidentiality terms set out in the Service Agreement.
The Services may involve the use of third-party platforms, including video and social-media platforms (such as YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, podcast hosts), email platforms, scheduling tools, customer-relationship-management tools, payment processors, and analytics services.
The Client is responsible for: (a) the operation of, and compliance with the terms of, any platform on which content is published under the Client's name or owned by the Client; (b) granting and revoking any access we need to perform the Services on the Client's behalf; and (c) any fees, advertising spend, or platform charges associated with those platforms.
We are not responsible for actions taken by third-party platforms, including reduced reach, account suspensions, content removals, policy changes, monetization changes, or service interruptions. Platform policies change frequently and outside our control.
If you submit comments, ideas, suggestions, feedback, testimonials, or similar communications to us through the Website, email, or any other channel, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, and incorporate that content for any lawful purpose, including improving our Services. You represent that you have the right to submit the content and that doing so does not violate any law or third-party right. We are under no obligation to maintain submissions in confidence, to compensate you for them, or to respond to them.
Design Digital Studios is a marketing and content-production company. We are not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, financial planner, attorney, law firm, certified public accountant, accounting firm, tax preparer, enrolled agent, fiduciary, compliance consultant, or licensed professional in any jurisdiction. Nothing on the Website, in our Services, in any Deliverable, in any communication with us, or in any case study or testimonial is investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, tax advice, accounting advice, fiduciary advice, regulatory advice, or compliance advice.
The Website and our Services are intended for informational and marketing purposes only. They are not a substitute for advice from qualified professionals or for compliance review by the Client's firm, broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, supervisory principal, chief compliance officer, in-house legal counsel, outside counsel, or comparable function. Please review our Disclosures page for additional information about the regulatory framework applicable to our clients and the boundary between our Services and regulated services.
The website, the services, and all content provided through them are made available on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we expressly disclaim all warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, security, uninterrupted operation, or freedom from error or harmful components.
We do not warrant or guarantee any specific result from the Website or Services. This includes, without limitation, any specific number of views, subscribers, followers, leads, discovery meetings, prospects, clients, assets under management, revenue, return on investment, search rankings, or platform performance. Marketing outcomes depend on many factors outside our control, including the Client's industry, market conditions, audience behavior, platform algorithms, the Client's own delivery on prospect conversations, and regulatory changes.
Information on the Website may be updated from time to time but may not always be current. The presence of a link or reference to any third party does not imply endorsement of that party.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will Design Digital Studios — FZE, its affiliates, owners, officers, contractors, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including damages for lost profits, lost revenue, lost business opportunities, lost goodwill, lost data, or business interruption, arising out of or in connection with the Website, the Services, the Deliverables, any third-party platform, or these Terms, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or any other theory, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Our total aggregate liability for any and all claims arising out of or in connection with the Website, the Services, the Deliverables, or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the fees the Client paid us in the thirty (30) days immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100) where no fees have been paid.
The limitations in this Section 17 form an essential basis of the bargain between the parties. They apply even if a stated remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; in those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Design Digital Studios — FZE, its affiliates, owners, officers, contractors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, losses, damages, judgments, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs of arbitration) arising out of or related to:
We will provide you with prompt written notice of a claim subject to indemnification and reasonable cooperation in the defense, at your expense. You will not settle any claim that imposes any obligation or admission on us without our prior written consent.
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Website at any time, with or without notice, for any reason or no reason, including suspected violation of these Terms or applicable law. Termination of Website access does not, by itself, terminate any Service Agreement. Termination of a Service Agreement is governed by that Agreement.
Upon termination of any engagement, the parties will follow the wind-down procedures set out in the Service Agreement, including delivery of any Deliverables paid for through the effective date of termination and the offboarding of any platform access previously granted to us.
These Terms, the Website, and the Services are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United Arab Emirates applicable to the Emirate in which Design Digital Studios — FZE is registered, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
If a dispute arises, the parties will first attempt to resolve it through good-faith discussion for a period of fifteen (15) days from the date written notice of the dispute is delivered to the other party.
If the dispute is not resolved within fifteen (15) days, the parties will submit it to binding online arbitration conducted in English. Each party will bear its own costs unless the arbitrator awards otherwise. The decision of the arbitrator will be final and binding, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Where the parties have signed a separate Service Agreement that specifies an arbitral institution or seat, that specification controls.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property, confidential information, or to prevent irreparable harm pending the conclusion of arbitration.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all claims must be brought in the parties' individual capacities and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. If this waiver is found unenforceable, the remainder of this Section 20 will continue to apply.
We respect the intellectual-property rights of others and expect Users to do the same. If you believe that material on the Website infringes your copyright, please send a notice to legal@designdigitalstudios.com that includes:
We may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, remove or disable access to material claimed to be infringing and terminate the access of repeat infringers. The submission of a knowingly false notice may result in liability for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.
The relationship between you and Design Digital Studios is that of independent businesses. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employer-employee relationship, agency, fiduciary relationship, or franchise. Neither party has authority to bind the other except as expressly authorized in writing.
Neither party will be liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, pandemics or epidemics, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, embargoes, sanctions, labor disturbances, telecommunications or internet outages, platform outages, supply-chain interruptions, or cyber-attacks. The affected party will notify the other and resume performance as soon as reasonably practicable.
You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights or obligations under them, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. We may assign or transfer these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or by operation of law, without restriction. Any unauthorized assignment is void.
Notices to us must be sent in writing to legal@designdigitalstudios.com with a copy to the registered address listed in Section 30. We may give you notice through email to the address you provided to us, by posting on the Website, or through any other reasonable means. Notices are effective on receipt or, for posted notices, on the date of posting.
You represent and warrant that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organized under the laws of any country, region, or territory subject to comprehensive trade sanctions administered by the United Nations, the United States (including by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control), the United Kingdom, the European Union, or the United Arab Emirates, and that you are not on any restricted-party list maintained by those authorities. You will not use the Website or Services in violation of applicable export-control or sanctions laws.
If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or, if it cannot be modified, severed from these Terms; the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. No failure or delay by either party in exercising any right under these Terms operates as a waiver of that right or any other right.
The following Sections survive termination or expiration of these Terms or any Service Agreement: 2 (Definitions), 8 (Fees) for amounts owed, 9 (Our Materials), 11.2 (Portfolio license), 12 (Confidentiality), 14 (User-generated content), 15 (No professional advice), 16 (Disclaimers), 17 (Limitation of liability), 18 (Indemnification), 20 (Dispute resolution), 22 (Independent contractor), 25 (Notices), 26 (Export and sanctions), 27 (Severability), and any other provision that by its nature should survive.
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Disclosures, and any executed Service Agreement, constitute the entire agreement between you and Design Digital Studios with respect to the subject matter, and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings, communications, proposals, and representations.
If there is a conflict between documents, the order of precedence is: (1) the executed Service Agreement (with respect to the engagement it describes), (2) these Terms, (3) the Disclosures, and (4) the Privacy Policy, except that with respect to privacy and personal information, the Privacy Policy controls.
Design Digital Studios — FZE (operating as DesignDigitalStudios)
Represented by: Syed Umar Ahmed, Proprietor
Registered address: [Registered Office Address], United Arab Emirates
Legal contact: umar@designdigitalstudios.com
General contact: Qumar@designdigitalstudios.com
Website: designdigitalstudios.com