Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of ssustudio.com and the free tools on it. If you are here about paid work, read "What these terms cover" first: it explains which document actually controls a client engagement, and it is not this one.

Agreeing to these terms

By using this site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it. We may update them from time to time. The date at the top shows when we last did, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it.

What these terms cover

These terms cover this website, its content, and the free tools we offer here, including our audits, teardowns, and scores.

They do not govern paid client work. Every engagement is set out in a separate written proposal, statement of work, or services agreement signed by both parties. If anything in that signed agreement conflicts with these terms, the signed agreement controls.

Nothing on this site is an offer to enter into an engagement, and no engagement begins until we have both signed.

Using the site

You may view, browse, and share our content for personal or business use. You may not:

• Copy, reproduce, or republish our content as your own
• Use our content, frameworks, or tools to build a competing product or service
• Scrape, crawl, or harvest the site by automated means beyond ordinary search engine indexing
• Use the site or anything it produces to train a machine learning model without our written permission
• Interfere with the site's operation or security, or attempt to access parts of it you were not given access to
• Use the site for anything unlawful, misleading, or harmful

What belongs to us

Everything on this site belongs to Sunny Side Up Studio or our licensors: the writing, design, code, images, video, and marks. That includes the methods, rubrics, scoring frameworks, and templates behind our audits and teardowns, whether or not they carry a notice. We keep every right we have not expressly granted here.

Work we produce for a client is handled in that client's signed agreement, not on this page.

What you send us

When you submit a website address, brand materials, or a message, you confirm you have the right to send it to us. You give us a limited license to use that material for the purpose you sent it: replying to you, or producing the audit or score you asked for.

If you send us an idea, suggestion, or feedback about our work, we may use it without obligation, attribution, or payment. Please do not send confidential information through the forms on this site.

Free audits, scores, and teardowns

Our free tools produce a point in time assessment based on what is publicly visible about your site when we run it, combined with our professional judgment. They are informational.

We do not guarantee any outcome. That includes any ranking, placement, traffic level, visibility in AI assistants or search engines, lead volume, conversion rate, or revenue. Those results depend on systems we do not control, including third party algorithms that change without notice. Any example, benchmark, or past result we show is illustrative and is not a promise of what you will get.

Not professional advice

Nothing on this site is legal, financial, tax, or accounting advice. For that, use a qualified professional.

Third party links and services

We link to sites we do not run, and we use third party services for our newsletter and forms. We are not responsible for their content, practices, or availability. Their terms and privacy policies apply when you use them.

The site is provided as is

We work to keep the site accurate and available, and we make no promise that it will be uninterrupted, error free, or current. We may change or withdraw any part of it at any time.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and accuracy.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows:

• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost goodwill, or business interruption, even if we were told such damages were possible.
• Our total liability for any claim arising out of your use of this site or its free tools will not exceed one hundred US dollars ($100).
• Liability under a paid engagement is capped in that engagement's signed agreement, not here.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud, willful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Indemnity

You agree to cover our reasonable losses, including legal fees, arising from your misuse of the site, your breach of these terms, or material you submit that infringes someone else's rights.

Time limit on claims

Any claim relating to this site or its free tools must be brought within one year of when it arose, to the extent the law allows.

Governing law

Massachusetts law governs these terms, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any dispute goes to the state or federal courts in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and you agree to their jurisdiction.

Privacy

How we handle personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

General

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing something is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms without our consent; we may assign them as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about this site, and they replace any earlier version.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@ssustudio.com