Terms of use

1. Who this is between

1.1 "We", "us" and "Puente" mean Puente Global. "You" means the person using this site, and the organisation you are acting for if you are acting for one.

1.2 By using this site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site.

1.3 If you are agreeing on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.

2. What this site is

2.1 A description of what we do, examples of work we have done, and a form for getting in touch. Nothing on it is an offer capable of acceptance, and nothing on it is professional advice.

2.2 Case studies describe work done for named clients. Figures in them are the figures those engagements produced. They are not a prediction of what a different engagement would produce.

2.3 We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site at any time, without notice, and without liability for doing so.

3. Acceptable use

3.1 Use the site lawfully and do not interfere with it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of it or to any system behind it; probe, scan or test its security without our written permission; submit anything containing malware; scrape it at a rate that degrades it for anyone else; or use the contact form to send unsolicited commercial messages.

3.2 Do not send us anything through the form that you are not entitled to send. Anything you send is your responsibility and you confirm you have the right to send it.

3.3 We may block access, without notice, from any source we reasonably believe is breaching this section.

4. The free prototype

4.1 What the offer is. We build a working version of part of the thing you are asking for, deploy it to a real URL, and show it to you before you have paid us anything. The scope is what we agree in writing before we start, and it is deliberately narrow: enough to judge whether to work together.

4.2 What it entitles you to. Access to the deployed prototype for as long as we host it, so you can use it and form a view. Nothing else. In particular it does not entitle you to the source code, to a service level, to support, to a fix for anything you find in it, to a deadline, or to have it built again differently.

4.3 Who owns it. Until you pay for it, the prototype and everything in it, including its source code, design and structure, remain ours. You get no licence to it beyond viewing and evaluating it, and you must not copy it, rebuild from it, or have a third party do either.

4.4 What you already own stays yours. Any content, brand assets, data or material you give us for the prototype remains yours. We use it only to build and show you the prototype, and we return or delete it on request.

4.5 If you do not proceed. We take the prototype down. We may keep the code internally, and we may reuse the general techniques and components in it, which are ours. We will not reuse your content, your brand, or anything specific to your business, and we will not show it to a third party as an example of our work without your written permission.

4.6 If you do proceed. Ownership of what we build is dealt with in the signed agreement for that work, not here. Our normal position is that on full payment the deliverables become yours; that position is not binding until it is in a signed agreement.

4.7 The offer can be withdrawn. We may decline to build a prototype, or stop building one, for any reason and at any time. It is offered at our discretion and creates no obligation to proceed on either side.

4.8 It is provided as-is. A prototype is an evaluation artefact. It is not tested, hardened, accessible, or fit for production, and it must not be put into production. Section 7 applies to it in full.

5. Intellectual property

5.1 Ours. The site, its design, its code, its text and its structure, and our name and logo, belong to us or to our licensors. You may read the site and share links to it. You may not copy, adapt, republish or build a derivative of it without our written permission.

5.2 Yours. Anything you send us stays yours. You give us only what we need to read it and reply to it.

5.3 Feedback. If you tell us how to improve something, we may act on it without owing you anything for it. This does not affect your ownership of anything you already owned.

5.4 Client names and marks. Client names on this site are used to describe work done and remain the property of those clients.

6. Third-party content and open source

6.1 This site links to sites we do not control. We are not responsible for them, and a link is not an endorsement.

6.2 The site is built with open-source components, each under its own licence. Those licences govern those components; nothing in these terms restricts a right you have under one of them.

6.3 Where we build something for you that includes open-source components, we will tell you what they are and under what licence, so you know what you are taking on.

7. No warranties

7.1 The site and any free prototype are provided as-is and as-available. To the extent the law allows, we exclude all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

7.2 We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that anything on it is accurate or current.

7.3 Nothing in this section limits a right you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded by contract under the law of your country.

8. Liability

8.1 We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

8.2 Subject to 8.1, we are not liable for loss of profit, revenue, business, anticipated savings, goodwill or data, or for any indirect or consequential loss, however caused.

8.3 Subject to 8.1, our total liability arising out of your use of this site or of a free prototype is limited to 1,000 US dollars. That figure reflects the fact that neither is paid for.

8.4 Liability for paid work is dealt with in the agreement for that work, not here.

9. Indemnity

9.1 You will indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your breach of section 3, from anything you send us that you were not entitled to send, or from your use of a prototype in production contrary to clause 4.8.

10. Term and termination

10.1 These terms apply for as long as you use the site.

10.2 We may suspend or withdraw your access at any time, without notice, if we reasonably believe you are in breach of section 3.

10.3 Sections 4.3, 4.5, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 11 survive termination.

11. Governing law and venue

11.1 These terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye.

11.2 The courts of Türkiye have exclusive jurisdiction, except that we may bring proceedings in the courts of the place where you are established to enforce section 3 or section 5.

11.3 If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the United Kingdom, this section does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence, or of the right to bring proceedings there.

12. General

12.1 Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it is severed and the rest stands.

12.2 No waiver. Not enforcing a provision on one occasion does not waive it.

12.3 Entire agreement. These terms, the privacy policy and the cookie policy are the whole agreement between us about this site and the free prototype offer, and replace anything said before, including the terms previously published on the earlier version of this site. A signed agreement for paid work takes precedence over these terms for that work.

12.4 No assignment. You may not assign your rights under these terms. We may assign ours to a successor to our business.

12.5 Changes. We may change these terms. The revised version takes effect when it is published on this page, and the "last updated" date changes with it. Changes are not retrospective: the version in force when you used the site is the one that applies to that use. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised terms.

12.6 Contact. info@puenteglobal.com.