Messagepac™ Update policy

Information about our Site update service, including service level and terms and conditions.

Unlimited Content Updates

Digital Forest's messagepac™ update service allows for unlimited content updates to your web site based on the following criteria:
(for a brief overview click here)


Updates are for content, not design or development, for clarity this includes items such as news articles, products, services, additional static text or other articles. It does not include changing the site design, template setup, block positioning etc. These are design and development tasks that will be charged at our standard rate.

We will update contact email addresses and add users and other general site settings if required.
 

Content origination

Content must be fully written as you want it to be displayed on the website, The update service does not include copy writing, although if you would like that we can provide it - charged at our standard hourly rate.

The update service does not include retrieval of content from other sources such as websites etc.

Content should be emailed to updates@messagepac.com in standard text form. We are not responsible for errors in your text such as spelling, typos etc. You should check this before sending.


You are responsible for the copyright of all content supplied. Digital Forest Interactive Solutions Ltd is not liable for any copyright infringment made with your content.


Images

You may send images to us for inclusion on the site, we will resize them and optimise them for the web if required. We will not scan images in, retrieve them from other sources or create original artwork as part of this service. We can however use stock images if we feel appropriate for the content and design, from our extensive library.

You are responsible for the copyright of all images supplied.

Original artwork can be provided if you require it, charged at an agreed rate.

What constitutes an update?

An update is a single article, 1 news item or 1 product or 1 information article, or one amendment to a page content etc and update does not constitutue 5 articles all emailed at the same time. If you do have additional articles to be put up within the month, you can either pay ( there is a charge of £5.00 ex VAT per update) or wait until the following month.

Service Time

We will endevour to update your site within 24-48 hours, if your content is of a time sensitive nature you should send it to us in advance and request a scheduled time for it to be shown, this can be done automatically on our software.

Update time is on a 'best endevours' basis and we reserve the right to extend update times should circumstances dictate.


Scheduling content

If you require content to be removed on a certain date you can inform us of this when we update the site and we can schedule the removal of that content on the date required.

if your content is of a time sensitive nature you should send it to us in advance and request a scheduled time for it to be shown, this can be done automatically on our software.


Overview of the content Update service:

 Free update service
Additional Pay for items
  • Emailed text content for your website
  • Attached images you wish to use (check copyright!)
  • emailed changes on general site settings eg email addresses etc
  • Customer must check copyright on all content
  • Changes to site menus
  • Writing content for you 
  • Scanning images 
  • Typing copy in from hardcopy
  • Creating images
  • Changing site layout and design
  • Changing site taxonomy
  • Development
  • Forum moderation
  • User authentication

Article Date: 14th September 2006
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