Website Grant Terms

1. Overview & Nature of the Initiative

The Webs.ie Monthly Website Grant (the "Grant") is a studio-funded commissioning initiative operated by Webs.ie, Dublin, Ireland (the "Studio", "we", "us"). Each calendar month the Studio selects one recipient (the "Laureate") and commissions the design, build and launch of a custom marketing website at no cost to the Laureate.

The Grant is not a lottery, prize draw, raffle, sweepstake, contest of chance or gaming activity. It is a merit-based commissioning decision made by the Studio at its sole discretion. No purchase, payment, subscription or consideration of any kind is required to apply. Selection is determined solely by review of the written application against the criteria set out in Section 4, and no element of chance is involved.

These Grant Terms (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between the applicant and the Studio. By submitting an application you confirm that you have read, understood and accepted these Terms, the Studio's Privacy Policy and its Acceptable Use Policy.

2. Definitions

• Applicant: a natural person submitting the application form on behalf of a business or project.
• Application: the submission made via the form at webs.ie/website-grant.
• Laureate: the applicant selected by the Studio for a given month's Grant.
• Deliverables: the website and related assets described in Section 5.
• Engagement Period: the period from Laureate notification until launch of the Deliverables.

3. Eligibility

To be eligible an applicant must:

• Be eighteen (18) years of age or older and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract in their jurisdiction.
• Be authorised to apply on behalf of the business, project, organisation or brand named in the application.
• Operate a real, lawful business or meaningful project — operating, launching within ninety (90) days, or demonstrably active as a creator, nonprofit or community initiative. Concept-only or placeholder entries are not eligible.
• Submit only one application per business or project per calendar month. Duplicate or bulk submissions from the same applicant or organisation will be discarded.
• Not be a current or former employee, contractor, agent, officer or immediate family member (spouse, parent, sibling, child) of such a person, of Webs.ie, or of any entity engaged in the delivery of the Grant.
• Not be subject to sanctions or restrictions under Irish, EU, UK, UN or US law that would prevent the Studio from lawfully delivering services to them.
• Operate in a sector permitted by our Acceptable Use Policy. Applications from sectors the Studio considers out of scope (including but not limited to adult content, weapons, gambling operations, content targeting minors in ways prohibited by law, and activities promoting hate or violence) will not be considered.

Applications from outside Ireland are welcome, subject to the Studio's ability to deliver services in the applicant's language and legal framework.

4. Selection — Skill-Based Review

The Grant is awarded by human review against the following criteria, weighted at the Studio's discretion:

1. Clarity — how clearly the project is described, what it does and whom it serves.
2. Timing — why a new or better website matters specifically at this moment.
3. Potential — the degree to which a strong site would materially change outcomes for the applicant.
4. Story — the usefulness, originality, public interest or mission behind the project.
5. Fit — the Studio's ability to deliver excellent work within the defined scope and schedule.

The Studio may take into account factors such as geography, sector balance, previous Laureate history, team capacity, and the overall quality of the applicant pool. Selection decisions are final and not subject to review, appeal or explanation on a per-applicant basis. The Studio is under no obligation to award the Grant in any given month and may decline to award it where, in its judgement, no application meets the standard.

5. The Deliverables (Scope)

Subject to finalisation between the Studio and the Laureate during kick-off, the Grant typically includes:

• A custom-designed marketing website or landing page, hand-crafted by the Studio team (not a template).
• Four to six (4–6) essential launch-ready pages or sections (e.g. home, services, about, contact, and one or two supporting sections).
• A responsive, accessibility-aware front-end build.
• A conversion-oriented information structure, hierarchy and call-to-action design.
• An enquiry or contact form wired to the Laureate's designated inbox, with reasonable anti-spam measures.
• Baseline on-page SEO configuration (title tags, meta descriptions, sitemap, robots file, Open Graph metadata, basic structured data where relevant).
• Launch on Cloudflare edge infrastructure with SSL.
• A guided handover covering how to maintain, update and measure the site.

The final scope of the Deliverables is agreed between the Studio and the Laureate at kick-off and recorded in a short written scope note. In the event of any conflict, the written scope note prevails over this Section.

6. Out of Scope

The Grant does not include, and the Studio is under no obligation to provide, the following:

• Unlimited revisions, rebuilds or open-ended creative exploration.
• Custom back-end, server-side, database, SaaS or API development beyond what the Studio's standard tooling provides.
• Native mobile applications.
• Custom photography, illustration, video production, 3D, animation or motion graphics beyond light studio-led art direction.
• Multi-language / internationalised builds.
• Paid advertising, search engine marketing, link-building, influencer outreach or other marketing services.
• Ongoing retainers, monthly care, long-term support or operational services beyond launch.
• Third-party costs, including but not limited to domain registration, premium plug-ins, stock assets, licensed fonts, email marketing services and any SaaS subscriptions the Laureate chooses to use.
• Legal, accounting or tax advice.

Anything outside the scope set out in Section 5 may be proposed by the Studio as a separate paid engagement at standard rates, but is never a condition of the Grant.

7. Acceptance & Forfeit

• The Studio will notify the selected Laureate by email using the contact address provided in the application.
• The Laureate must acknowledge acceptance within seven (7) calendar days of the notification email.
• Failure to acknowledge within that window shall constitute a forfeit of the Grant. The Studio may then offer the Grant to another applicant, carry it forward, or decline to award that month's Grant.
• The Laureate must complete kick-off and provide the reasonable materials requested by the Studio within thirty (30) calendar days of acceptance. Unreasonable delay may also result in forfeit.

8. Laureate's Responsibilities

The Laureate agrees to:

• Provide accurate information, brand assets, text and images (or approve studio-drafted copy) in a timely manner.
• Nominate a single point of contact with authority to approve decisions.
• Respond to messages within two (2) working days during the Engagement Period.
• Review drafts and provide consolidated feedback within the timeframes agreed at kick-off.
• Own or hold a valid licence for any content, trademarks, logos or images they provide to the Studio.
• Comply with the Acceptable Use Policy in all interactions with the Studio.

9. Representations & Warranties by the Applicant

By submitting an application the applicant represents and warrants that:

• All information provided is accurate, current and complete to the best of their knowledge.
• They have the authority to apply on behalf of the named business, project or organisation.
• Any content, text, logos, trademarks, images or materials they provide to the Studio are either owned by them or licensed with the right to sublicense for the purposes of building and publishing the Deliverables.
• The project, its content and its activities are lawful in their jurisdiction and do not infringe the rights of any third party.
• Their participation in the Grant does not violate any contract, obligation or policy to which they are bound.

10. Indemnity

The Laureate agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Webs.ie and its owners, employees and contractors from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to:

• Any content, materials or information provided by the Laureate to the Studio.
• Any breach by the Laureate of the representations, warranties or obligations in these Terms.
• Any claim by a third party that the Laureate's content infringes their intellectual property, privacy, publicity or other rights.
• Any use the Laureate makes of the Deliverables after launch.

11. Intellectual Property

• Delivered work: upon launch, the Laureate receives a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, display and modify the Deliverables for their own business or project.
• Studio tooling: the Studio retains ownership of its underlying frameworks, design systems, libraries, internal tools and any reusable components used to create the Deliverables. None of these are transferred under the Grant.
• Third-party assets: any fonts, stock imagery or plug-ins used in the Deliverables remain subject to their own licences, which the Laureate agrees to honour.
• Laureate content: the Laureate retains ownership of the original content they provide and grants the Studio the licences needed to build, launch and showcase the Deliverables as described in Section 12.

12. Publicity, Case Study & Showcase Rights

By accepting the Grant the Laureate grants the Studio a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to:

• Publish a case study, write-up, video or social post about the Grant, the Laureate and the Deliverables.
• Display screenshots, short recordings and the Laureate's logo in the Studio's portfolio, marketing materials, pitch decks, awards entries and social channels.
• Reference the Laureate by name in press releases and announcements about the Grant.
• Retain the right to keep published case studies live indefinitely.

The Laureate may request that specific confidential information be excluded from publication by giving written notice to [email protected] before launch. The Studio will make reasonable efforts to accommodate such requests.

13. Data Protection

Applicant personal data is handled under the Studio's Privacy Policy. Grant application data is retained for up to twelve (12) months after the month in which the decision is made, and then deleted or anonymised, except where retention is required by law. Applicants have the right to request access, correction or deletion of their personal data by writing to [email protected].

14. No Cash Alternative & Non-Transferability

• The Grant consists solely of the services described in Section 5. There is no cash alternative and the Studio will not exchange, refund or substitute any component of the Deliverables for money.
• The Grant is personal to the Laureate and cannot be sold, assigned or transferred to a third party without the Studio's written consent.
• The estimated monetary value of the Deliverables is indicative only and does not create any right of the Laureate to receive equivalent cash.

15. Tax & Regulatory Responsibility

The Laureate is solely responsible for any tax consequences (including income tax, benefit-in-kind, VAT, import duties or similar) arising in their jurisdiction as a result of receiving the Deliverables. The Studio provides no tax advice and makes no representations about the tax treatment of the Grant. The Laureate should consult their own adviser if they have any doubt.

16. No Warranty on Outcomes

The Deliverables are provided "as delivered". To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Studio makes no representations or warranties — express, implied, statutory or otherwise — regarding the performance, results, traffic, rankings, revenue, conversions or commercial outcomes the Laureate may or may not experience as a result of the Deliverables. The Studio is not responsible for the Laureate's business decisions, pricing, operations or marketing after launch.

17. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• The Studio is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive loss or damage arising out of or relating to the Grant, including loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or business opportunity.
• The Studio's total aggregate liability in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise arising out of or relating to the Grant is limited to one thousand euros (€1,000), which the parties agree is a reasonable allocation of risk given that the Grant is provided free of charge.
• Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or fraudulent misrepresentation.

18. Force Majeure

The Studio is not liable for any failure or delay in delivery caused by events outside its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, civil unrest, strikes, epidemics or pandemics, cyber attacks, internet or hosting outages, third-party service failures, government action or natural disasters.

19. No Employment or Partnership

Nothing in these Terms creates an employment, agency, partnership, joint venture, franchise or fiduciary relationship between the Studio and the Laureate. The Studio acts as an independent contractor delivering a gifted engagement.

20. Variation & Cancellation

The Studio may, at its sole discretion and at any time:

• Update, modify or supplement these Terms (the updated version takes effect from the date it is published on this page).
• Change the eligibility criteria, application requirements, selection criteria or scope of future Grants.
• Pause, postpone or discontinue the Grant entirely.
• Decline to award the Grant in any given month where no suitable applicant is identified.

Changes do not affect Grants that have already been accepted under a prior version of these Terms.

21. Withdrawal of an Awarded Grant

The Studio may withdraw an offered or awarded Grant, without liability, if the Laureate:

• Has materially misrepresented their business, project or eligibility in the application.
• Fails to respond within the windows set out in Section 7 or 8.
• Is found to fall within any of the ineligibility categories in Section 3 after selection.
• Breaches these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy or applicable law.
• Engages in abusive, threatening, harassing or deceptive conduct toward the Studio team.
• Requests work that falls outside the agreed scope and refuses to accept reasonable scope management.

22. Confidentiality & Non-Disclosure

Both parties agree to keep non-public information shared during the Engagement Period reasonably confidential and to use it only for the purpose of delivering the Grant. This obligation does not apply to information that is already public, independently developed or required to be disclosed by law.

23. Complaints

Complaints about the conduct of the Grant should be directed to [email protected]. We will acknowledge complaints within five (5) working days and respond substantively within twenty (20) working days. Complaints about personal data should be directed to [email protected] and may also be raised with the Irish Data Protection Commission.

24. Notices

Notices from the Studio to the applicant or Laureate may be delivered by email to the address supplied in the application. Notices to the Studio must be sent to [email protected].

25. Entire Agreement & Severability

These Terms, together with any written scope note agreed at kick-off, the Privacy Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy, constitute the entire agreement between the parties in respect of the Grant and supersede any prior discussions, representations or agreements. If any provision is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.

26. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ireland. The parties agree that the courts of Ireland shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer rights the applicant may have in their country of habitual residence under applicable law.

27. Contact

Questions about the Grant or these Terms: [email protected]. General studio contact: [email protected].