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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GRAPHIC DESIGN SERVICES AGREEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Date: [Date] BETWEEN: Designer: [Your Full Name] Email: [Your Email] Location: [Your City / Country] AND: Client: [Client Full Name] Email: [Client Email] Company: [Client Company / N/A] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. PROJECT OVERVIEW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Project Title: [Project Title] Project Type: Social Media Kit Deadline: [Agreed Deadline] Deliverables: • [List your deliverables here] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. PAYMENT TERMS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Total Project Fee: GH₵ [Total Fee] Deposit (50%): GH₵ [deposit amount] → Due before work begins Balance (50%): GH₵ [balance amount] → Due upon delivery of final files Payment is due within 7 days of invoice. Work will not begin until the deposit is received. Final files will be released only after full payment is confirmed. Late payments (7+ days past due) will incur a 5% late fee per week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3. REVISIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This project includes 3 round(s) of revisions. A "revision" means feedback provided within a single consolidated response — not multiple rounds of back-and-forth on one set of changes. Additional revision rounds beyond the included 3 will be billed at the Designer's standard hourly rate. The Designer will provide a quote before proceeding with any additional revisions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Upon receipt of full payment, the Client receives a non-exclusive licence to use the final deliverables for the agreed purpose. The Designer retains the right to: • Display the work in their portfolio and on social media • Use the work as a case study or teaching example The Client does NOT own raw source files, working files, or unused concepts unless explicitly agreed and invoiced separately. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5. CANCELLATION & KILL FEE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If the Client cancels the project after work has begun: • The non-refundable deposit is forfeited • If the project is more than 50% complete at time of cancellation, a kill fee of 25% of the remaining balance (GH₵ [kill fee amount]) is owed If the Designer must cancel, any deposit paid will be fully refunded. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6. TIMELINE & CLIENT RESPONSIBILITIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The agreed deadline is [deadline] and assumes the Client: • Provides all required content (copy, images, references) within 2 working days of project start • Responds to feedback requests within 3 working days Delays caused by the Client's late responses may push the project deadline. The Designer will communicate any timeline changes promptly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7. CONFIDENTIALITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Both parties agree to keep any proprietary business information shared during this project confidential and not to disclose it to third parties without written consent. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8. AGREEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ By paying the deposit or providing written confirmation (email is acceptable), both parties agree to the terms of this agreement. Designer: ___________________________ Date: ____________ [Your Name] Client: ___________________________ Date: ____________ [Client Name] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠ DISCLAIMER: This contract was generated by a free tool and is provided for educational and general-use purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Laws vary by country. For high-value projects or legal protection, consult a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Not legal advice. This contract is a starting point for freelancers. Laws differ by country. For high-value projects, consult a qualified lawyer where you live.
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