Terms of Service

1. Who we are

Maverick Creatives ("Maverick Creatives", "we", "us" or "our") is a creative agency operating from 9 Ayoka Street, opposite Justrite Supermarket, Bariga, Lagos, Nigeria. We provide branding and strategy, media production, digital services, event coverage, and training and growth programmes. References to "you" or "Client" mean the individual or organisation accessing our website or engaging our services.

2. Acceptance of these Terms

By browsing this website, submitting an enquiry, signing a proposal, paying a deposit, or otherwise instructing us to begin work, you confirm that you have read, understood and accepted these Terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity.

If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you should not use our website or engage our services.

3. Engaging our services

Each engagement is defined by a written proposal, quotation, statement of work or booking confirmation (each, a "Project Document"). The Project Document sets out the agreed deliverables, timelines, fees and any project-specific terms.

Where a Project Document conflicts with these Terms, the Project Document prevails for that engagement only. Quotations are valid for thirty (30) days from issue unless stated otherwise, and are based on the scope described to us at the time.

4. Fees, deposits and payment

• A non-refundable booking deposit — typically fifty per cent (50%) of the project fee — is payable before work commences or a date is reserved.
• The balance falls due on the schedule stated in the Project Document, and in any event before final files, masters or high-resolution deliverables are released.
• All fees are exclusive of Value Added Tax and any other applicable taxes, levies or withholding, which are payable by the Client.
• Third-party costs — talent, licensed music, stock footage, printing, equipment hire, permits, travel and accommodation — are billed in addition unless expressly stated as included.
• Invoices unpaid after fourteen (14) days may attract interest at 2% per month on the outstanding balance, and we may suspend work until the account is settled.

5. Client responsibilities

Timely delivery depends on your cooperation. You agree to provide accurate briefs, brand assets, access, approvals and site permissions when reasonably required, and to nominate a single point of contact with authority to approve work.

You warrant that any material you supply to us — including logos, photographs, footage, music, copy and trade marks — is either owned by you or properly licensed for the intended use, and that our use of it will not infringe any third-party right.

6. Timelines, revisions and approvals

Timelines in a Project Document are good-faith estimates and assume prompt feedback. Delays caused by late materials, late approvals or expanded scope will move delivery dates accordingly.

Unless stated otherwise, each deliverable includes two (2) rounds of consolidated revisions within the agreed scope. Further revisions, or changes that alter the agreed direction after sign-off, are chargeable at our prevailing rates and may require a revised Project Document.

Deliverables are deemed approved if you do not raise written comments within seven (7) days of delivery.

7. Intellectual property

All intellectual property in work created by us remains our property until we have received payment in full. On full payment, we assign to you the rights in the final approved deliverables for the purposes described in the Project Document.

• Working files, project files, raw footage, unused concepts, source designs and outtakes remain our property unless expressly purchased.
• Tools, templates, methodologies, know-how and pre-existing materials we bring to a project remain ours; you receive a non-exclusive licence to use them as embedded in the deliverables.
• Third-party assets such as fonts, stock imagery and licensed music are supplied under their own licence terms, which pass to you subject to those terms and any usage limits.
• Extending use beyond the agreed territory, media or duration may require an additional licence fee.

8. Portfolio and credit

Unless you tell us otherwise in writing before the work begins, we may display completed work in our portfolio, on this website, in pitch materials, on social media and in award submissions, and may identify you as a client.

We will honour reasonable confidentiality or embargo requests, and will not disclose commercially sensitive information in doing so.

9. Event coverage, likeness and consent

For event coverage, you are responsible for securing venue permissions and for informing attendees that photography and filming will take place. Where required by law, you are responsible for obtaining consents from attendees, performers and minors' guardians.

We will use reasonable care to respect individuals who object to being recorded, and will remove a specific individual from published material on reasonable written request where it is technically practicable to do so.

10. Cancellation, postponement and refunds

• Booking deposits are non-refundable, as they reserve capacity we turn away other work to hold.
• If you cancel after work has begun, you remain liable for all work performed and all third-party costs committed up to the cancellation date.
• Event bookings postponed with fewer than fourteen (14) (fourteen) days' notice may attract a rescheduling fee, and we cannot guarantee availability on a new date.
• If we cancel for reasons within our control, we will refund sums paid for work not yet performed, which is your sole remedy in those circumstances.

11. Training programmes and community

Places on our training programmes are confirmed on payment and are personal to the participant. Course materials are licensed for personal learning only and may not be reproduced, resold or distributed without our written permission.

We may remove any participant whose conduct is unlawful, harassing, discriminatory or materially disruptive, without refund.

12. Acceptable use of this website

You agree not to misuse this website. In particular, you must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to it, introduce malicious code, scrape or harvest content at scale, reproduce substantial parts of it without permission, or use it in any way that is unlawful or infringes the rights of others.

13. Third-party links and services

Our website may link to third-party sites and platforms that we do not control. We provide those links for convenience only and accept no responsibility for their content, availability, or privacy and security practices.

14. Warranties and disclaimers

We warrant that our services will be performed with reasonable skill and care by suitably experienced personnel. Beyond that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, our website and services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without further warranties of any kind.

We do not warrant any particular commercial outcome, audience growth, engagement level, ranking or revenue arising from creative or marketing work.

15. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of business, loss of anticipated savings, loss of goodwill, or loss or corruption of data. Our total aggregate liability arising out of any engagement is limited to the total fees paid by you to us for that engagement.

We maintain backups of project media for a reasonable period but are not a data-archiving service; you should keep your own copies of delivered files.

16. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from material you supplied to us, from your use of deliverables beyond the agreed licence, or from your breach of these Terms.

17. Force majeure

Neither party is liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including natural disaster, epidemic, civil unrest, industrial action, government restriction, power or telecommunications failure, or the cancellation of a venue by its operator. Affected obligations are suspended for the duration of the event.

18. Confidentiality

Each party will keep the other's non-public information confidential, use it only for the purposes of the engagement, and protect it with at least reasonable care. This obligation does not apply to information that is public through no breach, independently developed, or required to be disclosed by law.

19. Termination

Either party may terminate an engagement on written notice if the other commits a material breach that is not remedied within fourteen (14) days of notice, or becomes insolvent. On termination you remain liable for work performed and costs committed. Clauses that by their nature should survive — including intellectual property, confidentiality, liability and governing law — continue to apply.

20. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The parties will first attempt to resolve any dispute in good faith through discussion between senior representatives.

If a dispute is not resolved within thirty (30) days, it will be referred to mediation in Lagos before either party commences proceedings. Subject to that, the courts of Lagos State have exclusive jurisdiction.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The version published on this page at the date of your Project Document applies to that engagement. Continued use of the website after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

22. Contact us

Questions about these Terms can be sent to themaverickcreatives@gmail.com, or by post to 9 Ayoka Street, opposite Justrite Supermarket, Bariga, Lagos, Nigeria.