Terms & Conditions

1. Agreement

Always Free Website is a business name of Riley Pringle ("we", "us"). These Terms & Conditions apply when you use alwaysfreewebsite.com, apply for a free website, become a client, receive texts or emails from us, or join our affiliate program. By doing any of these you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. You must be at least 18 and able to enter a contract for yourself or your business.

2. The free website program

Applying is free and does not obligate you or us. We review each application and accept the ones that fit the program; we may decline any application without giving a reason. For accepted applications we design and build up to five responsive WordPress pages around the scope we agree on with you, share a private preview, and make a round of launch edits within that scope. There is no fee for the design and build.

Timelines are estimates and depend on you sending content, approvals, and account access promptly. Work outside the agreed scope, extra pages, or later changes after launch are not part of the free build and may be offered as paid add-ons.

3. Hosting and domain

To launch, your website needs a domain and web hosting in your name, which you buy from any provider you choose and pay for directly. If you already have hosting and a domain, we build on them. We do not sell hosting, add a markup, or receive any payment from your hosting or domain provider.

Your hosting and domain purchases are contracts between you and those providers under their own terms, pricing, and refund policies, and they, not us, are responsible for hosting uptime, billing, and support.

4. Ownership and your content

Once launched, the website, your domain, and your hosting account belong to you, and you receive WordPress administrator access. You keep all rights to the text, logos, photos, and other content you send us, and you confirm you have the right to use it. You give us permission to use that content to build and launch your site. Themes, plugins, fonts, and stock images we use stay under their own licenses. Unless you ask us not to, we may show your finished public website in our portfolio and as a sample.

You are responsible for your website's content, for keeping your accounts secure, and for meeting the laws that apply to your business and website, including any privacy notice your own site needs.

5. Paid add-ons

After launch you may choose optional paid services such as maintenance, extra pages, logo design, or SEO. Nothing in the free build depends on buying them. Any paid service is quoted to you in writing before work starts, and the price, scope, and payment terms in that quote apply to it.

6. Email and AI-drafted replies

By applying, you agree that we may email you about your application and website. About a minute after you apply, we send a personal reply drafted with Claude, an AI model from Anthropic, based on your first name, website description, and hosting answer. These emails are about your request only; we do not add you to a marketing list.

7. SMS Terms

Program. Always Free Website sends text messages about website applications from our business number: a reply after you apply, questions about your project, and scheduling a call on Google Meet or Zoom.

Consent. We only text people who entered their own mobile number on our application form and checked the box agreeing to receive texts from Always Free Website. Consent is not a condition of applying or of any purchase. By opting in you confirm that you are the account holder or authorized user of that mobile number.

Frequency and cost. Message frequency varies with your application, usually a few messages. Message and data rates may apply, according to your mobile plan.

Opting out. Reply STOP (or STOPALL, UNSUBSCRIBE, CANCEL, END, or QUIT) at any time to stop receiving texts. You will receive one message confirming you are unsubscribed and no further texts after that. Reply START to subscribe again.

Help. Reply HELP for help, or email apply@alwaysfreewebsite.com.

Carriers. Supported on major US carriers. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

Privacy. We do not sell or share your SMS opt-in data or personal information with third parties for marketing purposes. See our Privacy Policy.

8. Affiliate program

If you join our affiliate program, you earn the payout stated on that page for each referred client who is accepted, approves their finished site, and launches it. Payouts are sent by bank transfer (ACH) to a US bank account in your name; we collect bank details through a secure link, never by email or text. Referrals must be genuine; self-referrals, spam, misleading claims, and paid ads bidding on our brand name are not allowed and void payouts. We may change or end the program and decide disputed referrals in good faith. The full rules are in our Affiliate Terms of Service.

9. Acceptable use

Do not submit false information or someone else's contact details, use bots or scripts on our forms, try to break or overload the site, or ask us to build a website that is illegal, infringes someone's rights, deceives people, or promotes hate, violence, or adult content. We may refuse or stop work on any project that breaks these rules.

10. Disclaimers and liability

The site and our services are provided "as is". We do not guarantee search rankings, traffic, leads, or sales, or that third-party services such as hosting, WordPress, plugins, Google, or messaging carriers will always work. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages or lost profits, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, which for the free build is zero. You agree to cover claims against us that arise from content you supplied or from your use of the website in breach of the law or these terms.

11. General terms and contact

If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest still applies. We may update these terms and will change the date at the top when we do; continuing to use the site or our services after an update means you accept it.

Questions about these terms: hello@alwaysfreewebsite.com. Questions about your application or text messages: apply@alwaysfreewebsite.com.