Terms of Service
The ground rules for using fivetwenty.one: what the site is, what you can do with what we publish, what governs a project once one starts, and whose law applies if something goes wrong.
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What these terms cover
These terms cover your use of the website at fivetwenty.one, operated by PT Optimasi Mesin Pencari, a company registered in Indonesia and trading as fivetwentyone. Using the site means accepting them.
How we handle the data behind all of this is a separate document: Privacy Policy.
What this site is
Everything published here describes what we do. Case studies, service pages, blog posts and the timelines quoted alongside them are information about how this studio usually works.
None of it is an offer, a quote, or professional advice aimed at your situation. A price on this site is a range drawn from past projects. The number that binds either of us is the one in a proposal with your name on it.
Work we do for clients
Every project starts with a written proposal and a statement of work signed by both sides. That document governs the engagement: scope, price, schedule, ownership of the code, confidentiality, warranties and how either side can end it. Where it conflicts with anything on this page, the signed document wins.
Sending an enquiry starts a conversation and nothing more. It puts no obligation on you to hire us and none on us to take the project.
What we publish
The writing, design, photography, code samples, name and logo on this site belong to us. Read them and link to them freely. Quote from a post if you credit fivetwentyone and link back to the original.
Republishing a piece in full, translating one, or presenting our work as your own needs written permission from us first. Our logo and wordmark are licensed to nobody.
Crawlers, models and the machine view
We publish a sitemap, an RSS feed, an llms.txt file and a plain-text mirror of the whole site. They exist because we would rather a crawler or a language model read an accurate version of what we do than infer one.
Indexing the site and citing it is welcome, within whatever robots.txt says at the time. Crawling hard enough to degrade the site for human readers is another matter. So is harvesting the contact form.
What you may not do here
- Probe, scan or test the security of the site, or try to reach any part of it you have not been given access to.
- Submit the contact form automatically, in bulk, or for sales pitches, recruitment blasts and link-building requests.
- Send anything unlawful, defamatory, malicious or designed to interfere with how the site runs.
- Pretend to be somebody else, or to represent a company you do not.
- Copy the site’s design or code to present another business as this one.
What you send us
Anything you send through the form or by email stays yours. Sending it gives us permission to read it, store it and use it to answer you, which is the whole of what we do with it.
Please keep confidential material and other people’s personal data out of an enquiry. It travels through email and sits in a database. Neither is the right home for a secret. Ask us and we will sign an NDA before you share anything sensitive. What you do send should be yours to send.
Names and links that are not ours
Case studies name clients and show their products. Those names, logos and trademarks belong to their owners and appear here to describe work we did. Links pointing away from this site are a convenience; what happens at the other end is outside our control and outside any promise we can make.
Availability and accuracy
The site is provided as it stands. We work to keep it online, fast and correct, without promising that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors on any given day.
Technical writing ages. A post about a framework version was true when it was published. We take on no duty to revise it as the world moves underneath it.
Liability
To the fullest extent Indonesian law allows, we are not liable for lost profit, lost data, business interruption or any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of this website or from anything you relied on here.
Access to the site costs you nothing. Our total liability for everything connected with it is limited to the amount you have paid us for that access.
Nothing in these terms excludes a liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
Changes to these terms
We update these terms when the site changes or the law does. The date at the top comes from the commit that last edited this page and moves whenever the words do. Using the site after a change means accepting the version published at that moment.
Governing law
Indonesian law governs these terms and any dispute arising from them. The courts of Jakarta Barat have jurisdiction. Before anyone goes near a courtroom, write to us. Most disagreements settle over email.
Should a court find one clause unenforceable, the rest of the document stands.
Questions about any of this
Write to us and a person will answer. We would rather explain a clause than have you guess at it.