Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of terms#

By accessing this website or engaging Magnus Mage for services, you agree to these Terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of an organization, you confirm you have the authority to bind it.

These Terms govern your use of this website and, where no signed agreement says otherwise, any services Magnus Mage provides to you. Using the site means you accept them.

If you accept on behalf of a company, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and "you" means that company. You must be able to form a binding contract where you live.

They take effect on 22 August 2026 and apply from the moment you use the site or engage us.

2. Description of services#

Magnus Mage provides deep-tech product and protocol engineering, consulting, and related services. The specific scope of any engagement is defined in a separate statement of work or services agreement.

Engineering work is defined in a written statement of work or proposal — scope, deliverables, milestones, assumptions and fees. Nothing on this website is an offer to perform work, and no description of a capability here forms part of any engagement.

Order of precedence. Where a signed master services agreement, statement of work or non-disclosure agreement conflicts with these Terms, that document governs, in that order. These Terms fill the gaps rather than override negotiated positions.

Scope changes by written change order agreed by both sides. We may improve or alter this website at any time; we will not materially reduce agreed deliverables without your agreement.

3. User accounts and responsibilities#

Where the site or a service requires an account, you are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity that happens under your account.

This site is for people evaluating or working with Magnus Mage on business matters. It is not directed at children.

Where we issue credentials to a client environment, they are yours to protect: keep them confidential, do not share them, and tell us promptly if you think they have been exposed. Actions taken with your credentials are treated as yours.

Do not attempt to break, overload, scrape or probe this site or any system we operate, submit unlawful or malicious content through our forms, misrepresent who you are, or use our material to build a competing offering. We may restrict access where we reasonably believe any of this is happening.

4. Intellectual property#

Ownership of pre-existing IP, the content on this website, and the deliverables we produce is allocated between the parties as set out here and in the applicable engagement agreement.

The design, code, text, marks and imagery of this website belong to Magnus Mage or our licensors, and are protected by copyright and trade mark law. You may read, print and share pages for your own evaluation. You may not copy, adapt, republish or use them commercially without our written permission.

What you get when we build for you. On full payment, ownership of the bespoke deliverables produced for you under a statement of work transfers to you.

What stays ours. Our pre-existing tools, libraries, frameworks and know-how remain ours, together with anything general we develop that is not specific to your project. Where those are embedded in a deliverable, you receive a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to use them as part of it. Third-party and open-source components stay under their own licences, which we identify.

5. Client work and NDA framework#

Client engagements are governed by confidentiality obligations. This section summarizes how we handle confidential information and how non-disclosure agreements interact with these Terms.

Each side will keep the other's confidential information confidential, use it only for the engagement, and protect it at least as carefully as its own. This applies during the engagement and for three years after it ends — indefinitely for anything that is a trade secret.

A signed non-disclosure agreement takes precedence over this section for everything it covers.

Confidentiality does not apply to information that is already public through no fault of the receiving party, was already known without a duty of confidence, is independently developed without reference to the disclosure, or must be disclosed by law or a court — in which case we will tell you first where we are lawfully able to.

6. Payment terms#

Fees, invoicing schedules, currencies, taxes, and late-payment terms are set out in each engagement agreement and summarized here.

Fees, currency and the invoicing schedule are set in the statement of work. Unless it says otherwise, we invoice monthly in arrears and payment is due within 30 days of the invoice date.

Fees exclude taxes. You are responsible for any sales tax, VAT, GST or withholding that applies, other than tax on our income. Where withholding is required by law, you will gross up so we receive the invoiced amount.

Undisputed invoices unpaid after 30 days may carry interest at 1.5% per month or the maximum the law allows, whichever is lower, and we may suspend work after giving 10 business days' written notice. Dispute a charge in good faith within 15 days and we will work it through before either applies. Approved expenses are billed at cost.

7. Warranties and disclaimers#

We stand behind our work as described in each agreement. Except as expressly stated, the website and services are provided on an “as is” basis to the extent permitted by law.

We warrant that our services will be performed with the reasonable skill and care of a competent professional in our field, and that deliverables will materially conform to the statement of work for 90 days after acceptance. If they do not, tell us within that period and we will re-perform or correct the work — that is your exclusive remedy for a breach of this warranty.

Beyond that, this website and its content are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent the law allows we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Nothing here excludes a warranty that cannot lawfully be excluded, and if you are a consumer your statutory rights are unaffected.

8. Limitation of liability#

This section sets out the limits on each party’s liability arising from the website or an engagement, subject to the exclusions required by applicable law.

Neither side is liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill or data, even if told such loss was possible.

Each side's total liability arising out of an engagement is capped at the fees paid or payable under the relevant statement of work in the 12 months before the claim arose. For use of this website where no engagement exists, our total liability is capped at USD 100.

These caps do not apply to death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, a breach of the confidentiality section, your obligation to pay fees, or any liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

9. Indemnification#

The circumstances in which each party will indemnify the other — for example against third-party intellectual-property claims — are set out here.

We will defend you against a third-party claim that a bespoke deliverable we created infringes that party's intellectual property, and pay damages finally awarded or agreed in settlement. If a deliverable is found to infringe, we may at our option procure the right to continue using it, replace it, modify it, or refund the fees paid for it.

You will defend us against a third-party claim arising from material you supplied, from your use of a deliverable in a way the statement of work did not contemplate, or from your breach of these Terms.

Either indemnity requires the indemnified party to notify the other promptly, hand over sole control of the defence, and cooperate reasonably. No settlement that admits fault or imposes an obligation may be made without the other's consent, not to be unreasonably withheld. Our indemnity does not cover a claim arising from your modifications, from combining a deliverable with something we did not supply, or from continued use after we told you to stop.

10. Governing law and dispute resolution#

These Terms are governed by the laws of Lahore, Pakistan, and any dispute is resolved through the process described in this section.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Talk first. Before starting formal proceedings, the parties will escalate the dispute to a senior representative of each and try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days of written notice.

If that fails, the dispute will be finally resolved by arbitration in Lahore, Pakistan under the Arbitration Act 1940, before a single arbitrator, in English. The award is final and binding. Either party may still apply to a court for urgent injunctive relief, and the courts of Lahore, Pakistan have exclusive jurisdiction over any matter not subject to arbitration. Each side bears its own costs unless the arbitrator directs otherwise.

11. Changes to these terms#

We may update these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the website or services after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

We may update these Terms as our services and the law change. The date at the top always reflects the current version, and the version in force when you engage us governs that engagement.

For a material change we will post the updated Terms here at least 30 days before they take effect and, where we hold your address and the change warrants it, email you. Continuing to use the site or our services after that date means you accept them; if you do not, stop using the site and tell us.

A signed agreement between us can only be changed in writing, signed by both sides — this section does not let us vary it unilaterally.

12. Contact#

If you have any question about these Terms, contact us using the details below and we will route it to the right person.