These Terms of Service form the agreement between BLAKPIJEON, whose postal address is 6378 S 525 E, Salt Lake City - 84107-7562, United States (US), and any person or business that uses this website or that commissions integrated systems design from the studio. BLAKPIJEON works at the meeting point of computer integrated systems design and the professional, scientific and technical trades, serving the signs, packaging and branded print world with technologies such as signage production workflows, packaging prepress automation, brand asset platforms, large format print queues, order and proofing portals and colour management systems. The pages set the boundaries of a fair engagement on both sides of the table. Please read them carefully before sending an enquiry or signing a statement of work, and keep the companion Privacy Policy in view at the same time.
1. Acceptance of These Terms
By browsing this website, sending an enquiry, booking a consultation or commissioning a service, an individual or business agrees to be bound by these Terms of Service and by the Privacy Policy that sits alongside them. If a party does not agree with any part of these terms, that party should not use the website and should not commission the studio, and should instead reach out directly to discuss whether an agreed variation is possible.
These terms read as one agreement. Where a separate written statement of work has been signed, that statement of work prevails on any point where it deliberately differs from this general page, because a tailored statement represents the precise bargain the parties struck for a particular project. In every other respect these general terms continue to govern the relationship.
The studio may update these terms from time to time, as described in section 17. Continuing to use the site after an update, or commissioning further work after an update, means that the current edition of these terms governs that later activity. Anyone who relies on a favourite older clause should keep a copy, because the studio will honour the edition that stood when work began if the parties otherwise agree.
2. About the Company and the Developer
The services offered through this website are those of the Company, BLAKPIJEON, at 6378 S 525 E, Salt Lake City - 84107-7562, United States (US). The technical direction of the practice rests with the developer Blak Pijeon, and day to day contact for clients and prospects is handled by the contact person Huang Jie. Correspondence by email may go to request@blakpijeon.buzz and by telephone to +15173989861.
Readers in any country should be clear that BLAKPIJEON is based in the United States. The laws that govern the delivery and the disputes around any service are described in section 17 below, and they generally follow the law of the State of Utah and of the United States, without chasing the local law of a remote buyer for its own sake.
Company name: BLAKPIJEON
Address: 6378 S 525 E, Salt Lake City - 84107-7562, United States (US)
Developer: Blak Pijeon · Contact: Huang Jie
Email: request@blakpijeon.buzz · Phone: +15173989861
The studio believes a strong name speaks plainly. The developer name Blak Pijeon and the trade name BLAKPIJEON are used together across the site so that clients always know exactly which person stands behind the engineering and which practice stands behind the invoice.
3. Scope of Services
The studio provides integrated computer systems design and related technical services for businesses that make and manage signs, packaging, large format print and branded collateral. In plain terms the studio designs, builds, wires, calibrates and maintains the connected technology on which a modern print operation runs.
Services commonly include signage production workflows, so that orders, prepress, finishing and dispatch move in one guided stream; packaging prepress automation, so that structural and colour checks run consistently before plates and dies are made; brand asset management platforms, so that artwork, colour references and production specs live in one managed home; large format print queues, so that media, ink and finishing batched sensibly; order and proofing portals, so that clients order and approve with a clear trail; and colour management systems, so that a proof and a sheet agree across every device and shift.
The exact range of work for any single client is fixed by a statement of work and not by these general words. The studio does not claim to be everything to everyone. Software development outside the field of production technology, general web marketing and full service legal or accounting advice are not the strengths of the practice, and the studio will say so honestly rather than stretch a job beyond its competence.
4. Quotes, Statements of Work and Acceptance
Discussion usually begins with a survey visit or an extended call, from which the studio returns a written options report. Nothing in an estimate, a verbal figure or a website page creates an obligation until both sides sign a statement of work or otherwise agree in writing on the scope, the price and the schedule of a defined project.
Each statement of work records the services, the deliverables, the milestones, the fees and any assumptions on which the plan rests, such as the cooperation the client will provide and the files the client will supply on time. The studio relies on an accurate scope because honest pricing rests on honest assumptions, and a scope that shifts midway must be reflected in the price rather than silently absorbed.
A statement of work becomes binding on the studio only when a person authorised to act for BLAKPIJEON signs it or otherwise confirms it in writing. An email from the developer Blak Pijeon confirming a defined scope stands as such a confirmation. Work that begins before paperwork is complete is performed on these general terms, with the particulars to be tied down without delay.
5. Fees, Payment and Invoicing
Fees are set in the statement of work and may be quoted as a fixed sum, as a time and materials charge at a stated daily or hourly rate, or as a combination of both. Unless the statement says otherwise, a proportion of the fee is due before delivery begins and the balance is due on completion, with invoices payable within the number of days written on the invoice, commonly thirty days.
The studio knows that print operators work on margins, and it does not hide costs. Where a job will incur hardware, software or third party charges that the studio pays on behalf of the client, those charges are identified in advance and passed on at cost with the studio earning nothing silently on the spread. Mileage and reasonable expenses, where agreed, are stated plainly on the invoice.
If a payment is late, the studio retains the ordinary right to pause work until the account is current, to charge the lawful rate of interest on the overdue sum and to rely on the protection set out in section 14. A client with a genuine billing question should raise it at once rather than let a small doubt grow, because a good working relationship survives a simple question but suffers from a silent standoff.
6. Client Obligations and Cooperation
To deliver a square result the studio depends on the client to provide the material cooperation the project needs: current contact details for the right people, access to the machines and systems being wired, accurate copies of files and specs, timely answers to questions and a named decision maker who can approve a proof without chasing a whole committee.
Time lost waiting on the client side is not counted as studio fault. If a milestone slips because required material arrives late or decisions stall, the schedule moves in step, and where the studio has reserved its time for a block of work that the client then puts aside, a reasonable charge for the reserved but unused window may apply under the statement of work.
The client also warrants that it holds proper rights in everything it supplies, including the artwork, the content and the environment the studio is asked to connect. A client who passes to the studio a file it lacks the right to use should not expect the studio to detect that on its own, and the client stands behind the material under the indemnity in section 14.
7. Deliverables and Acceptance of Work
At the end of each phase the studio presents work for review, in the language this site already uses, as a proof. The client is asked to examine the proof against the brief, to raise any point that does not match and to approve it in writing when satisfied. An approval closes the phase and lets the work move cleanly to the next press step.
Where no written approval is requested, the client has a reasonable window after delivery to raise any defect that a careful operator would spot, and the studio will put it right. Work is judged against what was actually agreed in the statement of work. A complaint that asks for a different design, extra features or a fresh broom that was never priced is not a defect claim, but a change, and is handled under section 8.
Anything the studio cannot verify from its own bench, such as the absolute behaviour of a client owned legacy machine, is tested in cooperation with the client on site. Where a fault traces to a third party device or a piece of client software rather than to the work of the studio, the studio will say so plainly and help separate the threads, rather than absorb blame that belongs elsewhere.
8. Changes, Delays and Extras
Change is a natural part of real work, and a good studio does not punish a client for changing its mind. When a client requests a change to scope, the studio gives a written estimate of the effect on time and price. Nothing is an extra until the client agrees to it, and the studio keeps a running and readable account of any additions so no surprise lands on the final invoice.
Not every difference of view is a change request of the client. If the studio discovers mid project that the agreed scope holds an honest error, such as a measurably larger data set than the survey suggested, it brings the finding to the client before proceeding, so the two sides can decide together rather than discover the gap only on the bill.
Delays caused by the studio, the client or a third party are each tracked openly against the schedule. Because printing seasons are real, the studio helps the client protect its busy windows by flagging risk early and by promising only the dates it can genuinely hold. An unforeseen extra earns its place on the invoice only with advance notice and agreement.
9. Intellectual Property
Methods, know how, tools, libraries and process techniques that the studio developed before an engagement, or develops generally rather than for a single client, remain the property of BLAKPIJEON and the developer Blak Pijeon. This is the ordinary rule of the trade, because a studio would soon be out of business if it gave away its entire working craft on every first job.
Work that is genuinely created for a client and paid for by that client passes to the client on full payment, so that the client owns the bespoke result it commissioned and may run it freely. The studio keeps any background tools embedded in that result usable by the client under a license that lets the delivered system keep working, without handing those background tools themselves to other hands.
The client grants the studio the right to keep copies needed to support the delivered system and, subject to the confidentiality clause, to describe the project in a portfolio with respect for any non disclosure agreement the parties sign. Nothing in this section gives either side the right to the trademark or distinctive names of the other beyond the ordinary use of a business arrangement.
10. Confidentiality
Both sides will see information the other treats as confidential: pricing, trade processes, unreleased artwork, security arrangements and the inner working of production floors. Each side agrees to use such information only for the purpose of the engagement and to keep it from people who have no need of it. This promise survives the end of the work.
Confidential information does not include matter that is public through no breach, that a party already held in good faith, that arrives lawfully from a third party, or that must be disclosed to meet a duty of law or a demand of proper authority. Where a disclosure is compelled, the receiving side gives prompt notice where lawful so the other can consider its own position.
The studio asks no more of clients than it demands of itself. It treats the shop floor of a client with the same reserve it would wish for its own proofing methods, and it marks its own confidential material clearly so a client is never guessing what must be held close.
11. Data and Security of Shared Material
As part of wiring and maintaining production systems the studio will, by nature, touch client files and records. The studio treats such material as belonging to the client and uses it only for the project at hand. Handling of personal information follows the Privacy Policy, while this section concerns business data, artwork and the operation of shared systems.
The studio takes reasonable and current measures to keep shared material safe: limited access by role, encrypted transfer where practical, careful software patching and honest notice if a breach touches a client file. Because much media work is large and proprietary, the studio avoids holding more of it than the project requires and returns or deletes project material when an engagement ends unless the parties agree on a short retention for warranty support.
Where the studio works with client owned machines, a sensible limit applies: the studio configures and tests what it can reach, but the client remains responsible for the wider security of its own network, its antivirus habits and the permissions it grants to its own staff. Some risks live on the client side of the fence, and the studio names those risks rather than pretending to cover them.
12. Warranties and Disclaimer
The studio warrants that its services will be performed with reasonable skill and care by people competent for the work, and that delivered bespoke work will conform to the agreed statement of work for a period stated in that statement, commonly a defined number of days or months after delivery. If delivered work fails to conform within the window, the studio will remedy it at no extra charge.
Beyond that window the studio gives the agreement as it stands. The studio does not warrant that any system is immune from every fault, that third party software will never break, or that a prediction about production behaviour is a guarantee against the weather of real machines. Technology changes and machines age, which is why the studio offers ongoing service rather than a claim of permanent perfection.
This site is provided for general information about the practice. While the studio keeps its content accurate, it makes no promise that the pages are free of every error and gives no warranty that the site will run without interruption. Nothing in these terms limits rights that a consumer law cannot lawfully waive, and the studio does not ask a consumer to give such rights away.
13. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, the studio is not liable for indirect, special, incidental or consequential loss such as lost profit, lost production, lost data or damage to goodwill, however it arises, even where the studio has been warned of the chance. Print runs and seasonal campaigns matter to a client, and the studio understands that, but the law of this field does not let a supplier insure every downstream consequence of a client business.
Where liability does attach to the studio for a breach of these terms or a failure of the service, the total compensation owed to a client in respect of any one engagement is limited to the fees that the client paid to the studio for the specific piece of work that gave rise to the claim. Nothing in this section removes liability that cannot be removed by law, such as liability for fraud or for death or injury caused by negligence.
The studio urges clients to carry their own cover for production risk and business interruption, and it will gladly point a client to the sensible controls and backups that a well run operation already holds. The aim of this clause is a fair split of risk, not a way for either side to shrug at its own carelessness.
14. Indemnity by the Client
The client agrees to defend, hold harmless and indemnify BLAKPIJEON against claims, losses and reasonable costs that arise because of content, files or materials the client supplied to the studio, including claims that such material infringes the rights of a third party or breaches a law. This mirrors the client warranty in section 6 and keeps responsibility with the owner of the material.
The protection also extends to misuse by the client of a delivered system, to unauthorised changes the client or its staff make after delivery and to claims arising from the client running the system in a way the statement of work did not ask the studio to make safe. A client who tunes a delivered press profile until it breaks should own the tuning rather than the studio.
The studio, for its part, takes care that what it builds does not knowingly infringe a third right, and it stands behind its own negligence under the warranty and liability clauses. This indemnity is a fair partnership clause, not a licence for the studio to pass blame freely, and both sides are expected to act on their own proper share of the risk.
15. Use of the Website
This website exists to explain the practice and to let people reach it. A visitor may view the pages freely and may share a link to them, but may not scrape the site wholesale, resell its content, disguise traffic, attempt to break in or use the site in a way that interferes with other visitors or with the machines that host it.
The studio posts honest content about its work, its proofs and its figures. Because technique and offerings may shift as the practice grows, the site is kept as current as care allows, but dated pages should be read in the light of the date shown rather than taken as a frozen promise of what the studio will never change.
Reference to a named brand, a partner or a linked resource is made for information. It does not mean the studio profits from that name or controls that resource, and a visitor should apply the same judgement to a link they follow away from this site as they apply to any other place on the open web.
16. Term and Termination
These terms apply for as long as a visitor uses the site or a client engages the studio, and where needed they survive the end of a particular project so that clauses on payment, confidentiality, intellectual property, limitation, indemnity and disputes keep their force.
Either side may end a statement of work on written notice for a material breach that the other side does not put right within a stated, reasonable cure period. Either side may also end on written notice where the other becomes insolvent or ceases to trade in a way that makes completion impossible. On termination the client pays for work properly done to date plus any irrevocable commitments, and the parties return or destroy confidential material under clause 10.
If the studio ends the work for a client default, the client still owes for the value delivered before the termination and for work the studio cannot usefully cancel. If goods or software were procured for the job that cannot be returned, an agreement about those costs is reached openly rather than left to a quiet surprise. A clean exit protects both the client floor and the studio name.
17. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah and, where they apply, the laws of the United States, without regard to conflict of law rules that would point elsewhere. Any dispute that arises is first and best resolved by a direct conversation, because the studio has built its reputation by talking through differences rather than by reaching for the courts.
If a dispute cannot be settled amicably within a reasonable period, the parties agree to attempt mediation in good faith before any courts, unless the claim is one that is small enough or urgent enough that mediation would be wasteful. Only if mediation does not settle the matter does the dispute proceed in a court of competent jurisdiction sitting in the State of Utah, and both parties agree to the personal jurisdiction of such a court for claims covered by these terms.
This clause is not intended to strip a consumer of protection that the law of the consumer home firmly refuses to give away; where an overriding consumer rule applies, that rule holds. For trade clients the clause is a plain and workable choice of forum that keeps every engagement honest and locally decided.
18. Entire Agreement and Final Provisions
These Terms of Service together with any signed statement of work and the companion Privacy Policy form the whole of the agreement between the studio and a client for the work they cover. They replace any earlier discussion or side letter on the same subject, and no change to them binds the studio unless it is set out in writing and signed on behalf of BLAKPIJEON.
If any clause of these terms is found unenforceable, that clause is read down to the smallest extent that keeps it lawful and the remainder of the terms continue in full force. A waiver by either side of a breach on one occasion does not waive that term on another occasion, and headings in these terms are for convenience and carry no legal weight.
These terms are written in English and the English text governs any reading in another tongue. Nobody at the studio is a stranger to a fair question, and the final encouragement of the practice is the same one that opens this page: read plainly, ask directly, and let an honest proof settle the matter. Questions may be sent to request@blakpijeon.buzz or raised by phone at +15173989861 at the address 6378 S 525 E, Salt Lake City - 84107-7562, United States (US).