Terms & Conditions

01. Scope and acceptance

ORYVEK is the public-facing technology-studio name currently used by Tharul Geeneth Thenuwara in Sri Lanka. The proposed company registration and incorporation process has not been completed; ORYVEK is not being represented as an incorporated private limited company. Unless and until a different legally established contracting entity is identified in an accepted written agreement, any project engagement must identify Tharul Geeneth Thenuwara as the individual contracting supplier, subject to applicable business-name registration and contracting rules. Any address or registration particulars legally required for the transaction must be disclosed before an agreement is concluded. Browsing this website or requesting a quotation does not create a paid engagement.

Browsing the website or requesting a quotation does not constitute acceptance of an undisclosed project contract or authorize a payment. No paid engagement begins merely through a submitted enquiry. A project proceeds when both parties accept a specific written quotation, statement of work (SOW), contract or other lawful written confirmation that identifies the parties, deliverables, fees and essential terms.

The terms on this page are general information and website-use conditions. They are not intended to override mandatory protections. If a project agreement expressly incorporates these website terms, the agreed SOW controls the project's specific scope, price, acceptance and other negotiated provisions where there is a conflict, unless mandatory law requires otherwise.

02. Definitions

For clarity, the following expressions have the meanings used throughout these terms:

• Client: the person or organization contracting for professional services, through an authorized representative where applicable.
• Deliverables: the software, website, test report, design, documentation, creative asset, prototype or other output expressly identified in a project agreement.
• Statement of Work (SOW): the document defining scope, responsibilities, acceptance criteria, milestones, pricing, exclusions and important assumptions.
• Change request: a proposed variation that materially changes the accepted scope, schedule, cost or deliverables.
• Background materials: ORYVEK's independently developed code, reusable tools, methods, templates and know-how not specifically transferred under the engagement.
• Third-party services: hosting, domains, frameworks, APIs, cloud providers, app stores, payment providers, licensed media and other independently supplied products.
• Care: any separately agreed continuing maintenance, support or operational services after delivery.

A public package description is not a substitute for a project-specific SOW.

03. Services and capability boundaries

ORYVEK's public catalogue may include software and digital engineering, quality assurance, website repair and modernization, marketing and digital communication, digital and interactive media design, applied AI, electronics and embedded systems, and research or experimental development. The availability of a listed capability depends on actual staffing, technical feasibility, risk and a mutually agreed scope.

Research interests, experiments and developing capabilities are not a warranty of production readiness. ORYVEK may decline a project, propose a discovery stage, or require appropriately qualified collaborators. Regulated, safety-critical, medical, industrial-control or other high-risk work is not undertaken merely because it appears in a public service description. Any such work would require an explicit suitability assessment and separately agreed safeguards.

The client must identify any specialized legal, security, accessibility, industry or operational requirements before they are treated as included in a project.

04. Website information, estimates and quotations

The website may publish indicative starting prices, sample service descriptions, examples and estimated budgets. These are not guaranteed package offers or binding quotations. A price becomes contractual only through a clearly identified written acceptance procedure and a scope specifying what is included.

Clients should receive a quotation identifying deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, revision allowance, dependencies, expected timeline, payment schedule, third-party costs, tax treatment and the date until which the quote is open for acceptance. Unless specifically stated otherwise, a proposal may be revised before acceptance and does not itself guarantee resource availability.

Prices displayed on the website are expressed in US dollars (USD) for international comparisons. A local invoice or cross-border payment may need a different currency or documentation under Sri Lankan foreign-exchange, tax and payment rules. Each invoice must specify its lawful currency, price, taxes and method; no automatic gross-up or unexplained payment surcharge applies solely because a client is overseas.

05. Project discovery and proposals

ORYVEK may request requirements, access information, example websites, technical details and business constraints before quoting. Early advice or a preliminary review is not a warranty that the project is achievable at a particular price or timeline.

Where a discovery or audit phase is proposed as a paid engagement, its deliverables and price must be identified in advance. Findings may lead to a different recommendation or scope than first anticipated; an exploratory assessment does not guarantee that ORYVEK will be able or willing to undertake the full implementation.

The client is responsible for reviewing the proposal, checking that material requirements are recorded, and ensuring the person approving it has authority to do so.

06. Payments, invoices and taxes

No fee or deposit is payable solely because someone visited the site or requested a quotation. The agreed SOW or order must specify any required deposit, milestone amounts, due dates, invoice currency, payment method and what happens if the project does not proceed.

For continuing services such as ORYVEK Care, the accepted agreement must clearly identify the billing period, whether the plan renews, the method of cancellation, supported systems and service hours. Recurring fees should not begin without the client's informed agreement to the recurring arrangement.

If a payment is late, ORYVEK may provide notice and may suspend future work only in accordance with the accepted contract and applicable law. Any suspension involving live hosting, customer access or client data requires an agreed, proportionate process intended to avoid unnecessary loss and preserve legally required rights. Lawful payment disputes may be raised in good faith; the website does not prohibit chargebacks or statutory remedies.

Taxes, licensing, cloud usage, hosting, domain renewals and third-party charges are included only when the quote says so. Significant recurring costs should be disclosed and approved before being incurred. No unconditional right to retain all advance payments is asserted by these website terms.

07. Scope, milestones and change control

Only deliverables, platforms, languages, integrations, revision rounds, formats and acceptance criteria expressly included in the accepted scope are part of the agreed price. New features, additional screens, redesigned concepts, changes to integrations or additional rounds of revisions may require a change request.

ORYVEK will explain the likely effects of a material change on cost and timing and should obtain written authorization before performing separately chargeable work. The client may decline a proposed change; the original agreed work remains governed by the existing contract unless a change makes it impractical and the parties agree another resolution.

Timelines depend on timely access, feedback, approvals, dependencies and outside-provider availability. A date is a contractual deadline only when the accepted project documentation expressly makes it one.

08. Client responsibilities and supplied materials

The client agrees, where relevant, to provide accurate requirements, usable content, appropriate approvals, access to relevant systems and a designated decision-maker. The client should avoid transmitting passwords in ordinary email and should grant the least-privileged access reasonably needed for work.

The client represents that it has a lawful right to supply and use its trademarks, photographs, copy, data, music, software, databases and other project inputs and that the intended use has been disclosed. The client remains responsible for factual claims about its own business, product regulations, published offers and other information it approves for release.

Client delays or incomplete information may require reasonable changes to scope and schedule. ORYVEK should notify the client of consequential changes and agree how the project will proceed.

09. Collaboration, approvals and acceptance

The accepted SOW should state review stages, delivery formats, supported browsers or environments, objective acceptance tests, defect-reporting channels and revision allowances. On delivery, the client should have a reasonable opportunity to inspect and describe non-conformities against the agreed scope.

A deemed-acceptance period, limited remedial warranty or particular sign-off procedure binds the parties only if it is clearly stated in the contract and is fair and legally enforceable. A visitor's silence, review of a portfolio page or mere use of this website does not constitute acceptance of a paid deliverable.

Where a delivered item does not match agreed specifications or applicable law requires a remedy, the parties will address correction or another available lawful remedy. Electronic signatures, emails and approvals may be used to the extent recognized by applicable law.

10. Delivery, deployment and handover

The final deliverables and method of transfer will be described in the agreement. Handover may include source files, build instructions, repository access, credentials, deployment records, documentation or training, only where included in the scope.

Deployment can depend on client-controlled hosting, domain access, platform approvals, paid subscriptions and third-party configuration. ORYVEK will not knowingly misrepresent a prototype, draft or test system as a production-ready or independently certified product.

The client should verify ownership of its domain, hosting and key third-party accounts. If ORYVEK manages them under a support agreement, roles, access and transfer procedures should be documented.

11. Intellectual property and licenses

Clients retain ownership of materials they independently supply and have authority to use. ORYVEK retains its pre-existing tools, methods, libraries and know-how unless a signed agreement expressly grants a different right.

The written SOW must say whether and when custom deliverables will be assigned or licensed to the client, what editable source files are included, and which elements remain reusable ORYVEK materials. A transfer conditional on final payment must be clearly agreed, and cannot override applicable statutory rights or third-party licenses.

Open-source components, fonts, APIs, licensed media and platform accounts remain governed by their own terms. Where an asset was generated or assisted by AI, rights and exclusivity may be different from those of traditionally commissioned material, and ORYVEK must not guarantee copyright ownership or exclusivity that cannot lawfully be transferred.

Project publication, logos, screenshots, testimonials or a client name will not be used to imply endorsement without the permission required by the applicable contract and law. Internal research, founder experiments and uncommissioned concepts must be labeled accurately.

12. Software quality, QA and security

Software tests and QA findings reflect only the stated scope, versions, environments, techniques and time of examination. A test report does not certify that all defects or security weaknesses have been found. Likewise, accessible, secure and compatible design requires concrete acceptance criteria, not broad marketing assurances.

Any penetration test, vulnerability scan, source-code analysis or intrusive security work requires prior, documented authorization from the relevant system owner and an agreed test boundary. ORYVEK will not treat an unsolicited technical review as permission to attack, disrupt or access a third party's systems.

Contracts should describe the treatment of reproducible defects, warranty repairs, client backups, account access, deployment responsibility, and security incidents. Nothing here removes responsibility for negligence, deficient work or statutory remedies where liability cannot lawfully be excluded.

13. AI and automation limitations

AI-assisted search, document handling, automation and intelligent systems can produce incomplete, incorrect or biased results and may depend on third-party model providers. A demonstration or pilot is not a warranty of suitability for unsupervised production use.

Before development, the SOW should identify approved use cases, data sources, data-processing roles, evaluation criteria, human review and escalation, retention, model/API suppliers, cost limits and any prohibited uses. Projects involving sensitive, legally consequential, regulated, surveillance-related or safety-critical decisions require separate assessment and may be declined.

ORYVEK does not guarantee perfect AI accuracy or commercial outcomes; nevertheless, it remains responsible for work it actually undertakes to the standard required by the accepted contract and mandatory law. Clients must obtain appropriate rights to data they provide, but blanket exclusions do not excuse ORYVEK's own unlawful handling of it.

14. Electronics, embedded systems and research

Electronics, hardware–software integration and experimental development may involve component shortages, fabrication variability, vendor delays, measurement uncertainty, test failures, safety constraints and other development risks. Research milestones can produce a useful report, negative finding or feasibility conclusion even where a commercial product cannot yet be built.

Unless expressly agreed otherwise, a concept review, simulation, demonstrator or laboratory prototype does not carry certification for commercial manufacturing, electrical safety, medical use, environmental conditions or industrial deployment. The SOW must identify who is responsible for obtaining certifications and approvals where applicable.

Specialist fabrication, boards, sensors, tooling, lab work, shipping, testing equipment and third-party certification are additional only as authorized under the agreed budget. ORYVEK will not accept an obligation to meet an undisclosed regulatory requirement.

15. Marketing, design and search-result expectations

Marketing, advertising design, content, interactive media and SEO work depends on platform policies, competition, audiences, client materials and evolving third-party algorithms. No particular search position, AI-search citation, engagement level, lead volume, sales amount or return on advertising spend is guaranteed unless an unusually specific result is expressly warranted in the agreement.

Clients remain responsible for legal approval of their product claims, regulated advertising statements, rights-cleared promotional materials and the suitability of their own offers. Any recurring media spend, advertisement account costs, platform subscriptions or campaign production costs should be disclosed in the agreed scope.

16. Third-party systems and dependencies

A deliverable may use hosting, domains, APIs, payment processors, CMS plugins, software libraries, external fonts or media assets, cloud platforms, stores or other third-party technologies. Such components are controlled by their respective owners and subject to separate licenses and policies. ORYVEK should disclose known significant dependencies and costs before they are accepted.

A third party may change its pricing, interfaces, security requirements or availability. Such changes can create additional work, which the parties will discuss and scope reasonably. ORYVEK cannot grant rights that a third party has not granted and does not guarantee third-party uptime or perpetual support.

17. Care, maintenance and post-launch support

One-off development does not automatically include indefinite updates, hosting, backups or support. ORYVEK Care and Starter may be offered under separately described plans and written agreements that identify what is delivered, service windows, response expectations, prices, renewal and cancellation rights.

Any automatic renewal or recurring payment must be clearly and prominently disclosed before the client agrees. The agreement should say how to cancel, how access and client-owned accounts will be returned, and what transition assistance is available after a plan ends.

Security measures, backup frequency, recovery objectives, uptime commitments and incident response are included only where agreed, subject to any applicable statutory duty. ORYVEK will not deliberately disable or delete client-owned systems or data simply to obtain payment; a lawful suspension must be proportionate and consistent with the contract.

18. Confidentiality and personal information

Both parties should take reasonable care not to disclose the other's non-public project information except as reasonably necessary for authorized work, to professional advisers under suitable obligations, or where legally required. Information independently developed, already lawfully known or publicly available without breach may be excluded from confidentiality restrictions.

Personal information is addressed in the Privacy Policy. If ORYVEK processes personal data on the client's instructions as part of a project, the parties may require a separate data-processing agreement identifying their roles, permitted processing, data categories, security measures, subcontracting conditions, retention and return/deletion requirements.

The client must not provide sensitive or regulated data without first agreeing on a lawful and adequately secure arrangement.

19. Cancellation, refunds and project suspension

A cancellation, pause or material change should be handled under the accepted SOW and any rights that cannot be waived by contract. The parties should record work completed, committed non-cancellable costs, delivered materials, expenses already authorized and any unused prepayments.

Deposits are not automatically or universally non-refundable. A fair and lawful refund or payment reconciliation depends on the work performed, contract provisions, statutory rights, and reasonable actual costs. A client may dispute billing or exercise a legal cancellation or consumer remedy where available.

ORYVEK may terminate or suspend a project for material non-payment, unauthorized activity or serious breach only after any legally required notice and opportunity to remedy, except where immediate action is necessary to address an actual security or legal risk. On termination, confidentiality, lawful data return/deletion, ownership and payment reconciliation remain subject to the agreed conditions and law.

20. Liability and reasonable allocation of risk

Both parties should reasonably allocate risks and responsibilities in the project contract with regard to actual services, project value, foreseeable losses, required insurance and statutory obligations. Any agreed limitation of liability must be reasonable and enforceable under the applicable law.

Nothing in these website terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, intentional wrongdoing, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other matter where exclusion is prohibited by applicable law. Nor do these terms waive mandatory rights to remedies for services delivered without reasonable care and skill or in breach of contractual specifications.

Project-specific limitations, indemnities and treatment of consequential loss should be negotiated in writing where appropriate. These website terms do not impose a universal monetary liability cap, bar good-faith claims or transfer every loss caused by ORYVEK's work to the client.

21. Acceptable website use

Visitors must not knowingly interfere with the website, attempt unauthorized system access, distribute malware, impersonate others, submit fraudulent project enquiries, misuse contact channels or copy branding in a way that falsely implies affiliation or endorsement.

Reasonable browsing, accessibility tools and lawful indexing are not prohibited merely because they are automated. ORYVEK may take proportionate action against abuse, including rate limits or reporting unlawful conduct, while respecting applicable law.

22. Events beyond reasonable control

Severe weather, natural disasters, prolonged electricity or network failures, widespread third-party infrastructure outages, governmental restrictions, conflict and other events genuinely outside reasonable control may delay performance. An affected party should inform the other as soon as practicable, explain the impact and take reasonable measures to reduce disruption.

The particular treatment of extended delay, alternative delivery arrangements or termination should follow the accepted project agreement and applicable law. An event that merely makes performance less profitable is not automatically a force majeure event.

23. Governing law, disputes and changes

Sri Lankan law is the proposed starting point for interpretation of these public website terms, but a valid project contract may specify a different governing law, venue or alternative dispute-resolution procedure. No choice of law or forum in these terms removes mandatory rights that applicable law protects, including any relevant consumer or small-business contract protections.

For a project dispute, the parties should first attempt a written explanation and good-faith discussion. Mediation may be used when both parties agree and where appropriate. Neither visitor nor customer is required by these website terms to forfeit access to competent courts, regulators or mandatory statutory remedies.

Published website terms may be updated. A revision will not unilaterally replace binding project conditions already accepted unless the applicable contract and law allow a valid change. If part of a clause is unenforceable, other provisions remain in force to the extent legally possible.

24. Contact and legal review

Questions about these Terms & Conditions, a quotation or an existing engagement can be sent to hello@oryvek.com. For matters concerning personal information or cookies, read the Privacy Policy.

These terms provide a general framework and do not replace a signed project contract or professional legal advice. Any project-specific conditions should be stated in the accepted written agreement, and its legal obligations should be reviewed for the relevant jurisdiction.

25. International clients and mandatory protections

ORYVEK may receive international enquiries, but no single online contract template is assumed to satisfy every jurisdiction. Before agreeing to services, the supplier and client should consider rules applying to their own activities, the location of individuals whose data is processed, tax and invoicing obligations, export controls, licensing and the enforceability of the proposed agreement.

In particular, consumer rights and unfair-contract protections in the UK, EU member states, Australia and other markets can limit cancellation charges, non-refundable deposits, unilateral changes, exclusions of responsibility and forum clauses. Some protections also extend to small businesses. These terms cannot remove those rights, even where a contract chooses Sri Lankan law.

Cross-border projects involving personal information require a separate check of the parties' roles, security, authorized transfers, incident response and appropriate data-processing terms. ORYVEK may defer, restrict or decline a project that requires legal or technical qualifications not currently available.

26. Pre-contract information and fair dealing

Before a customer accepts a paid project, ORYVEK should disclose the verified legal supplier identity, a reliable service address or other required business contact details, the full scope and price, agreed currency, payment plan, tax treatment, material dependencies, delivery expectations, complaint contact, and any cancellation or recurring-service terms. Important terms should be brought clearly to the customer's attention, not concealed in a footer or changed after acceptance.

Where an individual is legally treated as a consumer, a contract tailored to the applicable consumer-law jurisdiction may be necessary. ORYVEK's public website describes mainly professional and organizational services; that statement alone does not extinguish consumer status or statutory protections.