Cloudflare
Hosting, DNS, edge workers, R2 storage, Pages, Zaraz analytics — everything sits in your Cloudflare account. We are added as Admin. At offboarding, we remove ourselves; your account continues unchanged.
Who owns what.
Every byte of your website touches one of two buckets: yours from day one, or ours under a subscription license. There is no third bucket. Here is exactly which is which — sourced verbatim from Article VIII of your 12-month Services Agreement.
- Yours from day one Data · vendor accounts · content · domain
- Licensed during the Term Website code · Pre-Existing Materials
- Yours via lump-sum buy-out Perpetual code license · right to sublicense
The ownership matrix
Asset by asset, who owns it.
The principle: anything you brought, anything you produce, anything that could be considered “yours” in the normal-business sense is yours. We hold the code — until you buy it out.
| Asset | Owner | Operative section | What this means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Client Content (text, images, copy, branding inputs you upload) | You | 8.2 (a) | Always yours. TechTailors gets a limited license to use it for performing the Services, nothing more. |
| Domain names and registrations | You | 8.2 (a) | Yours, registered in your name. We don’t broker or hold domains. |
| Product / service data (catalog, pricing, descriptions, customer records) | You | 8.2 (a) | Yours. Fully exportable, no extra cost, at any time. |
| Vendor accounts (Cloudflare, Cloudinary, Strapi, BigCommerce, GA4, Typesense, etc.) | You | ADR-004, ADR-014 | Created in your name from onboarding. TechTailors added as Admin collaborator only. |
| Website source code (HTML, CSS, JS, Astro components, custom logic) | TechTailors | 8.1 | Licensed to you for use during the Term under the subscription model. Convert to ownership via lump-sum buy-out. |
| Pre-Existing Materials (frameworks, templates, methodologies, general know-how) | TechTailors | 8.1 (c) | Retained by TechTailors. Reusable across all client projects. Confidential info isolated. |
| Deliverables (compiled site artifacts, downloadable assets) | TechTailors (licensed) | 8.3 | Used by you under license during the Term. Perpetual license after lump-sum buy-out. |
| Third-Party Services and components (vendor SaaS, libraries, paid integrations) | Third party | 8.5 | Subject to each provider’s own terms. Mostly already in your name. After buy-out, TechTailors identifies any non-transferable components for you to license directly. |
Every section number above maps to your countersigned Services Agreement. If your signed copy differs in any material way, your copy controls.
Service accounts
Why your vendor accounts are yours from day one.
Most agencies create vendor accounts in their own name and add the client as a viewer. When you leave, you lose access — or pay a transfer fee, or fight a support ticket, or worse. TechTailors does the opposite. Per ADR-004 (Cloudflare client-owned account structure) and ADR-014 (Cloudinary client-owned account structure), every service account your website depends on is created in your name from onboarding day one. TechTailors is added as an Admin collaborator with the permissions needed to manage the service — nothing more.
Cloudinary
Media library, image transformations, CDN delivery — your Cloudinary account, your billing relationship. We are added as a collaborator. At offboarding, we’re removed; every image remains.
Strapi Cloud (if blogging)
Headless CMS for blog posts and structured content. Your account, your data exports. We integrate via API tokens that revoke on offboarding.
BigCommerce (if e-commerce)
Storefront, products, orders, customers, GMV reporting — all in your BigCommerce account. We are a sub-user, not the owner.
Google Analytics 4
Your GA4 property. We are added as an editor. At offboarding, we remove our access. Every event you’ve ever captured stays.
Typesense / Algolia (if search)
Search index hosted under your account. API keys you can rotate at any time. No vendor lock-in to TechTailors.
The full list lives in your onboarding checklist and in the per-service offboarding playbook at /policies/offboarding.
Client Content
The license you grant us — minimal and time-limited.
Per Section 8.2 (b), you grant TechTailors a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, display, and modify your Client Content solely for the purposes of performing the Services. The license lasts during the Term plus any reasonable additional period needed for offboarding handoff. After offboarding ends, our license to your Content terminates.
What our license covers
- Displaying your content on your live site
- Optimizing images via Cloudinary transformations
- Adapting copy for SEO meta tags, OpenGraph cards, structured data
- Performance optimization (compression, format conversion, responsive sizing)
- Integration with third-party services as needed (CMS sync, search indexing, etc.)
What our license does not cover
- Marketing your Content in TechTailors materials without your prior written consent
- Sublicensing your Content to other clients
- Using your Content in any way after offboarding ends
- Modifying meaning or substance — only formatting and technical integration
- Anything outside the explicit purposes of performing the contracted Services
Subscription-model license
What you can do with the code while subscribed.
Per Section 8.3, during the Term TechTailors grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide license to use the Website and Deliverables. Subject to timely payment and continued compliance with the Agreement.
You can
- Access and use the Website as deployed
- Publicly display the Website to your end users
- Internally reproduce and use the Deliverables for legitimate business purposes
- Deploy downloadable assets to third-party platforms for internal use (for Custom-tier integrations)
You can’t (without a buy-out)
- Sublicense, rent, lease, lend, or transfer the Website code to any third party
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble object code (except where non-waivable law permits)
- Remove or obscure proprietary notices or attributions
- Continue using the Website after the subscription ends without exercising the buy-out
This is the same model used by every subscription web platform — WordPress.com, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow. The difference is the transparent, capped, one-time path to full ownership documented in the next section.
Lump-sum buy-out
The path to perpetual code ownership.
Pick your tier and enter your monthly subscription cost. The buy-out is your projected annual cost multiplied by 2× (Launch) or 2.5× (Scale / Enterprise / Custom), rounded down to the nearest $100. Per Section 7.6 of the Agreement.
Annual subscription$0
Multiplier2.5×
Raw amount$0
Buy-out total $0
Buy-out does not include ongoing support, maintenance, hosting, or updates. You’re welcome to come back and subscribe again later — if you do, we sync your site to our latest standards for free.
What you get after the buy-out
Per Section 8.4, upon receipt of the buy-out payment TechTailors grants you a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license — with the right to sublicense — to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, and create derivative works of the Website source code and associated Deliverables.
The teardown-client.sh tool inlines the shared component
library (@techtailors/astro-core) directly into your
repository and rewrites every import to a local path. The result: a
fully self-contained Astro project with zero TechTailors runtime
dependency. You can hand it to any developer, hire in-house, or
self-host.
What the buy-out does not include
Two things stay with us.
Pre-Existing Materials remain ours
Per Section 8.4 (c), TechTailors retains ownership of its Pre-Existing Materials and general know-how even after a buy-out. You receive full rights to use them in your specific website. We retain the right to keep using them in other client projects — provided we never incorporate your confidential information or proprietary content into that other work.
Third-party components
Per Section 8.4 (b), TechTailors will not transfer or assign licenses for Third-Party Services or proprietary Pre-Existing Materials that cannot be legally or practicably assigned. We will identify any such components to a commercially reasonable extent; you would obtain your own licenses where necessary. In practice, most third-party relationships (Cloudflare, Cloudinary, Strapi, BigCommerce, GA4) are already in your name from onboarding day one, so this rarely creates new work.
FAQ
Specific questions about ownership.
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Why does TechTailors retain the source code under the subscription model?
Same reason WordPress.com, Wix, Squarespace, and Webflow do. The subscription model bundles design, development, hosting, support, and ongoing maintenance into one ongoing relationship. The code is the operational core of that bundle. If we gave away ownership the day you signed, every cost we recover over the 12-month term evaporates the moment you cancel and self-host. The buy-out exists so the path to full ownership is open — just priced transparently, not buried behind a sales-team negotiation. -
Can I see my source code while subscribed?
Yes. The license under Section 8.3 lets you access and use the Website code in connection with our deployment of it. You can review the code, audit it for security, even use it to inform internal decisions. What the subscription license doesn't grant is the right to deploy it on your own infrastructure independent of TechTailors. That right requires the buy-out. -
Is the buy-out price negotiable?
No. The formula in Section 7.6 is fixed: annual subscription cost × 2.0 (Launch) or 2.5 (Scale/Enterprise/Custom), rounded down to the nearest $100. We don't do back-channel negotiation on this number. The formula is transparent and the same for every client, which is the point. -
If I buy the code out, can I rehire TechTailors to maintain it?
Yes — under a separate written agreement. The buy-out terminates the subscription relationship by default. Continuing maintenance, hosting, or new development would be priced as a standalone engagement (Improvement Services per Section 3.5 at $150/hour or via a fixed-fee SOW). Plenty of buy-out clients do this. Plenty don't. Either is fine. -
What if I exercise the buy-out and then decide to come back to the subscription?
Welcome back. Returning post-buy-out is a new engagement — new 12-month term, current pricing, with the option of having us sync your owned code back to our latest standards (often free, see offboarding for the “Coming back” specifics). The buy-out license you previously received stays valid; you retain perpetual rights to that code version independently of any new subscription. -
Where in my contract are these provisions written?
The full ownership framework lives in Article VIII of your 12-month Services Agreement, with buy-out price calculation in Section 7.6. The relevant sections referenced on this page:- Section 8.1 — Works Created by Company; Pre-Existing Materials
- Section 8.2 — Client Content and Works Created by Client
- Section 8.3 — Revocable License to Website and Deliverables (Subscription Model)
- Section 8.4 — License upon Lump-Sum Buy-Out
- Section 8.5 — Third-Party Services and Components
- Section 8.6 — Reservation of Rights
- Section 7.6 — Buy-out price formula
- Section 3.5 — Improvement Services (post-buy-out maintenance pricing)
Questions about your specific ownership situation?
We’ll walk through your exact contract, your specific assets, and what changes if you exercise the buy-out. No legal-speak, no sales-script — a real conversation.