Terms of Service

These terms apply to everyone who visits orkids.ph and reads our published material. Paid work — Replace, Build, and Optimize engagements — is governed by a separate, signed Statement of Work (SOW) and engagement contract. The commercial agreement controls where it conflicts with these terms. Nothing on this site is an offer capable of acceptance; pricing is shared after a fit call and fixed in the SOW.

Our engagement model — discovery, scope, prototype, build, and cutover — and the payment schedule attached to each phase are described on the engagement modelpage and fixed per project in the SOW. Timelines stated on this site (for example, “two to three weeks”) describe scoped modules of comparable surface area to our published receipts; larger scopes take longer and are stated as such in the proposal.

For every Build and Replace engagement, ownership of the work product transfers to you at cutover. On go-live day we transfer the source code, the database schema, the deployment keys, and the GitHub repository to your organization. You receive all right, title, and interest in that work product, with no license fee, no annual increase, and no exit fee. You may run, fork, audit, or hand the system to another vendor. For Optimize engagements there is no new code to transfer; the configuration changes, runbooks, and playbooks are yours.

Orkids retains ownership of its pre-existing tools, internal libraries, and general know-how, and grants you a perpetual, royalty-free licence to any such component embedded in your delivered system. Site content — text, briefings, and the Orkids marks — remains the property of Orkids and may not be scraped, reproduced, or redistributed without written permission. Briefings may be shared inside your organization for internal use.

You may access this site for lawful purposes only. You may not reverse-engineer, scrape at scale, or interfere with the operation of the site or the systems behind it. Use of any software we deliver is additionally governed by our Acceptable Use Policy.

Material on this site, including compliance briefings, is provided for information only and is not a substitute for advice from a licensed CPA, lawyer, or the relevant regulator (BIR, BSP, NPC, DOH). Briefings are marked as pending professional review until a qualified reviewer signs off.

This website is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent permitted by Philippine law. For paid engagements, our warranties and remedies are stated in the engagement contract. Except for liability that cannot be excluded by law, our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to an engagement is capped at the total fees paid for that engagement in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential losses.

These terms and any engagement are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines. The parties will first attempt to resolve any dispute in good faith through senior-level discussion. Failing resolution within thirty days, the dispute is submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the proper courts of Cebu City, Philippines, unless the engagement contract specifies arbitration.

Questions about these terms: hello@orkids.ph.