Two things: how you may use this website, and what happens once you hire us. Written to be read rather than to be survived — if a clause here is unclear, ask and we will rewrite it.
Last updated 14 September 2026
This website and the services described on it are operated by Mujammil Mahaldar and Shivangi Gupta, trading as Devkiln, from 94-D, Kamgar Nagar, Kurla East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400024, India. Devkiln is not yet registered as a company, so until it is, your engagement is with Mujammil Mahaldar and Shivangi Gupta personally.
We are not currently registered under GST, and no GST is charged on our invoices.
You can reach a human at mujammilmaldar65@gmail.com. We reply within one working day. There is no support desk in between — the people who answer are the people who write the code.
Two different things, and it is worth being clear which is which. Sections 3 and 4 cover your use of this website — they apply to anyone reading it. Sections 5 onward cover an actual engagement: what happens once you hire us to build something.
If we sign a separate agreement with you — a contract of your own, a purchase order, a statement of work, or an NDA — that document wins wherever it conflicts with this page. These terms fill the gaps it does not cover.
A written quote we send you also wins over this page on anything it specifically addresses, such as price, scope, or timeline.
You are welcome to read, link to, and share anything on this site. The text, design, code, diagrams and photographs on it are ours, and copying them to build a competing site is not on.
We do not promise the site will be available without interruption, and we may change or remove anything on it at any time. Numbers quoted on this site (systems in production, designs in the library, response times) describe our work at the date shown on each page and are not a contractual commitment.
Do not attempt to break, scrape at volume, probe, or interfere with the site or the servers behind it.
Sending us a message, filling in the form, or having a call with us does not create an engagement and does not oblige either of us to anything. We are also free to say a project is not for us — and we would rather say so on day one than three weeks in.
An engagement starts only when you accept a written quote from us in writing, and the advance in section 6 has been paid.
We quote a fixed price for a written scope. That number does not move afterwards for the work described in it. This is the part most studios get vague about, so to be exact: if we underestimated the work, that is our problem and our cost, not yours.
A quote is valid for 30 days from the date we send it, and assumes the scope as written. Work that is not in the written scope is not in the price — see section 9.
Quotes are exclusive of third-party costs (section 12) unless the quote says otherwise in so many words.
Unless your quote says otherwise: 40% in advance before work starts, and the balance on completion, before the work goes live on your own domain or is handed over.
Invoices are due within 7 days of the invoice date. On longer builds we may invoice in milestones; the quote will say so.
Late payments carry interest at 1.5% per month on the outstanding amount, and we may pause work on an overdue account. We would much rather send you a reminder than an interest line, and normally do.
Bank and UPI details appear on each invoice. We will never email you to say our bank details have changed — if you receive such a message, it is not from us. Call us before you pay it.
We are not currently registered under GST, so no GST is charged on our invoices and none can be claimed against them. If that changes, this section and our invoices will say so.
Any withholding tax (TDS) you are required to deduct is your responsibility to deduct and deposit, and we will need the certificate.
Content as it actually exists — text, photographs, menus, price lists, logos, whatever the thing is about. We will tell you what is missing, but we cannot invent it.
Access: your domain registrar, hosting, or whatever accounts the work touches, or twenty minutes with the person who has them.
One person who can decide. Not a committee. The single largest cause of a project running long is waiting for an answer.
If we are waiting on you, the clock stops. Timelines in section 10 assume we are not.
You can change your mind. Ask, and we will tell you what the change costs and what it does to the timeline, in writing, before we do it. If you approve it in writing, it becomes part of the job.
Small adjustments during a build are normal and we do not nickel-and-dime them. Adding a feature, a language, a page type, or an integration is not a small adjustment.
Rounds of revision are what the quote says they are. Beyond that we charge for the time.
Dates we give you are honest estimates, not guarantees, and they assume the inputs in section 8 arrive when we ask for them.
If something is going to be late, you will hear it from us as soon as we know, not on the due date.
On final payment, everything we built specifically for you becomes yours: the source code, the designs, the content we produced for the project. We assign it to you outright and you can do what you like with it, including taking it to another developer.
Until final payment, it is ours, and a licence to use it has not been granted.
What does not transfer is our own reusable material — the template library, our component code, tooling, snippets, and general know-how we brought to the job and will bring to the next one. You get a perpetual, unrestricted licence to use that material as part of your project. You do not get to resell it as a product on its own.
Third-party material — fonts, stock photography, plugins, APIs — is licensed, not owned, and those licences pass to you on their own terms. Where a licence is per-project or per-domain, it is yours to renew.
Most builds sit on services neither of us controls: domain registrars, hosting, email, payment gateways, model providers, map and font services. Their terms and their prices apply to you.
Wherever possible we set these up in your name, on your card, so you own the accounts and are never locked to us. Where we pay on your behalf, it is recharged at cost on the next invoice.
We are not liable for a third party's outage, price change, policy change, or shutdown. We will tell you what it means and what it costs to move.
For 30 days after launch we fix defects in what we built, free. A defect means it does not do what the agreed scope says it does. New requests, content changes and things that were never in scope are new work.
Beyond that, ongoing maintenance is a separate arrangement and is quoted separately. We do keep sites running long after launch — that is the point of the studio — but it is an agreement, not an assumption.
We are not responsible for anything that breaks because somebody else edited the code, or because a service in section 12 changed underneath it.
Anything you tell us about your business that is not public, we keep to ourselves. That obligation does not expire when the project does.
It works both ways: our pricing, our process documents and our code are ours to keep confidential too.
We will sign your NDA, and we will sign it before the first real conversation if you would rather. Just send it.
Unless you tell us otherwise, we may show what we built for you in our portfolio and say we built it — a screenshot, a link, your name, and a description of what the thing does.
Tell us not to and we will not. No negotiation, no discount attached.
White-label work is the opposite by default: if you engaged us to build under your name, nothing about it appears anywhere without your written sign-off, and we will not name you as a client.
We never publish your data, your customers' data, your traffic figures, or your revenue.
We do not promise search rankings, traffic, leads, conversions, or revenue. Anyone who does is guessing. We build the thing well and make it fast; what the market does with it is not ours to guarantee.
We are not lawyers, accountants, or doctors. Text we write for your site is marketing copy, not legal, financial or medical advice, and you are responsible for the accuracy of claims made on your own site.
Software has defects. We do not promise the work will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we do not promise it is immune to attack. We promise to fix what breaks, on the terms in section 13.
Where the law allows us to limit it, our total liability for anything arising out of an engagement is capped at the fees you have actually paid us for that engagement.
We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss — lost profit, lost data, lost business, lost goodwill — even if we were told it was possible.
Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
Keep your own backups of anything you cannot afford to lose.
Either of us can end an engagement in writing. What happens to money already paid is set out in full on the Refund and Cancellation Policy, which forms part of these terms.
In short: you pay for work done up to that point, and anything beyond it comes back to you.
When you give us text, images, logos, fonts, data or anything else to put into the work, you are confirming you have the right to use it and to let us use it.
If a third party comes after us because something you supplied was not yours to supply, that is on you and you will cover us for it.
We will not knowingly build something unlawful, and we may stop work if we find we are.
These terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Mumbai, Maharashtra have exclusive jurisdiction.
Before either of us goes near a court, we will spend thirty days genuinely trying to sort it out between ourselves. It has never yet come to more than that.
We may update this page. The version that applies to your engagement is the one in force on the date your quote was accepted, and we will not apply a later change to a job already underway without telling you.
The date at the top of this page is the date of the current version.
Questions about anything on this page go to mujammilmaldar65@gmail.com, or shivangi.gupta9324@gmail.com. Either reaches a person who can answer it.
Postal address: 94-D, Kamgar Nagar, Kurla East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400024.