Terms of Use

Effective Date: [Insert Effective Date]

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of CountywideSEO.com and any content, forms, reports, communications, resources, or features made available through the website.

The website is owned and operated by Countywide SEO.

By accessing or using CountywideSEO.com, submitting information through the website, requesting a Countywide SEO Blueprint, or communicating with Countywide SEO through the website, you agree to these Terms of Use.

If you do not agree with these terms, do not use the website.

About Countywide SEO

Countywide SEO provides information, assessments, strategic planning, website-expansion recommendations, content services, search-engine optimization support, and related marketing services for local and regional businesses.

Services may include:

• Free Countywide SEO Blueprints
• Countywide SEO Implementation Plans
• Website inventories
• Service-page gap analysis
• County and city prioritization
• Competitor and market research
• Website architecture planning
• Page mapping
• Content development
• Internal linking recommendations
• Conversion recommendations
• Technical SEO recommendations
• Lead-tracking recommendations
• Done-for-You Countywide SEO services
• Ongoing website expansion and optimization

The availability, scope, pricing, schedule, and terms of any paid service will be determined separately.

Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into a binding agreement to use this website or request services.

If you use the website on behalf of a company or other organization, you represent that you have authority to act on behalf of that organization.

Permitted Use

You may use CountywideSEO.com for lawful business and informational purposes.

You may:

• Review information about Countywide SEO
• Request a Free Countywide SEO Blueprint
• Request information about paid services
• Submit a contact form
• Schedule or request a consultation
• Use resources made available for personal or internal business evaluation

Your use of the website must comply with these Terms of Use and all applicable laws.

Prohibited Use

You may not use the website to:

• Engage in unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, or abusive activity
• Submit false, misleading, or unauthorized information
• Impersonate another person or business
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, server, accounts, forms, databases, or connected systems
• Introduce malware, viruses, harmful code, or disruptive technology
• Interfere with the operation, availability, performance, or security of the website
• Use automated systems to overload, scrape, copy, extract, or monitor the website without written permission
• Copy or republish website content in violation of intellectual-property rights
• Use website content to create a competing service, report, product, template, or database
• Remove copyright, trademark, attribution, or proprietary notices
• Collect information about other users without authorization
• Use the website to transmit spam, unsolicited promotions, or illegal communications
• Misrepresent an affiliation with Countywide SEO
• Use the Countywide SEO name, branding, logo, reports, or content without permission

Information You Submit

You are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and legality of information you submit through the website.

Information submitted may include:

• Your name
• Company name
• Website address
• Email address
• Phone number
• Primary city
• Target county and state
• Services offered
• Current service areas
• Business goals
• Website concerns
• Marketing information
• Project information

You represent that you have the right to provide the submitted information and authorize Countywide SEO to use it for the purpose of responding to your inquiry, evaluating your website, preparing requested materials, communicating with you, and providing services.

Do not submit confidential, proprietary, financial, health-related, or other highly sensitive information through a general website form unless specifically requested through an appropriate secure process.

Publicly Available Business Information

When you request a blueprint, assessment, consultation, or related service, Countywide SEO may review publicly available information relating to your business, website, services, market, competitors, and service areas.

This information may include:

• Public website pages
• Public business listings
• Public search results
• Public reviews
• Public social-media profiles
• Public competitor websites
• Public government or demographic information
• Other publicly available market information

Countywide SEO is not responsible for inaccuracies contained in third-party or publicly available information.

Free Countywide SEO Blueprint

The Free Countywide SEO Blueprint is an initial opportunity review based on limited research and publicly available information.

The blueprint may identify:

• The approximate size and structure of a website
• Existing service-page coverage
• Potential missing service pages
• Current geographic targeting
• Potential city or county expansion opportunities
• Website-structure observations
• Internal-linking opportunities
• General strategic recommendations

The free blueprint is not a complete audit, implementation plan, guarantee, valuation, forecast, or professional legal, financial, accounting, or investment opinion.

Countywide SEO may accept, decline, limit, postpone, or discontinue a blueprint request at its discretion.

Submission of a request does not create a client relationship, agency relationship, partnership, joint venture, fiduciary relationship, or obligation to provide services.

Countywide SEO Implementation Plans

A Countywide SEO Implementation Plan is a paid strategic service that may include more detailed website, service, market, competitor, location, content, internal-linking, conversion, and publishing recommendations.

The exact scope may be defined in a separate proposal, invoice, statement of work, service agreement, or written communication.

An implementation plan may recommend:

• Pages to keep, improve, merge, create, or remove
• Service pages to develop
• County and city pages to develop
• Service-and-location pages to consider
• Supporting content topics
• Website architecture
• Internal linking
• Technical priorities
• Conversion improvements
• A phased implementation sequence
• Ongoing optimization priorities

The plan reflects information available at the time it is prepared. Markets, competitors, websites, search results, technologies, and business priorities may change.

Done-for-You Services

Done-for-You Countywide SEO services may include strategy, content, website expansion, page development, optimization, internal linking, technical work, tracking, reporting, and ongoing campaign support.

Paid services are subject to a separate written agreement, proposal, statement of work, invoice, or other written terms.

If these Terms of Use conflict with a separately executed service agreement, the service agreement will control for the services covered by that agreement.

No Automatic Client Relationship

Accessing the website, submitting a contact form, requesting a blueprint, receiving general information, or participating in an initial conversation does not automatically create a client relationship.

A paid client relationship begins only when Countywide SEO accepts the engagement and any required agreement, payment, deposit, or authorization has been completed.

No Professional Legal, Financial, or Accounting Advice

Website content, blueprints, reports, implementation plans, articles, communications, and recommendations are provided for marketing, website-planning, and general informational purposes.

They are not legal, tax, financial, accounting, investment, insurance, engineering, architectural, or regulatory advice.

You should consult an appropriately qualified professional regarding legal, financial, tax, regulatory, accessibility, privacy, intellectual-property, contractual, or other specialized matters.

No Guarantee of Rankings or Business Results

Countywide SEO does not guarantee:

• Search-engine rankings
• First-page placement
• Map-pack placement
• Indexing of any page
• Website traffic
• Phone calls
• Form submissions
• Appointments
• Qualified leads
• Customers
• Sales
• Revenue
• Profit
• Return on investment

Search-engine visibility and business performance depend on factors outside Countywide SEO’s control, including:

• Competition
• Search-engine systems and updates
• Website history and authority
• Content quality
• Technical implementation
• Business reputation
• Customer demand
• Pricing
• Sales processes
• Service capacity
• Market conditions
• Client participation
• Third-party platforms

Search Engines and Third-Party Platforms

Countywide SEO does not own or control Google, Bing, social-media platforms, analytics providers, website hosts, directories, review platforms, advertising platforms, or other third-party systems.

Third parties may change their algorithms, policies, features, pricing, availability, rankings, indexing decisions, or account requirements without notice.

Countywide SEO is not responsible for actions, omissions, suspensions, restrictions, outages, algorithm changes, data loss, or policy decisions made by third parties.

Business Decisions and Implementation

You remain responsible for deciding whether and how to implement recommendations provided by Countywide SEO.

Before implementing recommendations, you should consider:

• Your actual service capacity
• Your legitimate service area
• Your staffing
• Your licensing requirements
• Your insurance
• Your financial resources
• Your contractual obligations
• Your legal and regulatory requirements
• Your ability to create accurate and useful content

You are responsible for reviewing and approving all business claims, service descriptions, locations, credentials, prices, warranties, photographs, testimonials, project information, and other content before publication.

Accuracy of Website Content

Countywide SEO attempts to provide useful and accurate information, but website content may contain errors, omissions, outdated information, typographical mistakes, or incomplete material.

Countywide SEO does not warrant that all website content is accurate, complete, current, suitable, or available at all times.

Countywide SEO may modify, correct, update, remove, or discontinue website content without notice.

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, CountywideSEO.com and its original content, branding, logos, graphics, reports, layouts, methodologies, text, documents, downloads, and other materials are owned by or licensed to Countywide SEO.

These materials may be protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws.

No ownership rights are transferred to you by your use of the website.

Limited Permission to Use Website Content

You may view and print limited portions of the website for your own lawful personal or internal business evaluation.

You may not, without written permission:

• Republish website content
• Sell or license website content
• Copy substantial portions of the website
• Create derivative commercial products from the content
• Use the content to provide competing blueprints or implementation plans
• Remove copyright or ownership notices
• Use Countywide SEO branding in a manner suggesting endorsement or affiliation

Ownership and Use of Client Deliverables

Ownership and permitted use of paid reports, implementation plans, content, designs, websites, spreadsheets, templates, and other deliverables will be governed by the applicable service agreement, proposal, statement of work, invoice, or written terms.

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, Countywide SEO may retain ownership of its preexisting methods, systems, processes, templates, frameworks, know-how, research methods, and reusable materials.

Feedback and Suggestions

If you submit suggestions, ideas, comments, or feedback about Countywide SEO or the website, you grant Countywide SEO permission to use that feedback for business and service-improvement purposes without compensation or obligation to you.

Do not submit confidential ideas unless a separate written confidentiality agreement is in effect.

Testimonials and Reviews

Testimonials, reviews, examples, or case studies appearing on the website represent individual experiences and do not guarantee that another business will achieve the same or similar results.

Actual results vary according to numerous business, website, market, competitive, and implementation factors.

Countywide SEO does not prohibit or penalize customers for providing honest reviews or feedback.

Third-Party Links

CountywideSEO.com may link to websites, tools, platforms, resources, or services operated by third parties.

Third-party links are provided for convenience or reference and do not necessarily constitute an endorsement.

Countywide SEO does not control and is not responsible for:

• Third-party content
• Third-party availability
• Third-party privacy practices
• Third-party security
• Third-party products or services
• Third-party terms and policies

You access third-party websites and services at your own risk.

Embedded Content and External Tools

The website may use or display third-party forms, videos, maps, calendars, analytics tools, payment systems, scheduling tools, or other embedded features.

Your interaction with those features may be governed by the provider’s own terms and privacy policy.

Privacy

Your use of CountywideSEO.com is also subject to the Countywide SEO Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, shared, stored, and protected.

Website Availability

Countywide SEO does not guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or compatible with every device or browser.

The website may be unavailable because of:

• Maintenance
• Updates
• Hosting problems
• Internet outages
• Security events
• Technical failures
• Third-party service interruptions
• Events beyond reasonable control

Disclaimer of Warranties

CountywideSEO.com and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Countywide SEO disclaims warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including warranties of:

• Accuracy
• Completeness
• Merchantability
• Fitness for a particular purpose
• Title
• Non-infringement
• Availability
• Security
• Compatibility
• Results

Some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some exclusions may not apply to you.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Countywide SEO and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, service providers, and representatives will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or relating to:

• Your use or inability to use the website
• Reliance on website content
• Reliance on a blueprint or general recommendation
• Loss of data
• Loss of business opportunity
• Loss of profits or revenue
• Website interruption
• Third-party services
• Unauthorized access
• Search-engine changes
• Business decisions based on website information

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Countywide SEO’s total liability relating to your use of the public website will not exceed the amount, if any, you paid directly to Countywide SEO specifically for access to the website during the six months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Limitations relating to paid services may be governed by the applicable service agreement.

Some jurisdictions may not allow certain liability limitations, so some limitations may not apply to you.

Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Countywide SEO and its owners, employees, contractors, affiliates, service providers, and representatives from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from or relating to:

• Your misuse of the website
• Your violation of these Terms of Use
• Your violation of applicable law
• Your infringement of another person’s rights
• False or unauthorized information you submit
• Content, claims, photographs, reviews, or materials you provide

Suspension or Termination of Access

Countywide SEO may restrict, suspend, or terminate access to the website when reasonably necessary to protect the website, business, users, systems, or legal rights.

Countywide SEO may also remove submissions or reject requests that appear fraudulent, abusive, unlawful, misleading, automated, or unrelated to legitimate business purposes.

Changes to the Website

Countywide SEO may change, update, suspend, remove, or discontinue any part of the website, content, forms, resources, or services without notice.

Countywide SEO is not obligated to maintain any particular feature, page, report, resource, or offer indefinitely.

Changes to These Terms

Countywide SEO may update these Terms of Use periodically.

The updated version may be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Your continued use of the website after revised terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

Governing Law

These Terms of Use will be governed by the laws of the State of [Insert State], without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Any dispute that is not subject to a separate written dispute-resolution agreement will be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction located in [Insert County and State], unless applicable law requires otherwise.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Waiver

A failure by Countywide SEO to enforce any provision of these Terms of Use does not waive the right to enforce that provision or another provision later.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms of Use without written permission from Countywide SEO.

Countywide SEO may assign its rights and obligations in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, or transfer of the business or its assets.

Entire Agreement

These Terms of Use, together with the Privacy Policy and any other policies referenced on the website, constitute the agreement governing use of the public website.

Separate agreements may govern paid products and services.

Contact Countywide SEO

Questions about these Terms of Use may be directed to:

Roger Kelley
Countywide SEO

Phone: (256) 221-3387

Email: roger@countywideseo.com

Website: CountywideSEO.com