These terms cover every website designed and hosted by Pearce Studios under our Website Design & Hosting service. The short version: the service is month to month, the website design is owned by Pearce Studios, cancelling takes the website down, every build is tracked so the design cannot be quietly copied, and the content itself is protected by our hashing service. Last updated November 11, 2026.
Our Website Design & Hosting service ($250/month) is provided month to month. There is no long-term contract locking you in: your website stays designed, hosted, and live for as long as your monthly service is active and paid. If the service ends — for any reason — the hosting and the website end with it, as described under Cancellation below.
The service runs month to month at the agreed monthly rate. Keeping the website live requires an active, paid subscription — there is no separate hosting arrangement.
The website design, the build, hosting, and the SEO-ready setup included in the plan, maintained on Pearce Studios’ systems for the registered domain of the business.
Your business name, and the text, photos, and materials you supply, remain yours. What Pearce Studios owns is the website design and code itself — see Ownership.
Every website design created by Pearce Studios — the layout, design, code, structure, and build — is and remains the sole property of Pearce Studios. Paying for the service gives the business a licence to use that design on its one registered domain while the service is active. It does not transfer ownership of the design.
The business owner may not take the website design or code off Pearce Studios’ hosting, move it to another provider, or keep using it after the service ends.
The design may not be copied, cloned, reproduced, distributed, sold, shared, or handed to another designer, agency, or business — in whole or in part.
The design may not be shown or represented as the business owner’s own property or work. It is a Pearce Studios design, licensed for use while the service is active — nothing more.
To cancel the website design service, send an email to billing@info.jordanpearce.com. Once the service has been cancelled, the website is immediately taken down and removed — hosting ends and the site comes offline. Because the design belongs to Pearce Studios, it does not stay up, get handed over, or transfer to the business after cancellation.
Email billing@info.jordanpearce.com to cancel your website design service. Cancellation applies to the design and hosting service described on this page.
On cancellation the website is immediately taken down and removed from its domain. There is no grace copy left running and no export of the design.
Any continued use, copy, or re-upload of the design after cancellation is unauthorised use of Pearce Studios property — and our code tracking (below) is built to catch exactly that.
Somebody is going to copy your website. It is not a matter of if — it is when. Designers get cloned, agencies rip each other’s sites, and a competitor’s “web guy” views the source, saves the pages, and a month later the design is live somewhere else with the name changed. So every website that comes out of Pearce Studios ships with a website design tracker built in.
Every website we build gets fingerprinted and assigned its own unique ID — registered to that one site, on that one domain. No two builds share an ID.
That ID lives inside the site itself and reports back to Pearce Studios. When the site runs on its real, registered domain — all good. That is exactly where it belongs.
The moment that code shows up somewhere it does not belong — copied, duplicated, re-uploaded under a different domain — it flags as a suspected copy and Pearce Studios is notified, with the ID, which site it came from, and where it turned up. Any time. Every time. Automatically.
The fingerprint stays with the code wherever it goes, like a serial number stamped into the frame of a car. Changing the logo or the business name does not remove it.
A client’s website is an asset they pay for every month. When a competitor copies it, they are riding on money someone else spent. Our tracking means our clients find out — and so do we.
Deleting, hiding, or tampering with the tracking does not transfer ownership and does not make use authorised. The design remains Pearce Studios property under these terms either way.
The code tracker above watches the design. Our hashing service protects the content itself — the words, images, and files on your website. We stamp your content with a SHA-256 hash: a permanent digital fingerprint, registered and timestamped, that keeps the content secure and helps prevent copyright theft.
Each piece of content gets its own SHA-256 hash — a unique fingerprint of that exact content. Change so much as one letter or one pixel and the fingerprint changes completely, so a match is a match.
Every stamp is registered with its date in our tracking system. That record proves the content existed, and whose it was, at that time — before any copy appeared anywhere else.
Copying stamped content is a losing move: if your words or images show up on someone else’s site, the stamp is the evidence that the content was yours first — the proof behind takedown requests and copyright claims.
Call Pearce Studios at 510-619-0213. To cancel the website design service, email billing@info.jordanpearce.com — on cancellation the website is immediately taken down and removed, as set out above.