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Hidden Costs of “Free” Websites

Understand the true price of basic builders and seemingly free offers.

Understand the true price of basic builders and seemingly free offers.
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“Free” websites and basic builders like Wix or Squarespace can seem like a great deal at first glance. However, there are often hidden costs and limitations that can add up over time, turning that “free” into a surprisingly expensive endeavor. It’s important to understand the true price of these platforms, beyond the initial low cost. You might find yourself paying more for essential features, removal of ads, or the ability to truly own your site.

Here’s what to watch out for with “free” website offers:

📈 Rising Subscription Fees: Basic plans often increase significantly for more features.
🚫 Limited Features: Crucial functions often come with a paywall.
🔗 Domain Name Costs: You usually pay extra for a professional domain.
🔒 Lack of Ownership: You don’t truly “own” your website; you’re renting it.
🚫 Forced Ads: Free versions might display unwanted ads on your site.

It’s important to understand the true price of these platforms, beyond the initial low cost. You might find yourself paying more for essential features, removal of ads, or the ability to truly own your site.

What’s one “hidden cost” you’ve encountered with a seemingly free website service?

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Do Not Sell My Information – California Residents

If you are a resident of California, and you want to submit a request to Berry Web Designs under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), please fill out our contact form and simply add your request in the message box.

For general information about how we handle personal information of California residents, please visit our Privacy Policy.

If you have questions about our contact form, please contact us at [email protected]. If you do not wish to use our contact form, you can submit your request by calling us at (480) 788-7548.

Among the rights available to California residents is the right to opt-out of Berry Web Designs’ “Sale” of their personal information. California defines the term “Sale” broadly, and includes, our selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring or otherwise communicating (collectively a “Sale”) of your personal information to another business or third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

If you use an authorized agent to submit your CCPA privacy rights request, your agent will need to provide a NOTARIZED copy of your written permission for the agent to act on your behalf with respect to your CCPA privacy rights. Depending on the CCPA right(s) your agent seeks to exercise on your behalf, we may contact you, the California resident, directly as part of our identify verification process. If you are an authorized agent submitting a request on behalf of a California resident, please email your request along with a notarized copy of a power of attorney to act on behalf of the California resident, which states the California resident’s name, physical address and email address to: [email protected], ATTN: Legal Department.

Website Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your use of the website located at BerryWebDesign.Rocks (the “Site”) owned or operated by Berry Web Designs (“Company” or “we” or “us”). BY USING THE SITE, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you may not access or otherwise use the Services.

Rights in Materials

As between you and Company, Company owns the Site, all the content (including, for example, audio, photographs, illustrations, graphics, other visuals, video, copy, software, etc.), code, data and materials on the Site, and the look and feel, design and organization of the Site. This includes all intellectual property and proprietary rights in these materials. When you use or download materials from the Site, you do not acquire any ownership of any such content, code, data, or materials. Except as we expressly permit, you may not download, display, copy, distribute, modify, perform, transfer, create derivative works from, sell, or otherwise exploit any content, code, data, or materials on the Site. Doing so may violate or infringe copyright and other laws of the United States and other countries, as well as applicable local and state laws, and may subject you to liability for such unauthorized use.

Trademarks

The trademarks, logos, service marks, and trade names (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Site are registered and unregistered Trademarks of Company (or other rights holders) and may not be used in any manner that is likely to cause customer confusion, or that disparages or discredits Company or the applicable rights holder. You do not receive, by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Site without our prior written permission.

User Information

When you use the Site, you may be asked to provide certain personal information to us (“User Information”). Our information collection and use policies with respect to such User Information are set forth in our Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is part of these Terms of Use. You are solely responsible for the accuracy and content of your User Information.

Use of the Services

You are responsible for your use of the Site.

We prohibit certain kinds of conduct that may be harmful to other users or to us. When you use the Site, you may not:

  • Send unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or commercial communications, such as spam;
  • Transmit any malicious or unsolicited software;
  • Use any means to “scrape,” “crawl,” or “spider” any web pages contained on the Site;
  • Use automated methods to send more requests to the Company servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional web browser; or
  • Interfere with or disrupt the Site or any services available from the Site.

We reserve the right to refuse service and/or terminate access to the Site without prior notice for any user who violates these policies.

Feedback

If you provide us with any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques, comments, criticisms, reports, or other feedback (“Feedback”), whether oral or written, we may use them for any purpose. We may do so without notice to you and without paying any compensation to you. All Feedback is and will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.

Indemnification

You will fully compensate us and our directors, officers, employees, and agents (that is, you will indemnify and defend us and them, and hold us and them harmless) for any and all claims, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees costs, arising from your use of the Site or your breach or violation of law or these Terms of Use. We may, at our own expense, assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to compensation by you, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with our defense of such claim.

Third-Party Websites

You may be able to access or use the Site from a third-party website, Internet resource, or software application (“Linked Sites”). You may also be able to access and use a Linked Site from a link available on the Services. We have no responsibility for Linked Sites. The inclusion of any link to such Linked Sites anywhere on the Site does not imply our endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of that site or of any product or service offered by that site. We do not promise that the contents of any Linked Site are accurate or compliant with local, state or federal law, including any intellectual property laws. Your use of any Linked Site is at your own risk and you assume all responsibilities and consequences resulting from such reliance.

DISCLAIMERS

  • The site is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranty or conditions of any kind, either express or implied, and all such warranties and conditions are disclaimed to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
  • We make no warranties or conditions whatsoever regarding the site or any services available through the site, including, without limitation, warranties regarding information and content on the site; uptime or uninterrupted access to the site; title; non-infringement; merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
  • We do not warrant that the site or the content, functions, or materials contained on the site will be secure, uninterrupted, or error free, or that defects will be corrected.
  • Using the Internet may expose you to certain risks. We are not responsible for any viruses that may infect your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or from downloading any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.
  • We try to ensure that the information posted on the Site is correct and up-to-date, but it may not be. We may change any of the information provided on the Site at any time and without any prior warning. We will not be liable for any inaccuracy or omission concerning any of the information provided on the Site.
  • The foregoing exclusions of express and implied warranties may not apply to the extent prohibited by local laws. To the extent company may not, as a matter of applicable law, disclaim any warranty, the scope and duration of such warranty shall be the minimum permitted under such applicable law.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the maximum extent permitted under applicable laws, neither company nor its affiliates, nor any of their directors, officers, employees, or agents will be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from, or directly or indirectly related to the services, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable laws, in no event shall the total aggregate liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract or tort, including, but not limited to, negligence or otherwise) arising from the terms of use or your use of the site exceed $100.00, in the aggregate. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to certain users. To the extent company may not, as a matter of applicable law, limit its liabilities, the extent of company’s liability shall be the minimum permitted under such applicable law.

Applicable Law

The Terms of Use and the relationship between you and us shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

Termination

Company may change, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the Site at any time. If you violate any of these Terms of Use, your permission to use the Site automatically terminates.

Changes to Terms of Use

Company may, at its sole discretion, change, add to or remove any portion of these Terms of Use at any time. Changes in these Terms of Use will be effective when posted on the Site. Your continued use of the Site and/or the services offered on or through the Site after any changes to these Terms of Use are posted will be considered acceptance of those changes.

Arbitration

You and Company agree that we will resolve any disputes between us through binding and final arbitration instead of through court proceedings. You and Company hereby waive any right to a jury trial of any Claim. All controversies, claims, counterclaims, or other disputes arising between you and Company relating to the Site or these Terms of Use (each a “Claim”) shall be submitted for binding arbitration in accordance with to the JAMS/Endispute Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures in effect as of the date hereof, including the Optional Appeal Procedure provided for in such rules (the “Arbitration Rules”). The arbitration shall be conducted before a single neutral arbitrator appointed in accordance with the Arbitration Rules. The arbitrator’s decision shall be controlled by these Terms of Use and any of the other agreements governing your use of the Services. The arbitrator shall not have the power to award punitive damages against any party. The parties agree that the arbitration will be kept confidential and that the existence of the proceeding and any element of it (including, without limitation, any pleadings, briefs, documents, or other evidence submitted or exchanged and any testimony or other oral submissions and awards) will not be disclosed beyond the arbitration proceedings, except as may lawfully be required in judicial proceedings relating to the arbitration or by applicable disclosure rules and regulations of securities regulatory authorities or other governmental agencies. You may not act as a class representative or private attorney general, nor participate as a member of a class of claimants, with respect to any claim. Claims may not be arbitrated on a class or representative basis. The arbitrator can decide only your and/or company’s individual claims. The arbitrator may not consolidate or join the claims of other persons or parties who may be similarly situated. This section limits certain rights, including the right to maintain a court action, the right to a jury trial, the right to participate in any form of class or representative claim, the right to engage in discovery except as provided in the arbitration rules, and the right to certain remedies and forms of relief. Other rights that you or Company would have in court also may not be available in arbitration.

Miscellaneous

Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms of Use is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the arbitrator or court should try to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.

Accessibility Statement

General

Berry Web Designs is committed to ensuring its services are accessible to people with disabilities. We have invested significant resources to make our website easier to use and more accessible, based on the strong belief that such efforts benefit all users and uphold every person’s right to dignity, equality, comfort, and independence.

Accessibility on BerryWebDesign.Rocks

BerryWebDesign.Rocks provides an accessibility widget which allows BerryWebDesign.Rocks to improve its compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).

Enabling the Accessibility Menu

The BerryWebDesign.Rocks accessibility menu can be enabled by clicking the accessibility menu icon that appears on the lower left corner of the page. After triggering the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in its entirety.

Disclaimer

Berry Web Designs continues its efforts to constantly improve the accessibility of its site and services in the belief that it is our collective moral obligation to allow seamless, accessible and unhindered use also for those of us with disabilities.

Despite our efforts to make all pages and content on our website fully accessible, some content may not have yet been fully adapted to the strictest accessibility standards. This may be a result of not having found or identified the most appropriate technological solution.

Here For You

If you are experiencing difficulty with any content on BerryWebDesign.Rocks or require assistance with any part of our site, please contact us during normal business hours as detailed below and we will be happy to assist.

Contact Us

If you wish to report an accessibility issue, have any questions or need assistance, please contact Berry Web Designs Customer Support below:
Email: hello@berrywebdesign.rocks Phone: (480) 788-7548

Privacy Policy

Our website address is: BerryWebDesign.Rocks

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.