Aila Designs is a company that offers print, electronic, custom, and illustrated book cover design, interior book formatting, editing services, book trailers, and author branding design services.
These Terms and Conditions form an agreement between you (the Client) and Aila Designs (the Company)
The company reserves the right to modify, alter, or add services at any time and without prior notice.
License and publishing rights
1. The company guarantees control over the privacy of your ideas, manuscripts, and files. Unless the client requests it, these materials will not be shared or distributed to a third party.
2. The Company only uses licensed and royalty-free images and fonts in its projects. Additional fees may apply if the customer wants the photo from a stock photo source different than those used by the Company.
3. The Client agrees to abide by the terms of any license agreement for any images purchased by the Company through a third-party image provider for the book cover design.
4. Aila Designs RETAINS copyright and ownership of all design and draft materials. When ordering from Aila Designs, CLIENT is purchasing a STANDARD license that allows to:
Sell an unlimited number of e-books and promote the book
Use your print cover to sell up to 500k physical copies of books
5. For books with a run of over 500,000 units, the additional license has to be purchased by the client for each stock photo that has a major role in the cover design.
6. If the Client wants to use the cover design in any other way, other than eBook and paperback cover, (to print on mugs or T-shirts, etc), the Client is responsible for purchasing an Extended License.
7. If the Client wants to use the logo on the merchandise, the extended license should be purchased.
7. Images used for the client’s cover are royalty-free; however, the photographer owns the copyright to those photographs.
8. If the cover is used in a way that is not covered with the standard license, so it breaches the contract, it’s the CLIENT’S LIABILITY.
9. In the case of providing materials for the project, the Client is solely responsible for the validity of copyrights, trademarks, and ownership.
10. If the Client supplies the Company with materials subject to intellectual property rights by a third party, the Client will secure the appropriate rights to use the materials before directing the designer to incorporate them into the project. Should any intellectual property dispute arise involving materials the Client provides, the Client assumes full legal and financial responsibility.
11. The Client agrees to indemnify, hold harmless, and defend the Company and its employees from copyright and permission infringement actions caused by the materials the Client provides.
Book Cover Design Services
1. Aila Designs requires pre-payment for all services.
2. The fee for the book cover design includes the following:
Back and spine design (for standard and premium packages only)
Print-ready book cover design (for standard and premium packages only). If the Client requires extra files formatted for more than one format/ platform, additional fees will be applied.
Source file (for an additional fee $50 only) – flattened PSD file with separate editable text
Five stock images are available for standard and premium packages. Additional fees may apply if client requires more stock images to be used
Unlimited number of revisions (Additional fees may apply if a client requests revisions that require the use of extra or additional stock images, photos, elements, or characters)
One month of free revisions after the project is completed (Additional fees may apply if client request for revisions that require the use of extra or additional stock images, photos, elements, or characters)
3D mockup
Illustrated Book Cover Design Services
The fee for the illustrated book cover design includes the following:
Hand-drawn digital art in .pdf and .jpg formats
Source file
Licensed fonts
First sketch in 5-7 days
Free 3D model of the book
Logo Design Services
The fee for the logo design includes the following:
Unlimited free revisions
Source file (for an additional fee of $50)
Transparent logo
Branding guidelines (for premium package only)
3D mockup
An additional fee will be charged if you want to make revisions one month after the project is completed.
Additional fees may apply if clients request a new logo concept after the design has already been agreed upon.
Aila Designs does NOT use AI for book cover design or illustration. We use only licensed images and always provide clients with the license or links to the assets per request.
Payment
1. The Company uses PayPal as a payment processing service that gives the option to pay with a debit/ credit card or PayPal.
2. Anything not written in the brief and subsequently requested can be additionally charged. In the design brief, the client is required to check the accuracy of the text that will be used as a part of the design.
3. Unlimited revisions do NOT apply if you decide to change the direction/concept of the cover, illustration or any service after we already started working on it. Also, an additional fees may be applied. If you want to make revisions to a book cover 1 month after the project is completed, an additional fee will also be charged.
Our standard and premium cover design packages consist of 5 stock images, additional fees may apply if client request the use of more stock images during the revision
4. Aila Designs does not offer payment refunds.
4. If your book cover is more complex and requires extra Photoshop manipulations, the Company may require an additional fee that is discussed before proceeding to complete the work.
Ownership Rights
1. Upon receipt of full payment, the Company grants the Client the standard license for the book cover or illustration.
2. The Company retains copyright and ownership of all design and draft materials.
3. The Company retains the right to use the Client’s final book cover design, name, and book title in the portfolio and with a marketing purpose.
Complete Agreement
1. This agreement is the entire agreement of all parties. No additional promises or conditions are included in this agreement, oral or written.
2. By contacting Aila Designs, the client accepts the terms and conditions above, as all the other information provided on our website, without the need for a signed agreement. It is considered that the client accepts the above terms and conditions, as all the other information provided on our website when contacting Aila Designs via our website or via e-mail address.
3. Modification of any provision of this agreement is invalid and is not enforceable unless it is confirmed in written and signed form by all parties by e-signature or on paper.
4. The finding of any provision of this agreement to be unenforceable or invalid shall not make other provisions unenforceable or invalidB
