These terms govern your use of this website and, where noted, our engineering engagements. Fortizan is a software engineering practice operating from Sri Lanka.
Terms for Sqoura, the product we operate, are published separately at sqoura.com and are not covered here.
1. This website
The content here is provided for information. We keep it accurate and we correct it when it is wrong, but nothing on this site is a warranty, a quotation, or an offer capable of acceptance. An engagement begins when both parties sign a written agreement, and that agreement governs — not this page.
2. Engagements
Every engagement is governed by its own written agreement covering scope, schedule, fees, and acceptance. Where this page and a signed agreement disagree, the signed agreement wins.
3. Who owns the code
Your work is yours
On full payment, everything built specifically for you becomes yours outright: the domain logic, the database schema, the interface code, the configuration, and the documentation. Assigned, not licensed. You can take it to another supplier, publish it, or rewrite it, and you do not need our permission to do any of that.
Our background technology stays ours
We arrive with existing tools: chiefly the Vortos framework and its packages, plus internal libraries and scaffolding. We keep ownership of those. You receive a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable licence to use them as part of what we deliver, including the right to modify them and to have a third party maintain them.
In practice this matters less than it reads: Vortos is published openly and installable by anyone, so you are not dependent on us to keep using it. We say it plainly here because an agency that is vague about background IP is usually being vague on purpose.
Third-party components
Delivered systems include open-source components under their own licences. We will tell you what they are and confirm their licences are compatible with how you intend to use the system.
4. Confidentiality
We treat everything we see during an engagement as confidential: your code, your data, your commercial arrangements, and the fact of the engagement itself if you would rather it were not public. We will not name you as a client, publish a case study, or reference your work in marketing without your written agreement.
5. What we do not guarantee
We build systems designed for high availability and we will tell you honestly what a given design can and cannot survive. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation: some of what determines that sits with cloud providers, third-party services, and the network between them.
Specific availability commitments, where an engagement includes them, are stated in that engagement's agreement with the measurement method and the remedy attached. A number without a measurement method is decoration, so we do not publish one here.
6. Liability
To the maximum extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost data or lost goodwill. Our total liability under an engagement is capped at the fees paid under that engagement, unless the agreement says otherwise.
Nothing here limits liability for fraud or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
7. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, unless a signed engagement agreement specifies otherwise.