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Please read these terms
These terms cover your use of this website and any work Studio Kinet does for you. By browsing the site or engaging the studio, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please stop using the site.
We have written them in plain language on purpose. They set out what you can expect from us, what we expect from you, and where the limits sit. Nothing here is meant to be a trap, and if something is unclear, ask us before you agree to it.
Last updated 29 July 2026.
Who we are
Studio Kinet is a design studio and a sole proprietorship registered in Hong Kong. Throughout these terms, “we”, “us”, “our” and “the studio” mean Studio Kinet, and “you” means anyone using this website or engaging us for work. If you need to reach us about anything on this page, use the contact page.
Using this site
You are welcome to browse this site, read what is on it, and share links to it. You may not copy, scrape, republish, or resell its contents, use it to train a model or build a competing dataset, attempt to break or overload it, or use it for anything unlawful. We may change, pause, or take down any part of the site at any time without notice.
What we own
The writing, layout, design, photography, illustration, code, and case studies on this site belong to Studio Kinet or are used with permission. The Studio Kinet name and logo are ours. Nothing on this site transfers any of that to you. Brands and trademarks shown in our work belong to the clients they came from, and appear here to credit the work, not to claim it.
Client work
Nothing on this website is an offer, a quote, or a contract. Services, prices, and packages shown here are indicative and may change. When we take on a project, the proposal or statement of work signed by both sides is the agreement that governs it, including scope, deliverables, timelines, and revisions. If anything in that signed document conflicts with these terms, the signed document wins.
Fees and payment
Project fees, payment schedules, and any expenses are set out in your proposal. We usually ask for a deposit before work begins, and that deposit is non-refundable once we have started, because it holds studio time we have turned other work away for. If an invoice goes unpaid past its due date, we may pause work until it is settled. Unless your proposal says otherwise, fees are exclusive of taxes, bank charges, and third-party licences.
Who owns the work
Ownership of the final deliverables passes to you once the project is paid in full. Until then, the work remains ours. We keep our working files, source documents, unused routes and concepts, and the tools, methods, and templates we use to make the work, unless we have agreed otherwise in writing. Fonts, stock imagery, plugins, and other third-party assets are licensed to you directly by their owners and are not ours to transfer.
Showing the work
Once a project is live or otherwise public, we may show it in our portfolio, on this site, in case studies, in award submissions, and on our social channels, and describe our role in it. Anything you have told us in confidence stays confidential, and we will not publish commercially sensitive details. If you would rather we kept a project private, tell us and we will agree that in writing.
What we do not promise
We bring craft, judgment, and real effort to every project. We do not promise specific commercial outcomes. Any figures, benchmarks, examples, or past results shown on this site or discussed during a project are illustrative, not guarantees, and what happens for you depends on your market, your product, your timing, and plenty of other things outside our control.
Links and third-party tools
This site may link to other websites and uses third-party services for things like hosting, analytics, fonts, and forms. We do not control those services and are not responsible for their content, their availability, or how they handle your information. When you use them, their terms and policies apply, not ours.
Your information
If you contact us through this site, we collect what you send us, usually your name, your email address, and whatever you write, and we use it to reply to you and to run the project if we end up working together. We also collect basic, anonymous analytics about how the site is used. We do not sell your information or pass it on for marketing. If you want to know what we hold about you, or want it deleted, ask us and we will do it.
The site is provided as is
We keep this site accurate and working as best we can, but we do not warrant that it will always be available, error-free, or up to date. Content here may change without notice, and you should not rely on it as professional advice for your own decisions.
Limits on liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, arising from your use of this site or from our work. For any single project, our total liability is capped at the fees you have actually paid us for that project. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the studio and its services change. The current version is always the one published on this page, with the date it was last updated shown at the top. If you keep using the site after we have made a change, you are accepting the updated version.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Any dispute arising from them, or from your use of this site, falls to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Hong Kong courts.
Questions
If any part of these terms is unclear, or you want something in writing before you start a project with us, get in touch through the contact page. We would rather answer the question up front than have it become a problem later.