Terms of service · last updated 20 October 2026

The rules, minus the lawyer-speak.

These terms govern gomarty.net and the services of GoMarty Consulting ("we", "us"): the free website scan, the paid website audits (Security Sweep, Full Audit, Deep Audit), client accounts, and our one-page website service. By creating an account, submitting a website brief, or paying an invoice, you accept these terms and our privacy policy.

1. What the service is

• Free scan — an automated check of a website's public essentials (Google visibility, speed, mobile, security basics). Free, no account needed, subject to fair-use limits.
• Security Sweep (R295 once-off) — a focused security review of your website: encryption, exposed data, attack surface and trust signals, explained in plain language.
• Full Website Audit (R695 once-off) — a deeper review of up to 50 pages with findings ranked by impact, explained in plain language, plus a free re-audit within 30 days.
• Deep Audit (R950 once-off) — our widest automatic review: up to 100 pages crawled, key inner pages rendered in a real browser, and the full security pass included. Like all our audits it runs automatically and the report is delivered straight to your dashboard, usually within the hour.
• One-Page Website (R1,500 once-off + R299/month) — we build a one-page website for your business from the brief and photos you give us, then host and maintain it.
• Fixes & rebuilds — quoted individually after an audit.

2. Your account

Keep your login to yourself and give us accurate details. One free scan per account. You're responsible for what happens under your account. You can delete your account — and everything attached to it — at any time from your dashboard.

3. The one-page website service, honestly

• How it works: you request a website from your dashboard and fill in one brief. Your site is built from that brief, usually within minutes of submitting, and first appears as a private preview at an address on our preview host (preview.gomarty.net/yourbusiness). The preview is the finished site with a visible "Draft by GoMarty" badge; it is blocked from search engines and is not publicly listed. We check every site personally after it is built. To take it live you pay the R1,500 setup from your dashboard; your site then moves to your own address (yourbusiness.gomarty.net, or your custom domain) within minutes, the badge comes off, and we submit it to Google. Before you pay, you can walk away owing nothing for the build.
• The 7-day preview window: your preview stays available for 7 days after it is built. After that it is hidden automatically — nothing is deleted. A once-off R150 reactivation brings the preview back for another 7 days; the R1,500 setup remains payable to go live. Reactivation is requested by email to hello@gomarty.net.
• Where it lives: your site is hosted on our infrastructure at an address on our domain — yourbusiness.gomarty.net. This is how we keep the price at R1,500 + R299/month.
• Domains — the transparent bit: the R299/month covers hosting, maintenance and the gomarty.net address. It does not include your own top-level domain (like yourbusiness.co.za). If you want one: you register it (±R100–R200/year, we can help), and we'll point it at your site or migrate your site to it. Your site is never trapped — if you move to another host or domain, we'll migrate or redirect it and hand over your content.
• The R299/month: covers hosting, an SSL certificate, content updates (edit your tagline, services, prices, hours, areas, colours and contact details yourself from your dashboard, any time — your site rebuilds and is live again in about a minute; photo swaps and bigger changes you send us by email — reasonable stuff, not weekly redesigns), visitor analytics (Google Analytics 4, run by us — ask any time for your numbers), and keeping the lights on. It's billed monthly by card via PayFast (you approve the subscription once, at the same checkout as your setup payment), starting 7 days after your site goes live. There is no contract and no notice period — cancel from your dashboard or by email and billing stops at the end of that month.
• If a monthly payment is missed: your site stays live for a 14-day grace period — always. We'll email you during that window. If a payment is still outstanding 14 days after it was due, your site is paused behind a holding page (nothing is deleted) until the outstanding month is paid; payment restores it automatically, usually within minutes.
• If you bring your own domain: you can register yourbusiness.co.za (±R100–R200/year) and we point it at the site we built — same site, our infrastructure, your address. The R299/month still applies, because we're still hosting and maintaining it.
• If you leave: tell us by email (hello@gomarty.net) and we stop billing from the end of that month. We hand over your full site content (text and photos), and for a reasonable period we keep a redirect from your gomarty.net address to your new home so existing visitors and Google aren't stranded. Once your site is no longer on our infrastructure, the R299/month ends — you owe nothing further.
• Late or non-payment: the setup payment works on the 7-day window above. For the monthly fee: if a debit fails we'll nudge you first. If it stays unpaid, the site is frozen (visitors see a friendly notice, your content is kept) and eventually removed after 90 days. Paying up unfreezes it.
• Your content: you confirm you have the right to use the text and photos you send us, and that nothing in your brief is unlawful, misleading, or someone else's. You keep ownership of your content; you give us permission to publish it on your site.

4. What we promise — and what we don't

We promise honest, careful work and straight answers. We don't promise #1 on Google, a specific number of customers, or that every automated finding applies to your exact situation — findings are professional observations, not guarantees. Scans and audits look only at publicly visible information.

5. Paid work

Audits are invoiced on order and delivered to your dashboard automatically once PayFast confirms payment — usually within the hour, no waiting on us. The one-page website setup (R1,500) is payable once your site is built and shown to you as a preview; the R299/month card subscription starts 7 days after go-live. Your dashboard keeps a full payment history of everything you've paid. Prices are in South African Rand and include VAT where applicable. Because audits and builds are labour delivered to you, completed work isn't refundable — but if something's wrong with what we delivered, we fix it.

6. Acceptable use

Don't scan sites you have no business scanning in bulk, hammer the service, resell the free scan, or use your website for anything unlawful, deceptive, or harmful. We can suspend accounts and take down sites that cross this line — with a warning first unless it's serious.

7. Liability

To the extent the law allows, we're not liable for indirect losses (lost profit, lost customers) arising from using the service, and our total liability is capped at what you've paid us in the preceding 12 months. Nothing here limits rights you have under South African consumer law.

8. Changes and governing law

If we change these terms materially, we'll say so on the site before the change takes effect; continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms. South African law governs these terms.