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Terms

Terms of service.

The baseline terms that govern your use of this website and your early engagement with Bricolage. Project-specific terms are set out in a separate written agreement for each engagement.

Last updated: to be confirmed at launch.

1. Who these terms apply to

These terms (“Terms”) form a legal agreement between you and Bricolage Studios(“Bricolage”, “we”, “our”, “us”), a creative heritage studio based in New Zealand.

By using this website (bricolage-studio.com), contacting us through it, or engaging us for a project, you accept these Terms.

If you are engaging Bricolage for a commissioned project, the individual written engagement agreement for that project will also apply, and (where it conflicts with these Terms) will take precedence.

2. The website

The content on this website (including text, imagery, film stills, design, and code) is either owned by Bricolage or used under licence. It is provided for informational purposes only.

You may view and share individual pages for personal, non-commercial use. You may not:

  • reproduce, republish, or redistribute substantial portions of the site without our written permission;
  • reuse our design, copy, or visual identity in your own work or marketing;
  • scrape the site for AI training or commercial datasets without our prior written consent.

Case studies on this site are published with the explicit consent of the subjects. Please do not reuse client imagery, quotes, or materials without our permission and theirs.

3. Our services (overview)

Bricolage is a bespoke creative studio. Every engagement is custom-scoped following an initial consultation. Our disciplines include cinematic film, oral history, print publication, and digital archive work, individually or combined.

Nothing on this website constitutes a binding offer to perform services. A project becomes binding only when:

  1. Bricolage provides a written proposal specific to your project;
  2. You accept that proposal in writing (email acceptance is sufficient); and
  3. The engagement agreement has been signed by both parties.

Pricing, scope, timeline, deliverables, intellectual property, and cancellation terms for each project are set out in the engagement agreement.

4. Consultations

Initial consultations are offered at no cost and create no obligation on either party. Information shared during a consultation is treated as confidential in both directions, whether or not a formal agreement follows.

5. Intellectual property in commissioned work

Unless your engagement agreement says otherwise, the general approach is:

  • Finished deliverables (the film, the book, the archive, the oral history): full rights transfer to you on final payment.
  • Underlying materials you provide (your photographs, letters, recordings, documents) remain yours throughout. We hold them only as custodian for the project.
  • Bricolage production assets (our design templates, editing project files, archive platform framework, internal methodology) remain ours.
  • Portfolio use: we may reference a project in our portfolio only with your express written permission, which you can withdraw at any time.

The individual engagement agreement overrides these defaults where necessary.

6. Payment & cancellation

Payment schedules are set out in each engagement agreement. Typically this involves a deposit to commence, staged payments at key milestones, and final payment on delivery.

If either party wishes to end a project early, the terms of the engagement agreement apply. Work already completed is payable, and materials you have provided are returned.

7. Confidentiality

We treat everything shared with us in the course of a consultation or project as confidential, except where:

  • disclosure is necessary to deliver the project (e.g., to a named collaborator bound by their own confidentiality agreement);
  • you give express written consent;
  • the information is already public through no act of ours; or
  • we are legally required to disclose.

Our privacy policy sets out how we handle personal information specifically: /privacy.

8. Warranties and limits of liability

We take our craft seriously and we stand behind our work. Within that:

What we warrant: we will perform our services with reasonable care, skill, and professionalism consistent with industry standards for boutique creative production.

What we don’t warrant:we cannot guarantee that any specific creative outcome will meet a subjective expectation that has not been documented in the engagement agreement. Creative work involves interpretation, and part of what you’re commissioning is our judgment.

Limits of liability: to the maximum extent permitted by New Zealand law, our total liability for any claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms or any engagement is limited to the fees actually paid by you to Bricolage in respect of the specific project giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for indirect, consequential, or special damages, including loss of reputation, loss of revenue, or emotional distress, except where such liability cannot be lawfully excluded.

Nothing in these Terms limits any rights you have under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 where you are engaging our services as a consumer, or under any other non-excludable New Zealand law.

9. Force majeure

Neither party is liable for delay or failure to perform obligations caused by events beyond reasonable control, including natural disasters, illness, loss of a key collaborator, infrastructure outages, or government action. Where force majeure materially affects a project, we will agree revised timelines in good faith.

10. Termination of website access

We may suspend or restrict access to this website at any time, for any reason, without notice. This does not affect any active engagement agreement.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The current version, with the “Last updated” date, is always posted on this page. Material changes will be notified to active clients directly. Your continued use of the website after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

12. Governing law

These Terms and any engagement agreement with Bricolage are governed by the laws of New Zealand. You agree that the courts of New Zealand have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with them.

13. Contact

For questions about these Terms: