The promise, held in writing
The terms we commit to from the first day. They make the offer a deed rather than a pitch, and they never move.
Certificate of Title
Held Freehold
The terms of ownership, registered in plain words
Proprietor
This website is held freehold by your organisation
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You own everything, outright
The site, the files it is made of, and your web address are all yours. Keep it, change it, or take it elsewhere any time you like.
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You can leave any time, free, no notice
Take the whole site to your own account or hand it to any web person, any day, at no cost. Nothing is ever held back.
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Your domain stays in your name
Your web address is always registered to your organisation, at your own registrar. We never hold your domain. That is what makes “we will host it for you” a favour, not a trap.
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Your email is never touched
If you run email at your domain, it keeps working exactly as it does now. We check it before and after every change. This is often the real fear, so we say it plainly.
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Nothing monthly, ever
A flat $800 to keep it and go live ($400 at our community rate, for when $800 would genuinely be a stretch), then hosting is free. Later changes are small one-off jobs if you want them. There is no subscription and no ongoing tie of any kind.
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The build window is genuinely free
We build your site and host it while you shape it, at no charge. If you walk away, you owe nothing and it comes down the same day. You only pay if you decide to keep it.
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If Freehold ever closes, your site is still yours
Your domain is in your own name, and you hold your own copy of the site from the day you go live, so your website never depends on us being here. You would already have everything you need to move it anywhere.
Registered by
Freehold · Christchurch
Jamie
Yours to keep, yours to move, yours for good.
Your organisation’s name goes on the deed the day you say yes.
The free exit is the proof
Plenty of web arrangements say you own your site, then make leaving slow, costly or confusing. That quiet dependence is what this promise exists to prevent. It’s the difference between freehold and leasehold: one is truly yours, the other only feels that way until you try to leave.
Because you can walk away at any moment and take everything with you, choosing to stay is a real choice. If leaving is easy, staying is trust.
The whole approach comes from years of frontline support work, where the goal was always for people to end up less dependent, not more. A website should be no different.
No surprises, no fine print
Questions are always welcome
If anything here is unclear, or you want to talk it through before deciding, just email us. Asking costs nothing and commits you to nothing.