Project terms and agreements
Practical requirements for system reviews, CAD work, field pilots, sponsorships, and equipment purchases.
From an inquiry to an agreed project
A call request, uploaded drawing, sponsorship inquiry, or pilot application starts a discussion. It does not place an order, authorize a charge, reserve equipment, or establish a funded project. The written proposal must name the contracting parties, site, scope, deliverables, price, payment milestones, schedule, and acceptance method before paid work begins.
This page describes the matters to settle for a Nano Flow engagement. It is not a signed pilot, purchase, or confidentiality agreement. Contact Israel Ruttenberg at ruttenberg@nanoflowirrigation.com to arrange the relevant documents.
System review and CAD deliverables
The scope should identify the supplied source files and their revision, coordinate system, units, verified dimensions, known gaps, and assumptions. Specify whether the work is screening, conversion, layout assistance, hydraulic analysis, or a construction deliverable; identify who verifies the site and who provides any required professional approval.
List the deliverable formats, calculations and drawings included, review rounds, acceptance criteria, and treatment of corrections versus new work. Identify exclusions such as surveys, utility locating, permitting, installation, and crop-management advice. Resolve conflicts between field measurements and supplied drawings before relying on the output.
Pilot protocol and evidence
| Topic | Project-specific detail to agree |
|---|---|
| Site and comparison | Crop, soil, area, existing irrigation baseline, comparison blocks, and the question the trial is intended to answer. |
| Equipment and conditions | Component identity, emitter count, operating pressure, filtration, water quality, storage, installation, and maintenance requirements. |
| Measurement plan | Flow and applied volume, runtime, sampling locations, instruments and calibration, observation intervals, trial duration, and treatment of missing or invalid data. |
| Operating responsibility | Who can operate or adjust the system, inspect the site, maintain equipment, access records, and authorize changes. |
| Stop and response procedure | Leak, pressure, delivery, crop-stress, and equipment conditions requiring a pause; who is contacted; who decides whether and how operation resumes. |
| Outcomes | Reports and raw records to be delivered, evaluation criteria, known limitations, and how inconclusive or unfavorable results will be reported. |
Reduced instantaneous flow alone does not demonstrate reduced seasonal water use or improved crop performance. The protocol must account for runtime, emitter count, delivered volume, operating conditions, and the comparison baseline.
Purchases, funding, cancellation, and support
A quote or order should identify the actual seller and product supplier, exact components and quantities, specifications, price, taxes and freight where applicable, payment schedule, delivery assumptions, and inspection or acceptance process. Identify who installs the system and who supplies operating instructions and support.
Before payment, agree on cancellation and refund rules, treatment of custom work and committed costs, return eligibility, warranty coverage and duration, exclusions, available remedies, and the party responsible for each remedy. This website does not set a universal refund period or warranty covering all projects.
A sponsorship agreement should identify the funded activities, use of funds, milestones, reporting, cancellation treatment, and any sponsor recognition. An inquiry does not establish a donation, tax treatment, investment return, or a guaranteed technical outcome.
Confidential material and ownership
Arrange confidentiality terms before exchanging restricted designs, manufacturing information, unreleased results, or proprietary research. Identify the protected information, permitted purpose, authorized recipients, security arrangements, disclosure exceptions, duration, and return or deletion process. Public information does not become secret merely because a document labels it confidential.
Each party’s pre-existing material should be identified separately from new project work. Customers retain rights in their submitted records; any license to use project deliverables, rights in jointly developed designs, access to raw measurements, and research publication rights must be stated expressly. An email attachment or site visit does not resolve those ownership questions.
Case studies, photographs, and publication
Participation alone does not authorize an identifiable case study, testimonial, photograph, logo use, or release of identifiable findings. Separate permission should identify the exact material, audience and channels, permitted edits, attribution, review process, and any time limits. Confirm who can authorize publication for the site and any people shown.
Agree on how confidential details and personal information will be removed, who checks that removal, and how corrections or withdrawal requests will be handled after publication. Keeping a record private is different from making it anonymous.
Changes and project closeout
Document changes to components, site conditions, protocol, cost, responsibilities, and deliverables before proceeding under a new scope. At closeout, identify accepted deliverables, unresolved issues, equipment ownership or return, final payment, support handoff, and the records each party retains. Privacy requests and contractual retention needs should be reconciled explicitly.