Clause.

Risk Allocation

Warranties given by the freelancer

A warranty is a promise about the quality or outcome of your work, and promising perfection or specific business results you cannot control is a trap. The safer standard is that you will do the work with reasonable skill and care and that it will match the agreed spec. Guaranteeing sales, rankings or an error-free product invites a claim whenever reality falls short.

What to look for

What the freelancer is promising the work will be or do. Look for open-ended warranties (error-free, fit for every purpose, will achieve specific business results) versus reasonable, effort-based warranties.

How Clause rates it

RedAbsolute warranties that the work will be error-free, uninterrupted, fully compliant with all laws, or will deliver specific commercial outcomes (sales, rankings) the freelancer cannot control.
AmberWarranties that are broadly worded or guarantee results partly outside the freelancer's control, without a reasonable-skill-and-care framing.
GreenA warranty that the services will be performed with reasonable skill and care and that deliverables will materially conform to the agreed specification, with third-party materials excluded.

Wording you can ask for

Suggested redline
The Freelancer warrants that the Services will be performed with reasonable skill and care and that the deliverables will materially conform to the agreed specification. No other warranties are given, and the Freelancer does not warrant any specific commercial result or that the deliverables will be error-free.

The UK angle

The Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 already implies a term that services are carried out with reasonable skill and care, so an express warranty on that standard is normal and unsurprising.

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