Cancellation, Termination & Refund Policy

Effective Date: 05-22-2026
Last Updated: 07-24-2026

This Cancellation, Termination & Refund Policy explains the general practices of Angulo & Morsa Legacy Consulting LLC regarding cancellations, project termination, rescheduling, payments, and refunds.

Our services are intended primarily for business, organizational, governmental, and professional use.

Engagement-Specific Terms

The specific terms governing each engagement are documented in the applicable written materials, which may include:

  • A proposal

  • Master Consulting Agreement

  • Statement of Work

  • Professional-services agreement

  • Purchase order

  • Task order

  • Subcontract

  • Change order or amendment

  • Invoice

  • Notice to proceed

  • Other written agreement or authorization

These materials are referred to collectively as the “Engagement Documents.”

When the Engagement Documents contain cancellation, termination, payment, invoicing, acceptance, or refund provisions, those provisions apply to that engagement.

This published Policy primarily describes our standard commercial practices. Public-sector and government-contractor engagements are governed by their applicable Engagement Documents and contractual requirements.

Nothing in this Policy limits a legal right or remedy that cannot lawfully be waived.

Before an Engagement Begins

Submitting an inquiry does not create a consulting engagement and does not result in a charge.

A direct commercial engagement generally begins only after:

  • The required proposal, agreement, or Statement of Work has been approved

  • The required payment or deposit has been received

  • Any requested onboarding information has been provided

  • Any other stated commencement requirements have been completed

A public-sector or government-contractor engagement generally begins only after the required contract, purchase order, task order, subcontract, notice to proceed, or other written authorization has been completed.

The applicable Engagement Documents will identify the services, scope, price, payment or invoicing structure, professional-hour limit when applicable, schedule, client responsibilities, and any engagement-specific cancellation or termination terms.

Cancellation and Termination Requests

Commercial cancellation requests should be submitted in writing to:

[email protected]

A request is considered received when it reaches our business email system.

Public-sector organizations and government contractors should submit cancellation or termination notices through the process and to the representative identified in the applicable Engagement Documents.

The financial treatment of a cancellation or termination may depend on:

  • Whether authorized work has begun

  • Work completed before the effective cancellation or termination date

  • Deliverables completed or in progress

  • Professional capacity expressly reserved for the engagement

  • Approved third-party expenses or commitments

  • Applicable payment and invoicing terms

  • The reason for cancellation or termination

  • The termination rights stated in the applicable Engagement Documents

Commercial Cancellation Before Work Begins

When a direct commercial client cancels before substantive work begins, amounts paid will generally be refundable, less any of the following that were clearly disclosed and authorized:

  • Nonrecoverable third-party expenses

  • A specifically identified scheduling deposit

  • A reasonable cancellation fee stated in the applicable Engagement Documents

  • Work completed at the client’s request before the planned project start date

A payment is not made entirely nonrefundable merely because an invoice was issued, an agreement was signed, or routine administrative records were created.

Any nonrefundable scheduling deposit, cancellation fee, or capacity-reservation amount must be identified before payment in the applicable proposal, invoice, or agreement.

Commercial Cancellation After Work Begins

Once substantive work has begun, the client remains responsible for:

  • Work completed through the effective cancellation date

  • Meetings, preparation, analysis, research, drafting, implementation, training, or project coordination already performed

  • Approved third-party expenses

  • Other fees properly earned under the applicable Engagement Documents

Substantive work may include:

  • Engagement-specific onboarding

  • Reviewing information or materials provided by the client

  • Interviews, meetings, or working sessions

  • Research and analysis

  • Process or customer-journey review

  • Planning and solution design

  • Preparation of findings or deliverables

  • Workflow, documentation, or tool development

  • Implementation activities

  • Testing

  • Training or coaching

  • Project coordination connected to the approved scope

The treatment of any prepaid amount exceeding earned fees, approved expenses, and other authorized charges will be determined under the applicable Engagement Documents.

Cancellation does not automatically entitle either party to retain or recover amounts unrelated to completed work, approved expenses, expressly reserved capacity, or another enforceable contractual obligation.

Operations Diagnostic

The Operations Diagnostic is a fixed-scope commercial engagement.

The applicable Statement of Work will identify:

  • The defined business problem and primary process

  • Included and excluded areas

  • Required information and access

  • Meetings or interviews

  • Deliverables

  • Professional-hour limit

  • Schedule

  • Client responsibilities

  • Price and payment requirements

If the client cancels before Diagnostic work begins, the commercial cancellation-before-work provisions of this Policy apply.

If the client cancels after Diagnostic work begins, the client remains responsible for work completed, approved expenses, and other amounts properly earned under the applicable Engagement Documents.

When practical and appropriate, we may provide completed or substantially completed materials corresponding to amounts earned and paid.

Incomplete working notes, internal analyses, draft materials, proprietary tools, and other internal work product are not deliverables unless they are expressly identified in the approved scope.

Purchasing an Operations Diagnostic does not require the client to purchase Improvement or Sustainment services.

Improvement Engagements

Improvement engagements are separately scoped commercial projects and may require professional capacity to be reserved over an agreed project period.

The applicable Engagement Documents will identify:

  • Approved implementation priorities

  • Activities and deliverables

  • Professional-hour limit

  • Schedule and milestones

  • Training or coaching included

  • Client participation requirements

  • Payment schedule

  • Cancellation and termination terms

If an Improvement engagement is canceled or terminated after work begins, the client remains responsible for:

  • Work completed

  • Approved expenses

  • Properly earned fees

  • Any reasonable cancellation or capacity-reservation amount expressly stated in the applicable Engagement Documents

Work outside the approved scope is not performed or charged without written authorization.

Sustainment Support

Sustainment Support is optional.

Each approved month is a separate fixed-scope commercial engagement.

There are:

  • No automatic renewals

  • No minimum number of months

  • No requirement to purchase another month

  • No charge for a future month unless it is separately approved

Before each month begins, the client and Angulo & Morsa must agree in writing on the:

  • Scope

  • Deliverables

  • Professional-hour limit

  • Responsibilities

  • Price

  • Payment requirements

  • Completion criteria

A client may decline any future month without a cancellation charge.

If a client cancels an already approved Sustainment month after work begins, the client remains responsible for work completed, approved expenses, and other amounts properly earned under that month’s approved scope.

The treatment of unused professional capacity within an approved month will be stated in the applicable Engagement Documents.

Public-Sector and Government-Contractor Engagements

Public-sector and government-contractor work does not follow the standard commercial cancellation and refund structure unless that structure is expressly incorporated into the applicable Engagement Documents.

Cancellation, suspension, termination, invoicing, payment, acceptance, and closeout may instead be governed by:

  • A professional-services agreement

  • Purchase order

  • Task order

  • Subcontract

  • Prime-contract flow-down terms

  • Funding or appropriation requirements

  • Termination-for-convenience provisions

  • Termination-for-cause provisions

  • Stop-work instructions

  • Notice and cure requirements

  • Government claims or dispute procedures

  • Applicable laws and regulations

Public-sector and subcontracted engagements may require payment only for authorized and accepted work performed through the effective termination date, together with approved expenses and other amounts permitted by the applicable contract.

Any refund, invoice adjustment, final payment, deliverable transfer, record turnover, or closeout responsibility will be determined by the applicable Engagement Documents.

Website commercial package pricing, prepayment practices, cancellation rules, and refund provisions do not override an applicable public-sector agreement, purchase order, task order, or subcontract.

Meetings, No-Shows, and Rescheduling

Meeting-cancellation, no-show, and rescheduling terms may be stated in the applicable Engagement Documents.

Unless another requirement is stated in writing, clients should provide as much notice as reasonably possible when a meeting must be canceled or rescheduled.

A missed or late-canceled meeting may count toward an engagement’s professional-hour limit when:

  • Professional time was reserved

  • Engagement-specific preparation was completed

  • The reserved time could not reasonably be reassigned

  • That treatment was disclosed in the applicable Engagement Documents

A missed meeting does not automatically make an entire engagement payment nonrefundable.

Public-sector and subcontracted meetings are subject to the schedule, staffing, billing, and notice requirements established by the applicable Engagement Documents.

Client Delays and Inactivity

Clients are responsible for providing required information, access, decisions, feedback, approvals, and personnel within the timeframes established for the engagement.

When a client-caused delay prevents progress:

  • The project schedule may be extended

  • Planned work may be reassigned

  • The engagement may be paused

  • Availability for resumption may change

  • A revised schedule or scope may be required

  • Additional work caused by the delay may require written authorization

For standard commercial engagements, if the client does not respond for fourteen calendar days after a written request for information or action needed to continue the work, we may pause the engagement.

If commercial-client inactivity continues for thirty calendar days, we may close the engagement after providing written notice.

Closing an inactive commercial engagement does not eliminate responsibility for:

  • Completed work

  • Approved expenses

  • Outstanding invoices

  • Other properly earned amounts

Resuming a closed engagement may require:

  • A new availability review

  • An updated schedule

  • A revised Statement of Work

  • Payment of outstanding balances

  • Additional fees when the delay creates additional work

Closing an inactive engagement does not automatically result in forfeiture of an unearned prepaid balance. The treatment of that balance will be determined under the applicable Engagement Documents and the circumstances of the engagement.

Public-sector and subcontracted delays, suspensions, and inactive periods are governed by the applicable contract, task order, purchase order, or subcontract.

Scope Changes

A cancellation is different from a request to modify the scope.

When project goals or requirements change, the parties may agree to:

  • Remove deliverables

  • Add deliverables

  • Change priorities

  • Revise activities or responsibilities

  • Change the professional-hour limit

  • Extend the schedule

  • Adjust the price

  • Issue a change order or amendment

  • Replace the existing scope with a new Statement of Work

  • Authorize an additional task order

A scope change is effective only after it has been approved through the written authorization process required by the engagement.

We do not perform or charge for material additional work without written authorization from an appropriate representative.

Third-Party Expenses

Some engagements may involve approved third-party expenses, such as:

  • Software subscriptions

  • Technology services

  • Licensed assets

  • Printing

  • Contractors or specialists

  • Travel

  • Equipment

  • Other external services or purchases

Third-party expenses will not be incurred on a client’s behalf unless they are included in the approved scope or separately authorized.

Once an approved third-party expense becomes noncancelable or nonrefundable, the client or contracting organization remains responsible for that expense to the extent permitted by the applicable Engagement Documents.

We do not control third-party refund policies, processing times, service availability, pricing, or billing practices.

Suspension or Termination by Angulo & Morsa

Subject to the applicable Engagement Documents, we may decline, suspend, or terminate an engagement when a client or contracting party:

  • Fails to make required payments

  • Fails to provide required authorization

  • Repeatedly fails to provide required information, access, or decisions

  • Materially delays or prevents the work

  • Directs work outside the authorized scope

  • Requests unlawful, deceptive, fraudulent, or unethical activity

  • Misuses deliverables

  • Violates confidentiality, security, or intellectual-property obligations

  • Engages in abusive, threatening, discriminatory, or harassing conduct

  • Materially breaches the applicable agreement

When an engagement is terminated because of a client’s breach or conduct, the client remains responsible for completed work, approved expenses, outstanding invoices, and other amounts properly earned under the applicable Engagement Documents.

If Angulo & Morsa cancels a direct commercial engagement for its own convenience before substantive work begins, the client will receive a refund of amounts paid for work that has not begun, less any client-approved nonrecoverable third-party expenses.

If Angulo & Morsa ends a direct commercial engagement for its own convenience after work begins, we will account for:

  • Work completed

  • Deliverables provided

  • Approved expenses

  • Payments received

  • Any unearned prepaid balance

Any unearned amount due to the client will be refunded according to the applicable Engagement Documents.

Termination of public-sector and subcontracted work by Angulo & Morsa is governed by the applicable contract, purchase order, task order, or subcontract.

Events Outside Reasonable Control

Neither party is responsible for delays caused by events outside its reasonable control, including:

  • Severe weather or natural disasters

  • Utility or internet failures

  • Major platform outages

  • Public emergencies

  • Government orders

  • Labor disruptions

  • Serious illness or incapacity

  • Other comparable events

The parties will make reasonable efforts to reschedule work, revise the timeline, or agree on another practical solution.

If the engagement cannot reasonably continue, fees for completed work and approved expenses remain due.

The treatment of any unearned prepaid balance, pending invoice, suspended work, or contract termination will be determined under the applicable Engagement Documents.

Results and Client Satisfaction

Consulting and implementation services do not guarantee a specific financial, operational, customer, employee, public-sector, or organizational result.

A refund is not available solely because a client does not achieve an expected result involving:

  • Revenue

  • Profitability

  • Customer acquisition or retention

  • Cost savings

  • Website traffic

  • Search rankings

  • Conversion rates

  • Employee performance or adoption

  • Operational performance

  • Technology performance

  • Regulatory or audit outcomes

  • Procurement or contract awards

  • Business or organizational growth

This does not excuse Angulo & Morsa from performing the authorized services in a professional manner consistent with the applicable scope.

Concerns regarding whether agreed services were performed should be raised promptly so the parties can review the applicable Engagement Documents, work completed, and available resolution options.

Refund Decisions and Processing

When a refund is due or approved for a commercial engagement, we will provide written confirmation of:

  • The approved refund amount

  • Any deduction and its basis

  • The payment method to be used

  • The date the refund is initiated

Refunds will generally be returned through the original payment method when reasonably possible.

Bank, card-network, and payment-processor timelines may affect when funds appear in the recipient’s account.

We will not deduct an undisclosed administrative or processing fee from a refund.

Refunds, invoice credits, and payment adjustments for public-sector or subcontracted engagements are handled according to the applicable Engagement Documents.

Payment Disputes and Chargebacks

Commercial clients are encouraged to contact us promptly regarding billing concerns so the parties can review the applicable agreement, invoice, payment history, and work completed.

Nothing in this Policy prevents a client from exercising a lawful payment-dispute right.

We may provide agreements, invoices, correspondence, work records, deliverables, approvals, and payment documentation when responding to a chargeback or payment dispute.

Knowingly false or fraudulent payment disputes may result in suspension or termination of services, collection activity, or other lawful remedies.

Public-sector and government-contractor payment disputes must follow the invoicing, claims, and dispute procedures established by the applicable Engagement Documents.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy when our services, contracting practices, payment practices, or legal obligations change.

Updated versions will be posted with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Changes apply prospectively and do not retroactively modify an active engagement.

Changes to an active engagement require the written authorization required by the applicable Engagement Documents or applicable law.

Contact

Questions, commercial cancellation requests, and refund inquiries may be submitted to:

Angulo & Morsa Legacy Consulting LLC
Menifee, California
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (951) 323-3762