Last updated: September 2026
This page sets out the terms on which you may use olusholaawode.com and everything on it: the essays, the guides, the checklists and the free tools. It is written in plain English on purpose. If anything here is unclear, write to olusholaawode@gmail.com and I will explain it.
By using this website you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.
Who runs this site
This site is run by Olushola Awode, an individual based in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a personal website. It is not a freight forwarding company, a customs agent, a bank, a law firm or a government body, and it is not connected to, endorsed by, or speaking for any employer, client, carrier, terminal or agency mentioned anywhere on it.
What the tools and guides are
Everything here is general information and estimation. It is intended to help you understand how things work and to give you a well-informed starting point.
Nothing on this site is:
- Professional advice for your specific shipment, business or situation. Your circumstances are not the ones the tools assume.
- Legal, tax, customs, financial or investment advice. For those you need a qualified professional who knows your facts.
- A quotation, an offer or a promise of any price. Nothing here can be relied on as a price you will be charged. The Quotation Issuer is the one exception to the shape of that sentence, and only in form: it produces a quotation, but the quotation is yours, built from your numbers, and it is not an offer from me to anybody. See the section on it below.
- An official source. Where a figure comes from a published tariff or a government schedule, the source and the date it was checked are shown so you can go and read the original. The original always wins.
The numbers change, and the tools can be wrong
Tariffs, levies, exchange rates, carrier charges, terminal charges and government policy all change, sometimes at short notice and sometimes without any announcement. A rate that was correct when it was checked can be wrong by the time you read it.
Customs authorities can also classify goods under a different code from the one you assumed, or value them differently from your invoice, and either of those changes the answer completely.
So: always check any figure from this site against the documents you are actually given before you commit money. Use these tools to decide whether something is worth pursuing, not as the final word on what it will cost.
You are responsible for your own decisions
I make these tools as accurate as I can, and I check the arithmetic. But I cannot accept responsibility for what you decide to do with the answers.
To the fullest extent the law allows, I am not liable for any loss or damage of any kind arising from your use of this site or reliance on anything on it, including lost profit, lost business, extra charges, delays, penalties, or decisions taken on the basis of an estimate. Nothing in these terms limits liability where the law does not allow it to be limited.
Your figures stay on your device
The tools on this site run entirely inside your own web browser. The prices, dates, rates and client details you type are not sent to me, not stored on any server, and not shared with anyone. Where a tool remembers your entries between visits, it saves them in your own browser’s storage on that one device.
Two things follow from that, and they matter:
- Clearing your browser data, or changing computer, loses whatever a tool had saved. Where a tool offers an export button, use it regularly and keep the file somewhere safe. Nothing here is a backup.
- I cannot recover anything for you, because I never had it in the first place.
The privacy policy explains this in more detail.
The Quotation Issuer, in particular
One tool on this site does something the others do not: it produces a document that you send to somebody else, under your own company name and your own logo. That deserves its own terms, so there is no confusion later about who owns what and who is responsible for what.
The document belongs to you
Every quotation you build here is your property, outright. I claim no ownership of it, no copyright in it, and no rights over it of any kind. Use it commercially, edit it, rebrand it, send it to whoever you like. You owe me nothing for it: no fee, no credit, no permission.
I am not part of your transaction
I am not the issuer of your quotation, not your agent, not your broker, not a party to any contract that follows from it, and not a guarantor of anything in it. If your client accepts your quotation, that agreement is between the two of you. I have no role in it, no liability under it, and no involvement in any dispute about it.
The prices are yours
The tool provides no rates whatsoever. It does not supply, suggest, source, verify, benchmark, approve or endorse any price, charge, exchange rate, margin or commercial term. It arranges the numbers you type into a clear layout and does arithmetic on them. Every figure on a finished quotation came from the person who made it.
What you are responsible for
When you issue a quotation made with this tool, you are responsible for:
- whether the prices are right, and whether you can actually perform the work at them;
- the tax treatment, including VAT and any withholding that applies where you are;
- whether the document meets any invoicing, record-keeping or consumer-protection rule that applies to your business, in your country and your client’s;
- your own terms and conditions, validity dates and exclusions;
- your company details being accurate and your company being properly registered to trade;
- owning, or being licensed to use, the logo you upload.
I make no promise that a document produced here satisfies any legal, tax or regulatory requirement anywhere. Requirements differ by country, industry and business. Check yours.
Honest use only
You may not use this tool to:
- issue a quotation in the name of a company you are not authorised to represent;
- imitate another business, or pass yourself off as one;
- produce a document intended to deceive anybody, including a fake quotation used to obtain money, credit, goods or a decision;
- create anything a court would call fraudulent, or anything used in a scam.
That is not use of the tool. It is misuse of it, it is a breach of these terms, and it may well be a crime where you are.
What the credit line means
Quotations produced here carry a small line naming the tool that formatted them. It identifies the tool and nothing else. It is not a certification, an endorsement, a verification, a licence, an approval or a recommendation of the company issuing the quotation, of its prices, or of its ability to do the work.
If you have received a quotation carrying that line and you are trying to work out whether the company behind it is genuine: I cannot help you, because I have no record of it. The document was created entirely on that person’s own device and I never saw it. Check the company the way you would check any other, through its registration, its references and its regulator.
I cannot recover your quotations
Nothing you type goes anywhere near me. That is deliberate and it is the strongest privacy position I can offer, but it has a cost you should understand: if you clear your browser data, change device or lose your computer, the quotations and the saved company details are gone, and I cannot get them back, because I never had them. Download the PDF or Excel file of anything that matters and keep it somewhere safe.
If your use of a tool causes a problem for someone else
If you use anything on this site in a way that breaks the law, misleads somebody, infringes another person’s rights or breaches these terms, and I face a claim, a complaint or a cost as a result, you agree to cover me for it.
Put plainly: the tools are free and given in good faith. What you make with them, and what you do with what you make, is yours.
Using what is here
You are welcome to use the tools freely, for yourself, for your business, and with your clients. You do not need permission and there is no charge.
You are welcome to share and quote from the writing, provided you credit it and link back to the page you took it from.
Please do not:
- Copy the tools or the site’s content and present them as your own work. (This does not apply to documents you generate with the tools. Those are yours, and presenting them as your own is exactly the point.)
- Republish substantial parts of the site elsewhere without asking.
- Sell access to anything here, or put it behind your own paywall.
- Scrape the site automatically at a rate that affects other people using it.
- Try to break into, overload, or interfere with the site or anyone else’s use of it.
If you would like to use something in a way this section does not cover, just ask. The answer is usually yes.
Links to other sites
Where a tool or an article links to a carrier’s tariff, a terminal’s price list, a regulator or another source, that link is provided so you can check the original for yourself. I do not control those sites, I am not responsible for what they say, and a link is not an endorsement.
If you subscribe to the email list you will receive occasional emails about new tools and essays, and nothing else. Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe link. Your address is not sold, rented or shared.
Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated as the site grows. The date at the top shows when they last changed. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.
Which law applies
These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Nigerian courts have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.
Getting in touch
Questions, corrections, or a figure you believe is wrong: olusholaawode@gmail.com. Corrections are genuinely welcome, and a tool that is wrong is worse than no tool at all, so please do tell me.