Privacy Policy, Disclaimer & Terms and Conditions
All customers and users of our website are protected by the squaremetres privacy policy. Your personal information is subject to the Data Protection Act 1998 and we assure you that it will be dealt with professionally at all times, in accordance with the law.
‘WE’, ‘US’ and ‘OUR’ in this policy are references to squaremetres and ‘OUR WEBSITE’ refers to www.square-metres.co.uk
The information collected via our website may include:
- Personal details knowingly supplied by you via forms and our email, i.e. name, address, telephone, etc.
- Use of email updates and preferences recorded by our emails to you (if you elect to receive email updates)
- Your unique IP address that is recorded by our web server when you use our website. This information is allows us to monitor your visits.
- Any data recorded by our website allowing us to recognise you and your preferred settings. This data is recorded locally on your computer through cookies. Most browsers allow you to reject cookies, or warn you prior to downloading them. Check your browser’s ‘help’ facility. Cookies will, in fact assist you in enjoying the full benefit of all the features on our website.
Personal information collected from our website will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and all other applicable laws. We use the details we collect to:
- Process your requests for appointments, viewing trips etc. in conjunction with our colleagues overseas, where applicable. Your details may be passed to another organisation that will supply or deliver services or products you have requested or enquired about in order to supply pre/after sales service. The personal information provided may be given to, or accessed by, our staff and third parties acting for us outside the UK and the European Union. Countries outside the EU do not always have data protection laws but we do take care to ensure that personal information used by parties it is passed on to do adhere to the following conditions:
- We respect the privacy of people who register with us and do not sell or rent their details to anyone. However, occasionally, we may pass information we have collected to other carefully vetted and reputable companies for administrative purposes only. Third parties may also be used for activities such as issuing our emails for us, monitoring our website, sorting and processing data. These third parties will not be allowed the use of your personal information for their own purposes.
- You consent to the transfer, use and collection of your personal information by supplying it to us in accordance with these conditions.
- You have the right to see any information we currently hold about you. A copy may be obtained by emailing privacy@square-metres.co.uk with the subject heading ‘Privacy Policy’.
This Privacy Policy covers our website: www.square-metres.co.uk
Other websites that may be linked to our website are not covered but may have a policy that is different to ours. It is advisable to check the privacy policy of individual websites directly, to establish their treatment of your personal information.
Disclaimer
Prices shown on this website are updated regularly. Exchange rates are supplied by one of our recommended Foreign Exchange Brokers. Transactions are undertaken in the currency of the country and fluctuations in price and/or exchange rate should be expected.
All the properties and their prices shown on this website are displayed as a general outline and are a guide only. These details do not constitute, or comprise, a part of an offer or a contract. squaremetres and its associates reserve the right to change details and prices without notification. squaremetres cannot guarantee that any property on this website or on other related promotional material will be available on arrival in the Country.
squaremetres does not guarantee the accuracy of the information contained on the web pages. All distance, measurement, timing and related data is approximate and should not be relied upon. Information in respect of regions, places, facilities and associated facts, is for guidance only.
Most of the images on this website belong to squaremetres, or our associates and clients. However some images have been sourced from Flickr and Microsoft Clipart and, to the best of our knowledge, these images are free from copyright. If you feel we are breeching a copyright by using any of these images, email us with details of where the image appears and proof of copyright. We will remove the image as soon as possible.
Advertising on the squaremetres website - Terms & Conditions
Throughout these terms and conditions, the terms: “we”/”our” refers to Square Metres Ltd; "our website" refers to www.square-metres.co.uk; and “the advertiser”, “you” and “your” refers to customers purchasing a private property for sale advertisement on the "square-metres.co.uk" website.
Content of Advertisements and Property Misdescriptions
We accept advertisements in good faith and all advertisements must comply with relevant UK legislation including:
- the Misrepresentation Act 1967 (which relates to false descriptions or promises)
- the Property Misdescription Act 1991 (which prohibits the making of false or misleading statements about property)
- the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (which relates to false descriptions)
- the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (which relates to misleading prices).
By purchasing an advertisement for a private sale property on our website, you warrant that :
- you are:
- the legal owner of the property with the sole right to sell, or
- you have either legal power of attorney on behalf of the legal property owner(s), or
- in possession of the full consent of any co-owners.
- to the best of your knowledge, all descriptions and information supplied by you to appear on our website are honest, accurate, fair and not misleading in any way.
- you are responsible for the accuracy of the information supplied and you agree to indemnify us against any legal claims or other expenses that arise as a result of misleading or inaccurate claims you make about the property in the advertisement.
We expect you to provide an accurate description of your property. Property descriptions should only include facts that can be verified either by reasonable inspection; and/or confirmed and/or supported by documentation.
We undertake to take every care to faithfully reproduce the text, photographs/images and prices provided by you to us and relating to your advertisement. However, should there be any error or omission on our part, we will not be held liable for any loss that may arise as a consequence.
We reserve the right to edit or delete any descriptions which we believe to be inaccurate, misleading or fanciful. We also reserve the right to determine the design and layout of the advertisement and at our discretion, should we consider it necessary, make any alterations to submitted text or photographs. Our decision is final where there is a dispute regarding the content of an advertisement and we will not be held liable for any loss arising out of such alterations.
All materials, images, photographs, plans, etc provided by you to us for the preparation of advertisements will be treated with the utmost care, but we cannot be held liable for any loss or damage however caused.
Copyright
The copyright for the material contained in our website belongs to us exclusively, unless otherwise indicated. Our website is available for anyone to view and print hard copies of material on it for personal, non-commercial use. All other forms of copying, whether electronic, hard copy or any other format, is prohibited. All other rights in respect of copying, broadcasting or onward publication are reserved.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you have the right to reproduce any photograph, plan or digital image which you supply to us. Your submission of any image, photograph, plan, etc, for publication with your property advertisement is taken as an acknowledgement that you are the copyright owner, or you have the full consent from the copyright owner for distribution for onward publication. You hereby agree to indemnify us should any copyright infringement claim arise that relates to any material, image, photograph, etc for onward publication that you have provided to us and for which you do not own the copyright.
All digital images produced by us from material, images, photographs, plans, etc supplied by you are the property of Square Metres Ltd, and as a result they shall not be reproduced without our permission.
Email Enquiries
We monitor all email enquiries and will suppress any such emails that we consider not to be genuine enquiries or which are constituted to be unsolicited commercial marketing.
Advertising Costs
- Advertising costs quoted are subject to UK VAT at 17.5%. Under EU rules, Portuguese residents are required to pay UK VAT - unless the advertisement is for business purposes.
- The discount applied to multiple advertisements only applies when more than one advertisement is purchased at the same time.
- Professional discounts are subject to individual agreements.
- We reserve the right to amend or change the cost of advertisements at any time and without notice. Any changes in the cost of placing an advertisement on our website will only apply to new listing - advertisements already appearing on our website or confirmed by us will not be affected.
Refusal, Cancellations, Termination or Withdrawal of Advertisements
Refusal: We reserve the absolute right to refuse to accept any submitted advertisement . The cost of the advertisement will be returned using the same method as the original payment was made.
Cancellation: You may cancel your purchase of an advertisement, for any reason, within 2 working days (Monday to Friday inclusive and during UK office hours) of us confirming that it will be added to the square-metres.co.uk website database. The cancellation request must be in writing (letter or email), and on receipt of the request, we will initiate a full refund of all moneys.
Termination: We reserve the right to remove an advertisement from our website, without notice, if we receive a complaint about it's accuracy that is, in our opinion, reasonably substantiated, Our decision will be final and we will not issue a refund.
Withdrawal: Withdrawals of advertisements on our website can be made at anytime provided notification is made in writing (letter or e-mail).
There are no circumstances under which we will pay any compensation for any loss howsoever incurred, including the time/cost involved in submitting the advertisement, re-advertising costs, etc.
Refunds
Subject to the discretion of the directors of Square Metres Ltd, following the 2 working day cancellation period, we will not make a refund after publication of paid advertising.
All refunds will be initiated within 5 working days of receipt of moneys and payments will be returned using the same method that you used when paying for the advertisement, ie:
- on-line payments - a full refund will be made via the on-line refund system
- by BACs transfer - a return transfer will be made
- by cheque - the cheque will be returned by post
This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.
Liability
We cannot be held liable to you, whether for misrepresentation, negligence, breach of contract, or otherwise for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage (including without limitation, goodwill, business opportunity, loss of profit or anticipated savings), howsoever incurred in connection with advertising on our website or suffered by you as a result of your use of our website, or any other website linked through to or from our website, or any information, materials, software or services provided on or through the provision of our website or any computer virus transmitted through our website.
Level of Service/No warranty
The number of new advertisements that we receive at any time is beyond our control and we are, therefore, unable to guarantee response times. However, we endeavour to approve new advertisements, or changes to existing advertisements, as quickly as possible
As far as is practical, we will endeavour to ensure that the website is available on the internet at all times. However we do not guarantee uninterrupted, continuous or secure access to our services as factors outside our control may interfere with the operation of our website .
We are unable to guarantee 100% availability of our website as some breaks in service are inevitable and these interruptions are often beyond our control.
To the extent permissible by law, our services and our website are provided “as is” and “as and when” available. Whether implied by statute or otherwise, we exclude all implied conditions, warranties or other terms, including, without limitation, any terms as to timeliness of performance or care and skill.
Third Party Rights
Under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, a person who is not the advertiser has no right to enforce any term of these terms and conditions however this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party specified in these terms and conditions or which exists or is available apart from that Act.
Jurisdiction
Any matter relating to our website, and these Terms and Conditions, shall be governed by English law and the English courts shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction in respect of them.
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