This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website PROPERTYPORTALFINANCE.COM  (our site). This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.

Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this Acceptable Use Policy, which supplement our Terms of Website Use.

PROPERTYPORTALFINANCE.COM is a site operated by PropertyPortal.Com Limited (we or us).  We are registered in England and Wales under company number 6603664 and we have our registered office at 6 Langdale Court, Witney, Oxon. OX28 6FG. Our VAT number is 943 4310 41

PROHIBITED USES

You may use our site only for lawful purposes.  You may not use our site:

• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
• To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our Terms of Website Use.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
• any part of our site;
• any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
• any software used in the provision of our site; or
• any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

INTERACTIVE SERVICES

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:

• Chat rooms.
• Bulletin boards.
• Social Networking.
• Business Networking.
• Classified Listings.
• Other interactive services.

Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not foolproof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.

Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

CONTENT STANDARDS

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

• Be accurate (where they state facts).
• Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
• Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

• Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
• Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Promote sexually explicit material.
• Promote violence.
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
• Be likely to deceive any person.
• Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
• Promote any illegal activity.
• Be threatening, abuse or invade another´s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
• Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site.  When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the Website Terms of Use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
• Issue of a warning to you.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy.  The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

PropertyPortal.Com Limited ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is PropertyPortal.Com Limited of 6 Langdale Court, Witney, Oxon. OX28 6FG.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site PROPERTYPORTALFINANCE.COM (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by PropertyPortal.Com Limited, and when you report a problem with our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

• To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
• To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
• To speed up your searches.
• To recognise you when you return to our site. 
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer. 
• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. 
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
• To notify you about changes to our service.

We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these.

If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.

If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.

We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

• If PropertyPortal.Com Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or terms and conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of PropertyPortal.Com Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at 10 Leys Villas The Leys Witney OX28 4DH or privacy@propertyportal.com.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to 10 Leys Villas The Leys Witney OX28 4DH or privacy@propertyportal.com.

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website PROPERTYPORTALFINANCE.COM (our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

INFORMATION ABOUT US

PROPERTYPORTALFINANCE.COM is a site operated by PropertyPortal.Com Limited ("We").  We are registered in England and Wales under company number 06603664 and have our registered office at 6 Langdale Court, Witney, Oxon. OX28 6FG. Our VAT number is 943 4310 41. We are a limited company.

ACCESSING OUR SITE

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.  You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it.  Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.  All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.  We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

OUR LIABILITY

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
• loss of income or revenue;
• loss of business;
• loss of profits or contracts;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of data;
• loss of goodwill;
• wasted management or office time; and

for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.  By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

UPLOADING MATERIAL TO OUR SITE

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.  You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

LINKING TO OUR SITE

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to terms@propertyportal.com

LINKS FROM OUR SITE

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.  We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site.  These terms of use are governed by English law.

TRADE MARKS

The trademarks are UK registered trademarks of Propertyportal.com Limited.

ADVERTISEMENTS

We reserve the right to check all new Advertisements submitted to us. We will do so within a reasonable period after they have been submitted to us. We reserve the right in our discretion to reject Advertisements. If the Advertisement has been paid for, we will refund the payment less a reasonable administration fee.

Advertisers must ensure that property listings and other Advertisements are accurate and up to date, are not misleading, comply with all applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct and do not infringe any third party intellectual property or other rights. Also, such content must not be offensive, vulgar, racist, abusive, invasive of another's privacy or similarly inappropriate.

All Advertisements must also comply with the following guidelines:

• Advertisements must not include claims relating to the property or proposed transaction which are not matters of fact or which cannot be checked by reasonable inspection or survey, or in the case of any legal matters, verified by relevant documents; and

• if you specify "Wheelchair Access" for a property all of the following must apply:

  • no steps needed to access the property;

  • access is either level or via a ramp;

  • off-street parking or unrestricted on-street parking;

  • WC and main living floors at ground level; and

  • ground floor access to main living floor rooms.

We reserve the right in our discretion without notice to edit the text or layout of Advertisements submitted to or posted on our Site (including removal of hyperlinks to, or addresses of, or other websites from property listings) or to locate or relocate Advertisements on our Site where we think fit (provided that you achieve prominence which is broadly equivalent to what we offer for your particular package). We also reserve the right to charge for the inclusion of hyperlinks if so stated on our Site.

Only one property can appear on each listing, except in the case of multiple units at the same location in the same category (eg identical one bedroom flats in a single building). We reserve the right in our discretion to determine whether multiple units do qualify for a single listing. The property initially listed may not be changed without our prior written consent.

You may only use the information in leads we send you (whether via forms or dedicated phone numbers on our Site or otherwise) for the purposes specified by the enquirer (eg to communicate about a specific property or category of properties). You must not otherwise market to or contact such persons. When using such leads or when providing products and services relating to such leads you must do so to the highest industry standards, you must comply with all applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct (including as to data protection) and you must not infringe any third party rights.

We may at any time immediately cancel your registration or use of our Site without cause including removal of any Advertisement. If so, we will refund in full any fees already paid for the period in respect of which we take such a step.

If:

• we have good reason to believe that you have breached this agreement or that it is necessary to protect us or our users; or

• we receive a complaint relating to an Advertisement or an Advertiser or to products or services referred to in an Advertisement; or

• if we are required by law or appropriate authority

we may without giving notice or reasons remove or suspend any Advertisement or terminate a user's registration or right to use our Site. In such case we will provide a refund pro rata of any subscriptions paid for any unused period.

We cannot be held legally responsible for loss or damage resulting from editing, rejection, suspension or removal of an Advertisement or from termination of registration for or of use of our Site provided we act in accordance with this agreement.

If we have given notice in accordance with any of the previous paragraphs, you must not attempt to re-register for or use our Site or services or re-post or re-submit the relevant content as the case may be.

We may in our discretion change or remove any feature of our Site. If this is a significant part, we will refund any applicable fees already paid for the remainder of the period to which the fee relates.

PAYMENT/REPORTING
Subscriptions

Subscriptions for various services may be offered from time to time. Details are as stated on our Site.

Pay per lead

In case the case of pay per lead (available to advertisers), there is no charge to list a property but you agree to pay the relevant price shown on our website for every unique lead generated. Leads include enquiries submitted via the enquiry forms or via dedicated telephone numbers. In the case of enquiry forms, leads are unique when they show different contact email addresses except that we will treat enquiries with the same email address as unique where they are sent more than 28 days apart. Each telephone call to the dedicated telephone number(s) which we allocate to you is treated as a unique lead even if more than one call is from the same telephone number.

If you believe that a lead is invalid (eg because contact details are incorrect), you can dispute it by flagging as disputed within your account. This must be done within 14 days of the lead occurring. We reserve the right to investigate any disputed lead and to charge for it if we consider it valid. Our decision as to validity of leads shall be final but we promise to act reasonably.

CPC / CPM

In the case of "cost per click" (CPC), click means all clicks by a unique user on an Advertisement over any 24 hour period as measured by our tracking systems. In the case of cost per 1000 impressions (CPM), a single impression means the display of an Advertisement to a user as measured by our tracking systems.

General

Payments must be made by the methods shown on our Site.

All fees shown on our Site include VAT unless otherwise stated. You must make all payments without any set-off, counterclaim and/or any other deduction.

It is your responsibility to keep your account in sufficient credit to pay for the relevant services. We reserve the right to disable, suspend and/or remove Advertisements if there is insufficient credit in your account. We do not pay interest on monies credited to your account.

We will e-invoice you when you top up your account and / or at the end of the relevant month and / or on cancellation by you (see below). Invoices must be paid within 7 days.

If any amount due to us is unpaid, we may:

• charge reasonable additional administration costs; and/or

• charge interest (both before and after judgment) on the amount unpaid at the rate at the rate for the time being applicable under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998; and/or

• disable, suspend or remove any or all of your Advertisements; and/or

• terminate this agreement on written notice (including email).

We may change the fees on our Site at any time. Any new orders placed after the change will be subject to the new fees. For existing contracts, we will give you notice by email at least one month before any fee change takes effect. If you do not accept the new fee, you should cancel this agreement before the change takes effect by the means shown below.

CANCELLATION BY YOU
In the case of subscription packages, you can cancel your Advertisement by notifying your account manager by email to accounts@propertyportal.com. If you cancel, you will have the option to remove your Advertisement immediately or at the end of the current subscription period. However, there will be no refund in respect of the unused period if you opt to remove the Advertisement immediately. You may also request that your Advertisement is reinstated during the subscription period. If so, the period will not be extended to allow for the time when the Advertisement was not being displayed.

In the case of pay per lead or CPC / CPM, you can cancel this agreement at any time by notifying your account manager by email to accounts@propertyportal.com. Cancellation will take effect within one UK business day of receipt of your notification. You remain liable for all fees incurred up to the date that the cancellation takes effect. If we hold any funds on credit following settlement of our final invoice, these will be repaid to you by credit card refund or such other method as we may determine less any outstanding promotional free credit.

You can also cancel this agreement where otherwise permitted in these Website Terms and Conditions.

VARIATIONS

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

YOUR CONCERNS

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact terms@propertyportal.com

Thank you for visiting our site.