YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN IN PARTICULAR TO CLAUSE 5 (WARRANTY) AND CLAUSE 6 (LIABILITY).

INTRODUCTION

"We" are Quintessentially Estates Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales and our offices are 10 Carlisle Street, London, W1D 3BR. We can also be contacted lucy@quintessentially.com

 

1.2 These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Quintessentially Estates Limited relating to the subject matter herein. These terms and conditions will hereinafter be referred to as ‘Terms’.
1.3 When you use this Site, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, you may not use this Site.
1.4 Certain uses of this Site are prohibited and amount to a misuse of our systems and the Site. Please refer to clause 3.
1.5 You may print and keep a copy of these Terms. They are a legal agreement between us and can only be modified with our consent. We may change these Terms at our discretion by changing them on the Site. The then current version of these Terms will apply whenever you use this Site.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

2.1 The copyright and all other intellectual property rights in this Site (including all database rights, trade marks, service marks, trading names, text, graphics, code, files and links) belong to us or our licensor(s). Subject to clause 3, you may download material from this Site for the sole purpose of using this Site. However, you must not copy, transmit, modify, republish, store (in whole or in part), frame, pass-off or link to any material or information on or downloaded from this Site without our prior written consent.
2.2 Without limitation to clause
2.1, the device QUINTESSENTIALLY ESTATES LIMITED is our trademark. You may not use or copy it without our prior written consent.
2.3 This Site contains links to websites operated by third parties. We have no control over their individual content. We therefore make no warranties or representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information appearing in relation to any linked websites. The links are for your convenience only. We do not recommend any products or services advertised on those websites. If you decide to access any third party website linked from this Site, you do so at your own risk and we are not liable to you for any loss you incur as a result of accessing these third party websites.
2.4 The details of the properties available on this Site are provided to us by our affiliated partners (estate agents and property developers) for your information only. We cannot verify these details and therefore make no warranties or representations as to their accuracy or completeness. If you rely on these details, you do so at your own risk.

YOUR OBLIGATIONS AND CONDUCT

3.1 You accept that you are solely responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specification necessary to use this Site and that your computer system is compatible with this Site.
3.2 You must not misuse our system or this Site. In particular, you must not hack into, circumvent security or otherwise disrupt the operation of our system and this Site, or attempt to carry out any of the foregoing.
3.3 You must not use or attempt to use any automated program (including, without limitation, any spider or other web crawler) to access our system or this Site, or to search, display or obtain links to any part of this Site, other than the home page at www.quintessentiallyestates.com unless the automated program identifies itself uniquely in the User Agent field and is fully compliant with the Robots Exclusion Protocol (a "Permitted Program"). Any such use or attempted use of an automated program (other than a Permitted Program) shall be a misuse of our system and this Site. Obtaining access to any part of our system or this Site by means of any such automated programs (other than a Permitted Program) is strictly unauthorised.
3.4 You must not include links to this Site in any other website without our prior written consent. In particular (but without limiting the foregoing) you must not include in any other website any “deep link” to any page on this Site other than the home page at www.quintessentiallyestates.com without our prior written consent.

BARRING FROM THE SITE

4.1 We reserve the right to bar users from this Site, on a permanent or temporary basis at our sole discretion. Any such user shall be notified and must not then attempt to use this Site under any other name or through any other user.

WARRANTY

5.1 Whilst we endeavour to ensure that any material available for downloading from this Site is not contaminated in any way, we do not warrant that such material will be free from infection, viruses and/or similar code.
5.2 Due to the nature of software and the internet, we do not warrant that your access to, or the running of, this Site will be uninterrupted or error free. We shall not be liable if we cannot process your details due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control. 5.3 The information provided on this Site is for general interest only and does not constitute specific advice. Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on the Site is accurate, complete and up-to-date we make no warranties or representations that this is the case.
5.4 We make no warranty or guarantee that the Site or information available over it complies with laws other than those of England.

LIABILITY

6.1 Nothing in these Terms will be deemed to exclude our liability to you for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or for fraudulent misrepresentation.
6.2 Subject to clause
6.1, we will not be liable for any failures due to software or Internet errors or unavailability, or any other circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
6.3 Subject to clause 6.1, we do not accept any liability for loss of your password or account ID caused by a breakdown, error, loss of power or otherwise caused by or to your computer system.
6.4 We may put in place such systems as we from time to time see fit to prevent automated programs being used to obtain unauthorised access to our system and this Site. You are not permitted to use automated programs for such purposes and any such use or attempted use by you of such automated programs is at your own risk. Subject to clause 7.1, we shall not be liable to you for any consequences arising out of or in connection with any such use or attempted use of automated programs to obtain unauthorised access to our system or this Site.
6.5 Subject to clause 6.1, we accept no liability for any loss suffered as a result of your use of this Site or reliance on any information provided on it and exclude such liability to the fullest extent permitted by law. 6.6 Subject to clauses 6.1 to 6.4 inclusive, we shall not be liable to you for: 6.6.1 any indirect, consequential, special or punitive loss, damage, costs and expenses; 6.6.2 loss of profit; 6.6.3 loss of business; 6.6.4 loss of reputation; 6.6.5 depletion of goodwill; or 6.6.6 loss of, damage to or corruption of data.

DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY

7.1 Any details which you provide to us from which we can identify you are held and processed in accordance with our Data Protection Registration. Please see our Privacy Policy for further details on this.

LEGAL JURISDICTION

8.1 English law shall apply to these Terms. You irrevocably agree that the courts of England will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms and for those purposes irrevocably submit all disputes to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

GENERAL

9.1 We may from to time to time change the content of this Site or suspend or discontinue any aspect of this Site, which may include your access to it. Subject to our notifying you to the contrary, any amendments or new content to this Site will be subject to these Terms.
9.2 These Terms are the whole agreement between you and us. You acknowledge that you have not entered into this agreement in reliance on any warranty or representation made by us (unless made fraudulently). If a court decides that any part of these Terms cannot be enforced, that particular part of these Terms will not apply, but the rest of these Terms will. A waiver by a party of a breach of any provision shall not be deemed a continuing waiver or a waiver of any subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions. Failure or delay in exercising any right under these Terms shall not prevent the exercise of that or any other right. You may not assign or transfer any benefit, interest or obligation under these Terms. The provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not apply to these Terms.

PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are

'We' are Quintessentially Estates Limited, 5 Elstree Gate, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JD. Company Registration Number: We are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998, number z9719611. We provide this website to subscribing estate agents and new homes developers to display properties they are marketing. We are not estate agents ourselves. Introduction We are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains how and for what purposes we use the information collected about you via www.quintessentiallyestates.co.uk (referred to below as "this Site"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. By using this Site and any services we offer via this Site, you are agreeing to be bound by this policy in respect of the information collected about you via this Site. If you have any queries or comments about the policy or our use of your personal information, please get in touch with us by emailing us at lucy@quintessentially.com.

Personal information collected

When you visit, register or use the services on this Site, you may be asked to provide certain information about yourself, including your name and your contact details. We may also collect information about your use of this Site as well as information about you from the emails or letters sent to you. Finally, we may collect information about your property and the type of property you wish to purchase.

Information collection and use

Your information will enable us to provide you with access to all parts of this Site and to supply the services and features that you have requested. We may aggregate the information to identify patterns which we can use in our marketing and to help us develop, administer, support and improve our services and features. In particular, we may use your information to contact you for your views on our services and to notify you occasionally about important changes or developments to this Site or our services. Further, where you have consented, we might also use your information to email you with details about any other products or services which we offer which may be of interest to you. If you change your mind about being contacted in the future, please email us at lucy@quintessentially.com and tell us. The following features, by their nature, require and make use of personally identifiable information.

Registering with us

If you register with us, we save the details you provide and use them to enable us to personalise the service we offer to you.

Who has access to the information you provide or we collect

We retain access to all personal information that we have collected from you. When our service is available via the websites of our partners, those partners may have access to your information. Their use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of any other websites, even if you access them using links from this Site or if you can access this Site or use our services from them. We therefore recommend that you check the policy of each site that you visit and make sure that you are comfortable with the terms of such policies before providing any personal information.

If our business enters into a joint venture with or is sold to or merged with another business entity, your information may be disclosed to our new business partners or owners.

We will not otherwise disclose, sell or distribute your information to any third party without your permission unless we are required to do so by law.

Access to, changing or removing the information we hold

Registered users of this Site can update their information, change settings or cancel their membership on their LUCY? page once signed in. Non-registered and registered users of this Site can request we provide them with a copy of the personally identifiable information we hold via lucy@quintessentially.com You may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that such information is accurate and kept up-to-date. We may charge a small administration fee to cover the data search, preparation and delivery.

Cookies and tracking

Like many websites, we use "cookies" to enable us to personalise your visits to this website, simplify the signing-in procedure, keep track of your preferences and to track the usage of this website. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored in the hard drive of your computer by your browser. Your browser will have the option to prevent websites using cookies (your browser's help screen or manual will tell you how to do this), but please note that this may reduce the functionality of this Site and other websites. Like all websites, our servers automatically record 'log files' containing information about the volume and characteristics of our website traffic e.g. IP address, numbers of pages viewed, length of time spent on site. We use log files to build pictures of how our site is used that help us to monitor and improve the service. We cannot identify you from your log files.

Security, storage and transfer of information

We follow strict security procedures to ensure that your personal information is not damaged, destroyed, or disclosed to a third party without your permission and to prevent unauthorised access to it. The computers that store the information are kept in a secure facility with restricted physical access and we use secure firewalls and other measures to restrict electronic access. All of the information we collect or record is restricted to our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. We will explicitly ask you when we need information to identify you. We may require you to co-operate with our security checks before we disclose information to you. You can update the personal information that you give us at any time by viewing ‘your details’ page. Your information will not be transferred outside of the European Economic Area. We will retain your information for a reasonable period or for as long as is required by law.

Changes to the policy

We may change this policy from time to time as we add new services or features or in response to changes in the law or our commercial arrangements. Any changes to this policy will be posted on this Site.