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Terms and Conditions of Service to Advertisers
1 DEFINITIONS
1.1 "Advertiser" means the business which agrees with
Pollensa Pines to use these web facilities for advertising
1.2 "Contract" means the contract between Pollensa Pines
and the Advertiser for the provision of Holiday lettings and /or
goods and/or services, incorporating these Terms and Conditions;
1.3 "Holiday lettings and /or goods and/or services" means
the holiday lettings and /or goods and/or services that the Advertiser
agrees to sell through Pollensa Pines; for an advertising fee to
Pollensa Pines.
1.4 Pollensa Pines means Pollensa Pines Ltd of The Haddons, West
Haddon Road, Ravensthorpe, Northampton NN6 8ET (Reg no 2842943).
Telephone ++ 44 (0)1604 770975 Fax++ 44 (0)1604 771075 that owns
and operates www.pollensapines.com
1.5 "Terms and Conditions" means the terms and conditions
for the provision of Holiday lettings and /or goods and/or services
set out in this agreement and any special terms and conditions agreed
in writing by Pollensa Pines.
1.6 "Website" means this website
2 CONDITIONS
2.1 These Terms and Conditions shall apply to all contracts for
the advertising on this website between Pollensa Pines
and the Advertiser and shall prevail over any other documentation
or communication from the Advertiser.
2.2 Any variation to these Terms and Conditions (including any special
terms and conditions agreed between the parties) shall be inapplicable
unless agreed in writing by Pollensa Pines.
2.3 Any complaints should be addressed to Pollensa Pines's
address stated in clause 1.4.
3 ORDERING
3.1 All orders for advertising shall be deemed to be an offer to
Holiday Lettings Direct Limited by the Advertiser to purchase from
us advertising services pursuant to these Terms and Conditions and
are subject to acceptance by us and we may choose not to accept
an order for any reason. Only one property unit should be represented
in an advertisement unless we have agreed otherwise and an extra
fee would be charged per property. We reserve the right to amend
any property adverts not adhering to this policy.
3.2 When making an advertising order to display goods/holiday lettings
and /or goods and/or services through the Website, the technical
steps the Advertiser needs to take to complete the order process
are described in the Order Process section within this website.
3.3 Advertisers are responsible for keeping their property availability
accurate and up to date. The availability calendar can be maintained
by the Advertiser via its online password protected administration
area and it will compensate us on an indemnity basis for any claims
agains us or losses suffered by us as a result of any misdescription
or breach of these conditions.
3.4 We reserve the final right to determine the final design layout
of all parts of this website (including the Advertiser's online
password protected area) and reserve the right to amend and edit
copy entered on to the online database by the Advertiser. We are
not to be held liable for any loss or damage resulting from the
design or positioning of the properties or changes made to the photographs
and copy submitted by the Advertiser.
4 PRICE
AND PAYMENT
4.1 The price to an Advertiser shall be that stipulated on the Website.
The price is inclusive of VAT.
4.2 The total purchase price, including VAT as appropriate, will
be displayed on our acknowledgement to a Advertiser when confirming
the order.
4.3 After the order is received from an Advertiser, we shall confirm
to the Advertiser the details, description and price for the advertising
and whether the Buyer's order is accepted.
4.4 Payment of the price to Pollensa Pines for the advertising contract
must be made within 14 days. Payment must be made without deduction
or set-off. Payment for advertising may be in British Pounds or
major credit or debit cards, or a cheque on a UK bank in British
Pounds. Payment by credit or debit card will be processed either
online or by telephone by our online card payment provider [ ].
Should an Advertiser not have the ability to make payment by card,
a cheque should be sent to Pollensa Pines Limited of The Haddons,
West Haddon Road, Ravensthorpe, Northampton NN6 8ET. Make cheques
payable to Pollensa Pines. In the case of cheque payments, Advertisers
should ensure that a cheque is sent, to arrive with us no later
than 10 working days from the date of registration of a property.
We reserve the right to withhold or remove property advertisements
should payment not be received within this timeframe.
4.5 If any payment for an original or renewal advertising contract
is not paid on time or any payment is rejected or refused, the amount
owing will be treated as overdue. If payment is not made within
30 days any outstanding invoices will attract interest at the rate
of 2% above base rate. If payment has not been received within 45
days, Pollensa Pines reserves the right to suspend the Advertiser's
account for all advertising for that Advertiser.
5 PERFORMANCE
5.1 Pollensa Pines shall begin to perform the advertising
services within 14 days after the date of Registration.
5.2 We shall perform the advertising services with reasonable skill
and care. However, where applicable, Pollensa Pines does
not guarantee that this website will be uninterrupted, secure or
error-free or that any data generated, stored, transmitted or used
via or in connection with the Holiday lettings and /or goods and/or
services advertised by the Advertiser will be complete, accurate,
secure, up to date, received or delivered correctly or at all. Pollensa Pines may have to suspend the website for repair, maintenance
or improvement. If so, Pollensa Pines will restore it
as quickly as is reasonably possible.
5.3 The advertising contract is subject to an initial contract period
of 12 months and shall continue thereafter on a yearly basis unless
and until terminated on 30 days notice at any time by either side,
without needing to give cause.
5.4 We may suspend or terminate this agreement (as regards some
or all of the advertising) immediately on written notice, if the
Advertiser breaches any term of this agreement, and any payment
due remains payable and, if already paid, will be non-refundable.
5.5 If the Advertiser wishes to have its property page removed from
this website before the end of its subscription, this will be done
as soon as we receive formal notice from the Advertiser quoting
their owner ID, property number and password but no refund will
be made.
6 RIGHTS
RESERVED
6.1 Pollensa Pines reserves the right periodically to
update prices for the advertising service , which cannot be guaranteed
for any period of time after the agree prepayment period.
6.2 Pollensa Pines reserves the right to withdraw the
advertising from the Website at any time if Pollensa Pines
considers in its discretion that any material of the Advertiser
is inappropriate for the content of this website.
6.3 Pollensa Pines shall not be liable to anyone for
withdrawing the advertising from the Website or for refusing to
process an order.
7 LEGAL
CAPACITY AND AUTHORITY
7.1 The Buyer will be asked when placing an order to declare that
they have full legal capacity and authority to enter into a contract
with the Seller. If the Seller discovers that the Buyer has not
the legal capacity or authority, the Seller shall be entitled to
refuse to accept the order immediately or to cancel the purported
contract without liability.
8 LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY
8.1 In the event of any breach of these Terms and Conditions by
Pollensa Pines, the remedies of the Advertiser shall
be limited to damages which shall in no circumstances exceed the
price of the sums paid to us in the previous 12 months for the contract
claimed under, and Pollensa Pines shall under no circumstances
be liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential loss or
damage whatever.
8.2 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit
the liability of Pollensa Pines for death or personal
injury resulting from the negligence or default of Pollensa Pines or that of Pollensa Pines's agents or employees.
9 WAIVER
No waiver by Pollensa Pines (whether express or implied)
in enforcing any of its rights under this agreement shall prejudice
our rights to do so in the future.
10 FORCE
MAJEURE
We shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform any of
our obligations to the Advertiser if the delay or failure results
from events or circumstances outside our reasonable control, and
we shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of its obligations.
11 WEBSITE
CONTENT AND ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
11.1 Pollensa Pines Limited may in our sole discretion
refuse to put on to the Advertiser's online password protected area
of this website (or allow to stay on it) or to deal with any material
which in our sole opinion contains anything which might result in
civil or criminal proceedings, or which we are prevented from completing
as a result of action (at law or otherwise) by any third party,
or which in our opinion is morally repugnant or may cause offence
to any person or any section of any community. We may in any of
these circumstances coming to our notice, or if the Advertiser is
in breach of our Acceptable Use policy, immediately terminate this
contract and we shall not be liable to pay any compensation or other
monies to the Advertiser, however arising, in respect of such termination.
In any such circumstances, the Advertiser will compensate us on
an indemnity basis for any losses suffered by us.
11.2 The Advertiser shall compensate us on an indemnity basis against
all claims, actions, proceedings, losses, liabilities, damages,
costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal costs and expenses),
howsoever suffered or incurred by us in consequences of the Advertisers
breach or non-observance of any of its obligations to us, and in
respect of any such losses arising out of any legal action taken
or threatened as a result of any matter alleged to be defamatory,
or an infringement of copyright or other material supplied, prepared
or approved by the Advertiser. This obligation remains in force
even after termination of the contract.
11.3 If the Advertiser puts on to the Advertiser's online password
protected area of this website any material (including, but not
limited to alleged libellous or slanderous material, or breach of
intellectual property rights) which is the subject of dispute between
us and the Advertiser, or between the Advertiser and any other party,
then the Advertiser will on written demand by us forthwith remove
(or allow us to remove) without compensation to the Advertiser such
material from the Advertiser's online password protected area of
this website pending determination of the dispute and will compensate
us on an indemnity basis for any loss suffered by us. We may shut
off access by the Advertiser to this website without compensation
to the Advertiser, if the Advertiser fails to allow us to remove
such material immediately.
11.4 The Advertiser will use the Advertiser's online password protected
area of this website only for lawful purposes and will promptly
inform us if this has been or may have been breached. In particular,
. the Advertiser will not use our server in any manner which infringes
any law or regulation or which infringes the rights of any third
party, nor will the Advertiser authorise or permit any other person
to do so. . the Advertiser will not upload, post, link to or transmit
any material which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, malicious,
defamatory, obscene, pornographic, blasphemous, profane or otherwise
objectionable in any way, any material containing a virus or other
hostile computer program, any material which constitutes, or may
encourage the commission of, a criminal offence or which infringes
any patent, trade mark, design right, copyright or any other intellectual
property right or similar rights of any person which may subsist
under the laws of any jurisdiction, or any material which is forbidden
by our Acceptable Use Policy which is set out in this Agreement
and if we discover that any such material is on a linked website
owned or directly or indirectly controlled by the Advertiser, then
we may shut off any link from this website to such other website
forthwith, without compensation to the Advertiser. . The Advertiser
is solely responsible for all copyright and other intellectual property
rights aspects of readable content supplied to us for inclusion
in this website and it warrants that it has free and unrestricted
right to use all such material. . The Advertiser is responsible
for updating his lettings availability on the Advertiser's online
password protected area of this website and will compensate us on
an indemnity basis for any losses or claims that we may suffer or
be subject to, if the Advertiser fails to keep it up to date. .
The Advertiser is responsible for ensuring a proper description
of the holiday lettings / goods / services on the Advertiser's online
password protected area of this website and will compensate us on
an indemnity basis for any losses or claims that we may suffer or
be subject to, if the Advertiser fails to keep it up to date and
accurate.
11.5 We reserve the right at our discretion to prohibit any link
from another Internet site or equivalent entity to materials or
information on this site. Without prejudice to that, any link to
material or information on the Advertiser's online password protected
area of this site must be neither misleading nor deceptive and must
fairly indicate this website as the destination of the link.
12 COPYRIGHT
OWNERSHIP
12.1 Copyright and other intellectual property rights in all design
and infrastructure works undertaken by or for us in relation to
the website shall not pass to the Advertiser. For the avoidance
of doubt, copyright and other intellectual property rights in all
meta-tags, driver pages, designs, images, text and coding utilised
in the preparation of this website, shall not pass to the Advertiser
and the Advertiser accepts that no copying or reproduction of the
same by any means is permitted, and undertakes not to breach the
owner's copyright. The Advertiser accepts that if we exercise our
right to cancel this agreement, this may result in the shut-down
of the Advertiser's part of this website. Copyright in images and
text provided by the Advertiser, will stay with the Advertiser in
its original state only. The Advertiser shall not remove or alter
our copyright or other proprietary notice on the website. It shall
notify us immediately if it becomes aware of any breach or possible
breach of our copyright or other intellectual property rights in
this website and will take all such other steps as shall from time
to time be necessary to protect intellectual property rights in
the website and in the website's domain name.
13 VIRUSES,
WORMS, TROJAN HORSES AND OTHER POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE PROGRAMS
13.1 The Advertiser assumes full responsibility for the protection
of its computer system including computer hardware and software,
stored data on its computer system and the stored data and computer
systems including hardware and software of third parties who may
access or be otherwise connected to our computer system. The Advertiser
assumes full responsibility for ensuring that text or other data
down-loaded by it electronically into this website are free from
viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other items of a destructive nature
and that text or other data down-loaded by it electronically from
this website into their own or other websites are free from viruses,
worms, Trojan horses or other items of a destructive nature.
14 NETWORK
SECURITY
14.1 The Advertiser may not use our network with an attempt to circumvent
user authentication or security of any host, network, or account.
This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended
for it, logging into a server or account the Advertiser is not expressly
authorised to access, password cracking, probing the security of
other networks in search of weakness, or violation or any other
organisation's security policy. The Advertiser may not attempt to
interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes,
but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate
attempts to overload or crash a host or network. We will cooperate
fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security
at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities
in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Advertisers
who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil
liability.
15 DATA
INTEGRITY
15.1 We make no commitment that we will maintain backup copies of
the Advertiser's data. We therefore recommend that the Advertiser
makes its own periodic copies of data. The Advertiser should also
make its own website recovery plans in case it is affected by system
or component failure.
16 DATA
PROTECTION
16.1 The Advertiser and Pollensa Pines Limited each undertake
to the other to comply with the provisions of the Data Protection
Act 1998 and any related legislation insofar as the same relates
to its respective obligations. All data passed on the Internet via
browsers is insecure unless encrypted on a Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
and it is the Advertiser's responsibility to request additional
protection for its data. If we install security measures such as
data encryption, firewalls etc to protect sensitive data when requested
by the Advertiser, these do not represent any form of guaranteed
protection.
17 ACCEPTABLE
USE POLICY
17.1 We have the right to discontinue service, or deny access to
anyone who violates our Policies or our terms and conditions WITHOUT
WARNING OR PRIOR NOTICE. No refunds will be made, if account termination
is due to violation of our Acceptable Use policy. The Internet is
a powerful information and entertainment tool. We expect our Advertisers
to use the Internet with respect, courtesy, and responsibility,
giving due regard to the rights of other Internet users. Our Acceptable
Use policy is actively and strictly enforced and at its discretion
this includes the right for us to terminate the advertising contract.
Offending content or users are removed from our server, usually
as soon as they are discovered, although we will always inform the
Advertiser when any action has been taken. Common sense is the best
guide as to what is considered Acceptable Use. The following are
included in Unacceptable Uses.
. Illegality in any form, including but not limited to the unauthorised
distribution or copying of copyrighted software or other data, harassment,
fraud, or trafficking in obscene material.
. Certain types of undesirable content are not permitted on our
server. We do not host 'adult' content of any description. Content
relating to Hacking, Cracking, Warez and IRC is not allowed.
. Anything else determined by us to be unacceptable use of our services
including abuse of server resources.
. Network Abuse
. If the website contains or has links to any of the following content:
1. Providing material that is grossly offensive to the Web community
including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity
2. Promoting or providing instructional information about illegal
activities, or promoting physical harm or injury against any group
or individual
3. Displaying material containing obscene nudity or pornographic
material
4. Displaying material that exploits persons under 18 years of age
5. Acts of copyright infringement including offering pirated computer
programs or links to such programs, information used to circumvent
manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or
registration numbers for software programs, or any type of cracker
utilities.
6. Warez sites.
. Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or third parties.
If there is unauthorized use of other people's accounts or computers,
we will act on any attempted use of an Internet account or computer
without your authorisation. Such attempts include "Internet
scamming" (obtaining passwords by deception), password robbery
and security hole scanning.
. Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by the Advertiser,
whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to us. This
will result in action against the attacker. Possible actions include
warnings, account suspension or cancellation, and civil or criminal
legal action.
. If the Advertiser is unsure about the content that it intends
to place on our website, it must check with us before it does so.
We reserve the sole right to determine what constitutes Acceptable
Use.
18 CHANGES
TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Pollensa Pines shall be entitled to alter these Terms
and Conditions at any time on not less than 30 days written notice
to the Advertiser which has 30 days from the date of receipt of
the notice to cancel the contract with Pollensa Pines,
otherwise the changes are deemed as accepted. Any renewal of the
advertising contract will be subject to our then current Terms and
Conditions.
19 APPLICABLE
LAW AND JURISDICTION
The jurisdiction and law applicable to this contract is that of
England & Wales. |