Terms and Conditions
By using our Website, you accept the terms of this policy and that you agree to abide by them.
INFORMATION ABOUT US
Sphere Estates International Limited, which operates as Sphere Estates for the purposes of the Website, owns and controls the website located at www.sphereestates.com. We are registered a limited company in England and Wales under company number 09885633 and our registered office is at Acre House, 11/15 William Road, London, NW1 3ER, UK.
Accessing our website
When using our Website, you must comply with the provisions of this policy. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Website.
Access to our Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw, amend, suspend, remove or disable the service we provide on our Website without notice. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Website, or our entire Website.
In no event will we be liable if for any reason our Website is unavailable at any time or for any period or, for the removal of or disabling of access to any such services. We may also impose limits on the use of or access to certain services, in any case and without notice or liability.
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.
Prohibited uses
You may only use our Website for lawful purposes. Without limitation, 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; or to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
You must not misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojan horses, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful or a similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website, the server on which our Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching these paragraphs, 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 Website 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 Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any Website linked to it.
Intellectual property rights
We, our associates and group companies are the owners or the licensees of all Intellectual Property Rights in our Website, 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 one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Website for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our Website.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any of our 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 Website must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the materials on our Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you print, copy or download any part of our Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Changes to our website
We may update and change the content of our Website at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our Website, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
Links to and from our Website
Where our Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those Websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. Our Website must not be framed on any other Website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Website from your Website or from any Website that is not owned by you.
If you wish to make any use of material on our Website, please address your request to Sphere Estates International Limited at Acre House, 11/15 William Road, London, NW1 3ER, UK.
About cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
Cookies are small data files that most website operators place on the browser or hard drive of their user’s computer. Cookies may gather information about the user’s use of the website or enable the website to recognise the user as an existing customer when he returns to the website at a later date. More recently, cookies have also been used to collect information about the user which allows the website operator or a third party to create a profile of the user, his preferences and his interests for the purpose of serving the user with targeted, interest-based advertising.
Most browsers now currently automatically accept cookies by default, although they can be set so that cookies are accepted by clicking an “accept” button but users can change those settings to block some or all cookies.
Sphere Estates uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of our website and compile reports for us on activity of our website. You can block, reject or delete this cookie by visiting http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html but please be aware that restricting or deleting cookies may impact on the functionality of the website. Your web browser may allow you to restrict or delete cookies set by this website. Please note that some third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control and accept no responsibility.
Our liability
The material displayed on our Website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its content or accuracy or as to the condition, quality, performance, accuracy, suitability, fitness for purpose, completeness, or freedom from viruses of the content contained on this website. We do not guarantee that the website will be uninterrupted, without delay, error-free or virus-free. We do not imply or create any client, advisory, professional or financial relationship. 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, representations, undertakings, warranties and other terms whether express or 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 Website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Website, 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
- 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, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.
Important information relating to properties displayed on the Sphere Estates website
Particulars: Any property particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part of one. You should not rely on statements by Sphere Estates in the particulars or by word of mouth or in writing (“information”) as being factually accurate about the property, its condition or its value. Neither Sphere Estates nor any joint agent has any authority to make any representations about the property, and accordingly any information given is entirely without responsibility on the part of the agents, seller(s) or lessor(s).
Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the property as they appeared at the time they were taken. Areas, measurements and distances given are approximate only. Any computer generated image gives only an indication as to how the property may look and this may change at any time.
Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any part of the property does not mean that any necessary planning, building regulations or other consent has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must find out by inspection or in other ways that these matters have been properly dealt with and that all information is correct.
VAT: The VAT position relating to the property may change without notice.
Information on the website about a property is liable to be changed at any time.
Currency Disclaimer: The currency conversion is for guidance only as the rate of exchange may not be “up to date”.
Information changes: Information on the website about a property is liable to be changed at any time.
Currency Disclaimer: The currency conversion is for guidance only as the rate of exchange may not be “up to date”.
Map Disclaimer: For properties situated outside the UK any indication on a map does not necessarily show the location of a property, but only the general vicinity. Please ask for confirmation of the location.
Suspension and termination
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this policy through your use of our Website. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with these terms constitutes a material breach of the terms of use on which you are permitted to use the Website, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
- immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use the Website;
- immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site;
- issue of 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; and
- disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.
The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate. We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this policy. On termination you will no longer be able to access our Website or utilise our services.
Jurisdiction and applicable law
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Website (although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country).
Variations
We will continue to review the effectiveness of this policy to ensure it is achieving its stated objectives. We may revise this policy of use at any time by amending this page. Please 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 Website. Your continued use of this website signifies your acceptance of any such variations.
Contact
If you have any question, comments, requests or concerns about material which appears on our Website regarding this policy, or if you would like to update your details, please contact us at Sphere Estates Ltd., Acre House, 11/15 William Road, London, NW1 3ER.
You can also contact our DPO (Oliver Pugh) via telephone or email:
T: +44 (0)20 3617 1036