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Terms of service & privacy policy


We will not sell or share your email address, period. Your details will not be passed to 3rd parties. For security we never reveal your email address to other users, all emails sent are forwarded to your email through our dedicated messaging system.

1. Introduction

  1. We are Flatmate Rooms, a limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, with registered company number 6690044. You may write to us at this address or contact us through this website.
  2. These terms of service include our privacy policy and we will refer to them both as "these Terms".
  3. When you use this site, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, do not use this site.
  4. Certain uses of this site are prohibited and amount to a misuse of our systems and the site. Please refer to clause 1.3.
  5. You may save 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 this site. The then current version of these Terms will apply whenever you use this site.

2. Intellectual property

  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 and files) belong to us. You may download material from this site solely for personal use. However, you must not copy, transmit, modify, republish, store (in whole or in part), frame, pass-off any material or information on or downloaded from this site without our prior written consent.
  2. This site contains links to websites operated by 3rd parties. We have no control over their individual content. We therefore make no warranties or representations to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information appearing in relation to any linked websites. If you decide to access or make a purchase on any 3rd party website linked from this site, you do so at your own risk.

3. Your obligations and conduct

  1. You accept that you are solely responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specifications necessary to use this site, and that your computer system is compatible with this site.
  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.
  3. You must not use or attempt to use any automated program (including, without limitation, any spider or other web crawler) to authenticate or login to this site. Any such use or attempted use of an automated 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 is strictly unauthorised.

4. Barring from the site

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.

5. Warranty

  1. We try to keep this up, bug-free and safe, but you use it at your own risk. We do not warrant that website will be free from infection, viruses and/or similar code.
  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 can't process your details due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
  3. We try to keep information on the site is accurate, complete and up-to-date, but we make no warranties or representations that this is the case.
  4. We make no warranty or guarantee that the site or information available on it complies with laws other than those of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

6. Liability

  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.
  2. 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.
  3. Subject to clauses 6.1 and 6.2 inclusive, we shall not be liable to you for:
    1. any indirect, consequential, special or punitive loss, damage, costs and expenses;
    2. loss of profit;
    3. loss of business;
    4. loss of reputation;
    5. depletion of goodwill; or
    6. loss of, damage to, or corruption of data.
  4. We cannot accept liability If a user has forgotten to remove their advert or if a property or flat mate is no longer available.

7. Legal jurisdiction

You irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales 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.

8. Customer feedback

We operate a system to ensure that all customer feedback is dealt with fairly and consistently, and is properly recorded. We welcome any suggestions that you make about how we may improve our service. Please write to us at our registered address in clause 1.1, or contact us through this website. We aim to acknowledge all customer feedback.

9. Refunds

We don't offer refunds as your exposure and other services are available instantly after you upgrade.

10. 30 days premium package guarantee

No cash alternative.

11. Premium membership

Membership upgrades are normally processed immediately, adverts of premium members will be featured within 10 minutes. For reasons beyond our control on rare occasions this can sometimes take a little longer.

12. Map positions

We use Google maps to show the approximate location of your property in some cases Google may get this wrong, but you can easily edit your advert and manually move the map marker position by placing the marker on your house

13. Search engines

Search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and others will crawl Flatmate Rooms and user adverts will appear in their search results.

14. Advert description

We don't allow phone numbers, web addresses, email addresses, terms like "view me on Facebook" or terms that guide people away from Flatmate Rooms in advert descriptions. The reason for this is our members have a specific area when signing up to enter their email address and phone number. This keeps the website profitable so users can enjoy a great service. Members that do put details like the above in the description will lead to their advert taking longer to approve as we have to manually delete these details and users will fill their rooms slower.

16. Advert preferences & equality

  1. Language preference will be accommodated where possible.
  2. Use of gender, age, sexual orientation and other preferences is left to the sole discretion of our members.

17. B&B's

We do allow B&B's to display their web address in the description of the advert and a picture of the front of the B&B, but this is reserved for premium members only.

18. Advertising Authority

If we have been made aware you don't have the authority to advertise your room or property we can reserve the right to turn off your advert.

19. General

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 to this site or new content will be subject to these Terms.

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

Your privacy is very important to us. Our privacy policy is in accordance with all guidelines set by the Online Privacy Alliance and international data protection legislation.

Any personal details you supply to us via this website will be stored and held securely, solely for the purposes of providing you with the advice and/or services you have requested. This will include fulfilling any agreement you may have with us (or our representatives), and providing you with information about related products or services, unless you inform us that you do not wish to receive such information.

Our Privacy Policy relates solely to information supplied by you via this website, and will not alter or affect any personal information otherwise provided.

Data protection

We are registered under the Data Protection Act, and never make your personal details available to other companies for marketing purposes.

Site tracking

In order that we can monitor and improve our site we gather certain information when you use it, including details such as your domain name and IP address, operating system, browser, and your browser version.

Exclusions

This privacy policy only applies to our website, and links within this site to any external websites are not covered. You should read the respective privacy policies or procedures of these linked websites to find out how they use your information.

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 page.