Terms and Conditions

By using this website you agree to the following terms and conditions.

  1. You are solely responsible for:
    • (a) obtaining any telecommunication services and infrastructures (including Internet access) required to access and use the Services; and
    • (b) ensuring that any communications through the Internet (including emails) is appropriately secured in transit and during delivery of such communications. Stalic Real Estate may use industry available encryption technology that is designed to encrypt communications to the Website, but you agree that Stalic Real Estate is not liable in any way for the security or otherwise of any such communication.
  1. In using the Service, you must:
    • (a) ensure the Submitted Materials are provided in the form required by Stalic Real Estate from time to time and contain the correct property and do not contain any information which you would not otherwise be permitted to publish through Stalic Real Estate.
    • (b) only submit material to Stalic Real Estate app or website by a method pre-approved by Stalic Real Estate (such as via an authorised XML provider);
    • (c) comply with all policies specified or otherwise notified by the company to you from time to time, including all policies set out in the Website;
    • (d) provide the company with such assistance as is reasonably necessary to provide you with the Service;
    • (e) notify the company in writing if you change any information required by Stalic Real Estate to provide a Service;
    • (f) provide and update from time to time all hardware and software necessary to use a Service;
    • (g) train your personnel in relation to the use of a Service and ensure your personnel comply with this Agreement;
    • (h) pay any telecommunication charges incurred by you; and
    • (i) assess the accuracy, reliability and completeness of any information obtained through a Service.
  1. You must not:
    • (a) use a Service for any purpose other than those purposes outlined in this Agreement;
    • (b) do anything which impairs the lawful use of a Service by any person;
    • (c) use or provide any materials or information provided by Stalic Real Estate to you in connection with a Service to any other person without the company’s prior written consent (which may be given or withheld at its discretion).
    • (d) distribute, rent, lease, sell or re-sell, charge, sub-license, assign, transfer or otherwise deal with the Service;
    • (e) insert any tag, code, cookie or other data tracking or collection device in an advertisement for the purpose of re-targeting Stalic Real Estate users on a third-party site, network or exchange;
    • (f) link, pool, correlate, resell, transfer, disclose or make available any advertising statistics the result of displaying the creative on the company for the purposes of behavioral targeting or other type of re-targeting off the company’s network without the company’s’ express written permission;
    • (g) introduce or use any device, software or routine that interferes or attempts to interfere with the operation of a Service including but not limited to any device intended to copy any information published by the company including any listing;
    • (h) create or otherwise produce either directly or indirectly or wholly or partly any database which is substantially comprised of any information published by the company; or
    • (i) intentionally withdraw and relist listings with a view of influencing the search results available on the Website.
  1. You warrant to Stalic Real Estate that:
    • (a) you have obtained and will maintain all licenses, permits, approvals and consents necessary to enable you to operate as a real estate agent, property developer or builder and that are otherwise required for your business and its operations;
    • (b) all Submitted Material, whether for the purposes of publication or not:
    • (c) is accurate and complies with all relevant laws;
    • (d) does not infringe any person’s rights (including intellectual property rights), and that the use of all Submitted Material does not and will not infringe any person’s rights (including intellectual property rights);
    • (e) is not illegal, fraudulent, obscene, offensive, defamatory, or in any way unsuitable for people under the age of eighteen (18) years;
    • (f) is not misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive;
    • (g) or not comprised of anything which may adversely reflect in the Website or any website on which the information is published;
    • (h) and you will comply with all applicable laws in relation to your use of the Service, including all laws in relation to handling and use of personal information.

4.1 You are solely:

    • (a) Responsible for ensuring that Stalic Real Estate has your correct contact details to enable the company provide you with the Services.
    • (b) You agree that the company may use personal information provided by you or otherwise collected by us, directly or indirectly, from you in accordance with companies Privacy Policy.

Specific Terms Relating to Listings

5.1. In using the Service, you must:

    • (a) only list real property for sale or lease;
    • (b) only list properties which are presently available for sale or lease and which you have been authorized to market for sale or lease;
    • (c) not include any promotional web addresses or other promotional material that is not directly related to your listing and your services to lease and sale the property that is the subject of that listing;
    • (d) not include any information that relates to a business or service that directly or indirectly competes with Stalic Real Estate and its related bodies corporate;
    • (e) ensure that any Submitted Material in respect of a property, accurately represents the property in question and is free from borders, watermarks (unless otherwise allowed as an exception by Stalic Real Estate), agent location or contact details;
    • (f) accurately indicate the location of the property being listed;
    • (g) immediately remove any properties which are no longer for sale or lease (for example properties which have been sold, leased or withdrawn from the market);
    • (h) only list each property for sale or lease once on the Service;
    • (i) provide to Stalic Real Estate in respect of each property at least the minimum required fields for publication, as set out in clause 6 of this Agreement and/or the Website;
    • (j) ensure that you only list sale and rental listings for which you have been appointed by a vendor or lessor to sell and rent the relevant property; and
    • (k) only list one listing per property lot address.

5.2. Stalic Real Estate will not to the full extent permitted by law, be liable for error, misplacement, amendment, omission or failure to publish any listing.

 

Minimum Information

6.1. The following information is the minimum information which you must submit to the company in respect of each listing for publication on the Website:

    • (a) street address;
    • (b) property type (e.g. house, apartment);
    • (c) title;
    • (d) description;
    • (e) number of bedrooms (except for vacant land);
    • (f) number of bathrooms (except for vacant land)
    • (g) images (minimum of 1);
    • (h) display price (may be numeric value or text, eg POA); and
    • (i) status (e.g. current, sold, leased, withdrawn).

6.2. Where you do not provide, or authorize Stalic Real Estate to publish, all of the above information set out above in a listing, the company may not publish the listing on the Website.

6.3. Stalic Real Estate reserves the right to update the minimum required information that must be provided in respect of each listing for publication on the Website by either updating this Agreement or updating the field requirements on the Website.

 

Property Listing Guidelines

7.1. Stalic Real Estate may, from time to time, set guidelines for how property listings will be returned in searches on the Websites.

7.2. As at the date of this Agreement, information that the company uses to determine the search results includes:

    • (a) the provided values, property type, property attributions and relevant third-party data and sources; and
    • (b) for determining search results around price or price refinement, the search values that are provided within the XML feed or within the Stalic Real Estate agent dashboard separate to the advertised price.

7.3. Stalic Real Estate reserves the right to update these guidelines from time to time by either updating this Agreement or making available the updated guidelines on the Website.

 

Specific Terms Relating to Leads

8.1. You acknowledge and agree that:

    • (a) Stalic Real Estate provides no warranties in relation to the number of leads (that is, enquiries for further information submitted by users of the Website) you may receive; and
    • (b)Stalic Real Estate has no control over authenticity, accuracy or otherwise of any such leads.

8.2. You must:

    • (a) provide a valid email address in respect of each listing to which leads should be sent by Stalic Real Estate (or any third party with whom you have an agreement);
    • (b) ensure that all leads are handled by a suitably trained person in a professional and expeditious manner; and
    • (c) not sell, assign or otherwise provide whether electronically or otherwise any lead (or information derived from a lead) to any person.

8.3. You acknowledge that:

    • (a) Stalic Real Estate will use its best endeavors to deliver all leads to the nominated email address, or where this is not available, an alternate email address;
    • (b) Stalic Real Estate will not be liable for any delay or failure to deliver leads to you which is caused by any technical or technological fault or failure or where any delay or failure to deliver a lead is due to any third party (such as a third-party website which displays listings; and
    • (c) in order to accurately record the number of leads delivered for each listing, the company retains sole control over the contact details provided by you, and you will not attempt to include any unauthorized contact details in any listing.

 

Submitted Materials and Monitoring of Content

9.1. By uploading Submitted Materials you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such material expressly grants) to Stalic Real Estate  a world-wide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, transferable and sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, communicate, display, perform, store and distribute those Submitted Materials for the purposes of:

    • (a) performing its obligations pursuant to this Agreement;
    • (b) publishing the Submitted Materials and any information included in a listing on the Website (including any websites owned or operated by Stalic Real Estate , or on any website owned or operated by a third party with whom the company  has an agreement to provide, share or distribute listings, information or materials) and any related services, including search engines, or any other online or print based media;
    • (c) creating statistics, databases and compilations for use by Stalic Real Estate and third parties, provided that Stalic Real Estate will not disclose your information in any matter that identifies your information as yours; and
    • (d) sub-licensing your subscription information to a third party with whom the company has a license agreement limited to the use of your subscription information as part of a real estate related application service. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

9.2. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that Submitted Materials may be used by Stalic Real Estate for purposes including marketing, research and development of goods and services.

9.3. You warrant that:

    • (a) Stalic Real Estate use of any Submitted Material contributed by you will not infringe the intellectual property rights (including the moral rights) of any third party or breach any obligations of confidence or any other law or regulation relating to the Submitted Materials; and
    • (b) in relation to moral rights, you have obtained all necessary consents which will allow Stalic Real Estate to perform all or any acts or omissions which, but for the consent.

9.4. Stalic Real Estate reserves the right to amend, edit, block or immediately remove Submitted Material without notice to you that it considers is or may be, in its sole discretion where you have breached a warranty or term set out above.

9.5. Despite any other provision to the contrary, purpose home sales reserves the right in its absolute discretion, and without any liability to you or any other person, to:

    • (a) publish and/or communicate to the public any materials (including Submitted Materials), including where you have breached this Agreement;
    • (b) determine the timing of publication of the Submitted Materials;
    • (c) take and exercise sole editorial control (including placement of watermarks) in relation to all Submitted Materials (including listings) to be published on the Website or otherwise in connection with the Services; and
    • (d) take down, remove or otherwise cease publishing and communicating to the public any materials (including Submitted Materials).

9.6. Notwithstanding clause 9.5, Stalic Real Estate is under no obligation to monitor Submitted Material to ensure it complies with any law, guideline or requirements or that it is generally suitable for publication.

9.7. You waive any moral rights you may have in relation to the Submitted Material. You agree to any act or omission by Stalic Real Estate or on its behalf where such act or omission would, but for your waiver and consent in this clause, constitute a breach of your moral rights in relation to the Submitted Material.

9.8. You acknowledge and agree that:

    • (a) Stalic Real Estate is not responsible for any aspect of your or any third party’s website(s), including the currency, accuracy or otherwise of any information or data on those websites; and
    • (b) Stalic Real Estate does not guarantee or warrant that: (i) the Website will be continuously available or available at all; (ii) you or your listing as part of the Service will receive any impressions, click throughs or like metrics; or (iii) there will be any traffic levels (including hits and exposures) to the Website.

9.9. While Stalic Real Estate will use its best endeavors to store your information in its database, it provides no warranty as to such storage and will not, subject to clause 11, be liable in the event that there is a corruption, deletion or failure to store any information which relates to you including any listing or any inability to access such information. Accordingly, Stalic Real Estate strongly recommends that you keep a permanent record of all information and data which relates to you.

Confidentiality and Privacy

10.1. Each party acknowledges and agrees that Stalic Real Estate Confidential Information includes:

    • (a) the provisions of this Agreement; and
    • (b) all information provided by Stalic Real Estate to you under this Agreement, including technical, operational, and commercial information in relation to the supply of Services.

10.2. A party must not disclose the other party’s Confidential Information to any person except:

    • (a) to its professional advisers and its personnel on a “need to know” basis, but only if those persons have agreed to keep the Confidential Information confidential in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
    • (b) with the other party’s prior written consent, but only to the extent that such consent is given;
    • (c) if required by law, or any regulatory authority or stock exchange, but only to the minimum extent required to satisfy the law or rules of the regulatory authority or stock exchange; or
    • (d) if it is in the public domain, other than as a result of a breach of this Agreement by the recipient (with the “recipient” being the party receiving the Confidential Information from the party disclosing it).

10.3. You acknowledge and agree that:

    • (a) you must ensure that you do not, and do not allow any other person (including your users) to access or use the Services in a manner contrary to the requirements of any laws;
    • (b) you are solely responsible for obtaining all necessary consent with respect to the collection, use, access, disclosure and storage of personal information (including sensitive information) in relation to your access or use of the Services; and
    • (c) you will ensure that any person whose information is disclosed to the company in the course of accessing or using the Services, or otherwise in connection with this Agreement, acknowledges that Stalic Real Estate handles personal information (as that term is defined in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)) according to the company Privacy Policy, as amended by the company from time to time.

10.4. You agree that Stalic Real Estate   Confidential Information includes all company’s account information, including user identification details and password information. You agree:

    • (a) to immediately change any account information if the security of the account has been compromised in any way; and
    • (b) that you are responsible for all transactions entered under your account, including all use of your user identification details or passwords.

 

Stalic Real Estate Liability to You:

11.1. Other than as set out in this Agreement, and to the full extent permitted by law, the company excludes all warranties, liabilities, rights, remedies, conditions and guarantees arising under or in respect of this Agreement and the Services, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), statute or any other cause of action.

11.2. Nothing in this Agreement excludes or restricts any obligation arising under the Kenyan Consumer Law.

11.3. Subject to clause 11.4:

    • (a) to the extent that any liability may not lawfully be excluded but may be limited, Stalic Real Estate sole liability is limited to, at its discretion: (i) the supplying of the relevant services again; or (ii) the payment of the cost of having the relevant services supplied again; and
    • (b) subject to paragraph (a) above and only where Stalic Real Estate  liability is not otherwise excluded or limiting in this Agreement, if a claim or cause of action arises out of or in connection with this Agreement (whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), indemnity or breach of statute), the company liability for all claims or causes of action in the aggregate is limited, in respect of all claims or causes of action, to the sum of Fees paid or payable in respect of the Services to which the claim or cause of action relates.

11.4. In no event will Stalic Real Estate be liable to you or any other person for loss of use, production, profit, revenue, business, data, contract or anticipated savings or for delay or for any financing costs or increase in operating costs or any economic loss for any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

11.5. The parties agree that the time within any claim or cause of action may be brought arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (other than for a failure to pay any Fees) is limited to 3 months from the date the claim or cause of action arose or the date on which the claim or cause of action should reasonably have been discovered.

11.6. For the purposes of this clause, the term the company or party will mean Stalic Real Estate or a party to this Agreement, its officers, employees, contractors and agents, whether individually or collectively.

11.7. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Stalic Real Estate liability under or in connection with this Agreement will be reduced to the extent the loss or damage is caused by you or any person affiliated with you (including you related bodies corporation, representatives and personnel).

11.8. You indemnify the company, its officers, agents and contractors against all actions, claims and demands (including the cost of defending or setting any actions, claims and demands) arising out of any deliberate, unlawful or negligent act or omission by you.

11.9. This clause 11 survives the expiry and termination (for any reason) of this Agreement.

 

Suspension of the Service

12.1. Stalic Real Estate may limit, suspend or cancel the provision of a Service at any time:

  • (a) without notice to you:
    • (i) in the event of an emergency;
    • (ii) if the supply or use of a Service is, or is likely to become, unlawful; or
    • (iii) if, in Stalic Real Estate reasonable opinion, the provision of a Service is likely to cause death, personal injury or damage to property; and
  • (b) by notice to you:
    • (i) if you do not pay any amounts due for that Service on time;
    • (ii) if your use of a Service interferes (or may interfere) with the Website, and you fail to rectify the situation; or
    • (iii) if an administrator, receiver, liquidator or provisional liquidator is appointed to you, or you resolve to enter into any settlement, moratorium or similar arrangement for the benefit of your creditors, or you are otherwise unable to pay your debts when they are due.

12.2. Where provision of a Service has been suspended or cancelled under clause 12.1, the company may require you to pay additional charges to resume the provision of the Services.

 

Termination of this Agreement

13.1. Stalic Real Estate may immediately terminate this Agreement for cause on notice to you if you:

    • (a) fail to pay the Fees or any other fees or charges under this Agreement by the due date for payment;
    • (b) breach any provision of this Agreement that is not capable of remedy;
    • (c) breach any provision of this Agreement that is capable of remedy and you fail to remedy such breach with 14 days’ of homesales’ notice to do so;
    • (d) assign or purport to assign this Agreement; or
    • (e) are or become insolvent.

13.2. The company may immediately terminate this Agreement on notice to you and without any liability if:

    • (a) in relation to international listing syndication, any agreement between the company and a third party to provide, share or distribute listings terminates or expires; or
    • (b) The company ceases to operate the relevant Service for any reason.

13.3. You may cancel a Service or terminate this Agreement on 10 days’ written notice to Stalic Real Estate or as otherwise provided on the Website for that Service, but you agree that you are not entitled to any refund or reimbursement of any Fees.

13.4. On the termination of this Agreement:

    • (a) you must pay all outstanding fees to the company;
    • (b) you must return or destroy (at Stalic Real Estate option) all the companys intellectual property in your possession or control including but not limited to any application files; and
    • (c) both the company and you will continue to comply with all obligations expressed herein to continue to apply after the expiration or termination of this Agreement or that otherwise by their nature continue to apply after the expiration or termination of this Agreement.

13.5. Termination of this Agreement will not prejudice any accrued rights or liabilities of a party.

 

Intellectual Property Rights

14.1. Nothing in this Agreement transfers ownership in, or otherwise grants any rights in, any intellectual property rights of Stalic Real Estate, except any rights expressly granted to you under this Agreement.

14.2. All intellectual property rights in a Service and all information generated, compiled, arranged, stored or otherwise developed by the company, including any listing, belong to the company.

 

Amendments to Agreement

15.1. Stalic Real Estate may amend this Agreement from time to time, with or without notice to you. However, the company will endeavor to provide a notice of any such amendments on the Website.

15.2. If you continue to use the Service, on or after the date of any amendments to this Agreement, then you are taken to have agreed to these amendments. If you do not agree with these amendments and these amendments have a material detrimental impact on you, then you may terminate this Agreement on notice to the company without payment of any early termination fees.

 

Fees

16.1. All Fees include GST, unless otherwise expressly indicated.

16.2. You must pay the Fees in monthly installments, payable in advance and commencing at the time that you register as a user of the online agent portal.

16.3. The company may vary the Fees payable for any of the companies Services (including by imposing Fees on the company’s Services which were previously not subject to Fees) at any time by providing 30 days’ written notice to you.

16.4. If you fail to pay any Fees by the required time, the company may:

    • (a) limit or cease your access and use of the Services;
    • (b) charge you interest at 10% (per annum) calculated on the daily amount outstanding; and/or
    • (c) engage a third-party collection agency to recover the outstanding fees, and charge you any expense (including legal fees) incurred by the company in recovering the outstanding fees from you.

16.5. Subject to clauses 16.6 and 16.7, you must pay all taxes in connection with the Services.

16.6. If one party is required to indemnify or reimburse another party (Payee) for any cost, loss or expense, the indemnity or reimbursement payable does not include any amount for which the Payee (or an entity grouped with the payee for GST purposes) is entitled to an input tax credit, but will be increased in accordance with clause 16.7 if the amount payable is consideration for a taxable supply.

16.7. If GST is imposed on any taxable supply by a party in connection with this Agreement and the consideration payable is not expressed to be inclusive of GST, then, subject to a valid tax invoice being issued, the party liable to pay for the taxable supply must pay on demand an additional amount calculated by multiplying the value of the GST exclusive consideration (without deduction or set off) by the current GST rate.

 

Force Majeure

17.1. Neither party will be liable for any delay or failure to perform its obligations pursuant to this Agreement (except your obligation to pay Fees and other amounts under this Agreement) if such delay is due to Force Majeure.

17.2. If the delay or failure by a party to perform its obligations due to Force Majeure exceeds 60 days, either party may immediately terminate the Agreement on providing a notice in writing to the other party.

 

Further Requirements

18.1. Each party agrees to do all things that may be necessary or desirable to give full effect to every part of this Agreement if asked in writing by another party to do so.

18.2. You must not assign, transfer, subcontract or otherwise dispose of, in whole or in part, your rights or obligations under this Agreement, without the prior written consent of the company. The company may at any time novate, transfer or otherwise assign the whole or any part of this Agreement to any person. If so, you consent to such novation, transfer or assignment.

18.3. If any provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions will not be affected and such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision is to be read down or severed from this Agreement.

18.4. Failure by any party to exercise, or delay in exercising, any right, power or remedy under this Agreement does not prevent its exercise. To be effective, a waiver must be in writing signed by the party giving the waiver.

18.5. Where, in this Agreement, Stalic Real Estate is required to give notice in writing, Stalic Real Estate may give the same by:

    • (a) posting the notice on the company’s Website;
    • (b) emailing the notice to the email address last provided to Stalic Real Estate by you; or
    • (c) posting the notice to the postal or street address last provided to Stalic Real Estate by you.

18.6. This Agreement is governed by and is to be construed in accordance with the laws applicable in the Republic of Kenya. The parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in that State and the Commonwealth of Australia, and the courts of appeal above them, in respect of all matters arising out of or relating to this Agreement, its performance and subject matter.

Definitions

Capitalized terms used in this Agreement have the meaning given to them in this Agreement, including this clause 19.

In this Agreement “Confidential Information” means:

    • (a) all confidential, non-public or proprietary information, regardless of how the information is stored or delivered, exchanged between the parties or their representatives (or in our case, provided by the company , its related bodies corporate, its affiliates, and any entity owned by the company ) before, on or after the date of this Agreement relating to the business, technology or other affairs of the discloser of the information; and
    • (b) in the company case, all information disclosed by a third party which the company is required to keep confidential,
    • but does not include information:
    • (c) that is or becomes part of the public domain other than through breach of this Agreement or an obligation of confidence owed to the discloser;
    • (d) which the recipient can prove by contemporaneous written documentation was: (i) already known to it at the time of disclosure by the discloser (unless such knowledge arose from disclosure of information in breach of an obligation of confidentiality); or (ii) independently developed by the recipient without reference to the Confidential Information of the discloser; or
    • (e) which the recipient acquires from a source other than the discloser or any of its representatives where such source is entitled to disclose it on a non-confidential basis.

“Fee” means the fees and charges payable for the Services under this Agreement.

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