Terms of Service

Terms of Use

www.propertynow.ae is a website (the “Website”) owned and operated by us and our worldwide affiliates (“we” and “our”).

These Website terms of use (“Terms”) constitute a legal agreement between us and you. By using the Website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not accept and agree to comply with these Terms, then you must leave the Website.

You may not use the Website and may not accept these Terms if (a) you are not eighteen (18) years of age, or (b) you are a person who is either barred or otherwise legally prohibited from receiving or using the Website under the laws of the nation in which you are a resident or from which you access or use the Website.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that all persons who use the Website through your network are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions and that they comply with them.

How We Process Your Personal Information?

We will only collect and process your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

How You May Use Material on the Website?

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Website and the material published on it.  Access to the Website does not authorize anyone to use any name, logo, or mark in any manner whatsoever.

We, together with our suppliers and licensors expressly reserve all intellectual property rights in all text, programs, products, technology, processes, content, and other materials, which appear on the Website. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

Access to the Website does not confer as conferring upon anyone any license under any of our or any party’s property rights. Any use of the Website or its contents, including copying or storing it or them in whole or part, other than for your own personal, non-commercial use, is prohibited without our permission. You may not repost, modify, or distribute anything on the Website for any purpose.

Our names and logos and all related product and service names, design marks, and slogans are our trademarks. No trademark license is granted in connection with the materials present on the Website.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any photographs, video, illustrations, audio sequences, or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

You must not use any part of the content on the Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us or our licensors. Our role as the authors of content on the Website must always be acknowledged.

If you print off, copy, or download any part of the Website in breach of these Terms, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials in your possession whether in printed or electronic format.

Content on the Website

The materials appearing on the Website could include typographical, technical, or photographic errors. We do not warrant that any of the materials on the Website are accurate, current, or complete. We may make changes to the materials contained or displayed on the Website at any time without notice.

Code of Conduct when using the Website

You must not do any act that we would deem to be inappropriate, unlawful, or prohibited by any laws applicable to the Website, including, but not limited to:

• using any device, software, process, or means to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website;
• using any automated device, software process, or means to access, index, retrieve, or scrape, the Website or any content on the Website;
• undertaking any action that will impose a burden or make excessive traffic demands on our infrastructure that we consider to be disproportionate Website usage;
• indexing or using any content or data on the Website for purposes of:
• constructing or populating a searchable database of properties;
• competing with us in any manner that we have not specifically authorized;
• transmitting junk email, spam, chain letters, surveys, contents, or other mass messaging, whether commercial or not;
• violating the rights of any person, including copyright, privacy right, trade secret, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;
• posing as any person or entity or attempt to solicit money, passwords, or personal information from any person;
• acting in violation of any such terms or other condition stipulated by us or any applicable law;
• reproducing, distributing, republishing, adapting, retransmitting, modifying, translating, creating derivative works or adaptation of, selling, publicly displaying, trading, or in any way exploiting the Website or any content on the Website, except as expressly authorized by us;
• transmitting or attempting to transmit any computer worms, viruses, defects, or other items in a destructive manner;
• attacking or attempting to attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

If necessary, we may put in place measures to prevent unauthorized access and use of the Website, including but not limited to, instituting technological barriers, or reporting the unauthorized or illegal conduct to any person or entity.

Engagement with Real Estate Agents through the Website

We are not a real estate agency. Through our service, agents may market or promote and you may view property details (“Details”) together with other content hosted and developed by us. Other than to facilitate introductions between you and the relevant agent when you enquire about a property, we are not involved in any further communications between you and agents and we do not participate in any part of the transaction.

You are responsible for making your inquiries and we provide no guarantee and accept no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any information contained within the Details.

You are responsible for:

• checking and confirming the accuracy of any Details;
• obtaining legal advice before committing to any purchase; and
• ensuring that you act in good faith towards any other parties.

Responsibility for Loss or Damage Suffered By You

To the extent permitted by law, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, arising out of the use or inability to use the Website; or the use of or reliance on any content displayed on the Website.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage arising under or in connection with:

• any failures due to software or internet errors or unavailability, or any other circumstances beyond our reasonable control;
• any loss of your password or account if caused by a breakdown, error, loss of power, or otherwise caused by or to your computer system and/or your account;
• any direct, consequential, special, or punitive loss, damage, costs and expenses;
• loss of business;
• loss of reputation
• depletion of goodwill

We do not guarantee that the Website will be secure or free from errors, bugs, or viruses. We are not liable to you or anyone else for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial of service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data, or other proprietary materials due to your use of the Website or to your downloading of any content on it, or any website linked to it.

If you enquire about a property on this Website, you acknowledge and agree that your details will be sent by email or other communication means, such as WhatsApp, directly to the agent, landlord, developer, or estate agent, marketing the property or properties you are enquiring about. We do not accept any liability for any subsequent communications that you receive directly from that estate agent, landlord developer, and/or any third party.

We May Monitor and Record Telephone Calls

Real estate broker and developer clients who have subscribed to our call tracking service have elected to have their call inquiries generated through the Website. These calls may be recorded and tracked for training and customer service assessment purposes. We will remind you of our recording before each phone conversation. You consent in advance to any such recording.

Links to other Websites

The Website may contain links, hyperlinks, and pointers to third-party products, services, and/or websites that are not affiliated with us and which are provided for your information only. We have no control over the content, products, services of those sites, or resources of third parties and we do not guarantee or take responsibility for them. The Website may also contain advertising from third parties and we are not responsible, nor do we make any warranties or representations for any misleading or inaccurate advertisements which are the sole responsibility of the advertiser.

Any links or advertisements on the Website should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked sites or information you may obtain from them. The Website also contains data provided by third parties and we are not responsible for, nor do we make any warranties or representations for any inaccuracies in such data. You agree to release us from any claims or disputes of any kind arising from or in any way connected to such disputes with third parties.

By using the Website, you grant us an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to commercialize, copy, license to other persons, use, and adapt for any purpose any material you generate or submit to make use of the Website. We do not warrant that the content, links, or sub-domains contained on, or associated with the Website will be available and accessible to you at all times. Information on our publications, posts, inserts, information, and content should not be regarded as a substitute for professional legal, financial, or real estate advice.

Your Contributions on the Website

In these Terms “Contributions” means any information including data, video, still images, text, audio, or other material that we have permitted you to host, publish, post, share, store, or upload on the Website.

We may at any time, without liability to you, remove, disable, or alter access to any or all of your Contributions in our sole discretion without prior notice to you. We may also remove or disable access to any or all of your Contributions if we consider that those Contributions infringe the intellectual property rights of any other party; those Contributions are in breach of any law or regulation; or if those Contributions are:

• misleading or deceptive;
• materially incorrect;
• obscene;
• defamatory;
• inappropriate having regard to the purpose of the Website;
• likely to offend;

To the extent that any Contributions are proprietary, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, and irrevocable license to use, reproduce, translate, distribute, modify, adapt, publish, create derivative works from and display and publicly perform your Contributions throughout the world in any medium, whether presently in existence or not.

You also grant each user of the Website the right to use your name or the name you submit with the Contribution, and, the right to represent and warrant that you own and control all of the rights to the Contribution.

You will not make any Contributions that are:

• misleading;
• materially incorrect;
• likely to offend;
• deceptive;
• directly or indirectly involve the advertising or marketing of any products or services;
• obscene, including pornographic, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive material;
• defamatory;
• otherwise inappropriate having regard to the purpose of our Website.
• otherwise unlawful or encourage unlawful conduct.

Disclaimer

We do not warrant or make any representation concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on the Website or otherwise relating to such content or on any site linked to the Website.

The materials on the Website are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and we make no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaim and negate all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a specific reason, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising in connection with these Terms and your access to the Website shall be governed by and construed per the laws of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) in the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of DIFC.

General Terms

If any term of these Terms becomes for any reason invalid or unenforceable at law, the validity and of the remainder will not be affected.

These Terms and the documents referred to or incorporated in them constitute the entire agreement between us and replace all previous agreements and understandings between them, relating to its subject matter.