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Terms and Conditions of Use

TermsFor Roomeyfinder.com (including all subsidiaries).This website (Website), including all subsidiaries, is owned, operated, and maintained by ROOMEYFINDER LIMITED. It provides an online community that enables:

  • People with accommodation looking for a tenant or co-tenant to:
    • Create a Listing for their rental properties by uploading Content.
    • Search Listings for people who are seeking to rent accommodation as a tenant or co-tenant.
  • People seeking to rent accommodation to:
    • Create a Listing for themselves by uploading Content.
    • Search for rental properties and get in contact with people who have accommodation to rent.

(collectively, the Services). By accessing, registering on, and/or using the Website or Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions of Use.



1. LISTINGS

1.1 Users Uploading Listings
If you upload Content and/or create a Listing:

  • You must ensure that such Content and Listings are true, correct, and not duplicated.
  • You must ensure that such Content and Listings are up-to-date at the time they are uploaded and are kept up-to-date for the duration they are available on the Website.
  • You must remove any Content and Listings as soon as reasonably practicable after either:
    • The accommodation the subject of the Listing has been withdrawn from rent or after you have filled the vacancy for that accommodation, whichever is earlier.
    • The person identified in the Listing that is seeking accommodation has found accommodation and no longer needs to seek accommodation or no longer needs accommodation for whatever reason, whichever is earlier.
  • You are solely responsible for making your own assessment of any user who contacts you in relation to any Listing and their suitability for the vacancy the subject of the Listing or the suitability of the accommodation (as applicable).
  • You must ensure that any proposed rental agreement between you and another person for accommodation abides by any local, state, or federal laws relating to the provision or use of rental accommodation, including residential tenancy law and local government planning laws.
  • If you use the Services in a way that breaches these Terms and Conditions of Use or we deem any Content or Listing on the Website to be unacceptable, Roomeyfinder.com may take action to remedy this, including but not limited to, amending or deleting the Content or Listing, adjusting access to your Account, terminating your Account, or any other action that we determine appropriate in our sole and absolute discretion.
  • If Roomeyfinder.com determines that any Content or Listing has been inactive for 7 days or longer, it may remove that Content or Listing in its sole and absolute discretion.

Discretion is granted to Roomeyfinder.com to delete, deactivate, or edit any Content or Listings that are duplicated, breach our Terms and Conditions, or are found to be inappropriate. Roomeyfinder.com does not make any representation or provide any warranty in respect of any user of the Website including, without limitation, any representation or warranty in respect of the suitability, behavioural characteristics, or creditworthiness of a user as a tenant or prospective tenant of any accommodation the subject of a Listing.



2. ACCOUNTS

2.1 Registration
To upload Content, you must register with Roomeyfinder.com by providing certain information including your name, email address, and your mobile telephone number (Account).

  • After creating an Account but before uploading Content, you must enter an activation code sent by Roomeyfinder.com to your email address.
  • You represent and warrant that you are the account holder for the email address provided to Roomeyfinder.com when registering your Account.
  • You must:
    • Be 16 years or older or over the age of majority in the jurisdiction from which you access the Website; or
    • If you are under 16 years or under the age of majority in the jurisdiction from which you access the Website, have the permission or consent of one of your parents or legal guardians to register an Account and/or upload Content to the Website and you represent and warrant at the time of registering your Account that you are 18 years or older, over the age of majority in that jurisdiction, or otherwise have the permission or consent of one of your parents or legal guardians.
  • You represent and warrant that the information you provide to Roomeyfinder.com to open an Account is true and correct. If, at any time during the term of your Account, any of that information ceases to be true and correct, you undertake to notify Roomeyfinder.com of the change to that information as soon as is reasonably practicable.
  • Any personal information you provide to Roomeyfinder.com will be treated in accordance with Roomeyfinder.com's Privacy Policy available here.
  • You may not use another user's Account or allow anyone else to use your Account without Roomeyfinder.com's express prior written permission.
  • You are solely responsible for any activity which occurs on your Account.
  • You must keep your Account details, including your password and verification details, secure at all times and must immediately notify Roomeyfinder.com of any breach, or any suspected breach, of the security of or unauthorized access to your Account.

2.2 Request Account Deletion
You may delete your account at any time, for any reason, by visiting your account settings and locating "Delete Account" at the bottom of the page. Once an account is deleted, your personal information and active listings will be removed from the website.

If you wish to pause your listing but keep your account with us, you may do so by simply deactivating your listings from your dashboard.

2.3 Termination

Roomeyfinder.com may, in its absolute discretion, suspend or terminate your Account if:

  • you breach or violate any term or condition of these Terms and Conditions of Use; or
  • in Roomeyfinder.com's sole opinion, your ongoing use of the Service will bring, or may bring, the reputation of Roomeyfinder.com into disrepute or cause Roomeyfinder.com to be in breach of an applicable law.


3. WEBSITE AND SERVICES

3.1 Use of Website and Services

You must not, and must not attempt to:

  • use the Website for any purpose other than for the purpose of offering to rent accommodation or seeking to rent accommodation;
  • use the Website or the Services in any way that causes, or is likely to cause the Website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or in a way that impairs the effectiveness or functionality of the Website;
  • authorise any other person to do any act which would, if that act were to be done by you, infringe any Intellectual Property Rights or us, our licensors or third parties;
  • reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, translate, or otherwise uncover the source code of any software forming part of the Website;
  • capture or copy any software on the Website for any reason whatsoever (temporary copies for facilitating a technical computing process excepted);
  • hack, infiltrate or otherwise do anything which may compromise the Website;
  • cause Roomeyfinder.com to lose (in whole or in part) the services of Roomeyfinder.com's internet service providers (ISPs) or other suppliers;
  • introduce any computer viruses, macro viruses, trojan horses, worms or anything else designed to interfere with, interrupt or disrupt the normal operating procedures of a computer or to surreptitiously intercept, access without authority or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
  • prevent or restrict us from complying with any applicable law, industry code or court order;
  • use the Website or any of the Services for any improper or unlawful purpose, causing a nuisance or causing the operation of any of the Services to be jeopardised or impaired;
  • use the Website or any of the Services to provide, to aid, abet, procure, counsel or assist another person to provide, or to encourage, solicit or entice the provision of, any services of a sexual nature for monetary or non-monetary consideration;
  • use the Website or any of the Services to create, host or transmit any defamatory, offensive or obscene material or engage in activities which would cause offence to, insult, humiliate or intimidate others on the grounds of race, religion, creed, sex or gender, or sexual preference;
  • use the Website or any of the Services to harm, or attempt to harm, persons (including persons under the age of 18 years) in any way;
  • use the Website or any of the Services to create, host or transmit any material that threatens or encourages bodily harm or the destruction of property or would constitute a criminal offence or give rise to civil liability;
  • use the Website or any of the Services to create, host or transmit material which infringes the Intellectual Property Rights (including without restriction copyright, trade mark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property rights) of any other party;
  • use the Website or any of the Services to create, host or transmit unsolicited advertising material to other users;
  • use the Website or any of the Services to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent or to engage in screen scraping, database scraping or any other activity with the purpose of obtaining lists of users or other data;
  • use the Website or any of the Services for any activity which adversely affects the ability of other people or systems to use the Website or any of the Services, or the Internet generally, including the uploading of files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer; or
  • at any time while you are using the Website or any of the Services, impersonate any person or entity or use or provide a false name or a name that you are not authorised to use.

3.2 Access to Website and Services

Roomeyfinder.com will attempt to make the Website and Services available for use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, it will be necessary for Roomeyfinder.com to take down the Website and cease providing the Services for a period of time for regular maintenance and to make improvements and if circumstances beyond Roomeyfinder.com's control exist, such as problems preventing access to internet or web hosting services. In such circumstances Roomeyfinder.com will incur no liability to you for such interruption or cessation of Services no matter how such liability would otherwise arise.

3.3 No advice

From time to time, Roomeyfinder.com will make available on the Website articles and other material setting out information relevant to seeking accommodation or renting accommodation, such as articles relating to tenants' rights as tenants (Informative Content). Any Informative Content on the Website is of a general nature only and does not consider your personal objectives, financial situation or particular needs. You should not regard Informative Content as advice and you should seek professional legal, property, accounting or other advice for your specific circumstances. You should not rely on any Informative Content as the basis for taking any legal action, negotiating or entering any agreement, or incurring any financial liabilities.



4. CONTENT

4.1 Uploading of Content

As part of the Services, the Website allows you to upload Content for viewing by other users of the Website as part of a Listing. Each time you upload Content to the Website, you confirm your acceptance of, and your agreement to be bound by, all the terms and conditions set out in these Terms and Conditions of Use. Roomeyfinder.com will not review, vet or approve, and is not responsible for reviewing, vetting or approving, the Content or any part of the Content, or any material appearing in the Content, and it is the sole responsibility of the user uploading the Content to ensure that the Content or any part of the Content, or any material appearing in the Content, complies with these Terms and Conditions of Use.

4.2 Rights to the Content

At the time you upload Content, you represent and warrant that:

  • you are the owner of all Content and all Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Content and all material appearing in the Content, or you otherwise have the authorisation, permission or consent of the owner of, or any other relevant person to, the Content or any part of it or any material appearing in the Content;
  • you have the authorisation, permission or consent of each person appearing in the Content for them to appear in the Content and for you to submit that Content, make the Content available on the Website and otherwise grant the rights to Roomeyfinder.com you grant under these Terms and Conditions of Use;
  • the Content or any part of it, or any material appearing in the Content, does no infringe the rights, including any Intellectual Property Rights, of any third party; and
  • the Content does not contain any material which is offensive, defamatory, discriminatory, pornographic, abusive, obscene, or otherwise illegal in any jurisdiction anywhere in the world.

4.3 No endorsement

Roomeyfinder.com does not endorse any Content or Listing uploaded to the Website by you or any user, or any opinion, recommendation or advice expressed in the Content or Listing.

4.4 Ownership

Roomeyfinder.com acknowledges and agrees that no right, title and interest in and to the Content you submit to the Website is transferred to Roomeyfinder.com and that it has no rights in respect of that Content except those rights granted to it under these Terms and Conditions of Use or otherwise in writing by you.

4.5 Licence

At the time you upload Content, you grant to Roomeyfinder.com a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual licence to host, cache, store, maintain, use, reproduce, communicate, distribute, display, exhibit, perform, publish, broadcast, transmit, modify, prepare derivative works of, adapt, reformat, translate or otherwise exploit all or any part of the Content on the Website and any other Website which is associated with, connected to, or otherwise operated by Roomeyfinder.com including, without limitation, websites owned and/or operated by persons other than Roomeyfinder.com.

4.6 Take-down or modification of Content or Listing

Roomeyfinder.com, in its sole and absolute discretion, may edit, modify, block or delete any Content or any Listing, or any comments or messages made on the Website in respect of a Listing, if Roomeyfinder.com determines that any of the preceding material contravenes or is likely to contravene these Terms and Conditions of Use.

4.7 Release

You forever release Roomeyfinder.com, and its directors, officers, employees, agents and contractors, for any and all claims, rights, demands, actions or suits which you have, may have or would have had, in connection with Roomeyfinder.com's exploitation of the Content or the exploitation of the Content by any of Roomeyfinder.com or its directors, officers, employees, agents or contractors and whether that claim arose or arises in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence), under statute or otherwise.

4.8 Waiver

You hereby consent to all acts or omissions by Roomeyfinder.com, its licensees or others authorised by it, or its successors in title, which would otherwise constitute an infringement of any moral rights you have, or may have, in the Content or any part of it, or any material appearing in the Content, whatsoever and wheresoever subsisting throughout the world. You acknowledge that such consent is provided genuinely and includes consent for Roomeyfinder.com, or any other person authorised by Roomeyfinder.com, to materially alter, modify, add to and in any way change the Content or any part of it, or any material appearing in the Content, and deal with the Content or any part of it, or any material appearing in the Content, without identifying you or any third person as the author of the Content or any part of the Content, or any material appearing in the Content. You warrant that any third party who has acquired any moral rights in the Content or any part of it, or any material appearing in the Content, has also waived his or her moral rights or consented to all acts or omissions (as applicable) on terms similar to the terms set out in these Terms and Conditions of Use.

4.9 Access to and use of Messages, other Content, and correspondence by Roomeyfinder.com

Roomeyfinder.com may access, read, and permanently store any messages sent by you to another user of the Website using the Website's messaging function, or sent to Roomeyfinder.com using the Website's messaging function, for the purposes of protecting the safety and security of the Website and its users. The messages sent by you may be used as the basis for removing your Content from the Website, terminating your Account, or reporting your behaviour to any government law enforcement authorities.

4.10 Collecting reviews

Roomeyfinder may ask you to leave a review at the end of your search. By leaving a review, you agree that your review is genuine and based solely on your experience. You consent to have Roomeyfinder publish and display your review on the website, which may or may not include your first name, last initial, and city. We may freely use and transfer the content and disclose the content to third parties.

Roomeyfinder members must not, and must not allow third-party members to publish reviews on the website that:

  • are of a marketing nature or have marketing purposes,
  • are unlawful, deceptive, misleading, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, have sexist, political or racial character, and violate other people's rights, including any intellectual property rights, rights of privacy and rights of publicity,
  • Violate these Terms and Conditions of Use


5. TENANCY

Roomeyfinder.com:

  • is not a party to any contract, arrangement, or understanding between users relating to the renting of accommodation by one user to another user or users;
  • does not act, or purport to act, for or on behalf of, and is not the agent for, any user of the Website;
  • will not get involved in any dispute between users in relation to the content of any Listing or any contract, arrangement, or understanding between users relating to the renting of accommodation by one user to another user or users;
  • does not collect rent or bond or facilitate the payment of rent or bond between users; or
  • may make available data relating to accommodation rental prices based on historical data collected from Listings but does not set, or provide any parameters within which to set, the price at which accommodation is offered for rent in any Listing.


6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN WEBSITE

You acknowledge and agree that all rights in the Website and all material comprised in the Website (including, but not limited to, Intellectual Property Rights, text, images, web pages, sound, software (including code, interface, and website structure) and video, and the look and feel, design, and compilation thereof) (Website Content), excluding the Content, are owned by Roomeyfinder.com or the supplier of the relevant material. You acknowledge and agree that you are permitted to use the Website Content only as set out in these Terms and Conditions of Use or as otherwise expressly authorised in writing by Roomeyfinder.com, and that you may not otherwise copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly perform, distribute, commercially exploit, adapt, translate, modify, bundle, merge, share or make available to any person, or create derivative works of the Website Content. Subject to your compliance with these Terms and Conditions of Use, you may reproduce or communicate any Website Content appearing in any articles or blog posts appearing on the Website that have been posted by Roomeyfinder.com as long as you credit Roomeyfinder.com as the source of any such content and provide a link to the Website when reproducing or communicating such content.

7. TAKE-DOWN NOTICE

Roomeyfinder.com operates on a “notice and takedown basis”. If you have any objections or complaints to any content or material appearing on the Website, or if you believe that content or material posted on the Website infringes your copyright, please contact us immediately at support@roomeyfinder.com



8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

8.1 Website and Services

Use of the Website and the Service is at your own risk. Both are provided on an “as is” basis, and Roomeyfinder.com makes no representation, and gives no warranty or guarantee (to the extent permitted by law), as to its function or operation, or that it is free from any defects.

8.2 Competition and Consumer Act

If the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) or any other Act (including, without limitation, equivalent country, state or territory legislation) implies into these Terms and Conditions of Use any term, or otherwise provides that any guarantee applies in relation to the services supplied under or in connection with these Terms and Conditions of Use, which, or the effect of which, cannot be excluded or modified, and if we breach such term, condition, warranty or guarantee, then Roomeyfinder.com's liability (if permitted by the relevant Act) is limited, at Roomeyfinder.com's election, to the re-supplying of the relevant services, a refund of the cost of having those services supplied, or payment of the cost of having the services re-supplied.

8.3 Limitation

Subject to clause 8.1 above, and to the extent permitted by law, Roomeyfinder.com shall not have any liability whatsoever (whether in contract, tort including negligence, pursuant to statute or otherwise) to you for any direct or indirect loss or damage of whatsoever kind you suffer or incur as a result of, or in any way in connection with, your use of the Website or the Services, or which otherwise arises in connection with your dealings with Roomeyfinder.com.



9. INDEMNITY

You indemnify Roomeyfinder.com and its directors, officers, employees, agents and contractors, and agree to keep each of them fully indemnified, from and against any loss, claim, or damages (including, without limitation, any costs (including legal costs) on a full indemnity basis) suffered, incurred, or brought against any one or more of them by a third party as a result of any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions of Use or arising out of any use by you of the Website or the Services, including but not limited to the following circumstances:

  • any loss, claim or damages suffered or made by any third party arising out of or in relation to any information, material or Content that you post or communicate to the Website or us whether via a social networking site or otherwise;
  • any loss, claim or damages suffered by a third party as a result of any infringement of any rights of a third party including, without limitation, Intellectual Property Rights in any information, material or Content that you upload to the Website or provide to Roomeyfinder.com;
  • any loss, claim or damages suffered by a third party as a result of any act or default committed by you and which is directly or indirectly related to any information, material or Content that you or another person upload to the Website or provide to Roomeyfinder.com or your use of the Website; or
  • any loss, claim or damages suffered or alleged by a third party as a result (direct, indirect or otherwise) of any act, omission, failure or default by you or by anyone for whom you are legally responsible (vicariously or otherwise) in any way connected with your access to the Website or your Account for or use of any of the Services.



10. THIRD PARTY SITES

This Website may contain links to other websites or resources operated by parties other than Roomeyfinder.com. References to any products, services, processes, trade names, trademarks, or other information of third parties does not imply or constitute an endorsement, sponsorship, association with or recommendation by Roomeyfinder.com. Links to third party sites not operated by Roomeyfinder.com are provided to you for your convenience and/or reference only. You acknowledge and agree that Roomeyfinder.com does not control such sites and Roomeyfinder.com is not responsible for the content on those sites or the privacy or other practices of such sites. You further acknowledge and agree that Roomeyfinder.com shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage, loss, or cost whatsoever caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such sites or the contents, goods or services available on or through any such site.



11. GENERAL

11.1 Relationship

Neither these Terms and Conditions nor use of the Website and/or the Services create any partnership, joint venture, or agency relationship between Roomeyfinder.com and users or between users. You must not enter into any agreements or incur any liabilities on behalf of Roomeyfinder.com or any other user without that party's prior written consent and must not represent that it has any authority to do so.

11.2 Entire Assignment

These Terms and Conditions of Use constitute the entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect to its subject matter and supersede all prior or contemporaneous oral or written agreements, undertakings, or representations between the parties concerning such subject matter.

11.3 Severability

If any provision of these Terms and Conditions of Use is void, voidable, unenforceable, or illegal, that provision will be read down so as to be valid and enforceable or, alternatively, will be severed from these Terms and Conditions of Use. The severance of any provision in accordance with this clause will not affect the validity or effectiveness of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions of Use.

11.4 Governing law

The interpretation, construction, and effect of these Terms and Conditions of Use shall be governed and construed in all respects in accordance with the laws of Nigeria, and the parties submit to the jurisdiction of the Courts exercising jurisdiction in Nigeria.