Terms & Conditions

INTRODUCTION

Company: PORTUGAL VENTURES LTD (“Company”) is a company registered in England and Wales with registered company number 11560657. The registered office is at 28 Spring Grove, London, CR4 2NP, United Kingdom.  

Service: The Company provides a wide range of consultancy services (“Service”) that are focused on the Portuguese Real Estate market in all its different areas. The main services are Mortgage Brokerage, Non Habitual Residence Tax Regime and Golden Visa Program, Real Estate Advisory and Real Estate Market Analysis. By accessing our website you can read about the services we provide, gather information about our company, book appointments with one of our consultants and access our exclusive market analysis for the Portuguese market. You can also register your interest to subscribe our monthly newsletter, where we provide you information about the Portuguese market news and latest trends. The main contact between our clients and the services we offer are this “Website” that we will keep updated at any time that you can always use as a way of getting in touch with us and getting to know any news about our business. The services we provide can also be promoted and reviewed through our social networks (“Social Network”).

Your use of the Website (www.portugalconsultants.co.uk) constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to all of the terms and conditions in these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and Data Protection and your representation that you are at least 18 years of age and are legally capable of entering into binding contracts. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to www.portugalconsultants.co.uk. 

COMPANY WEBSITE

Terms: By accessing any part of the Website, you indicate that you accept these Terms and Conditions.

Amendment of terms: The Website Terms and Conditions are subject to change at any time, and effective upon posting on the Website. It is advised you check back regularly in the case of any amendments.

Responsibility: You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your Internet connection are aware of these Website Terms and that they comply with them.

Website access: You may access some areas of the Website without making an Order or registering your details with us. Most areas of the Website are open to everyone.

Website availability: While we try to ensure the Website is normally available twenty four hours a day, we do not undertake any obligation to do so, and we will not be liable to you if the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

Information security: The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we take the steps required by law to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. 

GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

These Website Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes or claims arising in connection with these Website Terms (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. 

PLATFORM AND SOCIAL NETWORK TERMS OF PERMITTED USE

You are permitted to use the Platform and Social Network for your own personal non-commercial use on the following basis:

• You must not misuse the Website by or attempt to hack it in any way.
• The copyright and other intellectual property rights (such as text, graphics, data, graphics, HTML, videos, images and other content) in the Platform, Social Network      and in material published on it are owned by us or our licensors. These works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world and all rights are reserved. Any use of such material from the Website and  Social Network is prohibited unless with prior consent.
• In order to use any of the materials on the Website and Social Network or the Website itself for commercial purposes, you will require a licence from us.
• You must not modify the digital or paper copies of any materials that you print off and you must not use any pictures, photographs or any other graphics, video or audio      sequences separately from any accompanying text.
• In the case of any use, our status as the author of the material should always be acknowledged.

Reservation of rights: Any rights not expressly granted in these Website and Social Network Terms are reserved. 

PLATFORM AND SOCIAL NETWORK REVIEWS

General:

• Any reviews or information you post, upload or transmit or upload to the Website and or      Social Network will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. By posting, uploading or transmitting any Visitor Data, you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to such Visitor Data. You agree that we will have no obligations with respect to any Visitor Data, and that we and anyone we designate will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use any Visitor Material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied in it for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
• You represent and warrant that any Visitor Data you post, upload or transmit does not and will not breach any of the restrictions listed below.

Visitor Data Policy: You are prohibited from posting, uploading or transmitting to or from the Website or Social Network any Visitor Material (including any Reviews) that:

• breaches any applicable local, national or international law;
• is unlawful or fraudulent;
• amounts to unauthorised advertising; or
• contains viruses or any other harmful programs.

Reviews Policy: In particular (but without limitation), any Reviews that you submit through the Website and Social Network must not:

• contain any offensive , or defamatory material;
• infringe the intellectual property rights of another person;
• breach any legal duty owed to a third party;
• give the impression that they originate from us; or
• promote discrimination, illegal activity or violence;
• be used to misrepresent yourself or attempt to impersonate another person.

Removal of Reviews: We reserve the right and have the sole discretion to remove or edit at any time any Reviews or other Visitor Material posted, uploaded or transmitted to the Website and Social Network that we determine breaches a prohibition or is otherwise objectionable or may expose us or any third parties to any harm or liability of any type, or for any other reason.

Liability: You agree to indemnify us against any losses, damages and claims (and all related costs) incurred by or made against us or any Portugal Consultants employee or any other third party arising out of or in connection with any Reviews or other Visitor Data that you provide in breach of any of the representations and warranties, agreements or restrictions set forth in this paragraph.

Disclosure to authorities and courts: You acknowledge that we will fully co-operate with any competent authority requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or location of anyone posting any Reviews or other Visitor Material in breach. Furthermore you release us to the fullest extent permitted by law from all liability in relation to such disclosure. 

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND LINKING

Linking permission: In order to link to the Website (www.portugalconsultants.co.uk), you need to ensure:

• You do not damage or take advantage of our reputation by creating the link;
• You do not create an association or endorsement with the linking site where none exists;
• Any website from which you link must comply with the content standards set out in these Website Terms;
• We have the right to withdraw linking permission at any time and for any reason. 

DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES

Website information: We try to ensure all information on the site is accurate and relevant however we offer no guarantee of this accuracy, relevance or completeness. We reserve the right to make changes without notice.

Exclusion of terms: We provide you with access to the Platform and Services on the basis that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all representations, warranties, conditions, undertakings and other terms in relation to the Website and Service (including any representations, warranties, conditions, undertakings and other terms which might otherwise apply to the Website or Service, or be otherwise implied or incorporated into these Website Terms, by statute, common law or otherwise). 

LIABILITY

General: Nothing in these Website Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Nothing in these Website Terms affects your statutory rights.

Exclusion of liability: We will under no circumstances whatever be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with the Service or the Website (including the use, inability to use or the results of use of the Service or the Website) for:

• any loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
• loss or corruption of data, information or software;
• loss of business opportunity;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of goodwill; or
• any indirect or consequential loss.

Additional costs: You assume full and sole responsibility for any additional or associated costs that you may incur in connection with or as a result of your use of the Website, including without limitation costs relating to the servicing, repair or adaptation of any equipment, software or data that you may own, lease, license or otherwise use. 

TERMINATION

Grounds for termination: We may terminate or suspend (at our absolute discretion) your right to use the Platform and the Services immediately by notifying you in writing (including by email) if we believe in our sole discretion that:

• you have used the Website in breach of our permitted terms of use
• you have posted Reviews or other Visitor Material in breach of Visitor Material Policy;
• you have breached any other material terms of these Website Terms.

Obligations upon termination: Upon termination or suspension you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Website. 

WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS

Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using the Website or ordering Products/Services via the Website, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by email or provide you with information by posting notices on the Website. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights. 

ADDITIONAL TERMS

Privacy Policy and Data Protection: We are committed to protecting your privacy and security. All personal data that we collect from you will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Data Protection (Please see Privacy Policy and Data Protection for more info).

Severability: If any of these Website Terms are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Entire agreement: These Website Terms and any document expressly referred to in them constitute the whole agreement between you and us and supersede all previous discussions, correspondence, negotiations, previous arrangement, understanding or agreement between us relating to the subject matter of any contract.

No waiver: In case of any failure or delay by you or us in enforcing (in whole or in part) any provision of these Website Terms it will not be interpreted as a waiver of your or our rights or remedies.

Assignment: You may not transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Website Terms without our prior written consent. We may transfer any of our rights or obligations under these Website Terms without your prior written consent to any of our affiliates or any business that we enter into a joint venture with, purchase or are sold to.

Headings: The headings in these Website Terms are included for convenience only and shall not affect their interpretation.