TERMS OF USE
Welcome to our website! This Terms of Use represents our rules with regard to acceptable use of our services and set expectations on the extent of responsibilities and obligations born by each party.
IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY. The Terms of Use represents the legal agreement between you and Leechiu Property Consultants, Inc. (the “Company”). By using this website, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions stated herein. Furthermore, you voluntarily conform and agree that you understand and have read this complete Terms of Use. Should you not agree with the Terms of Use, you should not use and desist from using the web site.
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS
“We” or “us” or “our” or “ours” refers to the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates or any assets thereof.
“You” or “your” or “yours” or “end-user” refer to anyone accessing and using the website either as a visitor/guest or registered user.
1.1 The Clause headings do not affect the interpretation of The Terms of Use.
1.2 All rights, limitations and conditions stated in this Terms of Use are controlling between the parties. Rights, limitations and conditions not stated in this Terms of Use are without effect between the parties.
2. EFFECTIVITY DATE
The Terms of Use shall be effective on the date when you started using the website.
3. ELIGIBILITY OF USERS
Only those who are at least 18 years of age AND both have the authority and capacity to create binding legal agreements are permitted to use the website.
4. ACCESS AND RIGHTS TO THE WEBSITE
At any time, we reserve the sole right to provide, deny or discontinue access to anyone for any reason. While we make every effort to minimize interruptions in services, we do not make any representations regarding the availability and performance of our website or any of the websites we provide links to. The member agrees to not use the website to harm others in any way; impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; send any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as, without limitation, inside information, proprietary and confidential information); send anything that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights (“Rights”) of any party; send any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of unauthorized solicitation; send any material that contains software viruses, worms or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; interfere with or disrupt the website or servers or networks connected to the website, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the website; intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, provincial, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, rules, orders and regulations having the force of law; or “stalk” or otherwise harass another.
5. OWNERSHIP, COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS
All the contents, components, rights, titles and interests in our website belong to us or our partners or clients and may not be reproduced through any means whatsoever. You are prohibited from creating derivative works or gathering data from our website through any means whatsoever. We and our partners or clients reserve the sole right to create, update or delete such content.
You agree that all title, including but not limited to copyrights and trademarks, in and to the website, as well as its contents, and any or all copies thereof are owned by us, our partners or clients, subsidiaries and affiliates. All title and intellectual property rights in and to the website which may be accessed through use of the website is our property and may be protected by applicable copyright or other intellectual property laws and international treaty provisions. This Terms of Use grants you no right whatsoever to use such content. You shall not remove, modify or alter any patent, copyright or trademark notice from any part of the website. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.
6. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS AND CONDITIONS
(a) YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT: YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS, GUARANTEES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
(b) WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (ii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE WEBSITE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iii) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (iv) ANY ERRORS IN THE WEBSITE WILL BE CORRECTED.
(c) ANY MATERIAL TRANSMITTED, RECEIVED, DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED OR SENT, THROUGH THE USE OF THE WEBSITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE OPENING, DOWNLOAD OR SENDING OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
(d) NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM OR THROUGH US OR OUR WEBSITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS TERM OF USE.
(e) YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS VIRUSES ARE FREQUENTLY CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED, THE ANTIVIRUS COMPONENT OF THE WEBSITE IS INTENDED TO DETECT ONLY SPECIFIC KNOWN VIRUSES AND SOME UNKNOWN VIRUS BEHAVIOR PATTERNS. THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT THE WEBSITE WILL DETECT ALL VIRUSES PRESENT ON OR SENT TO YOU, YOUR NETWORK OR EMAIL SERVER; YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE TO ENSURE YOU HAVE SUFFICIENT BACK-UP SYSTEMS IN PLACE.
7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
We shall not be held liable for any damages, whether actual, indirect, special, incidental, or other damages based on contract, tort, or otherwise, including but not limited to consequential lost profits, business interruption, goodwill, use, lost information, or other tangible or intangible losses, loss of data etc.
We shall have no liability with respect to the content of the website or any part thereof, including but not limited to errors or omissions contained therein, libel, infringement of rights of publicity, privacy, trademark rights, business interruption, personal injury, loss of privacy, moral rights or the disclosure of confidential information.
Further, we shall have no liability with respect to any harm that may be caused by the transmission of a computer and internet virus, malware, trojans and other harmful computer and internet programs.
8. INDEMNITY
You agree to release, indemnify and hold us, including our officers, agents, and employees, partners, clients, subsidiaries, and affiliates, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of the use of the website or violation of this Terms of Use, or of any rights of another.
If we are threatened with any action or suit by any party, you hereby agree and undertake to indemnify us; your failure to provide said undertaking may be considered by us to be a breach of this Terms of Use and may result to a reasonable legal action against you. This indemnification will survive the termination of this Terms of Use.
9. SEVERABILITY
Should any provision of this Terms of Use shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the remaining valid and enforceable provisions shall continue in full force and effect.
10. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of the Philippines and shall inure to our benefit or to the benefit of our partners, subsidiaries or affiliates. Should there be any disputes with regard to this Terms of Use, you agree that such disputes shall be exclusively filed before the proper court of Makati City, Philippines. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the web site or this Terms of Use must be relayed to us within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose. Otherwise, the said claim or cause of action is considered waived.
PRIVACY POLICY
Our Website follows all legal requirements to protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy is a legal statement that explains how we may collect information from you, how we may share your information, and how you can limit our sharing of your information. The use of our website constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy.
PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION
While using this Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal information (including name, address, telephone number and email) (“Personal Data”) in a variety of ways in connection with activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Website. You may visit our Website anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. You can always refuse to supply personal identification information, except that it may prevent you from engaging in certain website related activities.
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.
USAGE DATE/NON-PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION/LOG FILE INFORMATION
We may collect non-personal identification information about users whenever they interact with our Website. Log file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you make a request to access (i.e. visit) a web page. In this regard, we may also collect Usage Data, which include the information how the Website is accessed and used. This may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, other diagnostic data and other such information when you use our Website. Similar information may also be collected from emails sent to our Users. The information helps administer the application for more accurate reporting and improvement of the Website.
USE OF DATA
We use the collected data for various purposes:
- To improve customer service:
Information you provide helps us respond to your requests and support needs more efficiently.
- To personalize user experience
We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Website.
- To improve our Website
We may use feedback you provide to improve our products and services.
- To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- To meet requirements imposed by law and other purposes directly relating to any of the above.
RETENTION OF DATA
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
SECURITY OF DATA
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Website
. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no sharing of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Except as set out in this Policy, we will not disclose your information to third parties without your consent unless: (1) If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy; (2) we are legally entitled or required to do so (for example, if required to do so by legal process or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime); or (3) if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and/or defend our rights, property or personal safety and those of our users/customers or other individuals.
PARTIES WITH WHOM WE MAY SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We may share your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with our employees who need the information in the performance of their duties and responsibilities, any third party which support the products or services we provide; businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that Leechiu Property Consultants, Inc. is or will be part of.
Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide the service under reasonable confidentiality terms. We may also share certain information such as cookie data with third-party advertising partners. This information would allow third-party ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.
WEB BROWSER COOKIES
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Website.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.
DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
Your data protection rights are protected under the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012, which includes, among others, the following:
- The right to access, update or to deletethe information we have on you.
- The right of rectification.You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
- The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
- The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
- The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Leechiu Property Consultants, Inc. relied on your consent to process your personal information.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions, comments, requests, or concerns related to this privacy policy or if you would like to opt out of future communications, please contact us by email at privacy@leechiu.com.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Leechiu Property Consultants, Inc. has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time without notice to you. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.