These Terms and Conditions regulate access and use of the website https://www.azoresproperties.pt, under the responsibility of Oceandragon, Mediação Imobiliária, Unipessoal, Lda, a company with registered office at Rua de São João, nº52, – 9900-129 Matriz , Horta and hereinafter referred to as Azores Properties.
Any legal issue regarding the website can be consulted in the sections relating to our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy, which constitute an integral part of these Terms and Conditions.
The use of this website by any user will be governed by the following Terms and Conditions and will imply that they are accepted by the user. If the user rejects these Terms and Conditions, they must cease using the website.
Azores Properties may change or update, in whole or in part, these Terms and Conditions, as well as the respective Privacy Policy. Any changes or updates to these Terms and Conditions, as well as the Privacy Policy, will come into force as soon as they are published in the respective sections of the website. Users are advised to regularly consult the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy sections to check the most up-to-date versions.
Access to and use of the website is made available exclusively for personal use and for the sale of goods and services, for payment of requested goods or services, for the sale of products or services considered of interest to users of the website, or to communicate with them for other purposes (the “Products”).
Azores Properties reserves the right to discretionally assess compliance with these Terms and Conditions by any user. Violation of the Terms and Conditions may result in the withdrawal of the license of use granted by Azores Properties, under the terms of this Clause 1, and may also exercise your rights to the maximum possible extent permitted by law.
Users undertake to indemnify and exempt Azores Properties, its subsidiaries and group companies, as well as legal representatives, partners and employees, from any damages, liabilities, claims or requests for compensation, including expenses and representation costs, requested by third parties as a result of the use of the website not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, and/or due to violation of the conditions set out therein, and/or resulting from failure to comply with the representations and guarantees contained in these Terms and Conditions.
- License to use the website
Without prejudice to the other clauses of these Terms and Conditions, Azores Properties authorizes any user to use this website only for personal or informational purposes, as provided for in these Terms and Conditions. The use license may be revoked by Azores Properties, at its discretion and at any time.
Under the terms of the law and these Terms and Conditions, the user may not copy, use, transfer, rent, sublicense, alter, adapt, attempt to modify or alter the source code, carry out reverse engineering operations, decompile or disassemble, in whole or in part, the content of the website. By accessing the website, the user acknowledges and accepts that its content may be incomplete, inaccurate, not updated, or may not meet their needs and requirements.
- Content and limitation of liability of Azores Properties
Accessing and using the website, including viewing web pages, constitute activities carried out by users.
Users are solely and exclusively responsible for the use of the website and its contents. Azores Properties is not responsible or assumes responsibility for the use (if any) of the website that does not comply with the legal provisions in force.
Specifically, users are solely responsible for communicating incorrect, false or third-party information and/or data without their consent, as well as for their incorrect use.
The contents of the website may contain inaccuracies or typos. Azores Properties is not responsible or liable, by any means or method, for inaccuracies, errors and damages (if any) caused or resulting from the use of information derived from the website, or through the website, by users. The user is solely and exclusively responsible for evaluating the information and content obtained through the website.
The website and all information and content published on it may be changed by Azores Properties at any time, periodically and/or without prior notice.
Considering that any content that may be downloaded, or obtained by other means, is the result of the user’s free decision and is done at their own risk, any damage (if any) to computers or loss of data resulting from download operations carried out by the user will be their sole responsibility and cannot be attributed to Azores Properties.
Azores Properties also does not assume any responsibility for damages (if any) resulting from the impossibility of accessing the services available through the website or for data (if any) caused by viruses, damaged files, errors, omissions, service interruptions, cancellation of content , issues related to the Internet, service providers, or telephone and/or telematics connection, unauthorized access, data changes, or related to the non-existence and/or defective functioning of the user’s electronic devices.
The user is responsible for the storage and correct use of their personal information, as well as for any damage or loss caused to Azores Properties, or third parties, resulting from the incorrect use, loss or theft of personal information.
In cases of registration, the user is responsible for storing and correctly using their access credentials, which allow access to the reserved area of the services (if any). In these circumstances, the user will be responsible for creating their username and password. The user will also be responsible for providing specific information, which must be correct and updated. The user may not choose a username belonging to third parties with the aim of using their identity. Likewise, the user may not use the username of a third party without their express consent. The user must guarantee the confidentiality of their password and must not share it with third parties.
The user is entirely and exclusively responsible for any action carried out through their user account (if any), directly or through third parties authorized by them. Azores Properties may revoke the use license, at its discretion and at any time, if any abusive, fraudulent or illegal act is identified.
Azores Properties promoted the adoption of appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard the security of the services provided through the website, to ensure the integrity of electronic traffic data related to unauthorized forms of use or knowledge, as well as to avoid risks of dissemination, destruction or loss of data and confidential or non-confidential information of its users, contained on the website or related to access – unauthorized or in breach of applicable legal provisions – to said personal data and information.
Azores Properties does not and cannot guarantee that the website is free of viruses or any other element that could negatively affect the technology.
- Access to the website. Possible interruption and suspension
Azores Properties makes its best efforts to provide continuous access to the website. However, this access may be suspended, limited or interrupted at any time, regardless of the reason. Access to the website may be limited from time to time to allow recovery, maintenance or the introduction of new features or services. Azores Properties will always make its best efforts to regain access to the website and the functionalities provided by it, and as quickly as possible.
Azores Properties reserves the right to block access to any material and/or to remove any material that may be, in its understanding, discretionary or cause a violation of these Terms and Conditions.
Azores Properties reserves the right to close user accounts (if any) that violate these Terms and Conditions, including situations in which it is found that the user is using proxy IP addresses in order to hide the use of multiple accounts, or intend to be identified as being in a country other than the one from which you are actually located, or cause disruption to the functioning of the website by any means.
- Protection of personal data
Users are advised to read and analyze the Privacy Policy of our online real estate agency, which forms an integral part of these Terms and Conditions, to understand how the website collects and uses users’ personal data and for what purposes.
- Intellectual property rights
All rights are reserved. The website and all its contents, including without limitation:
- lists, user manuals and other texts;
- photographs, drawings, images, video clips (videograms) and audio (phonograms), and other image content;
- marketing texts;
- brands, logos, domain names.
The contents mentioned above, as well as any and all elements covered by proprietary rights, including source codes, and/or other types of intellectual property (hereinafter referred to as Material) are the property of Azores Properties, or third parties, and are protected against the use, copying or disclosure not authorized by national laws and international treaties relating to Intellectual Property Rights.
None of the provisions of the Terms and Conditions and/or the contents contained on the website may be interpreted as implicitly granting, accepting or in any way licensing the right to use any Material by any means without the prior written consent of Azores Properties or third party owner of the Material, or intellectual property rights published on the website.
The improper use, copying, reproduction, alteration, republication, updating, downloading, sending by e-mail, transmission, distribution or duplication, or any other abusive act of Material not specifically identified, but of identical nature, is prohibited. As a user of the website, the user undertakes not to use the Material for illegal purposes and not to violate the rights of Azores Properties.
The user may, however, view and display the content of the website and/or the Material on the screen of a computer, tablet or cell phone; You may store it in electronic format on disk (but not on a server or on a memory device connected to the Internet) or print a copy of such content for your personal and non-commercial use, and you must maintain all information related to proprietary rights intellectual.
Access to the website does not grant the user any rights over the content made available by Azores Properties.
- Links to other websites
If the website provides links (“links”) to third-party websites, or to content made available by third parties (“Other websites”), Azores Properties hereby informs that they are included only for exclusively informative purposes and for the user’s convenience. Azores Properties does not control Other websites and, therefore, is not responsible for such Other websites, or the content they make available (including, without limitation, references to social networks), nor is it responsible for any damages or losses that may result the use of Other websites by the user, as well as the processing of personal data during Internet browsing operations. Access to any Other website through a link on the Azores Properties platform will be at the sole responsibility and risk of the user.
The user must therefore pay particular attention when connecting to Other websites through links on the Azores Properties website and carefully read the respective Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies.
Azores Properties is not responsible, nor can it be held responsible, for the information that real estate websites – where Azores Properties discloses its property portfolio – choose to present to the user. Azores Properties guarantees the correct sharing of the characteristics, location, multimedia content and description of the properties it mediates, on the websites it uses for advertising, and cannot guarantee their correct display on their part.
Azores Properties has no control over the differences that may exist regarding the location and attributes of the homes it mediates, between the different real estate websites it uses to advertise its property portfolio.
Azores Properties has no control over the time it takes to update an ad, after content changes, on the real estate websites it works with, which can take several days.
The user acknowledges and declares that:
- have read and understood these Terms and Conditions;
- will refrain from reproducing, duplicating, copying, selling, reselling or by any means commercially exploiting the website and/or its contents, in whole or in part, as well as refraining from using or reproducing the trademarks or any proprietary rights intellectual and/or industrial of Azores Properties;
- will not publish or use false, insulting or defamatory information;
- will refrain from using, directly or indirectly, the services and/or the website for purposes that are contrary to the law or that do not comply with the principles contained in these Terms and Conditions;
- will not propagate viruses, spyware, adware, rootkit, backdoor or Trojan viruses, or any other similar computer threat;
- will not use software or other automatic and/or manual mechanisms to copy and/or access control of the website and/or its content.
- User representations and warranties
- Miscellaneous final provisions
The nullity of any of the provisions contained in these Terms and Conditions will be deemed to be deleted from them, with the remaining provisions remaining fully in force and producing their effects.
This Agreement will be governed by Portuguese Law and will be interpreted in accordance with Portuguese Law, in accordance with contracts concluded and executed in this country. In the absence of an amicable agreement between the parties, the respective conflicts and disputes of any nature relating to the formation, execution or interpretation of this Agreement will be definitively resolved by the Horta Judicial Court, with express waiver of any others. The user may contact Azores Properties for any question related to the Terms and Conditions or the use of the website via registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt to the address Rua de São João, nº52, – 9900-129 Horta, or via email -mail to info@azoresproperties.com .
The last update of these Terms and Conditions is October 16, 2023.
We recommend that you continue exploring the Legal section, where we share information about Azores Properties service guarantees. We are aware that these are dense matters, but that they are essential for trust, transparency and security in our activity and in the process of buying and selling your property.
For more information and clarifications about legal rules and regulations, or about Azores Properties and our service, do not hesitate to contact us by phone at 292 392 199 or at info@azoresproperties.com .
