Terms of Use

Last Updated: Oct 15, 2007

Access to and use of this site ('globalpropertyguide.com') is provided by the Global Property Guide subject to the following terms:

  1. By using globalpropertyguide.com you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of globalpropertyguide.com. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use globalpropertyguide.com.
  2. The Global Property Guide may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by the Global Property Guide. Your continued use of globalpropertyguide.com after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of globalpropertyguide.com

  1. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use globalpropertyguide.com content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any globalpropertyguide.com content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of globalpropertyguide.com content requires the prior written permission of the Global Property Guide.
  2. You agree to use globalpropertyguide.com only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of globalpropertyguide.com. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within globalpropertyguide.com.
  3. Exceptions - press use of and reference to Global Property Guide content

All references to the Global Property Guide content should be sourced to www.globalpropertyguide.com or other pages within the site.

PRESS RELEASES may be used and incorporated, with reduced concern about copyright issues, i.e., while direct copying is strongly discouraged, the substance of the press release can be incorporated so long as a few changes are made. Tables in press releases may be freely used by newspapers, magazines, TV reports, other media, other sites, etc (each use of a table must be accompanied by a link to www.globalpropertyguide.com or to the location of the article).

TABLES PUBLISHED IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC ARTICLES appearing under the heading 'Global Property Guide Articles' on http://globalpropertyguide.com/) may be reproduced in full

(Each use of a table must be accompanied by a link to www.globalpropertyguide.com or to the location of the article).

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

  1. globalpropertyguide.com content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to the Global Property Guide, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "IS AVAILABLE" basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
  2. Under no circumstances will the Global Property Guide be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of globalpropertyguide.com regardless of the form of action.
  3. Global Property Guide does not warrant that functions contained in globalpropertyguide.com content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that globalpropertyguide.com or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual Property

  1. The names, images and logos identifying the Global Property Guide or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of the GPG and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of the Global Property Guide or any other third party.

Contributions to globalpropertyguide.com

  1. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to globalpropertyguide.com (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the Global Property Guide a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the Global Property Guide's Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to the Global Property Guide the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to globalpropertyguide.com.
  2. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to globalpropertyguide.com, you:

    • warrant that your contribution;
      • is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to the Global Property Guide for all the purposes specified above;
      • is not defamatory; and
      • does not infringe any law; and
    • indemnify the Global Property Guide against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the Global Property Guide as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
    • waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on globalpropertyguide.com and the purposes specified above.

'Have Your Say' Rules

  1. You agree to use globalpropertyguide.com 'Have Your Say' feature in accordance with the following Have Your Say Rules. These apply across all globalpropertyguide.com sites and services. You should, however, read the local house rules of the particular site or service you're using, as there may be some local variations to these rules.

About your posts:

  • Contributions must be civil and tasteful
  • No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
  • No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
  • If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting or annoying other users you may have action taken against you.
  • No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
  • No advertising.
  • Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.
  • No impersonation
  • No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names
  • You may not refer to specific URLs (web site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant local house rules. If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the discussion topic, please inform the host.

About the law:

  • You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in globalpropertyguide.com Have Your Say area. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.
  • Contributing material with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
  • You agree to only submit materials which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarize, or infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.
  • The views expressed in globalpropertyguide.com Have Your Say areas are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of the Global Property Guide.

If you're under 16:

  • Please get a parent's or guardian's permission before taking part in any globalpropertyguide.com discussion.
  • Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).

If you breach these Terms of Use:

If you fail to abide by these rules (and/or any variations in the relevant local house rules) when taking part in a globalpropertyguide.com Have Your Say service, you will be sent an e-mail which informs you why your contribution has been failed or edited. This mail will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.

This action may include your relevant account or accounts being placed into pre-moderation or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of globalpropertyguide.com Have Your Say areas.

If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to globalpropertyguide.com or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on globalpropertyguide.com, and the Global Property Guide considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, the Global Property Guide may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement/s.

The Global Property Guide reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.

General

  1. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on globalpropertyguide.com (including local house rules) then the latter shall prevail.
  2. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
  3. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Republic of the Philippines.

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