Terms and conditions

1. Who we are

1.1. This website is owned and operated by Upstix Technologies Limited (company number 13180792), whose registered office is at One Sovereign Quay, Leeds, United Kingdom, LS1 4AG, with an additional office at Level 6, Design Centre East, Chelsea Harbour, London, England, SW10 0XF (“UPSTIX”). The Quick House Buyers is a trading style of Upstix Technologies Limited.

1.2. The purpose of these terms and conditions is to set out the basis on which UPSTIX makes available its house buying offering, and permits users of this website to access and use it (in each case “you” or “your”).

2. Our property referral offering

2.1. UPSTIX is in the business of referring residential properties to investors for purchase from vendors. The website is made available to you to enable you to register as an Investor and receive property referrals from UPSTIX.

2.2. UPSTIX acts as an introducer only and does not buy or sell properties itself. Where UPSTIX identifies a property that may be of interest to you as an Investor, UPSTIX will issue an Investor Property Referral Agreement setting out the terms on which that property is referred to you. UPSTIX is not bound to refer any property to you and reserves the right to refer properties to other Investors at its absolute discretion.

2.3. By registering as an Investor or accepting a referral, you agree that you will respond to any referral within 24 hours of receipt, carry out your own assessment and due diligence on any referred property, keep UPSTIX informed of your progress, and pay the Referral Fee in accordance with the Investor Property Referral Agreement.

2.4. For 12 months from the date of any referral, you agree not to circumvent UPSTIX or deal directly or indirectly with any vendor or property introduced by UPSTIX without our prior written consent. If you breach this obligation you will be liable to pay the full Referral Fee set out in the relevant Investor Property Referral Agreement.

2.5. UPSTIX does not guarantee that it will refer any particular property to you and is not obliged to do so. UPSTIX may withdraw a referral at any time before an Investor Property Referral Agreement is entered into.

2.6. All property information provided to you by UPSTIX is confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party without our prior written consent, except as needed to carry out your own professional due diligence on the referred property.

3. Terms that apply to your use of the website

3.1. By using the website you confirm that you accept these terms and conditions and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to them, you must not use the website.

3.2. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

3.3. These terms also refer to our privacy policy and our cookie policy, which sets out information about the cookies on this website. Both apply to your use of the website.

4. We may make changes to these terms and to the website

4.1. We amend these terms from time to time. Each time you wish to use the website, please check these terms so you understand the terms that apply at that time.

4.2. We may update and change the website from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users’ needs and our business priorities.

5. We may suspend or withdraw the website

5.1. The website is made available free of charge.

5.2. We do not guarantee that the website, or any content on it, will always be available or uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of the website without notice for business and operational reasons.

5.3. You are responsible for making sure that everyone who accesses the website through your internet connection is aware of these terms and complies with them.

6. The website is for users in England, Wales and Scotland

6.1. The website is directed at people residing in England, Wales and Scotland. We do not represent that content available on or through the website is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

7. You must keep your account details safe

7.1. If you choose, or are given, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat that information as confidential and must not disclose it to any third party.

7.2. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of these terms.

7.3. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, notify us promptly on 020 3744 0249.

8. How you may use material on the website

8.1. We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the website and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

8.2. You may print off one copy, and download extracts, of any page from the website for your personal use. If you print, copy, download, share or repost any part of the website in breach of these terms, your right to use the website ceases immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies you have made.

8.3. You must not use any part of the content on the website for commercial purposes without a licence from us or our licensors.

9. No text or data mining, or web scraping

9.1. You must not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to the website or any services provided through it. That includes using, or permitting, authorising or attempting to use, any robot, bot, spider, scraper or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or the data, content, information or services accessed through it, and any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information such as patterns, trends and correlations.

9.2. This clause is an express reservation of our rights in this regard.

9.3. This clause does not apply to the extent that we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under applicable law.

10. Do not rely on information on the website

10.1. The content on the website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice you should rely on. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of content on the website.

10.2. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on the website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, express or implied, that the content is accurate, complete or up to date.

11. We are not responsible for sites we link to

11.1. Where the website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, those links are for your information only. They should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked sites or of information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

12. User-generated content is not approved by us

12.1. The website may include information and materials uploaded by other users. That content has not been verified or approved by us, and views expressed by other users do not represent our views or values.

12.2. If you wish to complain about content uploaded by other users, contact us on 020 3744 0249 or email support@upstix.com.

13. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

13.1. We do not exclude or limit our liability to you in any way where it would be unlawful to do so. That includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors, and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

13.2. Different limitations and exclusions of liability may apply to liability arising from the referral of a property to you, which will be set out in the Investor Property Referral Agreement.

13.3. We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to the website or any content on it.

13.4. We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with use of, or inability to use, the website, or use of or reliance on any content displayed on the website.

13.5. In particular, we will not be liable for loss of profits, sales, business or revenue; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage, even if foreseeable.

13.6. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack or other technologically harmful material that may infect your equipment, programs, data or other proprietary material because of your use of the website or your downloading of any content on it, or on any site linked to it.

13.7. We assume no responsibility for any user-generated content uploaded to or displayed on the website, nor for the content of sites linked from it, and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of them.

14. How we may use your personal information

14.1. We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy.

15. Uploading content to the website

15.1. Whenever you use a feature that allows you to upload content to the website, you must comply with the content standards in our acceptable use policy set out in clause 16.

15.2. You warrant that any contribution complies with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. That means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result.

15.3. You retain all ownership rights in your content, but you grant us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. When you upload or post content, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce and distribute the content in connection with the potential purchase of your house.

15.4. We have the right to remove any posting you make on the website if, in our opinion, it does not comply with the content standards in the acceptable use policy.

16. Acceptable use policy

16.1. You may use the website only for lawful purposes. You may not use it in any manner that:

• breaches any applicable local or national law;
• is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
• we consider, in our absolute discretion, is harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, infringing, harassing or racially or ethnically offensive; or
• depicts sexually explicit images or promotes violence.

16.2. You must not, and must not permit any person to:

• except where expressly permitted under these terms, attempt to copy, modify, tamper with, duplicate, re-sell, create derivative works from, mirror, republish, download, display, transmit or distribute all or any portion of the website in any form or media by any means;
• attempt to reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of the website;
• remove any of our marks, logos, trade names, copyright notices or other proprietary notices from the website;
• access all or any part of the website in order to build a product or service that competes with it;
• use the website to provide services to third parties;
• procure or assist in sending any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or similar solicitation (spam); or
• do or permit any act or omission in relation to use of the website which does or may adversely affect our reputation, goodwill or image.

17. Viruses

17.1. We do not guarantee that the website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access the website, and you should use your own virus protection software. You must not misuse the website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.

18. Which country’s laws apply to any disputes

18.1. These terms and conditions, their subject matter and their formation are governed by English law.

18.2. You agree that the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.