Terms of Use

Take a look over our Terms of Use for all the details on how our online service works, and what you’re agreeing to by using our site.

Important legal information

By accessing this website you consent to the following Terms of Use. In these Terms of Use ‘Morita Estates’ means Morita Estates Ltd.

‘This website includes www.moritaestates.com and any mobile internet site owned and/or operated by a member of Morita Estates from time to time.

Security and privacy

We at Morita Estates take the security and privacy of our systems and our customers’ data very seriously. We constantly review our systems and data to ensure the best possible service is provided to our customers. Parliament has created specific offences for unauthorised actions against computer systems and data. We will therefore investigate any such actions with a view to prosecuting and/or taking civil proceedings to recover damages against those responsible.

By using this website, you agree to the capture and use of your data in accordance with the terms laid out in the website’s Privacy Policy and the customer terms and conditions relevant to the different services hosted on the website. To view our privacy policy click here

Exclusions and limitations

The information on this website is provided on an ‘as is’ basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, it:

(a) excludes all representations and warranties relating to this website and its contents, including in relation to any inaccuracies or omissions in this website; and

(b) excludes all liability for loss or damage arising out of or in connection with your use of this website. This includes, without limitation, direct loss, loss of business or profits (whether or not the loss of such profits was foreseeable, arose in the normal course of things or you have advised Morita Estates of the possibility of such potential loss) and indirect, consequential and incidental damages.

Content changes and accuracy of information

Morita Estates may make changes to the contents of this website, including to the descriptions and prices of goods and services advertised, at any time and without notice. Personalisation of the site based on user activity and preferences may change the appearance and contents of this website at any time.

Some information on this website is taken from sources external to Morita Estates or is of a type that changes frequently. In particular, you should confirm offline the accuracy and currency of information about prices, advert delivery times, marketing requirements, posting a listing restrictions and prohibitions and conditions of posting a listing in all sections of the website before relying on it. Morita Estates not necessarily share the opinions expressed or endorse the material appearing in external content published by it on this website.

Copyright notices

The names and details within our website are the property of Morita Estates Ltd. Goods and services featured on this website have a copyright notice. All website design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof, and all software compilations, underlying source code, software (including applets) and all other material on this website are copyright Morita Estates Ltd. 

Contracts

Nothing on this website constitutes an offer by Morita Estates to sell any goods or services. Subject to the customer terms and conditions of the relevant service, no contract will be formed until your order or application has been acknowledged and accepted by Morita Estates.

Using Morita Estates website is generally free, but we sometimes charge a fee for certain services. If the service you use incurs a fee, you’ll be able to review and accept terms that will be clearly disclosed at the time you post your ad. Our fees are quoted in Pounds Sterling, and we may change them from time to time. We’ll notify you of changes to our fee policy by posting such changes on the our website. We may choose to temporarily change our fees for promotional events or new services; these changes are effective when we announce the promotional event or new service.

Our Fees

By using our website, you agree that you are responsible for paying Morita Estates fees when they’re due. If you don’t, without prejudice to any other right or remedy we may be entitled to under these Terms of Use or by law, we may limit your ability to use the services. If your payment method fails or your account is past due, we may collect fees owed using other methods of collection. We may instruct our Legal Team to commence Debt Recovery Action against you if payment is not made.

You acknowledge that your property adverts may be deleted from the our website and from our services, applications or tools in case we believe these Terms of Use, including our Posting Rules, are breached, either directly or indirectly. In case you would have paid a fee for the display of such ad, you may be entitled to a refund of such fee. However, we reserve the right not to refund users for any fees paid through use of our sites, services, applications and tools in the following cases:

    • If you breach, in our opinion, these Terms of Use, which include, without limitation, the Posting Rules;
    • If your adverts went live with exposure on the Morita Estates website, services, applications or tools, even for a limited time, and that they benefited from the service associated with the paid fee;
    • If your adverts are placed into “edit” mode and will go live to site once updated by you;
    • If you have removed your ads yourself;
    • If you post duplicate adverts as defined in our rules regarding duplicate ads;
    • If we believe that your ads are in a significantly wrong category;

Please note that the above list is not exhaustive. See our FAQ Page help and guidance on using Morita Estates website. 

Cancellation and Refunds

Morita Estates may cancel your registration for this website or any service hosted on it if you breach these terms of use or the customer terms and conditions for any service.

Morita Estates can refund your payment for any listing you have uploaded or for any service if we are notified within 14 days. No refund will be made in the following cases shown above in the section ‘Our Fees’.

No refund will made after 14 days. All refunds must be made over the telephone by contacting our Customer Services Team on 020 8785 6060 or by emailing info@moritaestates.com

Third party rights

A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this User Agreement but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party specified in this Agreement or which exists or is available apart from that Act.

Reviews and Comments

Morita Estates edits and monitors the content of all reviews and comments published on its website. The content of reviews and comments is provided by its users. Morita Estates may remove content from any review or comment if it does not comply with our terms of use or if it is breaching any of our terms and conditions.

Links to this website

You may not create a link to any page of this website without Morita Estates prior written consent. If you do create a link to a page of this website you do so at your own risk, and the exclusions and limitations set out above will apply to your use of this website by linking to it.

Links from this website

Morita Estates does not monitor or review the content of other parties’ websites that are linked to and from this website. Opinions expressed or material appearing on such websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by Morita Estates. Morita Estates is not the publisher of such opinions or material.

Availability of this website and our products and services

Unless otherwise stated, the products and services featured on this website are available only within the United Kingdom, or in relation to postings from the United Kingdom.

Morita Estates tries to ensure that your use of this website is uninterrupted and information transmitted over it is free of errors. However, due to external factors, this cannot be guaranteed. Access to this website may also be suspended or restricted for a period to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new services from time to time. Morita Estates will try to limit the number and length of such periods as much as possible.

Software

Although Morita Estates uses reasonable endeavours to ensure that any software made available by it on this website is suitable for downloading, installation and use by third parties, all such software is provided ‘as is’ without any warranty. Specifically, and without limitation, Morita Estates does not warrant that any such software is virus free, without defects, Year 2000-compliant, compatible with other software or operating systems or suitable for any specific purpose.

Morita Estates accepts no liability for any loss or damage caused by the downloading, installation or use of any such software, and the general exclusions and limitations above apply to such downloading, installation or use. Morita Estates does not however exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence. The above exclusions and limitations apply only to the extent permitted by law. None of your statutory rights as a consumer that cannot be excluded or limited are affected.

Your use of this website

By using this website, you agree that you are aged 18 or over to upload a property listing or enter any agreement on our website and company.

You are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer and you may use this website for lawful purposes only. You must not use this website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be damaged or interrupted in any way.

You must not use this website for any of the following:

(a) for fraudulent purposes or in connection with a criminal offence;

(b) disseminating any unlawful, harassing, libellous, defamatory, racially offensive, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material;

(c) making, transmitting or storing electronic copies of materials protected by copyright without the permission of the owner.

Abusing Morita Estates

Morita Estates work together very closely to ensure that we keep our website, services, applications and tools working properly and the community safe. Please report problems, offensive content and policy breaches to us by email at info@moritaestates.com

Without limiting other remedies, we may issue warnings, limit or terminate our service, remove hosted content and take technical and legal steps to keep users off Morita Estates if we think that they are creating problems, infringing the rights of third parties or acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of our policies (including, without limitation, circumventing temporary or permanent suspensions or harassing the Morita Estates employees or other users).

However, whether we decide to take any of these steps, remove hosted content or keep a user off Morita Estates or not, we do not have any obligation to monitor the information transmitted or stored on our sites, services, applications and tools and we do not accept any liability for unauthorized or unlawful content on Morita Estates.

General

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of England and Wales. All disputes arising out of your access to this website are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English and Welsh courts. If any of these Terms of Use are deemed invalid or unenforceable for any reason (including, but not limited to, the exclusions and limitations set out above) then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be severed from these Terms of Use and the remaining provisions will continue to apply.

Morita Estates is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 9257105.

Our registered office address is 12 Lexham Gardens, Kensington, London W8 5JE

Terms of Use Policy Updated February 2024.