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Website and Information Disclaimer

The information about properties available to purchase contained in this website, and all other correspondence, has been prepared by Birchmore Ltd (Birchmore) using information supplied by third parties for whom we are acting as an introductory agent. Neither ourselves, our officers, employee or agents, give any representation, warranty or guarantee or assume any liability of any kind in respect of any properties described with regard to fitness for a particular purpose, investment potential, return on investment, description, size, quality or condition. Except as required by local law any warranty of any kind whatsoever is excluded. Any intending purchaser of a property or a business must satisfy themselves as to the correctness of any information either printed or verbally issued by Birchmore, its agents, associates or employees.

Birchmore LTD operates in the capacity of an Estate Agent and as such does not have the ability to conduct due diligence checks on any of the companies/Agents/Rental Agents/ Developers or Management companies it interacts with. You should, if you feel it is required, seek Independent Financial Advice and instruct an Accountant in any matters relating to the financial viability of the property you are considering purchasing as a result. Birchmore LTD will not allow clients to purchase without the use of a Solicitor registered with the SRA under any circumstances. In the UK Property Market “Caveat Emptor” takes president and as such it is the Buyers responsibility to ensure they are completely satisfied with the purchase of the property and any relating contracts to that property this can be discussed more with your solicitor to verify the same, Birchmore LTD does not offer any indemnity or warranty as to the ongoing performance of the properties that it markets. You should only proceed to purchase once you are fully satisfied the property in question is right for your individual circumstance. All statements by Birchmore Ltd are offered in good faith but you should not solely rely on any statement or information that Birchmore LTD, its agents or employees have made or provided to you and should you want to independently verify any statements or fact you should do so before proceeding to purchase.

All statements by us (if any) in this website and any other information whether written or verbal are statements of opinion and are not to be relied on as statements of fact. Such statements do not constitute a representation, warranty or assumption of liability by us of any kind. Birchmore is not responsible in any way for errors and omissions in the information given and all properties are offered for sale without any representation or warranty of any kind by us. Buyers are responsible for satisfying themselves concerning the terms and conditions of purchase and the matters referred to in any information or representations given. Neither Birchmore, nor any of our officers, employees or agents, are responsible for the correctness of any statement of whatever kind concerning any property detailed, whether written or oral, nor for any other errors or omissions in descriptions or for the financial performance (past, present or future) of any property offered for sale.
The contents of our website and information given have not been independently verified. No representation, warranty or undertaking (express or implied) is made, and no responsibility is accepted as to the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any financial information or any further information or other document at any time supplied in connection with any purchase.

Birchmore Ltd, its agents, associates or employees operate as an introducing agent to assist interested persons in finding and purchasing properties. Birchmore is not liable for any loss which they may incur for any reason whatsoever resulting from their interest in purchasing, attempted purchase or actual purchase of a property.
Where a client has been introduced to a property by an appointed sub-agent or introducer of Birchmore, Birchmore does not accept liability for statements or terms made by such third parties nor any mishandling of clients funds by such third parties
The value and performance of any property transaction to you depends on tax and other factors which should be evaluated by your tax, financial and legal advisors. The data in this website and any information provided verbally or in writing is being provided for information purposes only and is not intended to provide the basis of any investment decision or other evaluation and should not be considered as a recommendation that any person reviewing this information should purchase a property.

The properties marketed by Birchmore and contained in this website are not classified as regulated investments under the U.K. FSMA (2000), Birchmore is neither authorised nor regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). You and your advisors should conduct a careful, independent investigation of each property to determine your satisfaction on the suitability of the property for your needs. The content of our website is subject to copyright and all content and information contained within it are the property of Birchmore and are not permitted to be copied or used without our prior written permission.

Whilst every effort is made by Birchmore, its agents, associates or employees to give accurate information to purchasers of “off plan” properties as to the building time of such properties it must be clearly understood that purchasers contracts are with the relevant construction company and not with Birchmore, its agents, associates or employees. Estimated building times are given by the relevant construction company and it should be clearly understood that delays or changes may occur. Birchmore, its agents, associates or employees accepts no responsibility for any such delays or changes.

Birchmore, its agents, associates or employees operate only as an introducing agency to assist interested persons in finding and purchasing properties from a range of developers, agents and associates. All future customer queries regarding the property purchased are dealt with by the developer or agent who issues your contract. All legal queries should be directed to the lawyer you have appointed and not Birchmore. its agents, associates or employees.

Birchmore Ltd Privacy Policy

The Birchmore website (www.birchmoreltd.co.uk) is maintained by Birchmore Ltd (Birchmore). Birchmore recognizes and believes strongly in the importance of protecting the privacy of the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you share with us and this statement is intended to make you aware of our commitments to you as a valued visitor, user, or member of our website. By using this site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the site.

SCOPE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy applies only to the collection and use of information collected online on the Birchmore website. Other websites that may be affiliated with Birchmore may have different privacy policies. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policy of each website you visit.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect the personally identifiable information that you provide to us. On some Birchmore Ltd pages, we ask you to provide Personal Information, such as name, nationality, country of residence, e-mail address(es) and phone number to authenticate and process our member registrations. If you decide to sign up for information and newsletters from Birchmore, we may ask for additional information, which is used to complete the processing of the account information. If you are on a part of our website that requires you to provide Personal Information, it will be clear what Personal Information we are requesting. We may also collect other information that is provided to us by your web browser. This may include the browser you used to come to our website, the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website that you just visited before visiting our website, which pages on our website you visited, any search terms you entered, which URL you go next, and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU, advertising networks such as Facebook based outside the EU, search information providers such as Google based outside the EU, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers, aggregators or specialist third party marketing services providers both inside and outside the EU.

We may also receive data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU. Under our Anti Money Laundering (AML) and ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) procedure we may also ask to receive data about you from other third party sources in the form of background searches to confirm your identity, proof of address and sanctions against your person.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birchmore collects and uses your Personal and/or Business Information to operate and improve its website and services. These uses may include providing you with more effective customer service; making the site or services easy-to- use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information. We also use your Personal and/or Business Information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory service communications such as welcome letters, newsletters; product updates notices about improvement on services and information on technical service issues.

The purpose of collecting your Personal Information is restricted to help us better serve our members. Birchmore does not sell your Information to other 3rd parties. Further explanations of how we use your Personal Information can be read below;
Browsing. Information collected while browsing through our website. This information is collected to help run our website more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information, to monitor the level of activity on our site, and to evaluate the effectiveness of any type of advertising and promotion.

Product Enquiries, Purchase, Customer Service & Technical Support. Information collected when you contact Birchmore about our product and service offerings. This information is necessary to identify your products or systems, understand the configuration of the products, diagnose your questions, and provide solutions.
Online Surveys & Polling. Information collected you volunteer to complete surveys or participate in polls. Surveying and polling is extremely important to us as we use this information to improve our product and service offerings.

Newsletters & Promotional E-mails. As a service to our customers, we e-mail you newsletters, promotional information and other information, using your Personal Information collected online. These e-mails will only be sent to you if you have agreed to receive them. You have the right and may opt out from receiving this communication at any time.

Contact Information. If you contact us, we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments, including any information therein. We use this information to help us provide better service.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birchmore is committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the Personal Information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit and/or receive highly confidential information (such as passwords) over the Internet, we protect through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) protocol.

If a password is used to help protect your account(s) and Personal Information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do not share this information with anyone. If you are using a shared computer with anyone you should always log out before leaving a site to protect access to your information from subsequent users.

CHILD PRIVACY

This site and related services are not intended to be used by children under the age of 18. Birchmore will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children, and if Birchmore becomes aware that such information has been collected, it will be deleted with immediate effect.

If you are under the age of 18, please seek to obtain your parental consent before using this website. We encourage all parents to talk with your children about communicating with strangers and disclosing personal information online.

USAGE OF COOKIES

Birchmore uses “cookies” to enable you to sign in to your account and help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small file text that is placed on your hard disk (“HDD”) by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to store your preferences and other information on your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information and to display your personalized contents in your account. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers will automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to use features that may depend on cookies. If you choose to accept cookies, you also have the ability to later delete cookies that you have previously accepted. If you choose to delete cookies, any setting and preferences controlled by those cookies will be deleted and may need to be recreated.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

We will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect changes in our services and customer feedback. When we post changes to this Statement, we will revise the “last updated” date at the bottom of this Statement. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how Birchmore will use your Personal Information, we will notify you by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing the change. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Birchmore is protecting your information.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND THIRD PARTIES

Parts of our website contain links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. If you use these links, you will leave the Birchmore website. When you access these other sites, even ones that may contain the Birchmore logo, please understand that we do not control the content and are not responsible for the privacy practices of that site. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each website you visit.

This online Privacy Policy Statement does not cover the information practices of those sites linked to our website. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.

MARKETING CONTACT ‘OPT OUT’ OPTION

Birchmore may use your information provided to send you newsletters, contact you by phone provide notifications via e-mails with promotional offers if you opt-in to receiving such contacts. If you would no longer like to be contacted in virtue of special event information, sales notifications or other messages from Birchmore please contact our customer support at info@birchmoreltd.co.uk and/or click “opt-out/unsubscribe” on one of the messages sent by Birchmore. Your e-mail address will be removed from our e-mail marketing list.

TERMS OF USE

Please note that access to and use of the website and related services are also subject to Birchmore’s site Terms of Use available on the website.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

You can see more about these rights at:

http://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at info@birchmoreltd.co.uk

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within two months. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.

If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.

IN-HOUSE COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE

Please click here to view our Complaints Procedure.

CONTACTING US

Birchmore welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement. If you have a technical or general support question, or if you have any inquiries and/or comments about this Privacy Statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at info@birchmoreltd.co.uk or by calling +44 (0) 1730 290106. Our postal address is Birchmore Ltd, Antrobus House, 18 College Street, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU31 4AD.