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Terms of Use and Services

A. Background

  1. We, Kravluxe Limited, 48 Dover Street, London, England, W1S 4FF, are the operator of the website www.altovita.com.
  2. The website is a platform which showcases, and allows Altovita Members to book, a collection of the world’s highest quality and inspiring spaces.
  3. These terms apply to Altovita Members, as well as anyone who accesses our website.
  4. Please note that these terms are in addition to our terms that apply to Altovita Members who reserve accommodation through our website (guests) and to Altovita Members who are hosts of accommodation (hosts). There may also be further documents that guests and hosts are required to enter into.
  5. The most important thing for you to remember is that the website is a platform aiming to connect guests with hosts. We are not a party to any rental contract between a guest and a host, and we are not an owner or operator of any of the accommodation listed on our website. We are not responsible for any of hosts’ or guests’ actions or inactions.
  6. Although everyone always skips reading them, these terms of use are important and so should be read thoroughly.
  7. We may change these terms of use at any time, and you will be notified by our posting new terms on our website. By continuing to use our website, you are expressly agreeing to the terms of use in operation at that time.

B. Becoming a Altovita Member

  1. In order to become an Altovita Member (and therefore be able to list or rent accommodation through our website), you will need to create an account with us.
  2. You will be asked to provide us with certain registration information – please make sure it is true and accurate – and we will send you an email confirmation once your account has been opened.
  3. Only people over the age of 18 can create an account and become an Altovita Member.
  4. If you choose a username and/or password during the account sign-up process, please keep it confidential and do not disclose it to anyone else.

C. Charges, fees and payments

  1. Currently, there is no fee payable for becoming an Altovita Member, but certain fees are payable in relation to our service:

    a. The Accommodation Charges: these are the charges that we collect from guests on behalf of hosts for the renting of the hosts’ accommodation and any additional services that have been ordered. The amount will be set out in the relevant Booking Confirmation. These are set out in paragraphs B and I of the Altovita Guest/Host Agreement and Altovita Host Agreement respectively.

    b. The Security Deposit: this is the amount that is deducted from guests’ payment cards as a deposit against any damage caused to the relevant accommodation during each guest’s stay. The amount will be set out in the relevant Booking Confirmation and is applied as set out in paragraph C of the Altovita Guest/Host Agreement. We only deduct the security deposit on a successful claim by the host.

    c. The Altovita Service Fee: this is the fee that we charge to guests for the provision of our service. This is a percentage of the Accommodation Charges, will be set out in the Order Confirmation and is described further in paragraph B5 of the Altovita Guest/Host Agreement.

    d. The Host Service Fee: this is the fee that we charge to hosts for the provision of our payment collection and distribution services. It is described further in paragraph I2 of the Altovita Host Agreement.
  1. When, as a guest, you are required to provide us with payment card details, you must be the holder of that card or expressly authorised by the holder to use the card for the intended purpose. You agree to pay all charges incurred by you or any users of your account at the price(s) in effect when such charges are incurred. You will also be responsible for paying any applicable taxes relating to your bookings and notified to you.
  2. You acknowledge and agree that if we take any payments from you, we are doing so as an agent acting on behalf of the host and as the merchant on record for taking payments.
  3. We may round up or round down amounts that are payable from or to guests or hosts, as reasonably necessary.
  4. If you are a guest and are due a refund under the host’s chosen cancellation policy (as set out in the Itinerary), we will pay that refund to you within 10 working days after we receive notice of cancellation, provided that we have retained or are able to collect the relevant monies from the host. Please note that neither we, nor any host, will be responsible for any additional fees, costs or expenses that you have incurred in relation to a cancelled booking (including travel costs or event tickets). You are therefore strongly advised to take out adequate travel insurance to cover any booking you make via Altovita.
  5. Guests shall be responsible for paying any hotel or tourist tax (or equivalent) that may be payable in relation to the rental of the relevant accommodation under applicable law.

D. Cancelling your Altovita Membership

  1. You may cancel your registration with us (and therefore your Altovita Membership) at any time by sending an email to info@altovita.com.
  2. We may suspend or terminate your registration (and therefore your Altovita Membership), by sending you an email, if you have breached these terms of use (or we suspect you have done so).
  3. Please note that cancelling your membership will not entitle you to any refund in relation to accommodation that you have booked and paid for prior to the date of any cancellation or termination.
  4. Once you cancel your registration with us, we have no obligation to return any information that you provided to us (including any profile you may have on our website).
  5. For the avoidance of doubt, this section D does not apply to members who are hosts.

E. Content-related provisions

  1. We, or our licensors, own all rights in our website and all content that is made available through our website, including all text and images in relation to the featured accommodation (digital content). This includes all intellectual property rights.
  2. In consideration of you agreeing to abide by these terms of use, we grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use our website and the digital content for your non-commercial use. We reserve all other rights.
  3. You agree not to: (i) copy any element of our website or digital content; (ii) make alterations to, or modifications of, the whole or any part of our website or the digital content, or permit our website or any part of it to be combined with, or become incorporated in, any other programs; (iii) use any element of our website or the digital content in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with these terms of use, or act fraudulently or maliciously, for example, by hacking into or inserting malicious code, including viruses, or harmful data, in our website; (iv) publish any defamatory, indecent, misleading, discriminatory or offensive content on our website; (v) disclose any sensitive or personal information about another person; (vi) impersonate any person; (vii) use our website or digital contact to find a host and then complete a booking of their accommodation independent of our website, in order to circumvent the obligation to pay the Altovita Service Fee; (viii) directly advertise to other Altovita Members without our consent (although you acknowledge that we may serve personalised advertisements when you visit our website); (ix) use any data mining, data gathering or data extraction tools to collect user names, e-mail addresses or any other data from our website for any purpose; or (x) infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of our website or the digital content.
  4. To the extent that our website provides a platform for third party applications, websites and services or links to third party websites, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the features or content contained within, or made available to you by, any third party application, service or link.

F. Access to and use of our website

  1. Whilst we endeavour to make our website available 24 hours a day, we will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under these terms of use that is caused by any act or event beyond our reasonable control, including failure of public or private telecommunications networks. We may also modify our website from time to time without notice to you.
  2. You are not entitled to use any data mining, data gathering or data extraction tools to collect user names, e-mail addresses or any other data from our website for any purpose.
  3. If we make available functionality which allows you to provide a review for use on our website, you agree that: (i) the review represents your honestly-held belief; (ii) we have the right to use that review on our website or other media platforms, and modify its content, at our discretion; (iii) we have the right to attribute that review to your username; and (iv) we may remove the review from our website at any time and in our sole discretion. We disclaim any and all liability, to the extent permitted by applicable law, in relation to any reviews on our website.
  4. We want nice people to be Altovita hosts. However, we do not check their identities or backgrounds (including, for example, whether they have a criminal record) so, if you are a guest, please do your own due diligence.

G. Liability

  1. Our website and the digital content are provided “as is” and to the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our website or our digital content, whether express or implied. In particular (but without limitation) we exclude any warranty as to the reliability or accuracy of any of the digital content.
  2. Nothing in these terms of use shall limit or exclude our liability for: (i) death or personal injury resulting from our negligence; (ii) our fraudulent misrepresentation; and (iii) any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law. However, to the extent permitted by law and subject to paragraph 3 below: (a) our maximum liability to you (whether in contract, tort, negligence, misrepresentation or under any other legal head of liability) in relation to your use or inability in use or delay in use of any element of our website and any digital content shall be limited to: (AA) the total monies paid by the Altovita Member in respect of the relevant accommodation via our service (where the Altovita Member is, notwithstanding the exclusions set out in these Terms of Use or the Guest/Host Agreement, bringing a claim against us in relation to the provision or non-provision of specific accommodation); or (BB) £1 (in relation to all other claims which may be made against us by a Altovita Member or any other visitor to our website); and (b) we shall not have any liability to you (whether in contract, tort, negligence, misrepresentation or under any other legal head of liability) for any: (i) indirect or consequential losses, damages, costs or expenses; (ii) loss of profits (whether direct or indirect); (iii) loss of reputation; (iv) loss of, damage to or corruption of, data; (v) the conduct or misconduct of any guest or host; or (vi) any losses caused to a guest or host under the Guest/Host Agreement, including any damage or injury suffered by a host, guest or any member of a guest’s party; in each case whether or not such losses were reasonably foreseeable or we had been advised of the possibility of you incurring such losses.
  3. Our liability to Altovita Members in their capacity as hosts shall be as set out in the Altovita Host Agreement.

H. General

  1. In the event of any dispute between a host and a guest, please follow the complaints procedure set out in section I of the Guest/Host Agreement.
  2. We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our website, you consent to such processing and warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  3. We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You must not: (i) misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful; (ii) attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server(s) on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website; or (iii) attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
  4. We may notify you by using the email address that you provided to us in the account registration stage.
  5. Each paragraph (and sub-paragraph) of these terms of use operates separately. If any court or competent authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining paragraphs (or sub-paragraphs) will remain in full force and effect.
  6. These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction.
  7. To contact us, please email: info@altovita.com