Terms and conditions etc

Welcome to the MatchingHouses.com web site. We are committed to protecting your personal information and assure you that protecting your privacy is an obligation that we take very seriously. MatchingHouses.com provides and maintains the website, http://www.MatchingHouses.com for your use in locating a home exchange partner. As such we can accept no liability for the decisions you make in relation to house swapping. It is your responsibility to make sure the information posted by your potential swap is correct and meets your needs.

Please ask plenty of questions to make sure that when you get there everything is suitable for you. Thousands of people successfully swap houses every year, all over the world. House swap websites like ours can help you to make informed choices, but the final decisions you make are yours alone.

Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is to inform you about our collection and use of your personal information so that you can understand and make choices about how this information is collected and used. This online privacy policy reflects the

MatchingHouses.com policies covering personal information collected at this website.

MatchingHouses.com uses consumer information to ensure fast, secure and accurate processing of your home exchange.

Our commitment to you is to ensure that we abide by predetermined privacy policies.

These policies are used as guidelines in the collection and use of information as well as defining employee responsibilities in protecting your privacy.

We collect, use and retain information about you through our website to identify and communicate with you, to provide you with products and services that you have requested, and to help us respond to your questions. We also use this information to comply with certain laws and regulations that may apply to us.

MatchingHouses.com does not collect personally identifiable information about individuals except when you specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis such as during the registration process, for services, or in connection with content submissions and transactions.

Other sources of personally identifiable information may come from customer surveys and other materials voluntarily submitted to us by customers or from transactions in which MatchingHouses.com and consumers are involved.

MatchingHouses.com has established procedures to see that customer information is maintained in a commercially reasonable manner and to ensure that it is accurate, current and complete. When MatchingHouses.com collects information directly from consumers or other sources, we permit them, if possible, to correct any personally identifiable information.

However, such corrections will not be possible if the information is proprietary, reflects historical transaction information or if a correction would violate the privacy or legal rights of a third party. MatchingHouses.com also abides by laws related to such information where pertinent.

You can correct errors relating to your account and MatchingHouses.com will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before making corrections to your account information.

The MatchingHouses.com Web site is directed to a general audience.

We do not knowingly solicit, collect or maintain personal information from children on our site.

MatchingHouses.com may create links to third party websites from the MatchingHouses.com website. MatchingHouses.com is not responsible for the contact, content or privacy practices employed by websites that are linked from our website.

We use cookies when members log in to their MatchingHouses.com account with their email address and password. The use of cookies is solely for the purpose of providing improved service. A cookie is a small bit of information given to your browser by a web site to recognise if you have visited the site before. The cookie cannot be read by a website other than the one that set the cookie.

We use cookies for administrative purposes including where we store your password and where you are able to customise your information. Most cookies last only through a single session or visit. They do not read your hard drive or contain any information that you have not voluntarily revealed. None will contain information that will enable anyone to contact you via telephone or email.

Members may terminate their MatchingHouses.com account by contacting Customer Service.

If you have any questions about our online privacy policy please contact MatchingHouses.com Customer Service.

MatchingHouses.com reserves the right to amend this statement.

We may alter this agreement as needed to adopt additional rules and practices consistent with this statement to conform to the policies or requirements of our countries of service. We may alter this statement as needed for certain products and services and to abide by any local laws or regulations. Please review this statement whenever you visit our website in order to obtain the most current version of our policy

Copyright

These materials (including without limitation all text, images, logos, and design) are Copyright, 2004 MatchingHouses.com. All rights reserved. The information presented here may not under any circumstances be resold or redistributed for compensation of any kind. MatchingHouses.com may be used for non-commercial individual home exchange purposes only.

The design, format and content of the MatchingHouses.com website is protected by all applicable national and international copyright and trademark laws. There are no exceptions.

All listings posted on the MatchingHouses.com website are the sole intellectual property of MatchingHouses.com and may not under any circumstances be posted on another website or in any other media for any purposes.

MatchingHouses.com claims no responsibility for the accuracy, content, or availability of information accessed or linked to through use of its service.

Terms of Use

MatchingHouses.com reserves the right to remove any members listing at any time for any reason at our discretion.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the copyright or privacy policies of MatchingHouses.com which are not covered in this statement, please send us an email with your questions and we will gladly respond to your inquiry.