Terms of Service Use & Privacy Policy

CAREFULLY READ THESE WEBSITE TERMS OF USE ("TERMS OF USE") BEFORE USING DOWNTOWNSARASOTA.COM (THE "WEBSITE").  BY ACCESSING OR USING THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE, AND BE LIABLE TO THE OWNER OF THE WEBSITE (THE "WEBSITE OWNER") FOR ANY NONCOMPLIANCE WITH THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU MAY NOT USE THE WEBSITE.

The Website Owner hereby grants to you a revocable, limited, nonexclusive license for the duration of your current viewing session to access, download and print only individual real estate listings, comprising factual information and creative content displayed on the Website (the "Listing Content"), solely for personal and non-commercial purposes, and no other purposes, and subject to the limitations set forth in these Terms of Use.  This license will terminate immediately upon any noncompliance by you with any of the terms of these Terms of Use, or at any other time upon notice to you.  All rights not expressly granted in these Terms of Use are reserved. 

Limitation of Use

Except as expressly provided under these Terms of Use or upon our express prior written consent, you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, upload, post, license, frame in another website, use on any other website, create derivative works of, transfer, sell, and/or exploit for commercial use, any content, software, real estate listings, databases or other lists, products or services provided through or obtained from the Website, including by email or other electronic means, without the prior written consent of Website Owner.  In addition, you may not circumvent any technological measures or features of the Website that are intended to or effectively control access to the Listing Content, or any other protected content or information included on the Website. The Website may contain robot exclusion headers.  The real estate listings displayed on the Website, including the Listing Content, are updated on a real-time basis, and are proprietary or licensed to Website Owner.  You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Website for any purpose without Website Owner's express prior written consent.

You further agree that you will not:

(a) take any action that imposes or may impose (in Website Owner's sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Website Owner's infrastructure;

(b) copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, or publicly display any content from the Website without Website Owner's express prior written consent and the appropriate third party, as applicable;

(c) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or any activities conducted on the Website; or

(d) bypass Website Owner's robots.txt exclusion headers or other measures Website Owner may use to prevent or restrict access to the Website.

Your Representations and Warranties

You represent and warrant to Website Owner that any information you provide on the Website will be true, accurate and complete, and will not violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation. You warrant that you will not falsely identify yourself or impersonate or falsely represent your affiliation with any person or entity.  Except with the written permission of Website Owner, you agree that you will not access or attempt to access password protected, secure or non-public areas of the Website. Unauthorized individuals attempting to access prohibited areas of the Website may be subject to legal prosecution. You further warrant to Website Owner that you will not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, including without limitation the posting or transmitting of any threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material.

Changes to These Terms of Use

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify, update, or otherwise revise these Terms of Use at any time. Such revisions shall be effective immediately upon posting on the Website. By using the Website or creating, maintaining, or using, if authorized by the Website Owner, a link to the Website, after Website Owner has posted any modifications, updates or revisions, you agree to be bound by such revised Terms of Use. In addition to these Terms of Use, additional terms may govern use of certain web pages within the Website or the creation, maintenance and use of a link to the Website, as such terms may be contained on the web pages of the Website. Provided that such additional terms are not contrary to these Terms of Use, by accessing and using such web pages, and creating, using, and maintaining a link to the Website), you agree to be bound by such terms.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, legal advice of any kind.  If you require advice in relation to any legal or financial matter you should consult an appropriate attorney or professional.

Privacy Policy

At DowntownSarasota.com, we respect your right to online privacy. We recognize the importance of protecting the personal information you provide.

We gather the following types of information needed to process your transactions, fulfill your requests, and maintain our user records:

  • Contact information you provide (for example, your personal and business phone, address and fax numbers, work affiliations and title).
  • Tracking information which our Web server automatically recognizes each time you visit one of our sites or communicate with us by email (for example, your domain name, your email address, and what pages you visit)
  • Anonymous data on how our visitors use our site. This data reflects site usage patterns gathered during thousands of customer visits each month and does not contain any personally identifying information whatsoever. We reserve the right to share this anonymous data, provide log files and other databases of user information to third parties for analysis, and to use this information to better understand client traffic and improve our online services.

When you register for an account on this website or otherwise provide any personal information to us online, that information will only be used in conjunction with providing you with enhanced real estate services related to the site. Your personal information will never be sold or shared with any third party.

We may, for instance, contact you to offer assistance, provide information or otherwise help with your real estate search or sale. We may also provide you with enhanced services such as an e-newsletter or instant property alerts when listings that match your search criteria come on the market. You may opt out of communications at anytime via a simple link in our emails or by contacting us by email. If you choose to provide us with your phone number, you are giving us permission to call you, even if this phone number is in the State and/or National Do Not Call Registry.

No Warranties

All of the information provided on this website is published in good faith and is for general information purposes only. This website is not intended to replace professional financial, investment or legal advice. Though we endeavor to provide the most accurate and timely information available, some of this information is complex and subject to rapid change. As a visitor to our website, you acknowledge and agree that any reliance on, or use of any information available on this website shall be entirely at your own risk.

This website is provided "as is" without any representations or warranties, express or implied.  Allen Real Estate Services, Inc. makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, we do not warrant that this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Links to Other Websites

This site contains links to many other websites. The Linked Websites are provided for your convenience and information only and, as such, you access them at your own risk. You agree and acknowledge that Website Owner is not responsible for, and does not endorse, the content of or anything that may be delivered to you or your computer as a result of accessing any Linked Websites, whether or not Website Owner is affiliated with the owners of such Linked Websites.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any such linked websites.

Limitations of Liability

Allen Real Estate Services, Inc. will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss; for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if Allen Real Estate Services, Inc. has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit our liability in respect of any death or personal injury caused by negligence; fraud or fraudulent information misrepresentation or any matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for us to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.