This Agreement is between (1) "You" The property owner or their agent(s) who must be over 18 years of age and (2) South of France Lets, 5 Purbeck Gardens Felton Road Poole Dorset bh14 0QS United Kingdom Whereas: - You hereby appoint South of France Lets as your non-exclusive agent to do the following: (i) Provide a facility through which you can offer accommodation for holiday letting to Customers via South of France Lets website http://www.southoffrancelets.com or our sister site http://www.southoffranceaccommodation.com. Nothing in this agreement however shall impose any obligation on South of France Lets to accept or manage or become liable in any way whatsoever for any bookings on your behalf except as set out in (ii) below. (ii) Accept credit or debit card payments from Customers for the accommodation and remit the same to you as more fully set out in this agreement. Commencement Date 1. The date on which you click the "Accept" button below. Definitions and Interpretation 2. The following expressions shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires: - 2.1 "Accommodation" means any and all hotels, apartment blocks, apartments, houses, villas or other accommodation building or otherwise occupied by any Customers including the accommodation premises, any swimming pool(s), ancillary buildings, annexes, all contents, fixtures and fittings, grounds, facilities and services (both inside and outside) available or accessible to any Customers as offered for letting by you. 2.2 "The Website" means the website owned and controlled by South of France Lets (www.southoffrancelets.com) or (http://www.southoffranceaccommodation.com) through which you can offer the Accommodation for let. 2.3 "Customer(s)" means any and all person(s) who book the Accommodation or any of them or on whose behalf the Accommodation is booked. 2.4 "The advertiser(s)" means the Holiday property owner or their agent(s) 2.5 Any reference to a specific statute includes any statutory extension modification amendment or re-enactment of such statute and any regulations or orders there under and any general reference to "statute" or "statutes" includes all Acts of Parliament bye-laws and any regulations statutory instruments or orders made there under and (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing). General 3.1 South of France Lets confirms and agrees that following acceptance of these Terms and Conditions you will be given access to advertise on the Website as specified by South of France Lets. In return for payment by you of the commission set out in the schedule. 3.2 Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent South of France Lets from allowing other persons access to and use of the Website on any terms it sees fit if it so wishes and you acknowledge that South of France Lets is entitled to allow persons in direct or indirect competition with you to advertise accommodation on the Website simultaneously with you. 3.3 South of France Lets shall hold all payments made by Customers for the Accommodation in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Customer Account 4. South of France Lets shall: - 4.1 At all times throughout the duration of this Agreement maintain the Account with a reputable UK banking organisation. 4.2 Deposit all payments received from Customers into the South of France Lets clients account as soon as reasonably possible after receipt. You hereby acknowledge that all monies held in the Account are to be held on express trust by South of France Lets for any and all Customers until the said monies have been cleared for release by the reputable UK banking organisation. 4.3 To inform you immediately, of any payment made to South of France Lets by a Customer that has been refused by that Customer's bank or credit card issuer. Payment 5.1 In the case of payment requests to UK banks South of France Lets shall remit all monies owed to you by BACS payment or cheque to your nominated bank account. In the case of transfers to non-UK banks South of France Lets shall transfer monies due by Automatic transfer or cheque to your nominated bank account. The issuing bank from the amount transferred, in accordance with their fee schedule will deduct the cost of all bank transfers. All transfers and cheques will be issued in pounds sterling. 5.2 South of France Lets will not be responsible for the collection from Customers and/or holding in the Account of any surcharge monies which have not been entered as extra prices in the system. Commission 6. You hereby acknowledge that: - 6.1 You shall pay South of France Lets commission as more particularly set out below at the rate set out in the schedule or such other rate as is agreed in writing between the parties. 6.2 South of France Lets shall become entitled to commission on a booking when a booking commences i.e. when the Customer pays the deposit. 6.3 South of France Lets shall be entitled to deduct the commission due to it arising out of a particular booking from payments received from Customers at the time a booking deposit is made, or as otherwise agreed with you or immediately prior to remitting monies to you in accordance with clause 5.1. Or in the event of cancellation below. The consequence of cancellations 6.4 In the event of cancellation by either party for whatever reason South of France Lets shall still be entitled to charge its commission. 6.5 If a Customer cancels a confirmed booking South of France Lets shall deduct the commission from any monies that have been paid to South of France Lets by Customers before transferring any monies due, for example by way of cancellation charge) to you. The property owner or their agent will then refund any monies due (if applicable) to the Customer. 6.6 If you cancel a confirmed booking, you will remain liable in full for the commission South of France Lets was due to earn from that booking plus a £50 cancellation charge. The commission amount and the £50 will be noted as sums owing to South of France Lets on your account and South of France Lets will be entitled to deduct these or any other charges from the next payment due to you from South of France Lets, or if there are no further payments to be made within a period of 1months from the date the sums were noted on your account as described in this clause, South of France Lets shall invoice you for this amount. 6.7 Any payments already received by you in respect of the booking you have cancelled must be promptly returned to the Customer if applicable. Refunds 7. If South of France Lets is obliged to refund your customers by a credit card charge back or for any other reason and customers' monies have been remitted to you by South of France Lets, you shall promptly refund to South of France Lets any monies due, or if Customers monies remain in the Account, you shall promptly notify South of France Lets of any refunds to be made to Customers. On receipt of such monies/notification South of France Lets shall refund to the Customer(s) concerned all monies due in full. In all other cases, you shall promptly refund all monies due to Customers for whatever reason direct to the Customers. Accommodation 8. You agree and confirm the following: - 8.1 The Accommodation will be provided with all due skill, care and diligence and that all persons provided or used by you (whether or not employed by you) in connection with the provision of the Accommodation will be appropriately qualified, experienced and capable of competently performing the work or jobs for which they are provided. 8.2 The Accommodation will at all times remain of a good and clean standard, in full working order and safe for occupation and use. 8.3 The Accommodation complies and will at all times comply in full with all applicable national, local, trade and other laws, regulations and codes of practice (including EU legislation) relating to hygiene, fire, safety and other standards for those using the Accommodation and that you have and will at all times maintain in force the appropriate current certificates confirming such compliance. 8.4 You hold and will at all times maintain all necessary licences, consents and permissions required by applicable national and/or local law in relation to the Accommodation. 8.5 You confirm that you own the Accommodation and/or have full and unrestricted power to enter into this Agreement unless otherwise agreed with South of France Lets 8.6 You confirm that as the property owner or agent, that you have in place at all times adequate property owners liability insurance for each property that is, or is intended to be advertised with South of France Lets. 8.7 You confirm that where necessary regular pest control measures are in place, for each property Advertising Accommodation and Bookings 9. You agree and confirm the following: 9.1 South of France Lets accepts advertisements in good faith and expects that advertisers will provide an accurate description of their property. 9.2. All advertisements should comply with relevant UK legislation including the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (which covers false descriptions) and the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (which covers misleading prices). The advertiser agrees to indemnify South of France Lets against all claims costs arising out of any misleading information in the advertisement. 9.3. South of France Lets will take every care to reproduce faithfully the text, prices and photographs provided to us by advertisers. We will not however be held liable for any loss arising out of any error or omission on our part. 9.4 South of France Lets reserves the right to determine the design and layout of advertisements, and (at our discretion) make alterations to submitted text or photographs, should we consider any to be necessary. South of France Lets will not be held liable for any loss arising out of such alterations. 9.5 South of France Lets will take the utmost care of all materials and photographs provided for the preparation of advertisements, but cannot be held liable for any loss or damage however caused. 9.6 It is the responsibility of the advertiser to ensure they have the right to reproduce any photographs or digital images that they supply to us. The advertiser agrees to indemnify South of France Lets against all claims costs arising out of any infringement of copyright for such photographs or images. 9.7 All digital images produced by South of France Lets from photographs supplied by advertisers are the property of South of France Lets, and shall not be reproduced without our permission. 9.8 South of France Lets cannot be held liable for any loss or damages howsoever incurred, including consequential losses such as lost income, in connection with advertising on the South of France Lets website. 9.9 All prices entered onto the Website by you relating to the Accommodation will be up to date, accurate and not misleading in any way whatsoever. 9.10 You will advise South of France Lets at the earliest possible moment of changes to availability to your holiday accommodation where applicable to all bookings for the Accommodation onto the Website. 9.11 You will agree to confirm or decline any booking made by South of France Lets on your holiday home, within 24 hours. 9.12 You are solely responsible for the accuracy, legality, currency and compliance of any and all information (including written and pictorial descriptions) and will be solely liable for false, misleading, inaccurate, infringing or other actionable material contained or referred to therein. 9.13 If you offer the Accommodation for let through any other medium other than through the Website (for example yourself directly to members of the public, or through persons and/or companies other than South of France Lets and/or any publications or other electronic means) you will regularly update the dates on which the Accommodation is shown as available for let on the South of France Lets website. South of France Lets accepts no liability whatsoever for any claims, losses, or damages (direct or indirect) suffered by any customers or you arising out of inaccurate availability dates except where this is due to the proven fault of South of France Lets. 9.14 You shall respond within 7 days to any queries from South of France Lets regarding the Accommodation and/or any booking whether received before or after bookings have been confirmed. 9.15 You shall notify all and any South of France Lets immediately of any alterations or amendments to Accommodation details both before and after bookings have been confirmed. 9.16 You shall notify South of France Lets promptly if you have to cancel a booking. 9.17 You shall promptly and sympathetically deal with any complaints received from Customers whether passed onto you by South of France Lets or received directly from Customers and respond to the same directly to the Customer(s) concerned within 7 days. Amendments and Cancellations 10. You hereby acknowledge the following: - 10.1 The property owner or their agent(s) will calculate the applicable cancellation charge as set by you in the system and return all monies paid by the Customer by credit/debit card less the applicable cancellation charges to the customer's credit card 10.2 South of France Lets accepts no responsibility whatsoever for the non-payment of any balances by Customers or for the collection of cancellation charges that exceed the total amount of monies already received from Customers. 10.3 In the event that you cancel a booking, South of France Lets shall be entitled (but not obliged) to assist the Customer in finding an alternative property. You also acknowledge that [except as otherwise set out in this Agreement you shall accept full responsibility for all losses, claims and expenses incurred or suffered by a Customer arising out of your cancellation or effective cancellation of the booking and that] South of France Lets shall have no responsibility or liability to the Customer for such cancellation whatsoever. For the avoidance of doubt in the event of a cancellation of a booking by you, the indemnity set out in clause 12 shall apply in full. Liability 11. You hereby acknowledge and agree the following: 11.1 All Customers who make a booking for the Accommodation through South of France Lets Shall have a direct contract with you and you shall accept liability for that contract as principal. 11.2 South of France Lets shall not be liable to you or any Customer for any loss or damage whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with this Agreement and/or the Website, its use, application, support or otherwise damage or corruption to other software or data or for loss of profit, business, revenue or goodwill except to the extent to which it is unlawful to exclude such liability. 11.3 South of France Lets does not exclude liability for death or personal injury to the extent only that the same arises as a result of the negligence of South of France Lets its employees, agents or authorized representatives. Indemnity 12.1 You agree to indemnify South of France Lets for the full amount of all claims, liabilities, demands, damages, expenses, losses, refunds, fines, costs (including legal costs) and all other sums of whatever nature which South of France Lets incurs, suffers or becomes responsible for as a result, directly or indirectly, of any breach of this Agreement and/or any other agreement between the parties by you and/or any act(s) and/or default(s) of yours and/or any person(s) provided or used (directly or indirectly) by you (including your employees, agents, suppliers and sub-contractors). This indemnity shall survive and remain in full force and effect after the termination (for any reason) or expiry of this Agreement. 12.2 Without prejudice to the above you also agree to indemnify and keep indemnified South of France Lets (including its directors, officers, employees and agents) from and against any and all liability, damages, losses, claims (including reasonable legal fees) resulting in any way from your use of and from any information posted on or through the Website (including to any Customers). Copyright, Patents, Trade Marks and Other Intellectual Property Rights 13.1 You acknowledge that any and all of the copyright, trade marks, trade names, patents, domain name and other intellectual property rights created, developed, subsisting or used in or in connection with the Website are and shall remain the sole property of South of France Lets. You shall not during or at any time after the completion, expiry or termination of this Agreement in any way question or dispute the ownership by South of France Lets thereof. 13.2 In the event that new inventions, designs or processes evolve in performance of or as a result of this Agreement, you acknowledge that the same shall be the property of South of France Lets unless otherwise agreed in writing by South of France Lets. Insurance 14.1 You shall at all times maintain (at your own cost) a comprehensive insurance policy or policies to cover: - 14.2 All risks relating to and/or arising out of the performance of this Agreement normally covered by insurance including (by way of example and not by way of limitation) destruction or damage of the Accommodation by any cause and all third party risks including cover for death, personal injury and illness. (i) The full amount of all sums that may become payable under clauses 12.1 and 12.2. (ii) Any property owner's liability additions that are not listed in clauses 14.1 and 14.2 Termination 15 This Agreement shall continue in force indefinitely, but may be terminated: - 15.1 Forthwith by South of France Lets giving written notice (including by email) with immediate effect on you breaching this Agreement or any other agreement between the parties and failing to remedy the said breach within 7 days (or such longer period as South of France Lets may agree in writing) of being required to do so in writing by South of France Lets. 15.2 On giving you 28 days notice in writing with effect from the expiry of the said notice. 15.3 Immediately by South of France Lets giving written notice to you on the happening of any of the following: - (i) On an order being made or an effective resolution being passed for the administration or the winding up of you other than for the purpose(s) of reorganisation, reconstruction or amalgamation only without insolvency or on you entering into a binding legal arrangement to pay its creditors less than the full amount due to them. (ii) On you becoming bankrupt or insolvent or having a receiving order made against it. (iii) On you suspending, ceasing or threatening to suspend or cease to carry on your business other than for the purpose(s) of reorganisation, reconstruction or amalgamation only without insolvency or being unable to pay your debts as they fall due or on the appointment of an administrative or other receiver. 15.3 Save, as set out in clause 16 termination of this Agreement shall not prejudice the rights of either party in existence prior to the effective date of termination. Termination. 16. In the event of termination by South of France Lets in accordance with clause 15.1 South of France Lets shall be entitled to refuse to advertise on and/or remove from the Website and/or refuse to accept payments for any and all Accommodation. In such cases South of France Lets shall remit all monies received from a Customer for the Accommodation where the Customer has not yet stayed at the Accommodation to the Customer. You agree that you will then be responsible for obtaining all monies due for the Accommodation direct from the Customer. South of France Lets shall have no further liability towards you. Data Protection 17. You hereby acknowledge and agree the following: 17.1 South of France Lets are entitled to use customers' personal and other details in any of the ways and for any of the purposes set out and permitted by the Data Protection Act 1998 and any amendments thereto. 17.2 You or your agent(s) in relation to any personal or other details relating to customers and enquirers, (whether potential, present or past), in your possession, you shall at all times, including all times after the termination of this Agreement, process such data in compliance with the obligations of a Data Controller under the Data Protection Act 1998 and any amendments thereto. Furthermore, you shall at all times including all times after the termination of this Agreement, not send any marketing or promotional material or communications to individuals whose personal or other contact details you hold except in accordance with all applicable legislation in force at the relevant time (including but not limited to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 and all amendments thereto) Notices 18. Any notice(s) given pursuant to this Agreement must be so given in writing (including by email) and/or sent by facsimile or pre paid first class Recorded Delivery post or delivered by hand to the other party's registered or principal office. If sent by facsimile or hand delivered the notice(s) shall be deemed served at the moment of delivery. If sent by post it shall be deemed served 48 hours from the time of posting. Removing parts of the Agreement 19. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or void for any purpose, it shall for that purpose, be deemed to be omitted from this Agreement. Such omission shall not affect or prejudice the validity, effectiveness or enforceability of the rest of the provisions of this Agreement. Headings 20. The headings in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and do not form part of the Agreement. They shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement and are not deemed to be an indication of the meaning of the clause to which they relate. Waiver 21. In the event of any breach of this Agreement, the rights of the party not in default shall not be prejudiced or restricted by any indulgence or forbearance extended to the party in default and no waiver of any breach operates as a waiver of any subsequent breach. Proper Law and Jurisdiction 22. This Agreement and all matters arising out of it shall be construed and governed by English Law and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales in relation to any dispute The Schedule 23.1 Commission on all bookings that are generated by South of France Lets will be at 12% of total booking value unless otherwise agreed or 10% on long term lets over 2 months. 23.2 For up to 10 weeks before the commencement date of the holiday a "booking deposit" of 25% will be accepted from the customer. Once confirmation has been received from the property owner or their agent(s) that the holiday is available, this will then secure the accommodation. South of France Lets will retain 12% of the total booking value from this deposit, while sending the remainder on to you. (10% in the case of long term lets) The full 100% of the price will be asked for within 10 weeks remaining to the holiday commencement. South of France Lets will then pass on the balance of 75% of the total booking value to you once it has been cleared by South of France Lets UK bank. On completion of the holiday and once South of France Lets have received notification that, you are happy and that no damage, losses or extra usage has occurred, (Normal wear and tear will not be deducted from the deposit.) Then we will return the security deposit to the customer. In the case of long term lets we will deduct 50% of the total commission on the rental price on the completion of the rental agreement and the commission balance of 50% from the second monthly payment of the stated rent. 23.3 South of France Lets agree that should they receive a cancellation from the customer prior to the 10 week deadline, at our discretion, the balance of the deposit, after we have deducted our 12% commission, will be sent to you. 23.4 You will agree to pay our 12% commission from the holiday price. This price will be the same price (Or lower as in the case of a long term let) as advertised elsewhere, or available direct from the property owner, or their agent(s). Failure to comply with this condition will result in immediate expulsion by South of France Lets, from South of France Lets web site. In accordance with clause 15.1 Modification 24 We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on this site. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope of available referral fees, fee schedules, payment procedures and Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this agreement. Your continued participation in the program following our posting of a change notice or new agreement on our site will constitute binding acceptance of the change or to contact South of France Lets where any alterations between the two parties can be agreed. Disputes 25 In the event of a dispute between a Customer and You being notified to South of France Lets by either party, South of France Lets shall be entitled in its discretion to withhold all and/or any monies due to You whether relating to that particular booking or otherwise until such times as the dispute has been settled and both You and the Customer have acknowledged settlement in writing to South of France Lets. In the event of South of France Lets having to refund monies to a Customer of yours due to a credit card charge back whilst a dispute is ongoing, You agree that South of France Lets shall be entitled to refund such monies as are charged back using the monies South of France Lets are holding on your behalf for the booking in question and shall have no further liability to you whatsoever. You agree that if you wish to recoup any monies you feel you are entitled to from the Customer to whom South of France Lets has refunded any monies, you shall pursue the Customer direct for these, and not South of France Lets. South of France Lets .Registered Address: 5 Purbeck Gardens Felton Road Poole Dorset BH14 0QS United Kingdom