Terms & Conditions

1. I.General Provisions
   1. Seznam.cz, a.s, Prague 5, Radlická 608/2, 150 00, Prague 5, Tax No. 26168685, registered at Companies House by the Prague District Court as B.6493 (hereafter “Contractor”), is the operator of the Sreality Internet server at (URL) http://sreality.cz (hereafter “Service”).
   2. The Contractor is authorized to provide access to the Service user interface (hereafter “Service Pages”), which serve the insertion and editing of individual advertisements and other data in the field of property sales and enquiries.
   3. A client requiring paid services (hereafter “Client”) is a private individual or corporate entity requiring access to Service Pages, through which single line advertisements may be inserted on Service pages.
   4. Service is subject to a charge set by the Contractor, detailed in the Tariff at (URL) http://www.sreality.cz/cenik-sluzeb.
2. II.Range and Content of Subject Matter
   1. Access to Service Pages is available upon registration. Registration, in addition to advertisement publishing, is subject to a charge, as shown in the Tariff.
   2. Registration may be completed using the applications available on the Sreality server. All details of the Client including identification of all those entitled to negotiate on his/her behalf must be in full, up to date and true.
   3. Registration is subject to a charge and is time limited. Upon expiry of the given period, registration may be extended by new application and payment of the set charge. The registration charge is a one-off fee for the period of the registration and is non-refundable.
   4. A contractual relationship is formed when registration is confirmed by the Contractor.
   5. The Client is authorized to cancel his/her registration whenever by sending an email to this effect addressed to obchod@sreality.cz, where the subject heading must be “Cancellation of Registration Application”.
   6. Advertisements inserted by the Client using the Service Pages are accessible to all Internet users worldwide viewing the Sreality server and other certain servers belonging to the Contractor and/or the Contractor’s contractual partners, in addition to related printed publications issued by the Contractor and/or the Contractor’s contractual partners.
   7. Access to Service Pages is by Client user name and password. The Client is not authorized to make the user name and password available to any third party. In addition the Client is not authorized to attempt any unauthorized access or unauthorized amendments to the data held on the Service Pages. In such cases the Client is fully responsible for any misuse and/or loss of his/her user name and/or password.
   8. All data entered on the Service Pages is entered by the Client on his/her own account at his/her own cost in accordance with regulations laid down by the Contractor (especially “Rules of Advertising”) and technical configuration settings. The Client is authorized within the terms of the Service Pages to insert, alter and otherwise edit his/her own range of properties, i.e. the properties which the Client owns or which the Client is authorized to offer on the basis of a third-party and/or other similar contract with the relevant owner of the given property.
   9. The content and authenticity of all data entered is entirely the responsibility of the Client.
   10. The Client is obliged not to publish any data, the content of which is contrary to the law of the Czech Republic. The Client is further obliged not to hold the Contractor responsible for any legal demands from any third party which arise from data published by the Client through the Service Pages or any demands on the Contractor resulting from the action of any third party caused by the actions of the Client, for compensation.
   11. The Contractor reserves the right to refuse admission of or delete any data whatever, if such data:
       1. is contrary to the law of the Czech Republic,
       2. is immoral, or threatens public order,
       3. is contradictory to the interests of the Contractor, is contrary to these Conditions, or is contrary to the advertisement regulations.
   12. The Contractor is under no obligation to archive advertisements on the Service Pages.
   13. By placing his/her signature to these Conditions the Client agrees that the Contractor is authorized to send the Client information regarding Service operations or related services including those from third parties.
3. III.Payment Terms
   1. The Contractor reserves the right to require payment in advance.
   2. The Contractor shall issue the Client a pro forma invoice upon registration, sent to the Client at the email address given, in PDF format from the Client’s Service Pages.
   3. The inserted advertisement shall be published the day the registration invoice has been paid in full and received by the Contractor.
   4. The Contractor shall issue the Client a tax certificate up to fifteen days after receipt of payment of the registration charge.
   5. Individual advertisements shall be invoiced in total by the Contractor at the end of each quarter, retroactively.
   6. The Contractor shall issue an invoice and tax certificate for advertisements published in the preceding quarter.
   7. The Client shall pay the Contractor the invoiced amount by the due date specified on the invoice. Invoices are due within fourteen days of receipt by the Client.
   8. Where invoices are settled later than the due date, according to these Conditions the Contractor reserves the right to charge interest at a rate of 0.05% of the invoiced amount for each day overdue or part thereof.
   9. Where invoices are settled later than the due date the Client loses any claim to any agreed discounts.
   10. The Contractor reserves the right not to publish the Client’s advertisements when the Client has failed to pay invoices in full or has failed to provide satisfactory evidence of payment (non-disclosure of variable (identification) symbol). The Contractor is further entitled to postpone or refuse advertisements if the Client is overdue with payments for other Seznam products and/or services.
   11. The Contractor reserves the right to alter the Service charges. The Client shall be notified of such changes by email one calendar month in advance. In case the Contractor makes any changes to the product portfolio, which the Contractor reserves the right to do, the Contractor shall either refund the Client monies paid for any advertisements remaining unpublished, or shall offer suitable compensation.
   12. The Contractor reserves the right to alter these Conditions. If the Client does not agree with any new conditions of contract, he/she may withdraw his/her registration, and will, in which case, be refunded part of the registration charge.
4. IV.Complaints
   1. In case of error on the part of the Contractor the Client, within the complaints procedure, is entitled to claim reasonable costs or a discount. The Client is entitled to make his/her complaint in writing, by authorised email or fax.
   2. The deadline for making complaints is fourteen days from the date when the Client ascertained or could have ascertained Contractor error.
   3. Contractor error is understood as malfunction of Services relating to confirmed Client orders, for a period greater than six hours without interruption on one calendar day.
   4. Contractor error does not include fluctuations in visitor rates to individual servers operated by the Contractor.
   5. Objections to invoices issued which could result in limiting the Contractor’s right to charge the Client must be delivered in writing to the Contractor within seven days of receipt of the invoice.
5. V.Miscellaneous
   1. Items not covered by these Contractual Conditions are governed by the Business Conditions relating to placing advertisements and other advertising elements on Seznam.cz, a.s. Internet servers and relevant law, in particular Act No. 513/1991, in the Business Law collection, as amended.
   2. Any use whatsoever of Server content and/or its parts, including dissemination of Services content, by the Client for purposes other than that which it is intended for is expressly forbidden. It is likewise forbidden to interfere with any technical or material content of Services. The right to make reserve copies of material stored in Services for personal use in accordance with the general principles laid down in law is not affected by this provision. All other reproductions and/or other alterations by electronic or mechanical means, unless agreed otherwise in advance by the Contractor in writing, are forbidden.
   3. Where any changes whatsoever in invoice and contact details of the Client and/or of the Contractor occur, both parties are contractually bound to inform the other party without delay.
   4. All written correspondence sent through the Post Office shall be considered delivered five days after its demonstrated date of dispatch, even if the second party refuses delivery, or where the correspondence has been lodged at the Post Office and the second party has not collected it.
   5. The Contractor reserves the right to make alterations to these Conditions without the prior assent of the Client and to publish the latest and complete versions of such alterations on the Service Pages. Such alterations come into operation and become valid upon their publishing on the Service Pages, unless notified otherwise. A notice informing users of alterations shall be posted on the server for at least one month after such alterations have come into operation and become valid.
   6. These conditions are valid as from 1 May, 2008.

Advertising Regulations

1. The system is designed for self-service placing, management and publishing of advertisements. Before accessing the system the Client must log in (authorize).
2. Advertising content is accepted in the Czech language, complete with diacritical marks, respecting current Czech grammatical rules.
3. Advertising content is accepted in English understandable to a native English speaker, respecting British English grammar and syntax.
4. The maximum number of advertisements from private individuals (not businesses) is limited to two per individual contact details (telephone/email/login).
5. The URL displayed must correspond with the target server URL.The site, to which it is diverted, must be functional and with synchronized content, in addition it must be possible to return from the site with a single click on back button. Service pages will not publish links to advertising servers with the same focus as the Service pages.
6. The Client is bound to classify his/her advertisements in the correct section according to type and kind of property, and upon any changes in the property’s condition or related data to promptly update advertisements accordingly.
7. The Client is bound to classify correct data regarding the property in the correct column and place reserved for such data, and will not publish any contact details whatsoever of persons, companies or web pages outwith this space.
8. The Client is bound to provide correct data regarding properties for sale or purchase, including final prices of the properties, VAT, commissions and photographic documentation.
9. The Client shall not place or import identical properties to the database with differing or equivalent prices or minimum textual deviations.
10. The Contractor reserves the right to check content. The following are disallowed:
    • words written in capital letters (unless in common usage, abbreviations, or otherwise thus written officially),
    • more than one exclamation mark (no space before such a mark),
    • interrogative, exclamatory or imperative phraseology,
    • multiple repetition of words and/or phrases, excessive punctuation (triple dot, smileys, html, etc),
    • ending sentences with “etc.”, “and so on”, “…” and similar phrases,
    • use of superlatives and questionable qualitative references e.g. “best service provision…”,
    • non-informative sentences e.g. “everything you have always wanted to know…”, “come and see for yourself…”,
    • display of company logo instead of photographs of the property for sale,
    • commercial notices, advertisements or references to competitors,
    • copied and otherwise unauthorised photographs from other system users.
11. The Contractor is entitled to delete without prior notice advertisements containing speculative or zero prices, unauthorized photographs, duplicates offering differing prices than those offered by other Clients, advertisements of inadequate quality or which contain data contrary to data shown on the Client’s own web pages (including number of published advertisements), or where there is suspicion of intent to deceive the consumer, or any other conduct which could be contrary to good will.
12. The Contractor is not bound to reveal any sequencing criteria for advertisements. The Contractor however guarantees that sequencing is uniform and fully automated for all system users. The order of relevance of individual advertisements is influenced by date of insertion, time and frequency of updates, changes in price, online or offline access, number of completed items per advertisement, lifetime of the advertisement,Number of advertisements, visitor statistics, client loyalty (length of cooperation), etc.
13. Advertisement placing is supported by all property softwares or the Client’s own applications. Use of this function is however not a paid service and the Contractor bears no responsibility for recentness or correctness of advertisements thus placed on the database.
14. Upon export of selected files from the database to other Internet locations, the advertisement description may be abbreviated or altered to adhere to the technical configuration of the receiver.
15. The Contractor reserves the right to add links to Sreality to photographs attached to the advertisement.
16. . In Service pages terminology, ‘headquarters’ (centrál) may be specified as headquarters of the company. The term ‘branch’ (pobočka) is then understood as the company’s premises.
17. The Client may through the Service Pages exploit Contractor marketing events.
18. Technical support for all system users is available from the Contractor at helpdesk@sreality.cz.
19. The Contractor reserves the right at any time to cancel or alter advertisements, or reject advertisements and system users, deny user access to Services on the grounds of contravention of any of these Conditions, especially upon repeated contravention.
20. In case of renewed registration, the Contractor reserves the right to charge the Client, whose registration lapsed due to points 5 – 10 of these Conditions, the sum of 20 000 (twenty thousand) Czech Crowns for such renewal.