Privacy Policy

The Sands Home Search online service is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. We want to provide a safe and secure user experience. We will use our best efforts to ensure that the information you submit to us remains private, and is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.

Personal Details
We give you the option of submitting your personal details via this website. You can do this either to apply for more information or to instruct us to commence a property search on your behalf. Although your personal details will be stored online, they will only be accessible by the Sands Home Search organisation.

You can update your personal details at any time, simply by emailing us at info@sandshomesearch.com or alternatively by telephone/fax on +44 (0)1202 861972. Your old details will automatically be replaced. You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the information supplied by you that we hold. We have the right to charge a small fee for this service. If you would like to make a request for information, please contact our data protection administrator via email at dpa@sandshomesearch.com You also have the right to ask Sands Home Search to stop using your information.

Your personal details will be sent to solicitors, financial advisors, estate agents and/or property vendors but only where you give your consent.

The Information We Collect and How We Use It
Your personal details, including your name, e-mail address and other details supplied, are held and used by us for the following purposes:

For matching your details with available property, to assist us in finding you the property that most suits you;

For keeping you informed of Sands Home Search services.

For tailoring the version of the sandshomesearch.com website you see when you log on to make it relevant to you; and/orIt is possible that Sands Home Search could merge or be acquired by another business. If this happens, we may share the information that relates to you with the new owners of the business and their advisers. You will be sent notice of such an event. Other than in these circumstances, we do not and will not disclose your information to third parties without your consent.

We may also release information relating to you to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if required to do so. We also reserve the right to disclose the information we have collected about you to our professional advisors and to other persons to the extent that Sands Home Search contracts out any aspect of the operation of its home search services. These third parties will be acting under similar undertakings of confidentiality as the Sands Home Search Group.

The Data Protection Act 1998
Some of the information that you give us is termed "personal data" under the Data Protection Act 1998. We must therefore follow the principles set out in that Act when we process your personal data. All the personal data that we obtain from you is held on our central in-house database.

Please note that clicking on to links and banner advertisements may result in your transferral to another website, where data privacy practices may be different to that of Sands Home Search. Visitors should consult the other websites' privacy policies as we are not responsible for, and have no control over, information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties.

Changes to our Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be changed by Sands Home Search at any time. If we change our privacy policy in the future, we will set out those changes here, so that you will always know what personal information we gather, the purposes we might use it for and to whom we might disclose it. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about the Sands Home Search online privacy commitment, please feel free to e-mail us at dpa@sandshomesearch.com or call us on +44 (0)1202 861972 to speak to one of our representatives.

Website Disclaimer
Whilst Sands Home Search uses reasonable care in compiling and presenting the information found on this web site, it is provided purely for information and you should seek further guidance and make independent enquiries before relying upon it.

The information included in this web site has been compiled from a variety of sources and is subject to change without notice.

Sands Home Search makes no representation or warranty whatsoever regarding the completeness, accuracy, currency, adequacy, suitability or operation of this web site, or of the information it contains nor makes any such warranty in respect of any information carried on any website operated by a third party which may be accessed from this website, nor that the information on this or any third party website has in any way been verified by Sands Home Search.

All information contained on this website is provided on an "as is" basis. Sands Home Search assumes no responsibility for information contained in this site and disclaims all liability arising from negligence or otherwise in respect of such information.

By using this web site you assume the risk that the information on this web site may be incomplete, inaccurate, out of date or may not meet your requirements.

This web site was created in England. Any interpretation of its content, claims or disputes (of whatever nature and not limited to contractual issues) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts under English law.