Terms & Conditions
Welcome to MR.ALFRED("MR ALFRED")
MR.ALFRED is a Booking Engine developed by Hi Guests Vacation Homes Rental LLC a company incorporated in the United Arab Emirates with trade license number 765614 having its registered at Office 30 C09, I-Rise Tower, TECOM, Dubai, UAE, established under the laws of DeD.
AGREEMENT TO TERMS
By using the Platform, you are accepting all the terms and conditions set forth in these Terms. If you do not agree to each and all of these terms and conditions please do not use the Platform and our Services. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change and or modify these Terms at any time without notice and, unless otherwise indicated, such changes will become effective immediately upon posting; therefore, please check these Terms periodically for changes. We will display the effective date of these Terms at the top of this page.
THE PLATFORM AND THE SERVICES
The Platform and Services provide a home rental offering by MR.ALFRED whereby you may browse listings for homes (a "Home" or the "Homes") and book short term rentals of such Homes through the Platform. MR.ALFRED has relationships with local property management companies (individually, a "Property Management Company" and collectively, "Property Management Companies") who manage your booking, the Home, and provide support to you during your stay at a Home. MR.ALFRED does not own, lease or manage the Homes.
HOME LISTINGS
As the provider of the MR.ALFRED Platform, MR.ALFRED does not own, create, control, or manage any Home or Home listings. Property Management Companies are responsible for the Homes and the accuracy of their Home listings.
BOOKING PROCESS
You may book a Home through the Platform by following the booking process. All applicable fees, including the rental fee, security deposit (if any), guest fees and any applicable taxes unless otherwise specified (the "Booking Fees") will be provided to you prior to booking a Home. You agree to pay the Booking Fees, subject to your rights to cancellation, which shall be outlined in your reservation confirmation. For bookings that require a security deposit, the Property Management Company is responsible for collecting and refunding the security deposit at its sole discretion. MR.ALFRED assumes no responsibility or liability should a dispute arise between you and the Property Management Company regarding the collection or refund of a security deposit.You agree that MR.ALFRED may utilize third party service providers to facilitate the booking process including without limitation the processing of any payments. Payment processing shall be subject to such third party's terms of service, user agreement, and other policies, and MR.ALFRED is not responsible or liable for such payment processing services.In the case of multicurrency pricing, MR.ALFRED will disclose the applicable foreign currency exchange rate and any currency conversion fees and/or mark-up applicable to the transaction.
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANIES
When you book a Home through the Platform, a Property Management Company will manage your booking and provide additional support to you during your stay at the Home. In order to provide those services, your information (and that of your guests) will be shared with the relevant Property Management Company and, if necessary, with third parties who perform services for them, such as cooking, cleaning, maintenance, transportation and similar services. Each Property Management Company is independent from, and not affiliated with, MR.ALFRED . The collection, use and sharing of your information by the Property Management Companies will be governed by their privacy policies. To the extent that you enter into a rental agreement, contract or other agreement with a Property Management Company, you understand and acknowledge that MR.ALFRED is not (and will not become) a party to any of those agreements. You agree that you may be required to enter into separate terms, waivers, or other agreements in connection with your booking of a Home through the Platform. If you are booking a Home on behalf of additional guests, you agree that each additional guest is aware of these Terms and the terms of any rental agreement or other agreements that you enter into in order to book the Home. If any of your guests are minors, you agree that you have the authority to act on behalf of the minor(s).
PERSONAL LIABILITY WAIVER
In consideration for the opportunity and permission to participate in any recreational activity offered at a Home, you hereby RELEASE, WAIVE, DISCHARGE, AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE MR.ALFRED and the applicable Property Management Company and their affiliates, and each of their respective officers, agents, and employees ("Releasees") from any and all liability, claims, demands, actions, and causes of action whatsoever arising out of or related to any loss, damage, or injury, including death, that you may sustain, or that any of your property may sustain, while participating in any activity, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE LOSS IS CAUSED BY THE NEGLIGENCE OF THE RELEASEES and regardless of whether the liability arises in tort, contract, strict liability, or otherwise, to the fullest extent allowed by law. You understand that this Section will bind the members of your family and your heirs, assigns, and personal representatives.
PRIVACY
The collection, use, sharing and other actions we take with respect to your information is described in our Privacy Statement, which may be updated from time to time. When you agree to these Terms, you are also acknowledging the provisions in that Privacy Statement.
ELIGIBILITY
In order to use the Platform, you must be an individual who is at least 18 years old or a duly organized, validly existing business or other legal entity in good standing under the laws of the country in which you are established and able to enter into legally binding contracts. Some Property Management Companies may have additional requirements on the minimum age of the primary occupant (as noted on the Home description page).
VERIFICATION OF GUESTS
To ensure the security of the Platform and the Homes, for fraud prevention purposes, and compliance with applicable laws, MR.ALFRED may in its sole discretion and consistent with applicable laws request that you provide information to verify your identity, such as a driver's license or passport. In some jurisdictions MR.ALFRED or the Property Management Company is required by applicable law to collect such identity verification information and provide it to government authorities. MR.ALFRED or the Property Management Companies may perform additional background checks or obtain reports from public databases in order to verify your, or your guests' identities.
MR.ALFRED INFORMATION
The content and information displayed on the Platform are MR.ALFRED 's property and are collectively referred to as "MR.ALFRED Information". The downloading, reproduction, or retransmission of MR.ALFRED Information, other than for non-commercial individual use, is strictly prohibited.
AVAILABILITY OF THE PLATFORM AND SERVICE
The Platform is provided via the Internet and MR.ALFRED does not guarantee the continuous and uninterrupted availability of the Platform or the Services. The Platform may not be available as a result of maintenance, capacity limits or for any other reasons in MR.ALFRED 's sole discretion.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Platform may contain or reference trademarks, patents, copyrighted materials, trade secrets, technologies, products, processes or other proprietary rights of MR.ALFRED , our affiliates, and/or other parties. No license to or right in any such trademarks, patents, copyrighted materials, trade secrets, technologies, products, processes and other proprietary rights of MR.ALFRED , our affiliates, and/or other parties is granted to or conferred upon you.
ACCEPTABLE USE
You agree that you will not use any device, software or other instrumentality to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Platform and/or the Services, and that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. In addition, you agree that you are not authorized to use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor, scrape, or copy the Platform, the Services, or the MR.ALFRED Information contained therein, or any aspect of the Platform, the Services, or the MR.ALFRED Information, without the prior express consent from an authorized MR.ALFRED representative (such consent is deemed given for standard search engine technology employed by Internet search websites to direct Internet users to the Platform). You further agree not to claim that such access is authorized. Furthermore, you agree that you will not use the Platform and/or the Services for any purpose that is illegal, unlawful, or prohibited by these Terms. You agree that you will not interrupt, disrupt, alter, destroy, impair, restrict tamper, or otherwise affect the proper operation of the Platform and/or the Services in any way, including, without limitation, through the use of any malicious or unauthorized code, virus, worm, Trojan horse, malware, or program. You may not use the Platform and/or the Services in any threatening, libelous, slanderous, defamatory, obscene, inflammatory, pornographic, discriminatory, or otherwise offensive manner. We reserve the right in our sole discretion to revoke or deny your access to the Platform or use of the Services, including, without limitation, if you violate any of the provisions of these Terms.You agree that you will make only legitimate reservations in good faith for use by you and your invited guests only, and not for other purposes, including without limitation, reselling, impermissibly assigning or posting on third party websites, or making speculative, false or fraudulent reservations, or any reservation in anticipation of demand.
ACCESS CODES
The Platform may provide you with the ability to use usernames, passwords, or other codes or devices to gain access to certain portions of the Platform ("Access Codes"). You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Access Codes and for all activities that occur under your account. We reserve the right to immediately terminate your account in our sole discretion and without prior notice to you wherever there is a reason including, for example, if you violate any part of these Terms.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PLATFORM, SERVICES AND MR.ALFRED INFORMATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR ANY GUARANTY OR ASSURANCE THAT THE PLATFORM, SERVICES, HOMES, AND/OR MR.ALFRED INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE, ADEQUATE, ACCURATE, UNINTERRUPTED, COMPLETE OR ERROR FREE. WE ARE NEITHER RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY MALICIOUS OR UNAUTHORIZED CODE AND YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING YOU HAVE APPROPRIATE SCANNING AND PROTECTIVE MECHANISMS FOR THE SECURITY OF YOUR DEVICES, PROGRAMS AND INFORMATION. BY USING THE PLATFORM, SERVICES, AND/OR MR.ALFRED INFORMATION, YOU ARE ASSUMING ALL RISK OF LOSS THAT MAY ARISE OR BE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT USE.To the maximum extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us, including without limitation the Property Management Companies and their service providers and payment processors hereby expressly exclude any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with the Platform or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of the Platform, the Services, any websites or mobile applications linked to the Platform and any materials posted on them, including, without limitation any liability for loss of income or revenue; loss of business; loss of profits or contracts; loss of anticipated savings; loss of data; loss of goodwill; wasted management or office time; and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY DESCRIBED ABOVE SHALL APPLY FULLY TO RESIDENTS OF NEW JERSEY.This limitation of liability does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
INDEMNIFICATION
You shall defend us against any demands, claims or actions brought against us or arising as a result of any breach or violation of these Terms by you ("Claim") and you shall indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any and all losses, damages, costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees) resulting from any such Claim. We have the right, at our expense, to assume exclusive defense against any Claim and all negotiations for settlement and you agree to cooperate with us in the defense of any such Claim, at our request.
YOUR CONTENT
With respect to all communications you make to us regarding MR.ALFRED Information including but not limited to feedback, questions, comments, suggestions and the like ("Your Content"), you grant us the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, display, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, perform, display, distribute, and otherwise exploit Your Content, or any part thereof, for any purpose, in any format or medium now known or developed in the future in perpetuity. You agree that: (a) you shall have no right of confidentiality in Your Content and we shall have no obligation to protect Your Content from disclosure; and (b) we shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, content or techniques contained in Your Content for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to the development, production and marketing of products and services that incorporate such information. The above is limited only by our commitment and obligations pertaining to your personal information (for more information, please see our Privacy Statement).
TECHNICAL INACCURACIES AND TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
MR.ALFRED Information may contain technical inaccuracies and typographical errors, including but not limited to inaccuracies relating to pricing or availability applicable to your transaction. MR.ALFRED assumes no responsibility or liability for any such inaccuracies, errors or omissions, and shall have no obligation to honor reservations or information affected by such inaccuracies. MR.ALFRED reserves the right to make changes, corrections, cancellations and/or improvements to MR.ALFRED Information, and to the products and programs described in such information, at any time without notice, including after confirmation of a transaction.
MAPS
Any use of the maps functionality on the Platform shall be governed by the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service. MR.ALFRED shall have no liability for your use of Google Maps or for any results, including driving directions, generated by Google Maps.
THIRD PARTY SITES
If you choose to leave the Platform via links to other third-party websites, including those of advertisers, these Terms and our Privacy Statement will no longer apply. We are not responsible for the terms of service or privacy policies of those third-party websites or the cookies or other tracking technologies they use. In addition, because we have no control over such third-party sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such third-party sites or resources, and that we do not endorse or are responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such third party sites or resources.Sometimes MR.ALFRED provides referrals to third-party websites solely for the convenience of its guests. MR.ALFRED makes no representations or endorsements concerning the safety, accuracy, quality, standards or fitness of the services provided by these third-parties. MR.ALFRED is not responsible or liable, either directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage that is sustained from your use of these third-party services. Please refer to the terms and conditions and privacy provisions of the third-party, which govern your transaction. MR.ALFRED is not responsible for any aspect of these third-party services, and you assume all risks associated with the services.
GOVERNING LAW
These Terms and all disputes, claims or controversies (collectively, “Disputes”) between you and Mr.Alfred relating to these Terms, the Services, the Platform, or the Content, are governed by and shall be construed and enforced under the laws of United Arab Emirates, applicable to contracts executed and performed within United Arab Emirates. For all claims not subject to the arbitration clause, you specifically agree and submit to the jurisdiction of the Dubai courts and stipulate to the fairness and convenience of proceedings in such courts for all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Platform and the Services. You will not object to jurisdiction or venue on the grounds of lack of personal jurisdiction, inconvenient forum or otherwise.