Terms and conditions

These terms govern your use of agland.co.uk. By registering a requirement, advertising a property, or subscribing as an agent, you agree to them. Please read section 9 - it limits what we're responsible for.

1. Who we are

AgLand is a trading name of Birkwood Ventures Ltd (company number 15107836), registered at 5th Floor, 167-169 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PF. Contact us at milly@agland.co.uk.

2. What AgLand is - and isn't

AgLand is an advertising and matching platform. Buyers tell us what they're looking for; owners and agents advertise property to the buyers who match; when someone wants to connect, we exchange both sides' contact details and step out of the way.

We also create anonymised, aggregated data and insights from activity on the platform. We may use, publish or commercialise these. Section 7 explains exactly what that means, and what that data never includes.

We are not an estate agent and do not act for you. We do not value property, conduct viewings, negotiate, advise on price, prepare sales particulars on your behalf, or handle any part of the legal process. We are not a party to any sale, lease or tenancy that results from an introduction, and we never take commission on one.

Nothing on AgLand is legal, financial, tax, planning or valuation advice - and that includes any data or insights we publish, and any professional we introduce you to. Instruct a solicitor or licensed conveyancer, and take surveying and tax advice appropriate to the property.

3. Buyers

Registering a requirement is free. You must confirm your email address before your requirement goes live, and every requirement is reviewed by a human before publication - we may decline or edit one, and we'll tell you why.

Your requirement is published anonymously: property types, county, budget bracket and acreage. Your name, email and phone number are never published, and are only shared when you actively ask to connect about a specific property - or when you ask us for a professional introduction under section 7.

You must give accurate information about what you're looking for. We ask you to re-confirm every 180 days; if you don't, your requirement lapses and stops being shown. You can remove yourself entirely at any time using the link in any of our emails.

We give no guarantee that any property will match you, or that any owner will respond. We make no representation about a property's condition, title, boundaries, access, planning status or value - everything you see comes from the person advertising it.

4. Advertising a property (owners)

Checking how many buyers match your property is free and involves no commitment. If you go ahead:

• The fee is £59 for a 6-month advert, paid once. There is no commission, and no further charge.
• If fewer than 5 buyers match on the day you submit, the fee is £29 instead. Your advert still runs for the full 6 months.
• Your advert is emailed to every buyer who matches it at the time, and automatically to every new matching buyer who registers during the 6 months.
• Prices are introductory and may change for future adverts. The price you paid is the price for that advert's full term.

You confirm that you:

• own the property or are authorised to advertise it
• have given accurate and complete information, including the material information required for property adverts - tenure, price, and anything a reasonable buyer would need to know
• own or have permission to use the photographs you upload
• will tell us promptly if the property sells or the details change

The advert is yours; the responsibility for its accuracy is yours. Misleading a buyer can breach consumer protection law. We review adverts before publication and may decline, edit or remove one - including after payment, if it turns out to be inaccurate, unlawful or not what was described. We'll refund you if we remove an advert through no fault of yours.

Your right to cancel

If you're a consumer rather than a business, you normally have 14 days to cancel a service bought online and get a full refund.

Because an advert goes live and is sent to matched buyers immediately, you are asking us to start straight away. Once we have fully performed the service - that is, once your advert is live and has been sent to the buyers who matched - you lose that 14-day right, and you acknowledge this at checkout. If you cancel after paying but before your advert has gone out, we'll refund you in full.

5. Land and estate agents

Agent subscriptions cost £149 per county, per month, billed monthly in advance until you cancel. A subscription lets you see the registered buying requirements for your counties and advertise your listings to matching buyers.

Cancel any time from your dashboard. Your access runs to the end of the paid month; we don't refund part-months. Prices are introductory - we'll give you at least 30 days' notice by email before any change, and you can cancel instead.

You may use buyer requirement data only to market matching property. You must not export it, resell it, scrape it, share it outside your firm, or use it to build a competing database.

The buyer requirements, and the database they form, are our confidential information and remain our property. Your subscription is a limited, personal and non-transferable licence to view and use them only as set out above - it gives you no ownership of the data, and no right to keep, reuse or exploit it once your subscription ends.

Scraping, bulk-extracting, reselling, sharing or otherwise misusing this data - or using it to build or feed a competing service - is a serious breach of these terms and may also infringe our database rights, copyright and rights in confidential information. As well as ending your subscription immediately and without refund, it may lead us to take legal action against you. That can include seeking an injunction to stop you, and a claim for damages, an account of any profits you made from the misuse, and our legal costs. Because misuse of this kind can cause harm that money alone cannot undo, you agree that we may seek an injunction without first having to prove financial loss. You also agree to indemnify us against any claim brought by a buyer or other third party that arises from your misuse of their data.

You must comply with the law and codes that apply to your own business, including estate agency and consumer protection legislation and any redress scheme you belong to. That's your responsibility, not ours.

6. Introductions and what happens next

When a buyer asks to connect, both sides receive the other's name, email address and phone number. By using AgLand you agree to your details being shared in that way, at that point.

We do not check anyone's finances. We confirm a buyer's email address and review their stated requirement, and that is all. We do not verify proof of funds, mortgage capability, identity, or a company's standing. Treat an AgLand introduction as you would any other enquiry, and carry out your own due diligence before committing to anything.

7. Platform data, and optional introductions

Anonymised and aggregated data

We may create anonymised and aggregated data, statistics, insights and other derived works from the requirements, adverts and other activity on AgLand, and we may use, publish, license or sell them, in any form and for any lawful purpose.

Everything we produce this way is built from patterns, not people. It only ever contains anonymised, aggregated information. It never contains your name, contact details, full postcode or free-text notes, or anything else that could identify you. Where a slice of the data is so small that someone might be picked out of it, we widen the slice or leave it out.

By submitting a requirement, advert or any other information to AgLand, you grant us the right to use it to create anonymised and aggregated data, statistics, insights and other derived works, during and after the life of your requirement or advert. Those derived works, and the intellectual property in them, belong to us.

Introductions to professional services

Buying or selling land usually needs professionals around it - solicitors, surveyors, valuers, lenders, insurers, accountants, planning consultants. If you'd like help finding one, we may be able to introduce you. An introduction only ever happens because you asked for it: it is never automatic, and your details are never passed to a professional partner without your specific agreement at the time.

Some partners pay us a fee for introductions. Where a partner pays us, we'll tell you before you agree to the introduction. A fee never changes our duty to be straight with you, and an introduction is not a recommendation of the partner's advice - we aren't qualified to give one. The partner is responsible for their own service, their own terms and their own regulatory compliance, and once introduced you deal with them directly.

Commercial partners

Sometimes a partner organisation may want to hear from buyers or owners like you about relevant products, services or opportunities. We only pass your personal details to a partner like that with your explicit consent, given at the time, naming the partner. If you say no - or say nothing - nothing is shared, and your use of AgLand is unaffected.

Our privacy notice explains all of this again from a data protection angle, including how anonymisation works and the choices you have.

8. Using the site properly

You must not:

• submit false, misleading or fraudulent information
• advertise property you have no right to advertise
• scrape, copy or bulk-extract listings or requirement data
• use the platform to send spam or unsolicited marketing
• attempt to interfere with the site's security or availability

We can suspend or remove any account or advert that breaks these terms, and we'll explain why. The site, its design and its content are ours; you may not reproduce them commercially without permission.

9. Our liability

We provide the platform with reasonable care and skill, but we don't promise uninterrupted availability, a particular number of matches, or that any transaction will happen.

We are not liable for:

• the accuracy or completeness of anything a user posts
• the conduct, solvency or honesty of any buyer, seller or agent
• any transaction, negotiation, dispute or loss arising from an introduction - including an introduction to a professional partner under section 7
• the service, advice or conduct of any professional or commercial partner we introduce you to
• decisions taken in reliance on any data or insights we publish, which are general information and not advice
• lost profits, lost opportunity or the failure of a sale to complete

Where we are liable, our total liability to you is limited to the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything that cannot lawfully be excluded - including your statutory rights as a consumer.

10. Data protection

How we handle personal data - including exactly how anonymisation works, and the consent we need before any introduction - is set out in our privacy notice, which forms part of these terms.

11. Changes, and the legal bits

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects you we'll email you, and for agents we'll give at least 30 days' notice. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it. Changes never apply retrospectively to an advert you've already paid for.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you live elsewhere in the UK you keep the right to bring proceedings in your own courts. If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stands.

Questions about any of this? Ask us - we'd rather explain it than have you guess.