Terms & Conditions

Introduction

Welcome to Connecting Deals. By accessing www.connectingdeals.com and its related websites, services, applications or tools (collectively referred to as “Connecting Deals”) you are agreeing to make sure that Connecting Deals works for everyone. Connecting Deals is provided to you by Connecting Deals Limited, which is registered in England and Wales with number 12070760.

These Terms of Use constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Connecting Deals Limited and are effective as of 01 April 2025 for current users, and upon acceptance for new users. You accept these Terms of Use by clicking the “Create Account” button when registering a Connecting Deals account and by otherwise accessing Connecting Deals, including posting an ad, or as otherwise indicated on Connecting Deals.

Using Connecting Deals

As a condition of your use of Connecting Deals you agree that you will not:

• violate any laws;
• post any threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene or indecent material;
• post or otherwise communicate any false or misleading material or message of any kind;
• infringe any third-party right;
• distribute spam, chain letters, or promote pyramid schemes;
• distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm Connecting Deals or the interests or property of Connecting Deals users;
• impose or contribute to imposing an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or interfere with the proper working of Connecting Deals;
• copy, modify, or distribute any other person’s content without their consent;
• use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access Connecting Deals and collect content for any purpose without our express written permission;
• harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent;
• copy, modify or distribute rights or content from Connecting Deals or Connecting Deals’s copyrights and trademarks;
• bypass measures used to prevent or restrict access to Connecting Deals;
• use any tool that interferes with the normal functioning of Connecting Deals, including browser plug-ins, extensions or other software designed to supplement, remove or otherwise change any of Connecting Deals’s functionalities; or
• sell any counterfeit items or otherwise infringe the copyright, trademark or other rights of third parties.

You are solely responsible for all information that you submit to Connecting Deals and any consequences that may result from your post. We reserve the right at our discretion to refuse or delete content that we believe is inappropriate or breaching the above terms. We also reserve the right at our discretion to restrict a user’s usage of Connecting Deals either temporarily or permanently, or refuse a user’s registration. If we believe that you are breaching these Terms of Use in any way and/or behaving suspiciously on Connecting Deals, we may, at our discretion, inform other Connecting Deals users that have been in contact with you and recommend that they exercise caution.

Abusing Connecting Deals

Connecting Deals and the Connecting Deals community work together to keep Connecting Deals working properly and the community safe. Please report problems, offensive content and policy breaches to us using the reporting system.

Without limiting other remedies, we may issue warnings, limit or terminate our service, remove hosted content and take technical and legal steps to keep users off Connecting Deals if we think that they are creating problems, infringing the rights of third parties or acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of our policies. However, whether or not we decide to take any of these steps, we do not have any obligation to monitor the information transmitted or stored on Connecting Deals and we do not accept any liability for unauthorised or unlawful content on Connecting Deals or use of Connecting Deals by users.

Global marketplace

Some of Connecting Deals’s features may display your ad on other sites, services, applications or tools (together a “Platform”) that are part of the Connecting Deals community, or on third-party Platforms, including social media channels. By using Connecting Deals, you agree that your ads can be displayed on these other Platforms and media channels. You may be subject to additional laws or other restrictions in the countries where your ad is posted. When your ad is posted on another Platform, you may be responsible for ensuring that it does not violate such other Platform’s policies. We may remove your ad if it is reported on Connecting Deals or any third-party Platform, or if we believe it causes problems or violates any law or policy.

Fees and services

Using Connecting Deals is generally free, but we sometimes charge a fee for certain services. If the service you use incurs a fee, you’ll be able to review and accept terms that will be clearly disclosed at the time you post your ad. Our fees are quoted in Pounds Sterling, and we may change them from time to time. We’ll notify you of changes to our fee policy by posting such changes on Connecting Deals. We may choose to temporarily change our fees for promotional events or new services; these changes are effective when we announce the promotional event or new service.

You are responsible for paying the Connecting Deals fees when they’re due. If you don’t, without prejudice to any other right or remedy we may be entitled to, we may limit your ability to use the services. If your payment method fails or your account is past due, we may collect fees owed using other collection mechanisms.

You acknowledge that your ads may be deleted from Connecting Deals if we believe these Terms of Use, including our Posting Rules, are breached. If you have paid a fee for the display of such an ad, you may be entitled to a refund. However, we reserve the right not to refund Connecting Deals users for any fees paid in the following cases:

• if you breach, in our opinion, these Terms of Use, including the Policies;
• if your ads went live with exposure on the Connecting Deals sites, services, applications or tools, even for a limited time, and benefited from the service associated with the paid fee;
• if your ads are placed in the Pets or Massage categories of Connecting Deals;
• if your ads are placed into “edit” mode and will go live to site once updated by you;
• if you have removed your ads yourself;
• if you post duplicate ads as defined in our rules regarding duplicate ads;
• if we believe that your ads are in a significantly wrong category.

Please note that the above list is not exhaustive. See the Connecting Deals Refund Policy for more details on the cases in which you may, or may not, be entitled to a refund.

In addition to the Connecting Deals services, ancillary goods or services such as insurance or car finance may be advertised on Connecting Deals. Although users may offer financial products on their ads, Connecting Deals is in no way involved or liable for any loss related to such transactions.

Display and placement of user ads

We strive to create a community where users can find what they are looking for. The appearance or placement of ads in search and browse results will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to:

• users’ location and search query / category selected;
• adverts’ category, content, location and date published; and
• whether the ad has a paid-for promotion.

Content

Connecting Deals contains content from us, you and other users. Connecting Deals is protected by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or via Connecting Deals is protected as a collective work and/or compilation pursuant to copyright laws and international conventions. You agree not to copy, distribute or modify content from Connecting Deals without our express written consent. You may not disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in Connecting Deals. You agree not to reproduce, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any purpose any aspect of Connecting Deals (other than your own content).

When you give us content, you grant us, and represent that you have the right to grant us, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all copyright, publicity, trademarks, design, database and intellectual property rights to that content, in any media whether now known or discovered in the future, including on any third-party Platforms and media channels. In particular, by giving us content, you grant us the right to display such content on Platforms that are part of the Connecting Deals corporate group, and on other online marketplaces, social media channels, blogs and in all types of marketing communications. In addition, you waive all moral rights you have in the content to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Connecting Deals may at times use third-party data suppliers to supplement the information you have provided in an ad. This could include descriptions, product specifications and other content. You may use such information solely in connection with your Connecting Deals ad while your ad is on Connecting Deals. Connecting Deals is not responsible for the accuracy of any third-party supplied supplemental data. You continue to be responsible for ensuring that your ads are accurate, do not include misleading information and fully comply with these Terms of Use and all Connecting Deals policies.

Infringement

Do not post content that infringes the rights of third parties. This includes content that infringes intellectual property rights such as copyright, design and trademark (e.g. offering counterfeit items for sale). Entitled parties, in particular owners of copyright, trademark rights or other rights, can report any advertisement which may infringe on their rights and submit a request for such advertisement to be removed. If a legal representative of the entitled party reports this to us in the correct manner, products infringing on intellectual property rights will be removed by Connecting Deals.

To report an infringement, send an email to Connecting Deals at info@connectingdeals.com. The information requested is for the purpose of ensuring that the parties reporting are either the entitled party or their officially authorised representative, and to enable Connecting Deals to identify the advertisement to be removed. This process can only be used by the lawful owners of the relevant intellectual property rights. For all other questions, visitors and advertisers can get help using customer support.

Liability

Nothing in these terms shall limit our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or the negligence of our agents or employees. You agree not to hold us responsible for things other users post or do.

We do not review users’ postings and are not involved in the actual transactions between users. As most of the content on Connecting Deals comes from other users, we do not guarantee the accuracy of postings or user communications or the quality, safety or legality of what’s offered.

In no event do we accept liability of any description for the posting of any unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene or indecent information, or material of any kind which violates or infringes upon the rights of any other person.

You acknowledge that we cannot guarantee continuous, error-free or secure access to our services or that defects in the service will be corrected. While we will use reasonable efforts to maintain an uninterrupted service, we cannot guarantee this and we do not give any promises or warranties (whether express or implied) about the operation and availability of our sites, services, applications or tools.

To the extent legally permitted we expressly disclaim all warranties, representations and conditions, express or implied, including those of quality, merchantability, merchantable quality, durability and fitness for a particular purpose. We are not liable for any loss, whether of money (including profit), goodwill or reputation, or any special, indirect or consequential damages arising out of your use of, or inability to use, Connecting Deals. Despite the previous paragraph, if we are found to be liable, our liability to you or any third party (whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, by statute or otherwise) is limited to the greater of (a) the total fees you paid to us in the 12 months prior to the action giving rise to liability, and (b) 100 Pounds Sterling.

Release

If you have a dispute with one or more Connecting Deals users, you release us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from any and all claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known or unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

Third-party rights

A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any Terms of Use, but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party specified in this Agreement or which exists or is available apart from that Act.

Data protection and privacy

By using Connecting Deals, you agree to the collection, transfer, storage and use of your personal information by Connecting Deals on servers located in the United States and United Kingdom as further described in our Privacy Policy.

You and Connecting Deals shall process personal data received under and/or in connection with these Terms of Use each as a separate and independent controller. As such separate and independent controllers, you shall be individually and separately responsible for complying with the obligations that apply to you as a controller under applicable data protection law, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and supplementing EU and local data protection law. You shall process personal data received from Connecting Deals exclusively for the purpose(s) for which you received it, and shall erase it immediately after the respective purpose(s) has/have been fulfilled, except where legally required to retain it.

Upon expiry of these Terms of Use, we will delete the information you provided or which was generated through your use of the services from your Connecting Deals account. We may maintain this information after expiry if we are legally obliged or have a legitimate interest to do so. We will generally maintain aggregated data generated using the services (e.g. statistics about ads in a category).

Resolution of disputes

If a dispute arises between you and Connecting Deals, we strongly encourage you to first contact us directly to seek a resolution by going to the Connecting Deals Help page. We will consider reasonable requests to resolve the dispute through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation or arbitration, as alternatives to litigation.

General

These terms and the other policies posted on Connecting Deals constitute the entire agreement between Connecting Deals and you, superseding any prior agreements. No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.

This Agreement shall be governed and construed in all respects by the laws of England and Wales. You agree that any claim or dispute you may have against Connecting Deals Limited must be resolved by the courts of England and Wales. You and Connecting Deals both agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

If we don’t enforce any particular provision, we are not waiving our right to do so later. If a court strikes down any of these terms, the remaining terms will survive. We may automatically assign this agreement in our sole discretion.

Except for notices relating to illegal or infringing content, your notices to us must be sent by registered mail to Connecting Deals Limited, 71–75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. We will send notices to you via the email address you provide, or by registered mail. Notices sent by registered mail will be deemed received five days following the date of mailing.

We may update this agreement at any time, with updates taking effect when you next post or 30 days after we post the updated policy on the Connecting Deals website, whichever is sooner.

Mobile devices terms

If you’re accessing Connecting Deals from a mobile device using a Connecting Deals Mobile Application (the “Application”), the following terms apply to you in addition to the applicable Mobile Privacy and Legal Notice or End User License Agreement. Your use of the Application confirms your agreement to these Terms of Use.

Application use. Connecting Deals grants you the right to use the Application only for your personal use. You must comply with all applicable laws and third-party terms of agreement when using the Application. The Application may not contain the same functionality available on the website. Your download and use of the Application is at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damage to your device(s) or loss of data that results.

Intellectual property — Applications. Connecting Deals owns, or is the licensee to, all right, title and interest in and to its Applications. You will not modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from any Application, and you will not remove, obscure or alter Connecting Deals’s copyright notice, trademarks or other proprietary rights notices.

Prohibited countries policy. Connecting Deals Applications or their underlying technology may not be downloaded to, or exported or re-exported into, any country subject to a United States embargo, or to anyone on the US Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or the US Commerce Department’s Denied Party or Entity List.

Affiliate disclosure & compliance. Connecting Deals is committed to transparency and regulatory compliance across all regions in which we operate. Some listings, offers or services on our platform may contain affiliate links or sponsored placements, and we may earn a commission when users click, engage or make a purchase through these links. All affiliate relationships and sponsored content are clearly disclosed within ads or listings where applicable. We adhere to globally recognised advertising and affiliate marketing standards, including the UK CAP Code and ASA guidelines, as well as FTC guidelines in the United States.

iOS — Apple

• These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Connecting Deals, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the Application and its content.
• Connecting Deals grants you the right to use the Application only on an iOS product that you own or control and as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.
• Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance and support services for the Application.
• Apple is not responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement or discharge of any third-party intellectual property infringement claim, or for addressing any claims relating to the Application, including product liability, regulatory non-conformity and consumer protection claims.
• In the event of any failure of the Application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if applicable).
• Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms of Use and will have the right to enforce them against you.

Windows — Microsoft

• These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Connecting Deals, not Microsoft.
• You may install and use one copy of the Application on up to five devices you personally own or control.
• Microsoft, your device manufacturer and (if applicable) your wireless carrier are not responsible for providing support services for the Application.
• The Disclaiming Distributors give no express warranty, guarantee or condition in relation to the Application and, to the extent permitted by law, exclude any implied warranties.
• You, and not the Disclaiming Distributors, bear the risk of using the Application. To the extent not prohibited by law, you will not seek to recover any consequential, lost-profit, special, indirect or incidental damages from any Disclaiming Distributor.