Doorsteps is owned and operated by OpenAgent Pty Ltd ACN 161 595 679 (“we”, “us”, “our” or OpenAgent). These Terms apply each time you access or use Doorsteps, whether by mobile application or via our Website (Terms). You accept these Terms when you register for Doorsteps. If you do not agree to these Terms, you should immediately stop using Doorsteps and remove Doorsteps from your Device.
As a condition of entering this agreement, your use of Doorsteps is also governed by the terms which apply to the provision of web-based property data and information services to any person or entity by Australian Property Monitors Pty Ltd ABN 42 061 438 006 and its related bodies corporate (together “APM”), available at https://www.apm.com.au/terms-conditions/ (“APM Terms”). By accessing or using Doorsteps, you agree to also be bound by the APM Terms which together with the Terms below comprise your agreement with APM in respect of Doorsteps.
Doorsteps is for personal, non-commercial use only.
(a) Security
The security of your Password is very important. It can be used to access information about you and your Account, including your Financial Profile. You must make every effort to ensure that your Password, and any record of it, is not misused, lost or stolen. You must tell us as soon as possible if any Passwords are lost or stolen.
(b) Listings, Market Insights, Financial Insights, Suburb Details and Upfront Costs
Listings, Market Insights, Financial Insights, Suburb Details and Upfront Costs are provided as a guide only and are based on data provided by our Data Providers and other publicly available information. You acknowledge that information provided by us through Doorsteps do not take into account all factors that may affect Listings, Market Financial Insights, Suburb Details and Upfront Costs. You accept that You agree that any Content provided to you is on an “as is” and “as available” basis and on the condition that you undertake all responsibility for assessing and considering the accuracy of Content and rely on it at your own risk.
(c) Faults and Service Difficulties
Please tell us about any service fault or difficulty with Doorsteps by emailing us at support@doorsteps.com.au or calling 13 24 34.
(a) Other than for limited Searches, you must be registered to use Doorsteps. You can register by providing your first name and Email address, and you do not need to be a Doorsteps customer in order to register to use Doorsteps.
(b) When you register for Doorsteps, you will select a Password and we will then send an Email to your nominated Email address to verify your Account and to allow you to finish creating your Account.
(c) You must not provide another person’s first name or Email address to register for an Account.
(d) You accept that you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login details to any of Doorsteps tools and applications, including your Email and Password. As such, you agree that we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any kind arising in connection with the misuse or unauthorised access of your login details.
(e) We may reject any Email address or Password at our discretion.
(f) We reserve the right to verify all potential registrations in order to maintain the quality of Doorsteps and may contact you by telephone or email to verify that your registration information is accurate and correct before engaging with you or providing further access to the Doorsteps application or Website to you.
(a) Services
You can use your Account to access a range of services through Doorsteps, including:
(b) Listings
You acknowledge and agree that:
(c) Estimated Values and Market Insights
(d) Financial Insights and Upfront Costs
You acknowledge and agree that these variables may change at any time and are dependent on external factors outside of our control. You should check with your solicitor, conveyancer or tax adviser with respect to any potential tax exemptions or concessions that may be relevant to you.
(e) Checklists
Any Checklists generated through Doorsteps are provided as a guide only based on the usual steps purchasers may encounter in the course of purchasing Property in Australia. These steps may vary between States or Territories and checklists are not intended to replace any financial, accounting, legal or other professional advice.
(f) State and Territory Data
You acknowledge and agree that each of the warnings and notices set out in this clause 3(f) are deemed to be given each time you access Doorsteps, and that we may for any reason, remove or amend any State and Territory Data incorporated into Doorsteps at any time without any further notice to you.
i) APM Copyright and Disclaimer
Source: Australian Property Monitors (Customer service centre: 1 800 817 616). Copyright Australian Property Monitors Pty Limited.
The provision of web-based property data and information services to you by APM is governed by the APM Terms available at https://www.apm.com.au/terms-conditions/.
(g) Suburb Details
Suburb Details are provided as a general guide only based on publicly available information, data from government agencies and data provided by our Data Providers. They are not based on any inspection of the suburb. You must carry out your own enquiries as to the nature of the suburb and make your own assessment as to its suitability for you.
Listings can currently only be refined by this variable for Listings located in NSW.
Tree coverage percentage is based on data sourced from the NSW Urban Vegetation Cover to Modified Mesh Block 2016, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment. © State Government of NSW and Department of Planning, Industry and Environment 2019.
The community type variables are provided as a guide only based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data (and may also be based on other data provided by our Data Providers). The current community composition of a suburb may differ from the variable selected. You should carry out your own enquiries as to the current suburb composition.
(a) Availability
(b) Updates to Doorsteps
We may make Updates to Doorsteps at any time. You acknowledge and agree that Doorsteps may be unavailable for the purpose of us rolling out such Updates. We will use commercially reasonable endeavours to ensure that any Updates will not materially adversely impact your use of Doorsteps.
(c) Limitation, Suspension or Termination
(a) Information You Must Give Us
(b) Devices
(c) Charges Relating to a Device
You may incur charges from your Internet or mobile service provider for using Doorsteps. Any such charges are your sole responsibility and any matters regarding these charges should be raised with your Internet or mobile service provider directly. We exclude all liability and responsibility for any charges from your Internet or mobile service provider incurred in connection with your use of Doorsteps.
(d) Notifications
(e) Contacting an Agent
If you have agreed to receive Notifications, you may contact an Agent through Doorsteps by:
You authorise us to provide your contact details to the Agent for this purpose. You accept we operate as an independent third-party facilitator in respect of any transaction and communication between yourself and an Agent. We remain independent from any advice, Content, correspondence, information or representations given therein.
(f) Logon Using Biometric Information
Where your Device allows you to control access to it using biometric information such as fingerprints or facial data you store in your Device, Doorsteps may provide a means for you to use the stored biometric information as a preferred credential logon (e.g. fingerprint logon). You can only do this where you have logged on to Doorsteps using your Password. If you wish to logon using biometric information for Doorsteps, you should ensure that only your biometric information is stored on the Device. We do not collect any of your biometric information.
(g) Appropriate Use
Doorsteps may include links to Third Party Websites. These links are provided for your convenience only and you acknowledge and agree that those Third Party Websites do not form part of Doorsteps and are not under our control. You access those Third Party Websites at your own risk. We exclude all liability and responsibility for any loss or damage you may suffer as a result from accessing any Third Party Websites.
You may grant Doorsteps permission to access, collect, and use your Location Data to allow us to provide you with the location-based functions and features of Doorsteps and other location-based services we may offer from time to time. If you do not want us to access, collect or use your Location Data, please disable this feature on your Device.
You acknowledge and agree that we may use analytics on, or engage third party data analytics service providers for, Doorsteps which enable us to track your activity on Doorsteps, monitor usage patterns, further develop and improve Doorsteps, and to offer relevant services to you. If you do not want us to access, collect or use your information for this purpose, you may close your Account and all information you have inputted into Doorsteps will be deleted.Doorsteps uses cookies. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully before using Doorsteps.
(a) Ownership
(b) Your Licence to Doorsteps
You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, worldwide licence to use, and allow our personnel and service providers (including our Data Providers) to use, your Intellectual Property Rights for the purposes of performing our obligations under these Terms, and to further develop Doorsteps. You warrant that our use of your Intellectual Property Rights will not infringe any third party’s rights (including Intellectual Property Rights).
(a) Indemnity
You indemnify us against any loss or damage we may suffer due to any claim, demand or action of any kind brought against us arising directly or indirectly because you:
(b) Exclusion of Liability
We will not have any liability to any party (including you) in relation to:
(c) Limitation of Liability
(d) Survival
This clause 10 will survive the termination or expiry of these Terms.
(a) Updates to Terms
(b) Assignment
You will not assign your rights under these Terms. We may assign our rights under these Terms at any time without notice to you.
(c) Problems and Disputes
Australian Financial Complaints Authority
Online: www.afca.org.au
Email: info@afca.org.au
Phone: 1800 931 678 (free call)
Mail: Australian Financial Complaints Authority
GPO Box 3
Melbourne VIC 3001
(d) Electronic Notices and Correspondence
You may receive notices, documents and communications electronically in relation to your Account instead of having paper documents mailed to you. We may send notices, documents and communications electronically by sending you an Email or an electronic notice on Doorsteps. It is your responsibility to check your Email regularly for these notifications and to access the documents promptly following our Email. You must also keep your nominated email address current and let us know if you can’t access your Email or Account for any reason. You can change your nominated Email address at any time.
(e) Privacy and Confidentiality
(f) Direct electronic marketing
It is our policy to only send marketing material by electronic communications to customers who give us permission. By agreeing to these Terms you give us this permission unless you have already told us that you withdraw your consent. If we send you an electronic communication other than a communication containing no more than factual information (for example, an email advising you that these Terms have changed), we will give you the option of not receiving further communications of this nature. This will allow you to opt out of receiving electronic communications containing marketing material at any time.
(g) Applicable law
These Terms are governed by the laws in force in the State of New South Wales, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State.
(h) Severability
If any provision or part of these Terms is for any reason declared invalid or unenforceable, the validity of the remaining portion is not to be affected and the remaining portion is to remain in full effect.
(a) Account means your account set up for use with Doorsteps, and which may contain your saved Feed, Financial Profile, Properties, and Searches.
(b) Agent means a licensed real estate agent associated with a Listing.
(c) Checklist means a checklist generated based on the Property to cover the key milestones in the purchasing process.
(d) Consequential Loss means any special, incidental, punitive, exemplary, indirect or consequential losses, as well as business interruption losses, loss of revenue, loss of anticipated savings, loss of profits, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of interest or business opportunity, costs of procurement or substitution of goods, technology or services, and loss of information or data (including the costs of recovering or reconstructing any lost or corrupted data).
(e) Data Provider means any of our third party data providers engaged to provide data and analytics for the purpose of providing you with Estimated Values, Financial Insights, Listings, and Market Listings, Suburb Details and Market Insights.
(f) Device means a computer on which you have accessed Doorsteps, or mobile device to which you have loaded Doorsteps and which you have registered to access Doorsteps.
(g) Email means electronic message.
(h) Estimated Value means the estimated value of a Property based on historical data from our Data Providers.
(i) Feed means a list of your previous Searches.
(j) Financial Insights means an analysis and report generated from your Financial Profile relating to a particular Property, including estimates relating to available funds after a deposit is paid, estimated loan amounts and loan to value ratio based on the deposit, and where your funds will be allocated (based on a breakdown between the estimated loan repayments, expenses, and leftover cash).
(k) Financial Profile means information that you provide to us through Doorsteps, including relating to your first home buyer status, owner/occupier or investor status, whether you are purchasing with a partner, whether you have dependants, your approximate total savings for a deposit, your approximate annual pre-tax income, and your approximate expenses.
(l) Intellectual Property Rights means any intellectual property rights subsisting anywhere in the world, whether or not now existing, including:
(n) Location means a suburb or postcode in Australia.
(o) Location Data means the real-time geographic location of your Device, determined in accordance with your Device settings.
(p) Market Insights means an analysis and report generated for the Location based on historical data from our Data Providers, including in relation to median rental figures, market activity (thermometer), days on market (average number of days a Property is Listed before it sells), price trends (trend in average sale price for Property in the Location), vendor discounts (average percentage difference between a Property’s Listing price and eventual sale price);
(q) Notifications means any alerts, updates, or messages that Doorsteps initiates and sends to you via your Device.
(r) Password means the password you select for use in conjunction with your Account.
(s) Points of Interest means a specific location that you would like to see relative to the Property Listings provided.
(t) Property means any residential real estate property of any type, including houses, townhouses, units, apartments, and land.
(u) Property Search Details means the search variables that you can control to refine the Listings that are made available to you in a Search, including your selected Location, Property type, Suburb Details, Points of Interest, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, number of car spaces, and price range.
(v) Search means a search for Listings matching your selected Property Search Details.
(w) State and Territory Data means data in relation to the demographics and statistics for a Location, and records of land status and cadastral boundary definition, procured by our Data Providers from the relevant State and Territories.
(x) Doorsteps means the software application or any service we offer from time to time through a communication network to enable you to perform Searches for Listings, review Financial Insights and Market Insights, and review the Estimated Value of Properties, or other matters we specify.
(y) Suburb Details means the suburb characteristics (i.e. beachy, leafy or city) and/or community type (i.e. family, student, professional or over 60s) of a Location based on historical data sourced from our Data Providers, publicly available information and government agencies such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.
(z) Third Party Websites means any websites operated by third parties.
(za) Update means an update, maintenance, addition or removal of any features or functionality, redesign, improvements, new versions, or any modifications to Doorsteps.
(zb) Upfront Costs means the estimated stamp duty, government fees, conveyancer fees, and property inspection fees associated with the purchase of a Property.
Effective as at 1 April 2021