Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of CasaFinder, a macOS application for browsing and scoring rental listings. Please read them carefully before purchasing or using the software.

Last updated 8 September 2026

1. What you’re buying

CasaFinder is a single-user, local-first macOS application that runs entirely on your computer. When you purchase a licence, you are buying the right to use the compiled application on your own Mac. The software:

• Runs on your own machine — no ongoing hosted service, no mandatory cloud account, no data sent to us.
• Requires a valid licence file to run. Your licence is tied to your email address and the purchase record is retained by Stripe, our payment processor.
• Periodically checks for updates by sending a POST to casafinder.co.uk/api/updates with your licence email. That’s the only data we receive from you after purchase.
• Is provided as-is. You acknowledge that software has bugs, and accept the risk that it may not work as expected or lose data due to a fault.

2. Licence grant and restrictions

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the compiled CasaFinder application on your own Mac for your own personal use. This licence does not give you the right to:

• Redistribute the application, whether as the original CasaFinder.dmg or a modified version, to anyone else.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the compiled application to extract algorithms, data structures, or logic for re-use elsewhere.
• Sell access to the application, or charge others to use it.
• Use the application on multiple computers, or share your licence file across machines or users.

Violation of these restrictions may result in termination of your licence and your access to the software.

3. Acceptable use

CasaFinder reads publicly visible rental listings from property websites (Rightmove, OnTheMarket, and SpareRoom) on your behalf. The application:

• Makes requests from your own computer, not from our servers.
• Reads listings at a deliberately slow, low rate — requesting search results pages once per run, with randomised delays between requests.
• Does not log in, create accounts, or submit anything on your behalf.
• Deduplicates before fetching — listing detail pages are only re-visited when new or older than previous scans.
• Does not attempt to work around access controls, CAPTCHAs, or bot-detection systems. If a website blocks the scraper, it stops trying rather than escalating.

This conduct falls within the scope of fair reading of publicly posted data, comparable to browsing the sites manually. You remain responsible for compliance with each site’s own terms of service, and we recommend you review them. We have no responsibility for any breach of those terms on your part.

4. No warranty

The software is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind.

Except where prohibited by law, we disclaim all express and implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that the software will be uninterrupted or error-free.

We do not warrant that:

• The software will do what you need it to do.
• Listings, scores, or analyses produced by the software are accurate or complete.
• The software will not contain bugs, corrupt your data, or cause harm to your computer.
• Rental websites will not change, block the scraper, or return different data over time.

5. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law under the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015:

We will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss arising from your use of or inability to use the software, including (but not limited to) lost data, lost income, lost profit, or business interruption — even if we have been advised of the possibility of such loss.

Our total liability to you for any claim arising from this licence or your use of the software shall not exceed the amount you paid for the licence.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

Nothing in these terms removes or restricts any statutory consumer rights you have under UK law, including your right to a refund if the software does not conform to the contract, or to a remedy for misleading statements about the software.

6. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to its conflict-of-law provisions. Any dispute arising from these terms or your use of the software shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

7. Refunds

We offer a full refund within 14 days of purchase if the software does not work as described or if you change your mind, in line with the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. To request a refund, contact [contact email — to be added before launch] with your purchase receipt or licence email address.

8. Data sourced from third-party websites

CasaFinder reads and displays rental listings that belong to third-party property websites (Rightmove, OnTheMarket, SpareRoom, and others). Those websites retain ownership of the listing data. We do not claim ownership of the listings themselves and make no warranty about their accuracy or completeness — that responsibility lies with the websites and landlords who posted them.

The scores and analyses generated by CasaFinder are our own and for your personal use only. Reproducing or redistributing those analyses, the listings, or any part of them without permission from the original sources or us is not permitted.

9. Support and contact

For questions about these terms, issues with your licence, or requests for support, contact:

[Trader name — to be added before launch]
[Trading address — to be added before launch]
[contact email — to be added before launch]

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms at any time. If a change materially affects your rights or obligations, and we hold your email address, we will tell you. Your continued use of the software after a change means you accept the new terms.

11. Severability

If any part of these terms is held to be unenforceable, the remainder shall continue in full force and effect, and the unenforceable provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving our intent.