Please read and accept these terms of use carefully before using our Sites, as these will apply to your use of our Sites.

We recommend that you print a copy of the Terms for future reference. By using our Sites, you confirm that you accept the Terms and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our Sites.

1. Other Applicable Terms

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Sites:

Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us.

Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our Sites. When using our Sites, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.

Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our Sites.

2. Accessing our Sites

Our Sites are made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our Sites, or any content on them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our Sites is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our Sites without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our Sites are unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Sites.

You are also responsible for ensuring that any persons with access to our Sites through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and the other applicable terms and conditions listed above, and that they comply with them.

3. Your account and password

If you choose, or you are provided with, any user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures to set up an account, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with applicable law or any of the provisions of these terms of use and/or if we believe that your account is being used in an unauthorized or fraudulent manner.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password you must promptly notify us at info@6apt.com. Following such notification you may be required to set up a new account with a new identification code and/or password.

4. Agreements between Users of Our Sites

Our Sites allow property owners and managers to advertise their properties (each, an "Advertiser") to potential leaseholders (each, a "Student").

We do not own or manage, nor do we contract for, any rental property listed on our Sites. We will not be a party to any agreement between users. All aspects of a transaction between a leaseholder and a landlord, including (but not limited to) the quality, condition, safety or legality of the properties advertised and the ability of a user to enter into a transaction are solely the responsibility of each user.

We demand both the leaseholder and the landlord to submit the authenticable identification information. We do not have any responsibility for the confirmation of a leaseholder and/or landlord's identity. We encourage users to take all such steps as necessary to communicate directly with each other (as applicable) to assure yourself of the other person's identity, details of the property and any tenancy agreement.

5. No reliance on information

The content of our Sites are provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Sites, including entering into a tenancy agreement for a property on our Sites.

We have no duty to pre-screen content posted on our Sites by users whether directly contributed by the user or contributed by us or a third party on behalf of the user (including, without limitation, property listings, reviews of a property, participation in an interactive community, forum or blog or any other content provided by a user to our Sites).

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Sites, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Sites is accurate, complete or up-to-date. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for the accuracy of the property information displayed.

We make no representations about the suitability of the information and services available on our Sites for any purpose and the inclusion of any properties on our Sites does not constitute any endorsement or recommendation of such properties by us.

6. Limitation of our Liability

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by applicable law as set out in clause 11.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our Sites or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

use of, or inability to use, our Sites;
the accuracy of any property listings; and/or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Sites.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Sites or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our Sites. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

We will not be liable for any act, error, omission, representations, warranties, breach or negligence by or of any third party, including landlord or leaseholder.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our Sites. Such links should not be interpreted as an endorsement by us of those linked websites.

7. Uploading content to Our Sites

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Sites, or to make contact with other users of our Sites, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with the Acceptable Use Policy, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our Sites or provide to us in any other way for us to use on our Sites will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but are required to grant us and other users of our Sites a royalty-free, worldwide license to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who can reasonably demonstrate that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Sites constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content or listings posted by you or any other user.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Sites if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

The views expressed by other users do not represent our views or values.

8. Viruses

We do not guarantee that our Sites will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform in order to access our Sites. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our Sites by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our Sites, the server on which our Sites are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Sites. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you could commit a criminal offence under applicable cyber law. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Sites will cease immediately.

9. Linking to our Sites

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our Sites in any website that is not owned by you.

Our Sites must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Sites other than the home pages.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to make any use of content on our Sites other than that set out above, please contact infochina@6apt.com.

10. Third party links and resources on our Sites

Where our Sites contain links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.

Any maps provided on our Sites that are provided by Google are subject to the current terms and conditions published by Google available at:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/terms_maps.html and https://developers.google.com/maps/terms.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

11. Applicable Law

Please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by Chinese law and you and we both agree that the courts of China will have non-exclusive jurisdiction.

12. Cookies

"Cookie" is a message, such as a label, that is retained in your device during your visit to the Site. Cookies improve the user experience by preserving preferences when users browse the site. Personal information in cookies is limited to user-provided information. Cookies cannot read data from a user's hard disk or a cookie file created by another site. Most major websites use cookies, which is an industry standard practice.

We use cookie information to tailor our services to suit their needs. Many of the improvements and updates to our site are based on this data.

We reserve the right to modify or amend our cookie policy for any reason at any time. These changes will be posted on our website and will become effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of our website after any updates from us indicates your acceptance of such changes.