Terms of Use of CountryCottagesOnline.com

Please read through our terms of use of Country Cottages Online

Please note our terms and conditions of use below.  By using Country Cottages Online you are deemed to accept our terms and conditions.  If you do not agree with our terms and conditions please do not use Country Cottages Online.
We reserve the right to review our terms and conditions and update these from time to time.  

1.  About Country Cottages Online

This Site is owned by XE Website Solutions Limited. We are registered in England and Wales, company number 3991504.  Our registered address is 17 Fennfields Road, South Woodham, Essex, CM3 5RZ.  Our VAT number is 104 353357.

Country Cottages Online is an operating name of XE Website Solutions Ltd.  Country Cottages Online is an advertising portal which advertises self catering and country cottages online.  We are not an agency and do not get involved in cottage bookings.  All cottage bookings are made direct between users of this website and cottage owners or agencies.  We have no involvement in bookings, any contracts regarding bookings are between users of this site and the relevant cottage owner or agency.

2.  Access to Country Cottages Online

Whilst we take all reasonable steps to ensure that this website is available 24/7, we cannot be held liable if this website is unavailable at any time.  


3.  Information on this Website

As an advertising portal, Country Cottages Online essentially comprises a number of advertisements for cottage holidays.  We also provide some free area guide information.  You understand that we are not involved in the assessment or inspection of the self catering accommodation advertised on this website and make no representations about the suitability of the accommodation advertised on this website.  As a user of the site, it is your responsibility to ensure that a cottage meets your own specific requirements before making a booking.The accuracy of the ads on this website are the responsibility of the cottage owners or agencies advertising with us and we therefore disclaim any liability relating to any inaccuracies in any ads on this website.  That said, we are an ethical company who take all reasonable steps to ensure that advertisements on this website are accurate.  Ultimately if we receive a certain level of negative feedback from users of this website regarding an advertisement we reserve the right to remove that ad if we believe it to be inaccurate or misleading in any way.  We welcome feedback from users of this website regarding the accuracy of ads. 

This website contains links to third party websites.   These links are provided solely for information and we do not endorse any of these websites or their product.  We do not have control of the content of third party websites and therefore do not accept any responsibility for their content.  We do have a policy of only linking to sites that we believe to be reputable and will remove links to third party websites if it becomes apparent that they are not reputable but ultimately we cannot be held responsible for them.  

4.  Use of this website

This website is a portal for cottage owners and agencies to advertise their self catering cottages for a low cost annual advertising fee.  This website can also be used by potential holidaymakers for free to help find self catering accommodation online quickly and easily.  Permitted usage includes printing details for personal use.  We reserve copyright of this website and its contents including our logo.  You are not permitted to copy, modify, market or sell any of the contents on this website.  You must not use this website for illegal or unauthorised purposes.  

5.  Our Liability:

We do our utmost to ensure that our services are secure, uninterrupted and error free. However, such is the nature of internet businesses that this cannot be guaranteed.

We and our subsidiaries cannot be held liable for tort, goodwill, business loss, loss of data, reputation or for any losses which we cannot reasonably foresee arising directly or indirectly from:

- our services availability
- delays, interruptions or disruptions to our services
- errors in programming code or inaccuracies
- the actions of third parties


6.  Holiday Insurance

As with booking any holiday, for your own protection, we strongly advise that you take out holiday insurance or make sure that you have appropriate holiday insurance cover in place when booking a self catering cottage.  

7.  Intellectual Property

We own the intellectual property rights of this website.  All rights are reserved.

8.  Privacy

We have a privacy policy to protect the personal details that you opt to share with us and process all information in accordance with that policy.

9.  If any of the above terms is for any reason unenforceable, this does not affect all other terms included above.