Welcome to Yards & Acres (“Platform”, “Website”, “App”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our”). These Master Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) form a legally binding agreement between you (“User”, “You”, “Your”) and the operators of Yards & Acres, governing your access to and use of our website, mobile applications, APIs, communication channels, and associated digital real estate discovery services.

By creating an account, browsing listings, publishing a property or project, submitting an enquiry, or making any payment through our platform, you unequivocally acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Refund Policy, and applicable Seller/Developer guidelines. If you do not agree with any provision of these Terms, you must immediately cease accessing or using the Platform.

Yards & Acres is a premier digital technology marketplace providing discovery, advertising, and marketing solutions for the real estate industry, with primary operational presence in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, and adjoining metropolitan regions across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India.

The Platform bridges prospective Buyers seeking residential, commercial, and plotted land assets with independent Individual Sellers (property owners and authorized agents) and Entrepreneurs / Developers / Builders undertaking real estate layout developments and multi-unit construction ventures.

• “Buyer”: Any individual, Hindu Undivided Family (HUF), firm, or corporate entity who registers or browses the Platform with the intent to discover, inspect, save, or enquire regarding properties or ventures.
• “Seller”: An individual property owner, co-owner, legal heir, power of attorney holder, or mandated property consultant listing an individual resale or new flat, independent house/villa, or land parcel for sale or lease.
• “Developer / Entrepreneur”: A corporate entity, builder, colonizer, partnership firm, or venture promoter who lists multi-unit housing societies, gated community villas, townships, commercial towers, or plotted layouts.
• “Listing / Property”: An individual real estate offering posted on the Platform containing photos, price, dimensions, legal disclosures, and location details.
• “Project / Venture”: A master development project encompassing multiple units, phases, master layout plans, and amenities listed by a Developer.
• “Lead / Enquiry”: An expression of interest submitted by a Buyer (including contact name, verified mobile number, email, and property preference) requesting contact with the respective Seller or Developer.
• “Subscription Plan”: A fee-based or promotional entitlement enabling Sellers to publish listings up to a predefined quota during a specified validity period.
• “Priority Listing”: An optional promotional feature boosting a property’s visibility and ranking across search results and promotional feeds.

Use of the Platform is available only to persons who can form legally binding contracts under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. Persons who are “incompetent to contract” within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act (including minors below 18 years of age, un-discharged insolvents, or individuals of unsound mind) are strictly not eligible to register or transact on the Platform.

If you are accessing the Platform on behalf of a company, partnership, LLP, trust, or society, you explicitly represent and warrant that you possess requisite legal authority and board/partner authorizations to bind such entity to these Terms.

To access advanced features (such as posting properties, submitting enquiries, or accessing contact dossiers), you must register an account by providing accurate, current, and complete details including your full legal name, active mobile number, valid email address, and entity information where applicable.

You are solely responsible for safeguarding the confidentiality of your login credentials (passwords, OTPs, or authentication tokens). Any action originating from your authenticated account shall be conclusively deemed to have been authorized by you. You must immediately notify Yards & Acres of any unauthorized security breach or suspected compromise.

Buyers acknowledge that real estate investments involve substantial legal, financial, and regulatory considerations. While Yards & Acres facilitates discovery, the Buyer holds the sole and non-delegable duty to:

1. Physically visit and inspect the property, boundary demarcations, access roads, and soil condition.
2. Engage an independent legal advocate to examine the 30-year parent title deed chain, link documents, encumbrance certificates (EC), pattadar passbooks, and revenue records (e.g., Dharani / Meebhoomi).
3. Verify government sanctions, layout approvals (HMDA, GHMC, CRDA, DTCP, or local gram panchayat), and structural stability certifications.
4. Verify Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) registration certificates where mandatory under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016.
5. Verify that advance tokens, earnest money deposits (EMD), or sale consideration amounts are transferred exclusively to the verified registered titleholder or developer escrow account through traceable banking channels, and never in unverified cash or to third-party brokers without formal indemnity.

Every Seller who registers and publishes a listing on the Platform represents, warrants, and covenants that:

• They are the lawful registered owner of the subject property or possess a valid, unrevoked written authority/Power of Attorney to market the property.
• The property is free from undisclosed mortgages, court attachments, land acquisition notices, ceiling litigation, or family partition disputes.
• All uploaded images, carpet/built-up area figures, floor plans, and amenities truthfully represent the current state of the property without deceptive alteration.
• They shall promptly respond to forwarded buyer leads and update listing status to “Sold” or “Inactive” once the property is disposed of or withdrawn.

Builders and Developers listing projects or plotted ventures must comply with all provisions of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA). Developers must publish accurate Project RERA registration numbers, commencement certificates, sanctioned layout copies, delivery schedules, and escrow bank disclosures where required by law.

Developers must not advertise or offer for sale any plot, apartment, or building in any planning area without registering the real estate project with the respective state RERA authority (Telangana RERA or Andhra Pradesh RERA), unless specifically exempt under Section 3(2) of the RERA Act.

To maintain listing quality and deter fraudulent advertisements, Yards & Acres employs an administrative moderation queue. All submitted properties and projects undergo basic preliminary moderation before becoming publicly viewable.

The assignment of any status such as “Approved”, “Active”, or “Verified Developer” indicates solely that the user has satisfied our internal platform baseline documentation requirements (e.g., provided phone verification or stated a RERA registration number). Such status does not constitute a statutory, governmental, or legal certification of title, construction quality, or compliance with master plans.

Yards & Acres functions strictly as an “Intermediary” as defined under Section 2(1)(w) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and is entitled to the safe harbor protections guaranteed under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

The Platform operates purely as an online marketplace and discovery network where independent property owners, developers, and prospective buyers converge. Yards & Acres does not initiate transmissions, does not select the receiver of transmissions, and does not alter the information contained in the transmission without user authorization.

When a Buyer clicks “Get Contact Details” or “Enquire Now”, an enquiry record is created within our secure database. To safeguard buyer privacy and prevent commercial telemarketing abuse, all submitted enquiries enter an internal administrative review queue.

Once verified, Yards & Acres forwards the verified buyer contact snapshot (name, phone number, email, and enquiry note) to the respective Seller or Developer. Yards & Acres does not guarantee that any enquiry will result in an inspection, offer, negotiation, or consummated transaction.

Seller listing quotas are strictly calculated, tracked, and enforced server-side against our core database.

The system strictly prohibits and blocks any attempt to bypass upload limits via session termination, re-login, multi-device concurrent sessions, browser refreshes, deleting and re-creating listings, or direct API manipulation. Any unauthorized bypass attempt triggers automated security flags and potential account suspension.

Priority Listing is an optional promotional feature granting selected properties prominent banner placement, distinctive visual badges, and prioritized indexing across discovery searches for a defined duration (typically 30 days).

Essential Disclaimer: Activating Priority Listing does not guarantee property inquiries, phone calls, buyer site inspections, or completed sales. It represents an advertising placement service, not a transaction guarantee.

Online payments on Yards & Acres are facilitated via authorized, PCI-DSS compliant third-party payment gateways (including Razorpay Software Private Limited).

Service activation or quota crediting occurs strictly upon server-side cryptographic signature verification. A client-side visual notification or unverified browser confirmation shall never be recognized as proof of completed payment. Yards & Acres does not store debit/credit card numbers or CVV codes on our servers.

Users shall not engage in any of the following prohibited actions:

• Automated web scraping, data harvesting, or indexing of listings or buyer details using bots, crawlers, or scripts.
• Uploading forged title documents, fake encumbrance certificates, or altered layout sanctions.
• Reverse engineering, decompiling, or attempting to discover source code of our mobile apps or web applications.
• Circumventing platform security, testing vulnerabilities, or bypassing quota checks.
• Impersonating another person, broker, or developer.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable Indian law, Yards & Acres, its directors, officers, employees, and affiliates shall not be liable for any indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, including damages for loss of profits, goodwill, property transaction failures, or litigation expenses.

In any event, the aggregate cumulative liability of Yards & Acres arising out of or related to the use of the Platform shall be strictly capped at the total amount actually paid by the claiming user to Yards & Acres for the specific subscription service during the three (3) months preceding the incident giving rise to liability.