Website Terms of Use

Last updated October 2019

These are Terms of Use on which you may use www.lendable.co.uk, its subsections and any of its microsites (the Website). Please read these carefully before you start to use the Website. By using our Website you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please refrain from using our Website.

If you are using our Website as a potential borrower, please note that you should always think very carefully before you commit to taking out a loan. Before proceeding with a loan, please make sure you read the pre-contract disclosure document and loan agreement provided to you and seek advice if you are unclear about any of the terms.

1. Information about us

www.lendable.co.uk is a website operated by Lendable Limited (we, us). We are a Private Limited Company, registered in the United Kingdom under company number 08828186 and have our registered office at Lendable, Telephone House, 69-77 Paul St, London, EC2A 4NW.

2. Other applicable terms

These Terms of Use refer to our privacy policy, which also applies to your use of our Website. By using our Website, you consent to the terms and conditions of our privacy policy and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

3. Accessing our Website

Access to our Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our Website without notice (see below). We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We will not be liable if for any reason our Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Website.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use, we grant you permission to use our Website, provided that: (a) use of our Website is permitted is solely for your personal use, and you are not permitted to resell or charge others for use of or access to our Website, or to use our Website in any other manner inconsistent with these Terms of Use; (b) you will not duplicate, transfer, give access to, copy or distribute any part of our Website in any medium without our prior written authorisation; and (c) you will otherwise comply with the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use and our privacy policy.

You confirm that you are over 18 years of age and are fully competent to enter into and comply with these Terms of Use and our privacy policy.

4. Eligibility and Fees - Borrowers

To subscribe to the lending services we provide through our Website, you must meet our eligibility criteria.

To be eligible as a borrower you must:

be an individual residing in the UK;
be at least 18 years old; and
have a current account at a UK bank or building society.

As a borrower, if you meet our eligibility criteria set out above, you will be able to set up an account with our Website and may apply for a loan through our Website. As part of our loan approval process we may:

make identity, fraud, income and credit checks;
obtain a credit rating for you from the credit reference agency we use; and
carry out anti-money laundering checks on you.

All loan applications are subject to our approval and we can decline a loan application for any reason. If we approve your application for a loan, you will need to enter into a loan agreement with us. We will not lend any money to you until you enter into such loan agreement.

Our loan agreement will clearly set out the fees that will apply to your loan. If you have any questions about our fees, please contact us at contact@lendable.co.uk.

5. Eligibility - Investors

To be eligible as an investor one of the following must apply to you:

You are an investment professional
You represent a company, partnership, or trust
You are a self-certified sophisticated investor

You may contact us by emailing invest@lendable.co.uk so that we may establish whether you qualify as an investor in loans made by Lendable. No part of the Website constitutes an inducement or offer to buy securities.

6. Your account and password

When you subscribe to our Website, as part of our security procedures be provided with, a user identification code and password. You must treat such information as confidential and must not disclose it to any third party.

When you use our Website we will check your identity by asking for your user identification code and password. If the correct user identification code and password are provided, we will assume that you are the person giving instructions and making transactions. You will therefore be liable for such instructions and transactions.

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 any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at contact@lendable.co.uk.

We may refuse to act on any instruction that we believe:

was not submitted by you;
was not clear;
might cause us to breach a legal or other duty; or
suggests that our Website is being used for an illegal purpose or a purpose * that is in breach of our regulatory obligations.

7. Our site changes regularly

We aim to update our Website regularly, and (provided such changes do not adversely affect you) may change the content at any time without notice by posting such changes on our Website. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our Website, or close it indefinitely without notice. Any of the material on our Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

8. Termination of your account

If you open a borrower account with us, once you have repaid all of the loans that we have granted to you, you may terminate your account with us by sending us an email to contact@lendable.co.uk.

Following notice of termination of your account, we will provide you with limited access to our Website and the “My loans” area of the Website for seven days so that you can download any of your account content or information relating to your loan(s). After the end of the seven day period, you will no longer be able to access the “My loans” area of our Website. However, we and our collections agency will continue to maintain records regarding you to the extent that we are required by law to do so.

We may terminate your account if you have lied to us, seriously or repeatedly breached these Terms of Use, die, become bankrupt or make a voluntary arrangement with anyone you owe money to.

We may either terminate or suspend your account immediately and without notice if we are aware or reasonably suspect that you are engaged in, or may be the victim of, any fraudulent activity. We will then notify you of any such termination or suspension as soon as is reasonably practicable, to the extent we are permitted to do so by applicable law.

9. Our liability

Except as expressly stated in these Terms of Use, we do not give any representations, warranties or undertakings in relation to our Website.

To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude our liability under or in connection with these Terms of Use and/or your use of our Website whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise. This does not apply to the types of loss set out below.

Nothing in these Terms of Use shall limit or exclude our liability for:

death or personal injury resulting from our negligence;
fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

10. Intellectual property rights

We or our licensees are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Website, and in the material published on it. You must not use any part of the materials on our Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

11. Reliance on information posted

Commentary, information and other materials posted on our Website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. The material displayed on our Website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

12. Uploading content to our Website

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Website, or to make contact with other users of our Website, you must comply with the content standards which we upload to our Website from time to time.

You warrant that any such contribution complies with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of this warranty. If you are a consumer user, 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 Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such content for any purpose.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who claims that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Website 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 posted by you or any other user of our Website.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with our content standards.

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

13. Information about you and your visits to our Website

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our Website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

14. Viruses, hacking and other offences

In the event that you knowingly place viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful on to our Website, your right to use our Website will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

15. Linking to and from our Website

You may link to our Website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but 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. 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 which we upload to our Website from time to time.

Where our Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

16. Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Website, although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

17. Agreement

These Terms of Use supplement any existing terms and conditions between you and Lendable Limited, and together these constitute the whole agreement between you and Lendable Limited. To the extent that there is any inconsistency between these Terms of Use and your existing terms and conditions, then these Terms of Use shall prevail in respect of our Website.

18. Variations

We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we may have made as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms of Use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Website.

19. Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material that appears on our Website, please contact us at contact@lendable.co.uk.