Terms and conditions of use

TicoRemates is an informational platform. It reads the auction notices the Judiciary of Costa Rica publishes in the Judicial Bulletin, organises them, places them on a map by survey plan number, and gives each one a score calculated from what the notice itself says.

It is worth being explicit about what it is not, because the name may suggest otherwise:

• We do not hold auctions. Auctions are called and conducted by the court handling the case.
• We take no offers, bids or deposits, and we do not act between bidders, creditors or defendants.
• We are not part of the Judiciary and do not represent it, and this site does not replace the official publication.
• We give no legal, financial or real-estate advice. Nothing published here is an investment recommendation.

Before taking part in an auction, always confirm the terms directly with the court and with the National Registry.

The primary source is the Judicial Bulletin of the Judiciary of Costa Rica (ISSN 2953-7428), which is publicly accessible. Added to it are open location and cartography data from the National Territorial Information System, the National Geographic Institute, and OpenStreetMap.

Every listing states which publication it came from and on what date, so you can go to the original document and check it.

We do not guarantee that the information is complete, current or free of error. A notice can be corrected, an auction can be suspended and a debt can be paid without that showing here straight away. The enquiry that counts is the one against the case file.

The 0–100 score is an automatic calculation. It combines what can be verified from the notice and the survey plan — location, area, price per square metre, driving time, declared restrictions — and weighs them according to the strategy you pick in the search.

It is not an appraisal, not a valuation, not a professional opinion on what the property is worth, and not a prediction of what will happen at the auction. A high score only means the published data holds together; it does not mean the purchase is a good one, nor that the property is free of problems the notice does not mention.

The breakdown is visible on every listing precisely so that you can judge the calculation rather than take it on faith.

The catalogue can be browsed without an account. An account is what lets you save favourites, save searches and receive alerts.

• You are responsible for keeping your password to yourself and for everything done under your account.
• You must be of legal age to register.
• An account is personal. Do not share it or pass on your access.
• You can close it whenever you like by writing to soporte@ticoremates.com.

There is a free plan and there are paid plans. The free plan gives access to the whole catalogue and needs no card. Paid plans add the analysis: exact location, cadastral boundary, the score breakdown, real driving times, unlimited alerts and official layers over the map.

Prices are stated in United States dollars and charged per monthly period, unless the plans page states another period.

While the beta lasts, paid-plan features may be open to every account. That is a temporary courtesy and creates no acquired right: when the beta closes, each feature returns to the plan it belongs to.

Payments are processed through Paddle, acting as merchant of record for the transaction. In practical terms:

• The sale is made by Paddle. Paddle issues the invoice and the charge appears on your statement under Paddle's name, not TicoRemates'.
• Whatever tax applies in your country of residence is calculated, collected and remitted by Paddle. Published prices exclude tax unless stated otherwise at checkout.
• Your card details are entered into a Paddle form and travel straight to Paddle. TicoRemates neither receives nor stores them.
• Taking a paid plan also means accepting Paddle's buyer terms, which are shown to you during checkout.

We accept whichever payment methods Paddle enables for your country, which normally include credit and debit cards and, depending on the region, others such as PayPal.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period, for an equal period, until you cancel.

You can cancel at any time from the management link in Paddle's confirmation email, or by writing to us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period already paid for: you keep access until then and are not charged again.

If a renewal charge fails, we retry it over a few days. If it still does not go through, the subscription is suspended and the account returns to the free plan, with none of your favourites or saved searches lost.

If the plan is not for you, we refund the first full period provided you ask within fourteen calendar days of the first charge.

Renewal charges are not refunded, because you could have cancelled before they happened; what we do instead is cancel immediately so there is no next charge. The exception is a duplicate charge or a mistake of ours: that is refunded in full, with no time limit.

To request a refund, write to soporte@ticoremates.com from your account address. We process it through Paddle and the money returns by the same method you paid with.

None of the above limits the rights granted to you by Costa Rica's Law No. 7472 on Consumer Protection.

We may change prices. Where a change affects a live subscription, we will email you at least thirty days beforehand and the new price applies from the following renewal. If you disagree, you can cancel before that date at no cost.

The site is for informational use, personal or professional. The following are prohibited:

• Extracting the content by automated means — crawling, scraping or anything else — without our written permission.
• Reproducing or redistributing the catalogue, in whole or in substantial part, to assemble an equivalent service.
• Using the information to harass, pressure or contact the people named in the notices.
• Altering the content and presenting it as coming from us or from the Judiciary.
• Attempting to breach the site's security, reach other people's accounts, or interfere with its operation.

Consulting the Judicial Bulletin at its official source is and remains free for anyone. What these rules protect is the collection, geolocation and calculation work we add on top.

The design, the code, the brand, the scoring methodology, the geolocated database and the site's own text belong to TicoRemates and are protected by Costa Rican and international copyright law.

The text of the notices is an official publication of the Judiciary of Costa Rica and keeps its nature and attribution. Cartography comes from OpenStreetMap and from SNIT/IGN under their respective licences, credited in the site footer and on the map.

We do what is reasonable to keep the site up, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability. There may be outages for maintenance, through our providers, or from causes outside our control, and we may change or withdraw features.

Use of the site is at your own risk. To the extent the law allows, TicoRemates and those working on it are not liable for loss arising from decisions taken on the basis of what is published here, nor for being unable to use the site.

In particular, we are not liable for differences between what a listing shows and what the case file says, for auctions that are suspended, cancelled or moved, nor for liens, occupants or restrictions the notice does not mention.

If liability on our part were nonetheless established, it is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event.

The site links to official portals and to third-party mapping and navigation services. Those links are there for your convenience and imply no endorsement by us and no control over their content or practices.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, in particular the prohibitions in section 10. Where a subscription is live and the closure is not down to a breach by you, we refund the unused portion.

We may update these terms. The version in force is always the one published on this page, with its date. Where a change is material and you hold an account, we will email you before it takes effect.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Costa Rica. Any dispute will be submitted to the competent Costa Rican courts.

soporte@ticoremates.com

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