Host Terms & Conditions

Last Updated: April 17, 2026

STAYLONGER HOST TERMS

Welcome to Staylonger!

These terms and conditions legally bind and govern your access and use of the Services for the Term, which include the Applicable Policies of Staylonger, for use of the website, Platform or other service from us to you (Terms).

By viewing, accessing, browsing, or using the Platform or our Website, you acknowledge having read and agree to be bound by these Terms and any Applicable Policies including but not limited to those referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink such as:

If you have any questions relating to the Terms, please contact [email protected] prior to using the Platform.

1. About Our Terms

2. Role of Staylonger & Platform

It is expressly agreed between the parties that Staylonger runs the Platform that facilitates Bookings of your Properties for Guests, and Staylonger is not a representative of the property as an agent in any formal capacity.

3. Services

3.1 Booking Services

From the Start Date, we agree to provide the “Booking Services” described below, including Booking Services Inclusions:

3.2 Qualifying Guests

Staylonger makes no warranties that it has processes that will qualify the details, or the quality, of a Guest for a Booking.

3.3 Listing Services

From the Start Date, we agree to provide the “Listing Services” described below:

4. Data Privacy and Storage

4.1 Data Storage and Protection

Without narrowing the scope or terms of our Privacy Policy as referenced in Applicable Policies in the Reference Schedule:

4.2 Third Party Platform

5. Fees and Payments

6. Taxes

6.1 Your Responsibility

You agree that you have sole responsibility to determine and comply with your obligations to collect, pay and report any applicable sales taxes, indirect sales tax, occupancy tax, tourist or visitor taxes or income taxes (“Taxes”) in relation to Bookings. You also agree that it is your responsibility to include and incorporate any applicable Taxes in your Booking Fees.

6.2 Tax Collection

Tax regulations may mean that we have to collect Tax information from you. They may also mean that we have to hold back an amount equivalent to Taxes from payments that we make to you. If you don’t provide us with the necessary Tax information under applicable law to enable us to comply with any obligation that we have to keep back Taxes from payments to you, then we are entitled to keep back payments to you to the same value as the relevant Taxes until the obligation has been complied with.

6.3 Tax Descriptions

You agree and understand that (depending on where your Property is located) certain Taxes may be calculated as a percentage of the Booking Fees, an amount per day or other method of calculation. These Taxes:

6.4 Collection and Payment

6.5 Double Collection

If we collect Tourist Taxes when the Guest makes a Booking you agree that you will not collect any Tourist Taxes that we are collecting for the Booking.

6.6 Discharge Full Tax Obligation

You agree that if the Taxes that we collect and/or pay on your behalf do not fully discharge your tax obligations on a Booking then you will pay to us or the relevant Tax Authority the balance due. You agree that we have no liability to you other than a potential obligation to pay Tourist Taxes that we have collected on the Booking.

7. Your Obligations

8. Listing Materials and Platform Use

8.1 Warranties

By sending, uploading or posting any Listing Material to the Platform:

8.2 Licence

We need certain permissions from you to provide the Platform with the Listing Content. The following ensures we have the rights required to provide the Platform successfully for all who have access to it:

8.3 Listing Removal

9. Intellectual Property

10. Confidentiality and Privacy

11. Liability

11.1 Warranties and Limitations

11.2 Limitation of Liability

11.3 Indemnity

You indemnify us and our Personnel from and against all losses, claims, expenses, damages and liabilities (including any taxes, fees or costs) which arise in connection with:

12. Cancellation

12.1 Cancellation of a Booking

12.2 Cancellation of Services

13. Disputes

14. Notices

15. Force Majeure

16. General

16.1 Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This agreement is governed by the law applying in Victoria, Australia. Each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria, Australia and courts of appeal from them in respect of any proceedings arising out of or in connection with this agreement. Each party irrevocably waives any objection to the venue of any legal process on the basis that the process has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

16.2 Waiver

No party to this agreement may rely on the words or conduct of any other party as a waiver of any right unless the waiver is in writing and signed by the party granting the waiver.

16.3 Severance

Any term of this agreement which is wholly or partially void or unenforceable is severed to the extent that it is void or unenforceable. The validity and enforceability of the remainder of this agreement is not limited or otherwise affected.

16.4 Joint and Several Liability

An obligation or a liability assumed by, or a right conferred on, two or more persons binds or benefits them jointly and severally.

16.5 Assignment

You cannot assign, novate or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations under this agreement without the prior written consent of the other party.

16.6 Entire Agreement

This agreement embodies the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes any prior negotiation, conduct, arrangement, understanding or agreement, express or implied, in relation to the subject matter of this agreement.

16.7 Electronic Agreement

By listing a property, accepting a booking, or otherwise using this platform as a host, you acknowledge and agree that all interactions, agreements, and transactions conducted via this website—including the acceptance of these Terms and Conditions—are legally binding and enforceable under the Electronic Transactions (Victoria) Act 2000 (“the Act”).

17. Definitions and Interpretation

17.1 Definitions

  • Agreement means the terms and conditions herein, also referred to as “Terms”.
  • Applicable Policies means any and all adopted policies or regulations we adopt for application to you, the Platform, a Listing, Property, or Booking, which may be changed from time to time in our discretion, and applicable from the time of their publication publicly via the Website, Platform or otherwise, and will include but are not limited to: Host Cancellation; Guest Terms; Guest Management by Host Policy, applicable upon link being provided to you.
  • Booking means once a Guest commits to the Listing for a continuous stay via the Platform.
  • Booking Fee means 7.7% of the total booking including cleaning and any additions but not including bonds.
  • Code means any relevant regulation or law that provides obligations on the Host in the State of the Property.
  • Cleaning Fee means 7.7% of cleaning fees.
  • Confidential Information means information of or provided by a party that is by its nature is confidential information, is designated by that party as confidential, or that the other party knows or ought to know is confidential, but does not include information, which is or becomes, without a breach of confidentiality, public knowledge. For the avoidance of doubt, Confidential Information will include information related to a Guest or Booking that might be considered private or confidential by you or any third party.
  • Fees means the various charges and fees payable under these Terms, notably those in clause 5.
  • Guest means the individual or group of individuals who have made a Booking.
  • Guest Fee means any fee we charge the Guest for their Booking, including ancillary charges or fees applicable to their Booking that we may determine at our absolute discretion.
  • House Rules means the terms, rules, and conditions you provide for each Listing and which will be presented on the relevant Listing for the Guest to agree to and comply with.
  • Intellectual Property Rights means any and all present and future intellectual and industrial property rights throughout the world, including copyright, trademarks, designs, patents or other proprietary asset or right, moral rights, Confidential Information and the right to have information kept confidential, or any rights to registration of such rights whether created before or after the date of these Terms, whether registered or unregistered, all of the above in full or in part.
  • Instant Booking means a Booking that does not require any interaction with or notice to the Host prior to being confirmed on the Platform or by us.
  • Listing Material means all materials owned or licensed by us in connection with the Platform and any Intellectual Property Rights attaching to those materials.
  • Personnel means, in respect of a party, its officers, employees, contractors (including subcontractors) and agents.
  • Platform means the software product that appears to its users as an automated booking platform we provide to make Bookings for your Property as referenced in clause 3.1(a).
  • Property/Properties means the property or properties that are properly set up on the Platform by you and which the representations and warranties within these Terms apply.
  • Property Conditions means the conditions stated by you, and accepted by Staylonger and communicated to the Guest, which includes the Guest Booking Terms and would dictate whether a Security Hold is released in full or in part.
  • Security Hold means the amount to be held is nominated by you, and processed as a pre-authorised hold on a Guest’s credit/debit card two (2) days prior to Guest checking in, and upon the Property Conditions being complied with by the Guest, such Security Hold is released approximately five (5) days after check out.
  • Services means the Booking Services listed in clause 3.1 and the Listing Services described in clause 3.3.
  • Stay Fee means the per night fee that is agreed to be charged for the Booking nominated by you on each Listing on the Platform.
  • Term means from the Start Date until cancelled or terminated in accordance with clause 12.
  • Website means staylonger.com.au and any other site operated by us in connection with the Platform.

17.2 Interpretation

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