Lay My Hat

Actually, I still doubt it is ethical to prohibit me using my reviews. I sent official question to booking rep. We'll see what they say.
But generally you're right: reputation is everything

why I ask is: property owners from Lviv, Ukraine want to crowndund and make national booking portal. I'm think of making a web-scraping tool to collect property reviews automatically from different sites and put the to appropriate apartments. Looks like if we say in our t&c "we don't know w...

If it matters so much to you have you checked to see what all the other portals say on this matter? I will now add another question: In your research what are your findings? I checked booking.com, tripadvisor, airbnb and local ukrainian site. Looks like airbnb is the most tolerant. I'm trying to ge...

How does this affect your rental? If you are new to ths business, you put your listing on booking.com or other sites. When you earn enough, you make own website, but until then you get tens of reviews. After you launch your site it looks ok but reviews could raise conversion significantly. Meanwhil...

but if you are a property owner, may you use all reviews , say left on booking.com, about you/your property on your website?

I'm reading booking.com terms and conditions and can't believe my eyes: they say that guest reviews is "their (booking.com) intellectual property" .
To my mind, a review about me and my property is mine too because it relates to me personally. How do you think