vehiclemark.com (the “Site”) and the Vehicle Mark mobile applications (together the “Apps”) are all operated by Vehicle Mark Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our” or “Vehicle Mark”), a company registered in England and Wales. Our company registration number is 16621011 and our registered office is at 20 Wenlock Road, London, England, N1 7GU.
To contact us, you may use the contact us form on the site. If we have to contact you we will do so by writing to you at the email address or postal address you provided to us.
By using our Site and/or Apps, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Site or any of our Apps. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
Please see our legal section for additional terms and policies that apply to our services.
We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Site or Apps, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
We may update and change our Site and/or Apps from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our services, our users’ needs and our business priorities.
Our Site and Apps are made available free of charge (albeit certain functionalities are accessible following payment of a Premium Upgrade fee, further details below).
We do not guarantee that our Site or any of our Apps, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Site or Apps for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal. Please ensure you visit the Site and Apps routinely to receive such notice.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site or Apps through your Internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions (see above), and that they comply with them.
Certain functionalities of our Apps are only available if you upgrade to Premium. This requires you to pay a fee to your applicable app store. The terms and conditions of your purchase are those of the applicable app store from which you purchase the upgrade.
Our Site and Apps are directed to people who are enquiring about a vehicle registered in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We do not represent that content available on or through our Site or Apps is appropriate in respect of other locations.
If we believe you may be abusing our service (for example, exceeding the internal quotas which we set at a reasonable level, making excessive bulk vehicle data requests, data scraping or attempting to overload our system), we reserve the right to block your further use of our Site and Apps.
You have the ability to register an account with Vehicle Mark. You must be at least 16 years of age to register. At our discretion, we may refuse your application for registration. If we accept your application for registration, you will be given access at the point of application.
You undertake that all information provided by you for the purposes of registering with us is accurate and complete.
You accept sole responsibility for all use of, and for keeping confidential, any username, password or identification code that may have been given to you or chosen by you for use on the Site and Apps. You will notify us immediately of any unauthorised use of them or any other breach of security of the Site or Apps of which you become aware.
We have the right to permanently or temporarily block or ban any user or disable any identification code, account 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.
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site and Apps, and in the material published on them (including all data made available via them). All such rights are reserved.
Our Site and Apps contain public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Except for any use of our Site or Apps expressly permitted in these terms, you are not permitted to use or exploit our branding (including our company name, trade name and logo) without our prior written approval.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our Site or Apps.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Site and Apps must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).
You must not use any part of the content on our Site or Apps for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us.
If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our Site or Apps in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Site and Apps will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload your own content to our Site or Apps, you must not do so in any way that constitutes an Unacceptable Use (defined in the section below).
You warrant that any such contribution complies with these terms, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
We have the right to remove any content you upload on our Site or Apps if, in our opinion, it does not comply with these terms. In more serious cases, we may need to take further action such as reporting you to the appropriate authorities.
By continuing to make use of our Site and/or Apps, you warrant, represent and undertake that you shall not under any circumstances:
The above shall all be deemed to be “Unacceptable Use”. The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of your purchase of any of our services from us, which will be set out in our Terms and Conditions of Service.
Vehicle Mark does not exclude or limit in any way its liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, and for any other liability which would be unlawful to exclude or limit.
Whilst we use reasonable care to ensure the content on our Site and Apps (including data contained within our vehicle data service) is accurate, correct and up to date, Vehicle Mark cannot guarantee this to be the case. This is because much of the content provided to us is sourced from third parties such as the DVLA and DVSA. We are therefore not liable for any inaccuracies, omissions or errors in any information provided via the Site or Apps.
Furthermore, in respect of any vehicle data report we provide to you, we also have to expect a reasonably necessary delay between data being provided to the third party supplier, their inputting the data onto their data system and this being sent to us and loaded into our systems before being made available to you via the Site or Vehicle Mark App for checking. Therefore, we can only make available to you the information that is available to us at the time you request the vehicle data, taking into account the reasonably necessary delay as mentioned. The information we provide is a ‘snapshot’ of the data we have available to give to you at that particular time.
We recommend that you do not solely rely on us for information prior to making any decisions, whether to purchase a vehicle or otherwise. We also recommend that you make independent arrangements to assess the performance, condition, safety and legality of any vehicle you are looking to purchase.
The information we provide is not intended to be relied on by you in making (or refraining from making) any specific decision or to replace independent professional advice.
Any and all information provided by us in connection with the Site and Apps is for general information purposes only. You are responsible for any opinions, recommendations, forecasts or other conclusions made or actions taken by you or anyone else on the basis of information provided on the Site or Apps. Nothing provided by us in connection with the Site or Apps is, or shall be deemed to constitute, financial, legal, regulatory, tax, professional or other advice.
Vehicle Mark does not guarantee that any part of the service online will be uninterrupted and accepts no liability for any failure, delay, interruption or breakdown in network connections and/or point-to-point connectivity across the Internet and other networks which may affect their provision and is outside Vehicle Mark’s immediate control.
If you are a consumer, if defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you reasonable compensation.
If you are a consumer, Vehicle Mark only makes the Site and Apps available for you in your personal capacity and for personal use. You agree not to use the Site or Apps for any commercial, business or re-sale purposes, and Vehicle Mark shall not be liable to you for any loss of profit or revenue, loss of business, loss of goodwill, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
If you are a business, Vehicle Mark shall not be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, for any (whether direct or indirect):
in connection with your use of the Site or Apps or for any other indirect or consequential loss.
Where our Site or Apps contain links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
Our Site or Apps may include information and materials uploaded by other users or account holders, including to bulletin boards and feedback pages. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our Site or Apps do not represent our views or values.
We do not guarantee that our Site or Apps will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Site and Apps. You should use your own virus protection software.
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. 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. You must not establish a link to our Site in any website that is not owned by you. Our Site must not be framed on any other site.
The way in which you are linking must not under any circumstances fall within the scope of Unacceptable Use as described further above in these terms of use.
If you are a consumer, the following applies: these terms are governed by the law of England and Wales and you can bring legal proceedings in the courts of England and Wales. If you are a consumer and live in Scotland, you can bring legal proceedings in either the Scottish courts or the courts of England and Wales. If you are a consumer and live in Northern Ireland, you can bring legal proceedings in either the Northern Irish courts or the courts of England and Wales.
If you are a business, these terms 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 and both parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these terms or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims).