Terms and Conditions
1. Agreement and operator
These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Optimotor’s website, vehicle-search tools, saved vehicles, ownership-cost tools, maintenance analyses, subscriptions, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By using the Service, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Policy.
The legal name and business address of the entity that operates Optimotor must be confirmed before these draft Terms are published as final.
2. Eligibility
You may use the Service only if you can form a binding contract and are not prohibited from using it under applicable law. The minimum permitted age must be approved before these draft Terms are published as final. If you use the Service for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it to these Terms.
3. Accounts
Some features require an account. You agree to provide accurate information, keep it current, protect your authentication credentials, and notify us promptly of suspected unauthorized use. You are responsible for activity under your account except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise.
We may suspend or terminate access when reasonably necessary to protect the Service or others, investigate suspected misuse, enforce these Terms, or comply with law. Where appropriate, we will provide notice and an opportunity to address the issue.
4. Vehicle listings and third-party services
Vehicle listings, prices, availability, specifications, dealer details, history, photos, and links may come from third parties and may be delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate. Optimotor is not the seller or dealer unless expressly stated. Confirm all material information directly with the applicable seller before acting.
The Service may link to or depend on third-party services, including Clerk, Stripe, OpenAI, Google Maps Platform, and vehicle-data providers. Their services are governed by their own terms and policies. Optimotor is not responsible for third-party sites, offers, conduct, or content.
5. Estimates and generated information
Ownership costs, fuel information, maintenance analyses, repair estimates, market comparisons, and other outputs are estimates for general informational purposes. They may be generated or assisted by automated systems and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable for your circumstances.
The Service is not mechanical, safety, legal, tax, insurance, lending, or financial advice. Do not rely on it as a substitute for an inspection, diagnostic work, professional advice, recall information, or manufacturer guidance. You remain responsible for purchase, maintenance, repair, financing, and safety decisions.
6. Acceptable use
You may not misuse the Service; interfere with its operation or security; bypass access or usage limits; use automated means to scrape or harvest data except with written permission; reverse engineer the Service except where law prohibits that restriction; impersonate another person; submit unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, or infringing material; or use the Service to violate law or another person’s rights.
7. Plans, billing, and cancellation — draft Managed Payments disclosures
Optimotor may offer free and paid plans with different limits. Current price, currency, billing interval, included features, and applicable taxes are displayed before checkout. Stripe processes payment details and manages the hosted checkout experience. For direct Optimotor purchases, Optimotor is the legacy direct merchant and the Contact page is the Optimotor support channel for billing, refund, dispute, and service questions.
A paid subscription renews for the interval shown at checkout until canceled. You authorize recurring charges through the payment method handled by Stripe. You may cancel through the available billing-management flow; cancellation takes effect as stated in that flow and does not undo charges already incurred. A scheduled cancellation retains access through the effective access-end date shown in billing management. Nothing in these draft Terms limits refund, cancellation, or other rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Managed Payments / “Sold through Link” disclosure — pending approval. If Managed Payments is approved for a transaction, the final Terms must state the approved Merchant of Record, responsibility boundary, refund and dispute channel, receipt or invoice channel, supported tax coverage, and unsupported jurisdictions. Until then, this draft does not publish or promise Managed Payments availability, Merchant of Record status, tax collection, or Link/Stripe support coverage in any country or jurisdiction.
The refund and trial rules, and the Managed Payments, Merchant of Record, tax, privacy, cancellation, and support wording in these draft Terms, must be approved before final publication.
8. Intellectual property and feedback
The Service, including its software, design, branding, and original content, is owned by Optimotor or its licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. Subject to these Terms, Optimotor grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for its intended purpose.
If you voluntarily provide feedback, you grant Optimotor a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use and incorporate it without restriction or compensation, provided we do not publicly identify you as its source without permission.
9. Service changes and availability
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features and may change plan limits prospectively. We do not promise that the Service will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. Where required, we will give notice of material changes affecting a paid subscription.
10. Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” Optimotor disclaims implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant any listing, estimate, generated output, dealer, vehicle, or transaction.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of the above may not apply to you.
11. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Optimotor and its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, and providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill, or opportunities, arising from or related to the Service.
A monetary liability cap and any required consumer-law carve-outs must be approved by counsel before these draft Terms are published as final. Applicable law may give you rights that cannot be limited by contract.
12. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Optimotor and its personnel from third-party claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful misuse of the Service or material breach of these Terms. This section does not apply where prohibited by consumer law.
13. Governing law and disputes
The governing law, courts, and any informal dispute process must be approved before these draft Terms are published as final. Nothing in the final clause may deprive a consumer of mandatory protections or access to a forum that applicable law requires.
14. General terms
If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified only as much as necessary and the remaining provisions will continue. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, financing, merger, or transfer of the Service, subject to applicable law.
These Terms and the Privacy Policy form the agreement concerning the Service, except for any additional terms presented for a specific feature. If translated, the controlling language must be identified in the final version.
15. Changes and contact
We may update these Terms prospectively. We will post the revised Terms and provide any additional notice required by law for material changes. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.
Questions can be submitted through the Contact page. A monitored legal contact email address must be inserted before final publication.