Welcome to the Carzone.ie website. Carzone.ie (the "Website") is operated by Webzone Limited t/a Carzone. ("Carzone", "we", "us", "our"), a subsidiary of Motion Group (part of Mediahuis Ireland), when you access and browse our website www.carzone.ie (the "Website") or when you contact us through the Website.
The Website, amongst other things, allows users (each a "user", "you" and "your" ) to search for and browse advertisements (each an "Advertisement") posted on the Website for the sale of new and used cars ("Vehicles").
These terms and conditions ("Terms"), our Privacy Policy and all the documents expressly referred to in them (the "Agreement") are the terms and conditions of the agreement which you enter into with us when you use the Website.
1.1 This Agreement applies to each user of the Website. Please read the Agreement, including these Terms carefully before you start to use the Website. By accessing and using the Website, you indicate that you have read, understand and accept the terms and conditions of this Agreement and that you agree to abide by them each time you access and use the Website. If you do not agree to the Agreement, please refrain from accessing and using the Website.
1.2 The Website is intended by us to be used by residents of Ireland. If you are a resident of any other country or jurisdiction you may access and use the Website, but you agree that you do so entirely at your own risk, and it is your sole responsibility to ensure that your access and use of the Website complies with any laws applicable to you.
1.3 You can only enter into this Agreement if you have reached the age of majority or legal age in Ireland and if you can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. By using the Website, you confirm that you have reached the age of majority and you otherwise have the legal capacity to enter into and agree to the terms of this Agreement.
2.1 You may use the Website to browse Advertisements, interact with other users, advertisers and with us on the Website, including by exchanging messages with other users, advertisers and us, submitting feedback in relation to the Website and our services, posting comments, participating in surveys, web polls and content syndication made available on the Website as well as in any other activity that results in the creation, ranking, rating, classification, categorisation and evaluation of material made available on the Website, including, by creating, importing, uploading or editing data, text, sound, photographs, graphics, video and other materials (“Content”).
2.2 You may use the Website to:
2.2.2 use the information provided on the Website to contact advertisers in relation to Content on the Website for the purposes for which that Content is published on the Website only; and
2.2.3 email enquiries to advertisers about their Advertisements through the Website.
2.3 We do not control the Content posted by third parties, including by users of the Website. We do not guarantee or give any assurances to you or other users regarding the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Website, you may be exposed to Content that is inaccurate, unlawful, offensive, indecent or objectionable. You understand that we cannot guarantee the identity of any user with whom/which you may interact when using the Website.
2.4 Access to the Website is provided on an “as is” basis. You should not rely on any Content and/or other material on the Website to make (or refrain from making) any decision or to take (or refrain from taking) any action on which reliance should be placed. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such Content and/or materials by any user of the Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of the Content (including the authenticity or accuracy of photographs of Vehicles). We accept no responsibility for keeping the information on the Website up to date or complete, or liability for any failure to do so.
2.5 You are responsible for complying with all laws applicable to your use of the Website, including any Content that you submit to the Website.
2.6 We may refuse to publish any Content or to provide any services provided by the Website without prior notice to any user for any reason or no reason.
2.7 We have no obligation to monitor or moderate any user's activity or use of the Website, including the Content on it. However we retain the right at all times to monitor, retain and disclose any information on or use of the Website, including as may be necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or regulatory authority request. Without any admission of liability, we may from time to time assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use the Website, and we may decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use monitoring or moderation of the relevant service or Content (including what kind of monitoring or moderation to use) in the light of those risks. We expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of the Website by any user in breach of this Agreement, whether the Website is moderated, monitored or not.
2.8 We encourage you to report any Advertisement that you consider unsatisfactory via the ‘Report this advert’ button, which we have placed on the bottom of each Advertisement page of the Website. This allows you to report any Content that is in breach of this Agreement or in any other way objectionable. Please see section 4 below.
2.9 You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms, and that they comply with them.
3.1 You agree that you shall not (and you agree not to allow any third party to):
3.1.1 modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the Website;
3.1.2 remove any copyright, trade mark or other proprietary rights notices contained on the Website, or on any Content or other material obtained via the Website;
3.1.3 use any robot, spider, website search/retrieval application, or other automated device, process or means to access, retrieve or index any portion of the Content on the Website;
3.1.4 access, screen-scrape, retrieve or index any portion of the Website for purposes of constructing or populating a searchable database of Advertisements, information and other content other than on the Website itself;
3.1.5 collect any information about other users or advertisers (including user identification names, telephone numbers and/or email addresses) for any purpose other than to make enquiries about Advertisements on the Website;
3.1.6 reformat or frame any portion of the web pages or any Content that are part of the Website;
3.1.7 transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a destructive nature to users on the Website;
3.1.8 use the Website to violate the security of any computer network, crack passwords or security encryption codes, transfer or store illegal material including that deemed threatening or obscene;
3.1.9 copy or store any Content offered on the Website other than for your own use as permitted by this Agreement;
3.1.10 use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website, or otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website;
3.1.11 take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole opinion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our IT infrastructure;
3.1.12 use the Website, intentionally or unintentionally, to breach any applicable law;
3.1.13 collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited activities described in this section 3;
3.1.14 engage in, or promote, any spamming or direct marketing using the Website;
3.1.15 create or transmit unwanted electronic communications such as surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, unsolicited emails, SMSs, automated calls or "spam" to other users, or otherwise interfere with users’ enjoyment of the Website;
3.1.16 use the Website for advertising, marketing, charitable, campaigning, for public relations or commercial or political purposes of any kind, except as specifically provided for in this Agreement;
3.1.17 access any unauthorised areas of the Website;
3.1.18 impersonate any person or entity; or
3.1.19 upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available using the Website any Content or other material that you do not have a right to make available under any law or contractual obligation, which includes making available material which breaches a third party’s intellectual property rights.
4.1 If you believe that Content posted on the Website breaches this Agreement or is in any other way objectionable, please notify us through the “Report this advert” button, which we have placed on the bottom of each Advertisement page of the Website, give the full details of such Content and specify the reasons for your objections. If you do not provide us with sufficient information we may be unable to process your complaint. We reserve the right to investigate all aspects of any complaint or enquiry and we will determine, in our discretion, what action (if any) to take. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other advertisers and users of the Website. While we reserve the right to monitor or to intervene in disputes between you and other advertisers and users in relation the Website, we have no obligation to do so.
4.2 If you are dissatisfied with the Website or any of our acts or omissions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to terminate your use of the Website.
5.1 You must tell us immediately if any person makes or threatens to make any claim or issue legal proceedings against you relating to your use of the Website. You will, if we ask you to, immediately stop the use complained of. If we ask you to, you must confirm the details of the claim or threat of a claim in writing to us. If we ask you to stop the use complained of and you fail to do so we reserve the right to take any and all appropriate action against you, which may involve appropriate legal action.
6.1 Carzone and our licensors, retain all right, title and interest in and to the information (in any form including without limitation text, graphical, video and audio), images, icons, applications, designs, software, scripts, programs, copyright, trade marks, trade names, logos, and other materials and services available on or through the Website, including any Content and the look and feel of the Website (collectively, “Carzone Content”). You should note that Carzone Content is protected by copyright, trade mark, database rights, sui generis rights and other intellectual and industrial property laws (as the case may be), under national laws and international treaties. Your access and/or use of any of the Website does not transfer to you or any other person any ownership or other rights in or to the Website or Carzone Content, unless specified otherwise in this Agreement.
6.2 By posting Content on the Website, you grant to us an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, fully sub-licensable, fully paid up, worldwide licence to use, copy, display, publish, reproduce and distribute such Content, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Content and to exercise any rights reserved to us in relation to the Content under this Agreement.
6.3 If it is determined that you retain moral rights in the Content, then to the extent permitted by law you hereby declare that (a) you do not require that any personally identifying information be used in connection with the Content, or any derivative works of or upgrades or updates of it; (b) you have no objection to the publication, use, modification, deletion and exploitation of the Content by us or our licensees, successors and assigns or our exercise of rights under this Agreement; (c) you forever waive and agree not to claim or assert any entitlement to any and all moral rights in any of the Content; and (d) you forever release us, and our licensees, successors and assigns, from any claims that you could otherwise assert against us by virtue of any such moral rights.
6.4 We are the proprietor of the Irish trade mark registration ‘CARZONE’ (Registration Number 229565). All product names mentioned on the Website are the trade marks of their respective owners, and other trade marks may be displayed on the Website from time to time. Some material on the Website may contain other information containing intellectual property of a third party. Nothing displayed on the Website should be construed as granting you any licence, or right of use of any logo, information or trade mark displayed on it, without the express written permission of the relevant owner, save as expressly provided in this Agreement.
6.5 You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any Carzone Content for your own personal reference. You may also permit your computer to make an electronically stored, transient copy of the Carzone Content for the purposes of viewing it while connected to the internet only.
6.6 You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any Carzone Content that you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
6.7 Our status (and that of any partners, advertisers or third parties identified on the Website) as the authors of material on the Website must always be acknowledged by you.
6.8 You must not use any part of the Carzone Content for commercial purposes.
7.1 To the extent permitted by law, your use and access to and of the Carzone Content and the Website are provided by us under this Agreement without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to their accuracy.
7.2 To the extent permitted by law, we expressly exclude:
7.2.1 all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity; and
7.2.2 any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage including any liability for loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, loss of goodwill, wasted management or office time and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable in connection with this Agreement.
7.3 We shall not be liable for any failure to perform any of our obligations under this Agreement caused by matters beyond our reasonable control. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any Carzone Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Carzone Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of, access to, or denial of access to any Carzone Content.
7.4 We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses, malicious or impairing computer programs or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
7.5 We do not guarantee the security of the online services or any systems connected with the use of the Website (including the internet and your hardware and software) used in accessing the services, or any information passed through such systems. We do not guarantee access to the Website or any systems used in accessing our services will be continuous or virus or error free.
7.6 Any material downloaded, or otherwise obtained through the use of the Website is done at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system, or loss of data, that results from the download of any such material. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us, or through, or from the Website, shall create any warranty not expressly stated in this Agreement.
8.1 You agree to indemnify and hold us, our parent, subsidiaries, officers, directors, shareholders and employees, harmless, including costs and legal fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of your access to and use of the Website.
9.1 You are not permitted to link any other website to the Website without first obtaining our prior written consent. If we give you consent we may choose to require you to accept terms and conditions as a condition of granting this permission. You must not establish a link to the Website from any website that is not owned by you unless we expressly agree in writing that you can do so. You must not create a link to any part of the Website other than the homepage.
9.2 We reserve the right to withdraw any linking permission given to you with or without notice. You must not frame the Website on any other website without first obtaining our prior written consent. If we give you consent we may choose to require you to accept terms and conditions as a condition of granting this permission.
9.3 If you wish to create a link or to make any use of Content or other material on the Website, then please address your request to [email protected].
10.1 Where the Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by our partners or other third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the content of those websites or resources and accept no responsibility or liability for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. If you link to any such websites then you acknowledge that you leave the Website and do so entirely at your own risk.
11.1 In the course of providing you services or in respect of your use of the Website, we may need to communicate with you via email or using the other contact details that you have submitted to us. You agree to receive emails which are necessary for the normal functioning of the Website, including emails which help inform users about the functionality of the Website. You also accept and understand the terms of our Privacy Policy.
The information contained on, and your use of, this website and these Terms & Conditions shall be governed by the laws of the Republic Of Ireland, and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish Courts in relation to any matter arising under or in connection with your use of this website or its contents.
Carzone hereby confirms that, as per the Digital Services Act (Article 24(2)) obligations, it has an average of monthly active recipients less than 45 million. The average was calculated based upon the last six months (previous calculation done on 2nd January 2025). Please note that this calculation has been specifically prepared to fulfill our requirements under the DSA and should not be used for any other purposes.
If you wish to contact us regarding the Digital Services Act or raise a compliant, please send to [email protected].
Complaints can also be submitted via our secure complaint handling system.
Please find our latest DSA Transparency Report for the period 14 Feb 2024 - 31 Jan 2025 here.
13.1 We may revise this Agreement at any time by amending the pages upon which they appear on the Website, without giving notice of such modifications. Such modifications become effective immediately upon posting of the modified terms on the Website. You agree to review the Agreement periodically, so that you are aware of any modifications. Your continued use of the Website after any modifications indicates your acceptance of the modified Agreement. This version of the T&Cs was last updated on 26/09/2024.
14.1 A failure to exercise or delay in exercising a right or remedy provided by this Agreement or by law does not constitute a waiver of the right or remedy or a waiver of other rights or remedies. No single or partial exercise of a right or remedy provided by this Agreement or by law prevents further exercise of that right or remedy or the exercise of another right or remedy.
In the event that any clause or any part of any clause in this Agreement is declared invalid or unenforceable, by the judgment or decree by consent or otherwise of a court of competent jurisdiction from whose decision no appeal is or can be taken, all other provisions contained in this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected by such finding for the term of this Agreement.
16.1 We may assign or subcontract any or all of our rights and obligations of our Agreement with you to a third party at any time, at our discretion. You may not, without our prior written consent, assign or dispose of any of your rights or obligations arising under this Agreement.
16.2 This Agreement contains the entire agreement and understanding between the parties relating to the Website, and supersedes any and all prior agreements, arrangements, statements and understandings, except for any fraud or fraudulent representation by either you or us.
16.3 Any words following the terms “including”, “include”, “in particular” or any similar expression shall be construed as illustrative and shall not limit the sense of the words, description, definition, phrase or term preceding those terms.
17.1 You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback and other information about the Website provided by you to us are non-confidential and may be used by us at our discretion.
If you wish to contact us in respect of any aspect of this Agreement please contact us at: