Terms & Conditions
These terms apply when you use the Garage Portfolio app. By creating an account, you agree to them. Please read them with our Privacy Policy.
1. About these terms
Garage Portfolio is provided by The Tech Narrative Ltd. (company no. 14862125), 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX ("we", "us"). If you use the app, you're "you".
2. Your account
- You must be at least 13 years old to create an account.
- Use an email address you control, and keep your email codes and access to your mailbox secure. You're responsible for activity on your account.
- Tell us straight away if you think someone else has accessed your account.
3. Vehicle information and reminders
You remain responsible for keeping your vehicles legal. Garage Portfolio helps you keep track of your collection, but it doesn't replace your own legal obligations.
- UK MOT and tax details come from DVLA and DVSA. They can be delayed, incomplete or wrong, and a refresh only shows what those services held at the time. Always confirm anything important on GOV.UK: check vehicle tax and check MOT history.
- DVLA and DVSA run these services, not us. They may be slow, unavailable, limited or changed at any time, so a lookup or refresh may fail, return no record or return only part of a vehicle's details. When that happens, the rest of the app keeps working, including your saved vehicles, the dates you've recorded and your reminders, and you can enter or correct details yourself.
- To protect these services, we limit how often lookups and refreshes can be made, and we may pause them if DVLA or DVSA ask us to or restrict our access.
- If DVLA or DVSA withdraw or change our access for good, we may have to change or remove UK MOT and tax lookups. You'll still be able to record dates yourself. We'll tell you in the app, and you can cancel your subscription.
- For vehicles registered outside the UK, compliance dates and statuses are manual records you enter yourself. The app does not check them with foreign registration, inspection or insurance authorities.
- Reminders depend on your phone allowing notifications and on the dates the app holds. A reminder might not arrive, so don't rely on it as your only prompt.
- Marking a vehicle as MOT exempt in the app only changes how it's shown. It isn't a declaration to DVLA, and you must make sure the vehicle actually qualifies.
- Keeping each vehicle taxed, tested, insured and correctly declared under the rules that apply to it is your responsibility.
4. Using the app fairly
You agree not to:
- use the app for anything unlawful, or to track vehicles you have no legitimate reason to look up;
- make automated or bulk requests, or try to get around rate limits on registration lookups;
- try to access other people's accounts or data, or interfere with how the service runs; or
- copy, resell or reverse-engineer the app, except where the law allows it.
5. Your data
The details and notes you add stay yours. You give us permission to store and process them only to run Garage Portfolio for you, as set out in the Privacy Policy.
6. Planned Free and Plus plans
Paid subscriptions and vehicle limits are not available yet. The offers below are planned and cannot currently be purchased. See our pricing page for the proposed plans.
- Free is planned to include one active vehicle, vehicle records and basic reminders, with no subscription.
- Plus is planned to include up to 10 active vehicles for £24.99 a year or £2.99 a month.
- The planned founding offer is Plus for £19.99 for the first year for early pilot users, then £24.99 a year on renewal.
- These are UK reference prices in GBP. Regional prices and availability, payment arrangements, renewal, cancellation and refund terms will be confirmed before paid subscriptions launch and shown before any purchase.
7. The service
We keep improving Garage Portfolio, so features may change, but we won't remove anything that makes the app substantially worse for what you've paid for, unless the change is outside our control, such as DVLA or DVSA withdrawing or changing their services (see section 3). If we plan to close the service, we'll give you reasonable notice so you can cancel and take a note of your details, and we'll help you get a refund for any paid period we can't provide. We aim to keep the app available but can't promise it will always be uninterrupted or error-free.
8. Ending your use
You can stop using the app and delete your account in the app at any time. Remember to cancel your subscription in your store account too. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts the service or other users at risk. Unless the problem is serious, we'll tell you first.
9. Our responsibility to you
Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that can't legally be limited. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected.
We provide the app for personal, non-commercial use. As far as the law allows, we aren't responsible for fines, penalties, missed deadlines or other losses that result from inaccurate, incomplete or late information from DVLA or DVSA, from their services being unavailable, limited or withdrawn, from a lookup or refresh that didn't work when you needed it, from a reminder that didn't arrive, or from relying on the app instead of checking official sources. We aren't responsible for losses we couldn't reasonably have foreseen.
10. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms, for example when we add features or the law changes. We'll show the new date at the top and, for significant changes, tell you in the app or by email. If you keep using the app after that, the new terms apply.
11. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring claims in your local courts. Please contact us first. Most problems can be sorted out quickly.
12. Contact us
Email info@garageportfolio.com, or write to The Tech Narrative Ltd., 124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom.