Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) of Rare Drive GmbH, Bahnweg 18, 8700 Küsnacht ZH, Switzerland (hereinafter “CarStats”) govern the use of the CarStats platform available at www.carstats.ch and all products and services offered through it (together, the “Service”). By creating an Account, accessing or using the Service, or by subscribing to or renewing any paid plan, you agree to be bound by these Terms. These Terms apply to all Users of the Service. Provisions relating to Accounts or subscriptions apply to the extent you hold an Account or an active subscription. Please read them carefully.

You may reach us at info@carstats.ch. Full company details are set out in our Impressum.

Only the German original of these Terms is legally binding. Translations are provided for information purposes only and have no legal force. By accepting these Terms, you accept the German original.

• “Service” — the CarStats analytics platform, including the website and all related features.
• “User” — any person who accesses or uses the Service.
• “Account” — a registered user account created through the Service.
• “Subscriber” — a User with an active paid subscription.
• “Content” — all data, analytics, classifications, price series, leaderboards, trend outputs and other materials provided through the Service.
• “Watchlist” — a feature that allows Users to save vehicles of interest and access them in one place without searching again.

You accept these Terms by ticking the acceptance box at registration and, where applicable, on each subscription purchase. We may require renewed acceptance when these Terms change materially. Any terms or conditions of the User that conflict with or purport to supplement these Terms are expressly excluded, even if not separately objected to.

A subscription contract is concluded when your payment is successfully processed and confirmed. The subscription period and any withdrawal right under Section 10 begin at that moment.

If you do not accept these Terms, you may not use the Service.

• You warrant that you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract under the law applicable to you.
• You must provide accurate, current and complete registration information.
• You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials by choosing a secure password, enabling two-factor authentication where available, and using up-to-date software. You are responsible for all activity under your Account. All actions performed via your Account are legally attributed to you. You bear all risk arising from unauthorised use of your Account until you have notified us and we have had a reasonable opportunity to act. Notify us immediately at info@carstats.ch of any suspected unauthorised access.
• Accounts are personal and non-transferable. You may not share credentials, sell, lend, or otherwise grant access to your Account.
• During invite-only periods, a valid invite code is required to register. Invite codes are non-transferable and may be revoked at any time.
• CarStats reserves the right to limit registration and access to specific countries or regions.

CarStats provides a subscription-based platform for tracking and analysing price trends of collector and special-interest vehicles. Features include:

• Historical price data and trend analytics, including classifications such as “Rising”, “Stable” and “Depreciating”;
• Watchlist functionality for tracking specific models or configurations;
• Price alerts and email notifications;
• Access to leaderboards and aggregated market insights.

We endeavour to operate the Service with as few disruptions as possible and to keep interruptions for maintenance, troubleshooting, updates, and the introduction of new technologies as short as possible, but cannot completely exclude them. We may engage third-party providers to fulfil our operational obligations. We do not guarantee uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free operation.

CarStats is not a party to any transaction you may enter into regarding any vehicle. The Service provides analytical information only — it does not facilitate, broker, or recommend any transaction. Where content, offers, or links from third parties appear within the Service, they do not constitute an endorsement or recommendation. Any dealings with such third parties are solely between you and them.

The Content provided through the Service is the result of extensive proprietary processing. Raw data obtained from third-party sources undergoes significant transformation, including cleansing, normalisation, outlier detection, algorithmic analysis, and classification, before it is presented to Users. The analytical outputs, trend classifications, and insights displayed in the Service are original works of CarStats and do not represent a mere reproduction of third-party data. We take this work seriously — but we do not, and cannot, guarantee that any data point reflects an actual executed transaction price. Listed prices may differ materially from final negotiated or sale prices.

The number of data points used for a specific model may differ from the total number of listings available. As part of our processing, we exclude data points that appear inaccurate, misleading, or false. We also exclude heavily tuned or modified vehicles, as these represent a small portion of the market and may distort perceived values or produce misleading results.

We aim to update our data at least quarterly. Collector and special-interest vehicle prices typically do not fluctuate on a daily or weekly basis, and less frequent updates help reduce noise and produce more meaningful trend analysis. We reserve the right to change the update frequency at any time. For particularly rare vehicles, listing activity may be limited, which can result in longer intervals between data points.

Data may be incomplete, delayed, inaccurate or contain errors. The information is believed to be reliable, but its accuracy, completeness, timeliness and currency are not guaranteed.

All information provided by CarStats — including price trends, classifications such as “Rising”, “Stable” or “Depreciating”, leaderboards, technical analyses and any commentary — is provided for informational purposes only. It must not be construed as an offer, advice, or recommendation to buy, sell, hold or otherwise transact in any vehicle.

CarStats does not provide investment, financial, legal or tax advice of any kind. Any assistance provided by CarStats staff or support agents does not constitute advice or a recommendation. CarStats is not licensed under the Swiss Financial Services Act (FinSA) or the Swiss Financial Institutions Act (FinIA) and does not provide regulated financial services.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Vehicle values are influenced by economic, regulatory, condition-related and collector-market factors that CarStats cannot predict.

All decisions to buy, sell, hold or otherwise act on any vehicle are made by you alone, based on your own assessment of your personal, financial and investment situation, and your own interpretation of the information available. We strongly recommend consulting an independent professional (mechanic, classic-car specialist, financial or tax adviser) before any significant purchase or sale.

You may cancel your subscription at any time from your Account page. You are solely responsible for cancelling through your Account page; an email, support message, or other informal communication does not constitute a valid cancellation. Your access continues until the end of your current billing period. Except for the right of withdrawal in Section 10, no pro-rata refunds are provided for partial billing periods unless required by mandatory law. Cancellation ends your subscription but does not delete your Account. To delete your Account entirely, see Section 16.

We offer a 14-day right of withdrawal to all Subscribers, calculated from the start of your paid subscription. To exercise this right, cancel your subscription through your Account page within the 14-day period. We will refund your most recent subscription payment in full within 14 days, using the original payment method.

The right of withdrawal is available once per Subscriber as part of our money-back guarantee. We reserve the right to decline a withdrawal request where we detect that the right has previously been exercised by the same Subscriber, or where the request appears intended to enable continued no-cost use of the Service. Repeated subscription-and-withdrawal cycles intended to obtain the Service without payment constitute abuse and may result in Account termination under Section 16.

This right does not affect any additional mandatory statutory rights you may have under the law applicable to you as a consumer.

We may change subscription prices for future billing periods. Price changes do not affect the billing period already in progress. We will notify affected Subscribers by email at least 30 days in advance of the new price taking effect. If a price increase would apply to you, you may terminate your subscription with effect from the change date by cancelling before that date; in which case access continues until the end of your current paid period.

Price adjustments that merely reflect statutory obligations (for example, a change in VAT) do not give rise to a separate termination right.

The Service is continuously developed and improved. We reserve the right to modify, add, or remove features at any time and at our sole discretion, including in response to security or legal requirements, technical evolution, changes in third-party providers or data sources, or product development. Such changes are a normal part of operating the Service and do not, by themselves, entitle you to cancellation with refund.

Where we determine that a change fundamentally alters the core nature of the Service, we will give affected Subscribers reasonable advance notice. In such cases, you may cancel your subscription before the change takes effect. CarStats may, at its discretion, offer a pro-rata refund for any unused prepaid period.

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify active Subscribers by email at least 30 days before material changes take effect. Non-material corrections or clarifications may be made without notice. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you may turn off auto-renewal before the effective date; your subscription will then expire at the end of your current billing period.

Continued use of the Service or automatic renewal of your subscription after the effective date constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. By allowing your subscription to renew, you agree to be bound by the most current version of these Terms. The version in effect at the time of purchase or renewal governs that subscription period.

The current version of these Terms is always available on our website.

You agree not to:

• share, sell, lend or otherwise disclose your Account credentials;
• access the Service through automated means (see Section 15);
• attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service or any part of it;
• copy, redistribute, sell, sublicense or otherwise commercially exploit Content (see Section 15);
• use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or to violate the rights of any third party;
• interfere with or disrupt the Service, our servers or our networks;
• circumvent, attempt to circumvent, or assist others in circumventing any access restriction, rate limit, or usage control;
• upload or transmit malicious code, viruses, or any other harmful material.

You may not use manual or automated means to crawl, scrape, mine, frame, mirror, or otherwise extract data from the Service, nor access the Service through any interface other than those we provide.

You may not use Content — including price series, classifications, leaderboards and trend outputs — to create, train, offer or operate any competing or derivative product, dataset, model or algorithmic service, whether commercial or non-commercial, without our prior written consent.

The Content available through the Service is the result of significant investment in data aggregation, cleansing, classification algorithms, and analytical processing. This is why CarStats is offered as a paid service, and why the following restrictions apply.

You may not systematically or widely redistribute Content from the Service. Examples of prohibited conduct include, but are not limited to: screenshotting or exporting data for a large number of vehicles and posting it online; regularly publishing CarStats analytics, charts, or price data on social media, forums, or messaging platforms; or making Content available in any form that could substitute for a subscription to the Service. Limited, occasional sharing for private discussion between individuals is permitted, provided it does not amount to systematic or widespread distribution. Violation of this restriction constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your Account without refund under Section 16.

We reserve the right to monitor and investigate usage patterns to detect violations of this Section, and to block any Account, session or IP address engaged in such activity immediately and without prior warning. Repeated, severe or coordinated violations may result in permanent termination of your Account without refund. We reserve the right to pursue any available legal remedies, including injunctive relief and claims for damages under civil and criminal law, including the Swiss Federal Act against Unfair Competition (UWG).

We may suspend or terminate your Account, with or without notice, for any of the following reasons:

• material breach of these Terms;
• non-payment of subscription fees;
• scraping, automation or other prohibited use under Sections 14 and 15;
• fraud, payment-chargeback abuse, or conduct harmful to other Users or to the Service;
• legal compulsion or regulatory requirement.

Where termination is for cause attributable to you, any prepaid subscription fees for the remaining period shall lapse. You shall have no right to a refund, credit, or compensation of any kind. All further claims of Rare Drive GmbH remain reserved.

We may also terminate your subscription at our discretion upon 30 days’ written notice, without stating reasons. In such case, we will refund any unused prepaid period on a pro-rata basis.

You may request deletion of your Account at any time through your Account page. If you delete your Account while a subscription is active, any remaining paid period is forfeited and no refund is provided. Upon deletion, we will remove your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Certain data (e.g., transaction records, abuse logs) may be retained where required by law or for our legitimate interests.

The following Sections survive termination or expiration of your Account or these Terms: Sections 6 (Data sources & accuracy), 7 (No investment or financial advice), 14 (Acceptable use), 15 (No scraping, automation, or redistribution), 17 (Intellectual property), 18 (Disclaimer of warranties), 19 (Limitation of liability), 20 (Indemnification), 22 (Privacy), 25 (Severability), 27 (Governing law), and 28 (Jurisdiction).

THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that any defect will be corrected, or that the Content will be free of inaccuracies. Vehicle prices fluctuate; past performance is not indicative of future results.

We are not liable for misuse of the internet and related damage by third parties, for security deficiencies and disruptions of third-party telecommunications networks and the internet, or for operational interruptions of the Service.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• CarStats is liable only for damages caused by intent or gross negligence;
• liability for slight negligence, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, lost profits, lost opportunity and damage to goodwill is excluded;
• our aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the Service shall not exceed the total amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim;
• we are not responsible for any decisions you make in reliance on the Service;
• to the extent permitted by applicable law, our liability for acts or omissions of auxiliary persons (Hilfspersonen), including sub-processors, hosting providers and data suppliers, is limited to the same standard and aggregate cap as our own liability under this Section.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where mandatory statutory law prohibits such exclusion or limitation. Statutory rights of consumers under the law of their country of habitual residence remain unaffected.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Rare Drive GmbH, its officers, directors, employees and agents from any third-party claims, damages, losses, and reasonable expenses (including legal fees) arising out of:

• your breach of these Terms;
• your misuse of the Service;
• your infringement of any law or third-party right.

You agree to cooperate fully with our defence of any such claim, including providing documents and information reasonably requested.

Neither party is liable for any delay or failure to perform attributable to events beyond reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil disturbances, government actions, pandemics, internet or telecommunications outages, failures of hosting or cloud providers, or outages, restrictions or material changes affecting third-party data sources on which the Service relies.

During such events, our performance obligations are suspended. No further claims for damages or specific performance arise from such delays or failures. If such an event continues for more than 90 days, either party may terminate the subscription, and we will refund any unused prepaid period on a pro-rata basis.

Your privacy is governed by our Privacy Policy, which forms an integral part of these Terms.

We never sell or rent your personal data. We do not share your personal data with third parties for advertising, profiling, or marketing purposes. We use third-party service providers strictly to operate the Service, as described in our Privacy Policy.

By using the Service, you acknowledge the data processing described in the Privacy Policy.

We will communicate with you primarily via the email address registered to your Account. It is your responsibility to keep your contact details current.

We may send you service-related notices, account notifications, and legal communications by email. These are essential to the operation of your Account and cannot be unsubscribed from while your Account is active. We may also send promotional and product-related communications; you may unsubscribe from these at any time using the link provided in each message.

Email communications from CarStats to your registered email address constitute valid written notice for all purposes under these Terms.

You may reach us at info@carstats.ch or through the contact form on our website.

We may assign or transfer these Terms, in whole or in part, to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation or sale of assets. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent.

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect. The invalid provision shall be replaced by a valid provision that most closely reflects the original intent of the parties. Any gaps in these Terms shall be filled by provisions that the parties would reasonably have agreed upon had they considered the matter.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Impressum, constitute the entire agreement between you and Rare Drive GmbH regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements and understandings.

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them are governed by Swiss substantive law, to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

Mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the country of habitual residence of the consumer remain unaffected.

The exclusive place of jurisdiction for any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms is Küsnacht ZH, Switzerland. Rare Drive GmbH is additionally entitled to bring proceedings at the User’s domicile or seat. This does not affect mandatory consumer-protection rules on jurisdiction, under which a consumer may sue at, and may only be sued at, their place of domicile.

Version: 1.0
Effective from: 11 May 2026