Please read these terms and conditions very carefully. By using our website and product aggregation services, you will be regarded as having read and accepted these terms and conditions. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you must not use our website or services.
Who are The Comparisons?
The Comparisons Limited is registered in England and Wales – company number: 06240578 – registered address: Omnia One, Queen Street, Sheffield, S1 2DG. The Comparisons Limited is an appointed representative of Motorway Direct plc, who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority – registration number: 311741.
In these terms and conditions, ‘we’ and ‘us’ means The Comparisons Limited.
Our agreement
Our employees and agents are not authorised to make any changes to these terms or representations concerning the services we offer unless confirmed by us in writing (excluding email). You must not rely on any such representations which are not so confirmed.
Our services
thecomparisons.com is a price comparison website, aimed at offering a fully-featured, independent price comparison service for the whole family, across a range of markets and products. Comparisonville (contained within thecomparisons.com) is a supporting online community, offering added-value functionality to registered users.
Your responsibility
Any information that you provide must be accurate and you must disclose all relevant facts about yourself. Please be aware that if you fail to provide accurate information, you could invalidate any product or policy offered to you.
Location
Our website and communications are directed at consumers from or resident in the United Kingdom only. We do not currently offer or support our products and services to audiences outside of the UK.
Website content
We strive to ensure that any content within our website and email correspondence is accurate and current. Our website is constantly evolving and therefore we reserve the right to add, amend or delete content from the website at any time. We cannot guarantee that the website content and email content will be suitable for your purposes or error or virus/malicious code free and therefore we disclaim liability to the fullest extent permitted by law for any inaccuracies, omissions, errors or viruses in the same. See further disclaimers below.
Our website is for non-commercial, personal use only.
Intellectual Property Rights
All Intellectual Property Rights pertaining to The Comparisons Limited, including but not limited to the copyright in the materials, design, text, images, source code and software on the thecomparisons.com website, and all trade marks used on the website, are the property of us or our licensors. This material may not be reproduced or used in any manner without prior written consent from The Comparisons Limited. As a limited exception, you may download or copy the content and other downloadable items displayed on the website provided that such downloads/copies are only used for personal, non-commercial purposes.
Complaints
We aim to provide an excellent customer experience, through our website and any other communication we provide. However, if you are unhappy with our service in any regard, please contact our customer services department and we will endeavour to help resolve the situation.
If you are unhappy with any product or service that you have been introduced to through via our services, we suggest you directly approach the provider of that product or service.
If you are still dissatisfied, you may be able to refer your case to The Financial Ombudsman Service – address: South Quay Plaza, 183 Marsh Wall, London E14 9SR – telephone: 0845 080 1800 – email: enquiries at financial-ombudsman.org.uk – website: www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk
Amendments
We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions at any time.
Disclaimers of liability
Unfortunately, this next section has to be in legal terminology. Except in respect of death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or any other liability which we cannot by law exclude or limit, we shall not be liable to you by reason of any representation (unless fraudulent), or any implied warranty, condition or other term, or any duty at common law, or under an express term, for loss of profit or for any indirect, special or consequential loss or damage, costs, expenses or other claims for compensation whatsoever (whether caused by our/our employees’/our agents’ negligence, or otherwise) which arise out of or in connection with the supply of our services (including any delay in supplying or any failure to supply in accordance with the agreement between us or at all) or the use of our services, and our entire liability under or in connection with the agreement between us shall not exceed £1,100,000 per claim or series of related claims (including defence costs), except as expressly provided in these terms and conditions. This clause shall not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.
We will not be liable to you for being late in providing our services or not providing any services at all if it is beyond our control to provide them on time or at all.
We cannot guarantee that this website will be compatible with your PC, and so we accept no liability for any corruption or loss of data held on your PC, or any liability for any other loss or damage of any kind caused to your PC resulting from use of this website.
While we go to great efforts to ensure that you receive a good level of service from our trusted partners, we cannot guarantee that any products or services you buy from them will meet your requirements or be of satisfactory quality or accuracy.
Suspension of services
We may suspend or terminate our services immediately and without notice to you if we suspect you of involvement in fraud or inappropriate behaviour.
General
These terms and conditions are governed by English law and are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
If we delay in exercising any of our rights under the agreement between us and you, that does not mean that we waive the right to exercise the right later.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part the validity of the other provisions of these terms and conditions and the remainder of the provision in question shall not be affected.
These terms and conditions shall apply only to us and you, and no other person shall be entitled to benefit from them, unless we have expressly said that they can.