Consumer Transparency and Disclaimers document

IMPORTANT: Any use of the word “I”, “my”, “we”, “our”, “us”, or “Rangicars” are all alternative ways of saying rangicars.com. They all mean the same thing as this website is in fact a SOLE TRADER. For privacy, I have not written my name down, but I am the only employee of rangicars.com.

Hello! Thank you for choosing to use Rangicars. The following document will detail the various promises that Rangicars will make to you, our new (and hopefully, long-term) customer.

This document will be divided into two sections: Consumer Transparency and Disclaimers.

The explicit terms under each section will be numbered for better readability and greater clarity. For instance, “1. Cookies” under “SECTION 1: Consumer Transparency” simply means Term 1 of Section 1.

SECTION 1: Consumer Transparency

1.     Cookies.

Our website was created through Wix (an online website builder. As a result, Wix and Rangicars use essential cookies for any and every page on the Rangicars website. This is applicable to the following:

-        People who browse the free pages of rangicars.com

-        People who upgrade to the £3-a-month paid subscription account.

2.     No terms and conditions.

To be clear, you don’t need to worry about any terms and conditions, per se. This document will explain (as best as we can) what kind of ethical/legal practices you can expect from us, as well as disclaimers for any external/third-party wrongdoings that were not carried about by Rangicars. For example, if Google collected your personal data through their own cookies (and/or any third-party cookies) as a result of rangicars.com.

3.     Rangicars' collection of personal data

We collect generic data such as country, time visited, new user, return user, etc. To the best of our knowledge, rangicars.com does NOT collect any form of identifiable information when using the FREE VERSION of rangicars.com. This includes (but is not limited to) name, home address, date of birth, etc.

4.     Protection of personal data

Under GDPR (2018), we are legally obligated to protect your data. This means that we will not willingly and knowingly share, distribute, sell, or expose your data to any third-parties BUT:

The only exception to this would be if explicitly requested by official government departments (e.g. HMRC).

We are legally obliged to put the relevant cyber-security measures in place on any and every page of our website, as well as our payments page. It goes without saying that: if any piece of information of your personal and or/payment data is shared, distributed, sold, or exposed because we did not put the correct or adequate cyber-security measures in place on any particular page(s) and/or payment page, we take full responsibility, as per our legal obligation under GDPR (2018).

5.     Upgrading to subscription account

The subscription version of rangicars.com is £3 for one month only.

In order to minimise the risk of data breaches and overpayments, respectively, we do not save your payment data. The payment page is set up so that it does not save your payment data. You don’t have to worry about cookies. You won’t have to tick any consent boxes or give your typed signatures in order to save payment information.

Whilst we appreciate that this is inconvenient if you want to commit to a full-year’s membership, Rangicars feels that it needs to prioritise customer safety above convenience.

We don’t believe in greed. We don’t believe in customer exploitation. We don’t believe in customer manipulation.

In other words, we are well aware that in real terms, many (if not, most) people are struggling financially to the extent that a full yearly payment of £36 in one go would not be financially viable for them.

We also understand that regardless of income/financial circumstances, people have lives with work/friends/family/hobbies etc., so may forget to cancel their membership and may end up paying £3 for a month of membership that they never intended to pay for.

This is the trade-off for not having the option to automatically renew membership, nor to pay a full year’s membership right away.

Even if we did offer the year’s membership payment, it would still be £36. We personally feel that the practice of offering a lower amount for the yearly membership than if they chose to pay for twelve separate monthly payments could (potentially) be manipulative or exploitative to certain people. Namely (but not limited to) vulnerable people, people who aren’t tech-savvy, or super-busy people.

6.     Cancelling membership

Following on from Term 5. of Section 1, membership is not auto-renewed. Once the membership (for a particular month) has ended, you will no longer have access to any paid pages of rangicars.com. If you want to continue using our paid version, you would need to pay for a second month in your own time.

SECTION 2: Disclaimers

1. Every single sentence of information written on every single page of rangicars.com has been referenced from car industry sources, including (but not limited to) Parkers, Autocar, What Car?, Auto Express, and CAR Magazine.

2. To be clear, rangicars.com claims no credit in any way, shape, or form for any unreferenced piece of information stated on any page of rangicars.com. This includes (but is not limited to) sentences, paragraphs, quotes, captions, etc. All information stated on all pages of rangicars.com has been referenced from a selection of the UK’s major car journals in all forms (including, but not limited to magazines, websites, mobile apps, etc).

3. Following on from Term 2 of Section 2., 100% credit of every single piece of information stated on all pages of rangicars.com goes to a particular major UK car journal (such as, but not limited to, the car journals stated in Term 1 of Section 2.

4. Any and all information posted on any page of rangicars.com is posted to the best of our knowledge. rangicars.com cannot take any responsibility for any inaccurate, out-of-date, or omitted information.

5. rangicars.com cannot accept any responsibility for any piece of personal data and/or payment data shared, distributed, sold, or exposed as a result of any external reason, factor, company, individual, etc. 

6. rangicars.com cannot take any responsibility for any purchases the customer chooses to make outside of the one-month payment on our site as a result of any piece of information on any page of our website that is either inaccurate, out-of-date, or indeed as a result of any information not provided on our website. For example, if you choose to buy a plug-in hybrid but are then unsatisfied with this type of car, rangicars.com cannot be held responsible if we haven’t provided a plug-in hybrid guide on our website.