Terms of service

1. What Throttle is

Throttle Toys (“Throttle”, “we”, “us”, “our”) operates throttle.toys: a search engine, price archive and community for recreational vehicles — side-by-sides, ATVs, boats, personal watercraft, motorcycles, dirt bikes, snowmobiles, three-wheelers, trailers, race cars and aircraft.

We do three things:

• We index. We visit dealers' own public websites on a schedule and record what is published there, then keep the history of how each listing changed.
• We publish. Search, listing pages, dealer profiles, price history, days-on-market and, over time, market statistics.
• We host a community. Forums, vehicle stories keyed to a VIN, HIN or N-number, profiles, points and badges.

We are not a party to any sale. We do not hold inventory, take deposits, escrow funds, broker transactions, inspect machines, verify titles or guarantee that a seller is who they say they are. Every purchase is between you and the seller.

We are not a dealer, a broker, a lender, an insurer, an appraiser or a consumer reporting agency, and nothing on Throttle is financial, legal, tax or investment advice.

1.1 Words with a defined meaning

These words mean the same thing everywhere in these Terms:

• “Service” means throttle.toys and every website, app, API, email, dataset, feature and service we operate now or in the future, under any name — and anything a Successor operates in its place.
• “Content” means anything you post, submit, upload, send or otherwise provide to the Service or to us. Section 6.1 lists examples.
• “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked with you or your household, as the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) defines it.
• “De-identified Data” means information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you or be linked to you or your household, held under the standard and the safeguards in section 8 of the Privacy Policy. Aggregated data that meets that standard is De-identified Data.
• “Successor” means any person or business that acquires, merges with, or otherwise takes over all or part of Throttle, the Service, or the business or assets behind them — by sale, merger, reorganisation, financing, change of control, bankruptcy or operation of law — and any affiliate we transfer them to. A renamed or rebranded Throttle is still Throttle for these Terms, except where the BETA Supporter terms say otherwise.
• “Sell” and “share”, used about Personal Information, have their CCPA meanings: to sell is to disclose Personal Information to a third party for money or anything else of value; to share is to disclose it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

2. Accepting these Terms

You accept these Terms, and our Privacy Policy, in one of three ways:

• by creating an account after being told, next to the sign-up button, that doing so means you accept them;
• by ticking the box and selecting Agree and continue when we ask you to accept a version; or
• if you use the Service without an account, by using it.

If you use our data products or API, the Data Licence and the API Terms also apply, and they control for that use. If you post in the community, the Community Guidelines apply as well. If you buy a BETA Supporter place, the BETA Supporter terms apply to that purchase.

If you accept on behalf of a company, you confirm you may bind it, and “you” means that company.

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

3. Accounts and eligibility

• You must be at least 16 years old. Throttle is not directed to children. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under 13, we delete it, as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires, whatever these Terms or any acceptance of them say.
• One account per person. Sign-in is by emailed magic link or Google; keep your email account secure, because whoever controls it controls yours.
• You are responsible for everything done through your account. Tell us promptly at [email protected] if you think it has been used without your permission.
• A public handle is required to post. Handles that impersonate a person, a dealer or Throttle itself, or that are chosen to harass, will be reclaimed.
• You may delete your account at any time from your account settings or by emailing us. Section 6.4 explains precisely what deletion reaches.

4. Acceptable use

The short version: use the site like a person, not like a pipeline.

4.1 Automated access

An automated agent may read Throttle's public pages if it identifies itself honestly, obeys our robots.txt and any Crawl-delay, keeps to one request at a time, and stops when we ask. You may not access any page behind a sign-in by automated means, get around a block or challenge, or copy photos or member content. If you want our data at volume, use our API or ask us at [email protected].

We are, ourselves, a crawler, and this is the rule we follow on other people's sites, published at /bot, stated from the other side.

You also may not:

• bulk-download, mirror, cache beyond ordinary browser caching, or systematically store our pages or data;
• extract data manually at a scale or in a pattern that substitutes for bulk access (copying the search results page by page is scraping with extra steps);
• use our content to build, train or improve a competing database, price guide, listing index or machine-learning model;
• circumvent rate limits, paywalls, entitlement checks, bot protection or robots directives, or rotate accounts, addresses or identities to do so;
• resell, redistribute, sublicense or publish our data, including derived figures like days-on-market, price history, sold records and deal scores, without our written permission.

What you may do: browse, search, save, print or download pages for your own personal, non-commercial use; quote a short excerpt with a link back; and share listing links anywhere you like. Ordinary search-engine indexing consistent with our robots.txt is welcome.

4.2 No interference

• Do not probe, scan or test the security of our systems, or access accounts, data or infrastructure that is not yours. Responsible disclosure is welcome — email us.
• Do not upload malware, attempt denial of service, or send traffic designed to degrade the Service for others.
• Do not reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive source code, except where that restriction is unenforceable by law.
• Do not remove, obscure or alter any notice of ownership, attribution or watermark.

4.3 No abuse of people

• Do not use Throttle to harass, threaten, defame or stalk a seller, a dealer, an employee or another user.
• Do not post another person's private information — address, phone number, workplace, documents — whether or not you found it somewhere else.
• Do not use the site for fraud, for laundering, or to advertise a machine you do not have the right to sell.
• Do not spam: no affiliate links, no SEO link-dropping, no bulk promotional posting, no multiple accounts to amplify yourself.

The Community Guidelines spell out how these rules are applied to posts, and how to appeal.

5. Our content and database rights

The individual facts on Throttle — a price, a model year, a VIN — are facts, and we claim no ownership of them.

The compilation is a different thing. The selection, normalisation, categorisation, deduplication, correction, geocoding, time-series structure and presentation of those facts is our work, and we claim every right available in it: copyright in the compilation and in the site, database and sui generis database rights where they exist, and our rights in the derived figures we compute (days on market from our own first-seen clock, price-change events, sold inference, deal scores, medians and trends). Extracting or re-using a substantial part of it, or repeatedly extracting insubstantial parts, is exactly what section 4.1 prohibits.

“Throttle”, “Throttle+”, “ThrottleBot” and our logo are our marks. Dealer names, manufacturer marks and model names belong to their owners and appear here descriptively; their presence is not endorsement or affiliation.

Photographs shown on listing pages are hotlinked from the dealer's own server; we never show them from a copy and never re-host them. They remain the property of whoever owns them. For some dealer listings (never cars or race cars) we keep small downscaled copies of up to three photos, on our own machines only and never shown or served to anyone, to train our own category model; our ThrottleBot page describes what we keep and how a dealer has it removed.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the site for your own non-commercial purposes. Everything not expressly granted is reserved.

6. Your Content and the licence you grant

Read this section properly. It is the one that matters most to you.

6.1 What counts as Content

Content means anything you post, submit, upload, send or otherwise provide to the Service or to us, in any form. For example: forum threads, replies and votes; vehicle stories; photographs and other files; your profile text and handle; ratings and reviews; reports about a listing or a post; dealer submissions; waitlist and enquiry forms; messages you send through the Service, including messages we send on your behalf; and feedback, ideas or suggestions about Throttle.

Content does not include a legal notice, opt-out request or dispute you send us, or a document you upload with one. Section 3.6 of the Privacy Policy says how we handle those, and nothing in these Terms limits or waives a right such a notice asserts.

You keep ownership of your Content. We do not claim to own it.

6.2 The licence you give us

By providing Content, you give Throttle a perpetual (subject only to the last paragraph of this section), irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable and fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers) licence to use, host, store, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, translate, excerpt, aggregate, combine with other data, de-identify, analyse, create derivative works from, publish, distribute, display, perform and otherwise exploit it — in any medium or format, by any means now known or later developed, for any purpose connected with any current or future business of Throttle or a Successor. That includes:

• showing it on the Service and in emails, alerts, previews and search results;
• operating, securing, moderating and improving the Service;
• developing, training, testing, evaluating and improving software, machine-learning and artificial-intelligence models, datasets and services — ours, and ones we build for or license to others;
• producing research, statistics, datasets and data products, and publishing, licensing or selling them;
• promoting Throttle, including quoting what you posted with your handle attached.

We do not have to credit you or pay you for any of this.

Where your Content is also Personal Information, the Privacy Policy decides how we use it. When we license or sell anything built from Content to someone else, it is aggregated or de-identified first. This licence never lets us sell your Personal Information (section 13.3), and nothing in it limits a right the law gives you over your Personal Information.

The licence cannot be revoked, and it survives the end of these Terms and the deletion of your account, for: Content you left published (section 6.4); copies already given to a sublicensee; and Content already aggregated or de-identified, or built into a dataset, a model or another derived work that does not identify you. For everything else, it ends when you delete the Content or your account, except for copies the law requires us to keep.

6.3 What you promise us

• You own your Content, or have every right needed to give us the licence in 6.2 — including from anyone who appears in it or helped create it.
• Your Content does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity rights, and is not defamatory or unlawful.
• Anyone identifiable in a photograph you upload has agreed to it being public.
• If you list your own machine, you have the right to sell it and your description is accurate and complete as to anything a buyer would consider material.
• To the extent the law allows, you waive, and agree not to assert against us, a Successor or anyone we license, any moral rights or similar rights in your Content — attribution, integrity, disclosure or withdrawal.

6.4 Deleting your Content

You may delete a post, a story or your whole account at any time. A post you delete yourself is removed from public view. Deleting your account removes your account, profile, watchlist, saved searches and notification history, and detaches your name from anything you posted. Threads, replies and stories stay published without an author, because other people replied to them and that conversation is not ours to erase on one participant's behalf — delete an individual post first if you want it gone.

Two honest limits. First, other people may already have quoted, replied to, screenshotted or cached what you wrote, and we cannot reach their copies. Second, statistics, datasets and model weights already built from aggregated or de-identified Content cannot be un-built — they do not keep a row for you to pull out. What we can and will do is delete your identifiable records, stop using your Content in a way that identifies you, and leave it out of every future export. Section 6.2 says exactly what survives deletion; nothing else does.

6.5 We may remove content

We may remove, soft-delete, edit for formatting, demote or refuse any content, and may close a thread, at our discretion — typically for a breach of the Community Guidelines, a legal demand, or an obvious safety problem. We are not obliged to host anything, and we are not obliged to monitor everything.

7. Community, points and badges

Posting in the community earns points, points produce a level, and some milestones grant a badge. The current tables are published on the Community Guidelines page.

• Points have no cash value. They are not currency, credit, property, tokens or a security. They cannot be bought, sold, transferred, exchanged, withdrawn or redeemed for anything, and they are not refundable on account closure.
• We may change the points table, the level thresholds, the badge criteria and the display of any of it at any time, including retroactively recalculating totals when we fix a bug or reverse an abuse.
• We may deduct points, revoke a badge, reset a total or remove a level where content is removed, where a report against you is upheld, or where we conclude points were farmed — for example by vote rings, duplicate accounts, or content posted to trip a reward.
• Losing points or a badge is not a loss of anything you paid for. The one exception is the BETA Supporter badge, which is tied to a purchase and is dealt with in section 12.

8. Vehicle stories and identifiers

Vehicle stories are public posts attached to a specific machine by its VIN, HIN or N-number. They are written by the public. They are not a vehicle history report, a title check, a lien search, an inspection or a substitute for any of those, and they are not a consumer report under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

• Write about the machine, not about a person. Do not post an owner's name, address, phone number or documents.
• Say what you know first-hand and mark what you are guessing. An allegation of fraud or damage stated as fact, when it is not, is defamation and it is your liability.
• Do not use the story feature to attack a private individual, to interfere with a sale, or to post the same claim repeatedly.
• If a story about your machine is false, email us with the identifier and what is wrong. We will look at it, and we will remove content that is defamatory or unlawful.

An identifier alone (a VIN, a HIN, an N-number) is information about a vehicle and is frequently public. Combined with other information it can point at a person, which is why the rules above are rules and not suggestions.

9. Suggesting a dealer

Signed-in users can suggest a dealer website for us to index. By submitting one you confirm you believe in good faith that it is a genuine dealer's own site, not an aggregator, not a site you were paid to submit, and not a site you know has asked us to stay away.

• Submissions are checked automatically — URL validity, DNS, whether we already know the domain, and a strictly bounded look at the site itself. Some go to a human.
• A submission is a suggestion, not a right to be listed, and approval only means our crawler will go and look.
• Repeatedly submitting invalid, duplicate or junk URLs triggers a cooldown that gets longer each time. The first few mistakes in a day are free, because typos happen; persistent noise is rate-limited. Your current status is shown in your account.
• We keep internal signals about submission quality to decide how much automated trust to extend. They are described in the Privacy Policy, they are not published, and no user-visible score exists.

10. Listings, accuracy and estimates

Listing data is collected automatically from third-party websites and is provided as-is. Prices, specifications, photographs, availability, location and identity numbers may be wrong, out of date, mis-parsed or missing. A machine may be sold while our page still shows it live. A price may have changed since we last looked.

Derived figures are our estimates, not statements of fact from the seller: days on market counted from the first time we saw a listing, price-change events we observed, sold status inferred from a listing disappearing and staying gone, deal scores, medians and trend lines. They are produced by software from imperfect inputs and they are sometimes wrong.

Always confirm with the dealer or seller before acting on anything you read here, and never wire money, pay a deposit or travel on the strength of a Throttle page alone.

Found something wrong? Report it on the listing, or email [email protected]. Accepted reports earn points, which is the cheapest quality control either of us will ever buy.

11. Throttle+ subscriptions

11.1 What is free

Searching the market, listing pages, dealer profiles, VIN/HIN/N-number decoding (5/day), 30 days of price history, 10 saved listings, 1 saved search, the forums, vehicle stories and profiles are free. We intend to keep a genuinely useful free tier; if we ever move something out of it, we will say so in advance.

11.2 Plans, billing and auto-renewal

Throttle+ is a recurring subscription sold monthly or yearly at the prices shown on /pricing before you pay. Payments are processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card number.

• Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period, at the then-current price for your plan, charged to your payment method, until you cancel.
• We tell you the plan, the price, the billing interval and the renewal terms on the checkout page before you are charged, and we email a receipt for every charge.
• If we raise the price of a plan you are on, we will email you at least 30 days before it takes effect, and the increase only applies from a renewal after that notice. You can cancel first.
• Prices exclude taxes, which are added where we are required to collect them.

11.3 Cancelling — no obstacle course

You can cancel at any time from your billing settings, in the same place and by the same means you subscribed, in one step, without talking to anyone. There is no retention flow, no “are you sure” maze and no phone call. If you would rather email us, email us and we will do it.

Cancellation stops the next renewal. Access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for, and we do not pro-rate a partial period.

11.4 Refunds

We do not generally refund a subscription period that has already started, but if a paid feature is materially broken for a meaningful stretch, or you were charged after cancelling, email us — we will issue a refund, a credit or an extension, whichever is fairer. Statutory refund rights, including under California's Automatic Renewal Law, are unaffected by anything in this section.

Chargebacks: please email us first. We would rather refund you than argue with a card network.

11.5 While sales are paused

Subscription sales are currently switched off. Sold comps, days-on-market distributions and trend charts need roughly two months of crawl history before they say anything true, and we are not charging for an empty chart. The buttons turn on when the data is real.

11.6 The Buyer Pass

The Buyer Pass is a single payment of $19 for 30 days of the Throttle+ feature set. It is not a subscription: nothing renews, no card is kept, there is nothing to cancel, and it does not convert into a subscription when it expires. Access ends 30 days after purchase.

Because it is short and starts immediately, it is not refundable once purchased — but if the paid features are materially broken during your 30 days, email us and we will refund or extend it. Your statutory refund rights are unaffected.

12. The BETA Supporter offer

A limited promise, printed in full, kept in full.

Throttle used to offer a plan called Throttle+ Lifetime. It has been retired. An unbounded promise is the one that eventually has to be broken, and breaking it would cost more than the revenue was worth. Existing purchases under that plan are honoured exactly as sold; the plan is simply not offered again.

In its place is the BETA Supporter offer: a one-time payment of $250 that funds the build, with access as the thank-you. Every limit below is a term of the purchase and is shown on /pricing before you pay. The full terms of the purchase, including the definition of “lifetime of the platform” and the four events that end the grant, are at BETA Supporter terms.

12.1 How long it lasts

For the lifetime of the platform. That is a defined term, and this is the definition:

Lifetime of the platform means the period during which Throttle Toys operates the Throttle service under its current ownership and brand.

That is the honest formulation: it is not a promise that the company will exist forever, and we will not pretend otherwise. The grant ends if any one of four things happens — the Throttle service is discontinued; Throttle Toys ceases operations; the service or the company is sold, merged or otherwise transferred to a different owner; or the service is renamed or rebranded. Apart from those four, it ends only if you close your account, or if we close it under section 16 for your breach. On a sale, merger or transfer it continues only if the new owner elects in writing to honour it (section 12.4).

In every one of those cases there is no refund beyond the 14-day window above — which is why the offer is framed as funding the build rather than buying a perpetuity, and why the cap and the refund window exist at all. Your badge is not affected by any of it.

The full version of this clause, with each event and its consequence set out in a table, is at BETA Supporter terms.

12.2 Fair use

The caps in the table are the fair-use limits, published before purchase. We may add reasonable technical protections against automated abuse of a supporter account, and we may suspend an account that breaches section 4. We will not quietly reduce a published cap on an existing supporter.

12.3 If the offer sells out or closes

The pricing page shows the real number remaining and the real closing date, and when it closes the tile stays up in a dated closed state. A limited offer that quietly reappears under a new name is a dark pattern; we are not doing it.

The cap is a hard number, and we enforce it at the moment the badge is granted rather than only when you open the checkout page. A checkout session stays valid for about a day, so it is possible to start a purchase while places remain and complete it after the last one has gone. If that happens we do not issue a 500-and-first place: we do not grant the badge, the points or the access, and we refund your payment in full. We issue that refund ourselves; it is not conditional on you asking and it is not limited by the 14-day window above. We would rather return the money than publish a cap we do not keep.

12.4 If Throttle is sold or renamed

If Throttle, or Throttle Toys, is sold, merged with another business, or otherwise transferred to a different owner, the supporter grant ends on the transfer — unless the new owner elects in writing to honour it. If they do, it continues on the terms you bought under. We will ask them to. We cannot make them agree, and we will not print a promise that depends on somebody else keeping it.

Moving Throttle into a company that its current owner controls — for example when Throttle incorporates — is not a sale, merger or transfer to a different owner, and does not mean Throttle Toys has ceased operations; the grant continues.

If the service is renamed or rebranded, the grant ends. The grant is tied to Throttle under its current ownership and brand; a rebrand is a different platform, and carrying the grant into it would make the phrase in section 12.1 mean nothing.

In both cases there is no refund beyond the 14-day window in the table above. Your BETA Supporter badge is unaffected and stays on your profile and posts for as long as the Throttle community exists.

This is the narrow reading, and we would rather print it before you pay than argue about it afterwards. Section 3 of the BETA Supporter terms sets out each event and its refund consequence in a table.

12.5 Changes to the BETA Supporter terms

A change to the BETA Supporter terms applies only to purchases made on or after the date it takes effect. It is never retroactive. If you bought a place before a change, the version published on the day you paid is the version that binds us. We keep every version we publish, so the version you paid under can always be produced.

The “What you get” row of the table above, and sections 12.1 and 12.4 as written above, took effect on 22 September 2026 and are narrower than the supporter terms published before that date. No BETA Supporter place had been sold when they took effect — the offer has never been open — so no existing purchase was narrowed by them. Section 23.1 says how later versions of these Terms reach you; none of them narrows a purchase already made, and section 12.2 still stands: we will not quietly reduce a published cap on an existing supporter.

13. Data, data products and business use

We publish market research and license aggregated, de-identified market data to businesses. That is a real part of how Throttle is paid for and we would rather you read it here than discover it later; Trust & data explains it in plain language.

• Those products are governed by the Data Licence, not by this agreement.
• Programmatic access to our data is governed by the API Terms. An automated agent may read our public pages only as section 4.1 allows; there is no other lawful automated route into our data.
• Aggregated and de-identified means what the CCPA/CPRA says it means: data that cannot reasonably be used to identify a person, that we commit publicly not to attempt to re-identify, and that we contractually bind recipients not to re-identify either.

13.1 Data about how the Service is used

When you use the Service, we collect information about how it is used — the behaviour log and the other records the Privacy Policy describes. As between you and us, that data, and everything we derive from it, belongs to us. Where it is Personal Information, we use it only as the Privacy Policy allows, and you keep every right that policy and the law give you.

13.2 De-identified Data is ours

De-identified Data — including aggregated statistics, indices, datasets, and models trained on them — belongs to us outright. So does everything else we create under the licence in section 6.2: derived works, datasets, statistics and models are ours, while the copyright in the words and images you posted stays yours and reaches us through that licence, which survives for them as section 6.2 says. We may use, publish, license and sell De-identified Data for any purpose, including research, data products, training artificial-intelligence models, and any business we or a Successor carry on. It is not Personal Information, so the Personal Information limits in sections 6.2 and 13.3 do not apply to it.

13.3 We never sell your Personal Information

We do not sell or share your Personal Information, as the CCPA defines those words. Section 8 of the Privacy Policy states the commitment in full. Nothing in these Terms — including sections 6 and 13 — lets us sell or share your Personal Information, and nothing in them limits a right the law gives you over it: to know about it, get a copy, correct it, delete it, take it elsewhere, or opt out of its sale or sharing. Those rights cannot be signed away, and we do not ask you to.

14. Dealers: crawling and opt-out

We crawl dealers' own public websites. We identify ourselves as ThrottleBot, we obey robots.txt, we fetch one page at a time, we never touch anything behind a login, and we never re-host photographs. The full description is at /bot.

• Opt out at any time. Email us from an address at your dealership's domain and we will stop crawling and remove your listings within 24 hours, with written confirmation. No forms, no retention offer.
• Corrections. A wrong price or a mis-categorised unit is usually our parser's fault. Tell us and we will fix it — we would rather correct it than lose the store.
• Feeds. Send a CSV, XML or JSON inventory feed and we will stop crawling you entirely.
• Listings always link back to your page. There is no contact form between a buyer and your store, and we do not intercept the sale.

Aggregated market statistics computed across many dealers are our own work and are not your inventory feed; section 13 and the Data Licence govern them. We do not resell or redistribute any single store's inventory as a feed.

15. Copyright and DMCA

Counsel review advised: the designated agent must be registered with the US Copyright Office.

If you believe material on Throttle infringes your copyright, send a notice through the form at /legal/notice/dmca, or to [email protected] with the subject line DMCA, containing:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed;
3. the URL of the material you want removed, precise enough for us to find it;
4. your name, address, telephone number and email address;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law;
6. a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act for the owner.

We will remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice, and we will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice to the same address with the equivalent information and a consent to jurisdiction; we will forward it and, absent a court filing, may restore the material in 10–14 business days.

We have not yet registered a DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office. Until we do, send copyright notices through the form at /legal/notice/dmca or to [email protected]; /bot#legal-notices says how they are handled.

16. Suspension, termination and appeals

We may warn you, remove content, limit a feature, apply a cooldown, suspend or terminate your account, and refuse service, where we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or the guidelines, or where we must in order to comply with the law or protect other users.

• Where it is practical and lawful, we say what rule was broken and what we did about it.
• You can appeal any moderation decision by emailing us. Appeals are read by a person, and we will tell you the outcome. The process is described in the Community Guidelines.
• If we terminate a paid account for reasons other than a breach by you, we refund the unused portion of a subscription period. If we terminate a BETA Supporter account for reasons other than a breach by you, we refund the payment in full, and that refund is not limited by the 14-day window in section 12.
• You may stop using Throttle at any time. Section 22 lists the terms that survive the end of this agreement.

17. Disclaimers

Throttle is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We specifically do not warrant that:

• listing data, prices, specifications or availability are accurate or current;
• derived figures — days on market, price history, sold status, deal scores, medians, forecasts — are correct, complete or suitable for any decision you make;
• the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free;
• any seller, dealer, buyer or other user is who they claim to be, or will behave honestly.

Nothing on Throttle is professional advice of any kind, and nothing here is a consumer report. You must not use Throttle, or any data derived from it, as a factor in establishing a consumer's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or any other purpose regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

18. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Throttle and its officers, employees and suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost goodwill, or the cost of substitute services, arising out of or relating to your use of Throttle — whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, and even if we were told such damages were possible.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of: (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim; or (b) one hundred US dollars ($100).

These limits are a fundamental part of the deal between us: they are why a free product that publishes an imperfect estimate can exist at all. They do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including fraud, or death or personal injury caused by negligence.

19. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Throttle harmless from any claim, demand, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) brought by a third party and arising from: your Content; your breach of these Terms; your infringement of someone's rights; your use of the data in a way sections 4 or 13 prohibit; or any transaction you enter into with a seller or dealer. We will tell you about any such claim and you may control the defence, provided any settlement that admits fault or binds us needs our written agreement.

20. Disputes, arbitration and class waiver

Counsel review advised. You can opt out of arbitration within 30 days and keep every other right in these terms.

20.1 Talk to us first

Before starting anything formal, email [email protected] with the subject Dispute, describing the problem and what you want. We will respond within 30 days and try to sort it out. Most things end here.

20.2 Binding arbitration

If we cannot resolve it within 60 days, you and Throttle agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. Arbitration may be conducted by documents, by telephone or video, or in person in the county where you live, at your choice. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief a court could.

20.3 Class action and jury waiver

Claims may be brought only in your individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding, and the arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over a class. You and Throttle each waive the right to a jury trial. If this paragraph is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim proceeds in court and the rest of this section still applies to everything else.

20.4 How to opt out — 30 days

You may reject arbitration entirely. Email [email protected] with the subject Arbitration opt-out and your account email, within 30 days of first accepting these terms. That is all it takes. Opting out costs you nothing else — it does not affect your account, your subscription or any other term — and we will confirm in writing. If you opt out, disputes go to the courts named in section 21.

20.5 Carve-outs

Either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either of us may seek an injunction in court to stop misuse of intellectual property or a breach of section 4.1. Nothing here prevents you from reporting a matter to a government agency.

21. Governing law and venue

Throttle is not yet incorporated. This section says what applies in the meantime, and what changes when it is.

Throttle is not yet incorporated. Until it is, these terms are governed by the law of the state in which Throttle is resident, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act where it applies. Where section 20 does not send a dispute to arbitration, it is heard either where you reside or where Throttle is resident, at your election.

We will publish the governing state and the venue in this section, and email every account holder, at least 30 days before that change takes effect. If you do not want to be bound by the new jurisdiction, closing your account before it takes effect means it never applies to you.

If you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose law gives you rights that cannot be waived by contract, nothing here removes them.

22. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy, the Community Guidelines and — where they apply — the BETA Supporter terms, the Data Licence and the API Terms, are the whole agreement between us about the Service. They replace every earlier version you accepted, except that a BETA Supporter purchase stays governed by the Supporter terms in force on the day you paid.
• Severability. If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, that part is limited to the broadest scope the law allows — or, if it cannot be limited, removed — and the rest stays in force. This applies in particular to the licence in section 6 and to section 13.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a term once does not waive it.
• Assignment and Successors. We may assign or transfer these Terms, and any right, licence or obligation under them, in whole or in part, to an affiliate or a Successor — including in a sale, merger, reorganisation, financing, change of control or rebrand — without your consent. The licences you give us in section 6 go with them, and a Successor may use every right these Terms give us. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account. Your rights under a recurring Throttle+ subscription or an unexpired Buyer Pass carry over. A Throttle+ Lifetime purchase made before that plan was retired carries over on the terms it was sold under. The BETA Supporter grant does not pass to a Successor unless the Successor elects in writing to honour it (section 12.4). That limits what a Successor owes a supporter; it does not limit our right to assign.
• Survival. Section 6.2, to the extent its last paragraph says the licence survives, and sections 5, 6.3, 6.4, 7, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23.2, any refund we owe you under sections 11.4, 11.6, 12.3, 16 or 23.1, and any other term that by its nature should last, survive the end of this agreement and the deletion of your account.
• Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by something genuinely outside our control.
• Notices. We may give you notice by email to your account address, by a message when you sign in, or by a notice on the Service. You give us notice at [email protected].
• No third-party beneficiaries, other than our affiliates, suppliers and Successors.
• Export and sanctions. You confirm you are not located in, or acting for anyone in, a country or on a list subject to US sanctions that would make your use unlawful.
• Headings. Headings and the italic summaries under them are there to help you read; the clauses are what govern.

23. Changes to these Terms, the Service and the business

23.1 How we change these Terms

We may change these Terms. When we do, we publish a new version, with a new version number and effective date, shown at the top of this page, and a short summary of what changed.

If you have an account, the first time you sign in — or come back while signed in — on or after the effective date, we show you the new version and the summary. You must read and accept it before you can keep using the Service with your account. Until you accept it, the version you last accepted continues to govern your account.

If you do not accept it, you may not use the Service with your account. We sign you out. Your account stays as it is: we do not delete anything because you declined. You can still request a copy of your Personal Information where the law gives you that right, cancel a subscription and delete your account without accepting, and the page you see when you decline says how. If you then use the Service without an account, you do so under the new version (section 2).

Until you accept, we pause the alert emails you set up — saved-search and watchlist alerts. Nothing is deleted, and they resume once you accept.

If you decline a new version of these Terms or of the Privacy Policy and you have paid for a period you have not yet used, we refund the unused part. If you hold a BETA Supporter place, we refund your payment in full, because declining ends your use of the Service through a change we made. Email us to claim either refund.

If you use the Service without an account, the version on this page when you use it applies.

Some changes need nothing from you — fixing a typo, a broken link or the formatting. We may publish those as a new version without asking you to accept again.

Two promises elsewhere in these Terms still apply to any change: at least 30 days' notice by email before a price rise on a plan you are on (section 11.2), and advance notice before we move anything out of the free tier (section 11.1). A change to section 20 (arbitration) never applies to a dispute we already knew about, and it restarts your 30-day right to opt out. A new version never narrows a BETA Supporter purchase you have already made.

We keep every version we publish.

23.2 Changes to the Service and the business

The Service will change, and so may the business. We may add, change, suspend, discontinue or reposition any part of the Service at any time — including any feature, category, dataset, plan or page. We may also change what the business does: for example, by concentrating on data products, research or artificial-intelligence services instead of, or as well as, a marketplace.

We have no obligation to keep any feature, category, dataset or service available, and we are not liable to you for any of these changes. For a BETA Supporter, section 4 of the BETA Supporter terms limits this: we change or remove a feature in a supporter's fixed feature set only for a technical or legal reason, and we say why. The only money we owe you because of a change is a refund these Terms expressly promise: sections 11.4, 11.6, 12.3, 16 and 23.1, and section 9 of the BETA Supporter terms. Where the law requires notice or a refund for a particular change, we give it.

24. Contact

Throttle — [email protected]

Related documents: BETA Supporter terms · Privacy Policy · Community Guidelines · Data Licence · API Terms · Trust & data · ThrottleBot