Terms of use

These terms apply when you use RegFlags (the "service"). RegFlags is operated by Steady Circuit Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16471673) whose registered office is at 66 Paul Street, London, England, EC2A 4NA ("we", "us"). You can contact us at hello@steadycircuit.com or through our contact page.

By using the service you agree to these terms. When you buy a paid plan, you are asked to confirm that you agree to them before you pay, and we keep a record that you did.

What RegFlags is

RegFlags presents official MOT history, statistics about similar vehicles and an automatically written summary. It is information to help you make your own decisions. It is not a mechanical inspection or a valuation, and it does not include service history. It is not a vehicle history check: it does not check outstanding finance, theft, insurance write-offs or keeper history.

Data from other organisations

Most of what RegFlags shows comes from other organisations, listed on our data sources page: MOT, recall and licensing data from the DVSA and the Department for Transport, emissions data from the Vehicle Certification Agency, vehicle details from VehiclesDB and, in a full vehicle check, data from Experian supplied through One Auto API. We do not create this data and cannot guarantee that it is complete, accurate or up to date. It can contain errors or omissions, and the organisations that supply it can change or withdraw it.

Accuracy

Scores, flags, estimates (such as ULEZ compliance and projected mileage) and AI-written summaries are derived automatically from that data and may be wrong. Always inspect a vehicle, or have it inspected, before you buy it.

Our liability

We provide the service with reasonable care and skill. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for errors or omissions in data that comes from other organisations, for decisions you make using the service (such as whether to buy a vehicle or what to pay for it), or for losses we could not reasonably have foreseen.

If you use RegFlags for a business, we are not liable for loss of profit, revenue or business, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow us to limit, and nothing in them affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

Full vehicle checks

Where we offer it, a full vehicle check is a single purchase for one registration, at the price shown before you pay. It shows data from Experian, supplied to us through One Auto API: outstanding finance, insurance write-offs, theft and high-risk records, keeper, plate and colour changes, imports, exports and scrapping, and whether a VIN you enter matches the registration's records.

You may buy one only if you have a genuine interest in the vehicle, for example because you are thinking of buying or selling it, and only for your own use: you may not resell, publish or share the results with people who have no interest in the vehicle. We do not show the vehicle's VIN.

We supply the check straight away. Because it is digital content supplied immediately at your request, once it has been supplied you lose your 14-day right to cancel; you are asked to confirm this before you pay. If Experian has no record we can show for the registration, or the check cannot be completed, we refund you in full automatically.

The results are shown to you on RegFlags for 24 hours and are then deleted from our servers. Download the PDF report to keep them; unless you choose otherwise, a copy is also kept in your browser on the device you bought it on. The data comes from Experian and its sources and may contain errors or omissions; the sections above on data from other organisations and our liability apply to it. We do not offer a data guarantee.

Fair use and plans

Free and paid plans include the daily and monthly allowances shown on the pricing page. Guest, Free and Driver plans are for personal use. Dealers, traders and other businesses should use the Trade plan. Automated scraping, reselling data or trying to get around limits is not allowed, and we may suspend accounts that do it.

No automated collection

You may not crawl, scrape or otherwise collect RegFlags' pages, vehicle listings (including dealers' cars on RegFlags and the dealer websites we host), reports or statistics by automated means, whether to list vehicles elsewhere, to gather statistics or to build a database, without our written permission and to the extent the law allows. This does not stop search engines indexing our pages so people can find them, AI assistants fetching a page a person asked about, or your use of RegFlags through the API, AI assistant connection and exports included in your plan. The MOT data itself remains available under the Open Government Licence from DVSA.

Subscriptions

Paid plans renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time from your account page, and you keep your plan until the end of the period you have paid for. Paid plans are sold by Steady Circuit Ltd. Accounts and billing are provided by Steady Circuit's account service, and payments are taken by Stripe.

Data licence

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Changes

We may update these terms. We will tell account holders about significant changes by email.