Terms of use

Last updated: 1 September 2026.

1. Who we are

POOR MAN SUPER CAR LTD, registered in England & Wales, company number 16197667. Registered office: 47 Diligent Drive, Sittingbourne, England, ME10 2LQ. Contact: contact@poormansupercar.com.

These terms cover using DRIVE LOOKUP. Buying a sticker is covered by the terms of sale, what you may and may not do here by the acceptable use policy, and how we handle your data by the privacy policy. The acceptable use policy forms part of these terms.

2. What DRIVE LOOKUP is

A page for a car, reachable by scanning a QR sticker on the car itself. You put the specification, the photographs and the build history on it; anyone who scans the code sees it. You can also list a car at a meet, put it in a club, and follow other cars.

3. A page is not a car, and we are not the DVLA

This is the most important thing on the page, so it is near the top. Everything DRIVE LOOKUP does concerns control of a page.

• Holding a page is not evidence that you own the vehicle.
• Handing a page to somebody is not a sale, and it transfers nothing legal. It is not the V5C, it does not notify the DVLA, and it has no effect on who the registered keeper is.
• A build or service history here is what somebody typed. It is not a warranty, an MOT, a valuation, or proof that any work was done.

If you are buying a car, treat what you read here as a starting point for questions and nothing more.

4. Your account

You must be 18 or over. Keep your password to yourself — anything done through your account is treated as done by you.

There is no password reset by email yet, because there is no mail provider. Recovery codes are issued instead, and they are the only way back into an account whose password is lost. Keep them somewhere that is not your car.

5. Plans and payment

Some things need a paid plan: more than one car, the full build history, the breakdown of who scanned your sticker, and starting or taking on a club. Joining a club is free and stays free.

Card payments are not switched on. Until they are, no subscription is charged and any paid plan on an account was granted by us rather than bought.

Limits apply to adding things and never retroactively. If a plan lapses, or a limit changes, nothing you already have is deleted or hidden — you simply cannot add more until there is room. A lapsed paid plan behaves as the free plan.

6. What you put here

Your photographs and words stay yours. You give us permission to store them and to show them on the pages you publish, and nothing more — we do not sell them and we do not license them to anyone else.

You must have the right to upload what you upload. That includes club badges, manufacturer marks and photographs taken by somebody else. See the acceptable use policy, which says what happens when you do not.

7. What is public, and what is not

A published car page is public and can be found by search engines. Its registration is shown by default — plates are visible on the car in every car park in the country, and pretending otherwise would be security theatre — but you can hide it, and we tell you it is published when you enter it. Our own search deliberately cannot match a registration or a VIN: who owns this plate is a question this site will not answer.

Unpublished and private pages are not shown to anyone else. Nor is anything belonging to a suspended account.

8. Work confirmed by a business

A workshop can confirm a piece of work on a customer’s car, and its name then appears on that entry.

That is a statement by the business, not by us, and it is never a certificate of mechanical safety or roadworthiness. We do not inspect anything, we do not verify that a business is competent or insured, and a confirmation says only that the named business said it did the work described. A business can withdraw a confirmation, and an owner editing the entry removes it.

9. Clubs

Starting a club or taking one on needs a paid plan; joining one does not. A club decides which cars are in it, and no car appears in a club until the club has accepted it.

Whoever runs a club is responsible for what it publishes, including its name and any logo, and for having the right to use them. That responsibility passes with the club when it is handed on. If you close your account the club is not deleted — it stays with its cars and its history, and nobody can let a new car in until somebody takes it on.

10. When we step in

We can remove content, suspend an account, or close it, where the acceptable use policy has been broken or where we are required to. A suspended page stops being visible to anybody. We will say why, and you can reply to that decision by email.

11. Closing your account

You can close your account at any time, and we will not stop you or make you ask. Your car pages, photographs and profile are deleted. Records of anything you bought are kept with your name and address removed, because we are required to keep sale records. Sticker codes are released and resolve to a page saying the code is not set up. Any club you run is released rather than deleted, as section 9 says.

12. Availability

This is a young service run by a small company. We do not promise it will be available at any particular time, and we may change or withdraw features. If we ever shut it down we will give notice and let you export your pages and photographs first — that export exists today, not as a promise for later.

13. Our responsibility to you

We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Subject to that, we are not responsible for what other people write here, for decisions you make about buying or selling a vehicle, or for loss of data where you have not kept your own copy.

We are also not responsible for business losses — lost profits, lost custom, or lost goodwill — if you use DRIVE LOOKUP for a business. If you are a consumer, we are responsible only for loss that was a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms.

Where we are liable, our total liability to you is capped at the greater of £100 or what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. The floor is there deliberately: most people here are on the free plan, and a cap of “whatever you paid” would be zero for them, which is not a fair term and we would rather not write one.

None of this touches the first paragraph. Death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud, and your statutory rights as a consumer are all outside any cap, and always will be.

14. Changes

We will post changes here with a new date at the top. If a change materially reduces what you get, we will say so on the site rather than changing it quietly.

15. Complaints and law

Email contact@poormansupercar.com first. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the UK you may bring proceedings in your own jurisdiction.

Before this is relied on

1. Have it reviewed by someone qualified, along with the terms of sale and the acceptable use policy.
2. Have section 13 checked first of all. A liability cap in a consumer contract is the clause most likely to be struck out as unfair under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and a term that is unenforceable protects nobody while looking as though it does.
3. Complete the ICO registration and publish the number in the privacy policy. A trading company processing personal data usually must register.
4. Revisit section 5 the moment card payments are switched on — renewal, refunds and price changes all need saying then, and the terms of sale are the model.
5. Revisit section 8 if verification is ever charged for, because paid verification invites a reading we are certifying something.