Data Licence

This licence is an agreement between you and XTO Pty Ltd (ACN 702 801 410), trading as CarsData ("we", "us"). It forms part of our Terms of Sale and Use. By downloading or using the dataset you agree to it. If anything here is unclear, email [email protected] and ask before you build - we are happy to say yes or no in writing.

1. Definitions

• Dataset means the CarsData Australian vehicle dataset in any format we supply (CSV, Excel, SQL script, JSON), every release of it, and any copy, extract or derivative of it that still contains the data.
• You or your organisation means the single company, sole trader, partnership, government body or other legal entity that bought the licence, as shown on the order.
• Your product means a website, app, system, report or service that you build, own or operate.
• Substantial part means enough of the dataset that someone could use it as a replacement for buying their own licence - for example all the vehicles for a make, a range of years, or a whole column of values.

2. What you may do

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual licence to:

1. Copy, store, load, transform and query the dataset on any number of devices and servers controlled by your organisation, including cloud services you use.
2. Use the dataset inside your organisation for any lawful purpose, including research, pricing, analysis, quoting, stock management and reporting.
3. Build the dataset into your products, including commercial products that you sell or charge for, and run those products for as long as you like.
4. Display individual records and values to your users, customers and the public as part of your product - for example a cascading year, make, model and variant selector, a listing or quote form, a fitment lookup, or a valuation shown for a single vehicle.
5. Publish reports, charts, articles and summary statistics based on the dataset (for example "the share of diesel utes by year"), as long as they do not reproduce a substantial part of the underlying records.

3. What you may not do

You must not, and must not let anyone else:

1. Resell, sublicense, rent, lend, publish, give away or otherwise distribute the dataset, or a substantial part of it, as data - in its original form or after reformatting, merging or translating it.
2. Make the dataset or a substantial part of it available outside your organisation, including as a downloadable file, a bulk export, an open or public API, a data feed, or a listing on a data marketplace.
3. Build a product whose main purpose is to let others extract, copy or rebuild the dataset (for example an unrestricted API that returns every record, or a page that lists the whole dataset).
4. Share the dataset with a related company, parent, subsidiary, franchisee, client or partner. Each separate legal entity needs its own licence.
5. Remove or misrepresent the source of the dataset in a way that suggests you or someone else produced it, or claim it is endorsed by any official body.

Reasonable technical limits are enough to meet item 3 - for example, an API that returns the options for one selection at a time, or one vehicle per request, is fine.

4. Contractors and service providers

Contractors, consultants, agencies and hosting providers working for you may access and use the dataset only to do work for you. You are responsible for making sure they follow this licence and delete or return the dataset when the work ends. They may not use it for themselves or for their other clients.

5. One licence per organisation

A licence covers one organisation - one legal entity - with any number of staff, sites, products and devices within it. If you are a developer or agency building for clients, each client that uses the dataset in its own products needs its own licence. If you sell your business or the product that uses the dataset, contact us and we will normally transfer the licence to the new owner at no charge.

6. Releases and duration

• Your licence to each release you have received is perpetual. You can keep using it for as long as you like, even if CarsData stops operating.
• Your purchase includes every new release we publish while the CarsData service runs. We aim to release every 6 months, but we do not guarantee particular content, dates or fields in future releases.
• Each release you download is covered by this licence as it stands at the time you download it.

7. Accuracy - provided as is

The dataset is compiled from published sources and checked, but vehicle data is large and complex and errors happen. It is provided "as is", without any promise that it is complete, current or free of errors. Values (market, retail and trade) are indicative figures as at the release date and are not a valuation of any particular vehicle. Check anything critical - such as a price you quote, a policy you write or a part you order - against the vehicle itself or another source. Our Terms of Sale and Use set out how liability works, and nothing in this licence limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law.

8. Refunds and ending the licence

• If your order is refunded or reversed (including through a chargeback), the licence for that order ends. You must stop using the dataset and delete all copies, including copies loaded into databases and products.
• If you seriously breach this licence - for example by redistributing the dataset - we may end it by written notice. You must then stop using the dataset and delete all copies. We may also take other action available to us by law.
• If you breach the licence in a way that can be fixed, we will tell you and give you a reasonable chance to fix it first.

9. Ownership

We and our suppliers keep all intellectual property rights in the dataset, including its selection, arrangement, codes and format. You own the products, reports and code you build. This licence gives you the right to use the dataset - it does not transfer ownership of it.

10. Changes to this licence

We may update this licence, for example to make it clearer. Changes will not reduce your rights to releases you have already received. The version that applies to each release is the one published on this page when you download it.

11. Law

This licence is governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the courts of New South Wales have jurisdiction.

12. Contact

XTO Pty Ltd, L1 457 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia.
Email [email protected] - questions about whether your use is allowed are welcome.