Terms of Service

Last updated: 25 September 2026

These terms are a contract between you and Issa Zangana, sole trader, ABN 55 482 265 411, of New South Wales, Australia (“we”, “us”, “our”). By downloading or using Scrutineer, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use Scrutineer.

1. What Scrutineer is

Scrutineer analyses a used-vehicle listing that you send it and returns a score out of 100, a band, reasons, and questions worth asking the seller.

The score is our opinion of the listing as a purchase, based only on what is visible in the images you send and on comparable asking prices we find online. It is information to help you think. It is not advice, not an inspection, not a valuation, not a mechanical assessment, and not a statement of fact about the vehicle or the seller.

Section 7 sets out what this means for your decisions. Please read it.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, and at least 13 years old elsewhere. If you are under 18, you confirm that your parent or guardian permits you to use Scrutineer and agrees to these terms.

3. Your account

An account is created for you when you first open the app. You are responsible for the device it sits on and for activity through it. You may delete your account at any time in Settings.

4. Subscriptions and payment

Scrutineer is sold as an auto-renewing subscription through the App Store. Full subscription and refund terms are in our Subscription and Refund Terms, which form part of these terms.

In summary: prices are shown in the app in your local currency before you buy; subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; you cancel through your Apple account settings; and Apple, not us, takes your payment.

5. Acceptable use

You may not:

• Use Scrutineer other than through the app we provide, including by scripting, scraping or automating it
• Try to bypass rate limits, the paywall, or any other restriction
• Send images you have no right to send, or content that is unlawful
• Send content designed to manipulate a score, or use Scrutineer to produce a score you then present to someone else as an independent assessment of a vehicle you are selling
• Reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract our scoring logic or prompts, except where that restriction is prohibited by law
• Use Scrutineer to build a competing product, or to train a machine learning model
• Interfere with the service, or with other users’ use of it

We may limit, suspend or terminate access for breach of this section.

6. Your content, and our content

You keep ownership of everything you send us. You grant us a licence to use it for the limited purpose of providing the service — analysing it, generating your result, and storing the result as described in our Privacy Policy. For content you post on the feedback board, that licence also covers displaying it publicly in the app. The licence ends when you delete the content, except for copies we must keep for moderation or legal reasons.

You confirm you have the right to send us each image, and that sending it does not breach anyone else’s rights or a marketplace’s terms.

Scrutineer, its scoring system, its design and its copy are ours. Nothing in these terms transfers any of it to you. You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app.

7. The score, and your decisions

This section is the most important one in these terms.

1. You are solely responsible for every buying, selling, negotiating and financial decision you make. Scrutineer does not make decisions for you, does not recommend that you buy or avoid any vehicle, and takes no part in any transaction between you and a seller.
2. We do not inspect vehicles. We see images of a listing. We cannot see mechanical condition, accident history, finance owing, odometer tampering, title or registration status, flood or fire damage, structural repair, or anything the seller did not photograph or describe.
3. A high score does not mean a vehicle is sound, and a low score does not mean it is not. A score reflects what the listing shows and what comparable prices suggest, nothing more.
4. Price comparisons are estimates. They come from asking prices in listings found online, which may be out of date, wrongly described, in a different specification, or in a different market. An asking price is not a sale price.
5. The analysis is produced in part by an AI system and will sometimes be wrong. It can misread a photo, miss something present, or infer something incorrect. It is not a substitute for judgement.
6. Scores are not comparable across versions of our scoring rubric, and the same listing may not produce an identical score on a later run.
7. Always get an independent professional inspection before buying a vehicle, and check the vehicle’s registration, finance and write-off status through the official register in your country.

8. No warranty

To the maximum extent the law allows, Scrutineer is provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not warrant that it will be accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose, and we do not warrant that any score, reason, question or price figure is correct.

9. Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you are a consumer in Australia, our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under Australian Consumer Law. Consumers in the EEA, the UK and elsewhere have statutory rights that these terms do not affect.

Subject to that:

1. We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for any loss of profit, revenue, savings, opportunity, data or goodwill, however caused.
2. We are not liable for any loss arising from a decision you made, including buying a vehicle, not buying a vehicle, the price you paid or accepted, or any dealing with a seller, buyer, dealer, lender or insurer.
3. We are not liable for any loss arising from the condition, history, legal status or value of any vehicle, or from anything a seller told you or failed to tell you.
4. We are not liable for the acts or omissions of any third party, including marketplaces, sellers, payment providers, or providers of data we use.
5. Where our liability cannot be excluded, our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with Scrutineer is limited to the greater of: the amount you paid us for Scrutineer in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or AUD 100.

These limits apply however the claim arises, including in contract, negligence or under statute.

10. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against any claim brought against us by a third party arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of Scrutineer, or content you sent or posted — including a claim by a seller about content you uploaded or published. This does not apply to the extent the claim arises from our own breach or negligence, and it does not apply where you are a consumer and the law does not permit it.

11. The feedback board

The board is governed by our Board Community Rules, which form part of these terms. Posts and comments are reviewed before they appear. We may remove content, restrict posting, or ban an account under those rules.

12. Availability and changes to the service

We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of Scrutineer. We may stop analysing scans temporarily to control cost or to deal with abuse or an outage. If we discontinue a paid feature permanently while you hold a subscription, contact us and we will deal with it fairly, including a refund where appropriate.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will post the new version and update the date at the top, and where a change materially affects your rights we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Scrutineer after that means you accept the change.

14. Ending this agreement

You may stop using Scrutineer at any time and delete your account in Settings. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the service. Sections 6 to 10 and 15 survive termination.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of New South Wales, Australia, and you and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.

If you are a consumer resident in the EEA or the UK, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts.

16. Apple

Scrutineer is distributed by Apple. Apple is not a party to these terms and has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for Scrutineer. Apple is not responsible for any claim relating to Scrutineer, including product liability, a failure to meet legal requirements, or a claim under consumer protection or privacy law. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

17. General

If any provision is unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them as part of a transfer of the business. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Subscription and Refund Terms, and the Board Community Rules, are the entire agreement between us about Scrutineer.

18. Contact

Issa Zangana, ABN 55 482 265 411, New South Wales, Australia — support@usescrutineer.com