Rare Car Archive

Terms of Use

Last updated 14 November 2026

These terms apply to Rare Car Archive at rarecararchive.com (“the archive”, “we”), operated by Johtela Company Oy (Business ID 3134705-8, Finland). Contact: [email protected]. By using the archive you accept these terms.

1. The service

The archive is an independent research archive of rare automobiles. The free archive – car pages, production figures with their sources, photographs, search and collections – is open to everyone without an account. Premium membership (section 4) adds deeper research data for members.

We research every figure against its cited sources, but historical records conflict and new evidence appears. The content is provided for information and research, without warranty that it is complete or error-free. Rarity is not market value, and nothing in the archive is investment, purchase or valuation advice. Before buying or selling a car, verify its identity and history with the relevant marque registry or a recognised expert.

2. Using the content

3. Accounts

Some features – Premium, voting and sending information to the archive – require an account. You must give a valid email address, keep your password secret and be at least 18 years old (or have a guardian’s consent). One account per person. We may suspend accounts used for abuse, spam, scraping or attempts to bypass access controls. You can delete your account at any time.

4. Premium membership

Premium is a recurring subscription: €4.90 per month or €49 per year (prices include VAT where applicable; the price shown at checkout is final). New members can start with a 7-day free trial; one trial per person. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the subscription starts and renews automatically every month or year until you cancel.

Payments. Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. Paddle’s own buyer terms apply to the purchase.

Cancelling. You can cancel at any time from your account page or the link in your receipt email; access continues until the end of the period you have paid for. Special offers (for example a reduced price for the first three months) return to the normal price afterwards, as shown at checkout.

Refunds and right of withdrawal. You can get a full refund within 14 days of your first payment, once per customer; this also covers the 14-day right of withdrawal of consumers in the EU. See our Refund Policy.

Fair use. Premium is licensed for your own reading and research. Automated access, bulk downloading or copying Premium data, sharing an account or reselling the data is not allowed. We limit and monitor such use technically and may close accounts that break this rule.

Price changes. We will tell members by email at least 30 days before a price change; it applies from the next billing period and you can cancel before it does.

5. Information you send us

When you send corrections, documents or photographs, you confirm you have the right to share them and allow us to use them in the archive. We check everything against its evidence before publishing, and credit you by name only if you ask us to.

6. Liability

We are not liable for indirect losses or for decisions made on the basis of the archive’s content. Nothing in these terms limits rights that consumers have under mandatory law.

7. Changes and law

We may update these terms; the date above shows the latest version, and members are told about material changes by email. These terms are governed by Finnish law. Consumers can also rely on the mandatory consumer law of their country of residence and may contact the Finnish Consumer Disputes Board (kuluttajariita.fi) or the EU’s online dispute resolution information.

Questions: [email protected]