Skip to content
IT
MotorSage · Documents

Terms of Use and App Licence

DraftNot yet in force: it is awaiting review by a lawyer.

Version of 3 November 2026

This document is the contract between you and Andrea Ceccon, who can be contacted at info@p3lab.it (“we” or “us”), for the use of MotorSage (the “Service”): the app and the online services that make it work. It also serves as the licence to use the app (section 14). For short we call it the “Terms of Use” or the “Terms”.

You read it inside the app, by scrolling, before accepting it. An identical copy, of the same version, is on the p3lab.it website. How we handle your data is explained in the Privacy Policy: the privacy policy is there to be read, not accepted.

1. What MotorSage offers

MotorSage helps you keep your vehicles in order: technical data, expenses, consumption, deadlines and reminders, documents. Make, model and version are chosen from the app's vehicle catalogue. Some features automatically read photos and documents or search for information on the web using an artificial intelligence system.

The Service is free. It is under development (beta version): features, appearance and limits may change.

2. Who can use it

  • You must be at least 18 years old.
  • For now access is by invitation: we create the account after a request. We may turn down a request without having to give a reason.
  • The Service is intended for personal use. For professional use (company fleets, garages, dealerships) contact us first.

3. How you accept these Terms

  • When you sign up you'll find a checkbox: “I am at least 18 and accept the Terms of Use”. Without ticking it you cannot complete the sign-up, and our server checks this too, not just the app.
  • When you sign up by invitation, your acceptance is saved together with your request. The contract comes into being when we create your account: from that moment the acceptance passes to the account.
  • If you were already using MotorSage before this version, the first time you open the updated app we ask you to accept the Terms in order to continue. If you don't want to, you can sign out.
  • We record every acceptance: your account, the document, the version, the date and the time, set by our server. This lets us know, and be able to prove, which version you accepted and when. How long we keep it is explained in the privacy policy.
  • You can reread the Terms whenever you like in Settings → Privacy and consent, where you'll also find the version you accepted.
  • Offers and tailored tips are not part of this contract. They are three optional, separate choices, which you give or withdraw in Settings → Privacy and consent. You can use the app without giving any of them.

4. Your account

  • You sign in with your email: we send you a code that is valid for a few minutes. Keep your mailbox secure, because whoever controls it can also get into your account. You are responsible for what happens with your account: if you think someone has gained access to it, change your email password and let us know.
  • The information you provide must be true.
  • You can delete your account whenever you like from Settings → Delete account, at no cost. The account is closed straight away; for 30 days you can cancel the deletion by signing back in with your email, after which the data are permanently deleted.

5. Your content

  • The data, photos and documents you enter remain yours.
  • You grant us only the right to store them, process them and show them to you to the extent needed to make the Service work, including through the providers listed in the privacy policy. This right ends when you delete the content or the account.
  • Corrections to the shared technical data sheet: when you suggest a correction to a technical figure for a model (for example the fuel tank capacity), you authorise us to use it, even in modified form, in the data sheet visible to all users, with no time limit and without payment. We do not publish your name next to the figure.
  • You may only upload content you have the right to use. Do not upload other people's documents without being entitled to, or documents containing health data or other special categories of data that the Service does not need.

6. Permitted use

You may not:

  • use the Service for unlawful purposes or to store unlawful content;
  • try to access other users' data or the Service's systems;
  • overload the Service, get around its limits (for example the daily limits on the automatic features) or use it with automated programs;
  • systematically copy the vehicle catalogue, the shared technical data sheet or other content of the Service;
  • decompile the app, except as the law allows in any case.

If you break these rules we may suspend or close your account (section 11).

7. Artificial intelligence, vehicle catalogue and automatic information

  • Automatic readings of documents, technical data sheets, maintenance intervals and translations are produced by an artificial intelligence system and by web searches. They may contain errors. The app shows you the results before saving them and gives the sources when it has them: check them, especially the ones you use for important decisions.
  • The vehicle catalogue (makes, models, versions and some technical data) is prepared with care, but may be incomplete or contain errors. When you choose a version, the app fills in some of the vehicle's details and technical data sheet by itself: they can still be edited, and if the registration certificate says otherwise, the registration certificate prevails.
  • Technical data and maintenance intervals do not replace the manufacturer's owner's manual and service book or the advice of a garage.

8. Deadlines, taxes and reminders

  • Information on vehicle tax, inspections, insurance and other deadlines, in the various countries, is indicative: we prepare it carefully from official sources, but rules change and depend on individual circumstances. It is not tax or legal advice. For amounts and dates, what the competent authorities say is what counts.
  • One-year exemptions. For the 2027 vehicle tax, Decree-Law 162/2026 exempts only one vehicle per person, under certain conditions that the app summarises in the vehicle's details. It is you who indicates which vehicle is the exempt one: the app does not know who owns each vehicle or whether you meet the conditions, and takes what you indicate at face value. The decree may change when it becomes law, and in some Regions it applies only after an agreement with the State. The rule above applies here too: indicative information, not tax advice. Before not paying, check with the competent authority.
  • Reminders depend on your device (notifications turned on, battery saving, correct date and time). They may not arrive: they do not replace your own attention to deadlines, which remain your obligations.

9. Availability and changes to the Service

  • We do our best to keep the Service working at all times, but there may be interruptions for maintenance, faults or causes on the providers' side.
  • We may change features or introduce usage limits, as long as the Service remains in conformity with what is described and does not take essential features away from you without notice.
  • We provide you with the updates needed to keep the Service in conformity and secure, as required by the Italian Consumer Code (Articles 135-octies et seq.). If you do not install an update that we have told you about, we are not liable for the defects that update would have prevented.
  • If we decided to close the Service, we would give you at least 60 days' notice, so that you have time to get a copy of your data.

10. Liability

  • We are liable for damage caused by our wilful misconduct or gross negligence, and in any case within the mandatory limits laid down by consumer protection law.
  • Outside these cases, since the Service is free, we are not liable for: errors in the automatic information or in the vehicle catalogue (section 7), penalties or interest for missed deadlines or for an exemption indicated wrongly (section 8), loss of data due to causes beyond our reasonable control. We recommend that you keep the originals of important documents.
  • Nothing in these Terms limits the rights that the Consumer Code gives you as a consumer, including the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content and services.

11. Suspension and closure of the account

  • You can close your account at any time (section 4).
  • We may suspend or close your account if you seriously breach these Terms or the law, or if the account remains inactive for more than 24 months. Except in urgent cases (security, orders from the authorities) we let you know beforehand, explaining the reason, and you can reply.

12. Reporting illegal content

If you find content in the Service that you believe is illegal (for example in the shared technical data sheet), report it to the address given in the Legal notice, explaining what it is and why. We will reply with the decision taken and the reasons for it.

13. Intellectual property

The app, the MotorSage name, Carson the butler, the graphics, the vehicle catalogue and the shared technical data sheet as a whole belong to us or to our licensors. The app contains third-party software distributed under free licences, listed on the “Licences” page (Settings → Privacy and consent → Licences). Maps are © OpenStreetMap contributors. How you may use the app is set out in section 14.

14. Licence to use the app

This section is the licence to use the app (the end-user licence agreement, or “EULA”). It applies on all devices. The parts that mention Apple apply when you got the app from an Apple service (App Store or TestFlight): they reproduce the minimum terms that Apple requires from anyone who uses their own licence.

14.1 The parties. This licence is an agreement between you and us, not with Apple. We alone, not Apple, are responsible for the app and its content.

14.2 What you may do. We grant you a personal, free, limited, non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to use the app for as long as you have an account. On iPhone, iPad and Mac you may use it on the Apple devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions; where Apple allows it, the app may also be used by other accounts linked to yours through Family Sharing or volume purchasing. You may not sell, rent, lend or transfer the app or this licence. These rules are not intended to conflict with those of the App Store: if any point did, the App Store rules apply to the app obtained from the App Store.

14.3 Maintenance and support. Updates, maintenance and support are provided by us, as described in these Terms (section 9) or as required by law. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to provide maintenance or support for the app.

14.4 Warranties. Warranties on the app, including those that the law gives you as a consumer (section 10), are our responsibility, within the limits to which the law allows them to be excluded. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the price paid for the app: for MotorSage the price is zero. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app; any other claims, losses, damage or costs attributable to a failure to conform are our responsibility.

14.5 Claims about the app. We, and not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or by third parties relating to the app or its use, including: (a) product liability claims; (b) any claim that the app fails to comply with a law or rule that applies to it; (c) claims based on consumer protection, privacy or similar laws. This licence does not limit our liability to you beyond what the law permits.

14.6 Third-party rights. If anyone claims that the app, or your possession and use of it, infringes their intellectual property rights, we, and not Apple, will be responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of the claim.

14.7 Embargoes and lists of prohibited parties. You declare that: (a) you are not located in a country that is subject to a United States Government embargo, or that has been designated by it as a country supporting terrorism; (b) you are not on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

14.8 Contacts. For questions, complaints or claims about the app: Andrea Ceccon, info@p3lab.it. The postal address and telephone number will be given here.

14.9 Third-party terms. When you use the app you must comply with the agreements with third parties that concern it, for example the one with your mobile operator or with your data network provider.

14.10 Apple as third-party beneficiary. You and we acknowledge that Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this licence. When you accept these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

14.11 Android and other devices. On Android, and on the Mac when the app does not come from Apple, the same licence applies, without the parts that concern Apple only. Google does not require a separate licence: for the app obtained from Google Play, Google Play's rules also apply.

15. Changes to these Terms

  • Every version has its own date, shown at the top.
  • Important changes (for example to what the Service does, to your rights or obligations, to the licence, to any costs): we announce them in the app at least 30 days before they apply, with “What's changing” in a few lines, and you can accept them straight away. From the day they apply, we ask you to accept the new version in order to keep using the app.
  • If you don't accept it, you can sign out, or delete your account (from that screen too) after asking us, if you wish, for a copy of your data. Until you accept, the app does not open with your account; your data stay where they are, and the rule on inactive accounts applies (section 11).
  • Minor changes (corrections of form, updated contact details, clarifications that do not change rights and obligations): we publish them with the new date, without asking you to accept them again.
  • If a change is required by law or is needed for security, it may apply before the 30 days are up; we will tell you in the app all the same.

16. Applicable law and disputes

  • Italian law applies. If you are a consumer resident in another EU country, you keep the mandatory protections of the law of your country.
  • For a consumer, the competent court is that of the place where they live.
  • Before going to court, write to us: we will look for a solution. You can also turn to a recognised alternative dispute resolution (ADR) body.

17. Contacts

Andrea Ceccon, info@p3lab.it. The postal address will be given here.