Thank you for visiting compare-credit-cards.com

Below you'll find a few important things you need to know about us and your use of our services. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before you start to use our services.

1. Who are we?

compare-credit-cards.com is a registered trading name of Digitonomy Limited, registered in England and Wales (company number 08385135). Our registered office is at: Steam Mill Business Centre, Steam Mill Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH3 5AN. We are a credit broker authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), and we are entered on the Financial Services Register under reference number: 690249. We are licenced by the Information Commissioners Office under registration number ZA007309.

2. Your acceptance of these Terms and conditions

By visiting our website and using this service, you are accepting our terms and conditions, privacy policy and cookie policy and agree to abide by them.

If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you should stop using and/or accessing our website immediately. If you breach any of these terms, your right to access and use our website will cease immediately.

We acknowledge our obligations to this agreement by performing the service you have requested. In doing so, we are the service provider and you are our customer. We deal directly with you and have no obligation to any party other than you, our customer. If you are accessing our service on behalf of someone else, our obligation is still with you, the customer. As our customer, the terms and conditions of this agreement apply to you, not with any other parties or agents that may be connected to you.

3. Changes to these Terms and conditions

We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions from time to time by amending this page. The amended terms and conditions will be effective from the date they are posted on our website.

By continuing to use our website after changes are posted you are accepting our new terms and conditions.

4. The Compare Credit Cards Service

We provide an online comparison service for financial products and services to help you find offers that are relevant and of interest to you. To provide this service, we work with: HD Decisions – an Experian business; Madison CF UK Limited, trading as 118 118 Money, and Capital One (Europe) plc who provide pre-screening and eligibility checking services, along with a panel of authorised financial services firms.

We do not charge you a fee for using our service, but we do receive a commission from our panel of financial services firms if you are issued with a financial product as a result of using our service.

Whether or not our panel of financial services firms are able to provide you with the product or service you are looking for (or any alternative product or service), is their responsibility and will depend on factors such as their assessment of your eligibility and credit worthiness by taking into account your credit history.

If your application is for a consumer credit product (such as a credit card or personal loan), you will be protected under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (as amended) (“CCA”), and where required, financial services firms on our panel are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

To find out more information about how the CCA protects the rights of consumers contact the Trading Standards Institute www.gov.uk/find-local-trading-standards-office or the Citizens Advice Bureau www.citizensadvice.org.uk

5. Your use of our Website

Our website is for your personal use only and you must not use it in any unlawful or fraudulent manner. You should only use our service if you are a UK resident aged 18 years or over.

If you are using our website on behalf of another person, you are responsible for ensuring that they understand and agree to these terms and conditions. When you provide their information, you are confirming to us that you have their permission to do this.

6. Communications from or on behalf of Compare Credit Cards

If you have consented to receive marketing communications from us, we may contact you by telephone, SMS, email and post about other products and services. (Please read our privacy policy for more information).

By using our service to apply for a financial product or service, you will be contacted by your chosen product provider by telephone, SMS, email, fax and/ post if they approve your application.

7. Credit checks and References

We will carry out a soft credit check on you when you use our website to compare financial products and services. The soft search does not affect your credit score and will only be visible to you. Carrying out a soft search in this way enables us to check your identity and eligibility.

In addition, your chosen product provider(s) will supply your personal details to credit reference agencies to do a pre-application check of your credit file. Only you will be able to see this check, so it won't impact your credit score.

Credit checks and credit reference agencies can also help prevent fraudulent applications. When you make an application, you agree to your chosen provider using your personal information to prevent fraud and to verify your identity. This data may be used by a Credit Reference Agency or Fraud Agency and these agencies may keep a record of your information.

You are responsible for ensuring that the information you provide is true and accurate. Misleading information will be regarded as a breach of our terms and is likely to breach any agreement you enter with your chosen credit card provider(s). Furthermore, misleading information may also result in the instigation of criminal procedures against you.

8. Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our website for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others to material posted on our website.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our website must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

All rights in Compare Credit Cards are owned by us.

9. Third party websites and Links from our Website

If you leave our website to complete an application for a financial product or service on your chosen provider's website, it is very important that you read their terms and conditions to make sure you understand and accept them.

Where our website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

10. Information about you and your visits to our website

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our website, you acknowledge that your information will be processed in that way, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

We aim to ensure that the material on our website is accurate. We also try to correct any errors or omissions as soon as we become aware of them. However, we cannot guarantee that our website is accurate and error free always. We therefore reserve the right to amend any information displayed on our website at any time.

11. Financial Information

The information on our website is not intended to be construed as financial or other advice. It is provided to help you find the product or service that you consider is the most appropriate for your circumstances. If you think you need financial advice, you should contact a registered and qualified Independent Financial Adviser (IFA).

12. Our liability

We do not accept responsibility or liability for any loss or damage you may incur (whether directly or indirectly) in the following circumstances:

• If the information you provide to us is incorrect, incomplete or misleading;
• If the product or service you apply for is not appropriate for you;
• As a result of any acts or omissions of any third party regarding the product or service you are applying for, and
• As a result of your use, or inability to use our website due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law including but not limited to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended, ("FSMA") or any conduct of business rules developed pursuant to FSMA.

13. Viruses, Hacking and other Offences

You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to make any use of material on our website other than that set out above, please contact us on our contact form by clicking here.

14. Complaints

We aim to offer an excellent service to all our customers. If you feel that we have failed to provide our service or wish to make a formal complaint of any kind, please write to:

Customer Support Manager
Compare Credit Cards
Digitonomy Limited,
Steam Mill Business Centre,
Steam Mill Street,
Chester
Cheshire
CH3 5AN

A response will be provided promptly upon receipt of your letter of complaint.

If we do not resolve your complaint internally to your satisfaction, you may be able to refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service:

Financial Ombudsman Service,
Exchange Tower,
London,
E14 9SR.
www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk

15. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions and your access to and use of our website (including any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them), shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law.

You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales in connection with these terms and conditions and your access to and use of our website.

16. General

This agreement is in English and all communications between you and us will be in English.

If any provision of these terms and conditions is found to be unlawful, invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed deleted from these terms and conditions and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.

Our terms and conditions, privacy policy and cookie policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us relating to your use of our website.

No failure or delay by us in exercising any of our rights under these terms and conditions shall constitute a waiver of that right nor will any single or partial exercise by us of any right preclude any further exercise of any right.

17. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about these terms and conditions, or would like to contact us for any other reason, you can contact us:

by post: Customer Support Manager, Digitonomy Limited, Steam Mill Business Centre, Steam Mill Street, Chester, Cheshire, CH3 5AN

Last updated 19/03/2024