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General Terms and Conditions

The rules for using Autonio – for visitors and for private and business sellers.

Scope

These General Terms and Conditions (GTC) govern the use of the Autonio vehicle marketplace platform, operated by Jubati Gehrig, sole proprietorship (imprint). By using the platform – in particular by registering or creating a listing – you accept the current version. They do not apply to vehicle purchase contracts: the only parties to those are buyer and seller.

Our services

  • Free: searching, filtering, viewing, sharing and comparing listings; saving searches and vehicles; contacting sellers; creating and saving drafts.
  • During the pilot, publishing listings is free as well, up to your account's listing limit (see “Pilot phase”).

Autonio is an intermediary, not a seller: we do not become party to vehicle purchases, do not pre-check listings for accuracy and do not owe any sales success. Platform availability may be limited during maintenance.

Accounts: private and business

Private sellers publish under their own name; business sellers publish through an organization, shown as the seller. You are responsible for correct details, keeping your credentials confidential and all actions under your account. Minimum age: 18.

Listings

Drafts stay saved while you work on them. An empty draft is deleted after seven days, and a draft nobody has edited for six months is deleted. Listings must comply with the listing rules. They go online without prior review; we may check listings at any time afterwards and suspend or remove those that break the rules. An automatic check reads listing texts and chat messages for signs of fraud: it can hold back a chat message, lock an account writing as a buyer for 72 hours and limit the number of new conversations. It reports suspicious listings to us, but it never takes a listing offline by itself. How it decides and how to ask for a review by a person is set out in the privacy policy. You warrant that details and photos are accurate and that you hold the necessary rights. By uploading you grant us the usage rights needed to display content on the platform.

Pilot phase

Autonio is in its pilot phase. Listing is free during this time: each account can have a limited number of listings online at once – 10 for an account that signs up itself, 50 for a business we set up together, unless we agree otherwise. Write to us if you need more. We may adjust an account's limit or end free listing for an account that breaks these GTC or the listing rules.

Paid plans will follow after the pilot. We will announce them by email in good time beforehand; until then nothing changes for you, and nothing is charged.

User obligations

  • Provide true details, infringe no third-party rights, do not systematically scrape content, do not circumvent technical measures.
  • Contact other users only about the advertised vehicle – no spam, no advertising.
  • Report abuse via the report function.

Moderation and reports

Anyone can report a listing, also without an account. Reports enter a moderation queue and do not trigger automatic removal. For violations we may hide, remove or block listings and accounts and suspend publishing rights pending clarification. Measures stay proportionate; manifestly unlawful content is removed without delay.

Liability

We give no warranty for the accuracy, completeness or availability of individual listings. Our liability is limited – as far as legally permitted – to intent and gross negligence; mandatory claims remain reserved.

Final provisions

We may amend these GTC with reasonable notice; registered users are informed of material changes by email. Swiss law applies, excluding conflict-of-law rules. The place of jurisdiction is – where permitted – Meierskappel. Should a clause be invalid, the rest remains effective (severability).

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