Host Terms / Platform Agreement

These terms are the platform agreement between you (the host — the car park operator/business signing up for CarSpark) and CarSpark (Cú Chulainn Tech Limited). By creating a CarSpark account, connecting a Stripe account, and using the dashboard, sign generator, warden view, or any other CarSpark feature, you agree to these terms. Read alongside our Privacy Notice and Acceptable Use Policy.

1. Definitions and the service

CarSpark provides technology and payment rails for accepting parking payments: a QR sign generator, a driver-facing payment page, a live dashboard, a warden view, an incident log, and vehicle-registration enrichment. CarSpark is a software-as-a-service platform, not a parking operator, not a party to the parking contract with your drivers, and not your agent for enforcement of any kind.

2. Your Stripe account and merchant-of-record status

You must complete Stripe Connect onboarding before you can accept payments through CarSpark, and you are bound by Stripe's own Connected Account Agreement, which you accept directly during onboarding. Every driver payment is created as a direct charge on your own Stripe account, with CarSpark's fee deducted as an application fee. This means you are the merchant of record for every parking payment made at your site(s) — funds are paid out to you by Stripe, and funds never pass through, or are held by, CarSpark. This structure is fixed and is what allows CarSpark to operate without holding a payment-institution licence; we will not change it without telling you.

3. Fees

CarSpark charges 0% commissionon your parking revenue. Our only revenue from a parking payment is the flat, per-transaction driver service fee (defaulting to €0.29/£0.25, configurable per site), which is charged to the driver, not deducted from your tariff. You keep 100% of the price you set. Stripe's own card-processing fees are charged to, and borne by, your Stripe account, not CarSpark.

4. Your responsibilities

As the host, you are responsible for:

• The parking contract and its terms — you own the contract with each driver who pays, and you set the tariff, duration options, and any additional conditions.
• Lawful, compliant signage — your physical signage must meet the legal requirements that apply to your car park, including pricing transparency. Your CarSpark QR sign shows the driver service fee alongside your tariff for this reason.
• Tariff accuracy — you warrant that the tariff you configure in CarSpark is correct, current, and lawful. CarSpark only displays what you set.
• Lawful enforcement — CarSpark issues no parking charges or fines, and you cannot issue charges to drivers through CarSpark.The dashboard, warden view, and incident log are evidence and utility tools only. Any enforcement action you take — including issuing a parking charge notice, clamping, or engaging a third-party enforcement contractor — is entirely your responsibility, must be lawful, and, where it relies on accessing vehicle-keeper data or issuing charge notices, requires the appropriate accreditation for your jurisdiction. This is out of CarSpark's scope.
• The warden token — if you generate a warden-view link to share with staff or a third party, you are responsible for who you share it with, for revoking or rotating it when appropriate, and for any misuse that follows from sharing it (for example, handing paid-vehicle data to an enforcer who is not properly accredited to act on it).

5. VAT and taxes

You are responsible for accounting for and remitting VAT on your own parking revenue, at whatever rate applies to your car park in your jurisdiction. If you configure a VAT number and rate in CarSpark, receipts shown to drivers will display a VAT breakdown; if you do not, no VAT line is shown. CarSpark's own service fee is a separate charge to you (a platform fee), whose own VAT treatment depends on CarSpark's VAT-registration status — CarSpark is not currently VAT-registered, so no VAT is currently added to our fee. Nothing in this section is tax advice; speak to your own accountant about your VAT position.

6. Data protection

CarSpark and each host are separate, independent controllers of personal data, each for their own purposes — CarSpark for operating the platform (collecting and enriching the VRM, retaining and anonymising session and incident records, issuing proof-of-payment tokens, running anti-fraud telemetry), and you, the host, for your own use of platform data to enforce your own parking terms (for example, deciding to pursue an overstaying vehicle, or retaining incident evidence). CarSpark is not your data processor, and you are not jointly a controller with CarSpark of the platform-wide processing described in our Privacy Notice — the purposes are genuinely different, which under GDPR guidance makes each of us an independent controller rather than a processor or a joint controller of the same processing. This is the identical position stated in our Privacy Notice.

As an independent controller for your own enforcement use of driver data, you must have your own lawful basis for that use, provide your own transparency information to drivers where required, and not use the data unlawfully — including not issuing parking charges through data obtained via CarSpark unless you hold the accreditation required to do so in your jurisdiction.

7. Acceptable use and anti-fraud

You must keep your physical signage genuine and tamper-checked, must not attempt to enumerate, scrape, or otherwise misuse driver-facing pages or data beyond your own site(s), and must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy in full. We may suspend your account where we reasonably suspect fraud, quishing (fake QR/sign) activity connected to your site, or where your Stripe account is restricted or under review.

8. Warranties, indemnity, and liability

You warrant that you have the right to operate the car park(s) you register, that your tariffs and signage are lawful, and that you will use CarSpark only as permitted by these terms. You agree to indemnify CarSpark against claims, losses, or costs arising from your parking operation, your signage, your enforcement activity, your tax obligations, or your misuse of driver data.

Our liability to you is capped at the total service fees CarSpark actually received from payments at your site(s) in the 12 months before the claim arose, and we exclude liability for indirect or consequential loss, in each case except where liability cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

9. Suspension, term, and termination

These terms apply for as long as you have an active CarSpark account. You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your account for breach of these terms, suspected fraud or quishing activity, or where required by Stripe or by law. On termination, your data is handled in line with our Privacy Notice retention schedule; historical financial/tax records are kept for the periods described there regardless of account closure.

10. Governing law and changes

Ireland (primary, for our launch): this agreement is governed by the law of Ireland, and the Irish courts have jurisdiction.

If you operate in / park in the UK(applies if/when CarSpark operates in the UK — not required for the Ireland-first launch): if your car park is in the UK, this agreement is instead governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. UK-specific compliance items — UK ICO registration, a UK GDPR representative where applicable, the DMCC Act 2024 drip-pricing rules' UK-specific detail, and the UK Private Parking Single Code of Practice — apply only once CarSpark operates in the UK, and are not a condition of the Ireland-first launch.

We may update these terms; the "Last updated" date above changes when we do. Questions: [email protected]. Support: [[SUPPORT EMAIL]].