Terms of Service
Last updated: August 2026.
The deal, and who it covers
Using this site means you accept these terms. That is the standard formula and it is true, though the practical version is shorter. Read what you like, take what you need for your own vehicle, do not take the whole site, and do not send us anything you have no right to send.
To post a comment, subscribe or send us material, you need to be old enough to enter an agreement where you live. Reading has no age requirement, though nothing here is written for children. Where a law in your own country gives you a right these terms appear to remove, the law wins.
What we own, and what you can do with it
The articles, the photographs we take, the measurements we make and the payload arithmetic we work through are ours, protected by copyright whether or not a notice appears on the page. Our name and the look of the site are ours too.
You get a licence to read, and it is broader than most sites bother to spell out. Print a maintenance page and take it to the workshop. Quote a paragraph in a forum thread with our name on it and a link back. What needs written permission is anything wholesale or commercial: republishing a piece in full, translating it, rebuilding our guides into a product of your own, or presenting our work as somebody else’s. Our copyright policy explains how to ask, and asking usually works.
Scraping, bulk copying and training models on our work
This is the part of the page we care most about, so it gets said without hedging. Automated bulk collection of this site is not permitted. That covers crawlers taking the archive, feed abuse, and any pipeline built to move our text into somebody else’s database. Search crawlers that respect our robots file and send readers back are welcome. A crawler that takes everything and returns nothing is not.
Using our content to train, fine-tune, evaluate or ground a machine learning model, including any retrieval system answering questions out of a copy of our text, requires our written permission, and we withhold it more often than we grant it. The reason is specific rather than sentimental. A model fed our towing pages will produce a figure in our register, carrying our tone and none of our checking, stripped of the market, the build range and the sentence explaining that the brochure towing figure and the handbook’s gross combination mass cannot both be used at once. Somebody will act on that figure with a loaded trailer behind them.
Every number here can be traced to a manual page, a bulletin or a vehicle on a hoist, and we are not donating that credibility to a system nobody can correct. Our corrections policy works because a reader can tell us we are wrong and we then have to answer for it. A summary of us cannot be told anything. Framing the site inside another page, presenting it under a different brand, stripping our bylines, or removing the labels that mark a piece as sponsored are prohibited for the same reason.
Comments, submissions and cutting somebody off
Where comments are open, keep them useful. What comes off: abuse, threats, another person’s private information, spam, undisclosed commercial promotion, and instructions for defeating an emissions system, which we no more host than we sell advertising for. Disagreement stays, including disagreement with us, and a comment that corrects an article is the most valuable thing on the page.
Moderation is ours to do, and not evenly or instantly, because it happens between other work. When you send us anything, whether a photograph of a rating plate, a bulletin or a long email about a fault, you keep ownership of it and give us permission to publish and archive it, and to edit it for length and clarity. You are also telling us it is yours to send. Where material needs protecting, the sourcing rules on our editorial standards page describe how we handle it.
We can block access, remove a comment account or stop serving requests where these terms are being broken, and the usual cases are scraping, spam and abuse. Most of it happens at the infrastructure level and looks like a rate limit rather than a letter. Where somebody has been blocked in error, the inbox fixes it: support@isuzuownersclub.com.
Other people’s pages, and other people’s embeds
We link out constantly: regulator recall notices, manufacturer VIN lookups, bulletins, suppliers. A link is a pointer to something worth reading, not an endorsement of whoever runs the page.
The same goes for material loading inside our pages from elsewhere, which is mostly video and the adverts. We do not control that content or the data it collects, which our privacy policy covers. Tell us if a link has gone somewhere it should not, because a hijacked link on a recall page is a problem we want the same day.
No warranty, liability, and what you take on
Everything here is provided as it is. We cannot warrant that the site is complete, current, uninterrupted, error-free or fit for your particular vehicle in your particular market. Specifications, plate ratings, service intervals and recall coverage differ market by market and build range by build range. Our disclaimer has the substance of that, including the part about work you do yourself.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the site: lost profit, lost work, downtime on a vehicle, or the cost of a repair done differently after reading something here. Where liability cannot be excluded it is limited to whatever you have paid us, which is almost always nothing. None of this excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else a law refuses to let a publisher exclude. If your use of the site causes a claim against us, because you posted material that was not yours or used our work commercially without permission, you agree to cover the costs that follow.
We are not Isuzu, and no term here suggests otherwise
Isuzu Owners Club is an independent, unofficial publication with no affiliation to, endorsement from, sponsorship by or connection to Isuzu Motors Limited, its subsidiaries, its dealers or its distributors. “Isuzu”, “D-Max”, “MU-X” and the series names are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify the vehicles we write about, as any independent publication covering them must. We claim no ownership of those marks and these terms grant you none either. Our purpose is educational and community-based: helping owners understand and maintain their vehicles, and putting owners in touch with each other.
Nothing on this site is official manufacturer guidance, and no term on this page could make it so. Warranty questions, recall registration and servicing that affects a warranty belong with Isuzu or an authorised dealer, and where the manufacturer’s documentation disagrees with ours, theirs governs the vehicle and ours gets corrected.
Which law applies, and how these terms change
These terms are governed by the law applicable at the publisher’s place of business, and a dispute is dealt with by the courts having jurisdiction there, except where consumer protection law in your own country lets you bring a claim locally. Before any of it, write to us. Most complaints about a publication are really about accuracy, and that is settled faster by an editor reading your evidence than by lawyers reading each other. Our contact page says who reads what.
The date at the top says when this version took effect. When something substantive changes, that date moves and the change is described here rather than slipped in. Carrying on using the site after a change means the new version applies to you.
