Terms of Use

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.theaa.ie (our website). Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the website. By using our website, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our website.

This website, www.theaa.ie is the property of and is operated by AA Ireland Ltd. (“We”). We are registered in Ireland under Company Number: 389194. We have our Registered Office at 3rd floor, 80 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 F449. Our VAT Registration Number is: 6409194 V. AA Ireland Limited trading as AA Insurance is regulated by the Financial Regulator.

Access to our website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our website without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy . By using our website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

AA Ireland reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or cease to supply any product or service contained on this website. In the event that such removal takes place we shall not be liable to you in any way whatsoever for such removal.

We aim to update our website regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our website, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Prices, and details, of products and services (and any offers) posted online are subject to change without notice. All products and services are subject to availability and we give no guarantee in this regard. The provision of details of products and services on this website are not, and should not be construed as, an offer to sell or buy such products or services by AA Ireland. AA Ireland may accept or reject your offer at its sole discretion. Contracts for the supply of Products and Services formed through our website or as a result of visits made by you are governed by our Product Terms and Conditions, which can be found on the relevant product pages.

All Intellectual Property Rights (including, without limitation, all database rights, rights in designs, rights in know-how, patents and rights in inventions (in all cases whether registered or unregistered and including all rights to apply for registration) and all other intellectual or industrial property rights in any jurisdiction) in any information, content, materials, data or processes contained in or to this website belong to AA Ireland Ltd or its licensed source. All rights of AA Ireland Ltd in such Intellectual Property Rights are hereby reserved.

Any person may make one copy of any page(s) from our website, subject to the following conditions:

• The material may not be used for commercial purposes.
• The copies must retain any copyrights or other intellectual property notices contained in the original material.
• You must not modify the copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way.
• The products and technology or processes described in this website may be subject to other intellectual property rights reserved by AA Ireland or by other third parties (and no licence is granted in respect of those intellectual property rights).
• Images on this website are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced or appropriated in any manner without the written permission of their respective owner(s).

If you print off, copy or download any part of our website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

This website is for non-commercial, personal use only. The services contained on this website may be supplied on a commercial basis on payment to AA Ireland of its charges from time to time. Please email us at social@theaa.ie for further details.

In the event that you use any of the services contained on this website for commercial use, AA Ireland shall be entitled to charge you at its rates from time to time in respect of such commercial use

The images, logos and names on this website which identify AA Ireland, an AA Company or third parties and their products and services are proprietary marks of AA Ireland or the relevant third parties. Nothing contained in this website shall be deemed to confer on any person any license or right on the part of AA Ireland or any third party with respect to any such image, logo or name.

We reserve the right to change these terms of use at any time by posting changes on the website. It is your responsibility to review the terms of use regularly to ensure you are aware of the latest terms of use. Your use of this website after a change has been posted will be deemed to signify your acceptance of the modified terms of use. We recommend that you print off and retain for your records a copy of [these terms of use from time to time and a copy of any terms and conditions relating to any product or service which you apply for online, together with any related application form completed and submitted. Any amendment to terms of use must be agreed in writing by us, or, if appropriate, by the relevant company with whom you contract. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our website.

While AA Ireland has taken care in the preparation of the contents of this website, this website and the information, names, images, pictures, logos, icons regarding or relating to AA Ireland and /or AA group of companies, or the products and services of the same (or to third party products and services), are provided on an ‘as is’ basis without any representation or endorsement being made and without any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to, any implied warranties of merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, all such terms, warranties and conditions and any terms warranties or conditions which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity are hereby excluded. In no event will AA Ireland or any AA group company be liable (whether in contract or tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty) or otherwise) for any losses sustained and arising out of or in connection with use of this website including, without limitation, loss of profits, loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data or loss of goodwill (in all these cases whether direct or indirect) nor any indirect, economic, consequential or special loss.

AA Ireland does not represent that the information contained in this website is accurate, comprehensive, verified or complete, and shall accept no liability for the accuracy or completeness of the information contained in this website or for any reliance placed by any person on the information.

AA Ireland does not warrant that the functions or materials accessible from or contained in this website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that this website or the server that makes it available are virus or bug free or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials.

If any of these terms (or any terms and conditions relating to a product or service referred to in this website) should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which such terms and conditions are intended to be effective, then to the extent of such illegality, invalidity or unenforceability, and in relation to such state or country only, such terms or condition shall be deleted and severed from the rest of the relevant terms and conditions and the remaining terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable. Nothing in these terms of use shall exclude AA Ireland’s liability for death or personal injury resulting from AA Ireland’s negligence.

Headings used in these terms of use are for convenience only and shall not affect their interpretation.

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

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

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

If you wish to make any use of material on our website other than set out above, please address you request to social@theaa.ie.

Where our website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. These (hypertext) links will lead you to websites that are not under the control of AA Ireland Ltd. When you activate any of these links, you will leave AA Ireland Ltd, and AA Ireland Ltd has no control over and will accept no responsibility or liability in respect of the material on any such other website. By allowing links with third party websites AA Ireland does not intend to solicit business or offer any security to any person in any country, directly or indirectly.

Monitoring phone calls and emails

Telephone calls using the telephone numbers provided on this website and email correspondence with AA Ireland at the email addresses accessible through, or discernible from, this website may be recorded or monitored. By using such communication methods you are consenting to the recording or monitoring of the same.

• 1850 numbers: Calls have a 6.66 cent fixed charge
• 1800 numbers: Calls are free of charge
• 1550 numbers: Calls cost €0.95 per minute
• 01 numbers: Daytime calls cost 4.27 cent per minute from an Eircom 01 number and 7.08 cent per minute from all other Eircom landlines, evening calls cost 1.09 cent per minute from an Eircom 01 number and 4.27 cent per minute from all other Eircom landlines.

You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojan, 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 an offence under the Electronic Commerce Act 2000. 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 any website linked to it.

Unless otherwise specified, the products and services described in this website are available only to residents of the Republic of Ireland. The information on this website is not directed at anyone other than residents of the Republic of Ireland and applications from others will, unless otherwise stated, not be accepted. AA Ireland makes no representation that any product or service referred to on the website is appropriate for use or available in other locations. The information and other materials contained in this website may not satisfy the laws of any other country and those who choose to access this site from other locations are responsible for compliance with local laws if and to the extent local laws are applicable. The phone numbers provided only apply to phone calls made from within the Republic of Ireland.

These terms of use and any terms and conditions relating to products or services described in this website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Ireland. Disputes arising in relation to the same shall, unless otherwise expressly agreed, be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ireland (although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country).

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our website, please contact social@theaa.ie.

Thank you for visiting our website.