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Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-09-01

These Terms of Service govern your use of reviewservice.org ("the website"), operated by SmartAds AS. By using the website you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the website.

1. What this website is

reviewservice.org is an independent, editorially produced information service about online shops. We publish assessments, ratings, comparisons and guidance intended to help consumers decide where to shop online.

We are not a shop. We do not sell goods or services, we do not process orders or payments, and we are not a party to any contract you conclude with a shop. We are not an official consumer protection body, a public authority, a certification body or a trust-seal provider, and we do not act on behalf of any such body.

Use of the website is free of charge for visitors.

2. How we finance the site, and what that means for our content

This website is financed through affiliate commissions. Many links to shops are affiliate links: if you follow such a link and buy something, we may receive a commission from the shop or its affiliate network. The price you pay is not affected by this — you pay exactly what you would pay by going to the shop directly.

We disclose this openly because it is a commercial relationship you are entitled to know about. Two things follow from it:

  • Our assessments are written editorially and are not for sale. A shop cannot buy a better rating, and rating changes are not tied to commission rates.
  • Nevertheless, a commercial interest exists. You should read our content as informed editorial opinion, not as a neutral certification, and you should form your own judgement before buying.

Not every shop we cover has a commercial relationship with us, and not every shop with such a relationship is rated positively.

3. Our content is information, not advice

Everything published on this website is provided for general information purposes.

  • Our ratings and assessments are statements of opinion based on the criteria we describe in our methodology, evaluated at a given point in time.
  • Shops change. Prices, delivery terms, return policies, ownership, service quality and security practices can change at any time and without notice, and our content may not yet reflect that.
  • Nothing on this website constitutes legal, financial, tax or professional advice, or a recommendation to enter into any particular transaction.
  • A positive assessment is not a guarantee that a transaction with that shop will go well; a critical assessment is not an allegation of unlawful conduct unless expressly stated as such.

Always verify the details that matter to you — price, delivery, warranty, returns, the identity of the seller — on the shop's own website before you order.

4. Accuracy and availability

We compile our content with care and update it regularly, but we do not warrant that it is complete, accurate or up to date at any given moment. We may change, correct, supplement or remove content at any time without prior notice.

We aim to keep the website available continuously but do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, technical faults, attacks or circumstances beyond our control may cause temporary interruptions.

5. Third-party websites

The website contains links to websites operated by third parties, in particular online shops and affiliate networks. These links are provided for convenience.

We have no influence on the content, offers, terms, prices or data processing of those sites, and we do not adopt their content as our own. Responsibility for them lies solely with their respective operators. We checked linked content for obvious unlawfulness when the link was created; ongoing monitoring without concrete evidence of an infringement is not reasonable. If you make us aware of an unlawful link, we will remove it promptly.

Any contract you conclude on a linked website is concluded exclusively between you and that operator. Claims arising from such a contract — delivery, warranty, withdrawal, refunds, complaints — must be pursued against that operator, not against us.

6. Permitted use

You may use the website for your own private and informational purposes. You may not:

  • use the website in a way that impairs its operation, security or availability, in particular through automated mass requests, denial-of-service attempts, or circumventing technical protective measures;
  • systematically read out, copy or reuse content, including by scraping, crawling for the purpose of republication, or building a competing database;
  • use the content for commercial purposes without our prior written consent;
  • misrepresent our assessments, quote them in a misleading or truncated form, or present them as an official certification, seal or verdict;
  • use our name, logo or ratings in advertising in a way that suggests we endorse a product, a shop or a business.

7. Intellectual property

All content on this website — texts, assessments, ratings, structure, graphics, layout and the compilation of the content as a whole — is protected by copyright and related rights, and belongs to us or to our licensors. Logos, brand names and product images of third parties remain the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes.

You may quote short excerpts for non-commercial purposes if you name reviewservice.org as the source and link to the page quoted. Any further reproduction, distribution, public communication or editing requires our prior written consent.

8. Content you send us

If you send us information — for example a report about a shop, a correction, or feedback — you confirm that you are entitled to share it and that it is, to the best of your knowledge, accurate. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free right to use that information for editorial purposes, including in anonymised form in our reporting. We are under no obligation to publish or act on submissions, and we may shorten or edit them. Please do not send us confidential information or information you do not want us to use.

9. Liability

We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the applicable product liability legislation, and where we have given a guarantee.

In cases of slight negligence we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper use of the website possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely — and in that case only for foreseeable damage typical of this kind of service.

Any further liability is excluded. In particular, we are not liable for:

  • decisions you take on the basis of our content, or their economic consequences;
  • transactions concluded with third parties, including non-delivery, defective goods, refused refunds or the insolvency of a shop;
  • the content, availability or data processing of third-party websites;
  • loss of profit, loss of data or other indirect or consequential damage, to the extent permitted by law.

These limitations do not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.

10. Data protection

How we handle personal data is described in our Privacy Policy at reviewservice.org/en/privacy-policy/, which forms part of these terms by reference.

11. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms where necessary — for example because of changes to the website, to our services or to the applicable law. The version published on this page at the time of your visit applies. Material changes will be indicated by an updated "last updated" date. If you continue using the website after a change, you accept the amended terms.

12. Applicable law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the law of Norway, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence.

We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board. Consumers resident in Norway may bring a complaint before the Norwegian Consumer Authority (Forbrukertilsynet).

13. Final provisions

Should individual provisions of these terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected. The invalid provision shall be replaced by the applicable statutory rules.

14. Contact

SmartAds AS

Skøyen terrasse 33, 0276 Oslo, Norway

Johnny Myklebust · Org.nr. 912796620

Email: contact@smartads.as