Terms and Privacy

Last updated: 3 November 2026

Icon is run by Nik Mishin, a sole trader trading as Icon.
Address: Haulfryn, Ffordd-y-Gyfraith, Bridgend, CF32 0BS, Wales, United Kingdom.
Email: icon.adminteam@gmail.com · Website: icon-business.com · Trust and safety

Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and Icon ("we", "us") when you use the Icon app and website (icon-business.com), including Icon Pulse, Icon Shops, Icon Bookings and our other features. By making an account or using Icon, you agree to them. Please read them with our Privacy Policy below.

1. Who can use Icon

2. Your account

You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email, or with your Google account. Keep access to these private and never share a sign-in code: Icon staff will never ask you for one. You're responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us straight away at icon.adminteam@gmail.com if you think someone else has used it.

3. Using Icon fairly

4. AI and advice

Icon uses artificial intelligence. Its answers, designs, forecasts and other content can be wrong or out of date. Please check anything important before you rely on it.

5. Icon Pulse (car diagnostics)

6. Plans, Sparks and payments

7. Using Icon for your business

Some features let you deal with your own customers, staff or job applicants: Bookings, Shops, Invoices, Team and Payroll, and Recruiting.

Call Centre (phone calls from Advertiser). If you use it, you are the caller and you're responsible for following the law on marketing calls (in the UK, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations). In particular:

AI Receptionist and Get a call back. On the Basic, Business and Legend plans you can have an Icon phone number answered by an AI receptionist, and a "Get a call back" link where people ask your AI to ring them.

8. Content other people can see

Some things you make in Icon can be seen by other people: your shop and its items, job adverts, booking pages, what you share with the car library, Community Watch and stolen-car reports, and Trend Radar scans. Don't post anything illegal, harmful or misleading, and only report a car as stolen if it's yours (or you're allowed to act for its owner) and it really has been stolen. Alerts for cars without an Icon tracker say Icon hasn't checked the details. Reviews: only ask real customers for reviews, never write, buy or pay for reviews, and don't hide honest bad ones in a way that misleads people; we remove fake reviews and may close accounts that post them. You can report content to us at any time (see Reports and complaints). We'll review reports, remove illegal content quickly, and may suspend accounts that post it.

9. Other services

Icon uses and links to other services, such as DVSA and DVLA vehicle records, Telegram, Google, TradingView and eBay. Their own terms apply when you use them, and we're not responsible for their content or availability.

10. Changes and availability

We're always improving Icon, so features may change, be paused or end. We set fair-use limits (for example, a daily number of AI requests) to keep the service running for everyone. If we make an important change to these terms, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.

11. Ending your account

You can stop using Icon at any time and ask us to delete your account by emailing icon.adminteam@gmail.com. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms or put other people at risk. Where it's fair to do so, we'll tell you why.

12. Our responsibility to you

We'll provide Icon with reasonable care and skill. Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't allow us to limit, and nothing affects your legal rights as a consumer.

Otherwise, we aren't responsible for losses we couldn't reasonably have foreseen, for business losses (such as lost profit or lost data you could have backed up), or for decisions you make based on AI-generated content. If we are responsible for a loss, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before it happened.

13. The law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you're a consumer you can bring a claim in the courts of England and Wales, or in Scotland or Northern Ireland if you live there. Please contact us first so we can try to put things right.

Waiting list offer and founding giveaway rules

These rules apply to the Icon waiting list and the £300 founding giveaway on icon-business.com. They are the same rules shown on the waiting list page.

  1. Free to enter. No purchase or payment is needed.
  2. Open to UK residents aged 18 or over who join the Icon waiting list with a verified email. Icon staff and their families can't enter. If you're under 18 you can still join the waiting list and keep your discount, but you aren't entered into the giveaway.
  3. You get 1 entry for joining, plus 1 extra entry for each friend who joins the waiting list using your invite link and verifies their email, up to 10 extra entries.
  4. Fake, duplicate or self-referred accounts are removed, along with their entries.
  5. Entries close when Icon launches. We'll email everyone on the waiting list with the exact closing date and time at least 7 days before. One winner is drawn at random, weighted by entries, within 7 days of the closing date. The winner is emailed and must reply within 14 days, or a new winner is drawn.
  6. The prize is £300, paid to the winner by bank transfer. It can't be passed on to someone else.
  7. The promoter is Nik Mishin, trading as Icon, Haulfryn, Ffordd-y-Gyfraith, Bridgend, CF32 0BS. Questions: icon.adminteam@gmail.com. The winner's first name and county are published on icon-business.com within 30 days of the draw, unless they ask us not to (we keep the record and can share it with the Advertising Standards Authority if asked).
  8. The 25% founding discount is saved to the email you joined with. When Icon opens, sign in with that email and it's applied automatically to any plan.
  9. We use the email you join with, and the invite-link entries, only to run the waiting list and this giveaway and to email you about your discount and the draw. See the Privacy Policy below. You can ask us to remove you at any time.

Privacy Policy

This explains what personal data Icon collects, why, who we share it with and your rights. The "controller" responsible for your data is Nik Mishin, trading as Icon. Contact details are at the top of this page.

What we collect

Why we use it (and our lawful basis)

The Icon car library

If you choose to share, Icon Pulse adds what it learns about your type of car to a shared library: the make, model and year, which modules answered and any data names you've added. This never includes your VIN, number plate, location or personal details. You can turn sharing off in Pulse at any time.

Who we share it with

We don't sell your data. We share it only with the service providers that run parts of Icon for us, who may only use it to provide their service:

ProviderWhat they do for Icon
SupabaseAccounts and sign-in, database, file storage and our server functions
NetlifyHosting the website
AnthropicThe Claude AI that powers Icon's answers
OpenAILive voice: your voice goes straight to OpenAI during a live voice call so it can understand you and answer out loud, plus any booking or lead details you ask Icon to look at or change during the call (only when you start one). Also the voice of a business's AI Receptionist and call backs, and the short summary of each of those calls.
TwilioPhone calls and texts: connects Call Centre, AI Receptionist and call back calls, provides businesses' Icon numbers, and sends Bookings texts (only when those features are used). Calls aren't recorded.
RenderRuns Icon's phone server, which passes call sound between Twilio and OpenAI while a call is on (nothing is stored there)
fal.ai, ElevenLabs, RecraftAI images and video, natural voices, and logo designs (only when you use those features)
StripePayments
GoogleGmail (sending our emails), Google sign-in if you choose it, Google Maps for garage locations, Google Fonts (the app's lettering), and speech-to-text in Chrome if you use listening
OpenStreetMapMap pictures in Live Tracking and maps (your device fetches them directly), and turning a tracker's position into a street name for alerts
CloudflareThe robot check on the sign-in page (Turnstile), when it's switched on
jsDelivr and cdnjsDelivering some of the app's code libraries to your device
TelegramDelivering alerts, only if you link Telegram
DVSA and DVLAVehicle MOT and tax records for the number plates you look up, and for garages using MOT reminders, the MOT due dates of their customers' cars
TraccarThe GPS tracker service behind Live Tracking
eBayFinding deals for your deal alerts

AI training: we use our AI providers' business services. Anthropic and OpenAI don't use data sent through those services to train their models, and we choose the settings that stop training wherever a provider offers them. We never sell your data or use it for advertising.

The trading charts are shown by TradingView inside your browser, and Icon Pulse can download open car-signal files (opendbc) from GitHub to your device. If you use Bookings, Shops or Recruiting, your customers' or applicants' details are shared with you, the business they chose to deal with. We may also share data if the law requires it, or to protect people's safety. Icon doesn't send text messages at the moment; if that changes, we'll update this policy first.

Data outside the UK

Some providers store or process data outside the UK, for example in the USA or the EU. Where they do, we rely on UK-approved protections: for US providers certified under it (for example Stripe, Twilio and Google), the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the "UK-US data bridge"); otherwise the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses in their terms. Data in the EU is covered by the UK's adequacy rules for the EU.

How long we keep it

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask to see the data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, limit or object to how we use it, or receive a copy to take elsewhere. You can also withdraw any consent at any time. Email icon.adminteam@gmail.com and we'll reply within one month.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, please tell us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, or phone 0303 123 1113.

Security

Your data is protected in transit by encryption (HTTPS), and access is limited by account-level security rules. Secret keys stay on our servers, never in the app. No online service is completely secure, so please keep your sign-in methods private.

Children and under-18s

Icon is not for children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, contact us and we'll delete it.

If you're 13 to 17, Icon uses the most private settings by default: nothing you scan is shared with the car library, Trade+ and buying products are switched off, and you won't get marketing unless you choose it. A parent or guardian must make any payment.

If a business contacted you through Icon (you don't need an Icon account)

Businesses use Icon to talk to their customers. If a business has called you, you rang a business's Icon number, you asked for a call back, you booked or bought from a business, applied for a job, drive a vehicle with a business's tracker, or were mentioned in a stolen-car report, this is what happens to your details:

DataWho's the controllerIcon's role
Your own Icon account, plans, Sparks, usage, supportIconController
A business's bookings, customers, shop orders, invoices, team and payrollThe businessProcessor
Job applications and CVsThe business that posted the jobProcessor
Calls made or answered by a business's AI, call notes and summariesThe businessProcessor
Call permissions, do-not-call lists, phone number checks, call complaintsIcon (and the business, to show it had permission)Controller
Tracker positions of a business's or family's vehiclesThe tracker's ownerProcessor
Stolen-car reports and Community Watch alertsThe person who reported itHosts it, and removes reports that are wrong or unlawful

Data processing terms (for businesses)

When you use Bookings, Shops, Invoices, Team and Payroll or Recruiting, you add personal data about your customers, staff or applicants. For that data you are the controller and we are your processor. As required by UK GDPR Article 28, we agree to:

Details of the processing: subject matter and purpose: providing those features to you; duration: while you use them and until deletion as above; nature: storing, organising, showing, sending (email, calls, texts) and AI processing when you use AI features; types of data: names, contact details, booking and order details, messages and call notes, CVs and application answers, staff and payroll details, vehicle positions; people: your customers, callers, staff, job applicants and drivers. We don't let our providers use that data to train AI models where they give us that choice.

You confirm you have a lawful basis to add that data to Icon and that you've told the people concerned how you use it (for example, in your own privacy notice).

Cookies and storage on your device

Icon doesn't use advertising or tracking cookies. We use your browser's storage only for things Icon needs to work: keeping you signed in, remembering your settings and language, and saving work and results on your device. Counting visits to our public pages doesn't use cookies or your device's storage either. Embedded services such as TradingView charts may set their own cookies when you open them. When the app loads its lettering from Google Fonts or a code library from jsDelivr or cdnjs, those services see your device's internet address, as with any website.

Reports and complaints

Report content: if you see something on Icon that's illegal, harmful or breaks these terms (for example in a shop, job advert, booking page, the car library, Community Watch or a shared scan), email icon.adminteam@gmail.com with a link or description. You'll also find "Report content" in your account menu and at the bottom of shop, booking, job and stolen-car pages. We'll review every report, remove illegal content as quickly as we can, and tell you what we did.

If a post or report says something about you that you think is untrue or unlawful (for example a stolen-car report, a shop or a job advert): email us with your name and how to reach you, a link to it or where it is, what it says, and why it's wrong. We'll contact the person who posted it. If they don't reply within 5 days, or can't show it's true and lawful, we'll take it down. Anything clearly illegal comes down straight away.

Complaints: if you're unhappy with Icon, how we handled a report, or a decision we made about your account or content, email us with "Complaint" in the subject. We'll reply within 5 working days, and aim to resolve it within 30 days. If it's about your personal data and you're still unhappy, you can complain to the ICO (see Your rights).

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy in an important way, we'll tell you in the app or by email. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.

Contact

Nik Mishin, trading as Icon
Haulfryn, Ffordd-y-Gyfraith, Bridgend, CF32 0BS, Wales, United Kingdom
icon.adminteam@gmail.com