Last updated: 25 August 2026

This page explains how we use manufacturer names and part numbers, and how to reach us if you believe your intellectual property rights are being infringed on this site. We read every complaint and answer every complete one.

How we use manufacturer names and part numbers

Plenty.Parts is a reference catalog. To do its job it has to say which part fits which vehicle, and which parts are equivalent to one another — and that is impossible without naming manufacturers and quoting their part numbers.

We use those names and numbers for identification only: to describe what a part is, what it replaces and what it fits. We do not manufacture or sell parts, we do not put anyone's mark on goods, and we do not claim to be an authorised dealer, a distributor or a partner of any brand unless we say so explicitly.

Using a trade mark to indicate the intended purpose of a product — in particular as an accessory or a spare part — is expressly permitted by Article 14(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001, and by the nominative fair use doctrine in the United States, provided the use is honest and does not suggest a commercial connection. That is the standard we hold ourselves to, and where we fall short of it we want to know.

All trade marks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

Reporting a trade mark or copyright concern

Email [email protected] with the subject Trademark or Copyright. To let us act on your complaint rather than write back asking for details, please include:

1. The right you are relying on — the trade mark or work, its registration number and the registry, or a description of the unregistered right.
2. The exact addresses of the pages concerned. A link to a search result or a section of the site is not enough for us to act on.
3. What is wrong with the use — specifically, why our use goes beyond identifying a part and its compatibility. This is the part that decides the outcome, and it is the part most complaints leave out.
4. Your authority — confirmation that you are the rights owner or are authorised to act on their behalf, with the document that establishes it if you are an agent.
5. A statement that the information in your complaint is accurate and that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law.
6. Your contact details and the name of the person submitting the complaint.

If something is missing, we will write back and ask rather than close the case.

What happens next

• We acknowledge your complaint within 5 business days.
• We review it against the standard described above.
• If the complaint is well-founded, we remove or correct the content and tell you what we did.
• If we believe the use is lawful identification of a part, we will say so and explain why, so that you can respond. We would rather have that conversation than either ignore you or take down a page that describes a part correctly.
• Where a complaint concerns catalog data supplied to us by a data provider, we may also raise it with that provider.

Repeated, well-founded complaints about the same source lead us to review that source as a whole, not just the pages reported.

If we removed something and you think we were wrong

Write to the same address with the subject Counter-notice, explain why the content should be restored, and give us your contact details. We will reconsider and reply.

A practical note for rights holders and their agents

Complaints routed through our domain registrar or hosting provider do reach us, but they arrive stripped of context and slowly. Writing directly to [email protected] is faster, and it lets us ask a question and get an answer rather than guess at what you meant. We are a small team and we are not interested in fighting over listings — most cases are settled by a short exchange of emails.

False claims

Please be aware that submitting a complaint you know to be unfounded may carry consequences under applicable law, and that we keep a record of the complaints we receive and of what we did about them.