Warranty wording vs published Part 239 factors for brands and growth teams
Methodology: Part 239 factors · terms logic · human review
Paste your warranty or guarantee wording before it ships. Get a scored pre-check report — is it a bare “lifetime” claim with no defined term, a “money-back guarantee” with no disclosed refund terms, an absolute “guaranteed / risk-free” offer with no material terms, an implied-warranty disclaimer, or a “void if you use non-authorized parts” tying condition — based on the FTC Guides for the Advertising of Warranties and Guarantees (16 CFR Part 239) read with the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. A heads-up, not a legal opinion.
1. What the engine owns
Severity-ranked findings from pasted warranty wording against heuristics derived from the FTC Guides for the Advertising of Warranties and Guarantees (16 CFR Part 239) and the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. Check families: “lifetime” and similar representations (§ 239.4); satisfaction / money-back guarantees and the terms they must disclose (§ 239.3); disclosures of material terms in warranty or guarantee advertising (§ 239.2); disclaimers of implied warranties on a warranted consumer product (15 U.S.C. § 2308, with conspicuousness under § 2302(b)); prohibited tying or “void if” conditions (Part 700 · § 2302(d)); and general-policy / context advisories (expressions of general policy under § 700.5, geographic scope, refund-scope notes) that never invent fulfillment facts. Scores dock per HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW finding (advisories never dock); a “lifetime” claim whose term is defined, or a money-back offer whose refund terms are disclosed, is not docked. The rule snapshot is dated by the engine version — it is not synced with regulator pages in real time. Demo is labelled Rule-based — never silent mock.
2. What optional AI may do
Explain or polish findings when a key is configured. Upstream failure returns 502. No invented findings, no quotes from copy you did not paste, no fulfillment, terms-render, or implied-warranty-effectiveness check the engine did not run.
3. What you must do
- Review findings against your own offer, terms, and disclosure practices — only you know whether a guarantee is actually honored and whether the material terms render conspicuously.
- Apply fixes in your own ads, pages and packaging — WarrantyPrecheck never publishes or connects to a store, CMS or warranty system.
- Treat output as decision-support, not a warranty certification or legal advice.
4. What we deliberately do not do
- Fulfillment checks, terms-render verification, or a ruling on whether an implied-warranty disclaimer is legally effective for your product — those facts live outside the pasted text.
- Continuous monitoring of live product pages or automated publishing.
- Compliance probabilities or enforcement-prediction numbers — outside the FTC nobody can compute what it will decide.
- Legal review — Part 239 and Magnuson-Moss checks read wording patterns, not your full obligations. Non-US warranty regimes appear as labeled advisories only; regulated campaigns need a qualified professional.
Heuristic pre-check — not a warranty certification or legal advice. No fulfillment, terms-render, implied-warranty-effectiveness, or enforcement verification performed.