blackcircles.com

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blackcircles.com

Buy Tyres Online with Local Fitting | BlackcirclesChoose from a wide range of tyres at Blackcircles.com. Place your order online and have your tyres fitted at one of over 2,300 UK garages. Click & Fit Today!

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Truth score

Truth score 79 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

79/ 100

High truth signals

Business details

Category: Tyres
Years in business: 25 years
Founded: 2001
Owned by: Michelin
Places to visit: 2 storesAbergavenny, Edinburgh
Sells to: The public
Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 25 years
Address: 1 Tanfield, Edinburgh, EH3 5DA, Scotland
Email address: info@blackcircles.com
Phone number: +44 1721 725050
Contact page: blackcircles.com/brands/continental/eco-contact-6
Website: blackcircles.com
Social media: Not found

Do the sources agree?

Address: 1 Tanfield, Edinburgh, EH3 5DA, Scotland Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found
Phone number: +44 1721 725050 Its website agrees OpenStreetMap differs Web Data Commons not found
Sources give different numbers · OpenStreetMap has +44 845 620 2000
Company name: BLACKCIRCLES.COM LIMITED Its website agrees Companies House agrees
Email address: [email protected] Its website agrees OpenStreetMap agrees Web Data Commons not found

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating

Reviews.io· Read 12 November 2026· 5 reviews· 3.8 out of 5 stars

Total53.6 out of 5 stars

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfactionInsufficient evidence· From 5 reviews on 1 independent review site

App experienceInsufficient evidence· No app ratings found

Summary

Is blackcircles.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 79 out of 100, high truth signals: 8 public checks clear, 1 not found, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

blackcircles.com is run by BLACKCIRCLES.COM Limited, part of Michelin, an active UK company registered at Companies House 25 years ago, and was founded in 2001. Its website address was registered 25 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles.

Positives

An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 25 years ago.
Its website address was registered 25 years ago.
The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

Social presence information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

Choose from a wide range of tyres at Blackcircles.com. Place your order online and have your tyres fitted at one of over 2,300 UK garages. Click & Fit Today!

— Blackcircles, in their own words

Where to find them

Places: 2 stores · 2 towns

Abergavenny1
Edinburgh1

About them

Best for: “Designed for high performance and sports cars, the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S offers an unparalleled driving experience due to exceptional steering precision and directional stability.”
What makes them different: “However, as it is often said, tyres are the only contact that your vehicle have with the road.”

What they sell

Products: Continental Eco Contact 6 235/55 R18 V (100), Continental Eco Contact 6 235/50 R19 V (103), Continental Eco Contact 6 225/45 R18 Y (95), Continental Eco Contact 6 245/40 R18 Y (97), Continental Eco Contact 6 215/65 R17 H (99) and 169 more
Prices: £68.68 to £390.29
Promises: Tyre Guarantee Cover

SourcesOpenStreetMap Its homepage

How to check if blackcircles.com is legit

To check if blackcircles.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about blackcircles.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsAn active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 25 years ago

Its registered office at Companies House is 1 Tanfield, Edinburgh, EH3 5DA, Scotland
Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 31 December 2025
It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data

Country

Where the company is based: UK
Why we believe that: it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its terms are governed by the laws of Scotland, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode
Which countries the company serves: UK
Why we believe that: £ prices on its homepage, its delivery page says it ships internationally

Registration

Companies House registration: Registered as BLACKCIRCLES.COM LIMITED
Data protection registration (ICO): Registered, number Z8034760
VAT number: Not found

Companies House register

Company found in official company register: Yes
Registered company name: BLACKCIRCLES.COM LIMITED
Company status: active
Company age: 25 years
Registered address: 1 Tanfield, Edinburgh, EH3 5DA, Scotland
Accounts overdue: No
Confirmation statement overdue: No
Insolvency history: No
Registered office in dispute: No
Filing history consistent: Yes
ICO data-protection fee payer: Yes
Registered to do: 45320 Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories
Previous names: BLACK CIRCLES LIMITED (12 Nov 2001 to 26 Sep 2005)
ONLINE TYRE STORE LIMITED (16 Oct 2001 to 12 Nov 2001)
Company type: Private limited company

Size and borrowing

Accounts filed: Full accountsThe most detailed kind a company files.
Secured loans (charges): 0No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.

From Wikidata

Industry: e-commerce
Parent company: Michelin
Founded: 2001

SourcesCompanies House ICO register entry

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 25 years ago

Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 25 years
Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read 5 of its pages: contact, about, delivery, terms and privacy

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +44 1721 725050
Contact page found: Yes
Sources agreeing on postcode: 2
Hosting company: Cloudflare, Inc.

What its pages say

In their own words: “0% interest for up to 12 months on Michelin tyres with PayPal Credit when you spend £500 or more. If you find you've ordered the incorrect tyres, don't worry. We'll deliver the correct tyres and collect the incorrect ones, all free of charge.”
Delivery cost: “How much does delivery cost?”
Who you're buying from: “Our registered office and principle place of business is at 1 Tanfield, Edinburgh, EH3 5DA.”

SourcesHomepage Contact page How do i contact you About page Delivery page Terms page Privacy page

Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing: Allowed by defaultBingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by defaultGPTBot
Anthropic: Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
Google AI: Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Allowed by defaultCCBot
Meta: Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by defaultBytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
Claude search: Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity: Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsRated 3.8 stars out of 5 from 5 reviews on Reviews.io

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Unknown	Unknown
Reviews.io	3.8 out of 5 stars	5
Total	3.6 out of 5 stars	5

Business mentions1 thread on Reddit mentions this business

Platform	Thread	What it says
Reddit, r/CarTalkUK	Anyone used BlackCircles?	“Anyone used BlackCircles? I'm needing a new tyre, car has a full set of Avons so ideally I want another Avon, most of my local places don't seem to have them online, so I'm wondering if getting one fitted at my home is a better option? I assume they are able to balance wheels, this is probably a stupid question but can they do tracking as well?”

Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
It is among the 200,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 50,000 sites
First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24
Traffic pattern: sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months: none
Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 200,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up blackcircles.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

Over 50%
5 to 50%
1 to 5%
0.2 to 1%
Under 0.2%
None seen

1United States26.5%
2Singapore24.5%
3France20.4%
4United Kingdom18.4%
5Netherlands6.1%
6Germany2.0%
7Mexico2.0%

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 24 years ago

Website archive history: 24 years

SourcesFirst archived copy

Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data

Collects where you are.: “Information you provide us when using location services, for example our Garage Search facility (“Location Data”) .”
May check your details with credit or fraud-prevention agencies.: “• third party business partners, sub-contractors, for example technical providers, payment service providers, analytics providers, such as Google Analytics, search information providers and credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you or your vehicle from them.”
Says you can ask it to delete your data.: “In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see your right to be deleted below for further information.”
Has a data protection officer you can contact.: “While everyone at Blackcircles.com is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, we have a Data Protection Officer who deals with all aspect of personal data at Blackcircles.com.”

SourceIts privacy policy

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics: Counts your visits and what you look at.
Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Hotjar: Records how you move, scroll and click on the page.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

SourcesHave I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes
DKIM key: Yes
DMARC record: Yes
DMARC policy: reject

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: Sectigo Limited
Certificate type: EV
Certificate expires: 23 Dec 2026

Hosting

Nameservers: brady.ns.cloudflare.com
susan.ns.cloudflare.com
Address: 104.20.39.54
172.66.164.253

SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points: 0 of 3 added

Sourceblackcircles.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points: 0 of 1 added

SourceTruth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points: 0 of 1 added

Sourceblackcircles.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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