Ownership Confirmation.

The bonded warehouse holding your cask has confirmed the transfer into your name. Its own warehouse records now show you as the owner. That update, made directly in the warehouse's own records, is the step that makes your ownership real and legally complete. This notification and your dashboard record report that fact to you; they don't themselves create or complete it, and neither is required to access, manage, or release your cask. The warehouse acts on your verified identity and its own current records, not on presentation of any document. Your dashboard now shows your permanent ownership record: the distillery, the cask reference, and the transfer date.

It is the cask named in the cask schedule we issued when you paid.

Now that your ownership is confirmed, we move your cask to Castlelaw at our own cost and risk, in your name, unless it's already held there, in which case no move is needed. We are responsible for the cask for the whole time between your ownership transferring and its arrival at Castlelaw. This happens after, and separately from, the ownership transfer above: it doesn't affect when your ownership became legally complete.

Castlelaw records you as the owner of your cask and will set up your own direct account for it, separately from your account with us, not through us, and not shared with or visible to us. You'll have direct access to your cask's warehouse records, in your own name, and the ability to contact Castlelaw directly about your cask: storage, insurance, regauging, sampling, a future transfer or bottling, or if you ever lose or need to re-request your documents.

This isn't something we arrange on your behalf: Castlelaw sets this up with you directly and holds operational control of your cask on their side from that point on, and is your direct point of contact for anything to do with it.

Storage and insurance at Castlelaw are included for your first year. From your second year they cost £100 a year per cask.

Your first year runs from the day your cask is registered in your name.

Castlelaw stores your cask under its Standard Conditions, which we show you before you pay. They include a lien over the goods it stores for any money owed to it for storing them.

Castlelaw recommends a regauge for casks over 5 years old; it costs £50 plus VAT.

Removing casks from Castlelaw costs £20 a cask plus VAT, for a removal of 5 casks or fewer.

You can cancel any time before the warehouse confirms registration, and for 14 days after. The 14 days start on the date of the warehouse's written acknowledgement. If you cancel, we refund you within 14 days, in full, in the currency you paid, and the ownership record is reversed. Contact us directly to cancel.

We checked your cask before you bought it and manage your purchase, payment, and ownership record on this platform. Once your ownership is confirmed, day-to-day contact about the cask itself (its physical condition, storage, and any future changes to it) goes directly through Castlelaw, using your own account there. We do not manage or have access to that account.

This notification is not a warehouse receipt, document of title, delivery order, or negotiable instrument. It cannot be transferred, endorsed, or presented to anyone to claim, move, or release your cask, and it confers no rights beyond informing you of Castlelaw's own record.