Privacy Policy
This policy describes the website as currently built: no accounts, no user database, and no permanent VIN search history.
Information you submit
When you use a VIN tool, the server temporarily processes the VIN to validate it and request data from NHTSA vPIC. When recall information is requested, the decoded year, make, and model are sent to NHTSA’s public recalls service. VIN queries use private, no-store responses and are not turned into public result pages.
Server and network records
Hosting providers and upstream services may process standard technical records such as IP address, request time, browser information, requested path, response status, and security events. Production logging should avoid recording complete VIN values unnecessarily. We do not operate a search-history database or expose one user’s lookup to another.
Accounts, cookies, analytics, and advertising
No signup or authentication is required. The current application does not set application cookies, use analytics, or serve advertising. If those practices change, this policy and the cookie policy should be updated before deployment of the change.
External services and retention
NHTSA receives requests needed to return public vehicle data and applies its own practices. Infrastructure logs, if created by a hosting provider, follow that provider’s security and retention controls. We do not sell VIN queries or require an email address to use the tools.
Contact
Privacy questions can be sent to Support@thevinlookup.online. Do not email sensitive ownership or identity documents.