Privacy Policy
Last Updated: April 20, 2025
1. Introduction
At vinsearchfinder.com, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, store, and share your information when you use our mobile application or website.
By downloading, installing, or using our app, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree with our policies, please do not use our application.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect several different types of information for various purposes:
2.1. Information You Provide
- Vehicle Information: VIN numbers or license plate information that you enter to search for vehicle history
- Contact Information: Email address if you contact us for support
2.2. Automatically Collected Information
- Device Information: Device type, operating system, unique device identifiers
- Log Data: IP address, browser type, pages of our Service that you visit, time and date of your visit
- Usage Data: How you use our application, search queries
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service
- To process your vehicle history search requests
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To provide customer support
- To gather analysis or valuable information to improve our Service
- To monitor the usage of our Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
4. Disclosure of Data
4.1. Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
4.2. Analytics Providers
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, such as:
- Google Analytics: For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Policy
- Firebase: For more information on the privacy practices of Firebase, please visit the Firebase Privacy Policy
4.3. Legal Requirements
We may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
5. Data Security
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
- Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
7. Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
8. App Permissions
Our app may request certain permissions on your device to function properly:
- Internet Access: Required to search vehicle records and display results
- Camera (optional): If you choose to scan VIN barcodes
- Location (optional): For state-specific license plate lookups
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By email: privacy@vinsearchfinder.com
- By visiting the contact page on our website: vinsearchfinder.com/contact