Vehicle IDs

It is a QR sticker for your windshield that opens a page you control. Somebody who needs to tell you something about your car — your lights are on, a door is open, you are blocking a ramp — scans it with their phone camera, picks what they are reporting, and sends it. They need no app and no account, and they never see your phone number unless you decide to show it. You get the message by email and in your ScanMe dashboard. The alternative most people use is a phone number on a card behind the glass, which works and also hands your number to everyone who walks past.

Vehicle IDs

Yes, and that is how a vehicle ID works by default. In private mode the page shows what you called the vehicle and enough to recognize it, and offers a short form instead of any contact details. Somebody picks a reason from a fixed list, optionally adds up to 150 characters, and sends. The message reaches you by email and appears in your dashboard; they get a confirmation and nothing else. You can switch to showing selected details at any time, and switch back, without reprinting anything.

Vehicle IDs

You can, one method at a time. Switch the vehicle to public and check exactly which of your phone, WhatsApp or email a passerby may see. Each has its own switch, so “ring me but do not email me” is a setting rather than a compromise. Before the first one goes live we ask you to confirm, because the honest warning is not “this will be visible” but that turning it off later removes it from the page and does nothing about copies somebody already saved. The message form stays available either way, for people who would rather not call a stranger about their own parking.

Vehicle IDs

No, and there is no field that could. We store the make, model, color and whatever you call the vehicle, which is enough for somebody standing next to it to know they have the right car. A license plate is a national identifier that links to keeper records, and on a public page beside a note saying the owner is away it stops being a convenience. We do not collect a VIN, an address, or where you usually park either. Those columns do not exist in our database, so they cannot be added later as a convenience.

Privacy Policy

Several things, layered, and none of them ask you to solve a puzzle. There is a fixed list of reasons and a 150-character note, so the form cannot become a channel for anything else. Repeat submissions from the same source are throttled, and if the pattern looks automated the sender gets one extra confirmation step — no CAPTCHA and no third-party script. The same issue reported twice in half an hour is emailed to you once. And there is a hard ceiling on how many emails one vehicle can generate in a day, so even somebody determined cannot flood your inbox. Every message still appears in your dashboard, whether or not it was emailed.

Vehicle IDs

Yes. Mute a vehicle for an hour, for eight hours, or until you turn it back on. Muting stops the email and nothing else: the alerts still arrive and still appear in your dashboard, with a note saying how many came in while you were muted. That is deliberate — somebody who mutes after a noisy afternoon and whose car is hit that evening still needs to find the report. If you want the page itself to stop working for a while, pause the vehicle ID instead.

Vehicle IDs

No, and we are careful not to let it look like one. If somebody or an animal appears to be in immediate danger, a child or a dog shut in a hot car say, the page tells the person reading it to call their local emergency services first, before doing anything else. ScanMe alerts are best-effort: they depend on email arriving and on you reading it. We do not promise delivery, we do not promise timing, and nothing about this feature should be relied on when minutes matter.

Terms of Service

Not indefinitely, and they expire in stages so the part somebody wrote goes long before the record that they wrote something. The note is deleted after 90 days, leaving the category and the time. The daily-rotating visitor hash goes after 30 days. The alert itself is deleted after a year, and records of somebody simply opening your page after 180 days. Retiring a vehicle ID is faster and blunter: your contact details, the make, model and color, every alert note and every page-view record are deleted immediately, and the remaining alerts — by then just a category and a time — go 30 days later. That last window exists because somebody who retires a tag after an incident may still need to refer to it.

Privacy Policy

You can replace the tag from the QR page. That permanently kills the printed code — anyone scanning the old one is told the tag is no longer in use, and is told nothing about where the new one points — and issues a fresh code and a fresh page address in one step. Your vehicle, your contacts and your alert history are untouched. The one cost is that you have to print and fit the replacement, which is why it is a deliberate action behind a confirmation rather than a button you press by accident. If you have only misplaced the sticker, deactivating the tag is reversible.

Vehicle IDs