Privacy Policy

VinCanary publishes free vehicle reliability reports and offers optional alert services. This policy explains what we collect and what we do with it, in plain language.

What we collect

Nothing, to read reports. Every report on this site is free and requires no account, email, or personal information.

Your email address, if you choose to subscribe to year/model alerts, the checklist, or our rankings newsletter.

A VIN and your email, if you use the free VIN check or the Garage alert service. A VIN identifies a vehicle’s configuration — year, engine, transmission, build — not a person. We do not ask for your name, mailing address, phone number, or title/registration information.

Basic analytics — pages visited, referral source, and similar aggregate usage data — to understand which reports people find useful.

What we do with it

We use your email to send you the things you signed up for: alerts when a recall, investigation, or warranty program affects the years or the vehicle you’re watching, and newsletter issues if you subscribed. We use VINs to decode your vehicle’s configuration and match it against public federal recall data, manufacturer service publications, and our own issue database.

What we don’t do

We do not sell or rent your email address or VIN to anyone. We do not share your information with automakers, dealers, insurers, or data brokers. We do not send marketing on behalf of third parties. Every email we send includes a working unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect immediately.

Where your data lives

Form submissions are processed by our form provider and stored in systems we control. Emails are sent from our own domain. We keep your data only as long as you’re subscribed; unsubscribe and it is deleted from our active systems.

Data sources

Our reports are built from public data: the U.S. federal complaint and recall databases (NHTSA), manufacturer service bulletins and warranty programs, and publicly posted mechanic and owner commentary. Nothing in our reports comes from private or personal data.

Your choices

Unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email. To have your email or VIN deleted, or to ask anything about this policy, write to alerts@vincanary.com.

Affiliation

VinCanary is independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Ford, Honda, any other manufacturer, or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, we’ll note it here and, for subscribers, say so in the next email we send.