Terms of Use — VIN Decoder: VIN Scanner
Effective date: July 10, 2026
These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your use of VIN Decoder: VIN Scanner ("the app"). By using the app, you agree to these Terms.
What the app does
The app lets you scan or manually enter a 17-character Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). After you validate the VIN and complete a purchase, the app decodes the VIN into factory specification data and, separately, shows possible official recall campaigns matched by the decoded vehicle's make, model, and model year. Recall information is matched by make, model, and model year — it is not a VIN-specific recall lookup, and the app does not claim to tell you whether recalls apply to your exact vehicle by VIN.
What this app does not do
This app does not certify title status, theft status, accident history, ownership, mileage, liens, or parts compatibility.
The factory specification decode and recall-campaign matching in this app are not a vehicle history report. The app does not verify or represent anything about a vehicle's title, ownership, prior damage, service records, or mechanical condition beyond the manufacturer specification fields and recall campaign data described above.
Purchases
The app is paid-before-result: you must complete a purchase before a VIN report is generated, and there is no free decoding of a VIN you scan or enter. One pre-selected sample VIN may be shown as a free, pre-built demo report solely to illustrate the report format before you buy; the demo report does not query any live data source.
The app offers the following in-app purchase types through Apple's StoreKit:
- Consumable report credits — one-time purchases (for example, a single report, or a pack of 3 or 10 reports) that grant a fixed number of report credits.
- Auto-renewable Pro subscription — a monthly or yearly subscription that grants report generation for as long as the subscription is active, subject to the fair-use limit below.
A consumable report credit is only spent when a complete report is delivered: a complete report requires both a successful specification decode and a successful (even if empty) recall-campaign lookup. If the recall-campaign lookup is temporarily unavailable, or if a report cannot be completed due to a temporary service issue, your credit is not spent and you are compensated with an extra bonus credit while we keep retrying to complete your report in the background. If a VIN is valid but is genuinely not recognized by the underlying decoding source, no credit is charged and no bonus credit is issued, because this reflects a gap in source data coverage rather than a service failure.
Fair-use limit on the Pro subscription
The Pro subscription is intended for normal individual use and is subject to a fair-use limit of 100 successfully generated reports within any rolling 24-hour period per account. If you exceed this limit, additional report generation is paused until the rolling window resets, and you can contact support to discuss your usage. We may also apply additional rate limits to report-generation endpoints to prevent automated or abusive use.
Refunds
All payments are processed by Apple through the App Store, and refunds are handled by Apple under Apple's own refund policies and procedures. We do not process refunds directly and cannot guarantee a specific refund outcome; you can request a refund through Apple's standard channels (for example, reportaproblem.apple.com) or via the App Store's built-in refund request flow.
Restore Purchases
You can restore your purchased report credits and Pro subscription status at any time from the app's Settings screen. Restoring purchases re-synchronizes your credit balance and subscription entitlement from our server using your anonymous app account and your Apple transaction history; it does not require a login or account password because the app does not have one.
Account and data deletion
The app does not use a login or Sign in with Apple; your app account is an anonymous token created by StoreKit. From Settings you can use Delete saved reports to remove your report history, or Delete my data to additionally anonymize related support information, as described in our Privacy Policy. Both actions retain the minimal financial and ledger records Apple's purchase system and applicable accounting rules require us to keep for refunds, Restore Purchases, and fraud prevention.
Data sources
Factory specification data and recall-campaign data are obtained from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a public U.S. government source, after your purchase is confirmed. NHTSA is named here only as a data source; it is not a partner, sponsor, or endorser of this app, and referencing NHTSA data does not imply any affiliation with or approval by NHTSA.
Acceptable use
You agree to use the app only for lawful purposes and not to attempt to circumvent the fair-use or rate limits described above, automate scraping of report data, or resell report data obtained through the app without our prior written consent.
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we will update the effective date above and, where required, provide notice in the app.
Contact us
For questions about these Terms, contact us at: [email protected]