Privacy policy

DecodedCars has no accounts, forms or comments and does not ask for personal information. We do not receive or store VINs: the VIN decoder sends the VIN you type directly from your browser to NHTSA's public vPIC service, and the recall-check links take you to NHTSA's own website. The car finder and calculators run entirely in your browser.

Analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies and without tracking individual visitors, to see which pages are popular. Our host (Cloudflare) processes standard request logs such as IP address and browser type for security and delivery.

Advertising and cookies

This site shows ads from Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies at www.aboutads.info. Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are shown a consent message before personalized ads are served. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Your rights

We do not sell or share personal information. Because we do not collect personal information ourselves, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete; use the opt-out links above for advertising cookies.

Effective October 27, 2026