Privacy

Anonymous use

You can use MotRadar without creating an account. We do not ask for your name, phone number or marketing email before showing an MOT report.

Registration lookups

Registration numbers are sent to our same-origin server endpoint so it can query DVSA. DVSA credentials and access tokens stay on the server and are never sent to your browser.

Caching

Successful lookup results may be cached by normalised registration for up to one hour for fresh responses and up to 24 hours for clearly labelled stale fallback during upstream outages. Stale fallback results are shown with their original fetch time.

Logs and metrics

Operational logs and anonymous metrics are limited to success/error categories, latency and cache status. Full registrations, API keys, client secrets and access tokens are redacted.

Analytics and cookies

MotRadar uses Google Analytics 4 to count page views and understand which pages people use. It sets Google Analytics cookies in your browser and sends Google your page URL, referrer, approximate location, device and browser details, and a randomly generated identifier. We do not send registration numbers or MOT results to Google.

You can block analytics with any browser setting, extension or tracking-protection feature that stops Google Analytics; the MOT check works exactly the same either way. Google describes its own handling at policies.google.com/privacy.

Advertising

To cover hosting and data costs, MotRadar may display adverts served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to MotRadar and/or other sites on the internet.

You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings, and opt out of some other third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. If you are in the UK or EEA, personalised ads are only shown where valid consent has been given; otherwise Google may serve non-personalised or limited ads, which can still use cookies for frequency capping, aggregated reporting and fraud prevention.

We do not pass registration numbers or MOT results to advertising partners, and adverts never change what a report says. Google explains how it uses data from sites that show its ads at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Third-party services

MotRadar depends on DVSA MOT History API data, Vercel-hosted server infrastructure, Google Analytics 4 and Google AdSense as described above. If we connect another provider, we will describe it here.

Retention and contact

Cached MOT responses expire automatically according to the freshness windows above. To ask about privacy, deletion or data handling, email support@motradar.co.uk. MotRadar does not sell personal data.