Privacy and contact

The short version

• No accounts, no ads and no tracking.
• We never sell or share anything about you.
• Your settings stay on your phone.

When you check a code

Your phone sends Meter Check the web address inside the code and where you are, so we can tell which town you're in. We use them to give you an answer, then forget them.

Your phone never opens the address. Our server looks at it instead. It asks Google Safe Browsing whether the address is known to be dangerous, and asks the public website records how old it is. They are told the address only, never who you are or where you are.

The camera picture never leaves your phone. Only the code's text is sent.

To stop floods, we count how many checks and reports come from your network address for one minute. The address is never saved.

When you report a fake code

We save the fake address, the town, the time, and the spot, rounded to about 10 metres. Nothing about you.

Reports show on the public map for 30 days. We keep them for 12 months so we can pass them on to towns and police, then delete them.

On your phone

Your text size, your trusted person and the town you picked are saved on this phone only. Clearing your browser's data removes them.

Others involved

The street map pictures come straight from OpenStreetMap to your phone. Cloudflare runs our website. Like any web host, it keeps short technical records for a few days to keep the site working and safe.

Who runs Meter Check

Meter Check is independent. It is not run by any city, town or parking company. Its answer is advice: when you're not sure, pay at the machine or in the official app named on the sign.

Contact us

Questions, a wrong answer, or a town you'd like us to add:

Lost money to a fake code? Call your bank first, then the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501.