Terms of use

The short version

• Meter Check is free.
• Its answer is advice, not a promise. You decide whether to pay.
• When you're not sure, pay at the machine or in the official app named on the sign.
• Only report codes you have really seen.

By using Meter Check, you agree to these terms.

What Meter Check does

It reads the web address inside a parking code and compares it with the real parking services for the town you're in, and with public lists of dangerous websites. Then it tells you whether the address looks safe.

It can't see the sign itself, and it can't catch everything. A scam can be brand new, and a town can change how it takes payment before we hear about it.

No guarantee

We work hard to keep the town information right, but it can be out of date or wrong. Meter Check is provided as it is, without any promise that it is complete, correct or always available.

To the extent the law allows, GrantVRP is not responsible for any loss from using Meter Check or from not being able to use it, including money paid to a fake or a real parking service. Nothing here takes away rights you have under consumer protection law that can't be taken away.

Not official

Meter Check is independent. It is not run by, connected to or approved by any city, town, parking company, police service or the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.

We name towns and parking companies only to say who really runs parking where you are. Their names, logos and apps belong to them.

Reports you send

Only report a code you have seen yourself, and never to harm a real business. When you send a report, you let us show it on the public map and share it with towns, parking companies, police and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre to help stop the scam. We may remove any report. Our privacy policy explains what a report keeps.

Fair use

Please don't try to break or overload Meter Check, get around its limits, copy it in bulk, or use it to test scam websites. We may block anyone who does.

Other websites and apps

The pay buttons open the official websites and apps of towns and parking companies. We don't run them, and their own terms and privacy policies apply.

Copyright and trademarks

© 2026 GrantVRP. All rights reserved. The Meter Check name and logo, and the website's text, design, code and collected town information, belong to GrantVRP.

You're welcome to share links to Meter Check, and screenshots to warn people about a scam. Copying the website, its code or its town information for any other use needs written permission from GrantVRP.

Other people's work

Meter Check is built with free software and open data, used under their own licences:

• Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
• The map is shown with Leaflet.
• The Atkinson Hyperlegible font is by the Braille Institute, under the SIL Open Font License.
• Codes are read with jsQR.
• The website is built with Next.js and React.

The full licences are in our third-party notices.

Changes and the law

We may update these terms. When we do, we change the date below. Using Meter Check after a change means you accept the new terms.

These terms follow the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there.

Contact us

Questions about these terms, or asking for permission: