This policy explains how Recalls Watch (recalls.watch), operated by Recalls Watch, handles personal data. It is written to meet the GDPR, UK GDPR and Brazil's LGPD.
1. What you type stays on your device
The tools on this site run in your browser. Values you enter are not sent to or stored on our servers. When the site remembers preferences or drafts it uses your browser's local storage, which you can clear at any time.
2. Consent (Google Consent Mode v2)
Until you choose, all measurement and advertising signals are denied by default (ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, analytics_storage). Your choice is stored locally and can be changed anytime in (also in the footer). This site currently uses nothing that requires consent, so no cookie notice is shown.
3. Audience measurement
If we enable audience measurement, we will use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which measures visits in aggregate, without cookies and without identifying you.
4. Advertising
This site does not show ads at the moment. If we start showing Google AdSense ads, they will respect your consent choice and this policy will be updated first.
5. Hosting and technical logs
The site is served by Cloudflare, which processes technical connection data (IP address, browser, time) to deliver pages and prevent abuse. We do not use it to identify you.
6. Your rights
You may request access, correction or deletion of personal data and withdraw consent at any time. Since we do not store what you type, clearing your browser storage removes it. Contact: the contact channel listed on this site.
7. Site-specific information
"My products" is a list kept only in this browser (localStorage, key "recalls:my-products"). It is not sent to us, there is no account, and clearing the site data of the browser erases it.
The vehicle lookup sends the make, model and year you choose straight from your browser to api.nhtsa.gov. The VIN lookup sends the VIN you type straight from your browser to vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov, the VIN decoder of NHTSA, and then asks api.nhtsa.gov for the campaigns of the decoded model. NHTSA receives your IP address like any website you visit. We do not receive or store the VIN.
The recall lookup by number sends the number you type from your browser to the agency that issued it (saferproducts.gov for CPSC, api.fda.gov for FDA, api.nhtsa.gov for NHTSA).
Product photos on CPSC notices are loaded by your browser from cpsc.gov, which therefore sees the request.
Search runs in your browser over a catalog file of this site (/data/recalls.json). What you type in the search box is written to the page address so the result can be shared as a link; it is not recorded on a server of ours.