Privacy

No accounts, no tracking, and no owner's name on any page a search engine can rank.

What we collect from visitors

Nothing automatic. No accounts, no advertising, no analytics script, no cookie set by this site. Searches run in your browser against static files — what you type is not sent to us, which is why a result has no address of its own.

What we collect when you write to us

The forms send what you type to Formspree, which forwards it to our mailbox: your email address and the details you give about a vehicle, a location or a network to check.

We use it to answer you, and — where you asked for repairs or an inspection — to look for licensed facilities and pass your request on. We take no commission and we vouch for nobody. We have no arrangement with any garage today; we are gathering these requests in order to go and find them, and we would rather say that than imply a service that does not yet exist. Say so in the message and we pass nothing on.

Ask us and we delete what you sent. There is no account to close.

The businesses and people in the register

This site republishes a public file of businesses licensed by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, published on data.ny.gov under the OPEN-NY Terms of Use.

The owner’s name never appears on an indexable page. It is in the source, and it is a natural person’s name attached to a commercial licence. Pages name the facility; the owner appears only on the individual result, drawn in your browser from the part of the URL after the #, which is never sent to a server and cannot be indexed.

The business address is published, because a garage’s address is the whole point of a garage. No home address is inferred or added from anywhere else, and no coordinates are carried.

Expired licences are searchable, because answering « not found » about a lapsed licence would mislead. What is published about them is what the Department publishes: the code, the status, the dates.

Having your entry removed

If you are named on this site and would rather not be, write to us and we will remove you. You do not have to explain why, and we will not ask.

Two things this cannot do, and we say so plainly rather than let you find out later: it does not change the official register, which is where the record actually lives; and it does not remove you from anyone else's copy of the same public data.

Names, and why they appear here

This site republishes a public register that names people in their professional capacity. It does not use anyone's name or identity to endorse, advertise or sell anything, which is what New York Civil Rights Law §§ 50-51 prohibits in New York.

The distinction is not a technicality and we hold ourselves to it: no name on this site appears in an advertisement, and no name is used to suggest that someone recommends, supplies or is associated with anything sold here. If you think a page crosses that line, tell us and it comes down.