Who runs this site

Volvo P3 Garage is an independent, non-commercial project for owners of the Volvo S60 and V60 Polestar. It is not affiliated with Volvo Cars or Polestar. Questions about your data: [email protected].

What we keep

• Your account: email address, display name and a one-way hash of your password (never the password itself).
• Car verification: the model, engine and year you enter, and your VIN. The full VIN is kept only until the request is decided. After that we keep the last six characters and a keyed fingerprint, so the same car can be recognised later without storing its VIN.
• Verification photos: the two photos you take. They are deleted 30 days after the request is decided, or 7 days after an unfinished request is abandoned. Only you and the site admins can see them. Photos can carry the time and place they were taken; please turn off location in your camera if you prefer.
• Automatic photo check: the text read from the photos, what the photo appears to show, when it was taken and with which app (from the photo’s own data), and a short fingerprint of each photo. The fingerprint is kept while your account exists, to spot the same picture being sent by another account. This runs on our own server; photos are not sent to any outside service.
• Garage and service log: your cars, mileage, colour, country, modifications and service entries. Other verified members can open your car’s page and see your display name, the car’s details, mileage, modifications and service log (a documented history is what buyers of these cars look for). The public registry shows only totals (for example, how many cars per colour).
• What you post: problems, parts, comments, workshop reviews, marketplace listings (including the contact details you choose to give) and meetups. Members can see these, and problems, parts and workshops are public.
• Security records: failed sign-ins and requests for emails, with the email address and network address, kept for one day to slow down password guessing and abuse.

Cookies

One cookie keeps you signed in, for up to 14 days. There are no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies.

Services we use

• Cloudflare carries the traffic to this site and protects it, so it sees your network address and the pages you request.
• Brevo delivers our emails (confirmation, password reset, verification results and service reminders), so it receives your email address and the message.

We do not sell or share your data with anyone else, and we do not use it for advertising.

Why we keep it

To run your account and the services you sign up for (verification, garage, reminders), and to keep the community free of people who do not own the car, which is the point of the site.

Your rights

• See and correct your data: most of it is on your account and garage pages.
• Delete everything: use Delete my account on your account page. Problems and parts you added stay in the knowledge base as written by “Former member”.
• For anything else, or to complain about how we handle your data, write to us at [email protected]. You can also contact your national data protection authority.