Your ID was scanned. Here’s what the scan keeps.
Someone used Check ID to read your ID, usually to check your age and whether it has expired.
The scan record never keeps your name, date of birth, address, ID number, or any picture of you or your ID.
What it can keep
- What the check found, and what the person scanning decided
- Your age in years, and the minimum age it was checked against
- Where your ID is from and what type it is, and, from version 3.0, what its barcode says about REAL ID
- When and how it was scanned
- Which automatic checks on your ID’s data raised a flag, and a score from those checks
- Whether you matched a guest list, and whether your ID was flagged as scanned twice
- With Check ID for Teams, our service for businesses: the venue, device and staff member
Where it’s kept, and for how long
Without Check ID for Teams, any record stays on the device that scanned your ID or in its owner’s iCloud. It’s kept for 7 days and cleared the next time the app opens after that.
With Check ID for Teams, the record waits on the device until it uploads, then stays on our servers for two years by default.
Check ID also runs its own app statistics, in every plan. They include a few facts from each scan, such as the result, the state and the age, but never your name, date of birth, address, ID number or photo.
Spotting an ID scanned twice
If the same ID is scanned twice in a short time, it may have been handed back to someone else in line. To flag that, the scan can make a one-way code from your ID that recognizes the card if it’s scanned again.
The scanning device can keep that code. It clears codes older than 7 days at its first ID scan after the app restarts, so on a device that isn’t restarted a code can stay longer. A Check ID for Teams device also keeps it with any scan that hasn’t uploaded yet. On our servers, Check ID for Teams can keep a re-scrambled version for the venue’s time window, 4 hours by default, and deletes it within about an hour after that window ends.
What we can’t speak for
The venue’s own records, like cameras, reservations or copies of scan records it has downloaded: ask the venue. The person who scanned you, or their venue, can also add your name to a guest list. That list is theirs to manage, even when Check ID for Teams stores it.