Registration Terms

Please read the basic, short version of the website rules. If you decide not to delve into what is written here and violate these rules, this will quickly lead to permanent ban of your account. Website moderators have the right to block users who ignore the basic rules and requirements for uploading photos or submitting information to photos.

The purpose of the website, is to showcase high-quality and interesting photos of license plates installed on vehicles (cars, buses, motorcycles, trailers, etc.), which are presented and systemized on the website using galleries, categorised by country and plate-type. You may upload any photos with license plates supported by the gallery, as well as communicate and network with thousands of website users and share your impressions with them.

The website's moderation team have developed the website, using a database system which enables the recording of high-quality images of interesting vehicles (cars, motorcycles, etc.) and their license plates, where the built-in search function will help find results of license plates or vehicles using different parameters, from our database of over 11 million photos, and counting.

In this section, we go through the rules of our website for our new users, as well as the basic requirements and conditions for uploading photos and comments to the gallery of the website.

The complete rules of the website are long, and at first glance, complicated, but we are confident that after a while you will become familiar with them. Novice users will be granted leniancy in respecting the quality of photos. Be accustomed in the process of spotting!

Table of Contents:

1. Rules of communication
2. Content requirements on the website
3. Requirements for photos uploaded to the gallery
4. Rules for doubling photos in the gallery
5. Rules for replacing photos in the gallery
6. Filling data about a photo
7. Rights of the Administration

1. Rules of communication

1.1. Non-compliance with the rules of the website, will result in the user being banned from uploading photo onto the website, or sending messages to other users, until further notice.

1.2. Public and private communication on the website should at all times be respectful. Obscene language on the website in communication (even disguised as skipping or replacing letters, using consonant words, expressions, symbols), will not be tolerated.

1.3. Communication on the website should be benevolent and respectful. Showing haughtiness, arrogance, aggression, causing humiliation to someone, publicly arranging confrontations is not tolerated. In case of disagreement with the moderator’s actions regarding the content you have uploaded, you should refer to the dispute resolution procedure (for details, see the full version of the rules).

1.4. If any user violates the rules of the website as described above, you should not discuss it publicly on the website. Do not respond to the rulebreaker with similar actions to his. It is enough to contact one of the administrators or the responsible moderator and explain the situation to the moderator. (List of moderators on the link)

1.5. You may not post insignificant comments on your photos, which aims to draw attention to your photos, as well as directly or indirectly promoting your own photos in order to boost likes.

1.6. You may not use the comment section to notify an error on a photo. The "Error Message" button (the red button with a triangle and an exclamation mark) exists for this purpose.

1.7. Political discussions and disputes are prohibited on the website.

2. Content requirements on the website

2.1. It is prohibited to upload content of the following subjects to the website:

2.1.1. insulting/bullying, profanity/swearing, slander, pornography;
2.1.2. propaganda of violence scenes, gambling, drugs, dissolute lifestyle, suicide;
2.1.3. propaganda and incitement of social, gender, interethnic, interreligious and interracial discord.

3. Requirements for photos uploaded to the gallery

3.1. The quality of photos must be as good as possible: no distortion, no digital noise, no blur, in a good light and as sharply as possible. In addition to the above, the license plate must be clearly readable, and all the symbols on it should be understood unambiguously.

3.2. Photos must be taken by you personally. Uploading photos found on the Internet and not made by you personally, as well as scanned images from magazines and newspapers, frames from motion pictures and videos are strictly prohibited.

3.3. Falsification of images, photomontage, drawn images, as well as photos of fake and souvenir license plates are impermissible. You may improve photos using photo editor whereby you can moderately edit aspects of a photo, such as: improve sharpness, reduce digital noise, correct lighting etc.

3.4. A photo involving a serious road traffic accident, must not contain any hint of injuries or death, denoted by the sight of blood, limbs etc.

3.5. If photo depicts people who are inside or next to the vehicle, images of people's faces must be blurred, so that the individual(s) can't be identified.
An example of the correct blurring of faces:

3.6. For one vehicle with front and rear license plates, you may upload only two views (preferably at a quarter angle in order to determine the model of vehicle): front and rear.
An example of two views for one vehicle:

3.7. The vehicle must be completely visible in the frame and occupy the following part of a photo:

3.7.1. for mopeds and motorcycles - at least 1/16 part of a photo;
3.7.2. for cars and trailers - at least 1/9 part of a photo;
3.7.3. for trucks, buses, special vehicles and trailers - at least 1/6 part of a photo.

3.8. A photo must be cropped if the vehicle is spotted at a long distance and occupies a smaller part of the photo than it is required above.

Example of cropping (photo before cropping and photo after it):

3.9. If there are several vehicles in a photo, then you should separate them (crop and upload each vehicle separately).

3.10. File format: *.jpg in any resolution, but not less than 640×480 pixels; total size is not more than 6 MB.

4. Rules for doubling photos in the gallery

4.1. You may upload a photo to the gallery as a duplicate (double photo or double spot) to one or more existing photos containing the same license plate if any of the following conditions is met:

4.1.1. the license plate is shown on another vehicle, if it was transferred from another vehicle or re-issued;
4.1.2. a photo was taken in another state and / or region, which must be indicated in the «Extra information» field;
4.1.3. the appearance of the vehicle changed (for example, it was repainted or has a new bodykit/been heavily tuned). For further details, read more in the full version of the website rules;
4.1.4. the license plate has undergone changes (repaint, intentional change of symbols, plate has been replaced with a non-standard duplicate, repeated issue or production of a duplicate license plate in a new design);
4.1.5. a photo may be uploaded with a tag that is absent on the existing photo; or vice versa, a photo may be uploaded without tag that is present on the existing photo. There are exceptions to adding tags to relevant photos; for further details, see the full version of the website rules.

4.2. Geographic double spots (duplicate photos) of the same license plate on the same vehicle may only occur in different countries and in different regions, if regional division is defined for a particular country. Some regions in some countries are conventionally combined (for example, Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales are conventionally considered as a single region). A complete list of these states and regional divisions is listed in the the full version of the website rules.

5. Rules for replacing photos in the gallery

5.1. You may reasonably replace the photos already uploaded to the gallery if any of the following conditions is met:

5.1.1. the photo already present on the website is significantly worse in quality, and the vehicle or the license plate is depicted worse than in your photo;
5.1.2. the photo already present on the website is not made by that author (user), and the photo you wish to add, is taken by you personally;
5.1.3. on the photo already present on the website, the license plate is not shown on the vehicle, and has been photographed without the vehicle (these photos are categorised under "License plate without vehicle"), and in your photo, the license plate is shown on a vehicle;
5.1.4. The author of the photo already present on the website, has given you their consent replace the photo with yours.

5.2. Determining the parameters of quality importance for the gallery is carried out according to the criteria specified in the full version of the rules.

5.3. To get approval for allowing your photo to replace the photo from the original author, you need to post a comment under the photo to be replaced, asking for replacement and add your photo in a comment (you can upload it by clicking on the folder icon). You may upload your photo only after receiving approval of replacement from the author of the existing photo.
Location of the folder icon:

5.4. After you have reasonably added your photo to replacement, the old photo that came under replacement will be removed from the gallery.

6. Filling data about a photo

6.1. Before you upload a photo, select the section of the country where the license plate is from, then select the type and design of the license plate (for some countries, you are required to also add the region/province code, or chose the background colour/style of the license plate). After that, you may add characters of the license plate (type and/or select them from a droplist, including, for example, specific characters for Chinese or Thailandese plates). Remember that adding photos of license plates that are not supported by the gallery (related to the missing type and/or belonging to a province/state not represented in it) is not allowed.

6.2. When uploading a photo, you should specify the make (brand) and model of the vehicle. The make (brand) and model of the vehicle can be read on the vehicle itself (such as badging on the sides or rear of the vehicle) or you can determine the brand and model of the vehicle, through the use of third-party plate-checking websites. For buses, you can often find the brand and model by license plate through the profile resources. If the brand of the vehicle is not in the list of brands, or there is no visible model under the specified brand, you should write the name of the missing brand or model in the "Extra information" field, and leave the "Specify brand and model of vehicle" field with the missing brand or model empty. A website moderator will add the relevant make (brand) and model in due course.

6.3. If you can't identify, or do not know the make (brand) or model of the vehicle you are uploading, then leave the "Specify brand and model of vehicle" field with the "I Don't Know" tab, and after uplading, send an error message stating the issue (the "red button" with a triangle with an exclamation mark on).

6.4. Please remember, the constant failure to specify the make (brands) and models, is punished in the following cases, if:

6.4.1. the make (brand) or model on the photo is clearly readable on the vehicle;
6.4.2. in the gallery there is another photo of the same vehicle and license plate with the specified make (brand) and model;
6.4.3. There is a reliable publicly available plate-checking source, where you can identify the brand and model of the vehicle by the license plate.

6.5. While uploading a photo, you need to put the relevant tags to that photo, if they can be applied to the added photo (the list of tags is in the full version of the rules). The "tag cloud" section can be found at the bottom of the photo upload interface form.

6.6. While uploading a photo, you need to specify the location of where the photograph was taken (specifying the country and/or region (state, province or city, according to the list for doubling photos given in the full version of the rules). If the photo was taken in the country that the photographed license plate is registered to, you do not need to specify the country.

6.7. You are allowed to not to specify the region (state, province, or city) if the license plate contains the geographical index (code) of the region, or its graphic design corresponds to the region where the photo was taken (as an example, a vehicle with a license plate from California, being spotted in California). For countries that have a regional division according to the list for doubling spots (as shown on the website's full rules), but not having geographic indexing on the country's nationwide numeration system of license plates, the location of where the photo was taken, must always be specified.

6.8. Detailing of the location with the exact address of the photo (such as street name, house numbers etc.) is prohibited.

7. Rights of the Administration

7.1. The Administration has the right to, at its own discretion:

7.1.1. delete any photos and/or comments;
7.1.2. change the registration name (nickname) of the user, transfer the user to another group of users.

7.2. In case of violation of the rules by the user, the Administration has the right to impose restrictions on the rights of the user, to use the website (the rights to visit the website and upload photos onto the gallery, the right to communicate on the website).

If you have questions, after registration you may use the feedback form with the administration or ask for assistance from the moderators.

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