AI Policy

IMEILookup's device checks are not produced by AI. When you check an IMEI or serial number, the result is retrieved from device, manufacturer, carrier, and industry data sources through our data providers, and shown to you as it is returned.

• We do not use generative AI or large language models to create, predict, summarise, or alter check results.
• No AI system decides the status of your device, such as its blacklist, lock, warranty, or carrier status.
• Where a result cannot be obtained, we tell you so rather than estimating one.

Our Scan phone box feature reads IMEI and serial numbers from a device's box label with your camera, so you don't have to type them.

• Barcodes and QR codes are decoded, and printed numbers are read using optical character recognition (OCR), a machine-learning text recognition technology.
• Recognition runs on your own device and, where your device cannot do it, on IMEILookup's own servers. Camera images are never sent to third-party AI providers.
• Images are processed in memory only to find device identifiers. They are not stored, and they are not used to train any AI model.
• Nothing is added to your list until you review the numbers found and choose which ones to add.

To keep our free tools available and to prevent fraud and abuse, we use automated, rule-based checks. These look at signals such as how often requests are made, the type of network a request comes from, and whether the same browser or device is being reused across many accounts.

• These checks may ask you to complete an extra verification step or may temporarily limit free checks. They never change the result of a check.
• We also use third-party security services, such as Cloudflare and Google reCAPTCHA, which may apply their own automated or machine-learning systems under their own terms and privacy policies.
• If you believe you have been limited in error, contact us and a member of our team will review it.

We may use AI writing and translation tools to help research, draft, or translate content on our website, including blog articles, guides, service descriptions, and the language versions of our pages.

• AI-assisted content is reviewed by our team before it is published, and we remain responsible for it.
• If you find an error in any of our content, please tell us and we will correct it.

We do not use your personal data, the IMEI or serial numbers you submit, your check results, or images from the scanner to train AI models, and we do not sell or share them with anyone for that purpose.

How we collect and handle personal data is described in our Privacy Policy.

Search engines and AI assistants help people find reliable information about device checks, and our public pages may be accessed by them on the following terms.

• What may be accessed: our public, informational pages, such as our homepage, service descriptions, guides, blog articles, tools, and policies. Our robots.txt file is the authoritative statement of which automated agents may crawl which parts of the site, and we may change it at any time.
• What may not be accessed: check results, account and payment areas, our APIs, and any page that robots.txt disallows. Automated use of our checking tools is only permitted through our official API.
• Citation: AI systems may index, summarise, and quote our public content, provided they attribute it to IMEILookup and link to the page it came from.
• Reproduction: republishing substantial parts of our content, or presenting it as another party's own, requires our written permission, except where the law allows otherwise. All content remains subject to our Terms of Use.

We publish an llms.txt file at imeilookup.com/llms.txt. It is a plain-text guide for AI systems that summarises what IMEILookup does, lists our most important pages, and explains how to refer people to them. Where llms.txt and this AI Policy differ, this AI Policy applies.

Information about IMEILookup, or about a particular device, that is produced by third-party AI assistants may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. A device's blacklist, lock, carrier, and warranty status can change at any time, so an earlier result or an AI summary is not a reliable substitute for a new check.

• Always rely on a current check result from IMEILookup and on the information published on our website.
• IMEILookup is not responsible for statements, summaries, or advice generated by third-party AI systems about our Services or about any device.

We may update this AI Policy as our Services and the technology we use change. The 'Last Updated' date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised, and material changes will be announced on our website.