For California clubs and adult stores that scan IDs at the door

The scanner came with a mailing list switched on.

Doorpost records what each door scanner reads, what it keeps and for how long, and which of the four purposes California allows covers each use. A marketing list, a customer profile, a shared banned list or a sale of the data is a stop, in plain words. Everyone on the door signs the house rule, and every deletion is logged.

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The problem

Four purposes, and nothing else.

California Civil Code 1798.90.1 lets a business scan a driver’s licence or ID card to verify age or that it is genuine, and for a short list of other purposes — and forbids keeping or using the information for anything else. A violation is a misdemeanor. Door scanners are sold with guest-list and marketing features on, and nobody at the door reads the settings.

§ 1798.90.1

the California law on swiping a licence: verify age or authenticity, and the listed purposes only.

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Shall not

retain or use the information for any other purpose — including marketing.

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Misdemeanor

what a violation is: up to a year in county jail, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.

Will not call a door in order that is not.

A scanner used for marketing, profiling, sharing or sale is a stop. Keeping the full record needs a lawful purpose written down and a deletion period, and a deletion past its period is a stop. Anyone on the door who never signed the rule is a stop; a signature over a year old is a warning. The file says In order only when there are none.

How it works

Scanners, staff, deletions

Set up each scanner

What it reads, what it keeps and for how long, and the purpose that covers each use.

Have the door sign

The house rule is written from the scanners as set up. Everyone who works the door signs it before their first shift and every year.

Log the deletions

When a scanner that keeps records was cleared, and by whom. Print the file.

What it will never do

It keeps the record. It reads no ID.

Doorpost never touches a scanner or a card. It records how yours are set up.

No ID read.Doorpost reads no licence and holds no scan.

No scanner link.Nothing is sent to or pulled from any device.

It is not a lawyer.A complaint goes to one. Doorpost is the file you take with you.

It never touches a payment.The subscription is for software.

Pricing

Priced per venue

Less than one cover a month.

Most venues

One venue

$9/month

One club or store with door scanners.

Every scanner’s uses checked
Door-staff sign-offs
Printable file

One venue, yearly

$90/year

The same, two months free.

Everything in One venue
Deletion log
Export for your lawyer

Subscription. Your bank statement says Doorpost Software. Refunded in full on request within 30 days. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Can we keep the scans at all?

Only for a lawful purpose, such as a law that requires the record or preventing fraud, written down, with a deletion period. Doorpost asks for both.

What about a shared banned list?

Sharing scanned information with other venues is a use the law does not list. Doorpost marks it a stop.

Who has to sign?

Everyone who works the door, before their first shift and every year.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the file you wish you had kept.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

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The invented Los Angeles club’s front-door scanner sends names and birthdays to a text-message list, and its 90-day deletion is 30 days late. A new door host has not signed, and a guard signed fourteen months ago. Doorpost names every one.

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