Questions and answers on Simplimmat app

• Have your vehicle registration document to hand ;
• Fill in the information required to transfer ownership of your vehicle.
• Share the transfer file with the future owner on your respective smartphones.
• Sign the transfer on the app to register it.
• Download the completed and signed transfer certificate from the app.

• Wait for the seller to share the vehicle transfer documents with you ;
• Review and verify the information provided ;
• Confirm the documents with the seller ;
• Sign the purchase agreement in the app so that your purchase is officially registered with the authorities ;
• Download the completed and signed transfer certificate.

• Add co-owners to your new vehicle registration certificate if you wish.
• Enter your residential address details.
• Pay the registration taxes on the government payment platform.
• Retrieve your provisional registration certificate in the app (valid for one month).
• Receive your vehicle registration certificate at your address by tracked post within 7 to 8 days

• Consult your vehicle's administrative file
• Find and download your documents at any time: certificate of transfer, provisional registration certificate

In accordance with the amended law of 6 January 1978 relating to files, information technology and civil liberties, you may access your information at any time, correct inaccurate data or request the deletion of your personal data by sending us a request to simplimmat-ants@interieur.gouv.fr.

Depending on your use of the Application, the retention period for the data collected varies.

• If you have created a Simplimmat account without yet authenticating yourself via FranceConnect, your data will be automatically deleted after one week.
• If you have already authenticated yourself via FranceConnect but have not yet submitted a vehicle transfer declaration or registration application, your data will be automatically deleted 11 months after your last login. An email will be sent to notify you of the upcoming deletion of your account and its data unless you take action to keep it.
• If you have already submitted a vehicle transfer declaration or registration request via the Application, these requests will be kept for 5 years. The vehicle identification data and corresponding personal data imported into the information system, known as the Vehicle Registration System (SIV), at the time of validation of the requests are kept for the entire lifetime of the vehicle's administrative file.

For more details on the data collected by the application, please refer to Information statements concerning the processing by Simplimmat.gouv