 | IMMOBILISE: How Immobilise Works |  |
 | Immobilise (www.immobilise.com) can be used by members of the public and businesses to register their valued possessions or company assets. Your account stores your contact details and the details of your registere |
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| IMMOBILISE: The ImmobiTag |  |
| An ImmobiTag is a radio frequency identification device (RFID) designed specifically to be embedded into a bike's frame. Each tag transmits a short range radio signal with its own unique serial number that can be read by the Police using RFID tag scanners |
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| IMMOBILISE: Identifying the ImmobiTag Numbers | |
| Every electronic ImmobiTag comes with two unique identifying numbers that can be registered by creating an account at www.immobilise.com
The number which appears on the barcode is your main ImmobiTag identifier that will appear whenever your ImmobiTag |
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| IMMOBILISE: TraceMe Luggage Tracker | |
| The TraceMe Luggage tracker is a strong, durable tag that has been airline approved. It can be fixed to any item of luggage and has a unique serial number and 2D barcode ensuring that if it is ever lost it can always be identified and returned to the owne |
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| IMMOBILISE: Uploading images / photos | |
| When registering a product on Immobilise it is possible to upload an image of the item. Though it is not yet possible to run searches for items based on these images they can provide a useful reference when used in combination with unique number identifie |
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| IMMOBILISE: Registering and Marking Jewellery | |
| Jewellery can be registered just like any other item on your Immobilise account. We recommend that all items of jewellery are given a unique reference or serial number and include photos of the item and any certificates of ownership.
To give unique ref |
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| IMMOBILISE: Unblocking Mobile Phones | |
| The only way to get a phone removed from the blacklist is for the original subscriber to contact the network who blacklisted the phone and ask them to remove it. You will likely be asked for the reason why the phone was blocked initially and why it should |
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| IMMOBILISE: Identifying the IMEI Number | |
| A useful identifier for mobile phones is called the IMEI number. This is a unique 14-17 digit serial number that normally appears on a label underneath the battery in your phone. On most mobiles typing *#06# into the keypad will also cause the IMEI number |
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| IMMOBILISE: How to create/register an Account | |
| Registering for a free Immobilise account can be done very quickly and simply by going to www.immobilise.com and following the bellow steps:
1) On the Immobilise home page is a yellow bordered box where you can |
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| IMMOBILISE: Tracking Services | |
| Immobilise is not a recovery or tracking service. Registering items on Immobilise does not mean that we will try and locate them for you should they ever be lost or stolen.
The Immobilise service is designed to be checked by the police or authorised l |
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| IMMOBILISE: Security and Access to the Database | |
| Immobilise (www.immobilise.com) stores your contact details and the details of your registered items in password-protected and encrypted form on a secure server database called The Mobile Equ |
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| IMMOBILISE: Importing Old Accounts | |
| Accounts registered before July 2008 were created on the old Immobilise system and any information that they contained can no longer be accessed until it has been imported through to the new and improved system. None of the data within these old accounts |
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| IMMOBILISE: Website/Account Data Security | |
| The Immobilise service is housed on its own dedicated servers which are kept in a secure environment with state of the art physical security similar to those used by banks. Only accredited technicians have physical access to these servers.
The data is |
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| IMMOBILISE: Reporting your property as lost or stolen | |
| Property that has been recorded on an Immobilise account can, if the need arises, be reported as either lost or stolen. Doing this will flag it up on a national police database called the NMPR and also on a public database called CheckMEND (The internati |
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| IMMOBILISE: Reporting your phone as stolen in the UK | |
| Report a Mobile phone as stolen in the UK
For UK members if your mobile phone is lost or stolen, call your network operator. Your phone will be blocked just like a stolen credit card. PLEASE NOTE THAT REPORTING YOUR PHONE AS LOST OR STOLEN ON I |
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| IMMOBILISE: Forgotten Password | |
| If you cannot remember the password for your Immobilise account then it is possible to get a new one generated and emailed out to you. To do this you need to go to the front page of the website and click the 'Login' button. On the following page click on |
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| IMMOBILISE: International / Overseas Accounts | |
| The Immobilise website is designed specifically for use in the UK. Similarly the Immobilize site is designed for people in the US. There is however no restriction for people living outside of the UK and US when registering an account with Immobilise. Alth |
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| IMMOBILISE: Unexpected Registration Letters or Emails | |
| The Immobilise service operates in collaboration with a large number of different businesses including most of the major mobile phone companies. Often these companies sell their products with the inclusion of an account on the Immobilise system. The accou |
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| IMMOBILISE: How do I add many items to my account at once? | |
| If you have lots of items to upload, then there's an easier way than adding each item individually. That way is to use one of our upload speadsheets.
Firstly you should already have an Immobilise account. If you don't then you will need to create an ac |
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| IMMOBILISE: Not receiving password reminders | |
| To use the 'Forgotten your password?' tool you simply need to enter your email address and click on the 'Go >' button. This will generate a random new password for the account of the email a |
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| IMMOBILISE: Not receiving Immobilise emails? | |
| There could be many factors why you are not getting our emails, the most popular reasons being:
- Your email program/website has spam filtering in place, so our messages are being moved to a spam/junk folder, or being deleted.
- You are using an onl |
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| IMMOBILISE: Adding an ImmobiBag or Trace Me Luggage Tracker | |
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In order to add an ImmobiBag or a Trace Me Luggage Tracker the owner of the tag should go to www.immobilise.com and log in to their account by clicking the 'Login' button and from there entering their username and password. If they do not already have a |
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