Each Address ID represents one physical postal address belonging you. For example, each user is expected to have at least two Address IDs, representing their home and employment addresses. Mike@home and Mike@atlanta are two sample Address IDs, representing Mike’s home and Atlanta’s address.

Address ID has two parts, Prefix and Suffix, separated by “@”. Prefix is your user name and suffix is any text value. In other words, the Address ID looks similar to your email-id without the “.com” at the end.

If your user name is “mike”, create your address IDs as shown below:

• mike@home – representing Mike’s home address
• mike@business – representing Mike’s business address
• mike@anyaddress – representing Mike’s any address

Following are the format restrictions for the Address ID’s Prefix and Suffix:

• Prefix (user name): May contain letters, numbers, dots(.), underscores(_), and dashes(-) only.
• Suffix: May contain letters, numbers, underscores(_), and dashes(-) only.

Currently myGPSID works for U.S.A addresses. We are testing Canada, European countries & India, and expected to certify these countries shortly.

Don’t wait for your country to be certified! Go ahead and reserve your Address IDs before someone else does.

• If concerned, change your Address IDs, especially the extension.
• Use directory listings for public addresses only. It is common to include business addresses for directory listing, but not the home addresses.

Address ID gives you safer way to share your location so that service providers can offer you location based services. For example, by using Address ID, instead of zip code, for store look ups will result in good result, while protecting your privacy.

Third party sites have two ways to access your address information:

• Geo-Approximation Services. Your approximate geo-location (lat and long), city, state and zip code are shared in this case. Most of the sites will use this service only, as they do not have to know your exact address, but a rough location is all needed. Any website can access this information/service.

• Complete Address Services: In this case, your entire address will be shared with third party sites. You will need to explicitly authorize it in order for us to share this information. Only few sites will be requiring this information such as e-commerce sites, shipping companies etc. Only sites with your explicit consent can access this information.

myGPSID membership is FREE for consumers irrespective of race, religion, sex, ethnicity, financial or marital status. There are no hidden costs with myGPSID, absolutely zilch.