Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At F1Laps, we have a few fundamental principles:

  • We aim to minimize the personal information collected.
  • We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
  • We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information is shared publicly, kept private or permanently deleted.
  • We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

What this policy covers

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use our websites, such as www.f1laps.com, our mobile apps, and our desktop apps, such as the F1Laps Telemetry Windows and Mac apps. Throughout this Privacy Policy we’ll refer to our websites, mobile applications, and other products and services collectively as “Services.”

What information we collect

  • Basic information: We ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. For example, we require individuals who sign up for a f1laps.com account to provide an email address and password, along with a username — and that’s it. If you sign in with Google or Discord, we get your email address and account name from them instead of a password.
  • Racing data: When you use the F1Laps telemetry app, we store the data of your game sessions: sessions, lap and sector times, race results, setups, and telemetry traces such as speed, throttle, braking and racing line. Your laps and setups can show on public leaderboards and in the community setup database. You can hide your username there in your profile settings.
  • Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services.

What we use this information for

We use this information to provide our Services (for example, to set up and maintain your account), to ensure quality (for example, by providing automatic upgrades and new versions of our Services) and to communicate with you.

Where your data is stored

Primary storage for your account and racing data is in the EU. Providers may also process data outside the EU, as described below:

  • Hosting: Hetzner Online GmbH provides hosting for our servers and database in Germany.
  • File storage and backups: Amazon Web Services (AWS) stores telemetry traces and images in Ireland and Germany. AWS also holds encrypted database backups in Germany.
  • Website delivery and protection: Cloudflare sits in front of www.f1laps.com. It blocks attacks and caches pages, so it sees your IP address and the pages you open.
  • Email: Resend sends our emails, such as sign-up, password and billing emails. When you email contact@f1laps.com, your message is stored by our mail host All-Inkl in Germany and in Google’s Gmail.

Some of these providers, and some named further down, are based in the US. We use them under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the EU standard contractual clauses.

When you delete your account, we initiate removal of the account and its linked racing data from the active database. Technical processing may take time. Encrypted backups retain copies for up to 30 days. Telemetry trace files may remain after account deletion; we remove their association with the deleted account. We do not treat removal of that association alone as a guarantee of anonymity. Statutory retention obligations remain unaffected.

How we minimize the information we collect

  • Web analytics: We use Google Analytics and Ahrefs Analytics to understand how our Services are used.
  • Payment processing: We use Stripe to process payments and handle payment card details.
  • Service monitoring: We use Sentry and New Relic for error and performance monitoring.

Cookies may be used for sign-in, Service settings and analytics. Where advertising is shown, our advertising partners may also use cookies or similar technologies as described in their privacy policies.

Advertising

All or partial advertising on this Website or App is managed by Playwire LLC. If Playwire publisher advertising services are used, Playwire LLC may collect and use certain aggregated and anonymized data for advertising purposes. To learn more about the types of data collected, how data is used and your choices as a user, please visit https://www.playwire.com/privacy-policy.

Connecting F1Laps to an AI assistant

Connecting an AI assistant is optional. When you connect F1Laps to a compatible assistant, you sign in and approve access through our OAuth consent screen. The connection is read-only: it can read the racing data your account is allowed to access, but it cannot edit or delete your laps, sessions or setups.

Depending on your request and account access, shared data may include account and plan information, game sessions, results, setups and detailed driving telemetry, together with relevant identifiers and links. Public community setups and eligible public leaderboard comparisons may also be returned.

We share this data with the AI service you choose to provide the analysis or lookup you request. The provider's privacy policy, terms and your account settings govern its handling of the data and your conversations. For example, see the policies for OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Anthropic (Claude). F1Laps does not request your full chat history through the MCP connection.

We keep usage records for service operation and usage measurement, including the linked account, connected assistant category, functions used, outcome categories, telemetry-access indicators and timestamps. We schedule daily removal of these records once they are older than 365 days. Deleting the linked F1Laps account also deletes its tool-use records.

We process authorization data to establish and maintain the connection. Access ends when its authorization is revoked or expires. Authorization records may remain linked to your account until account deletion or removal on request. Connecting or disconnecting an assistant does not delete the racing data you store in F1Laps.

You can disconnect through your AI service's connection controls. An already issued access token may remain valid until it expires or is revoked. To ask us to revoke authorizations or delete or modify your F1Laps data, email contact@f1laps.com. You can also use the F1Laps account-deletion controls after signing in. Your AI provider's copy of shared data is subject to its own deletion and retention rules.

Your rights

Regardless of the country you’re located in, you can contact us anytime at contact@f1laps.com to have any of your data being deleted or modified. This includes your rights under the GDPR.

Contact us

F1Laps is operated by Laps Ventures UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Westpreussenstr. 55, 81927 München, Germany. Laps Ventures UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is the controller of your personal data under the GDPR.

You can contact us anytime at contact@f1laps.com if you have any questions.

This policy was last updated on October 28, 2026.