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Privacy policy

Last updated: August 8, 2026

The short version: your race data never leaves your PC on its own — only when you use an optional feature (leaderboard, AI analysis), each explained below. Pacedex works fully without an account and collects no race telemetry. The app sends a few anonymous technical numbers so we can count active installs and fix bugs — and you can turn even that off. An optional account (email only) is available if you want cloud features.

What stays on your PC

Everything the game produces: telemetry, laps, sessions, setups, radio messages. It is stored in a local SQLite database in your user folder and is never uploaded.

Optional account

Creating an account is opt-in and never required — the app is fully functional without one. If you sign in, we store only your e-mail address (to identify your account) on Cloudflare infrastructure. Sign-in is passwordless: we e-mail you a short code. We do not upload your racing or telemetry data by creating an account. You can sign out at any time.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account inside the app: on the phone or tablet, go to You → Pacedex account → Delete account; on the PC, go to Settings → Pacedex account → Delete account. It works for the automatic anonymous identity too. Deletion is immediate and permanent and removes from our servers your e-mail, ranking laps and traces, public profile, shared laps and setups, lap challenges, league memberships and synced race summaries. A league you created is handed to another member (or deleted if nobody else is in it); your entry on a league's season roster stays with that league, unlinked from you. Ranking uploads are switched off afterwards. Races saved on your device are not touched — uninstalling the app removes them. If you no longer have the app, write to box@pacedex.com from the account's e-mail and we delete it within 30 days.

What the app sends (anonymous)

Each install generates a random ID (a UUID) that is not linked to your name, e-mail or gamertag — we couldn't identify you from it if we tried. With that ID the app sends:

  • Heartbeat — when checking for updates: app version, interface language and operating system. Used to count active installs per version.
  • Diagnostics — technical health of the app: whether telemetry packets are arriving, which UDP port is in use, packet-decoding health, voice-engine status. Used to fix problems (e.g. "installed but receives nothing").
  • Community benchmark — aggregated performance numbers only (e.g. tyre life per track). Stored as averages; no lap-by-lap data.

Turning it off

Set "stats": false in overlay_config.json (or the environment variable PACEDEX_NO_STATS=1). The app then sends nothing — the update check still downloads the public version file, without any ID.

AI features (optional)

AI analysis — happens only when you click "Analyse race". The app sends that race's report, plus the results of the queries the AI runs against your local database, straight from your PC to the AI provider you picked (Google, OpenAI or Anthropic), using your key — nothing goes through Pacedex servers. The key is stored only on your PC and is never shown back. Whatever is sent becomes subject to the chosen provider's privacy policy.

Radio to your engineer (voice) — pressing the radio button transcribes and answers your question. With your own AI key, everything goes straight to the provider. On the free quota, audio passes through Pacedex's server (Cloudflare) in transit only: it is transcribed and discarded — we store neither the audio nor the text of your questions, just usage counters (questions per day, for the quota).

What is sent, to whom, and your permission — a voice question carries the recording of your voice (only while you hold the radio button), the text of the question and the race data needed to answer it (lap times, tyres, fuel, damage, weather and positions). Your name and e-mail are never sent to the AI. On the free quota the audio is transcribed by Cloudflare (Workers AI, Whisper model) and the answer is written by Anthropic (Claude); with your own key, the only recipient is the provider you picked (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic or your own server). These providers process the data under their own privacy terms, with protection equivalent to this policy. On the phone and tablet apps nothing is sent to any AI service until you explicitly allow it on a screen that lists all of the above, and you can revoke that permission at any time in the You tab.

Leaderboard and sharing (on by default, with opt-out)

After each race the app uploads your best laps (time, track, weather, platform and your display name — the in-game gamertag) and the trace of your best lap to the public standings. This is on by default and the app shows a notice the first time; you can turn it off anytime in Settings ("don't share"), which stops uploads and deletes the traces already sent. A race Debrief only becomes a public page if you create the link, and the link is revocable at any time. The same goes for an incident (steward mode): it is stored on your PC and only becomes a public page — with both drivers' names and 12 seconds of their telemetry — if you click "Share link"; revocable at any time.

Pit wall, booth and league room (opt-in per session, nothing stored)

When you open your pit wall, enter a league room or the automatic room of your online session, the app sends your live car data (the same the timing tower shows — never your history) and short radio messages or voice notes to a relay in the Pacedex cloud that forwards them to the people with the link. The relay keeps nothing: the room evaporates when the session ends. Nothing is sent until you turn it on, and you can turn the automatic room off in Settings.

This website

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Where data lives

The anonymous numbers above are stored on Cloudflare infrastructure. As with any web service, connection metadata (such as IP addresses) is processed transiently by Cloudflare to deliver the service; we do not store IPs with the stats.

Children

Pacedex is not directed at children. Without an account it collects no personal data; the only personal data we ever store is the e-mail of users who choose to create an account.

Contact

Questions or deletion requests: box@pacedex.com. Changes to this policy will be posted on this page.