Privacy

f1-race.ing is run by Tim Biddle, an individual who runs it in his own time. He is the controller of any personal data the site handles. For anything about your data, email privacy@f1-race.ing.

• No accounts, no analytics and no cookies.
• If you enter Pick the Podium, your display name and picks are shown publicly, and we keep a scrambled form of your IP address to limit picks per connection.
• Our host, Cloudflare, keeps ordinary request logs for up to 7 days.
• The videos page loads thumbnails from Google, and YouTube’s player loads only when you press play.

No cookies are set. The site keeps a few small items in your browser’s local storage instead:

• theme — Your light, dark or system theme choice.
• f1podium.name — The display name you typed on Pick the Podium, so you don’t have to type it again.
• f1podium.token — A random ID created the first time you open Pick the Podium. Unlike the others, this one is sent to us with each pick, so that a resubmission replaces your earlier pick for that race instead of adding a second one.
• f1podium.pick — Your last submitted pick, so the form shows it when you come back.

These stay on your device and, apart from the Pick the Podium ID, are never sent to us. They are not cookies, and they don’t need your consent because they only remember choices you made or the game you joined. Clearing your browser’s site data removes them.

Fonts are served from this site, so your browser makes no request to a font service. The data feeds behind the site — Jolpica, OpenF1, MultiViewer, Open-Meteo, YouTube’s video feed and the news feeds — are fetched by our server, so your browser never contacts them.

The one exception is YouTube. On the videos page, thumbnails load from i.ytimg.com, which sends your IP address to Google as soon as the page opens. The video player itself loads from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com only after you press play, and from then on Google’s privacy policy applies. News headlines link to the publishers’ own sites, whose policies apply once you follow a link.

Cloudflare, Inc. hosts the site (on Cloudflare Workers, with the Pick the Podium board in its D1 database), keeps request logs for up to 7 days, and handles email to this domain. Cloudflare may process data in the United States; transfers rely on the UK safeguards Cloudflare offers — the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the ICO’s International Data Transfer Addendum. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

You can ask for a copy of your data, ask for it to be corrected or erased, ask for its use to be restricted, and, where it applies, ask for it in a portable form. Email privacy@f1-race.ing — for a Pick the Podium entry, tell us the name and race you used. We reply within one month.

Your right to object. Where we rely on legitimate interests (request logs, the per-connection pick limit, your local date), you have the right to object to that processing at any time. Email privacy@f1-race.ing and we will stop unless we have compelling grounds to continue.

If you’re unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or 0303 123 1113.

If what the site does with data changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top is updated. It was last updated on 13 October 2026.