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Last updated: June 03, 2026
This Privacy Notice for RAFA Media LLC ("we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:
Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at contact@driverdb.com.
This summary provides key points from our Privacy Notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.
What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we collect any information from third parties? We may collect information from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources. Importantly, DriverDB maintains a public motorsport database containing driver names, race results, career statistics, and related performance data sourced from publicly available records, third-party APIs, and user contributions.
How do we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law.
In what situations and with which types of parties do we share personal information? We may share information in specific situations and with specific categories of third parties.
How do we keep your information safe? We have adequate organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by visiting http://www.driverdb.com/contact, or by contacting us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Are you a driver or individual featured in our database? If your personal data (such as name, nationality, race results, or career statistics) appears in our motorsport database, you may have specific rights to request corrections or limited removal. See Section 14 for details.
Want to learn more about what we do with any information we collect? Review the Privacy Notice in full.
DriverDB is a motorsport statistics and analysis platform. To understand how we handle your information, it is important to distinguish between the different categories of data we process. Each category has different sources, purposes, legal bases, and retention periods.
This includes driver names, nationalities, race results, lap times, career statistics, team affiliations, championship standings, and images sourced from publicly available records. This data is collected from:
This data is displayed publicly on DriverDB and is retained indefinitely to preserve the accuracy and completeness of historical motorsport records. The individuals featured in this data (drivers, team personnel, etc.) may not be users of our Services. We process this data under our legitimate interest in operating a comprehensive motorsport reference database.
This includes information you provide when you register for an account, such as your name, email address, username, password, and contact preferences. This data is private, is not publicly displayed (unless you choose to make certain profile information visible), and is retained only while your account is active.
Users may submit or edit content such as driver biographies, profile corrections, race result edits, or other contributions to the database. By submitting content, you confirm that you have the right to provide that information and that it is accurate. Once submitted, this content becomes part of the public motorsport database and may be moderated, edited, or removed at our discretion.
This includes data collected automatically when you visit or use our Services, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and usage patterns. This data is collected through cookies and similar technologies and is used for platform security, analytics, and service improvement.
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive personal information.
Social Media Login Data. We may provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media account details, like your Facebook, X, or other social media account. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect certain profile information about you from the social media provider, as described in the section called "HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?" below.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
In Short: Some information -- such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics -- is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
The information we collect includes:
Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports, and hardware settings).
Device Data. We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to access the Services. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system, and system configuration information.
Google API. Our use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources.
In order to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers, and services to you and update our records, we may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, affiliate programs, data providers, social media platforms, and from other third parties.
Motorsport Data from Public Sources. As described in Section 1, we collect publicly available motorsport data -- including driver names, nationalities, race results, career statistics, and related performance records -- from public databases, official motorsport organizations, third-party APIs, and other publicly accessible sources. This data forms the core of our motorsport database and is not collected directly from the individuals featured in it.
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example, if collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way, or for investigations and fraud detection and prevention.
We process your information under applicable US state privacy laws based on the following: contractual necessity (to provide our Services), consent (where required), legitimate business interests, legal compliance, and to protect vital interests.
In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following categories of third parties.
Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents ("third parties") who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We require all third-party service providers to enter into data processing agreements (DPAs) that obligate them to process your personal information only as instructed by us and to maintain appropriate security measures to protect your data. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:
We also may need to share your personal information in the following situations:
In Short: We are not responsible for the safety of any information that you share with third parties that we may link to or who advertise on our Services, but are not affiliated with, our Services.
The Services may link to third-party websites, online services, or mobile applications and/or contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us and which may link to other websites, services, or applications. Accordingly, we do not make any guarantee regarding any such third parties, and we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by the use of such third-party websites, services, or applications. The inclusion of a link towards a third-party website, service, or application does not imply an endorsement by us. We cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of data you provide to any third-party websites. Any data collected by third parties is not covered by this Privacy Notice. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other websites, services, or applications that may be linked to or from the Services. You should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly to respond to your questions.
In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services and your account, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.
We also permit third parties and service providers to use online tracking technologies on our Services for analytics purposes, including to help us understand how visitors use our Services and to improve the user experience.
Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice: [LINK TO BE ADDED].
We may share your information with Google Analytics (GA4) to track and analyze the use of the Services. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our Services, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our Services. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve our Services. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the Services, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy and Terms page.
In Short: If you choose to register or log in to our Services using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you.
Our Services offer you the ability to register and log in using your third-party social media account details (like your Facebook or X logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends list, and profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public on such a social media platform.
We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Services. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use, and share your personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information. Following account closure or termination, we will delete or anonymize your personal information within 90 days, except where we are required to retain certain data for legal, tax, or compliance purposes. Any contributions you have made to the motorsport database (such as driver biographies, profile corrections, or result edits) will persist as part of the public record by default; however, you may request that your contributions be deleted or disassociated from your identity by contacting us at contact@driverdb.com. If deletion is not immediately possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Motorsport Database Records. Public motorsport data (driver names, race results, career statistics, and related records) is retained indefinitely as part of the historical motorsport record. This data serves a legitimate public interest in preserving motorsport history and is not subject to the same retention limits as user account data. If you are a driver or individual featured in our database, please see Section 14 for information about your rights regarding this data.
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.
In Short: We will notify affected users and relevant authorities in the event of a data breach, in accordance with applicable law.
In the event of a data breach that compromises the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your personal information, we will notify affected users and relevant supervisory authorities in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including GDPR and US state breach notification laws. We will make reasonable efforts to provide notification without undue delay and will include information about the nature of the breach, the categories of data affected, and the steps we are taking in response. Where required by law, we will also provide guidance on measures you can take to protect yourself.
In Short: We store and process your information in the United States, and by using our Services you consent to the transfer of your data to the United States.
Our Services are hosted on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure located in the United States (us-central1 region). If you are accessing our Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your personal information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated.
Our third-party service providers -- including Google Cloud Platform, Clerk (authentication), and Microsoft Clarity (analytics) -- have their own data protection commitments and privacy policies governing how they handle personal data, including international transfers. We encourage you to review their respective privacy policies for details on their data protection practices.
By using our Services, you acknowledge and consent to the transfer of your personal information to the United States and the processing of your data as described in this Privacy Notice. If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, or other regions with data protection laws that may differ from US law, please be aware that US data protection laws may not be as comprehensive as those in your jurisdiction.
You may contact us at contact@driverdb.com if you have questions about our international data transfer practices.
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under the age of 16, and our motorsport database may contain publicly available information about minors who compete in motorsport.
Our Services are not directed to children under the age of 16 ("children"). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children for account registration purposes. If a child under 16 wishes to use features of our Services that require an account (such as submitting contributions or saving preferences), a parent or legal guardian must create and manage the account on the child's behalf.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 16, please contact us at contact@driverdb.com.
DriverDB's motorsport database may contain publicly available information about young drivers who compete in karting, junior formula series, and other motorsport categories. This data (including names, nationalities, race results, and career statistics) is sourced from publicly available records and is processed under our legitimate interest in maintaining a comprehensive motorsport reference database.
Parents or legal guardians of minors featured in our database may:
To submit a request regarding a minor's data, please contact us at contact@driverdb.com or visit http://www.driverdb.com/contact. We will respond within 30 days.
In Short: If you are a driver or individual whose information appears in our motorsport database, you have specific rights regarding that data.
DriverDB maintains a public database of motorsport statistics, including driver names, nationalities, race results, career statistics, team affiliations, and related performance data. This information is sourced from publicly available records as described in Section 1.
If your personal data appears in our motorsport database, you have the right to:
Because DriverDB operates as a public motorsport reference database -- similar in function to an encyclopedia or sports statistics archive -- we generally do not remove accurate, publicly sourced race results, career statistics, or other factual motorsport records. This is because:
However, we will consider removal requests on a case-by-case basis, particularly where:
Drivers or their authorized representatives may submit requests by contacting us at contact@driverdb.com or through our contact form at http://www.driverdb.com/contact. We will respond to all legitimate requests within 30 days (or sooner where required by applicable law). We may ask you to verify your identity before processing your request.
In Short: Depending on your state of residence in the US or in some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time, depending on your country, province, or state of residence.
In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (iv) if applicable, to data portability; and (v) not to be subject to automated decision-making. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information.
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your Member State data protection authority or UK data protection authority.
If you are a resident in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us using the details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you -- for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Services.
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.
In Short: If you are a resident of certain US states, you may have additional rights regarding your personal information.
We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|---|---|---|
| A. Identifiers | Contact details such as real name, alias, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name | YES |
| B. Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records statute | Name, email address, and account credentials | YES |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law | Gender and nationality (collected as part of motorsport database records and user profiles) | YES |
| D. Commercial information | Transaction information, purchase history, financial details, and payment information | NO |
| E. Biometric information | Fingerprints and voiceprints | NO |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems, and advertisements | YES |
| G. Geolocation data | Device location | YES |
| H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities | NO |
| I. Professional or employment-related information | Business contact details in order to provide you our Services at a business level or job title, work history, and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us | NO |
| J. Education information | Student records and directory information | NO |
| K. Inferences drawn from collected personal information | Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual's preferences and characteristics | NO |
| L. Sensitive personal information | NO |
We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of receiving help through our customer support channels, participation in customer surveys or contests, and facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Learn about how we use your personal information in the section, "HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?"
Will your information be shared with anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Learn more about how we disclose personal information in the section, "WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?"
We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be "selling" of your personal information.
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. We will not sell or share personal information in the future belonging to website visitors, users, and other consumers.
You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. These rights include:
Depending upon the state where you live, you may also have the following rights:
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by visiting http://www.driverdb.com/contact, by email at contact@driverdb.com, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document.
Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with applicable laws.
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.
Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at contact@driverdb.com. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may contact your state attorney general to submit a complaint.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
In Short: You may have additional rights based on the country you reside in.
If you are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, please see Section 4 for information about our legal bases for processing and Section 15 for your privacy rights under GDPR and UK GDPR.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority if you believe that our processing of your personal information violates applicable law.
We collect and process your personal information under the obligations and conditions set by Australia's Privacy Act 1988 and New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020 (Privacy Act).
If you are unsatisfied with the way we have handled your personal information or any privacy complaint or query that you have raised with us, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (for Australian residents) or the Office of New Zealand Privacy Commissioner (for New Zealand residents).
If you are unsatisfied with the manner in which we address any complaint with regard to our processing of personal information, you can contact the office of the regulator, the Information Regulator (South Africa).
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at contact@driverdb.com or contact us by post at:
RAFA Media LLC 1603 Capitol Ave Suite 310 A #1046 Cheyenne, WY 82001 United States
Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please visit: http://www.driverdb.com/contact.