Analytics & Cookies
What the RacePulse website measures, which tools it uses, how consent works, and how to change your choice.
Last updated: July 1, 2026
This notice covers analytics on the RacePulse website (racepulse.racing). It does not cover the RacePulse desktop app, which keeps your racing telemetry local and collects only limited app usage analytics — see the Privacy Policy for that.
What we use analytics for
Analytics help validate that RacePulse has real interest and demand. They tell us about:
- Page views and general page usage
- Downloads
- Traffic sources and referrers
- Browser and device information
- Approximate location (general region)
- Product interest — which pages and features draw attention
Analytics are not used to collect racing telemetry, and they are not used to sell personal data.
GoatCounter
GoatCounter provides aggregate, privacy-focused analytics. It is cookieless and loads immediately on every page. It records aggregate page views, download clicks, referrers, and coarse browser/device and location information — never user profiles, cross-site tracking, racing telemetry, usernames, lap times, or session data. Query strings are stripped from recorded paths.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics (GA4) may use cookies or similar identifiers. It is limited to basic traffic analytics: ads personalization, Google Signals, remarketing, demographics/interests, and User-ID are turned off, and no personally identifiable information is sent.
How consent works
The Google tag loads immediately on every page, but Google Consent Mode controls whether it may set analytics cookies:
- Where full analytics is allowed (regions that do not require prior cookie consent), Google Analytics may run full analytics immediately, including the first page view.
- Where consent is required (such as the EU, UK, EEA, and Switzerland) — and whenever your region cannot be determined — Google Analytics starts in a consent-denied, cookieless mode. It does not set or read analytics cookies until you click Accept analytics. If you Reject, it stays in the cookieless, denied mode.
Your choice is stored in your browser (localStorage) and reapplied on future visits. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat that as a rejection.
Change your preferences
Your current choice applies until you change it.
You can also block analytics entirely with your browser’s privacy settings, privacy tools, an ad blocker, cookie controls, or firewall rules.