LEGAL
Privacy Policy
Last updated 2026-05-22
Who we are
Pitwall is an independent Formula 1 companion app, operated as a personal project by Cem Girgin (Istanbul, Türkiye). We are not affiliated with Formula 1, the FIA, or any F1 team. We collect the minimum amount of data needed to run the app and never sell it to third parties.
What we collect
Account: email, username, optional bio + avatar. Sign in with Apple and Google return only minimal identity scopes. Favorites: your selected team, drivers and races, synced across devices. Community content: posts, replies, reactions, follows, blocks. Usage: anonymised crash reports and aggregate analytics via Sentry — never tied to PII. Push tokens: APNs device tokens, kept so we can deliver race-day reminders and notifications you opt into. Purchase receipts: Apple subscription receipts validated via RevenueCat to determine your Pro tier.
Advertising (Google AdMob)
Free-tier Pitwall users see ads served by Google AdMob (a service of Google LLC). AdMob and its certified third-party advertising partners may collect and process information such as IP address, device identifiers (IDFA on iOS), approximate location, and ad interaction events so they can serve, measure, and improve ads. Personalized vs. non-personalized ads: on iOS, we present the App Tracking Transparency prompt before AdMob can use the IDFA. If you allow tracking, you will see personalized ads. If you decline (or you are in the EEA/UK and decline our Google-Funded Choices consent banner), AdMob switches to non-personalized, contextual ads only and does not use a cross-app tracking identifier. You can review or change your choices at any time via iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, and reset your IDFA from the same screen. Google's ad-personalisation settings live at https://adssettings.google.com. Full details of Google's advertising practices and partner network: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. AdMob's compliance with the EU/EEA + UK consent framework is documented at https://support.google.com/admob/answer/9760862. Pro subscribers see no ads at all.
Data sources we read from
Race timing and historical results are sourced from public APIs including Jolpica F1, FastF1, and OpenF1. AI commentary is produced by OpenAI's API — only the public driver list and circuit metadata are sent, never your personal data or account contents.
Where data is stored
Application data is hosted in the European Union on managed services (Neon Postgres, Upstash Redis, Cloudflare R2, Fly.io). Push delivery uses Apple's APNs.
Your choices
You can update notification preferences in Settings, edit favourites any time, or request account deletion from Settings → Delete account. Deletion runs as a soft delete with a 30-day grace period before a worker hard-deletes the row and all associated content.
GDPR + KVKK
As an EU/EEA or UK resident under GDPR, or a Türkiye resident under KVKK, you have the right to access, correct, port, restrict processing, or delete your personal data. To exercise any of these rights, email hello@girsoft.com.
Children
Pitwall is not directed at children under 13. Community features are restricted by our Terms to users 13+. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it on confirmation.
Contact
Questions, concerns, data subject requests: hello@girsoft.com.