We collect very little.

Here’s all of it: your email address, when you hand it over to join the newsletter or sign in to the app, plus your plan, an ID for your computer, and whatever a checkout needs when you buy. Your laps, your videos and your telemetry stay on your machine.

LAST UPDATED OCTOBER 29, 2026

THE SHORT VERSION

Very little collected: your email address, and only when you give it to us yourself to join the newsletter or sign in to the app. Sign in, and your account also holds your plan, your order details and an ID for your computer.
The app is local: your video and telemetry are processed on your machine and never sent to us or anyone else. The app only goes online to sign you in, fetch weather, check for updates, and download Google’s device tools when an import needs them.
No trackers: no analytics or advertising pixels on the site or in the app, and no selling or renting data. Ever. Newsletter emails do let Kit count opens and clicks.
Leaving is easy: every email has an unsubscribe link, and deletion requests get honored, fast.

01WHO WE ARE

Paddock Pixel makes a desktop app that syncs your telemetry to your track footage and burns it into the frame. It’s run by Peter Granberg, doing business as Paddock Pixel, in Illinois, USA. This policy covers the website (paddockpixel.com), the newsletter, and the app itself. Questions, requests, corrections, complaints: peter@paddockpixel.com. A real person reads it.

02WHAT WE COLLECT, AND WHY

Your email address: only when you type it into the signup form. We use it to send the Paddock Pixel newsletter (launch news and updates), and nothing arrives until you click the confirmation link in the first email. We don’t buy lists, and we don’t share yours. Signing in to the app is covered under Your Account below.

Connection data: our host, Cloudflare, sees the usual details any website sees, like your IP address and browser type. We don’t use them to identify you.

A bot check: the signup form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from bots. We only get the result, and we don’t store your IP address.

That’s the whole list. No analytics on this site.

03COOKIES & LOCAL STORAGE

No tracking cookies. The site saves one small setting in your browser, like remembering that you already signed up, and it never leaves your device. The bot check may set its own cookie, covered by Cloudflare’s policy below.

04THE NEWSLETTER

Our email provider, Kit, stores the list in the United States and sends the emails. Like most email services, Kit counts which emails get opened and which links get clicked, through a tiny image and redirected links in each email. Every email has an unsubscribe link that works instantly. Want your address fully deleted, not just unsubscribed? Email us and it’s done.

05THE APP

This is the part we’re proudest of. Paddock Pixel runs entirely on your machine. Your videos, your telemetry, your rendered output: none of it is uploaded to us or anyone else. No usage analytics, no crash reporting phoning home. Your fastest lap is nobody’s business until you post it.

The app goes online for exactly four things:

Signing in: your account, covered in the next section.
Weather: the weather gauge pulls the observed conditions for your session from public records. The app picks the nearest weather station itself, from a list built into the app, so all that leaves your machine is that station’s ID and your session’s date and time, never your GPS trace. If you find a track by typing its name, that name goes to two OpenStreetMap-based place searches: Photon, run by komoot, and OpenStreetMap’s own Nominatim. The records come from Iowa State University’s public archive of airport weather reports.
Updates: checking whether a newer version is out.
Device tools: some device imports need Google’s free Android tools to talk to the device. The first time you use one, the app downloads them straight from Google. Nothing about you or your files goes with that download.

If that list ever grows, this policy changes first, and the date at the top moves.

If something goes wrong, the app can save a log to your Downloads folder for you to email us. It stays on your computer unless you send it, and it holds your computer’s specs, the names of the files you had open and what the app did, never your footage or your Windows user name. We use it only to fix the problem and delete it once it’s solved.

06YOUR ACCOUNT

The Free plan works without an account. To start the trial or use Pro, you sign in to the app with your email address. We email you a one-time code, and you type it into the app. Your account lives with Supabase, and the code emails are sent by Resend. It holds your email address, your plan, and, once you buy, your order details from checkout.

To check your license, the app also sends an identifier for your computer, so your license stays with the machine it’s on. It doesn’t reveal anything about what’s on your computer.

Want the account gone? Email us and it’s deleted.

07BUYING THE APP

Checkout and payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy as the merchant of record, meaning they run the checkout, process the payment, and handle the tax paperwork. Your card number goes to them, never to us, and we don’t store any card details. What we receive from a purchase is only what’s needed to deliver the product and support you: your name, email address and country, and the order details, such as your plan and your card’s brand and last four digits.

08THE COMPANIES WE RELY ON

You’re welcome to read their homework:

CLOUDFLARE: PRIVACY POLICY →
KIT: PRIVACY POLICY →
SUPABASE: PRIVACY POLICY →
RESEND: PRIVACY POLICY →
LEMON SQUEEZY: PRIVACY POLICY →
KOMOOT (PHOTON): PRIVACY POLICY →
OPENSTREETMAP (NOMINATIM): PRIVACY POLICY →
GOOGLE (ANDROID TOOLS): PRIVACY POLICY →

09YOUR RIGHTS

Wherever you live, you can ask to see, correct, export or delete what we hold about you. Just email peter@paddockpixel.com. In the EU or UK, you can also raise a concern with your local data-protection authority.

10KIDS

The site and the app aren’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their data. If one slipped us an email address, tell us and it’s gone.

11CHANGES

If what we collect ever changes, this page changes first and the date at the top moves with it. Anything material gets a mention in the newsletter too. This policy took effect on September 29, 2026.

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