Privacy & legal
No accounts, no ads. Lap4Lap is free to play.
Playing alone: your lap records, settings, car looks and ghost laps are saved only in this browser on this device. On lap4lap.com the only thing sent while you play alone is the anonymous play statistics below.
Play statistics (lap4lap.com only): to learn which circuits and cars people enjoy and where the game breaks or runs slowly, Lap4Lap uses Google Analytics. It counts things like loading time, laps started and finished, which circuit, weather, mode and car, menus opened, frame rate and errors. It never gets your tag, nickname, player ID, room codes, ghost laps or anything you type, and we turned off Google’s advertising features. It stores a random ID in a cookie (_ga) so we can count returning players. Google receives your IP address to deliver the data and does not store it; the data is processed by Google, also in the US, and kept for 14 months. In the UK, the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland nothing is sent unless you choose Allow; everywhere else it is on unless you turn it off. Switch it off or on any time in Settings › Privacy (“Anonymous play statistics”). If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, we treat that as off. Other sites that host the game, and the game opened as a file, never send play statistics.
Playing online (the MULTIPLAYER tab): your browser sends to our game server, which runs on Cloudflare: your car's position during the race, your car and paint, your three-letter tag, your nickname (only in private rooms, yours or a friend's), a random player ID that your browser makes (not your name), in Quick Match your rank tier (so that robot ghosts race near your level), and your internet address (IP address), which is needed to connect you and to stop abuse. Players in a private room see your tag, nickname, car, paint, lap times, position and player ID. In Quick Match, strangers see your tag, car, paint, lap times and position, and instead of your player ID a code that is new in every match; never your nickname. There is no chat. Your rivals list (the tags, player IDs and nicknames of players you raced in private rooms; Quick Match adds nobody) stays only in this browser; you can clear it in the RIVALS tab. While the garage is open, players you raced in private rooms who still have you on their rivals list can see that you are in the garage and invite you to a rematch: only player IDs are sent for this, nothing is kept, and “Appear offline” in the RIVALS tab turns it off.
Global leaderboards (RECORDS tab): while online play is on, your best lap on each circuit and road and on the daily challenge is posted automatically with your three-letter tag, car, lap time, date and the lap’s ghost path (a lap driven with car upgrades goes to a separate tuned board and also carries the car’s upgrade levels); “Post my best laps” in the RECORDS tab turns this off. Everyone sees your tag with a short code that is different on every board, never your nickname or player ID. Our server keeps a scrambled form of your player ID with each time so that only a faster lap replaces it; best laps are kept for 12 months (daily challenge boards for 2 weeks; boards from the earlier weekly tournament, now switched off, for 60 days), ghost paths only for the top 100 of each board.
How long: room data is deleted when the room closes, at the latest 30 minutes after the last activity. We keep no list of who played, no nicknames and no IP addresses. Cloudflare, our host, processes IP addresses to deliver the page and keeps technical storage history for up to 30 days; we never look at it except to repair a fault.
Stay safe: pick a nickname, not your real name, and never put your school, age or how to contact you in it. If a name upsets you, use Mute or Report (the host can also remove players and lock the room). Only send room links to friends you know. If anything online worries you, tell an adult you trust.
Delete your data: “Forget me on this device” in the MULTIPLAYER tab (Nickname › Privacy & data) removes your leaderboard times from our server and your player ID, nickname, tag, rivals list, play-statistics choice and the _ga cookie from this browser; “Remove my leaderboard times” in the RECORDS tab removes only the times. Clearing this site’s data in your browser removes everything, including records. Apart from leaderboard times, there is nothing about you stored on our side to delete; the play statistics sit at Google under the random cookie ID, which we cannot link to you, and turning them off deletes that cookie.
Questions or problems: email support@lap4lap.com.
Details for parents and teachers
Lap4Lap processes online-play data to run the race you chose to join (legitimate interests, GDPR/UK GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)); online play asks for no consent and no personal details, so no account or parental sign-up exists. Cloudflare, Inc. hosts the game and server as our processor under its data processing addendum; data may be processed outside the UK/EU under standard contractual clauses. Play statistics on lap4lap.com use Google Analytics 4, with Google as our processor under its data processing terms: in the UK, the EU/EEA and Switzerland only with consent (Art. 6(1)(a)), elsewhere on the basis of legitimate interests (understanding which parts of the game work) with an opt-out; Google signals, advertising features and user IDs are off, and no tag, nickname, player ID or room code is sent. No profiling, no advertising, no sale or sharing of data. The player ID and IP address are used only to connect, authenticate and rate-limit (and the player ID, in your own browser, to recognise rivals you raced, and on our server, only while you are connected, to show you as online to players you raced in private rooms who still have you on their rivals list), never to contact or profile anyone. Room data is not kept after a room closes. Leaderboard rows hold only a salted hash of the player ID, the tag, car, lap time, date, the upgrade levels on tuned boards and (top 100) the ghost path, and are deleted after 12 months (daily boards after 2 weeks, boards from the switched-off weekly tournament after 60 days) or on request through the in-game buttons above; we cannot link them to a person, so there is nothing else to access, correct or export on our side. Local data is yours to delete as described above.
Lap4Lap is not affiliated with or endorsed by any car manufacturer or film studio.
