Privacy | Kart Directory

Last updated 30 September 2026.

Who we are

Kart Directory (kartdirectory.co.uk) is run by Jordan Montgomery in the United Kingdom, who is responsible for your details under UK data protection law (the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018). For anything about your details, email hello@kartdirectory.co.uk.

Browsing the site

Reading the site needs no account, and there is no advertising, analytics or tracking. Like any website, our host's servers see your IP address and browser when pages load, and keep short-lived technical logs to run the site securely.

Choosing "Circuits near me" uses your location in your own browser to work out distances. It is sent to the routing service only as the start point of a route, and is never stored by Kart Directory.

Team listings and board posts

When you ask to be listed, we keep what you enter so we can check it, publish it and forward messages to you. On the site we show only the public parts: the name, circuits, championships, classes, experience or information, a team's website and logo.

Your email address and phone number are private unless you choose to show them. Teams can tick "Show on my listing" for either. Whatever you choose, visitors can message you through the site: we email their message to you with their email address, so you can reply directly.

Why we can use them: to provide the listing you asked for, and with your agreement, which you can withdraw by taking your listing down.

Teams we list ourselves

To make the team directory useful, we sometimes add a kart team using only what it publishes on its own website: its name, website, the circuits, championships and classes it names, and a short description in our words. We use the contact email address published on that website to forward messages from visitors, and to send the team one email telling it we've listed it, with links to confirm the listing, update it or remove it. We don't show that email address on the site, and we never add phone numbers. These listings are marked "Listed by Kart Directory" until the team confirms them or signs in.

Why we can use them: our legitimate interest in running a useful directory of UK kart teams, using business contact details the team has chosen to publish. If you'd rather not be listed, the remove link in our email takes it down at once, or email hello@kartdirectory.co.uk. A team that asks to be removed isn't added again.

Following circuits and championships

If you follow a circuit or championship, we keep your email address, what you follow, and when and from where (a one-way code, not your IP address) you confirmed. We use them only to send the weekly email: on Thursdays when what you follow has racing that weekend, results or new paddock posts. Nothing is sent until you click the link in our confirmation email.

Why we can use them: your consent. Every weekly email has a one-click unsubscribe link, which deletes your address and what you followed straight away. You can also change what you follow from any email.

Stopping our emails

You can stop our optional emails (the weekly email, post renewal reminders, emails about a team listing we added, and news from us) from the link at the bottom of any of them, or from our unsubscribe page. We then keep your email address and the date on a do-not-email list, only so we don't email it again, and delete anything it followed.

Why we can keep it: our legitimate interest in respecting your choice. You'll still get emails you ask for, such as sign-in links, and messages sent through a listing you have on the site. To come off the list, use the unsubscribe page again and we'll send a link to start emails again.

Accounts

When a team listing or mechanic post goes live, the email address on it becomes your account. There is no password: you sign in with a one-time link we email you, which works once and only for an hour. From your account you can edit, renew or take down what you've posted. Team listings, and changes to them, are checked by Kart Directory before they appear, unless we have marked you as a trusted member. Mechanic board posts appear as soon as you confirm your email address by clicking the link we send, and changes appear straight away. Either way, Kart Directory is told and can take a post down. We keep a note that your email address has been confirmed, so later posts go up straight away. A post that is never confirmed is deleted after two days.

On the Start karting page you can also choose to save your progress to an account, so it follows you between devices. For that we keep your email address, which of the seven steps you've ticked and when you last changed them. The My season page works the same way: if you sign in, we keep the championships and clubs you picked and the positions, points and notes you record, for you only. You sign in the same way, with a one-time link. To have this deleted, email us.

Counting visits

To know which pages are useful, the site counts visits itself, with no cookies and no outside service. Each page view records the page, the website that sent you (if any) and whether you're on a phone or a computer. To count each person once a day, we make a code from your internet address and browser mixed with a random value that changes every day and is then thrown away; we never keep your address, and the code can't be used to follow you from one day to the next. These records are kept for 90 days. The only cookie involved is one we set on our own admin's browser so our own visits aren't counted; visitors get none.

Knowing an email arrived

Emails we send include a tiny invisible image. When your mail app loads it, we note the time the email was first opened, so we know it arrived. We keep that note for 30 days with our record of the email, and don't use it for anything else. Your mail app can block it by not loading images.

Messages to a listing

If you message a team or mechanic, we pass your name, email address and message to them by email so they can reply to you. We don't keep a copy of the message after sending it.

Offering to marshal

If you press "I can marshal" for a meeting, we email your name, email address, phone number (if you give it), experience, the days you can do and any message to the contact that club publishes for marshals or competitions, with a copy to you and a note to us. The club replies to you directly. We don't keep the offer after sending it, apart from the short email log described below.

Suggest an update

Suggestions are emailed to us, with a copy kept on our server so none are lost. Giving your email address is optional and only used to reply to you. We use suggestions to keep the directory accurate, which is in everyone's legitimate interest.

Stopping spam

Our forms ask your browser to solve a small puzzle before they send, which slows down automated spam. It runs on your device and sends nothing about you. To limit abuse, we also count how many forms are sent from each network address, using a scrambled (hashed) copy of the address that is deleted within the hour. This is in our legitimate interest of keeping the site usable and safe.

How long we keep things

Live listings and posts: while they're on the site. Mechanic posts end after 30 days unless renewed.
Removed, rejected or ended listings: deleted automatically 90 days after they come down, with any logo.
Suggestions: up to 12 months.
A log of emails the site sends: the address, subject, time and whether the mail server accepted it (never the message itself), for 30 days, so we can sort out delivery problems.
Emails: the notification emails we receive about listings and suggestions are kept in our mailbox for as long as they're useful, and at most 2 years.

Every email we send about a listing includes a link to take it down straight away. To have your details deleted completely, email hello@kartdirectory.co.uk.

Cookies

If you are just browsing, Kart Directory sets no cookies at all. We only use two cookies, and only after you sign in. Both are strictly necessary to keep you signed in, so they don't need your consent and there's no cookie banner.

kd_team

Used for: Keeping a team or mechanic signed in to their account
Set when: You sign in at /account/
Lasts: Until you close your browser or sign out, at most 7 days

kd_admin

Used for: Keeping Kart Directory's own staff signed in to the admin panel
Set when: Staff sign in
Lasts: Until the browser closes or they sign out, at most 12 hours

Neither cookie tracks you, and neither is shared with anyone. Your browser may keep ordinary cached copies of pages and images; that isn't a cookie and holds nothing about you.

Services we use

Hostinger: hosts the site and our email. Your listing and messages are stored on and sent through their servers.
Pitwall Weather, powered by Green Turtle Media, and Open-Meteo: weather. Our server asks for the weather at each circuit; your browser never contacts them, and nothing about you is sent.
OpenStreetMap (map tiles) and jsDelivr (the map's code): loaded by your browser on the circuit map, so they see your IP address, as any website you visit does. They don't set cookies through our pages.
OSRM (routing): works out driving distances when you choose "Circuits near me", from the start point your browser sends.

We don't sell your details, share them for marketing, or use them for anything beyond what's described here.

Your rights

You can ask to see the details we hold about you, to have them corrected or deleted, or to object to how we use them. Email hello@kartdirectory.co.uk and we'll reply within a month.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your details, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113. We'd appreciate the chance to put it right first.

Changes

If we change how we use your details, we'll update this page and the date at the top. See also our terms of use.