Last updated: 31 October 2026. This policy replaces the version dated 30 October 2026.
Who we are
DG-EDGE is owned and operated by Mihael Matika (hereinafter: Celeritas Digital), based at Monvidalska ulica 49 A, 52100 Pula, Croatia. Celeritas Digital is an obrt (sole trader), OIB 35812520848, VAT ID HR35812520848, MB 98399730 (Obrtni registar, Pula). Celeritas Digital is the controller of your personal data.
This policy explains what personal data we collect and why when you use:
- the website www.dg-edge.com (DG-EDGE);
- the website traces.dg-edge.com (Traces);
- the Traces desktop application for Windows and Mac;
- our Premium subscription, the Gran Turismo Masterclass and Coaching.
For any question about your data, write to digit@dg-edge.com.
Summary
| Data | Where it goes | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|
| Your account (e-mail, name, PSN online ID if you claim a profile) | Our servers | Until you ask us to erase it; closing the account only deactivates it |
| Payments | Stripe processes payments for Premium, the Masterclass and Coaching; we keep our own invoices | Invoices: 10 years from the start of the limitation period, as Croatian tax law requires (Opći porezni zakon, Article 66(18)) |
| Traces sessions you save | Your computer. Uploaded to your account when auto-upload is on; new uploads are public by default | On your computer, until you delete them. Online, 60 days from your most recent upload by default, then archived. Event reference laps and laps with a shared Creator video are not archived |
| Traces session logs | Sent to the Traces team automatically, with tokens, e-mail addresses and your computer user name removed | 60 days. You can switch this off |
| Questions to Traces Help, the AI assistant | Answered by Anthropic's Claude on our behalf; kept by us with the answers | 90 days |
| Practice drill results | Your account, never public | While your account is open |
| Driver Rating overlay | Your PSN online ID goes to DG-EDGE and, as a fallback, to gtstats.live | Not stored by us |
| Visit statistics on traces.dg-edge.com | Google Analytics, only with your consent | 14 months; its cookies up to 13 months |
| Advertising cookies on dg-edge.com | Ezoic and its partners, only with your consent and never for Premium members | See the cookie section |
Your DG-EDGE account
One account works on both DG-EDGE and Traces. When you register and use your account we collect:
- your e-mail address, your name and your password;
- your PlayStation Network (PSN) online ID, if you claim your player profile;
- what you add to your profile, such as photos and links;
- the players, threads and bookmarks you follow, your notifications and your settings;
- your plan and subscription status, your billing address and your invoices, if you subscribe to Premium.
Traces signs you in with your DG-EDGE e-mail address and a one-time code that we send to it. The code is valid for 15 minutes. On traces.dg-edge.com your sign-in is kept in a single cookie (see Cookies below).
We use this data to run your account, provide the features of your plan, send you sign-in codes, renewal reminders and invoices, and keep the service secure.
Gran Turismo 7 player data
DG-EDGE shows leaderboards, player pages and Driver Rating statistics built from the public rankings and player profiles published on gran-turismo.com. These include PSN online IDs, nicknames, ratings and race results. They are shown whether or not the player has a DG-EDGE account. If it is your profile, you can claim it and add to it.
You can ask for your player page to be removed using our contact form at www.dg-edge.com/p/contact-us. We show player pages on the basis of our legitimate interest in complete leaderboards, balanced against your rights. You have the right to object to this at any time; if you object, we remove your player page.
Payments
Payments for Premium and the Masterclass are processed by Stripe at our checkout; Coaching is paid through Calendly and also processed by Stripe. For these payments we receive the card brand and its last four digits, or the fact that you paid with PayPal, together with the amount, the date and your billing address. Stripe is an independent controller for payment processing and processes your data under its own privacy policy, including for fraud prevention.
Your card details go directly to Stripe: we do not see or store your full card number. Stripe's scripts load on the pages where you pay.
Traces: what stays on your computer
Traces reads the telemetry that Gran Turismo 7 broadcasts on your own network and saves it on your computer as session files (.edge). It includes:
- speed, throttle, brake, steering, gear and engine RPM;
- tyre temperatures, fuel level, suspension and related vehicle readings;
- your position on the track, and lap and sector times;
- the car and circuit you are using.
Traces does not read anything else from the game or from your computer, and it does not change how the game behaves.
These stay on your computer:
- Your session library, in
%APPDATA%\GT7Dashboard\library\on Windows or~/Library/Application Support/GT7Dashboard/library/on Mac, unless you choose another folder in Settings › Lap Storage Folder. - Video recordings, in the
replaysfolder of your library. They are never uploaded, except lap videos that Creators choose to share (see below). - Screenshots, by default in
~/Pictures/GT7-Edge. - The local activity log. It is deleted automatically after 30 days.
Traces: sessions uploaded to your account
When Auto-upload every saved session is on (Settings › Publish laps to the web), each session you save is uploaded to your account. This setting is on unless you switch it off. You can also upload sessions yourself with Sync all laps now or the cloud button in the Library.
For each uploaded session we receive and store:
- the lap and telemetry data described above;
- the session name, date, car, circuit and lap times;
- your account identifier, the display name you set in Settings and your PSN online ID if your profile has one, so the session can be shown as yours.
Public and private sessions
- Public is the default for new uploads. A public session is listed on your public page (
traces.dg-edge.com/library/followed by your PSN online ID) and on the leaderboards, which anyone can view. It is shown with your display name or PSN online ID. Public pages can be linked to and indexed by search engines. A public lap page exists only while the session is online. - Private sessions are not listed anywhere. Anyone who has the link can still open them.
You can change the default for new uploads in Settings › Publish laps to the web, and change any single session with the cloud button on a Library row. Please only publish what you are comfortable being seen publicly.
Deleting sessions
When you delete a session, Traces asks whether to delete it on this computer only, or everywhere, including online. A session deleted everywhere is removed from our storage. A session chosen as an event's reference lap stays online, and deleting it everywhere is refused: write to us if you want it removed.
Creator lap videos
Drivers we make Creators can upload the video of their own lap next to its telemetry. Sharing a video makes the session public, and anyone can watch the video. The video is deleted with the session.
Practice results
If you are signed in, your best result for each practice drill is saved to your account, so it follows you to another computer. We store the grade you achieved and a few summary numbers for that attempt, such as your average deviation or reaction time. These results are never shown publicly.
Traces: session logs
Since version 1.6.5, Traces sends the team the part of its activity log that covers each saved session, and what happened after the last save when the app next starts. This lets us look at a problem you report straight away. The log describes what the app did: connection, recording, uploads, errors, the app version and your operating system.
- Before anything leaves your computer, Traces removes sign-in tokens and anything that looks like one, e-mail addresses, passwords and your computer's user name.
- Only the Traces team can read the logs, and Traces Help when you ask it to (see below). They are deleted after 60 days.
- You can switch this off in Settings › Activity log (Send each session's log to the Traces team). Switching it off also drops any log still waiting to be sent.
If you use Report a problem in the app, we receive your message and the app's diagnostic report, linked to your account.
Traces Help, the AI assistant
Traces Help is the chat behind the Help button on traces.dg-edge.com. It is an AI assistant: your questions are answered by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, from the Traces manual and our support notes. Its answers can be wrong; for anything it cannot solve, it suggests asking in the forum, where people answer.
When you ask a question, we send Anthropic:
- your question and the earlier messages of the same chat;
- the page you asked from, your browser's language, whether you are signed in, and the current Traces version;
- only if you tick Let the helper read my app log: the end of the newest session log your app sent us (see Traces: session logs above), for that chat;
- only if you paste a link to a session: that session's details (name, track, car, dates, laps and lap times, public or private) and, if it is your own session, its session log. Another driver's private session and another driver's log are never sent.
Anthropic processes this on our behalf to write the answer. It does not use it to train its models.
We keep each question with its answer, the page, your language, whether you rated the answer, whether a log was read and the cost of the answer, linked to your account if you are signed in. The log and the session details themselves are not kept with the chat. If you are not signed in, we keep a one-way code made from your IP address instead of the address itself, only to apply the daily limit on questions. We keep all of this for 90 days, to see which answers did not help and improve the manual and the app, and then delete it.
Please do not write passwords, sign-in codes, payment details or other personal information into the chat.
Traces: features on your local network
These features work between your own devices. Nothing from them is sent to us.
- Connecting to your PS5. Traces sends a heartbeat to the console and receives its telemetry on your network.
- Overlays. Overlays for OBS are served on this computer only, at
http://127.0.0.1:5174/overlay/. - Overlays on other devices. If you switch this on, a phone, tablet or second computer on the same network can show the overlays on port
5175. Only the overlays are reachable, only with a link that carries a token, and nothing can be changed from them. Switching the feature off and on again makes every old link stop working. - Share telemetry with other apps. If you tick Pass telemetry through to other apps, Traces forwards the telemetry only to the addresses you enter.
Traces: other services the app contacts
- DG-EDGE: to sign you in, check your Premium subscription and look up Driver Ratings.
- Our update server (traces-api.gt-dailies.workers.dev, our Traces server on Cloudflare): at launch and every 6 hours, to check for a new version. This shows our server your IP address and the version you run.
- gtstats.live: only if you use the Driver Rating overlay. The overlay looks up your Driver Rating and Sportsmanship Rating on DG-EDGE first. If DG-EDGE has no rating for you, your PSN online ID is sent to gtstats.live, a third-party service, to fetch them.
- YouTube: only if you set up the YouTube overlay yourself, with your own credentials.
The Traces app contains no ads and no analytics or usage tracking.
Community content
When you post in the forum, submit a setup, upload images to the Showroom, create or join a community event, a team or a tournament, or take part in a competition, we store what you post with your account name and the date. It is visible to other users and, unless a page says otherwise, to visitors. The Traces community hub can only be read by signed-in Premium members.
Content you delete is hidden from other users. Forum posts, including removed ones, are kept until the author asks us to delete them or closes their account and asks for deletion. We delete personal data on request. Showroom posts and setups you delete are removed at once.
Competitions. If you win a physical prize, we ask for your name and postal address to send it, and use them only for that: we give them to the carrier that delivers the prize. By entering a competition, you agree that we may publish your name and your entry on the site, in our newsletter and on social media. The site itself has no form for this: postal details are exchanged by e-mail or Discord, used only to send the prize and handle any delivery problem, then deleted. We do not give personal data to sponsors.
Newsletter, contact and support
- EDGE newsletter. If you subscribe, we keep your first name, last name, e-mail address and the time you opted in. We send the newsletter through Brevo, only to people who subscribed to it. You can unsubscribe at any time by writing to digit@dg-edge.com.
- Marketing. We would like to send you information about our products and services that we think you might like. We do this only if you have agreed, and you can opt out at any time.
- Contact and booking forms. If you write to us or book Coaching, we collect what the form shows: name, surname, e-mail address, PSN online ID and your message.
- Coaching. Coaching sessions are booked through Calendly. The details you enter when booking (such as your name and e-mail address) are handled by Calendly and passed to the coach who runs your session.
- Masterclass. We keep your purchase and enrolment and, if you ask for a refund, your request.
- Discord and YouTube. Support for Traces is on our Discord server. What you post there is handled by Discord under its own policy. We may also receive data from comments on our YouTube channel, Celeritas Digital.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Some are needed for the site to work. Others are optional, and on both websites we set them only with your consent.
On dg-edge.com
We manage cookie consent with Cookiebot. The first time you visit, a Cookiebot banner lets you deny optional cookies, allow a selection by category, or allow all. Your choice is kept for 1 year. You can change it at any time with the small Cookiebot icon at the bottom left of every page.
| Category | What it is for | Without consent |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Sign-in, security, your cookie choices | Always on: the site cannot work without them |
| Preferences | Remembering your settings, and third-party features such as Google's sign-in script | Off until you allow them |
| Statistics | Measuring visits to improve the site with Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager only after you allow statistics cookies in the cookie banner | Off until you allow them |
| Marketing | Ads from Ezoic and its partners, including Google | Off until you allow them. Never loaded for Premium members |
Cookiebot's scan of www.dg-edge.com lists the cookies in use. Our own: dghss (browser session), cookies (browser session), env (browser session), dghtoken (7 days), dghenv (30 days) and Cookiebot's CookieConsent (1 year). The others belong to Stripe, Google (reCAPTCHA, Analytics and ads), Ezoic, YouTube, Reddit and X. Some services load before you make a choice: Stripe.js, Google reCAPTCHA, Google Fonts and Cloudflare Web Analytics. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views without cookies and sets none.
On traces.dg-edge.com
Traces asks for your consent with its own banner the first time you visit. You can choose Allow analytics or Only necessary, or open Choose cookies, where analytics is off until you turn it on. Your choice is kept in your browser for 1 year. You can change it at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of the page, Cookies in the side bar of the Library, Telemetry and Leaderboard pages, the cookie button in the corner of the other pages, or by opening traces.dg-edge.com/#cookie-settings.
| Category | What it is for | Without consent |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | The traces_token cookie keeps you signed in. It cannot be read by scripts on the page and expires with your sign-in (up to 7 days). Your cookie choice (traces_consent) and display settings such as your units are kept in your browser's local storage, not sent to us |
Always on: the site cannot work without them |
| Statistics | Measuring visits to improve the site with Google Analytics. Its cookies are traces_ga and traces_ga_RQD4CRS4FN, kept for up to 13 months |
Off until you allow them. The Google Analytics script is not loaded at all |
If you allow statistics, Google Analytics records the pages you open on traces.dg-edge.com, the page you came from, your device, browser, screen size and language, your approximate location (country and city), how far you scroll, clicks on links to other websites, and what you do on the site: downloading the app, signing in, clicking Premium, opening a lap, switching Telemetry tabs, comparing laps, playing a lap's video, filtering the leaderboard, using a calculator and reading a lap analysis, with the track, car, tab or filter involved but never what you type, all linked to a random identifier kept in those cookies. We send page addresses without the part after the "?", so links that carry codes or identifiers are not passed on. Google uses your IP address to work out your approximate location and does not store it. We do not use this data for advertising: Google signals and ads personalisation are switched off, we do not send Google your account, name or e-mail address, and we do not combine the statistics with your account. If you withdraw your consent, the Google Analytics cookies are deleted.
Traces has no ads.
Fonts and embedded content
Both websites load fonts from Google Fonts, which means your browser contacts Google and shares your IP address with it. Articles may include embedded content from other websites, such as videos. Embedded content behaves as if you had visited the other website: it may collect data about you, use cookies and track your interaction with it, including if you have an account there and are signed in.
Turning off cookies
You can also control and delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block necessary cookies, parts of the site, such as signing in, will not work. You can find more about cookies at allaboutcookies.org.
Ads on dg-edge.com and Ezoic
Visitors who are not Premium members see ads. Premium removes them: no banners and no Google ads, on every page. Ezoic's script is not loaded at all for Premium members.
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. ("Ezoic"), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors, which may use first and third-party cookies. Ezoic is loaded only after you accept marketing cookies.
Ezoic and its partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimise ad targeting. Rejecting cookies does not remove ads for visitors who are not Premium members, but results in non-personalised advertising.
The following information may be collected, used and stored in a cookie when serving personalised ads:
- IP address
- Operating system type and version
- Device type
- Language preferences
- Web browser type
- E-mail address (in a hashed or encrypted form)
Ezoic and its partners may combine this data with information collected independently to deliver targeted advertisements across platforms and websites. Ezoic's partners may also gather additional data, such as unique IDs, advertising IDs, geolocation data, usage data, device information, traffic data, referral sources and interactions between users and websites or advertisements, to create audience segments for targeted advertising across devices, browsers and apps. You can find out more about interest-based advertising and how to manage it at youradchoices.com.
You can read Ezoic's privacy policy and the list of Ezoic's advertising partners.
Some of our own banners link to partner shops with discount codes. Once you click, the partner's site handles your data under its own policy. Clicks on our banners pass through a counter on our server, which only adds 1 to a click total and sets no cookie, and then go to the partner link with the partner's affiliate parameters.
Who we share your data with
We do not, and will not, sell your data. DG-EDGE itself receives and uses your data. We share it only with the service providers we need to run DG-EDGE and Traces, who process it on our behalf and only on our instructions, and with the third parties described above when you use the feature concerned. We do not give personal data to sponsors.
| Provider | What for |
|---|---|
| Stripe | Payments for Premium, the Masterclass and Coaching. Stripe is an independent controller for payment processing and handles your payment data under its own privacy policy |
| Cloudflare | Hosting of traces.dg-edge.com, its database and the storage of uploaded sessions, videos and session logs; Cloudflare Web Analytics, cookieless statistics that set no cookies |
| Amazon Web Services (EU, Milan region) | File storage for dg-edge.com (Amazon S3). The main database is on Amazon RDS in Milan, the application server runs on Amazon EC2, also in Milan, and lap times are stored with MongoDB Atlas on AWS in Frankfurt. The website is delivered through Cloudflare. |
| Mailgun (EU region) | Sending e-mails such as sign-in codes, reminders and invoices; all site e-mails go through Mailgun |
| Brevo | Sending the EDGE newsletter, only to people who subscribed to it |
| Ezoic and its advertising partners, including Google | Ads on dg-edge.com for visitors who are not Premium members, with consent |
| Fonts on both websites; sign-in script on dg-edge.com; statistics with Google Analytics on both websites, only with your consent (provided by Google Ireland Limited; Google LLC in the United States is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework); spam protection (reCAPTCHA) | |
| Anthropic (United States) | Answering questions in Traces Help with its Claude AI model: the chat, and the app log or session details only when you share them |
| gtstats.live | Driver Rating overlay fallback (your PSN online ID only) |
| Calendly | Booking Coaching sessions; the details you enter are passed to the coach who runs your session |
| The shipping carrier used for each prize | Delivering a physical prize (the winner's name and postal address) |
| Cookiebot (Usercentrics) | The cookie banner on dg-edge.com and the record of your cookie choice |
| nss factory | Developing and maintaining the site on its Brownie platform; it can access the site's systems and data |
| IP geolocation service (Amazon Web Services, Ireland) | Finding your country from your IP address when Cloudflare does not provide it |
We may also share data where the law requires it, for example with tax authorities for invoices.
Transfers outside the EEA
Some of our providers are based outside the European Economic Area, or may process data there. Where that happens, the transfer is covered by the safeguards required by law. Transfers to providers in the United States are made on the basis of the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where the provider is certified, otherwise the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses; transfers to other countries outside the EEA rely on an adequacy decision or the Standard Contractual Clauses. You can ask us for details. The Traces database and file storage at Cloudflare are located in Northern Europe.
Why we use your data (legal bases)
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Running your account, Premium, Traces sign-in and uploads, the Masterclass and Coaching | Performance of our contract with you |
| Listing your sessions publicly | Performance of our contract with you: publishing sessions is part of the Traces service. New uploads are public unless you choose Private under Settings › Publish laps to the web › New uploads are, and you can make any session private or delete it at any time |
| Session logs and keeping the service secure | Our legitimate interest in improving the app, finding and fixing problems and keeping the service secure. You have the right to object: switch the logs off at any time in Traces under Settings › Activity log by unticking Send each session's log to the Traces team |
| Answering your questions in Traces Help, its daily limits, and keeping the chats to improve the help we give | Our legitimate interest in giving drivers quick support and improving it. You have the right to object: write to us and we delete your chats |
| Traces Help reading your app log or a session you link | Your request: it happens only when you tick Let the helper read my app log or paste a session link, for that chat |
| Player pages built from public Gran Turismo 7 data | Our legitimate interest in complete leaderboards, balanced against your rights. You have the right to object, and we remove your page if you ask |
| Newsletter, marketing e-mails, optional cookies and personalised ads | Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time |
| Invoices and tax records | Legal obligation |
How long we keep your data
- Account data: while your account is open. Closing your account from the account page deactivates it but does not erase your data. To have your data erased, including your Traces sessions and practice results, write to digit@dg-edge.com.
- Uploaded sessions: by default, 60 days, counted from your most recent upload, unless you delete them sooner. After that they are archived: they no longer appear in your online library or on public lap pages, and they do not come back if you subscribe again. Event reference laps and laps with a shared Creator video are not archived. The Traces team can set a different storage period for some accounts. The session files on your own computer are not affected.
- Session logs: 60 days. The local activity log on your computer: 30 days.
- Traces Help chats: 90 days.
- Invoices and payment records: 10 years from the start of the limitation period, as Croatian tax law requires (Opći porezni zakon, Article 66(18)).
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe.
- Community content: until you or we remove it. Forum posts, including removed ones, are kept until the author asks us to delete them or closes their account and asks for deletion.
- Winners' postal details: used only to send the prize and handle any delivery problem, then deleted.
- Contact messages, reports and booking details: we keep them for as long as we need them to handle the request, and after that only as long as the law requires us to keep them.
- Website statistics: Google Analytics data is kept for 14 months, on both websites. On traces.dg-edge.com its cookies last up to 13 months, and your cookie choice 1 year.
- Backups: backups are kept for no longer than 30 days and are then overwritten.
When a period ends, we delete the data, or make it anonymous, so that it can no longer be linked to you.
Your data protection rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 you have the right to:
- Access: ask us for copies of your personal data. We do not charge for this.
- Rectification: ask us to correct data you believe is inaccurate, or complete data you believe is incomplete.
- Erasure: ask us to erase your personal data, except data we must keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
- Restriction: ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Objection: object to our processing of your personal data, including processing based on our legitimate interests.
- Portability: ask us to transfer the data you gave us to another organisation, or to you, as an exported file.
- Withdraw consent: at any time, where we rely on consent, without affecting what we did before.
Many choices you can make yourself: edit your profile, unsubscribe from the newsletter, change your cookie choices, make a session private, delete a session everywhere or switch off session logs. For anything else, write to digit@dg-edge.com. We reply within one month.
You can also complain to a data protection authority. In Croatia this is the Personal Data Protection Agency (AZOP), azop.hr.
Age
You must be at least 18 years of age to use DG-EDGE and Traces, as set out in our Terms and conditions. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone younger.
Security
We take technical and organisational measures to protect your data, and we keep improving them. Our websites and the Traces servers use encrypted (HTTPS) connections. Traces keeps your sign-in encrypted with your operating system's secure storage where it is available, and removes tokens and e-mail addresses from logs before sending them. You are responsible for keeping your e-mail account and devices secure, because sign-in codes are sent by e-mail.
If a personal data breach is likely to put your rights at risk, we report it to the Croatian data protection authority (AZOP) within 72 hours and tell affected users without undue delay where the law requires.
Other websites
Our websites contain links to other websites. This policy applies only to our websites and the Traces app. If you follow a link to another website, read its privacy policy.
Changes to this policy
We keep this policy under regular review and publish any update on this page, with a new date at the top.
Contact
If you have a question about this policy or the data we hold about you, or want to exercise one of your rights, e-mail digit@dg-edge.com.
Digit Racing EDGE is operated by Celeritas Digital, owned by Mihael Matika, Monvidalska ulica 49 A, 52100 Pula, Croatia.
