Acceptable Use Policy
This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") applies to all use of RaceHooks services, APIs, SDKs, and data. It is incorporated by reference into the Terms of Service. Capitalized terms have the meanings defined there.
What you can build
Use RaceHooks to build applications, dashboards, alerts, analytics tools, fantasy sports products, betting analytics and trading decision-support (subject to the Sports wagering section below), broadcast tools, and anything else that receives or displays motorsport timing data. Build multi-tenant products and charge your own customers for your value-added work. Train ML models on the data for your own products, as long as they are not built to replicate RaceHooks analytics (see below).
What you cannot do
Resell the data feed. You may not redistribute raw RaceHooks webhook payloads or API responses as a standalone data product, build a competing data delivery API using RaceHooks as the source, or provide your customers with direct access to RaceHooks data in a form that replicates the RaceHooks service itself. Building products using RaceHooks data is fine; being a pass-through reseller of it is not.
Replicate our models. Do not use RaceHooks analytics outputs (win probability, pit stop and safety car probabilities, tyre health, expected points, fair odds, and any other model-derived field) to train, fine-tune, distil, or calibrate a model whose purpose is to reproduce or substitute for those outputs, or to offer a competing prediction or analytics service. Using our outputs as one input alongside your own, or comparing them against your own model, is fine. Rebuilding them is not.
Scrape or bulk-harvest. Access RaceHooks data through the documented API and console, at the pace your product needs. Do not systematically download, crawl, or archive RaceHooks data (qualifying, timing, telemetry, historical, or analytics) to build a copy of our dataset, whether through the API, the console, the website, or automated browser sessions. Requests that sweep sessions, races, or seasons beyond what your product displays or processes count as bulk harvesting. We monitor access patterns to enforce this.
Circumvent limits. Do not use multiple accounts to aggregate access beyond your tier, bypass authentication or rate limiting, or embed credentials in public code repositories. Rotate any credential you believe has been exposed and notify us at security@racehooks.io.
Cause harm. Do not use RaceHooks to transmit malware, conduct denial-of-service attacks, harvest personal data without consent, or engage in any activity that could interfere with our infrastructure or our relationships with data providers.
Misrepresent the data. Do not represent your product as powered by "official" data from any motorsport series, or imply any affiliation with any series organizer, sanctioning body, or team. RaceHooks data is not official licensed data from any sport. For Formula 1 specifically, RaceHooks is not sourced through any commercial arrangement with FOM or its authorized data suppliers, and is not affiliated with the FIA.
Violate export controls. You may not use the Services if you are on a US, EU, or UN sanctions list, or from a sanctioned jurisdiction (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk).
Sports wagering — read this carefully
RaceHooks data is not "official league data" as defined by any sports wagering regulatory body. Each sport has its own official data licensing arrangements; RaceHooks is not affiliated with any of them. For Formula 1 specifically, FOM's authorized official betting data supplier is currently ALT Sports Data — RaceHooks is not affiliated with that arrangement.
RaceHooks analytics outputs are research-grade, model-derived signals for decision support — not a source of record. You may use them as an analytical input, a model-comparison or "challenger" signal, or a risk-management and trading decision-support tool, alongside your own and/or officially licensed data. You may not, and may not let a downstream user, use RaceHooks outputs as the official, authoritative, or sole source for settling, grading, or resulting any bet or wager; as the sole or published source of in-play odds in any market requiring official league data; or represented to bettors or regulators as official league data.
If you build a product that uses RaceHooks data for in-play wagering:
- Illinois (230 ILCS 45/25-40) and Tennessee require in-play F1 bets to settle against data from FOM's officially authorized supplier. RaceHooks does not qualify for F1. Do not use RaceHooks as the sole data source for settling live F1 bets in these states.
- Official data requirements vary by sport and jurisdiction. You are solely responsible for determining whether your use of non-official data complies with applicable law in every jurisdiction and for every sport where your product operates, and for obtaining all necessary gaming licenses and authorizations.
RaceHooks expressly disclaims liability for your failure to comply with gambling laws or official-data requirements.
Your obligations to your own users
If you build a product that makes RaceHooks data available to your own customers, you are responsible for their conduct with respect to that data. Bind your downstream users to terms at least as restrictive as this AUP — particularly the redistribution, model replication, and bulk-harvesting prohibitions and the sports wagering restrictions. RaceHooks' remedies for a downstream user's violation are directed at you, the account holder.
Simulation
The RaceHooks Simulate feature replays historical session data for development and testing. Do not present Simulate outputs as live data to end users or use them as the basis for any financial transaction or wagering decision.
Enforcement
We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate this AUP, with or without prior notice depending on the severity. Accounts terminated for material violations are not eligible for refund of prepaid fees. We reserve the right to report illegal activities to appropriate authorities.
If you discover a security vulnerability in RaceHooks, report it to security@racehooks.io before public disclosure.
Changes
We may update this AUP at any time. We will notify active paying customers of material changes at least 30 days before they take effect, by a notice in the console or by email. For all other users, changes take effect on the effective date shown above. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.
Questions: legal@racehooks.io