COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

1. Our community

• MyRacingPath exists to help drivers develop their careers. Our community should reflect the best of motorsport culture: respect, skill development, fair competition, and support for fellow drivers.
• These Guidelines apply to all community features including messaging, posts, comments, profile content, and interactions during Pit Votes or scholarship applications.
• Breaching these Guidelines can result in content removal, warnings, feature restrictions, temporary suspension, or permanent account termination.

2. The rules

Treat everyone with respect

• No harassment, bullying, or abuse of any kind.
• No threats, intimidation, or stalking.
• No hate speech or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
• Disagree respectfully; debate the issue, not the person.

Keep it legal

• No content that breaks UK law or the law of your country.
• No content promoting terrorism, violence, or serious crime.
• No content encouraging or facilitating self-harm or suicide.
• No illegal drug content.
• No sale of illegal items.

Protect children

• No content that sexualises, grooms, or endangers minors.
• No attempts to contact minors outside verified channels.
• No requests for personal information from minors.
• No sharing of images or videos of minors without parental consent.

Respect privacy

• No sharing of personal information (addresses, phone numbers, school names) without consent.
• No impersonation of others.
• No non-consensual intimate imagery.
• No doxxing.

Keep it honest

• No fraud, scams, or deceptive practices.
• No fake reviews or testimonials.
• No misrepresentation of race results or credentials.
• No fake sponsorship claims.

Respect the sport

• No content promoting dangerous or illegal driving practices.
• No match-fixing or result manipulation discussion.
• No encouragement of unsafe behaviour.
• Respect officials, stewards, and race control.

Keep it relevant

• MyRacingPath is for racing career development. Keep content relevant.
• No spam or repetitive promotional content.
• No irrelevant commercial promotion. Brand partners have specific permitted areas.

3. Age-specific rules

For users under 18

• Direct messaging is restricted to age-matched peers and verified adults (parents, coaches).
• No location sharing between users.
• No meeting up with other users arranged privately.
• Public posts are limited to motorsport-relevant content.

Adults interacting with under-18 users must

• Be verified coaches with Motorsport UK safeguarding compliance and DBS clearance, or be a verified parent or guardian of the user.
• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
• Report any concerning behaviour from others to the DSL.

4. How we enforce these rules

• We use a combination of user reports, automated detection, and human moderation to identify rule breaches.
• Minor breach: warning and content removal.
• Repeated breaches: feature restrictions (for example, messaging suspended).
• Serious breach: temporary account suspension.
• Severe breach or pattern of behaviour: permanent ban.
• Illegal content: immediate removal, account termination, and reporting to authorities where required.
• For child safety concerns, our response prioritises safety and may escalate immediately to permanent action and external reporting.

5. Reporting rule breaches

• Every piece of content and every profile has a report button. Reports are acknowledged within 24 hours, reviewed within 72 hours (faster for child safety concerns), and actioned with content removal, warnings, or account action where appropriate.
• Serious concerns should be reported to support@myracingpath.com directly.

6. Appeals

• If you believe our enforcement action was wrong, you can appeal.
• Send appeals to support@myracingpath.com within 30 days of the action. Include the action, your reasoning, and any context we should consider.
• Appeals are reviewed by someone not involved in the original decision. We respond within 14 days.
• EU users may use out-of-court dispute settlement under DSA Art. 21.

7. What we do with reported content

• Reports of illegal content may be reported to authorities as legally required.
• Reports of child safety concerns are escalated to our DSL immediately.
• Reports are kept confidential. We do not reveal reporter identity to the reported user except where legally required.

8. Changes to these Guidelines

• We update these Guidelines when needed. Significant changes are notified in-app with 30 days' notice where possible.
• Continued use of MyRacingPath after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated Guidelines.

9. Contact

For questions about these Guidelines, contact support@myracingpath.com. See also our Terms of Service and Safeguarding Policy.