Terms and Conditions

Last updated: 6 September 2026

1. Provider and scope

These terms govern the use of the software “PaceMate” and the website pace-mate.com. The provider is Dominik Schmitt, Amelungenstraße 62, 96129 Strullendorf, Germany (“we”). The user is anyone who uses the software or the website (“you”).

Deviating terms of the user do not become part of the contract unless we expressly agree to their application.

2. Subject matter

PaceMate is an overlay and analysis tool for the racing simulation iRacing. It displays comparison figures against a reference lap of your choosing, both while driving and in replay.

PaceMate is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by iRacing Motorsport Simulations, LLC.

3. Licence

We grant you a simple, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use PaceMate for your own purposes for the duration of your licence.

The following are not permitted:

• passing on, renting out or sub-licensing your licence key
• use of one licence key by several people
• circumventing or manipulating the licence check
• reverse engineering, except where expressly permitted by law

In the event of a serious breach we may block the licence key concerned and the associated account.

4. Account

You may create an account with an email address and a password. You are responsible for keeping your password secret and for choosing a password you do not already use elsewhere. If you suspect that third parties have gained access, change your password immediately — doing so automatically terminates all existing sessions.

You can delete your account yourself at any time. Deletion removes your account data immediately; details are in the privacy policy.

5. Beta phase

PaceMate is currently in a free closed beta. For the beta phase, the following additionally applies:

• Provision is free of charge and without any entitlement to a particular level of availability or a particular set of features.
• Features may change, be added or be removed.
• We may end the beta phase at any time. Beta keys already issued stay valid until their stated end date; after that, continued use needs a paid subscription under clause 6. We announce the end of the beta by email with reasonable notice.
• Feedback on bugs and suggestions for improvement is expressly welcome, but voluntary.

6. Paid use, terms and cancellation

Outside the beta phase, PaceMate is used on a paid subscription. The following applies to paid contracts:

• The presentation on the website is not a binding offer but an invitation to make an offer. The contract is concluded when we confirm your order or provide access.
• The prices stated on the website at the time of ordering apply. They are final prices: under § 19 of the German VAT Act we do not charge VAT and do not show it on invoices.
• Monthly plan: term of one month, renewing by one month at a time. You can cancel at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period. There is no minimum term and no notice period.
• Yearly plan: fixed term of twelve months. It does not renew automatically — it ends when the twelve months are up, and nothing further is charged. If you want to carry on, you order again. You can end it earlier at any time; we do not refund the remaining term unless clause 6a applies.
• Free trial, where offered: the trial runs for the number of days stated when you order and costs nothing. Unless you cancel before it ends, it turns into a monthly plan on the terms above and your card is charged for the first month. We say so before you order and again in the confirmation email. One trial per person and per payment card.
• Payment is by card or PayPal through Stripe. If a payment fails, we may suspend access until it succeeds.

How to cancel. Use the cancellation button at pace-mate.com/cancel.html — no sign-in needed. You can also cancel through your account or simply write to [email protected]. We confirm every cancellation in writing, with the date and time we received it.

As a consumer you have a right of withdrawal. Details, and the conditions under which it expires early, are set out in the withdrawal policy.

6a. Refunds

Beyond the statutory rights below, we do not operate a general money-back guarantee — the free trial and the monthly plan exist so that nobody has to commit to something they have not tried.

• Withdrawal. As a consumer you may withdraw within 14 days and get everything back, unless the right has expired early because you asked us to start straight away and we did. See the withdrawal policy.
• Faults. If PaceMate does not do what it is supposed to do, you have the statutory rights for digital products (§§ 327 ff. of the German Civil Code): we fix it, and if that fails you can reduce the price or end the contract and get your money back for the part you could not use.
• Charged by mistake. If we charge you after a cancellation, or twice, write to us and we refund it — no discussion, and without you having to rely on any of the above.
• Refunds go back the way you paid, normally within fourteen days.

7. System requirements and availability

PaceMate requires Windows, an installed and working copy of iRacing, and an occasional internet connection for the licence check. If the licence server is temporarily unreachable, PaceMate continues to run offline for a limited period.

We aim for high availability of our services but do not owe any particular level of availability. Maintenance, third-party outages and changes to iRacing may temporarily limit usability.

8. Changes to the software

We may continue to develop PaceMate and in doing so change or remove features, provided this is reasonable for you — for instance because a change to iRacing makes a feature impossible to operate sensibly. We will announce material changes with reasonable notice.

9. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and within the scope of any guarantee given.

In cases of simple negligence we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation — that is, an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In such cases liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.

Liability is otherwise excluded. In particular, we accept no liability for conclusions you draw from the displayed data, nor for effects on your iRacing rating or race results.

10. Third-party services

We use the KeyAuth service for the licence check, Stripe for payments, Cloudflare for delivery of the website, and Google's service for sending email. We are liable for outages or errors of these services only within the scope of clause 9. Which data goes to whom is set out in the privacy policy.

11. Final provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, mandatory consumer protection provisions of the country in which you have your habitual residence remain unaffected.

Should any provision of these terms be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.

We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.