Strava uses your health data, GPS location, and activity information — depending on your privacy settings — to develop and run AI and machine learning models that provide personalized training recommendations and other AI-powered features.
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The clause establishes the scope of data uses permitted under the service terms, conditioning AI feature deployment on user-configurable privacy settings. This defines the operational framework for how personal health and location data flows into algorithmic systems.
Strava's AI features, including personalized training analysis and route recommendations, are built on your health and location data — this means sensitive fitness and biometric information is processed by machine learning systems, potentially in ways that are not fully transparent.
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We may analyze personal data we have collected about you to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information that is relevant to you.
We generate new information from other data we collect to derive likely preferences or other characteristics. For instance, we infer your general geographic location based on your IP address.
We may (but are not obligated to) use automated systems and human reviewers to record, monitor, analyse, modify, disable and, store and review use of our Interactive Features...
"Depending on your privacy controls and sharing permissions, we also may use personal information such as health and Location Information for AI Features, for example, to provide you with training analysis and recommendations.Excerpt from Strava's Privacy Policy
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The clause establishes the scope of data uses permitted under the service terms, conditioning AI feature deployment on user-configurable privacy settings. This defines the operational framework for how personal health and location data flows into algorithmic systems.
Strava's AI features, including personalized training analysis and route recommendations, are built on your health and location data — this means sensitive fitness and biometric information is processed by machine learning systems, potentially in ways that are not fully transparent.
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