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Third-Party Data Sharing with Service Providers and Partners

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What it is

Strava shares your personal information, including activity and location data, with third-party service providers who help run Strava's platform, and with business partners for co-branded events and other purposes.

This analysis describes what Strava's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology

ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This provision establishes the operational framework for data distribution across Strava's service ecosystem, defining which external entities receive access to user information and under what functional constraints those recipients operate.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Your Strava activity and location data is shared with unnamed third-party service providers and business partners, meaning your fitness information may be processed by companies you have no direct relationship with and whose privacy practices you cannot directly review.

What you can do

⚠️ These actions may provide transparency or partial mitigation but may not fully address the underlying issue. Effectiveness varies by jurisdiction and individual circumstances.
  • Delete Your Data
    To request deletion of your personal data including data shared with service providers, log into Strava, go to Settings > My Account > Delete Account, and submit a data deletion request; Strava is required to instruct service providers to delete your data as well.

How other platforms handle this

Spotify Medium

We receive some of the data mentioned above from third parties... If you connect your Spotify account to a third party application, service or device, we may collect and use information from them. This collection is to make the integration possible... We work with technical service partners that giv...

Snapchat Medium

If you use a third-party service — like a social network or login service — to access our services, those services will tell us basic information about you, like your username and profile picture. In addition, information about you may be shared with other businesses within the Snap Inc. corporate f...

LinkedIn Medium

We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks for their advertising except for: (i) hashed or device identifiers (to the extent they are personal data in some countries), (ii) with your separate permission (e.g., in a lead generation form) or (iii) data already v...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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We may share your information with third parties to support, improve, promote, and secure the Services; process payments; or fulfill orders. These service providers only have access to the information necessary to perform specified functions on our behalf. We require them to protect and secure your information.

— Excerpt from Strava's Strava Privacy Policy

ConductAtlas Analysis

Institutional analysis (Compliance & governance intelligence)

(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Third-party data sharing implicates GDPR Art. 28 (data processor agreements), GDPR Art. 13(1)(e) (disclosure of recipients or categories of recipients in privacy notice), GDPR Art. 46 (transfer safeguards for international transfers to service providers outside EEA), CCPA/CPRA §1798.115 (right to know third parties to whom data is sold or disclosed), and FTC Act Section 5 for deceptive disclosures about data sharing scope. If service providers qualify as 'third parties' under CCPA rather than 'service providers,' different opt-out rights apply. (2)

Full compliance analysis

Regulatory citations, enforcement risk, and due diligence action items.

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Applicable agencies

  • FTC
    The FTC has enforcement authority over deceptive data sharing practices under FTC Act Section 5, including cases where the scope of data sharing with service providers and partners exceeds what is disclosed to consumers.
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Applicable regulations

BIPA
Illinois, USA
CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amendments
US-CT
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
HIPAA
United States Federal
Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
US-KY
UK GDPR
United Kingdom
Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Expansion 2026
US

Provision details

Document information
Document
Strava Privacy Policy
Entity
Strava
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
April 1, 2026
Last verified
April 1, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-001435
Document ID
CA-D-00272
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
e06a34dfa42e1d94055f19b53ac2aaa4928a0edaacc3e46388b431c9a71ed342
Analysis generated
April 1, 2026 14:09 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Strava
Document: Strava Privacy Policy
Record ID: CA-P-001435
Captured: 2026-04-01 14:09:14 UTC
SHA-256: e06a34dfa42e1d94…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/strava/strava-privacy-policy/third-party-data-sharing-with-service-providers-and-partners/
Accessed: May 20, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
Medium
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Strava's Third-Party Data Sharing with Service Providers and Partners clause do?

This provision establishes the operational framework for data distribution across Strava's service ecosystem, defining which external entities receive access to user information and under what functional constraints those recipients operate.

How does this clause affect you?

Your Strava activity and location data is shared with unnamed third-party service providers and business partners, meaning your fitness information may be processed by companies you have no direct relationship with and whose privacy practices you cannot directly review.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 7 platforms. See the full comparison.

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