Strava is for users aged 13 and over (or higher depending on your country), and parents are fully legally responsible for their underage children's use of the platform.
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Parents who allow underage children to use Strava are accepting full legal responsibility for all Terms violations by those children, including any data privacy implications of minors' GPS and fitness data being processed.
Parents granting permission for under-18 children to use Strava assume full legal responsibility for their child's account activity, and their child's precise GPS location and fitness data will be processed under Terms designed for adult users without specific child-protective data handling provisions.
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"The Services are intended only for persons who are at least 13 years old, or such higher age as may be required in your jurisdiction. If you are under the legal age to form a legally binding contract in your jurisdiction, you may use the Services only with the permission of your parent or legal guardian. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a Strava user under the legal age to form a binding contract in your jurisdiction, you agree to be fully responsible for the acts or omissions of such user, including any breach of these Terms.— Excerpt from Strava's Strava Terms of Service
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates COPPA 15 U.S.C. §6501 et seq. (16 C.F.R. Part 312) — which requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13 — enforced by the FTC. For users aged 13-17, GDPR Art. 8 requires member state age thresholds between 13-16 for consent to data processing, with the UK GDPR and the ICO's Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC) imposing heightened protections for under-18 users. The EU's proposed Child Safety provisions under the DSA and the AADC impose additional design and data minimization requirements for services likely to be accessed by minors.
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Parents who allow underage children to use Strava are accepting full legal responsibility for all Terms violations by those children, including any data privacy implications of minors' GPS and fitness data being processed.
Parents granting permission for under-18 children to use Strava assume full legal responsibility for their child's account activity, and their child's precise GPS location and fitness data will be processed under Terms designed for adult users without specific child-protective data handling provisions.
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