When you post or share any content — including your workout data, GPS routes, photos, and activity information — you give Strava a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, distribute, and commercially exploit that content, including in aggregated or de-identified forms.
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The clause establishes broad operational rights for Strava to process and repurpose user content across multiple channels and formats. The transferable and sub-licensable nature of the license permits Strava to delegate these rights to third parties, and the absence of exclusivity allows users to license the same content elsewhere.
Your GPS routes, workout metrics, and health data are licensed to Strava for broad commercial use including creating aggregated data products; this means your anonymized fitness data may be sold or licensed to third parties such as city planners, advertisers, or research organizations.
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"You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display any of your Content and any name, username or likeness that you post on or in connection with the Services in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you.— Excerpt from Strava's Strava Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision engages GDPR Arts. 5(1)(b) (purpose limitation), 6 (lawful basis for processing), and 9 (special categories of data including health data) for EU/EEA users; enforcement by the Irish Data Protection Commission as lead supervisory authority. Under CCPA/CPRA §1798.121, GPS data and health/fitness data qualify as sensitive personal information requiring opt-in consent for certain uses. FTC Act Section 5 applies to deceptive data practices where commercial use of fitness data exceeds reasonable consumer expectation. (2)
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The clause establishes broad operational rights for Strava to process and repurpose user content across multiple channels and formats. The transferable and sub-licensable nature of the license permits Strava to delegate these rights to third parties, and the absence of exclusivity allows users to license the same content elsewhere.
Your GPS routes, workout metrics, and health data are licensed to Strava for broad commercial use including creating aggregated data products; this means your anonymized fitness data may be sold or licensed to third parties such as city planners, advertisers, or research organizations.
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