When you post or share any content on Strava — including routes, photos, and activity data — you grant Strava a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute that content.
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Strava can use your fitness content, routes, and other data for its own business purposes, including potentially training algorithms or sharing aggregated data, even though you technically retain ownership.
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Strava can use your fitness content, routes, and other data for its own business purposes, including potentially training algorithms or sharing aggregated data, even though you technically retain ownership.
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