If you provide feedback, suggestions, or ideas to Strava about the platform or its features — including Beta Features — Strava can use, modify, and commercialize that feedback without paying you, crediting you, or seeking your further permission.
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The clause grants Strava unrestricted rights to incorporate user suggestions into product development and commercial offerings. The license is perpetual and transferable, meaning these rights persist indefinitely and can be assigned to other parties.
If you suggest a new feature to Strava — through surveys, support tickets, community forums, or beta testing — Strava can implement and commercialize that idea without any obligation to compensate you or acknowledge your contribution.
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"If you provide Feedback, you grant Strava a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, assignable, sub-licensable, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly display, and perform and otherwise exploit such Feedback and to use, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, import, and export products and services based on such Feedback.Excerpt from Strava's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Feedback licenses of this nature are standard in the software industry and generally enforceable under US contract law.
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The clause grants Strava unrestricted rights to incorporate user suggestions into product development and commercial offerings. The license is perpetual and transferable, meaning these rights persist indefinitely and can be assigned to other parties.
If you suggest a new feature to Strava — through surveys, support tickets, community forums, or beta testing — Strava can implement and commercialize that idea without any obligation to compensate you or acknowledge your contribution.
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