Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Essential cookies cannot be declined
Essential (strictly necessary) cookies are needed for the Services to function and for Strava to provide them. Strava gives examples: authenticating users, blocking malicious use of login credentials, shielding unauthorized access to user data, and keeping the user logged in based on their preferences. The policy says users cannot decline these cookies.
Supporting quotations
Essential cookies, also referred to as strictly necessary cookies, are necessary for our Services to function and for Strava to provide the Services to you. For example, we use essential cookies to authenticate users, block malicious use of login credentials, shield unauthorized access to user data, and keep you logged in based on your preferences. You cannot decline these cookies.
Qualifications & exceptions
- The listed uses are introduced as examples ("For example"), not an exhaustive list.
Not stated here
- Which specific cookies Strava treats as essential is not stated here.
Cross-references
- narrows (model-proposed): Users can manage and revoke consent for non-essential cookies — exception_to: The general choice to manage preferences and revoke consent applies to cookies not categorized as essential; essential cookies are the stated exception because users cannot decline them.