"Content" covers anything you create or share on the Services; you remain its owner
In the Terms, "Content" means any content created, shared, posted or made available in connection with the Services, such as text, images, videos, audio, routes, segments or other data, whether shared publicly, privately or through a third-party API. You remain the owner of the intellectual property rights, such as copyright, in your Content. The license you give Strava over it is set out separately.
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In these Terms, “Content” means any content created, shared, posted, or made available in connection with the Services, such as text, images, videos, audio, routes, segments, or other data, whether posted or shared publicly, privately, or via a third-party API.
You will remain the owner of intellectual property rights (such as copyright) in your Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
The definition covers privately shared Content and Content shared via a third-party API, not only public posts.
Ownership stays with you; Strava's rights come from the license in the next section.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You confirm you own your Content or have the legal right to use it
You agree and confirm that you own all Content you share, post or make available in connection with the Services, or that you have the legal right to use it.
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You agree and confirm that:
You own all Content shared, posted or made available by you in connection with the Services, or that you have the legal right to use such Content;
Qualifications & exceptions
The confirmation is that you own the Content or have the legal right to use it.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You confirm your Content infringes no third-party rights and you cover all royalties and fees
You confirm that sharing, posting or using Content does not violate, misappropriate or infringe any third party's rights, including privacy, publicity, copyright or other intellectual property rights, without limitation. You also agree that you are fully responsible for all royalties, fees and other obligations connected with any Content you share, post or use in connection with the Services.
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Your sharing, posting, or use of Content does not violate, misappropriate, or infringe on any rights of a third party, including (without limitation) privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights; and you will be fully responsible for all royalties, fees, and any other obligations in connection with any Content you share, post, or use in connection with the Services; and
Qualifications & exceptions
The list of rights is illustrative ("without limitation").
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Submitting Content creates no confidential or special relationship with Strava
You agree and confirm that your relationship with Strava is not a confidential, fiduciary or other special relationship, and that submitting Content does not put Strava in any different position from members of the general public, including with regard to your Content.
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Your relationship with Strava is not a confidential, fiduciary, or other type of special relationship, and that your decision to submit any Content does not place Strava in a position that is any different from the position held by members of the general public, including with regard to your Content.
Content & IP Rights · Procedure
If you believe Content violates your intellectual property rights, report it through Strava's reporting page
If you believe Content on the Services violates your intellectual property rights, the Terms ask you to contact Strava by reporting a violation through a linked support page. A separate section of the Terms covers claims of infringement.
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If you believe any Content available on the Services violates your intellectual property rights, please contact us by reporting a violation.
Not stated here
The reporting process is on a linked support page that is not part of this saved source.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You license your Content, name, username and likeness to Strava worldwide, sub-licensable, without compensation
To provide the Services Strava says it needs permission to use your Content. You grant Strava 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 you post on or in connection with the Services, in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you. Strava says it will use your Content as set out in its Privacy Policy. You also confirm you are able to give Strava the licenses, rights and permissions in the Terms.
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To provide the Services, we need permission to use your Content. This permission is called a license.
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.
We will use your Content as set out in our Privacy Policy.
You agree and confirm that you are able to give Strava any licenses, rights, or other permissions set out in these Terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is described as non-exclusive, so you keep ownership.
It reaches your name, username and likeness that you post on or in connection with the Services, not only the posted Content.
How long the license lasts is set in the next paragraph.
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How Strava uses Content under the Privacy Policy is not in this saved source.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
The license covers using your name, photo and activity details, including third-party products, in ads and offers
The license includes permission to use your profile name, profile photo and information about your activities, including your use of third-party products, services or devices, in ads, offers and other commercial contexts. As an example, Strava may show your followers that you use a particular device, product or service from a third party that has paid Strava to show its ads on Strava.
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This includes permission to use your profile name, profile photo, and information about your activities, including your use of third-party products, services, or devices, in ads, offers and other commercial contexts. For example, we may show your Strava followers that you use a certain device, product, or service available from a third party that has paid us to display its ads on Strava.
Qualifications & exceptions
The example given is of a third-party product that has paid Strava to display its ads; the text says "for example" and does not limit the permission to that case.
Not stated here
This paragraph does not itself mention an opt-out; other sections may address controls.
Feedback you give grants Strava a perpetual, irrevocable license and is not Content
You may be able to give comments, feedback, suggestions, ideas, creative materials and other communications about the Services ("Feedback"). If you do, 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 the Feedback, and to use, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, import and export products and services based on it. The Terms say not to send Feedback if you do not want to give this license. Feedback is not treated as Content for the Content license.
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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.
For this reason, do not send Strava any Feedback if you do not want to give us the license set out in this section. For the avoidance of any doubt, Feedback is not considered Content for the purposes of Section 6 (License).
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is perpetual and irrevocable, unlike the Content license, which generally ends on deletion.
Feedback is not Content for the purposes of the License section.
You are fully responsible for Content you post or share, including illegal Content
You are fully responsible for Content you post, upload, share, transmit or make available through the Services, including any illegal Content.
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You are fully responsible for Content which you post, upload, share, transmit or make available via the Services, including any illegal Content.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Strava may screen, monitor, hide, restrict, refuse or remove Content that violates the Terms or is objectionable
Strava may screen, monitor, hide, restrict, refuse or remove any Content that it finds violates the Terms or is objectionable based on its policies or standards, and it says this will be consistent with relevant laws. The right depends on Strava's own finding that the Content violates the Terms or is objectionable under its policies or standards.
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Strava may—consistent with relevant laws—screen, monitor, hide, restrict, refuse or remove any Content that we find violates these Terms or is objectionable based on our policies or standards.
Qualifications & exceptions
Exercised "consistent with relevant laws".
The trigger is Content that Strava finds violates the Terms or is objectionable based on its policies or standards.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
Your communications count as your Content and may be public depending on settings
You agree and confirm that your communications are treated as your Content and governed by the Terms and relevant laws. Depending on your account settings and the method of communication, communications may be public.
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Your communications will be considered your Content and will be governed by these Terms and relevant laws;
Depending on your account settings and method of communication, communications may be public;
Qualifications & exceptions
Whether a communication is public depends on your account settings and the method of communication.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Strava may remove or transfer clubs, remove club Content or verified status at any time
Strava has the right at any time to remove or transfer ownership of clubs, remove a club's Content, remove a club's verified status and badge, or remove a club from the Strava platform. If you ask for a transfer of ownership of a club, Strava may require you to provide certain documentation.
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We have the right to remove or transfer ownership of clubs, remove a club’s Content, remove a club's verified status and badge, or remove a club from the Strava platform at any time. If you request a transfer of ownership of a club, we may require you to provide certain documentation.
Qualifications & exceptions
The right is stated as exercisable "at any time" with no stated reason or notice.
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The Terms do not say what documentation Strava may require or whether club owners get notice or an appeal.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Club creators and administrators must keep the club within the Terms, IP rights and promotion limits
If you create or administer a club, you are responsible for making sure it complies with the Terms and Strava's Acceptable Use Policy; does not claim, suggest an affiliation with, or impersonate Strava using Strava's intellectual property or in any other way; has the right to use or post all club-related Content, including rights to names, logos, copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property; and does not use the club to advertise or promote contests, sweepstakes or other promotions in ways Strava deems inappropriate.
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If you create or administer a club on Strava, you are responsible for ensuring that your club:
Does not claim, suggest an affiliation with, or impersonate Strava by using Strava's intellectual property or in any other way;
Has the right to use or post all club-related Content, whether third-party or other Content, including rights to use names, logos, copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property; and
Does not use the club to advertise or promote any contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions in any way that we deem to be inappropriate.
Qualifications & exceptions
The last requirement is judged by Strava ("that we deem to be inappropriate").
Not stated here
The text of the linked Acceptable Use Policy is not supplied here, so this card cannot say what it requires.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
The Services, software, aggregated data and Content are protected; you may not modify, sell or create derivative works
You acknowledge that the Services, any software used with them, any aggregated data based on Content on the Services, and any Content available on the Services contain proprietary and confidential information protected by intellectual property and other laws, which may belong to Strava or third parties. Unless relevant law expressly allows it or Strava or the relevant third party authorizes it, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Services, the software or Content available on the Services, in whole or in part. Content that you submit yourself is excluded from this restriction.
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You acknowledge and agree that the Services, any software used in connection with the Services, any aggregated data based on Content on the Services, and any Content available or made available on the Services contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by relevant intellectual property and other laws. This information may belong to Strava or third parties.
Unless expressly allowed by relevant law or authorized by Strava or the relevant third party, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Services, the software, or Content available on the Services (other than Content that you may submit), in whole or in part.
Qualifications & exceptions
Exceptions: use expressly allowed by relevant law, or authorized by Strava or the relevant third party.
The restriction does not apply to Content that you may submit.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Strava gives you a limited, personal, revocable license to use the Services; copying and reverse engineering are barred
Strava grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and non-exclusive right and license to access and use the Services, provided that you do not, and do not allow any third party to, copy, modify, display, perform, reproduce, transmit, create a derivative work from, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise try to discover any source code, or sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in or aspect of the Services. Acts permitted by law are excepted.
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Strava grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and non-exclusive right and license to access and use the Services; provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, display, perform, reproduce, transmit, create a derivative work from, reverse engineer, reverse assemble, or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any right in or aspect of the Services, except where permitted by law.
Qualifications & exceptions
Exception: "except where permitted by law".
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You may link to the Services and use RSS feeds for personal use only, under content conditions
You are granted a limited, non-exclusive right to create a text hyperlink to the Services and to use any RSS feeds available on the Services, for personal use only. A link you create, including linked content, may not show Strava or the Services in a false, misleading, derogatory or defamatory way. The site where you place the link may not contain pornographic, illegal, offensive, harassing or other material that Strava decides is objectionable, without limitation.
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You are granted a limited, non-exclusive right to create a text hyperlink to the Services and use any RSS feeds available on the Services, for personal use only. Any link you create, including linked content, may not show Strava or the Services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or defamatory manner. The site where you place the link may not contain any pornographic, illegal, offensive, harassing, or other material which we decide is objectionable, without limitation.
Qualifications & exceptions
Limited to text hyperlinks and RSS feeds, for personal use only.
What counts as objectionable is for Strava to decide.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Strava's names, logos and look and feel are its trademarks; use needs prior written permission
The term STRAVA, the Strava logo, the look and feel of the Services and all other Strava logos and product and service names are Strava's exclusive trademarks, and you may not use or display them in any way without Strava's prior written permission. Third-party trademarks, service marks, names and logos shown on the Services belong to their owners. Mentioning a product, service, process or other information by name, trademark or manufacturer does not mean Strava endorses, sponsors or recommends it.
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The term STRAVA, the Strava logo, the look and feel of the Services, and all other Strava logos and product- and service-names are the exclusive trademarks of, and are owned by, Strava, and you may not use or display such trademarks in any way without Strava’s prior written permission.
Any third-party trademarks, service marks, product names, company names, or logos displayed on the Services are the property of their respective owners. Reference to any products, services, processes, or other information by name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by Strava.
Qualifications & exceptions
The prohibition applies to Strava's marks unless Strava gives prior written permission.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
If Strava decides material need not be removed, it will remove it only under a court order
If Strava determines that the material alleged to infringe your copyright or trademark rights does not require removal, it will remove that material only under a court order declaring the content or its use unlawful.
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If Strava determines that the materials alleged to infringe your copyright or trademark rights do not require removal, Strava will remove those materials only pursuant to a court order declaring the content or use of the materials unlawful.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when Strava has determined the material does not require removal.