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API permission for non-profit cycling team statistics

  • Oct 29, 2026 8:28 AM UTC
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I'm part of Team Rynkeby Europa, a non-profit charity cycling team raising funds for children with critical illnesses.

We would like to develop a small application that automatically collects cycling distance and elevation gain from our riders' Strava accounts.

Each rider would authorize access individually, and only a few team administrators would have access to the statistics.

Our goal is to track training progress throughout the season, with custom date ranges, without requiring manual weekly reporting.

Before developing the application, we would appreciate clarification on two points:

  1. Can we display individual riders' distance and elevation gain to authorized team administrators, with each rider's explicit consent?

  2. Can we retain these statistics throughout the season, or would this violate Strava's seven-day caching and data aggregation restrictions?

If special permission is required, what is the correct process for requesting it?

We are not developing a commercial application, and we do not need GPS routes, heart rate data or other sensitive activity details.

Thank you for your guidance!

Best regards,
Jacob
Team Rynkeby Europa

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Jan_Mantau
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  • Oct 29, 2026 9:47 AM UTC

This looks like it won’t get approved in a review because as you have suspected visibility of stats and data storage don’t comply with the API policy. Maybe you can find other sources for activities than the Strava API or use it only as information that there are new activities.