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Compliance question regarding new API policy: Non-commercial "Collective Goal" app

  • June 8, 2026
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Hello everyone,
 

I am running a strictly personal, non-commercial application designed to host a yearly challenge among a closed group of friends (up to 150 users maximum). I want to ensure we are 100% compliant with the recent API updates.

Since the automated email support referred me here for API policy questions, could someone from the Strava team please clarify our case?

Can you confirm whether our non-commercial app for up to 150 users can remain unchanged under the updated API terms if it currently includes a leaderboard that shows participant comparisons? If not, can you confirm whether it would be compliant to remove leaderboards and instead show each user only their own totals plus one anonymized community progress total that aggregates all users’ distance without revealing any individual athlete’s identity, activity, or contribution?

We want to do this right and stay fully compliant. Any official guidance from the Strava API team would be highly appreciated!

Best regards, Filip

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Jan_Mantau
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  • June 8, 2026

The automated answer seems to have misled you, other users can’t give you definitive answers, only opinions. And my opinion is, there was nothing in the recent policy changes regarding visibility of user data, it was all about access tiers, subscription and AI usage. So if your app was in the clear before it still is. It was November 2024 where policy changes regarding exposing user data to other users occured and in that regard only Strava can decide if your case is still allowed. Unfortunately Strava never answers anything in this forum.