I have a personal Standard Tier app with 1 athlete (me). It syncs my own activities and shows them on my personal fitness site, tankersfitness.com, with the "Powered by Strava" logo and "View on Strava" links. I am the athlete, and I consent to my own data being shown. I read the June 2026 API Policy and cannot tell whether this is allowed. I looked through the existing threads and could not find an answer from Strava. I also emailed developers@strava.com (ticket #19309) and only got an automated reply.
What the text says:
1. Policy 6.1 begins: "Unless your Developer Application has an athlete capacity of 9,999 or less, you may display or disclose to an end user only the specific Strava Data related to that end user." Read literally, the "only that user" limit applies to apps above 9,999 athletes.
2. Policy 2.3 says Strava Data "may be displayed or disclosed in your Developer Application only to that user", with no size condition.
3. Policy 5.13 refers to the user's "prior express consent".
4. Policy 6.2 limits caching to seven days.
My questions:
1. Does the 9,999 wording in 6.1 mean a small app may show an athlete's data to other people, such as visitors to the developer's own site?
2. If the developer and the athlete are the same person and consent, is public display of their own data allowed?
3. Is there any compliant way to keep my own history longer than seven days for my own site, for example totals I enter by hand?
4. Does the answer change for route maps and city names (Policy 5.7)?
Related threads I found, none with an official answer: "Policy 6.1 Scope of Data Access: does an athlete's own coach count as another user?" and "Clarification on API Policy 6.2: retaining an athlete's own activity data for historical comparison". I would be glad to hear from Strava staff, or from anyone who has been through app review with a similar setup. I will update this thread with what I learn.