Hey,
@Elliott11 no problem if this is not exposed for a good reason, would love to know why though!
👋 great question. While that profile setting does respect minimum privacy for the internet, if someone (non affiliated to an authenticated athlete) were to create a Strava account they would then be able to access that athlete's activity data (if in this case it were set to `Everyone` visibility, despite having a `Followers Only` profile). The activity privacy settings are a more granular view of what an athlete wants shared, or not.
Additionally, we note in our API Terms that: "You may not use the Strava API Materials in any way that would grant someone other than you or the applicable user the right to see any data related to that user without obtaining the prior express consent of that user."
If you find that you have a use case where athlete data may be shared beyond the scope of their privacy settings, let us know and we can review. Thanks!
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