Does Strava train on your data?
Strava trains AI and ML models on the information it collects, de-identified "where possible". A choice about contributing exists — the policy links to it rather than naming the setting.
A self-serve opt-out exists
"We use information to enhance the quality, reliability, and/or accuracy of our AI Features by creating, developing, training, testing, improving, and maintaining AI and ML models run by Strava or our service providers. We use aggregated, de-identified information for AI Features where possible for their purpose."
- 19 Aug 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All accounts (free and subscription)
- global
- Fetched from the company
- 8712EBDA…60B9
How we read it: Read the training clause for what it does not narrow: "information", with no category attached, so which of it reaches the models is a wider question than this document settles. Where Strava does name health and Location Information it is about providing AI Features rather than training them — worth separating, because a fitness app knows your resting heart rate and where you run from. The control is real but offsite: "Learn more about your choices to contribute to Strava's development of AI Features" links out of the policy, to a page this monitor does not archive, so its mechanics are unverified here. That is what makes this D rather than C: a switch you leave the document to find.
Product Improvements, opt out, opt-out, privacy settings, AI Features, by default, contribute
What the document does offer
- the support article the policy links to (support.strava.com article 360015677851, captured 2026-09-01): "Users can decide whether to contribute information for these uses through privacy settings on both web and mobile, under “Product Improvements”" — and the uses listed include "Build smarter AI features"
- the policy's own pointer: "Learn more about your choices to contribute to Strava's development of AI Features"
- "You can opt out of us sharing your personal information for third-party targeted advertising through the “Do Not Share My Personal Information” link" — advertising, not training
- location sharing, profile editing and consent withdrawal — none reaches the training clause
- neither the policy nor the support article states which way "Product Improvements" ships
Why none of it applies: The control is real and now verified rather than assumed: the support article names it, says where it lives on web and mobile, and ties it to AI features explicitly. What neither document does is state its starting position, so a reader learns the switch exists and not whether it is already on. D on the same rule as Figma, Canva and Cursor — and the article is archived here, so the mechanics are no longer unverified.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Self-serve toggle
- Not stated
- 51 / 100
- Qualified
- Unknown
How to opt out of Strava AI training
Plan by plan, from what Strava's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All accounts (free and subscription)
Yes. Strava has a self-serve setting.
- Open Settings, then Privacy Controls.
- Under Product Improvements, switch off contributing your data.
The same control sits under Privacy Controls in the app. Strava lists "Build smarter AI features" among the uses it covers.
What this policy has done since we started watching
3 changes detected since 19 Aug 2026. Each one is a diff between two archived copies, and each links to the passage that moved.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We wrote to Strava on 24 Aug 2026, quoting the clauses above and inviting a correction. Nothing has come back. That's published because a company declining to comment on its own policy is something a reader should know, and because the invitation should be on the record whether or not it's taken up. Any reply goes here, word for word.
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