Terms of Use
What Trailboard does with your data, and what it never will.
Your Strava data stays yours
Every connected Strava account only ever sees its own stats: volume, trends, records. No feature in the app aggregates, compares, or displays one athlete's activities to another — not even as an anonymized, detail-free total. This isn't just a product choice: Strava's API policy explicitly forbids it.
Your consent, asked at every step
Nothing is ever shared without a deliberate action on your part. Connecting Strava or Google goes through Strava's or Google's own authorization screen, before any data reaches Trailboard — and you can decline right there without ever landing on the site. From then on, every action that links you to someone else stays an explicit click: sending a friend request ("Devenir ami"), accepting or declining one, joining a challenge ("S'inscrire à ce défi"), or deleting your account (its own dedicated confirmation, detailed below). None of these ever happen automatically just from browsing the site.
Audience measurement: anonymous, no cookies
Trailboard uses Plausible, a self-hosted analytics tool: the data never leaves our own server. It sets no cookies and collects no personal information — no identifier, no fingerprinting, no cross-site tracking. Your IP address is only used for a few seconds to compute a daily unique-visitor count, then never stored. Since no one is tracked individually, no consent banner is required — but you can still opt out of these stats below.
Member directory & friends: identity only
You're listed in the directory by default (you can make yourself invisible from your account). The directory and friend connections never show more than first name, last name, photo, and city — never your activities or stats. Browsing the directory never creates a connection by itself: sending a request requires an explicit click on "Devenir ami" (become friends).
Challenges: the one exception, and why
Challenges let you compare results across several athletes — the only feature on Trailboard that does. It's only possible because no data from a Strava activity ever enters a challenge, at any point: no reading your activities, no automatic syncing, no pre-filling from a workout. A challenge result is only ever what a participant types in by hand (a race name, plus a number: kilometers, elevation, or time) — never a value read from your Strava account. Joining a challenge or logging a result stays, like everywhere else on the site, a voluntary and explicit action.
Your data, deletable at any time
From "My account", "Delete my account" immediately and permanently erases everything tied to you: activities, connections, goals, challenges, favorites, videos, training plan. No delayed deletion, no lingering copy elsewhere.
Strava and Google, two independent sign-ins
You can use the directory, friends, videos, training plan, and challenges with just a Google account, without ever connecting Strava. Connecting Strava — later, or never — only unlocks the dashboard built from your activities. You can also connect your own Strava app to get your own separate API rate limit.