Terms of Use and Privacy
What Trailboard collects, why, which services can interact with the data, and what stays strictly private.
Controller and purpose
Trailboard is software for trail and ultra-trail race preparation. Data is used to run your account, prepare your races, display your dashboards, plans, calendar, favorites, voluntary challenges, and nutrition modules. For any data-related request, you can use the Contact page.
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.
Nutrition: information, not medical advice
Nutrition V2 only provides informational and organizational guidance for preparing trail and ultra-trail races. Trailboard is not a doctor, nutritionist, dietitian, or medical service. Your nutrition profile, products, plans, and reviews remain private: no private nutrition data will ever be transmitted to a third party.
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 self-hosted Plausible to measure page views and understand general site usage. It sets no cookies, creates no persistent visitor identifier, does no fingerprinting, and does not track people across websites. The IP address is used only for the technical calculation of aggregated statistics and is not retained as identifiable data. In this setup, no consent banner is required, but you can still opt out of these stats below.
Cookies and local storage
Trailboard only uses cookies that are necessary for the service, mainly the login session and selected language. Some local settings may be stored in your browser, such as Plausible opt-out, a display preference, or a pending action. These items support site functionality and are not advertising trackers.
External services used
Some external services are called only when a feature requires them: Strava for login and activities if you connect it, Google for Google sign-in and some map or route features, YouTube for embedded video playback, OpenStreetMap for map tiles, and email infrastructure for required messages. Trailboard does not sell your data and does not transmit your private nutrition data to these services.
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.
Retention period
Account, preparation, nutrition, and activity data is kept while your account exists or while it is necessary for the service you requested. The login session is time-limited. Technical data and security logs are kept only for the time strictly needed to operate, diagnose, and secure the service.
Your rights
You can request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, or portability of your data via the Contact page. When an action already exists in the interface, it remains the fastest path: make your profile invisible, reset your nutrition profile, or delete your account.
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, calendar, events, documents, nutrition data, and associated plans. No intentional delayed deletion, no copy used 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.