All About Privacy

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Privacy Levels

There are three levels of privacy in CityStrides. Everyone defaults to “Just Me” (completely private) when signing up. This can be changed at any time in the Settings page. These are the privacy level options:

  • Everyone
    • You will appear in all lists and leaderboards and anyone can see your location-based information
  • Just Me
    • Only friends can see your location-based information and you are hidden from lists and leaderboards by appearing as an anonymous “Private Strider” entry
  • Per Activity
    • You will appear in all lists and leaderboards. Each activity will default to the privacy setting in your tracking service. You can change an activity’s privacy setting in CityStrides by editing it.

Changing Privacy Setting

You can set this in the Privacy section of your Settings page (also linked in the top right menu).

Private with exceptions

Here’s how you can switch your privacy level to ‘Per Activity’ so that all of your data is private, with optional exceptions. Note that ‘Per Activity’ causes CityStrides to use the privacy level in your tracking service, so if those are public there then they will be public in CityStrides.

  • Go to the Privacy section of your Settings page
  • Select the entry for ‘Just Me’ to be private with some exceptions
    • This will update all of your activities to be public/private, so you should wait a minute to let that complete
  • Go back to your Settings page
  • Set your ‘Location Privacy Level’ to ‘Per Activity’
    • This will not touch your activities (they’re all private now), but will update your account so that new activities synced into CityStrides will take the run tracking service’s privacy level (so you must make sure you are also private over there)
  • Optionally, you can edit individual activities to set the ‘Share activity map with’ value to ‘Everyone’ for individual activities you would like shared publicly

Public with exceptions

Here’s how you can switch your privacy level to ‘Per Activity’ so that all of your data is public, with optional exceptions. Note that ‘Per Activity’ causes CityStrides to use the privacy level in your tracking service, so if those are private there then they will be private in CityStrides.

  • Go to the Privacy section of your Settings page
  • Select the entry for ‘Everyone’ if you want to be public with some exceptions
    • This will update all of your activities to be public, so you should wait a minute to let that complete
  • Go back to your Settings page
  • Set your ‘Location Privacy Level’ to ‘Per Activity’
    • This will not touch your activities (they’re all public now), but will update your account so that new activities synced into CityStrides will take the run tracking service’s privacy level (so you must make sure you are also public over there)
  • Optionally, you can edit individual activities to set the ‘Share activity map with’ value to ‘Just Me’ for individual activities you would like to be kept private

Changing an individual activity’s privacy level

  • Visit the activity’s page
  • Open the menu by clicking/tapping the vertical three-dot button that’s at the top, next to the activity’s date/time
  • Choose ‘Edit’
  • Change the ‘Share activity with’ value
  • Click/tap the ‘Update Activity’ button