Run privacy

Three tiers, chosen per run — and the one case where the choice is made for you.

Every run you upload carries its own privacy tier. It is set when you upload and can be changed afterwards. It is separate from the event's visibility: a public event can be full of private runs, and often is.

The three tiers

Tier	Your name is listed	Others can open your analysis	Others can use your track
Private	No	No	No
GPS only	Yes	No	Yes — as a comparison runner
Full	Yes	Yes	Yes

Private hides the run entirely. Your name does not appear in the event's runner list, your analysis cannot be opened, and your track cannot be used. This is enforced on the server: the row is not returned and the storage rules refuse the GPX file.

GPS only publishes your name and your line, so other runners can overlay your route, but not your analysis, your splits or your review.

Full lets anyone who can see the event open your analysis and use your GPS. It is the default.

Where each tier is enforced

Private is enforced by the database. GPS-only is not: the track has to stay fetchable for other runners to draw it, so what GPS-only restricts is the analysis, and that restriction lives in the app.

Strava-sourced tracks are always private

A run imported from Strava is locked to private and the control is greyed out. Strava's API agreement permits activity data pulled from their API to be shown only to the athlete it belongs to.

The rule is applied where the row is written rather than in the interface. Your chosen tier is remembered while the lock is in force, so switching back to a file restores it.

For a shareable track, do not import from Strava

Export the GPX from your watch software, or connect Polar Flow or Suunto and import from there. Those carry no restriction beyond the tier you pick. The activity can still be on Strava; it just cannot be the route into Routster.

What privacy changes for the AI coach

Route comparison is bound by the same rules: the tool refuses a comparison the other runner's privacy forbids, and the coach is instructed not to work around a refusal.

With no comparable tracks in the class, the coach falls back to a computed optimal line, which it describes as a line nobody ran. That is a weaker analysis, and it follows from the class's privacy settings rather than from your own run.

Your default

The tier pre-selected on upload is a profile setting, defaulting to full. Change it in Settings if you would rather start from private and opt in per run.

Deleting a run

Deleting a run removes the track, the analysis and any AI review with it. The event and other runners' runs are untouched. To stop being visible without losing your own analysis, switch the run to private instead.