As a user sharing activities or ridelogs to the feed, you may be interested in setting a privacy zone. Privacy zones allow you to hide specific areas like your home or office on public activities.
Currently, privacy zones are only available for activities recorded with Trailforks.
Importantly, if you have set-up a privacy zone on Strava and connected your Strava account, the privacy zone on Strava is NOT kept when that activity is imported over to Trailforks and then shared to the feed. You will have to set-up a privacy zone within your Device Hub or on trailforks.com.
At this time, privacy zones are supported within the Gaia GPS app. If you would like to share activities with a privacy zone set-up, it is recommended that you set your privacy zone on trailforks.com or on outsideonline.com and create your ridelogs or activities via the Trailforks app.
Additionally, your connected devices have different privacy settings than your default settings through your Outside profile. Your connected devices will inherit the privacy zones you have set-up through trailforks.com or on outsideonline.com, but you can edit who sees your shared activities on the feed through 'Manage Connections' -> Device Sync Settings.
For more information on the device hub, please see this article.
Set Up a Privacy Zone through your Outside Account
You can set a privacy zone via your Device Hub. Once you have signed into your Outside account, navigate to:
- 'Settings' -> Device Hub -> Privacy Settings
Note: these Privacy Settings DIFFER from privacy settings related to your feed and profile. For more information on your default privacy settings, as it pertains to your Outside account and the feed, please see this article.
From Settings, go to 'Setup Privacy Zone.'
To create a privacy zone, select 'Draw New Zone.’ Choose the center of the privacy zone by clicking on the map, then drag to define the area.
Up to five privacy zones can be applied to an activity at a time. Privacy zones only affect activities recorded or imported after they have been created. Previous activities are not affected unless you manually re-scan them.
Set Up a Privacy Zone through your Trailforks Account
iOS: To set-up a privacy zone through your Trailforks app, go to:
- Account -> Gear icon -> Settings -> Privacy -> Privacy Zone
Android: To set-up a privacy zone through your Trailforks app, go to:
- Settings -> Profile Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Privacy Zone
Web: To set-up a privacy zone on trailforks.com, go to:
- Settings -> Privacy -> Privacy Zone
For more information on ridelog privacy and setting up privacy zones on Trailforks, please see this article.