Visibility you control
Public, friends, coach, or private. Per activity.
Every ride and run has its own audience. Public to the feed, just close friends, just your coach, or fully private. Defaults you set once. Overrides you set per upload. No surprise leaderboards.
- Public
- Followers
- Close friends
- Just your coach
- Private
Five audiences. One picker.
Each activity gets exactly one audience. You can always change it later, including retroactively in bulk.
- Public
Anyone - followers, the segment leaderboards, the public feed, Neverpedia entries that reference this climb or route.
- Followers
People you have approved as followers. Visible in their feed and on shared segments - not on global leaderboards or in discovery.
- Close friends
A tighter list you curate yourself. The default audience for casual rides, recovery sessions, or anything you would not put on the wider feed.
- Just your coach
Visible only to coaches you have an active relationship with. Useful for prescribed workouts you want them to see but no one else.
- Private
Just you. Still contributes to your own analytics and your own training load, but nothing leaves your account.
How the controls actually work
Defaults you set once
In Settings, pick a default audience per sport (road, gravel, MTB, run, trail). New activities use that default until you change it.
Overrides per activity
Every upload has its own audience picker. Override the default for a specific ride - say, you don't want the coffee-and-cake recovery spin on the public feed.
Retroactive bulk changes
Changed your mind about how public your training was last year? Bulk-edit any subset of past activities from /settings/privacy and switch their audience in one action.
Map-segment privacy
Even on public activities, you can blur the start and end of your route within 250-500 m of any address you flag as home, work, or a friend's place.
What visibility controls do, and what they don't.
Visibility settings control who sees your activity by name in the social feed and on leaderboards. They do not opt you out of Neverchill using activity data - including private activities - to power community features and train our models in aggregate. For that, use the AI training opt-out in /settings/privacy. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture.
FAQ
Do private activities still show up on community leaderboards?
No. Private activities never appear on public segment leaderboards, climb rankings, or popular-route heatmaps under your name. They contribute to aggregate, anonymized stats only.
What's the difference between 'followers' and 'close friends'?
Followers are anyone you've approved. Close friends is a smaller, curated subset of that list - usually 5-20 people. Treat close friends as the tier that gets your unfiltered rides; followers gets the polished ones.
Can my coach see activities I marked private?
Only if the activity is marked "Just your coach" or a broader audience. A truly private activity is private from your coach too.
What about Beacon?
Beacon (live location during a ride) is independent from activity visibility. You can have a fully private activity that broadcasts a live Beacon link to your partner, and you can have a public activity with no Beacon sharing. See the Beacon feature page.
Can I keep my address private but still appear on leaderboards?
Yes. Enable the privacy zone for your home address (and any other address you want to protect) in Settings. Your activity start/end will be blurred within the zone radius. The rest of the ride and your time on segments still counts.
Does Neverchill use my private activities for training models?
Yes. Per the Terms and Privacy Policy, all activity data - including private - may be used to train our models and produce aggregate insights. Your identity is never tied to those outputs without a separate consent path. If you want to opt out of training entirely, you can in /settings/privacy.
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