Understanding your privacy settings
Komoot’s privacy settings give you control over who sees your saved routes and activities and Collections, who can follow you and even who can find you in the friends search – so you feel empowered to use komoot in a way that suits you.
This guide explains the levels of privacy available and helps you choose which privacy settings are right for you.
Set your privacy zones
Setting privacy zones around places like your home, work or family member’s house makes these locations private to you. Start and endpoints of your route within this zone will only be visible to you.
Manage your followers
Just like you can choose your friends in real life, komoot enables you to manage your followers. Choose the people you trust the most from your follower list, or the ones you like best, and add them to your close friends list. This way you can share activities and Collections with a select few only. You can also block people. Learn about blocking followers here.
Manage your account privacy
If you want maximum privacy for your komoot profile, you can make your whole account private. Only approved followers – follower requests you’ve accepted one by one – can see your profile, save routes, activities, Collections, and comments on your content. You won’t be able to share your adventures with people who don’t follow you.
Control who sees your content
Sharing adventure intel with like-minded people is at the heart of komoot, but there might be some rides, hikes or runs you’d rather keep to yourself, or only share with your close friends. By adjusting the visibility of each saved route or activity, you can control who sees your activity on komoot.
Only you
By default your activities are private. Nobody can see, like, or comment on them in your profile and other komoot users won’t get notifications when you complete private activities.
Close friends
Share your activity with the people on your close friends list and they’ll get notifications about your activity, see your activities in your profile, and be able to like and comment on your adventures. Your activity will be invisible to everyone else.
All followers
If you have a private profile, you can choose to share your saved routes and activities with your followers. Everyone who follows you can see, comment on, and like your activities. People who don’t follow you won’t see this.
Anyone
If your profile is public, setting your individual saved routes and activities to public means everyone on komoot will be able to see, like, comment on, and get inspired by them.
Collections have the same settings, which can be controlled independently of your activity settings. The default is private. You can adjust these settings with each activity or Collection. If you choose to keep your routes and activities private, you can still tag and invite people without making them public. Tips and photos you share via Highlights are always visible, so the rest of the komoot community can plan awesome adventures with your insider advice.
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