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Instagram is an internet-based service in which users can edit and share photographs and videos to approved followers or publicly.

Contact Information:
Instagram, LLC
1601 Willow Rd.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511/

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Instagram is available worldwide, but should only be used if your country legally permits it.

"THE INSTAGRAM PARTIES DO NOT WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS LAWFUL IN ANY PARTICULAR JURISDICTION, AND THE INSTAGRAM PARTIES SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM SUCH WARRANTIES. SOME JURISDICTIONS LIMIT OR DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED OR OTHER WARRANTIES SO THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU TO THE EXTENT SUCH JURISDICTION'S LAW IS APPLICABLE TO YOU AND THESE TERMS OF USE. "

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In 2012, Instagram teamed up with Facebook in order to build a better user experience. Their privacy rights have changed because of this. Any information, images, and other content that a user posts can be viewed, searched for, and shared by others if made public on your account.

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All users are responsible for their interactions with other users via Instagram.

All users must respect the rights of other users.

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Advertisers may display advertisements and promotions throughout Instagram.
Instagram does not need to identify all advertisements/sponsored content. will be identified.

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Instagram does not take ownership of any content posted by the users.

All users must own or have the rights to any content they share.

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Content owned or licensed by Instagram, including the name and logo, is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.

See other Brand Guidelines.

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Prohibited Pictures:

Violent

Nude/partially nude

Discriminatory

Unlawful

Infringing

Hateful

Pornographic or sexually suggestive photos

Other Prohibited Actions (that may lead to end of service):

Making an account for anyone other than yourself

Soliciting, collecting, or using the login information of other users

Stalking, bullying, threatening, impersonating or intimidating other users

Posting private or confidential information without consent

Disrupting the service for others via viruses, malware, etc.

Altering the Instagram page

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Further Reading about Instagram's Terms of Service

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Further Reading about Instagram's Terms of Service

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Social media have so thoroughly infused our everyday lives that calling them "ubiquitous" seems inadequate. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and others take up an astonishing amount of our time, bandwidth, and attention, and have become indispensable business and marketing tools as well.

While it's easy to think of these as neutral platforms for users' interaction, we must bear in mind that each is a functioning business, governed by its balance sheets and accountable to its owners. Accordingly, each requires users to agree to its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy before creating an account. These agreements tend to be long and rather arcane, yet the average time spent reading them is between 6 and 8 seconds.

A user agreement is not a mere formality. It's a binding legal contract, of the type lawyers call a "contract of adhesion." Contracts of adhesion offer no room for negotiation - the user's only options are to take it or leave it. When faced with Instagram's Terms of Service (TOS), a new user's thinking may proceed as follows:

1. I don't want to read this entire long, confusing legal document.

2. There are 500 million people using Instagram, so they all must have signed this thing already.

3. Everyone I know who's on Instagram likes it, and none seem to have suffered terrible consequences from signing this.

4. If the terms were really bad, people wouldn't be using the service.

And then they click OK. It's a strange, implied crowdsourcing of legal reasoning, and unfortunately, it's not great for keeping things on the up-and-up.

Let's dig for a moment into what users agree to when they sign up with one of these services. I'll focus primarily on Instagram here because this is PetaPixel, but we'll take a quick peek at a few others as well.

Instagram's Terms of Service is a long document, most of which is pretty straightforward and reasonably fair. You agree not to harass other users, not to try to hack their code, and other things that I think we can all agree are pretty necessary to keep things functioning.

The licensing section, though, is what I'd like to examine a little more closely. Particularly, this paragraph:

Instagram does not claim ownership of any Content that you post on or through the Service. Instead, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service, subject to the Service's Privacy Policy, available here http://instagram.com/legal/privacy/, including but not limited to sections 3 ("Sharing of Your Information"), 4 ("How We Store Your Information"), and 5 ("Your Choices About Your Information").

Crystal clear, right? No? OK, let's break it down, piece by piece.

Instagram does not claim ownership of any Content that you post on or through the Service.

You still own your photos (i.e., you own the copyright in your photos). Hey, that's nice.

Instead, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive,

"Non-exclusive" means that while Instagram is getting a license, you are still free to license the photo to others as well.

This means Instagram doesn't have to pay you anything in return for the license.

and royalty-free,

This means Instagram won't have to pay you anything for it in the future.

transferable,

This means Instagram can give this license to anyone they want. Getting nervous yet?

sub-licensable,

This means Instagram can sell a sub-license to another party. And they don't have to pay you for it, because remember, we agreed above that this license is "royalty-free."

Self-explanatory.

license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service, subject to the Service's Privacy Policy...

Are alarm bells going off in your head? I hope so. You've just granted Instagram the right to do anything at all with your photos, without ever paying you a dime for any of it.

Let's press on. Switching over to Instagram's Privacy Policy, the relevant section is Section 3, "Sharing of Your Information." This section lays out the circumstances under which Instagram will sell/share your information with third parties. I'll summarize, rather than quoting the whole thing.

There are three main categories of third party:

1. Affiliates: These are companies affiliated with Instagram, who must receive your data as a function of making Instagram work. Perfectly reasonable.

2. Service Providers: Outside companies that provide services necessary to making Instagram work. Domain servers, things like that. Again, it seems reasonable-and necessary-that these companies would need to handle your information.

3. Third-Party Advertisers: Here's the meat. When you visit a web page, advertisers look at the cookies on your computer to get a picture of what sites you've already visited. Then they choose an ad to show you, based on what you'll probably enjoy seeing/want to buy. If you've ever looked at a product on Amazon and then noticed ads popping up on other sites for that exact same product, this is how it happens.

This is how Instagram makes money, of course. They provide a service for free, and in return you give them some information about you, which they sell to advertisers.

There's a privacy issue here. We think of loading a web page as if we were anonymously downloading a file from a server onto our computer, but when the server reads and writes to our browsers' cookies, the situation is at least mutual, if not reversed. The server may be able to see quite a lot of your browsing history.

Instagram attempts to assuage fears of surveillance by suggesting that no individually identifiable information is sent to the advertisers:

We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you and share that aggregated information.

That sounds great, right? If they're sharing anonymized and/or aggregated data, then you're clear?

Well, not exactly. Watch out for the weasel-words: "We may remove parts of data that can identify you..." "We may also combine your information with other information..."

The word "may" (as opposed to "will" or "must") means that Instagram is allowed to aggregate/anonymize your data. They are under no obligation to do so.

Does Instagram anonymize data in this way? Probably so, although it's difficult if not impossible to verify that. But under the terms laid out in Instagram's TOS, they are under no obligation to do so, and if they suddenly decided to stop and just straight-up sell all your personal info to advertisers, (1) they would be perfectly within their legal rights, and (2) you would probably never know about it.

Let's look at one more passage from Instagram's Terms of Service, under "General Conditions":

You can deactivate your Instagram account by logging into the Service and completing the form available here: https://instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/. If we terminate your access to the Service or you use the form detailed above to deactivate your account, your photos, comments, likes, friendships, and all other data will no longer be accessible through your account (e.g., users will not be able to navigate to your username and view your photos), but those materials and data may persist and appear within the Service [emphasis ours] (e.g., if your Content has been reshared by others).

That bit about "resharing" is a key point to consider. The term "reshare" includes, among other things, Instagram posts that have been embedded on other sites. Embedding a photo isn't just posting a link to it; Instagram lets users copy a chunk of code and paste it onto their own site, so that the photo appears on the user's site along with updated comments, likes, and so on. Like this:

Note how someone's embedding your photo changes your relation to it: If you post a photo on Instagram, and someone embeds it on their site, there is a possibility that you won't be able to take it down later. Normally, an Instagram photo that's been embedded by a third party and is later deleted won't keep appearing; the page where it was embedded will show a message saying the photo is unavailable.

But under the TOS, Instagram is perfectly free to keep sharing those photos regardless of whether they're deleted. The TOS is most likely worded that way to cover those times when a user deletes something, but cached copies continue to appear for a while. Nonetheless, the intent is irrelevant when the language is clear, and that language in the TOS is unambiguous.

One more point from the same sentence in the TOS: "but those materials and data may persist and appear within the Service ( e.g., if your Content has been reshared by others)."

"E.g." is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase exempli gratia. It means "for example." So another user's reshare is an example of how your content could stay on Instagram after you've deleted it, but it's not necessarily the only way. That little "e.g." essentially gives Instagram infinite wiggle room for how they can keep your content alive and circulating without your consent. I know this sounds like I'm splitting hairs, but I guarantee you that at some point during the TOS's development, a smart lawyer insisted on that "e.g." for exactly this reason.

Here's a quick flyover view of some other popular sites' TOS:

Facebook's policy is essentially the same as Instagram's, including the "reshare makes it public" provision: "[Y]ou grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."

YouTube's TOS has the same "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license." There is one difference, though. If other people share (embed) your YouTube videos, the licenses will "terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your videos from the Service."

That sounds promising. We've all seen old web pages with embedded videos that just show static because the videos have been taken down. But wait:

"You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of your videos that have been removed or deleted."

In other words: Once you delete your videos from YouTube, they can't be played or shared, but YouTube can still retain an archived copy. Forever. To be fair, this policy, like Instagram's, is probably meant to cover YouTube in the case of cached/archived files that can potentially remain on a server if they're not properly deleted (like being in the Windows "Recycle Bin"), but regardless of the intent, the effect of this language is clear: They can keep your videos forever.

Nothing I've written here is meant to say that you shouldn't use Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter, or any of the others. I use them myself, and just like you, when I signed up I clicked "OK" without reading the user agreement. Nonetheless, it's worth taking a moment to examine why you're using them and what you're getting out of it, and consider how you can prepare now for contingencies that may arise down the road.

If you want to retain maximum control over your own photos, obviously the safest plan is not to put them online at all. It's not a realistic goal, though, in an era when most of us do most of our marketing online. There are various steps you can take to help retain control of your work, from uploading reduced-quality versions to adding the hated watermark, but whatever you choose to do, having more information going into the process will help you decide what course of action best suits your needs.
You can find the archives of Adam Remsen's column here. About the author: Adam Remsen is an attorney in Memphis, Tennessee. You can learn about his practice, request his services, or tell him how wonderful he is via his web site, or find him on Twitter.

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A Lawyer Digs Into Instagram's Terms of Use

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Social media have so thoroughly infused our everyday lives that calling them "ubiquitous" seems inadequate. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and others take up an astonishing amount of our time, bandwidth, and attention, and have become indispensable business and marketing tools as well.

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The Facebook company is now Meta. We've updated our Terms of Use, Data Policy, and Cookies Policy to reflect the new name on January 4, 2022. While our company name has changed, we are continuing to offer the same products, including the Facebook app from Meta. Our Data Policy and Terms of Service remain in effect, and this name change does not affect how we use or share data. Learn more about Meta and our vision for the metaverse.
This policy describes the information we process to support Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and other products and features offered by Meta Platforms, Inc. ( Meta Products or Products). You can find additional tools and information in the Facebook Settings and Instagram Settings.

I. What kinds of information do we collect?

To provide the Meta Products, we must process information about you. The types of information we collect depend on how you use our Products. You can learn how to access and delete information we collect by visiting the Facebook Settings and Instagram Settings.

Things you and others do and provide.

Information and content you provide. We collect the content, communications and other information you provide when you use our Products, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content, and message or communicate with others. This can include information in or about the content you provide (like metadata), such as the location of a photo or the date a file was created. It can also include what you see through features we provide, such as our camera, so we can do things like suggest masks and filters that you might like, or give you tips on using camera formats. Our systems automatically process content and communications you and others provide to analyze context and what's in them for the purposes described below. Learn more about how you can control who can see the things you share.

Data with special protections: You can choose to provide information in your Facebook profile fields or Life Events about your religious views, political views, who you are "interested in," or your health. This and other information (such as racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership) could be subject to special protections under the laws of your country.

Networks and connections. We collect information about the people, accounts, hashtags and Facebook groups, and Pages you are connected to and how you interact with them across our Products, such as people you communicate with the most or groups you are part of. We also collect contact information if you choose to upload, sync or import it from a device (such as an address book or call log or SMS log history), which we use for things like helping you and others find people you may know and for the other purposes listed below.

Your usage. We collect information about how you use our Products, such as the types of content you view or engage with; the features you use; the actions you take; the people or accounts you interact with; and the time, frequency and duration of your activities. For example, we log when you're using and have last used our Products, and what posts, videos and other content you view on our Products. We also collect information about how you use features like our camera.

Information about transactions made on our Products. If you use our Products for purchases or other financial transactions (such as when you make a purchase in a game or make a donation), we collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes payment information, such as your credit or debit card number and other card information; other account and authentication information; and billing, shipping and contact details.

Things others do and information they provide about you. We also receive and analyze content, communications and information that other people provide when they use our Products. This can include information about you, such as when others share or comment on a photo of you, send a message to you, or upload, sync or import your contact information.

As described below, we collect information from and about the computers, phones, connected TVs and other web-connected devices you use that integrate with our Products, and we combine this information across different devices you use. For example, we use information collected about your use of our Products on your phone to better personalize the content (including ads) or features you see when you use our Products on another device, such as your laptop or tablet, or to measure whether you took an action in response to an ad we showed you on your phone on a different device.

Information we obtain from these devices includes:

Identifiers: unique identifiers, device IDs, and other identifiers, such as from games, apps or accounts you use, and Family Device IDs (or other identifiers unique to Meta Company Products associated with the same device or account).

Network and connections: information such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, language, time zone, mobile phone number, IP address, connection speed and, in some cases, information about other devices that are nearby or on your network, so we can do things like help you stream a video from your phone to your TV.

Information from partners.

Advertisers, app developers, and publishers can send us information through Meta Business Tools they use, including our social plug-ins (such as the Like button), Facebook Login, our APIs and SDKs, or the Meta pixel. These partners provide information about your activities off of our Products-including information about your device, websites you visit, purchases you make, the ads you see, and how you use their services-whether or not you have an account or are logged into our Products. For example, a game developer could use our API to tell us what games you play, or a business could tell us about a purchase you made in its store. We also receive information about your online and offline actions and purchases from third-party data providers who have the rights to provide us with your information.

Partners receive your data when you visit or use their services or through third parties they work with. We require each of these partners to have lawful rights to collect, use and share your data before providing any data to us. Learn more about the types of partners we receive data from.

II. How do we use this information?

We use the information we have (subject to choices you make) as described below and to provide and support the Meta Products and related services described in the Meta Terms and Instagram Terms. Here's how:

Provide, personalize and improve our Products.

We use the information we have to deliver our Products, including to personalize features and content (including your ads, Facebook News Feed, Instagram Feed, and Instagram Stories) and make suggestions for you (such as groups or events you may be interested in or topics you may want to follow) on and off our Products. To create personalized Products that are unique and relevant to you, we use your connections, preferences, interests and activities based on the data we collect and learn from you and others (including any data with special protections you choose to provide); how you use and interact with our Products; and the people, places, or things you're connected to and interested in on and off our Products. Learn more about how we use information about you to personalize your Facebook and Instagram experience, including features, content and recommendations in Meta Products; you can also learn more about how we choose the ads that you see.

Location-related information: We use location-related information-such as your current location, where you live, the places you like to go, and the businesses and people you're near-to provide, personalize and improve our Products, including ads, for you and others. Location-related information can be based on things like precise device location (if you've allowed us to collect it), IP addresses, and information from your and others' use of Meta Products (such as check-ins or events you attend).

Ads and other sponsored content: We use the information we have about you-including information about your interests, actions and connections-to select and personalize ads, offers and other sponsored content that we show you. Learn more about how we select and personalize ads, and your choices over the data we use to select ads and other sponsored content for you in the Facebook Settings and Instagram Settings.

Provide measurement, analytics, and other business services.

We use the information we have (including your activity off our Products, such as the websites you visit and ads you see) to help advertisers and other partners measure the effectiveness and distribution of their ads and services, and understand the types of people who use their services and how people interact with their websites, apps, and services. Learn how we share information with these partners.

Promote safety, integrity and security.

We use the information we have to verify accounts and activity, combat harmful conduct, detect and prevent spam and other bad experiences, maintain the integrity of our Products, and promote safety and security on and off of Meta Products. For example, we use data we have to investigate suspicious activity or violations of our terms or policies, or to detect when someone needs help. To learn more, visit the Facebook Security Help Center and Instagram Security Tips.

We use the information we have to send you marketing communications, communicate with you about our Products, and let you know about our policies and terms. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us.

Research and innovate for social good.

III. How is this information shared?

Your information is shared with others in the following ways:

People and accounts you share and communicate with

When you share and communicate using our Products, you choose the audience for what you share. For example, when you post on Facebook, you select the audience for the post, such as a group, all of your friends, the public, or a customized list of people. Similarly, when you use Messenger or Instagram to communicate with people or businesses, those people and businesses can see the content you send. Your network can also see actions you have taken on our Products, including engagement with ads and sponsored content. We also let other accounts see who has viewed their Facebook or Instagram Stories.

Public information can be seen by anyone, on or off our Products, including if they don't have an account. This includes your Instagram username; any information you share with a public audience; information in your public profile on Facebook; and content you share on a Facebook Page, public Instagram account or any other public forum, such as Facebook Marketplace. You, other people using Facebook and Instagram, and we can provide access to or send public information to anyone on or off our Products, including in other Meta Company Products, in search results, or through tools and APIs. Public information can also be seen, accessed, reshared or downloaded through third-party services such as search engines, APIs, and offline media such as TV, and by apps, websites and other services that integrate with our Products.

Learn more about what information is public and how to control your visibility on Facebook and Instagram.

Content others share or reshare about you

You should consider who you choose to share with, because people who can see your activity on our Products can choose to share it with others on and off our Products, including people and businesses outside the audience you shared with. For example, when you share a post or send a message to specific friends or accounts, they can download, screenshot, or reshare that content to others across or off our Products, in person or in virtual reality experiences such as Horizon Worlds. Also, when you comment on someone else's post or react to their content, your comment or reaction is visible to anyone who can see the other person's content, and that person can change the audience later.

People can also use our Products to create and share content about you with the audience they choose. For example, people can share a photo of you in a Story, mention or tag you at a location in a post, or share information about you in their posts or messages. If you are uncomfortable with what others have shared about you on our Products, you can learn how to report the content.

Information about your active status or presence on our Products.

People in your networks can see signals telling them whether you are active on our Products, including whether you are currently active on Instagram, Messenger or Facebook, or when you last used our Products.

Apps, websites, and third-party integrations on or using our Products.

When you choose to use third-party apps, websites, or other services that use, or are integrated with, our Products, they can receive information about what you post or share. For example, when you play a game with your Facebook friends or use a Facebook Comment or Share button on a website, the game developer or website can receive information about your activities in the game or receive a comment or link that you share from the website on Facebook. Also, when you download or use such third-party services, they can access your public profile on Facebook, and any information that you share with them. Apps and websites you use may receive your list of Facebook friends if you choose to share it with them. But apps and websites you use will not be able to receive any other information about your Facebook friends from you, or information about any of your Instagram followers (although your friends and followers may, of course, choose to share this information themselves). Information collected by these third-party services is subject to their own terms and policies, not this one.

Devices and operating systems providing native versions of Facebook and Instagram (i.e. where we have not developed our own first-party apps) will have access to all information you choose to share with them, including information your friends share with you, so they can provide our core functionality to you.

Note: We are in the process of restricting developers' data access even further to help prevent abuse. For example, we will remove developers' access to your Facebook and Instagram data if you haven't used their app in 3 months, and we are changing Login, so that in the next version, we will reduce the data that an app can request without app review to include only name, Instagram username and bio, profile photo and email address. Requesting any other data will require our approval.

If the ownership or control of all or part of our Products or their assets changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner.

Sharing with Third-Party Partners

We work with third-party partners who help us provide and improve our Products or who use Meta Business Tools to grow their businesses, which makes it possible to operate our companies and provide free services to people around the world. We don't sell any of your information to anyone, and we never will. We also impose strict restrictions on how our partners can use and disclose the data we provide. Here are the types of third parties we share information with:

Partners who use our analytics services.

We provide aggregated statistics and insights that help people and businesses understand how people are engaging with their posts, listings, Facebook Pages, videos and other content on and off the Meta Products. For example, Facebook Page admins and Instagram business profiles receive information about the number of people or accounts who viewed, reacted to, or commented on their posts, as well as aggregate demographic and other information that helps them understand interactions with their account or Facebook Page.

We provide advertisers with reports about the kinds of people seeing their ads and how their ads are performing, but we don't share information that personally identifies you (information such as your name or email address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) unless you give us permission. For example, we provide general demographic and interest information to advertisers (for example, that an ad was seen by a woman between the ages of 25 and 34 who lives in Madrid and likes software engineering) to help them better understand their audience. We also confirm which ads led you to make a purchase or take an action with an advertiser.

We share information about you with companies that aggregate it to provide analytics and measurement reports to our partners.

Partners offering goods and services in our Products.

When you subscribe to receive premium content, or buy something from a seller in our Products, the content creator or seller can receive your public information and other information you share with them, as well as the information needed to complete the transaction, including shipping and contact details.

Vendors and service providers.

We provide information and content to vendors and service providers who support our business, such as by providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our Products are used, providing customer service, facilitating payments or conducting surveys.

Researchers and academics.

We also provide information and content to research partners and academics to conduct research that advances scholarship and innovation that support our business or mission, and enhances discovery and innovation on topics of general social welfare, technological advancement, public interest, health and well-being.

Law enforcement or legal requests.

We share information with law enforcement or in response to legal requests in the circumstances outlined below.

IV. How do the Meta Companies work together?

Facebook and Instagram share infrastructure, systems and technology with other Meta Companies (which include WhatsApp and Oculus) to provide an innovative, relevant, consistent and safe experience across all Meta Company Products you use. We also process information about you across the Meta Companies for these purposes, as permitted by applicable law and in accordance with their terms and policies. For example, we process information from WhatsApp about accounts sending spam on its service so we can take appropriate action against those accounts on Facebook, Instagram or Messenger. We also work to understand how people use and interact with Meta Company Products, such as understanding the number of unique users on different Meta Company Products.

V. How can I manage or delete information about me?

We store data until it is no longer necessary to provide our services and Meta Products, or until your account is deleted - whichever comes first. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things like the nature of the data, why it is collected and processed, and relevant legal or operational retention needs. For example, when you search for something on Facebook, you can access and delete that query from within your search history at any time, but the log of that search is deleted after 6 months. If you submit a copy of your government-issued ID for account verification purposes, we delete that copy 30 days after review, unless otherwise stated. Learn more about deletion of content you have shared and cookie data obtained through social plugins.

When you delete your account, we delete things you have posted, such as your photos and status updates, and you won't be able to recover that information later. Information that others have shared about you isn't part of your account and won't be deleted. If you don't want to delete your account but want to temporarily stop using the Products, you can deactivate your account instead. To delete your account at any time, please visit the Facebook Settings and Instagram Settings.

VI. How do we respond to legal requests or prevent harm?

We access, preserve and share your information with regulators, law enforcement or others:

In response to a legal request (like a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States when we have a good-faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally recognized standards.

When we have a good-faith belief it is necessary to: detect, prevent and address fraud, unauthorized use of the Products, violations of our terms or policies, or other harmful or illegal activity; to protect ourselves (including our rights, property or Products), you or others, including as part of investigations or regulatory inquiries; or to prevent death or imminent bodily harm. For example, if relevant, we provide information to and receive information from third-party partners about the reliability of your account to prevent fraud, abuse and other harmful activity on and off our Products.

Information we receive about you (including financial transaction data related to purchases made on our Products) can be accessed and preserved for an extended period when it is the subject of a legal request or obligation, governmental investigation, or investigations of possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm. We also retain information from accounts disabled for terms violations for at least a year to prevent repeat abuse or other term violations.

VII. How do we operate and transfer data as part of our global services?

We share information globally, both internally within the Meta Companies, and externally with our partners and with those you connect and share with around the world in accordance with this policy. Your information may, for example, be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in the United States or other countries outside of where you live for the purposes as described in this policy. These data transfers are necessary to provide the services set forth in the Meta Terms and Instagram Terms and to globally operate and provide our Products to you. We utilize standard contract clauses, rely on the European Commission's adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, and obtain your consent for these data transfers to the United States and other countries.

VIII. How will we notify you of changes to this policy?

We'll notify you before we make changes to this policy and give you the opportunity to review the revised policy before you choose to continue using our Products.

IX. How to contact us with questions

You can learn more about how privacy works on Facebook and on Instagram. If you have questions about this policy, you can contact us as described below.

You can contact us online or by mail at:

Meta Platforms, Inc.
ATTN: Privacy Operations
1601 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Privacy Notice for California Residents

If you are a California resident, you can learn more about your consumer privacy rights by reviewing the California Privacy Notice.

Date of Last Revision: January 4, 2022

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The Facebook company is now Meta. We've updated our Terms of Use, Data Policy, and Cookies Policy to reflect the new name on January 4, 2022. While our company name has changed, we are continuing to offer the same products, including the Facebook app from Meta.

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Users must be 13 years old or older.

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