Partners share information through Business Tools, integrations and Meta Audience Network; Meta requires rights
Partners use Meta's Business Tools, integrations and Meta Audience Network technologies to share information with Meta. These partners collect your information when you visit their site or app or use their services, or through other businesses or organizations they work with. Meta says it requires partners to have the right to collect, use and share your information before giving it to Meta. The Business Tools page is linked but not supplied.
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integrations and Meta Audience Network technologies to share information with us.
These partners collect your information when you visit their site or app or use their services, or through other businesses or organizations they work with. We require partners to have the right to collect, use and share your information before giving it to us.
Qualifications & exceptions
Meta's requirement is that partners have the right to collect, use and share the information; the Policy does not describe how this is verified.
Not stated here
What the Business Tools consist of; the linked page is not supplied.
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Partners use Business Tools and Audience Network; integrated partners connect through Facebook Login or games
Partners use Meta's Products, including Business Tools and other technologies that let businesses advertise or support their products; Business Tools also help partners understand and measure how people use their products and services and how well their ads work, for example by placing the Meta Pixel on their website or using Meta Audience Network to show ads in their apps. Integrated partners use the technologies that help you connect to them, such as logging into their app or website with Facebook Login or playing their game on Facebook without leaving the app.
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Our partners[2] use our Products, including our Business Tools and other technologies that allow businesses to advertise or support their products. Business Tools also help our partners understand and measure how people are using their products and services and how well their ads are working. For example, they might put one of our Business Tools, the Meta Pixel, on their website. Or they might use Meta Audience Network tools to monetize their apps by showing ads from businesses that advertise on Facebook.
Integrated partners[24] also use our Products, specifically the technologies that help you make a connection to them. For example, you might log into their app or website using Facebook Login. Or you might play their game on Facebook, which we call an integration because you can play without leaving our app.
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Partners include advertisers, sellers, publishers, developers, device makers, ISPs and e-commerce platforms
Examples of partners and integrated partners: advertisers; businesses and people that use Meta's Products to sell or offer goods and services; publishers such as websites or apps and their vendors; app developers; game developers; device manufacturers, internet service providers and mobile network operators; and e-commerce platforms.
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Here are some examples:
Advertisers
Businesses and people that use our Products to sell or offer goods and services
Publishers (like a website or app) and their vendors
App developers
Game developers
Device manufacturers, internet service providers and mobile network operators
E-commerce platforms
Qualifications & exceptions
Examples only.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Meta may tell advertisers aggregate audience traits like age, gender, city and interests
As an example of information about types of people, Meta might tell an advertiser that their ad was seen by women aged 25 to 34 who live in Madrid and like software engineering.
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For example, we might tell an advertiser that their ad was seen by women aged 25–34 who live in Madrid and like software engineering.
Qualifications & exceptions
Described as information about types of people, not named individuals.
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Highlights: you choose what to share on Products or with integrated partners, who may ask for your email or birthday
The section's highlights say you can choose to share information on Meta's Products or with integrated partners, and to share only with people you trust. If you use a product that integrates with Meta's, such as using Facebook Login for a music service or shopping site, that organization will ask to receive some information about you, like your email address or birthday.
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You can choose to share information on our Products or with integrated partners
Remember to share only with people you trust
You might decide to use a product that integrates with one of ours, like if you use Facebook Login to log into a music service or a shopping site
If you do, that organization will ask you to receive some information about you, like your email address or birthday
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Your chosen audience sees what you share; people and businesses you message can read your messages
When you share and communicate using Meta's Products you can sometimes choose the audience for what you share. The audience you choose can see when you share a post, photo or video, create a story, share a news article or add information to your profile. People you interact with can see what you send them: a person or business you message on Messenger or Instagram can read your message.
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Learn more about the different cases when your information can be shared on our Products[42]:
When you share and communicate using our Products, you can sometimes choose the audience[43] for what you share.
When you interact with people or businesses, they can see:
For example, the audience you choose can see when you:
Share a post you’ve written
Share a photo or video
Create a story
Share a news article
Add information to your profile
People you interact with can see what you send to them. So if you send a person or a business a message on Messenger or Instagram, that person or business can read your message.
Qualifications & exceptions
Audience choice is available only sometimes, depending on the feature.
Not stated here
The audience footnote and the linked cases of sharing are not fully supplied.
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People and businesses can see some of your activity, such as comments, ad engagement, story views and active status
People and businesses can see some of your activity on Meta's Products, including when you comment on or react to others' posts, engage with ads or sponsored content by commenting or liking, allow content you shared about a Shop product to be shared across Products, view their story on Facebook or Instagram, or connect a new Meta device such as smart glasses to your account. Some Products provide settings that let others see when you are active, such as active status, and in some cases when you are active in a section like a message thread, game or event, or when you last used a Product; help pages on updating active status are linked but not supplied.
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People and businesses can also see some of your activity on our Products. This includes when you:
Comment on or react to others’ posts
Engage with ads or other sponsored or commercial content, like by commenting or liking
Allow content you've shared about a product in a Shop to be shared across our Products
View their story on Facebook or Instagram
Connect a new Meta device, like smart glasses, to your account
Some of our Products might provide you with settings that allow others to see when you're active on our Products, such as “active status.” In some cases, we also offer settings that allow others to see when you’re active in a particular section of one of our Products, like a message thread, game or event, or when you last used one of our Products.
Learn how to update your Active Status on
Qualifications & exceptions
Active status visibility depends on settings offered by some Products.
Not stated here
How each active status setting defaults; the linked help pages are not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
A supervised user's parent or guardian can see some of your activity when you interact with that user
Some accounts are supervised. When you interact with a supervised user, their parent or guardian can see some of your activity and information, such as your username, profile picture and whether the supervised user blocked you. On some Products, the supervised user can let their parent or guardian know if they reported you.
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Some accounts are supervised[44]. When you interact with a supervised user, their parent or guardian can see some of your activity and information. This can include information like your username, profile picture and if the supervised user blocked you. On some Products, the supervised user can let their parent or guardian know if they reported you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when you interact with a supervised account.
Not stated here
The supervision footnote is not in this packet.
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Your audience can reshare, download or screenshot your content; comments are visible to anyone who sees the post
People in your audience can view your content and choose to share it with others outside your audience, on and off Meta's Products; for example, friends you share a post with or message can download, screenshot or reshare it with anyone, on, across or off the Products. When you comment on a post or react to a photo, anyone who can see the post or photo can see your comment or reaction, including people you are not connected to, and the person who shared it can change its audience at any time after you interacted. When others interact with AI at Meta, they can share information about you, including messages and content you have shared.
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People in your audience can view your content and can choose to share it with others outside your audience, on and off our Products. For example, when you share a post or send a message to specific friends, they can download, screenshot or reshare it with anyone, on, across or off our Products.
When you comment on a post or react to a photo, your comment or reaction can be seen by anyone who can see the post or photo. This can include people you aren’t connected to. The person who shared the post can also change their audience at any time after you’ve interacted with it.
they can share information about you, including messages and content you have shared[45].
Qualifications & exceptions
The audience of a post you commented on can be changed by its owner after your interaction.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
Others can share photos, mentions, tags and details about you; you can report posts and remove tags
People who use Meta's Products can share information about you with the audience they choose, for example a photo or video of you in a post, comment, story, reel or message, a mention in a post or story, a tag in a post, comment, story or location, or details about you in a post, story or message. If you are uncomfortable with what others shared, you can report posts and stories, and help pages explain how to remove a tag; those pages are not supplied.
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People who use our Products can share information about you with the audience they choose. For example, they can:
Share a photo or video of you in a post, comment, story, reel or message
Mention you in a post or story
Tag you in a post, comment, story or location
Share details about you in a post, story or message
If you’re uncomfortable with what others have shared about you on our Products, for example on Facebook, you can always choose to
Not stated here
Reporting and tag-removal procedures are in linked help pages not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Your name, username, profile picture, avatars and activity on public groups, Pages and public content are always public
Some of your information and activity are always public: your name, Facebook and Instagram username, profile picture, activity on public groups, Facebook Pages and channels, activity on public content such as a comment, rating or review on Marketplace or a public Instagram account, and avatars. Other content, such as posts, photos and videos on your profile, Stories or Reels, is public only if you choose to set it to Public.
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Some of your information and activity are always public. This includes your:
Name
Facebook and Instagram username
Profile picture
Activity on public groups, Facebook Pages and channels
Activity on content that is public. For example, your comment, rating or review on Marketplace, or on a public Instagram account.
Avatars
Other content you can choose to set to Public, like posts, photos and videos you post to your profile, Stories or Reels.
Qualifications & exceptions
Profile posts, photos, videos, Stories and Reels are public only when you set them to Public.
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Public content can be seen by anyone, even without an account, and shared via APIs, media, apps and search engines
When content is public it can be seen by anyone on or across Meta's Products, and in some cases off them, even by people without an account; a comment, rating or review on Marketplace, a Page or a public Instagram account can appear in any Product or be seen off the Products. Meta, you and other users can send public content, such as your profile photo or Page information, to anyone on, across or off the Products, for example in a public forum, in internet search results or in Meta's research tools. Public content can also be seen, accessed, reshared or downloaded through third-party services such as APIs, the media (like TV), other apps and websites connected to the Products, and search engines. Search engines and other third parties use this information under their own terms and policies, not Meta's.
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When content is public, it can be seen by anyone on or across our Products, and in some cases off our Products, even if they don’t have an account.
For example, if you comment on Marketplace, a Facebook Page or a public Instagram account, or if you leave a rating or review, your comment, rating or review will be visible to anyone. It could appear in any of our Products or be seen by anyone, including off our Products.
We, you and people using our Products can send public content (like your profile photo, or information you share on a Facebook Page or public Instagram account) to anyone on, across or off our Products. For example, users can share it in a public forum, or it can appear in search results on the internet or our
Public content can also be seen, accessed, reshared or downloaded through third-party services, like:
The media, like TV
Other apps and websites connected to our Products
Search engines.
Search engines and other third parties use this information according to their own terms and policies, not Meta’s.
Qualifications & exceptions
Third parties' use of public content is governed by their own terms, not Meta's.
Not stated here
The research tools and search engine notes are linked but not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Integrated partners you connect with get public info plus posts, usage, device and language data automatically
You can choose to connect with integrated partners who use Meta's Products; if you do, they receive information about you and your activity. They can always access information that is public on the Products. When you use an integrated partner's products or services, they can access what you post or share from those products or services, what you use their services to do, information from and about the device you are using, and the language setting you chose on Meta's Products. An examples footnote is referenced.
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You can choose to connect with integrated partners[47] who use our Products. If you do, these integrated partners receive information about you and your activity.
These integrated partners can always access information that’s public on our Products. Learn more about other information they receive and how they handle your information:
When you use an integrated partner’s products or services, they can access:
What you post or share from these products or services
What you use their services to do
Information from and about the device you’re using
The language setting you’ve chosen on our Products
of when an integrated partner might receive your information.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when you choose to connect with or use an integrated partner.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
Integrated partners may request extra account data with your permission; Meta logs each request
Integrated partners sometimes ask your permission to access additional information from your Facebook, Instagram or Messenger account, explaining what they want and letting you choose whether to share. On Facebook this includes things like your email address, hometown or birthday; on Instagram it includes content such as photos and videos you shared while your account was private. A footnote explains what happens if you or your friends share a friends list. Meta automatically logs when you receive such an access request; these requests are separate from the Apps and Websites access you manage in Facebook or Instagram Ad settings or in your mobile device settings.
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Sometimes these integrated partners ask you for permission to access certain additional information from your Facebook, Instagram or Messenger account. In their request, they’ll explain what information they’d like to access and let you choose whether to share it.
On Facebook, this includes things like your email address, hometown or birthday. On Instagram, this includes content, like photos and videos, that you’ve shared from your account when the account was set to private.
Learn what happens if you choose to share your friends list, or if your friends choose to share their friends list.
We automatically log when you receive a request from an integrated partner to access your information. These requests to access information are separate from the Apps and Websites access that you manage in your Facebook or Instagram Ad settings or in your mobile device settings.
Qualifications & exceptions
Additional data is shared only if you choose to grant the request.
Not stated here
The friends-list footnote is in a later packet.
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Apps connected via Facebook Login or Instagram keep nonpublic access until 90 days of apparent non-use
Apps or websites you logged into with Facebook Login or connected to your Instagram account can access your nonpublic information on Meta Products unless it appears to Meta that you have not used the app or website in 90 days. Even after an app's access expires, it can still retain information you previously shared with it. Meta encourages you to review your Apps and Websites settings from time to time; management links are provided but not supplied.
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Apps or websites you’ve logged into using Facebook Login or connected to your Instagram account can access your nonpublic information on Meta Products unless it appears to us that you haven’t used the app or website in 90 days. Note that even if an app’s access to your information has expired, it can still retain information you shared with it previously.
We encourage you to visit your Apps and Websites settings from time to time to review which apps and websites continue to have access to your information through Facebook Login or Instagram.
Qualifications & exceptions
Access ends when it appears to Meta you have not used the app or website in 90 days.
Expired access does not remove information the app already holds.
Integrated partners get your activity when you interact with Meta users on their product, under their own policies
Integrated partners receive information about your activity when you interact with other Facebook, Instagram or Messenger users while they are using the partner's product or service, for example when you comment on a livestream made through a partner app. Integrated partners handle information you share with them under their own terms and policies, not Meta's; you can review their privacy policy, and in some cases they use a separate service provider to receive and process your information. A page on how Meta reviews integrating apps is linked but not supplied.
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Integrated partners receive information about your activity when you interact with other Facebook, Instagram or Messenger users while they’re using the integrated partner’s product or service.
For example, a gamer livestreams to Facebook using a partner app. Then you comment on that livestream. The app developer will receive information about your comment.
Integrated partners handle the information you share with them according to their own terms and policies, not Meta’s. You can review their privacy policy on their website or app to learn how they receive and process your information. In some cases, they use a separate service provider to receive and process your information.
Qualifications & exceptions
Partner handling is governed by the partner's own terms and policies, which are not supplied.
Not stated here
How Meta reviews apps that integrate with its Products.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
Facebook audiences range from public to yourself; Instagram uses private or public accounts, blocks, close friends
On Facebook the audience can be the public (people on and off Facebook), your friends and other connections such as friends of people you tag, a customized list, yourself, or the members of a single community such as a group. On Instagram you set the audience by choosing a private account, where only approved followers see what you share, or a public account, where posts can be seen by anyone on or off the Products, including people without an account; you can also block individual accounts and create a close friends list for certain content. Audience settings are different from the permissions you give individual apps and websites to access your information. The Products footnote is repeated.
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This Policy describes the information we, Meta Platforms, Inc., process to provide
On Facebook, the audience can be made up of:
The public, including people on and off Facebook
Your friends and other connections, such as the friends of people you tag
A customized list of people
Yourself
The members of a single community, such as a group
only followers you approve can see what you share. With a public account, your posts and other content on Instagram can be seen by anyone, on or off our Products, including if they don’t have an account. You can restrict the audience for your content by blocking individual accounts from viewing them. You can also create a close friends list for certain types of content that only the people on that list can see.
Your audience settings are different from the permissions you give to individual apps and websites to access your information. Read our policy about how you may share information with integrated partners.
Qualifications & exceptions
Audience settings do not control app and website permissions.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
You can limit search engine indexing of your profile, but some public content may still appear in search
You can use your privacy settings to control whether search engines show your profile or public photos and videos in results outside Meta. Some public content might still be accessible through search engines, for example if you post with your audience or profile set to Public, if you post on public Pages or accounts depending on that account's settings, or if a professional account on Instagram reshares your public content.
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to control whether search engines can show your profile or public photos and videos in search results outside of Meta. Some public content might still be accessible through search engines, for example:
If you post with your audience or profile set to Public,
If you post on public Pages or accounts, depending on the settings of that account,
If your public content is reshared by a professional account on Instagram.
Qualifications & exceptions
The setting does not stop all public content from reaching search engines.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Integrated partner definition repeated; games and Like buttons automatically send your activity to developers
The integrated partner definition is repeated. Examples of when an integrated partner receives your information: using Facebook login to play a game with friends means the game developer automatically receives information about your in-game activities, and using the Facebook Like button on a news article means the website developer automatically receives information about your Like.
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A partner who uses technologies that help you make a connection to them through our Products, including plugins, login, checkout experiences, instant games, and other such integrations
For example, you might use your Facebook login to play an online game with your Facebook friends. The game developer automatically receives information about your activities in the game.
Or you might use the Facebook Like button on an article posted on a news website. The website developer automatically receives information about your Like on their article.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
Sharing your friends list shows an app which friends also use it; friends cannot share your nonpublic data
If you use Facebook Login and give an app developer permission to view your friends list, the developer can view a list of your Facebook friends who use the same app and also granted that permission; it cannot access nonpublic information about your friends or followers through this process, although it receives more if your friends share information themselves. You will appear on friends lists your friends choose to share with the same app, and you can remove that permission or the app entirely. Your friends might share their friends lists with developers through Facebook Login, but they cannot use Facebook Login to share nonpublic information about you.
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If you use Facebook Login to log into an app, the app developer might request access to your list of Facebook friends. Here's what happens if you give the app developer permission to view these lists:
They can view and access a list of your Facebook friends who use the same app and have given the app permission to access their list of friends. They can’t access nonpublic information about your friends or followers through this process. Note that the app developer will receive more information about your friends if your friends choose to share it themselves.
You’ll appear on friends lists that your Facebook friends can choose to share with the same app. You can remove this permission, or the app entirely, if you later decide that you don’t want to share your friends list with an app, or don’t want to appear on other friends lists shared with that app.
Your friends might choose to share their friends lists with app developers through Facebook Login. But your friends can’t use Facebook Login to share nonpublic information about you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Only mutual users who granted the same permission appear on the shared list.
You can later remove the permission or the app.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment
Meta shares with advertisers, hired vendors and researchers; it says it does not and never will sell your information
The section highlights say Meta shares certain information with advertisers who show ads on its Products, businesses it hires to market its Products, businesses it hires for things like customer service or surveys, and researchers who use it to innovate, advance technology or improve safety. Meta states it does not sell any of your information to anyone and never will, and that it requires partners and other third parties to follow rules about how they can and cannot use and disclose the information it provides.
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We share certain information with:
Advertisers who show ads on our Products
Businesses we hire to market our Products for us
Businesses we hire to do things like offer customer service or conduct surveys
Researchers who use it to do things like innovate, advance technology, or improve people’s safety
We don’t sell your information, and we never will.
We don't sell any of your information to anyone, and we never will. We also require partners[50] and other third parties[51] to follow rules about how they can and cannot use and disclose the information we provide.
Here’s more detail about who we share information with:
Qualifications & exceptions
The no-sale commitment is Meta's own characterization; the rules partners must follow are not set out here.
Not stated here
The content of the use and disclosure rules imposed on partners.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Advertisers get audience reports and engagement details but not your name or email unless you permit
Meta provides advertisers with reports about the number and kinds of people who see and engage with their ads and commercial content, including general demographics and interests of those who engaged. It also gives advertisers and their vendors information about which ads and commercial content people engaged with, when, and where it was shown (for example on Instagram or Facebook), and confirms which ads you viewed that led you to take an action with an advertiser, such as downloading its app. Meta says it does not share information with these advertisers and vendors that by itself can be used to contact or identify you, such as your name or email address, unless you give permission.
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We provide advertisers with reports about the number and kinds of people who see and engage with their ads and commercial content. These reports include information about the general demographics and interests of people who engaged with an advertiser’s ad or commercial content. Then advertisers can better understand their audience.
Meta also provides advertisers and their vendors with information about:
Ads and commercial content people engaged with, if any
When people engaged with ads and commercial content
Where that ad or commercial content was shown (for example, on Instagram, or on Facebook)
We also confirm which ads or commercial content you viewed that led you to take an action with an advertiser, such as downloading an advertiser's app. But we don't share information with these advertisers and their vendors that by itself can be used to contact or identify you, such as your name or email address, unless you give us permission.
Qualifications & exceptions
Directly identifying information is shared only if you give permission.
Reports describe general demographics and interests, with an example footnote.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Audience Network publishers get ad engagement counts and request data, not your identifying details without permission
Meta Audience Network lets advertisers place ads with Meta that are published on other apps and websites outside Meta. To show you ads there, Meta shares information with publishers using Audience Network and vendors facilitating that use, for example how many people see and engage with ads on publisher apps and information related to or in response to a publisher's request to serve an ad on its app. Meta does not share with these publishers and vendors information that by itself can be used to contact or identify you, such as your name or email, unless you give permission.
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Meta Audience Network lets advertisers place ads with us that will be published on other apps and websites outside of Meta.
To help show you ads on their apps and websites, we share information with publishers who use Audience Network, as well as vendors who facilitate that use. For example, we share:
How many people see and engage with ads on publisher apps
Information related to or in response to a
But we don't share information with these publishers and their vendors that by itself can be used to contact or identify you, such as your name or email address, unless you give us permission[53].
Qualifications & exceptions
Identifying information is shared only with your permission.
Not stated here
The publisher request page is linked but not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Analytics partners receive aggregate reports on interactions, demographics, interests and connection performance
Businesses rely on Meta's Products such as business accounts, professional tools and Facebook Pages and use its analytics services to understand how people use their content, features, products and services. To provide these services Meta uses the information it collects about you and puts it into aggregate reports showing how many people interacted with the partner's content, products or services, the general demographics and interests of those people, and how people use the partner's products and services to connect to Meta Products and the performance of their connection and networks. Advertisers also receive other information described in the advertiser subsection.
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People rely on our Products[54], like business accounts, professional tools and Facebook Pages, to run and promote their businesses. Businesses use our analytics services to understand more about how people are using their content, features, products and services.
To provide these services, we use the information we collect about you. We put this information into aggregate reports so that partners can see how well their content, features, products and services are performing and are able to understand things like users’ experience with such content, products and services.
These reports aggregate information like:
How many people interacted with our partners' content, products or services
The general demographics and interests[52] of the people who interacted with it
How people use our partners’ products and services to connect to Meta Products and the performance of their connection and networks
Advertisers also receive other information. Read our Policy about how we share information with advertisers.
Qualifications & exceptions
Reports are described as aggregate.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Sellers, creators, charities and payment providers get order, payment, security and regulatory data when you transact
When you choose to make a transaction or otherwise share information with a seller, creator, fundraiser, charity, payment services provider or commerce services platform, Meta shares information with them and with providers acting on their behalf. Depending on how you interact, they receive information to complete the transaction (order, payment, contact and shipping), information to help secure it such as device or connection details, any information required by applicable regulation, and other information you choose to share. For example, an Instagram shop purchase through checkout sends the shop your order items, contact details and shipping information, and a payment services provider such as PayPal receives the transaction amount, a description for your card statement and your payment card information including cardholder name, card number, expiration date and billing address.
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When you choose to make a transaction[55], or otherwise choose to share information with a seller, creator, fundraiser, charity, payment services provider or commerce services platform[56], we share information with them and with any providers acting on their behalf.
Depending on how you interact with them, they receive:
Information to complete your transaction, like order, payment, contact and shipping information
Information to help ensure the security of the transaction, like information about your device or connection
Any information required by applicable regulation
Other information you choose to share with them
If the shop uses a payment services provider, such as PayPal, to facilitate the transaction, the provider will receive the transaction amount, a transaction description (to appear on your credit card statement) and your payment card information, such as cardholder name, card number, expiration date and billing address.
Qualifications & exceptions
Triggered by your choice to transact or share with such a party.
What each party receives depends on how you interact with it.
Not stated here
The Instagram payments help page is linked but not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Measurement vendors receive ad view and engagement data to compile aggregated reports for advertisers
Meta does not create every measurement and analytics report itself. It shares information such as whether people saw or engaged with an ad with measurement vendors, who aggregate or compile it to provide their reports; for example a vendor may compare Meta's click data with an advertiser's purchase data to produce aggregated reports on ad performance. Integrated partners may also receive information about you and your activity when you choose to use their products or services, as the sharing section notes.
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When you choose to use integrated partners’ products or services, they may receive information about you and your activity.
We don’t create every measurement and analytics report ourselves.
We share information (like whether people saw an ad or engaged with it) with our measurement vendors[57], who aggregate or compile it to provide their reports.
The measurement vendor compares information from us about clicks on the advertiser’s Facebook ads with information from the advertiser about product purchases. Then the measurement vendor creates and provides aggregated reports that show the advertiser how its ads are performing.
Qualifications & exceptions
Vendor reports are described as aggregated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Marketing vendors get your device and other identifiers to serve and measure Meta's own ads across the internet
Meta shares information about you with marketing vendors, for example your device identifier or other identifiers, to help serve you Meta's ads most relevant to your interests. These vendors serve Meta's advertisements across the internet, including mobile, desktop and connected TV devices; track and categorize your online and mobile app activity; and provide Meta information about your interests and community and advertising interactions. They help Meta understand who might find its advertising relevant and which Products might interest you, which can personalize which Meta ads you see, and they measure response to and effectiveness of Meta's marketing. A footnote on managing Meta ads off its Products is referenced.
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We share information about you with marketing vendors[58]. For example, we share your device identifier or other identifiers with marketing vendors to help us serve you ads most relevant to your interests.
Marketing vendors support our marketing and advertising efforts by:
Serving our advertisements across the internet, including on mobile, desktop and connected television devices
Tracking and categorizing your online and mobile app activity
Providing us information about your interests and community and advertising interactions
These marketing vendors help us understand who might find our advertising most relevant to their interests, and which of our Products might interest you. This information can be used to personalize which of our ads are shown to you. Marketing vendors also use this information to measure response to our marketing efforts and the effectiveness of our advertising.
about how to manage the Meta ads you see off our Products.
Qualifications & exceptions
This concerns Meta's own marketing of its Products, not advertisers' ads.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Service providers receive your information for security, payments, support, infrastructure, analytics and marketing
Service providers provide services that help Meta deliver its Products, and Meta shares the information it has about you to receive those services, which include investigating suspicious activity, detecting and stopping threats to its personnel and property, facilitating payments, providing customer support, improving Product functionality, providing technical infrastructure, analyzing how Products are used, conducting research and surveys, and marketing and promoting its Products.
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Service providers provide services to us that help us provide our Products to you. We share the information we have about you to receive these services, which include:
Investigating suspicious activity
Detecting and stopping threats to our personnel and property
Facilitating payments
Providing customer support
Improving the functionality of our Products
Providing technical infrastructure services
Analyzing how our Products are used
Conducting research and surveys
Marketing and promoting our Products
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Meta provides information to external researchers for scholarship, safety and public-interest goals
Meta provides information to external researchers, who use it for research that advances scholarship and innovation and promotes safety, security and integrity. Research goals include supporting Meta's business or mission, social good, technological advancement, safety and security on its Products, public interest, and health and well-being. Meta says it ensures user privacy is protected when sharing with researchers; linked pages on privacy-safe research are not supplied.
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We provide information to external researchers. They use it to conduct research that advances scholarship and innovation, and to promote safety, security and integrity.
Research goals include supporting:
Our business or mission
Social good.
Technological advancement
Safety and security on our Products
Public interest
Health and well-being
When sharing information with external researchers, we ensure the privacy of our users is protected.
Qualifications & exceptions
Privacy protection for research sharing is asserted; the method is in unsupplied pages.
Not stated here
What privacy safeguards apply to research sharing.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Meta sometimes shares information with selected partners like search engines to improve AI answers
Because the generative AI models behind Meta's features may lack complete or recent information, Meta works with other selected partners such as search engine providers and sometimes shares certain information with them to bring you the most relevant information. A linked page describing this sharing is not supplied.
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That's why we work with other selected partners, like search engine providers. We sometimes share certain information with these partners so we can bring you the most relevant information.
Qualifications & exceptions
Sharing is described as sometimes and limited to certain information.
Not stated here
Which partners and what information; the linked explanation is not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Meta shares with third parties for legal requests, law and harm prevention, and with a buyer of its business
Meta also shares information with other third parties in response to legal requests, to comply with applicable law or to prevent harm, as detailed in the legal section of the Policy. If Meta sells or transfers all or part of its business, in some cases it will give the new owner your information as part of that transaction, but only as the law allows. The Partner and Third party definitions are repeated here.
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We also share information with other third parties[51] in response to legal requests, to comply with applicable law or to prevent harm.
And if we sell or transfer all or part of our business to someone else, in some cases we’ll give the new owner your information as part of that transaction, but only as the law allows.
A person, business, organization or body using or integrating our Products to advertise, market or support their products and services
A person, business, organization or body that is not part of the Meta Companies
Qualifications & exceptions
Transfer to a new owner happens in some cases and only as the law allows.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
You can view and remove assigned interests in Ad preferences; advertisers see aggregated audience statistics
You can see the interests Meta has assigned to you in your Ad preferences and remove them if you want. Advertisers then see reports with aggregated statistics about the audience seeing their ads and ad performance, for example that most people who saw or clicked were women, aged 25 to 34, or clicked from their phone.
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and remove them if you want.
The bike shop can then see reports showing aggregated statistics about the audience seeing their ads and how their ads are performing. The reports would show statistics to the advertiser that, for example, most of the people who saw or clicked on their ad:
Were women
Were between the ages of 25 and 34
Clicked on the ad from their phone
Qualifications & exceptions
Advertiser reports are described as aggregated statistics.
Sharing & Disclosure · Context
Submitting a lead form through an ad gives the advertiser the name and contact details you provide
As an example of when you give Meta permission to share identifying information, you might click a business's ad in your Facebook Feed and submit a form with your name and contact information; the advertiser then receives the information you provided. The Products footnote is repeated.
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For example, you might request more information from a business by clicking their ad in your Facebook Feed and submitting a form with your name and contact information. Then the advertiser would receive the information you provided.
This Policy describes the information we, Meta Platforms, Inc., process to provide
Meta shares data, infrastructure and systems with the Meta Companies, including WhatsApp, and may act as their provider
Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Meta Quest and the other Products covered by this Policy, and also owns the Meta Companies, which include WhatsApp; Meta Company Products include all Meta Products covered by this Policy plus other products like WhatsApp. Meta shares the information it collects, as well as infrastructure, systems and technology, with the other Meta Companies, and it processes information received about you from other Meta Companies according to their terms and policies and as permitted by applicable law. In some cases Meta acts as a service provider for other Meta Companies, acting on their behalf and under their instructions and terms. The highlights add that sharing within the Companies supports new features or shared experiences and that name and email address are shared to verify accounts and check suspicious activity. The Products and service provider footnotes are repeated; the Meta Companies list and their policies are linked but not supplied.
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Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Meta Quest and the other Products covered by this Policy
Meta also owns the Meta Companies, which include WhatsApp
Sometimes we share information within these Companies
We do this to make new features or shared experiences between different products
We also share information, like your name and email address, to help verify your accounts, and check out suspicious activities. This helps us keep your accounts safe.
include all the Meta Products[60] covered by this Policy, plus other products like WhatsApp and more.
We share information we collect, infrastructure, systems and technology with the other Meta Companies. Learn more about how we transfer information to other countries.
We also process information that we receive about you from other Meta Companies, according to their terms and policies and as permitted by applicable law. In some cases, Meta acts as a service provider[61] for other Meta Companies. We act on their behalf and in accordance with their instructions and terms.
This Policy describes the information we, Meta Platforms, Inc., process to provide
A person, business, organization or body that provides services to Meta or to our users on behalf of Meta. For example, our service providers do things like investigate suspicious activity and provide customer support.
Qualifications & exceptions
Processing of information from other Meta Companies follows their terms and applicable law.
Not stated here
The full list of Meta Companies and their policies.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Meta shares with Meta Companies for safety and law, ad personalization, features, and usage understanding
Meta Products share information with other Meta Companies to promote safety, security and integrity and comply with applicable laws; to personalize offers, ads and other sponsored or commercial content; to develop, provide and personalize features and integrations; and to understand how people use and interact with Meta Company Products. For safety and legal purposes, for example with Meta Companies that provide financial products and services, this includes complying with their legal obligations, keeping you and others safe, performing account verification, investigating suspicious activities and creating analytics, and Meta might share your name, email address, who you are friends with and other account information within the Meta Companies.
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Meta Products share information with other Meta Companies:
To promote safety, security and integrity and comply with applicable laws
To personalize offers, ads and other sponsored or commercial content
To develop, provide and personalize features and integrations
To understand how people use and interact with Meta Company Products
of why we share.
For example, we share information with Meta Companies that provide financial products and services to help them promote safety, security and integrity and comply with applicable law. This includes:
Complying with their legal obligations
Helping keep you and others safe
Performing account verification
Investigating suspicious activities
Creating analytics
For these purposes, we might share your name, email address, who you’re friends with and other account information within the Meta Companies.
Qualifications & exceptions
Financial-services sharing is given as an example of the safety and compliance purpose.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
WhatsApp integrations, AI training on your videos and user counting are examples of cross-company sharing
Where available in your country you can choose integrations connecting WhatsApp with other Meta Company Products, such as paying with your Meta Pay account on WhatsApp or chatting with friends on other Meta Company Products like smart glasses by connecting your WhatsApp account. Meta also shares information with Meta Companies to support innovation: your videos can help train its products to recognize objects or activities and help train tools that let people and businesses create images and videos, used to offer new products or features. Meta also counts unique, monthly active and daily active users to understand its community and publicly share usage trends.
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For example, where available in your country, you can choose to use certain integrations that connect your WhatsApp experiences with other Meta Company Products. These integrations let you do things like:
Use your Meta Pay account to pay for things on WhatsApp
Chat with your friends on other Meta Company Products, such as smart glasses, by connecting your WhatsApp account
We also share information with Meta Companies to support innovation. For example, your videos can help train our products to recognize objects, like trees, or activities, like when a dog chases a ball. They can also help train tools that let people and businesses create content, like images and videos. This technology is used to help us offer new products or features in the future.
We count the number of unique users, monthly active users and daily active users on our products. This information helps us understand the community using our products and publicly share important trends about how our products are used.
Qualifications & exceptions
WhatsApp integrations are optional and depend on availability in your country.
Training use of your videos is stated without an opt-out in this section.
Not stated here
Whether and how you can limit use of your videos for training.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Meta transfers information worldwide to its offices, data centers, partners, vendors and providers
Meta shares the information it collects globally, internally across its offices and data centers and externally with partners, measurement vendors, service providers and other third parties. Because Meta is global, transfers are necessary to operate and provide the services stated in the terms of the Meta Product you use and this Policy, including letting you share and connect with family and friends around the globe, and to fix, analyze and improve its Products. Your information will be transferred to, stored and processed in places where Meta has infrastructure or data centers, including the United States, Ireland, Denmark and Sweden among others; countries where Meta Company Products are available; and other countries where its partners, vendors, service providers and third parties are located outside your country, for purposes described in the Policy. The highlights say Meta follows international regulations to keep information safe during transfers.
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Because we connect people all around the world, we need to transfer information all around the world, too
When we do this, we follow international regulations to keep your information safe
We share the information we collect globally, both internally across our offices and data centers, and externally with our partners[72], measurement vendors[73], service providers[74] and other third parties[75]. Because Meta is global, with users, partners and employees around the world, transfers are necessary for a variety of reasons, including:
So we can operate and provide the services stated in the terms of the Meta Product[76] you’re using and this Policy. This includes allowing you to share information and connect with your family and friends around the globe.
So we can fix, analyze and improve our Products
Your information will be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in:
Places we have infrastructure or data centers, including the United States, Ireland, Denmark and Sweden, among others
Countries where Meta Company Products are available
Other countries where our partners, vendors, service providers and other third parties are located outside of the country where you live, for purposes as described in this Policy
Qualifications & exceptions
Transfer destinations include countries other than where you live.
Not stated here
The full list of countries with Meta infrastructure.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Meta shares with law enforcement, governments, Meta Companies and peers on a good-faith belief of necessity
Meta shares your information with law enforcement, government authorities, Meta Companies and other third parties including industry peers when it has a good faith belief it is necessary to detect, prevent and address situations such as unauthorized use of its Products (for example sharing your information to defend against claims if you unlawfully collect Facebook user data), violations of its terms and policies (for example sharing across the Meta Companies after threatening or harmful content, which can include blocking features or disabling your account across the Meta Companies), investigating suspicious activity, protecting Meta's rights, property, personnel or Products, preventing abuse, fraud or other harmful or illegal activity on and off its Products, protecting you or others including in investigations or regulatory inquiries, and emergencies such as risk of death or imminent bodily harm.
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We share your information with law enforcement, government authorities, Meta Companies and other third parties (including industry peers) when we have a good faith belief it’s necessary to detect, prevent and address a variety of situations, such as:
Unauthorized use of our Products.
Violations of our terms and policies.
Investigating suspicious activity
Protecting ourselves, including our rights, property, personnel or Products
Preventing abuse, fraud, or other harmful or illegal activity, on and off our Products
Protecting you or others, including as part of investigations or regulatory inquiries
Emergency situations, such as risk of death or imminent bodily harm
For example, if you unlawfully collect and use Facebook user data, we may share your information to defend ourselves against claims or in litigation.
For example, if you post threatening or harmful content, we may share your information across the Meta Companies to protect ourselves and others. This can include blocking your access to certain features or disabling your account across the Meta Companies.
Qualifications & exceptions
The trigger is Meta's good faith belief that sharing is necessary.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Cross-border transfers, including to and from the United States, support providing services and improving Products
Meta transfers, stores or processes your information across borders, including from and to the United States and other countries, sharing information globally across its offices and data centers and externally with partners, third parties and service providers. Because Meta is global, transfers are necessary to operate and provide the services described in the terms that apply to the Meta Products you use, including sharing and connecting with family and friends around the globe, and to fix, analyze and improve its Products.
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Transferring, storing or processing your information globally
Why and how we process your information:
Transferring, storing or processing your information across borders, including from and to the United States and other countries: We share information we collect globally, both internally across our offices and data centers and externally with our partners[91], third parties[92] and service providers[93]. Because Meta is global, with users, partners, vendors and employees around the world, transfers are necessary:
To operate and provide the services described in the terms that apply to the Meta Product(s) you are using. This includes allowing you to share information and connect with your family and friends around the globe; and
To fix, analyze and improve our Products.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Global transfers may involve activity, metadata, AI interactions, transactions, selfies, connections and device data
For cross-border transfer, storage and processing, the categories Meta may use depending on your circumstances include content you create; camera and voice content; metadata about content and messages subject to applicable law; AI at Meta interactions and metadata; content viewed and how; apps and features used; purchases including truncated credit card information; hashtags; time, frequency and duration of activities; your selfie if provided for account support; friends, followers and connections; app, browser and device information (characteristics and software, device activity, identifiers, signals, settings data, location, network including IP address, cookies); and partner, vendor and third-party information. The transfer section of the Policy is cross-referenced.
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For more information, see the "How do we transfer information?" section of the Meta Privacy Policy.
The actual information we use depends on your factual circumstances, but could include any of the following:
Your activity and information you provide:
Content you create, like posts, comments or audio
Content you provide through our camera feature or your camera roll settings, or through our voice-enabled features
Metadata about content and messages, subject to applicable law
and related metadata. For example, information you or others exchange with AI at Meta like content and messages
Types of content you view or interact with, and how you interact with it
Apps and features you use, and what actions you take in them
Purchases or other transactions you make, including truncated credit card information
Hashtags you use
The time, frequency and duration of your activities on our Products
Your photo or video selfie if you provide it when you contact us for account support
Friends, followers and other connections
App, browser and device information:
Information from partners, vendors and third parties
Qualifications & exceptions
Metadata use is subject to applicable law.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Transfer device categories: characteristics, activity, identifiers, signals, settings, location, IP and cookies
The device categories listed for global transfers are device characteristics and software; what you are doing on your device, such as foreground state or mouse movement used to tell humans from bots; identifiers; device signals; device-settings data; location-related information; network information including IP address; and cookies and similar technologies.
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Device characteristics and device software
What you’re doing on your device, like whether our app is in the foreground or if your mouse is moving (which can help tell humans from bots)
Identifiers that tell your device apart from other users’
Device signals
Information you’ve shared through your device settings
Location-related information
Information about the network you connect your device to, including your IP address
Information from cookies and similar technologies
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
At your request Meta shares contact or profile data with advertisers or apps you log into
Meta shares your contact, profile or other information with third parties upon your request; the type of third party and categories shared depend on what you ask it to share. For example, it shares your email or other contact information or other information you choose when you direct it to share with an advertiser so they can contact you about a promoted product, and if you integrate other apps, games or websites with Meta Products and log in, it shares your information with that app, game or website to log you in. The categories include contact or profile information and content you create such as posts or comments.
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Sharing information with third parties at your request
Why and how we process your information:
Sharing your contact, profile or other information with third parties upon your request: The type of third party and categories of information shared depend on the circumstances of what you ask us to share. For example:
We share your email (or other contact information) or other information you might choose when you direct us to share it with an advertiser so they can contact you with additional information about a promoted product, and
If you choose to integrate other apps, games or websites with Meta Products and log in, we’ll share your information with the app, game or website to log you in.
The actual information we use depends on your factual circumstances, but could include any of the following:
Your activity and information you provide:
Information such as your contact or profile information
Content you create, like posts or comments
Providing measurement, analytics and business services
Qualifications & exceptions
Triggered by your request or your choice to log in through an integration.