The policy uses 'cookies' for more than browser cookies. It covers small pieces of text that store and receive identifiers and other information on computers, phones and other devices, and also other technologies used for similar purposes: data stored on your browser or device, identifiers associated with your device, and other software.
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Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers. Cookies are used to store and receive identifiers and other information on computers, phones and other devices. Other technologies, including data that we store on your web browser or device, identifiers associated with your device and other software, are used for similar purposes. In this policy, we refer to all of these technologies as “cookies”.
Qualifications & exceptions
Every later statement about 'cookies' in this policy includes these similar technologies, not only browser cookies.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
When Meta uses cookies, including on other companies' sites
Meta says it uses cookies if you have a Facebook or Instagram account, use the Meta Products (including its website and apps), or visit other websites and apps that use the Meta Products (including the Like button). The stated purpose is to let Meta offer the Meta Products and to understand the information it receives about you, including your use of other websites and apps, whether or not you are registered or logged in. Later sections confirm this reaches other companies' sites and apps: Meta uses cookies and receives information when you visit them, without further action from you, whether or not you have an account or are logged in, and business partners may also share information from cookies set in their own website domains.
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We use cookies if you have a Facebook or Instagram account, use the [Meta Products](https://www.facebook.com/help/1561485474074139), including our website and apps, or visit other websites and apps that use the Meta Products (including the Like button). Cookies enable Meta to offer the Meta Products to you and to understand the information that we receive about you, including information about your use of other websites and apps, whether or not you are registered or logged in.
Meta uses cookies and receives information when you visit those sites and apps, including [device information](https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy?subpage=1.subpage.3-AppBrowserAndDevice&entry_point=POLICY_SECTION%3A2_where) and information about your activity, without any further action from you. This occurs whether or not you have a Facebook or Instagram account or are logged in.
Our business partners may also choose to share information with Meta from cookies set in their own websites' domains, whether or not you have a Facebook or Instagram account or are logged in. Specifically, cookies named _fbc or _fbp may be set on the domain of the business partner whose site you're visiting.
Third-party websites and apps
Where do we use cookies?
Qualifications & exceptions
The reach depends on the other company using the Meta Products on its site or app; the policy does not say which companies do.
For partner-domain cookies, the policy says business partners 'may choose' to share the information.
Not stated here
What 'Meta Products' covers is defined on a linked help page that this source does not supply.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Where Meta places and reads cookies
Meta says it may place cookies on your computer or device and receive information stored in cookies when you use or visit: the Meta Products; products provided by other members of the Meta Companies; and websites and apps provided by other companies that use the Meta Products.
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We may place cookies on your computer or device and receive information stored in cookies when you use or visit:
The [Meta Products](https://www.facebook.com/help/1561485474074139?ref=cookies&entry_point=POLICY_SECTION%3A2_where);
Products provided by other members of the [Meta Companies](https://www.facebook.com/help/111814505650678?ref=cookies&entry_point=POLICY_SECTION%3A2_where); and
Websites and apps provided by other companies that use the Meta Products, including companies that incorporate Meta technologies into their websites and apps.
Qualifications & exceptions
'May' describes what Meta may do; the list is the stated set of places.
Not stated here
'Meta Products' and 'Meta Companies' are defined on linked help pages that this source does not supply.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Cookies and information collected on other companies' sites and apps
On websites and apps of other companies that use the Meta Products, including companies that incorporate Meta technologies, Meta uses cookies and receives information when you visit, including device information and information about your activity, without any further action from you. This occurs whether or not you have a Facebook or Instagram account or are logged in.
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Meta uses cookies and receives information when you visit those sites and apps, including [device information](https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy?subpage=1.subpage.3-AppBrowserAndDevice&entry_point=POLICY_SECTION%3A2_where) and information about your activity, without any further action from you. This occurs whether or not you have a Facebook or Instagram account or are logged in.
Not stated here
What 'device information' includes is described in the Privacy Policy, which this source does not supply.