Ways to express yourself: sharing, messaging, calls and engagement insights
The Terms list ways to communicate and express yourself: status updates, photos, videos and stories shared across Meta Products consistent with the user's settings, messages, voice or video calls, events and groups, profile content, and insights on how others engage with the user's content. Meta also says it is developing new formats such as augmented reality and 360 video.
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sharing status updates, photos, videos, and stories across the Meta Products (consistent with your settings), sending messages or making voice or video calls to a friend or several people, creating events or groups, or adding content to your profile as well as showing you insights on how others engage with your content.
Qualifications & exceptions
Sharing across Meta Products is described as consistent with the user's settings.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Prohibited use: content you do not own or have rights to, and infringement
The user may not use the Products to do or share anything that the user does not own or have the necessary rights to share, or that infringes or violates someone else's rights, including intellectual property rights such as copyright or trademark, or distributing or selling counterfeit or pirated goods. The infringement bar is stated to apply "unless an exception or limitation applies under applicable law".
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That you do not own or have the necessary rights to share.
That infringes or violates someone else's rights, including their intellectual property rights (such as by infringing another’s copyright or trademark, or distributing or selling counterfeit or pirated goods), unless an exception or limitation applies under applicable law.
Qualifications & exceptions
The infringement item has an exception where applicable law provides an exception or limitation.
The ownership/rights item has no stated exception.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
No selling, licensing or purchasing data obtained from Meta, except under the Platform Terms
Except as provided in the Platform Terms, the user may not sell, license or purchase any data obtained from Meta or its services, whether or not the data was obtained while logged in to a Facebook account.
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Except as provided in the [Platform Terms](https://developers.facebook.com/terms), you may not sell, license, or purchase any data obtained from us or our services, regardless of whether such data was obtained while logged-in to a Facebook account.
Qualifications & exceptions
Exception: as provided in the Platform Terms.
Not stated here
The Platform Terms are a linked document that is not supplied.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
You keep ownership of your content and are free to share it elsewhere
The user keeps ownership of intellectual property rights, such as copyright or trademarks, in content the user creates and shares on Facebook and other Meta Company Products used. Nothing in the Terms takes away the user's rights to their own content, and the user is free to share it with anyone else, wherever they want. The ownership statement concerns content the user creates and shares.
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Some content that you share or upload, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws.
You retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (things like copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on Facebook and other
Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to content the user creates and shares on Facebook and other Meta Company Products they use.
Subject to the license described in the next card.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You license your content to Meta: non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide
To provide its services, Meta needs a license from the user to use their content. This license applies to content covered by intellectual property rights that the user shares, posts or uploads on or in connection with the Products. It is non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and worldwide, and allows Meta to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of the content, consistent with the user's privacy and application settings. As an example, sharing a photo gives Meta permission to store, copy and share it with others consistent with the user's settings, such as Meta Products or service providers that support them. Meta says the license is solely for providing and improving its Products and services as described in Section 1, and that it ends when the content is deleted from its systems, subject to the retention cases described in later cards.
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However, to provide our services, we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a "license") to use that content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services as described in Section 1 above.
when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content
This means, for example, that if you share a photo on Facebook, you give us permission to store, copy, and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as Meta Products or service providers that support those products and services. This license will end when your content is deleted from our systems.
Qualifications & exceptions
Covers content "covered by intellectual property rights" that the user shares, posts or uploads on or in connection with the Products.
Exercised consistent with the user's privacy and application settings.
Purpose limited to providing and improving the Products and services as described in Section 1.
Ends when the content is deleted from Meta's systems, but continues in the cases listed in the deletion cards.
Not stated here
Which Meta Products and service providers may receive the content depends on settings and on the Section 1 service descriptions; the text does not list recipients.
The content license continues until retained content is fully deleted
Where content stays because others have used it under the license and not deleted it, the license continues to apply until that content is deleted. More broadly, in each retention case listed for content not deleted within 90 days, the license continues until the content has been fully deleted.
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in which case this license will continue to apply until that content is deleted
In each of the above cases, this license will continue until the content has been fully deleted.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies in each listed retention case.
Where others used the content under the license and have not deleted it, the license continues until that content is deleted.
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How long retention may last in each case is not stated beyond "no longer than is necessary".
You permit use of your name, profile picture and actions next to ads, without compensation
The user gives Meta permission to use their name, profile picture and information about actions they have taken on Facebook next to or in connection with ads, offers and other sponsored or commercial content that Meta displays across its Products, without any compensation to the user. For example, Meta may show friends that the user is interested in an advertised event or has liked a Page created by a brand that paid to display ads. Meta says ads and content like this can be seen only by people who have permission to see the actions the user has taken on Meta Products, and points to ad settings and preferences.
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You give us permission to use your name and profile picture and information about actions you have taken on Facebook next to or in connection with ads, offers, and other sponsored or commercial content that we display across our Products, without any compensation to you.
Ads and content like this can be seen only by people who have your permission to see the actions you've taken on Meta Products.
We don’t share information that directly 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 specific permission.
Qualifications & exceptions
Covers name, profile picture and information about actions taken on Facebook.
No compensation to the user.
Visible only to people who have permission to see the user's actions on Meta Products.
Elsewhere Meta says it does not share directly identifying information such as a name with advertisers unless the user gives specific permission.
Not stated here
The text does not say whether the permission given here is the "specific permission" that Section 2 refers to for sharing directly identifying information with advertisers.
Ad settings and preferences are on a linked page that is not supplied.
Cross-references
contrast (model-proposed): Meta says it does not sell personal data to advertisers or share identifying details without permission — contrast: Meta says it does not share directly identifying information such as a name with advertisers without specific permission, while the user also permits use of name and profile picture next to ads shown to people allowed to see the user's actions; the text does not say whether that permission is the specific permission.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Meta keeps rights in its content; its trademarks and copyrights only as permitted
If the user uses content covered by intellectual property rights that Meta has and makes available in its Products, such as images, designs, videos or sounds that the user adds to content they create or share, Meta retains all rights to that content but not the user's. The user can use Meta's copyrights or trademarks, or similar marks, only as expressly permitted by Meta's Brand Usage Guidelines or with Meta's prior written permission.
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we retain all rights to that content (but not yours). You can only use our copyrights or [trademarks (or any similar marks)](https://about.meta.com/brand/resources/meta/our-trademarks/) as expressly permitted by our [Brand Usage Guidelines](https://about.meta.com/brand/resources/meta/company-brand/) or with our prior written permission.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to content that Meta has and makes available in its Products.
Meta's retention of rights does not extend to the user's own content.
Exception: express permission in the Brand Usage Guidelines or Meta's prior written permission.
Not stated here
The Brand Usage Guidelines are a linked document that is not supplied.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
No modifying, translating, decompiling or reverse engineering Meta products without permission
The user must obtain Meta's written permission, or permission under an open source license, to modify, translate, create derivative works of, decompile or reverse engineer Meta's products or their components, or otherwise try to extract source code. This does not apply where an exception or limitation applies under applicable law or where the conduct relates to the Meta Bug Bounty Program. Meta reserves all rights not expressly granted to the user.
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You must obtain our written permission (or permission under an open source license) to modify, translate, create derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer our products or their components, or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us, unless an exception or limitation applies under applicable law or your conduct relates to the [Meta Bug Bounty Program](https://m.facebook.com/whitehat).
We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Exceptions: permission under an open source license, an exception or limitation under applicable law, or conduct relating to the Meta Bug Bounty Program.
Meta reserves all rights not expressly granted.
Not stated here
The Meta Bug Bounty Program terms are a linked document that is not supplied.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Meta may use your feedback without restriction, compensation or confidentiality
Meta may use feedback and other suggestions about its products and services without any restriction or obligation to compensate the user, and it is under no obligation to keep them confidential.
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we may use feedback and other suggestions without any restriction or obligation to compensate you, and we are under no obligation to keep them confidential.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Music Guidelines and the Pages, Groups and Events Policy apply to specific uses
The Music Guidelines are described as the policies that apply if the user posts or shares content containing music on any Meta Products. The Facebook Pages, Groups and Events Policy is described as applying if the user creates or administers a Facebook Page, group or event, or uses Facebook to communicate or administer a promotion.
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These guidelines outline the policies that apply if you post or share content containing music on any Meta Products.
These guidelines apply if you create or administer a Facebook Page, group, or event, or if you use Facebook to communicate or administer a promotion.
Qualifications & exceptions
Each applies to the use it names.
Not stated here
The text of the Music Guidelines and the Pages, Groups and Events Policy is not supplied.