Information Facebook receives when you visit a site with the Like button

• Logged-in visits to a site with the Like button send Facebook information about the visit Data Access & Collection

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If you’re logged into Facebook and visit a website with the Like button, your browser sends us information about your visit. Since the Like button is a little piece of Facebook embedded on another website, the browser is sending information about the request to load Facebook content on that page.

• Logged-in visits to a site with the Like button send Facebook information about the visit Data Access & Collection

We record this information to help personalize your experience on the site and to improve our products. For example, when you go to a website with a Like button, we need to know who you are in order to show you what your Facebook friends have liked on that site. The data we receive includes your user ID, the website you're visiting, the date and time and other browser-related information.

• When you are logged in, the data Facebook receives includes your user ID, the website, date and time and browser info Data Access & Collection
• Facebook records logged-in Like button visit data to personalize your experience on the site and improve its products Use & Processing

If you’re logged out or don’t have a Facebook account and visit a website with the Like button or another social plugin, your browser sends us a more limited set of information. For example, because you’re not logged into Facebook, you’ll have fewer cookies than someone who's logged in. Like other sites on the Internet, we receive information about the web page you're visiting, the date and time and other browser-related information. We record this information to help us improve our products.

• Logged-out visitors and people without a Facebook account send a more limited set of information Data Access & Collection

As our Privacy Policy indicates, we use cookies to show you ads on and off Facebook. We may also use the information we receive when you visit a site with social plugins to help us show you more interesting and useful ads.

• Facebook records logged-in Like button visit data to personalize your experience on the site and improve its products Use & Processing
• Facebook uses cookies to show ads on and off Facebook and may use social plugin visit information for ads Use & Processing

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