This policy covers Telegram Messenger Inc.'s cloud messaging Services and forms part of its Terms of Service
The policy explains how Telegram Messenger Inc. uses and protects the personal data you give it, or that it otherwise obtains or generates, when you use its cloud-based messaging services. It forms part of Telegram's Terms of Service and is meant to be read together with them.
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This Privacy Policy sets out how we, Telegram Messenger Inc. (“Telegram”), use and protect your personal data that you provide to us, or that is otherwise obtained or generated by us, in connection with your use of our cloud-based messaging services (the “Services”).
This Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms of Service, which describes the terms under which you use our Services
This Privacy Policy should therefore be read in conjunction with those terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
"Services" is defined as Telegram's cloud-based messaging services; later sections also describe Premium, Business, bot and payment features.
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The Terms of Service are a separate document that is not part of this saved text, so what they add on privacy is not shown here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure
EEA users: Telegram is the data controller and has appointed EDPO as its GDPR representative
If you live in the European Economic Area, Telegram is the data controller responsible for your personal data. Because Telegram is located outside the EEA, it has designated the European Data Protection Office (EDPO) as its representative under Article 27 of the GDPR. You can send GDPR-related queries to EDPO through its online request form or by writing to its address in Brussels. The same representative is the contact for more information about the standard contract clauses that cover sharing with Telegram group companies (section 8.2).
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the Services are provided by Telegram, which for the purposes of applicable data protection legislation is the data controller responsible for your personal data when you use our Services
However, as Telegram is located outside the EEA, we have designated a third party, European Data Protection Office (EDPO), as our
pursuant to Article 27 of the GDPR. You can direct to EDPO any of your GDPR-related queries:
by using EDPO’s online request form at
by writing to EDPO at Avenue Huart Hamoir 71, 1030 Brussels, Belgium.
please contact our EEA representative using the details in section 1.4 above.
Qualifications & exceptions
The controller statement and the EDPO route are stated for people who live in the EEA.
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The text does not say whether Telegram names a representative or a different controller arrangement for users outside the EEA, such as in the United States.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company practice
Telegram says it processes personal data on the ground of its legitimate interests
Telegram states that it processes your personal data on the ground that this is necessary for its legitimate interests, which it gives as providing effective and innovative Services and detecting, preventing or otherwise addressing fraud or security issues in providing the Services. It adds that this applies unless those interests are overridden by your interest or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protection of personal data.
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We process your personal data on the ground that such processing is necessary to further our legitimate interests (including: (1) providing effective and innovative Services to our users; and (2) to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud or security issues in respect of our provision of Services), unless those interests are overridden by your interest or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protections of personal data.
Qualifications & exceptions
This section names legitimate interests as the ground for processing. Section 5.6.1 repeats that basis for data used to serve ads.
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The policy does not describe how Telegram weighs its interests against yours in a particular case.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company practice
Third-party bot developers are independent of Telegram; only certain bots have Telegram-set terms
The terms of use for certain bots are set by Telegram. No other bots or third-party bot developers are affiliated with Telegram; they are completely independent from it. Telegram says they should ask your permission before they access your data or you make it available to them. Your use of the Bot and Mini App features is governed by the Terms of Service for Bots and the Terms of Services for Mini Apps.
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The terms of use for certain bots are set by Telegram. No other bots or third-party bot developers are affiliated with Telegram. They are completely independent from us. They should ask you for your permission before they access your data or you make it available to them.
Your usage of the Bot and Mini App features is governed by the
Qualifications & exceptions
The permission point is stated as what bots "should" do, not as something Telegram guarantees.
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The policy does not say which bots have Telegram-set terms. The Terms of Service for Bots and for Mini Apps are separate documents that are not part of this saved text.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company practice
Changes take effect when posted on the policy page; important changes are notified through Telegram
Telegram says it will review and may update the policy from time to time. Changes become effective when the revised policy is posted on its privacy page, and Telegram asks you to check the website frequently for updates, a summary of which is listed in the policy. Important changes made to the policy will be notified to you via Telegram.
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We will review and may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on this page
Please check our website frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy, a summary of which we will set out below.
Important changes made to this Privacy Policy will be notified to you via Telegram.
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No advance-notice period for ordinary changes is stated, and "important changes" is not defined.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
The latest listed change (August 21, 2026) concerns advertising tools and geographic limits on ads
The policy's change log ends with an entry dated August 21, 2026, saying the policy was updated to describe geographic limitations and other advertising tools that may affect how ads are displayed. The saved text states no separate effective date for the policy as a whole; the change log is its only dated information. Earlier entries (2019 to 2024) include changes to message deletion, locations, login emails, translation and transcription, the EEA representative, optional profile data, Telegram Business chatbots, law-enforcement disclosure and account self-destruction, among others.
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August 21, 2026
The Privacy Policy was updated to describe geographic limitations and other advertising tools that may affect the ways how ads are displayed.
Qualifications & exceptions
The log entry does not name the sections it affects.
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The entry does not say which regions the "geographic limitations" cover.