To use WhatsApp, you must be at least 16 years old.  WhatsApp is now part of the Facebook family of companies. Our Privacy Policy explains how we work together to improve our services and offerings, like fighting spam across apps, making product suggestions, and showing relevant offers and ads on Facebook. Your messages are yours, and we can’t read them. We’ve built privacy, end-to-end encryption, and other security features into WhatsApp. We don’t store your messages once they’ve been delivered.  When they are end-to-end encrypted, we and third parties can’t read them. If you are an existing user, you can choose not to have your WhatsApp account information shared with Facebook to improve your Facebook ads and products experiences. We Collect WhatsApp receives or collects information when we operate and provide our Services, including when you install, access, or use our Services. Information You Provide    Your Account Information. You provide your mobile phone number to create a WhatsApp account. You provide us the phone numbers in your mobile address book on a regular basis, including those of both the users of our Services and your other contacts. rong>Your Messages. We do not retain your messages in the ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Onc Your messages are stored on your own device. If a message cannot be delivered immediately (for example, if you are offline), we may keep it on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to deliver it. If a message is still undelivered after 30 days, we delete it. To improve performance and deliver media messages more efficiently, such as when many people are sharing a popular photo or video, we may retain that content on our servers for a longer period of time.  We provide ways for you and third parties, like businesses, to communicate with each other using WhatsApp, such as through order, transaction, and appointment information, delivery and shipping notifications, product and service updates, and marketing. Messages you may receive containing marketing could include an offer for something that might interest you. We do not want you to have a spammy experience. as with all of your messages, you can manage these communications, and we will honor the choices you make.   For example, you may send us an email with information relating to our app performance or other issues  Usage and Log Information. We collect service-related, diagnostic, and performance information. This includes information about your activity (such as how you use our Services, how you interact with others using our Services, and the like), log files, and diagnostic, crash, website, and performance logs and reports.  This includes information such as hardware model, operating system information, browser information, IP address, mobile network information including phone number, and device identifiers. We collect device location information if you use our location features, such as when you choose to share your location with your contacts, view locations nearby or those others have shared with you, and the like, and for diagnostics and troubleshooting purposes such as if you are having trouble with our app’s location features. We use cookies to operate and provide our Services, including to provide our Services that are web-based, improve your experiences, understand how our Services are being used, and customize our Services. We are part of the Facebook Companies. For example, we use cookies to provide WhatsApp for web and desktop and other web-based services. We may also use cookies to understand which of our FAQs are most popular and to show you relevant content related to our Services. Additionally, we may use cookies to remember your choices, such as your language preferences, and otherwise to customize our Services for you. Learn more about how we use cookies to provide you our Services.   Status Information. We collect information about your online and status message changes on our Services, such as whether you are online (your “online status”), when you last used our Services (your “last seen status”), and when you last updated your status message.  We receive information other people provide us, which may include information about you.  We work with third-party providers to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. Please note that when you use third-party services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.   We use all the information we have to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services.    Our Services. We operate and provide our Services, including providing customer support, and improving, fixing, and customizing our Services. We understand how people use our Services, and analyze and use the information we have to evaluate and improve our Services, research, develop, and test new services and features, and conduct troubleshooting activities rstand how people use our Services, and analyze and use the information we have to evaluate and improve our Services, research, develop, and test new   We communicate with you about our Services and features and let you know about our terms and policies and other important updates. We may provide you marketing for our Services and those of the Facebook family of companies, of which we are now a part.  one who uses our Services, although you can configure your Services settings to manage certain information available to other users.    Your Contacts and Others. Users with whom you communicate may store or reshare your information (including your phone number or messages) with others on and off our Services. You can use your Services settings and the block feature in our Services to manage the users of our Services with whom you c When we share information with third-party providers,  How We Use Information We joined the Facebook family of companies in 2014. As part of the Facebook family of companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information with, this family of companies. We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services and their offerings.  Facebook and the other companies in the Facebook family also may use information from us to improve your experiences within their services such as making product suggestions (for example, of friends or connections, or of interesting content) and showing relevant offers and ads.  All of our rights and obligations under our Privacy Policy are freely assignable by us to any of our affiliates, in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise, and we may transfer your information to any of our affiliates, successor entities, or new owner.  In order to operate and provide our Services, you grant WhatsApp a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, display, and perform the information (including the content) that you upload, submit, store, send, or receive on or through our Services. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating and providing our Services (such as to allow us to display your profile picture and status message, transmit your messages, store your undelivered messages on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to deliver them, and otherwise as described in our Privacy Policy).  You may delete your WhatsApp account at any time (including if you want to revoke your consent to our use of your information) using our in-app delete my account feature.  We may collect, use, preserve, and share your information if we have a good-faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond pursuant to applicable law or regulations, to legal process, or to government requests. aud and other illegal activity, security, or t You agree to our information practices, including the collection, use, processing, and sharing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer and processing of your information to the United States and other countries globally where we have or use facilities, service providers, or partners, regardless of where you use our Services. and update the “Last Modified” date We may also modify, suspend, or terminate your access to or use of our Services anytime for suspicious or unlawful conduct, including for fraud, or if we reasonably believe you violate our Terms or create harm, risk, or possible legal exposure for us, our users, or others. The following provisions will survive any termination of your relationship with WhatsApp: "Licenses," "Disclaimers," "Limitation of Liability," "Indemnification," "Dispute Resolution," "Availability and Termination of our Services," "Other," and "Special Arbitration Provision For United States Or Canada Users." If you believe your account's termination or suspension was in error, please contact us at support@whatsapp.com. Please note that if you set your browser or device to disable cookies, certain of our Services may not function properly.  

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This service is only available to users of a certain age. The service uses your personal data for advertising. You can choose with whom you share content. User-generated content is encrypted, and this service cannot decrypt it. You can opt out of targeted advertising. Many different types of personal data are collected. Users who have been permanently banned from this service are not allowed to re-register under a new account. This service keeps user logs for an undefined period of time. WhatsApp may use your phone number for marketing messages. The service provides a free help desk. Your personal data is aggregated into statistics. The service may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users.. This service collects your IP address for location use. This service requires first-party cookies. We are part of the Facebook Companies.. The service provides a complete list of all cookies set by its website. The service provides details about what kinds of personal information they collect. This service gathers information about you through third parties. Third parties may be involved in operating the service. The service informs users that its privacy policy does not apply to third party websites. This service uses your personal information for many different purposes. The service provider makes no warranty regarding uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free service. This service may use your personal information for marketing purposes. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the service harmless in case of a claim related to your use of the service. Your personal data is given to third parties. The service provides information about how they intend to use your personal data. This service is a subsidiary of Facebook. This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not involved in its operation. Your personal data is used to employ targeted third-party advertising. The service can sell or otherwise transfer your personal data as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction.. The copyright license that users grant to the service is limited for the purposes of that same service, and not third parties.. You have the right to leave this service at any time. The service will only respond to government requests that are reasonable. Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user. Your data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world. There is a date of the last update of the agreements. The service can suspend your account for several reasons. Blocking cookies may limit your ability to use the service.