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Terms of use

Meta

Meta Terms of Service

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In short

  • You accept terms that allow Meta to use your personal data for personalized advertising and share content across its family of apps.
  • You grant Meta a broad license to use your posts and photos, with deletion taking up to three months.
  • Meta limits its liability for errors and restricts legal disputes to courts in California.

What you accept

If you tap Agree

Everyday words for the material promises and rights you give up. Each line includes a quote from the document.

  1. 01

    You are agreeing to let Meta show you personalized ads based on your activity and interests across its products.

    Other products, stores, or brands

    “By using our Products, you agree that we can show you ads that we think may be relevant to you and your interests.”
  2. 02

    You are agreeing to give Meta permission to use, copy, and share your photos and videos worldwide.

    Other products, stores, or brands

    “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.”
  3. 03

    You are agreeing that deleting your account may take up to 90 days to remove content from all systems.

    This product

    “It may take up to 90 days to delete content after we begin the account deletion process... After the content is deleted, it may take us up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery systems.”

What it can cost you

Downsides we could quote

Quoted clauses that can affect your privacy, money, or right to go to court — including terms that follow you to other products.

Highest-cost clauses first

High cost

Broad license to user content

You are agreeing to grant Meta a wide-ranging license to use and share your uploaded content anywhere.

“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.”

What that means: Meta can reuse or license your creative work without further permission or payment beyond the service provision.

The document grants Meta a broad, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use any intellectual property in your user-generated content for global distribution.

High cost

Liability shifted onto the user

You are agreeing to use the service at your own risk with limited warranty protection.

“Our Products, however, are provided "as is," and we make no guarantees that they always will be safe, secure, or error-free... we DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES...”

What that means: You have limited recourse if the service fails, is hacked, or causes you loss beyond $100.

The company provides services without warranty and disclaims responsibility for safety, security, or functionality issues.

Medium cost

Difficult or incomplete deletion

You are agreeing that complete deletion of your data may require up to 180 days to finalize.

“After the content is deleted, it may take us up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery systems.”

What that means: Your data persists in hidden systems for up to 180 days total before being fully purged.

Full erasure of data from backup and disaster recovery systems is delayed significantly after a deletion request.

Medium cost

Tracking you across apps

You are agreeing to have your actions on and off the platform tracked for advertising purposes.

“We use data about the connections you make, the choices and settings you select, and what you share and do on and off our Products - to personalize your experience.”

What that means: Your online activity outside of Facebook is used to target ads and customize content.

Meta tracks user behavior both on and off its platforms to build detailed profiles for personalization and advertising.

Medium cost

Jury trial or court access waived

You are agreeing to resolve disputes in California courts under California law.

“any claim, cause of action, or dispute between us... shall be resolved exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California or a state court located in San Mateo County.”

What that means: You lose the convenience of suing in your home jurisdiction and must deal with California law.

Disputes must be litigated in specific California courts, waiving the right to a local jury trial elsewhere.

People also accept these terms in

The same company terms often apply on these apps or devices. This is a lookup aid, not a claim we caught this company.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Whatsapp
  • Meta Quest
  • Oculus

If these terms already apply to you

Keep this list. Fineprint cannot undo or cancel something you already agreed to at the company.

We cannot see Agree on their site. With Premium, tap “I accepted these terms” if you already agreed to what Meta asks.