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You are agreeing to give Meta a wide license to use your uploaded content.

“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: You give up significant control over how your photos and videos are used by Meta and its partners.

The document grants Meta a very broad license to use, modify, and sublicense your content globally, even if you delete the content from your profile view (though they stop hosting it).

You are agreeing to accept limited liability from Meta.

“Our Products... are provided "as is," and we make no guarantees that they always will be safe, secure, or error-free... Our aggregate liability... will not exceed the greater of $100 or the amount you have paid us in the past twelve months.”

What that means: If something goes wrong, you likely cannot recover significant losses because their liability is capped.

Meta provides services without warranties and limits its financial liability for any damages to a small fixed amount or what you have paid.

You are agreeing to having your off-platform activity tracked for ad targeting.

“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 behavior outside of Facebook is tracked and used to target you with advertising.

Meta collects data from your activity both on and off their products to tailor the ads and feed you see.

You are agreeing to be bound by future updates to these terms.

“we may need to update these Terms from time to time... Once any updated Terms are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to access or use our Products.”

What that means: The rules can change without you explicitly clicking 'agree' again each time; staying on the platform means you follow the new rules.

Meta can change the terms at any time, and your continued use of the service counts as acceptance of those changes.

You are agreeing to delayed deletion of your data.

“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 is not instantly gone when you ask for deletion; it persists in backups for a period.

Even after you request deletion, copies of your data remain in backup systems for up to 90 additional days.