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A browser cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your device to help websites and mobile apps remember things about you. Other technologies, including Web storage and identifiers associated with your device, may be used for similar purposes. In this policy, we say “cookies” to refer to all of these technologies.
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Privacy Policy
How We Use Your Information
Transparency Report
-Snaps & Chats
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-Just like talking to someone in person or on the phone, having a conversation through Snaps and Chats lets you express whatever’s on your mind at the time — without automatically keeping a permanent record of everything you’ve ever said.
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-Of course, you can also choose to save a Snap before you send it and recipients can always take a screenshot. You can also save a message in Chat. Just tap it. Snapchat makes it easy to save what’s important, without being bogged down by the rest.
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-Saving Snaps was designed with privacy in mind. You control whether your Snaps can be saved. Set the Snap time to no time limit to allow a Snap to be saved. You can always delete any message you sent, including Snaps that have been saved in Chat. Just press and hold to unsave.
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-Voice and Video Chat allow you to check in with your Friends. If you just want to leave a voice message, we’ve got you covered, just press and hold the microphone to record a Voice Note.
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-When Does Snap Inc. Delete Snaps and Chats?
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-How to Create and Send Snaps
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-Saving and Deleting Snaps
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-Voice and Video Chat
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My Story
Snaps and Chats are like snippets of a personal conversation, while Stories are more like, well, a story you’re telling to a larger group of friends.
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Spotlight allows you to discover the world of Snapchat in one place, and shines a light on the most entertaining Snaps, no matter who created them!
-Snaps submitted to Spotlight are public and other Snapchatters will be able to share them both on and off Snapchat. Your Profile is where you will be able to control and see an overview of Spotlight Snaps you’ve submitted. You can also favorite Spotlight Snaps, when you do so we will add it to your favorites list and use it to personalize your Spotlight experience.
+Snaps submitted to Spotlight are public and other Snapchatters will be able to share them both on and off Snapchat or even ‘Remix’ them. For example, they may take your funny dance Snap and layer a reaction over it. Your Profile is where you will be able to control and see an overview of Spotlight Snaps you’ve submitted. You can also favorite Spotlight Snaps, when you do so we will add it to your favorites list and use it to personalize your Spotlight experience.
As you explore and engage with more Spotlight Snaps, we will tailor your Spotlight experience and show you Spotlight Snaps we think you will like. For example, if you can’t stop watching dance challenges, we will show you more dance related Spotlight Snaps.
-When you submit Snaps to Spotlight we ask you to comply with our Community Guidelines, Spotlight Terms, and Spotlight Guidelines.
+When you submit Snaps to Spotlight we ask you to comply with our Community Guidelines, Spotlight Terms and Spotlight Guidelines.
About Spotlight
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How We Use Your Information
Transparency Report
Transparency Report
-January 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020
+July 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020
-Released: December 18, 2020
+Released: July 1, 2021
-Updated: December 18, 2020
+Updated: July 1, 2021
-At Snap, we contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. We care deeply about the wellbeing of our community and, when building products, we consider the privacy and safety of Snapchatters on the front-end of the design process.
+Every day, Snapchatters around the world use our app to talk to their close friends and express themselves creatively. Our goal is to design products and build technology that nurtures and supports real friendships in a healthy, safe, and fun environment. We are constantly working to improve the ways we do that — from our policies and Community Guidelines, to our tools for preventing, detecting and enforcing against harmful content, to initiatives that help educate and empower our community.
-We have clear and thorough guidelines that support our mission by fostering the broadest range of self-expression while encouraging Snapchatters to use our services safely every day. Our Community Guidelines prohibit the spread of false information that can cause harm, hate speech, bullying, harassment, illegal activities, sexually explicit content, graphic violence, and much more.
+We are committed to providing more transparency about the prevalence of content that violates our guidelines, how we enforce our policies, how we respond to law enforcement and government requests for information, and where we seek to provide more insight in the future. We publish transparency reports twice a year to provide insight into these efforts, and are also committed to making these reports more comprehensive and helpful to the many stakeholders who care deeply about online safety and transparency.
-Our Transparency Report offers important insight into the violating content we enforce against, governmental requests for Snapchatters’ account information, and other legal notifications.
+This report covers the second half of 2020 (July 1 - December 31). As with our previous reports, it shares data about our total violations globally during this period; the number of content reports we received and enforced against across specific categories of violations; how we supported and fulfilled requests from law enforcement and governments; and our enforcements broken down by country.
-For more information about our approach to and resources for safety and privacy, please take a look at our About Transparency Reporting tab at the bottom of the page.
+As part of our ongoing efforts to improve both our safety enforcement and our transparency reports themselves, this report also includes several new elements:
-Account / Content Violations
+The Violative View Rate (VVR) of content, which offers a better understanding of the proportion of all Snaps (or views) that contained content that violated our policies;
-More than four billion Snaps are created each day using our camera. From January 1, 2020 - June 30, 2020, we enforced against 3,872,218 pieces of content, globally, for violations of our Community Guidelines—which amounts to less than 0.012% of all Story postings. Our teams generally take action on such violations quickly, whether it is to remove Snaps, delete accounts, report information to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), or escalate to law enforcement. In the vast majority of cases, we enforce against content within 2 hours of receiving an in-app report.
+Total content and account enforcements of false information globally — which was especially relevant during this time period, as the world continued to battle a global pandemic and efforts to undermine civic and democratic norms; and
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+Requests to support investigations into potential trademark violations.
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+We are working on a number of improvements that will enhance our ability to provide more detailed data in future reports. That includes expanding on subcategories of violating data. For example, we currently report violations related to regulated goods, which includes illegal drugs and weapons. Moving forward, we plan to include each in its own subcategory.
+
+As new online threats and behaviors emerge, we will continue to improve our tools and tactics for fighting them. We constantly evaluate the risks and how we can advance our technological capabilities to better protect our community. We regularly seek guidance from security and safety experts about the ways we can stay a step ahead of bad actors — and are grateful to our growing list of partners who give invaluable feedback and push us to be better.
+
+For more information about our approach to and resources for safety and privacy, please take a look at our About Transparency Reporting tab at the bottom of the page.
+
+Overview of Content and Account Violations
+
+Our Community Guidelines prohibit harmful content, including misinformation; conspiracy theories that can cause harm; deceptive practices; illegal activities, including buying or selling illegal drugs, counterfeit goods, contraband or illegal weapons; hate speech, hate groups and terrorism; harassment and bullying; threats, violence and harm, including the glorification of self-harm; sexually explicit content; and child sexual exploitation.
+
+Every day, more than five billion Snaps are created using our Snapchat camera. From July 1 - December 31, 2020, we enforced against 5,543,281 pieces of content globally that violated our guidelines.
+
+Enforcement actions could include removing the offending content; terminating or limiting the visibility of the account in question; and referring the content to law enforcement. If an account is terminated for violating our Guidelines, the account holder is not permitted to create a new account or use Snapchat again.
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+During the reporting period, we saw a Violative View Rate (VVR) of 0.08 percent, which means that out of every 10,000 views of content on Snap, eight contained content that violated our guidelines.
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+We offer in-app reporting tools that allow Snapchatters to quickly and easily report content to our Trust and Safety teams, who investigate the report, and take appropriate action. Our teams work to take enforcement actions as quickly as possible and, in the vast majority of cases, take action within two hours of receiving an in-app report.
+
+In addition to in-app reporting, we also offer online reporting options through our support site. Furthermore, our teams are constantly improving capabilities for proactively detecting violating and illegal content, such as child sexual abuse material, content that involves illegal drugs or weapons, or threats of violence. We outline specific details of our work to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse in this report.
+
+As the charts below lay out, during the second half of 2020, we received the most in-app reports or requests for support about content that involved impersonation or sexually explicit content. We were able to significantly improve our time responding to reports of violations, in particular for regulated goods, which includes illegal drugs, counterfeit goods, and weapons; sexually explicit content; and harassment and bullying.
Total Content Reports* Total Content Enforced Total Unique Accounts Enforced
- 13,204,971 3,872,218 1,692,859
-H1'20: Content Enforced
-Chart Key Reason Content Reports* Content Enforced Unique Accounts Enforced Turnaround Time**
-1 Harassment and Bullying 857,493 175,815 145,445 0.4
-2 Hate Speech 229,375 31,041 26,857 0.6
-3 Impersonation 1,459,467 22,435 21,510 0.1
-4 Regulated Goods 520,426 234,527 137,721 0.3
-5 Sexually Explicit Content 8,522,585 3,119,948 1,160,881 0.2
-6 Spam 552,733 104,523 59,131 0.2
-7 Threatening / Violence / Harm 1,062,892 183,929 141,314 0.5
+ 10,131,891 5,543,281 2,100,124
+Reason Content Reports* Content Enforced % of Total Content Enforced Unique Accounts Enforced Turnaround Time**
+Sexually Explicit Content 5,839,778 4,306,589 77.7% 1,316,484 0.01
+Regulated Goods 523,390 427,272 7.7% 209,230 0.01
+Threatening / Violence / Harm 882,737 337,710 6.1% 232,705 0.49
+Harassment and Bullying 723,784 238,997 4.3% 182,414 0.75
+Spam 387,604 132,134 2.4% 75,421 0.21
+Hate Speech 222,263 77,587 1.4% 61,912 0.66
+Impersonation 1,552,335 22,992 0.4% 21,958 0.33
*The Content Reports reflect alleged violations via our in-app and support inquiries.
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+Combating The Spread of False Information
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+We have always believed that when it comes to harmful content, it isn’t enough just to think about policies and enforcement — platforms need to think about their fundamental architecture and product design. From the beginning, Snapchat was built differently than traditional social media platforms, to support our primary use case of talking with close friends — rather than an open newsfeed where anyone has the right to distribute anything to anyone without moderation.
+
+As we explain in our introduction, our guidelines clearly prohibit the spread of false information that could cause harm, including misinformation that aims to undermine civic processes, like voter suppression, unsubstantiated medical claims, and conspiracy theories such as the denial of tragic events. Our guidelines apply consistently to all Snapchatters — we don’t have special exceptions for politicians or public figures.
+
+Across our app, Snapchat limits virality, which removes incentives for harmful and sensationalized content, and limits concerns associated with the spread of bad content. We don’t have an open newsfeed, and don’t give unvetted content an opportunity to ‘go viral.’ Our content platform, Discover, only features content from vetted media publishers and content creators.
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+In November of 2020, we launched our new entertainment platform, Spotlight, and proactively moderate content to make sure it complies with our guidelines before it can reach a large audience.
-The exploitation of any member of our community—particularly young people—is totally unacceptable, and prohibited on Snapchat. Preventing, detecting and eliminating abuse on our platform is a priority for us, and we are constantly improving our capabilities for combating this type of illegal activity.
+We have long taken a different approach to political advertising as well. As with all content on Snapchat, we prohibit false information and deceptive practices in our advertising. All political ads, including election-related ads, issue advocacy ads, and issue ads, must include a transparent “paid for” message that discloses the sponsoring organization. We use human review to fact check all political ads, and provide information about all ads that pass our review in our Political Ads library.
-Reports of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) are quickly reviewed by our Trust and Safety team, and evidence of this activity results in account termination and reporting to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). We provide around-the-clock support to international law enforcement agencies who contact us for assistance with cases involving missing or endangered juveniles.
+This approach isn’t perfect, but it has helped us protect Snapchat from the dramatic increase in misinformation in recent years, a trend that has been especially relevant during a period when false information about COVID-19 and the U.S. 2020 presidential election consumed many platforms.
-We use PhotoDNA technology to proactively identify and report the uploading of known imagery of child sexual exploitation and abuse, and we report any instances to the authorities. Of the total accounts enforced against for Community Guidelines violations, we removed 2.99% for CSAM takedown.
+Globally during this period, Snapchat enforced against 5,841 pieces of content and accounts for violations of our false information guidelines. In future reports, we plan to provide more detailed breakdowns of false information violations.
-Moreover, Snap proactively deleted 70% of these.
+Given the heightened concern about efforts to undermine voting access and the election results in the U.S. in the summer of 2020, we formed an internal Task Force that focused on assessing any potential risk or vectors for misuse of our platform, monitored all developments, and worked to ensure Snapchat was a source for factual news and information. These efforts included:
-Total Account Deletions 47,136
-Terrorism
+Updating our community guidelines to add manipulating media for misleading purposes, such as deepfakes, to our categories of prohibited content;
-Terrorist organizations and hate groups are prohibited from Snapchat and we have no tolerance for content that advocates or advances violent extremism or terrorism.
+Working with our Discover editorial partners to make sure publishers didn’t inadvertently amplify any misinformation through news coverage;
-Total Account Deletions <10
+Asking Snap Stars, whose content also appears on our Discover content platform to make sure they complied with our Community Guidelines and didn’t unintentionally spread false information;
+
+Having clear enforcement outcomes for any violating content — rather than labeling content, we simply removed it, immediately reducing the harm of it being shared more widely; and
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+Proactively analyzing entities and other sources of false information that could be used to distribute such information on Snapchat to assess risk and take preventative measures.
+
+Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have taken a similar approach to providing factual news and information, including through coverage provided by our Discover editorial partners, through PSAs and Q&A’s with public health officials and medical experts, and through creative tools, such as Augmented Reality Lenses and filters, reminding Snapchatters of expert public health guidance.
+
+Total Content & Account Enforcements 5,841
+Combating Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
+
+The exploitation of any member of our community, especially young people and minors, is illegal, unacceptable, and prohibited by our guidelines. Preventing, detecting, and eliminating abuse on our platform is a top priority for us, and we continuously evolve our capabilities for combating Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and other types of exploitative content.
+
+Our Trust and Safety teams use proactive detection tools, such as PhotoDNA technology, to identify known images of CSAM and report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). When we proactively detect or identify instances of CSAM, we preserve these and report them to NCMEC, who will then review and coordinate with law enforcement.
+
+In the second half of 2020, 2.99 percent of the total accounts we took enforcement action against globally for violations of our Community Guidelines contained CSAM. Of this, we proactively detected and took action on 73 percent of content. Overall, we deleted 47,550 accounts for CSAM violations, and in each case reported that content to NCMEC.
+
+During this time period, we took a number of steps to further combat CSAM. We adopted Google’s Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (CSAI) technology for videos, allowing us to identify videos of CSAM and report it to NCMEC. Combined with our PhotoDNA detection for known CSAM imagery and industry hash databases, we now can proactively detect and report to authorities known video and photo imagery. This enhanced capability has allowed us to become much more efficient in our detection — and thus our reporting of this criminal conduct.
+
+In addition, we continued to expand our partnerships with industry experts and rolled out additional in-app features to help educate Snapchatters about the risks of contact with strangers and how to use in-app reporting to alert our Trust and Safety teams to any type of abuse. We continued to add partners to our trusted flagger program that provides vetted safety experts a confidential channel to report emergency escalations, such as an imminent threat to life or a case involving CSAM. We also work closely with these partners to provide safety education, wellness resources, and other reporting support so they can effectively support the Snapchat community.
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+Additionally, we serve on the Board of Directors for the Technology Coalition, a group of tech industry leaders who seek to prevent and eradicate online child sexual abuse exploitation and abuse, and are constantly working with other platforms and safety experts to explore additional solutions to strengthen our collective efforts in this space.
+
+Total Account Deletions 47,550
+Terrorist & Extremist Content
+
+At Snap, monitoring developments in this space and mitigating any potential vectors for abuse on our platform was a part of our U.S. election integrity task force work. Both our product architecture and the design of our Group Chat functionality limits the spread of harmful content and opportunities to organize. We offer Group Chats, but they are limited in size to several dozen members, are not recommended by algorithms, and are not discoverable on our platform if you are not a member of that Group.
+
+During the second half of 2020, we removed eight accounts for violations of our prohibition of terrorism, hate speech, and extremist content.
+
+Total Account Deletions 8
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Region Content Reports* Content Enforced Unique Accounts Enforced
-North America 5,769,636 1,804,770 785,315
-Europe 3,419,235 960,761 386,728
-Rest of World 4,016,100 1,106,687 413,272
-Total 13,204,971 3,872,218 1,578,985
+North America 4,230,320 2,538,416 928,980
+Europe 2,634,878 1,417,649 535,649
+Rest of World 3,266,693 1,587,216 431,407
+Total 10,131,891 5,543,281 1,896,015
Australia
Austria
Belgium
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Government Requests and Copyrighted Content Takedown Notices (DMCA)
About Transparency Reporting
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Direct downloads for:
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Transparency Report Archives
+July 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
January 1, 2020 - June 30, 2020
July 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
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At Snap, we make your privacy a priority. We know your trust is earned every time you use Snapchat, or any of our other products—that is why we treat your information differently than most other tech companies. Even though our products are constantly evolving, our privacy principles and commitment to privacy remain unchanged.
+Safety & Impact Blog
+
+At Snap, we make your privacy a priority. We know your trust is earned every time you use Snapchat, or any of our other products—that is why we treat your information differently than most other tech companies. Even though our products are constantly evolving, our privacy principles and commitment to privacy remain unchanged.
+
© 2021 Snap Inc.
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+Snaps & Chats
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+Just like talking to someone in person or on the phone, having a conversation through Snaps and Chats lets you express whatever’s on your mind at the time — without automatically keeping a permanent record of everything you’ve ever said.
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+Of course, you can also choose to save a Snap before you send it and recipients can always take a screenshot. You can also save a message in Chat. Just tap it. Snapchat makes it easy to save what’s important, without being bogged down by the rest.
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+Saving Snaps was designed with privacy in mind. You control whether your Snaps can be saved. Set the Snap time to no time limit to allow a Snap to be saved. You can always delete any message you sent, including Snaps that have been saved in Chat. Just press and hold to unsave.
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+Voice and Video Chat allows you to check in with your Friends. If you just want to leave a voice message, we’ve got you covered, just press and hold the microphone to record a Voice Note.
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+Snaps and Chats, including Voice and Video Chats, between you and your friends are private, that’s why we don’t scan their content to personalize your experience or show you ads. This means we don’t know what you’re saying or Snapping, though we do keep some metadata on the Snaps and Chats you send and receive.
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+When Does Snap Inc. Delete Snaps and Chats?
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Snaps and Chats are like snippets of a personal conversation, while Stories are more like, well, a story you’re telling to a larger group of friends.
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ How We Use Your Information
Transparency Report
Privacy Policy
-Effective: March 24, 2021
+Effective: July 9, 2021
Snap Inc. is a camera company. Our products and services—including Snapchat, Bitmoji, Spectacles, advertising, and others that link to this Privacy Policy—provide fast and fun ways to express yourself, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together!
@@ -221,6 +221,14 @@ International Transfers
We may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries outside of where you live. Whenever we share information of EU users outside the EU we make sure an adequate transfer mechanism is in place. You can find more information on the categories of third parties we share information with here.
+EU Representative
+
+Snap Inc. has appointed Snap B.V. as its EU representative. You can contact the EU representative here or at:
+
+Snap B.V.
+Keizersgracht 440 B, 1016 GD
+Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+
Complaints or questions? If you’re based in the EU, you can always file a complaint with the supervisory authority in your Member State. Additionally, we have appointed a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”). To contact our DPO, please email dpo @ snap.com.
Users in Brazil
af35a10aa8d9ed5fb9df51c80d3422b250f39768: https://www.snap.com/en-US/privacy/transparency @ 2021-07-10
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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Overview of Content and Account Violations
Our Community Guidelines prohibit harmful content, including misinformation; conspiracy theories that can cause harm; deceptive practices; illegal activities, including buying or selling illegal drugs, counterfeit goods, contraband or illegal weapons; hate speech, hate groups and terrorism; harassment and bullying; threats, violence and harm, including the glorification of self-harm; sexually explicit content; and child sexual exploitation.
-Every day, more than five billion Snaps are created using our Snapchat camera. From July 1 - December 31, 2020, we enforced against 5,543,281 pieces of content globally that violated our guidelines.
+Every day, more than five billion Snaps are created using our Snapchat camera on average. From July 1 - December 31, 2020, we enforced against 5,543,281 pieces of content globally that violated our guidelines.
Enforcement actions could include removing the offending content; terminating or limiting the visibility of the account in question; and referring the content to law enforcement. If an account is terminated for violating our Guidelines, the account holder is not permitted to create a new account or use Snapchat again.
e6ba0e558d3a97e8428afc66805ac6e10899a153: https://www.snap.com/en-US/privacy/privacy-policy @ 2021-08-07
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@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Privacy by Product
Privacy Policy
How We Use Your Information
Transparency Report
+
+We’ve updated our Privacy Policy, effective September 30, 2021. You can view the prior Privacy Policy here.
+
Privacy Policy
Effective: July 9, 2021
@@ -51,7 +54,7 @@ Content Information. We collect content you create on our services, such as cust
Device Information. We collect information from and about the devices you use. For example, we collect:
-information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, advertising identifiers, unique application identifiers, apps installed, unique device identifiers, browser type, language, battery level, and time zone;
+information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, advertising identifiers, unique application identifiers, apps installed, unique device identifiers, browser type, keyboards installed, language, battery level, and time zone;
information from device sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, microphones, and whether you have headphones connected; and
@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ send you communications, including by email. For example, we may use email to re
monitor and analyze trends and usage.
-personalize our services by, among other things, suggesting friends, profile information, or Bitmoji stickers, or customizing the content we show you, including ads.
+personalize our services by, among other things, suggesting friends, profile information, or Bitmoji stickers, helping Snapchatters find each other in Snapchat, affiliate and third-party apps and services, or customizing the content we show you, including ads.
contextualize your experience by, among other things, tagging your Memories content using your precise location information (if, of course, you’ve given us permission to collect that information) and applying other labels based on the content.
@@ -113,7 +116,7 @@ verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity
use information we’ve collected from cookies and other technology to enhance our services and your experience with them.
-enforce our Terms of Service and other usage policies and comply with legal requirements.
+enforce, investigate, and report conduct violating our Terms of Service and other usage policies, respond to requests from law enforcement, and comply with legal requirements.
We may also use information from Apple’s TrueDepth camera to improve the quality of Lenses. Information from the TrueDepth camera is used in real time—we don’t store this information on our servers or share it with third parties.
@@ -133,13 +136,13 @@ content you post or send. How widely your content is shared depends on your pers
With all Snapchatters, our business partners, and the general public. We may share the following information with all Snapchatters as well as with our business partners and the general public:
-public information like your name, username, Snapcode and profile pictures.
+public information like your name, username, profile pictures, Snapcode, and Public Profile.
-Story submissions that are set to be viewable by Everyone and any content that you submit to an inherently public service, like Our Story and other crowd-sourced services. This content may be viewed and shared by the public at large both on and off our services, including through search results, on websites, in apps, and in online and offline broadcasts.
+Public Content like your Highlights, Custom Stickers, Lenses, Story submissions that are set to be viewable by Everyone, and any content that you submit to an inherently public service, like Spotlight, Snap Map, and other crowd-sourced services. This content may be viewed, used, and shared by the public at large both on and off our services, including through search results, on websites, in apps, and in online and offline broadcasts.
With our affiliates. We may share information with entities within the Snap Inc. family of companies.
-With third parties. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps. Learn more here.
+With third parties. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps. Learn more here.
We may share information about you with business partners that provide services and functionality on our services. For more information about information collected by third parties on our services, visit our Support Site.
@@ -149,19 +152,20 @@ We may share information about you for legal, safety, and security reasons. We m
comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation.
-investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service violations.
+investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service and Community Guidelines violations.
protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others.
detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
We may share information about you as part of a merger or acquisition. If Snap Inc. gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes.
+Non-personal information. We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
-We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
+Non-personal information. We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
Third-Party Content and Integrations
-Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include third-party integrations in camera search, third-party games in Chat, and third-party Snap Kit integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to Snap. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services. You can learn more about third-party services in Snapchat here.
+Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include third-party integrations in the Camera, third-party games in Chat, and third-party Snap Kit integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to Snap. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services. You can learn more about third-party services in Snapchat here.
How Long We Keep Your Information
@@ -171,13 +175,11 @@ We store other information for longer periods of time. For example:
We store your basic account information—like your name, phone number, and email address—and list of friends until you ask us to delete them.
-We store location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use. For example, if you use the Map, we store information about your favorite places for up to 40 days so we can personalize and improve your experience. If location information is associated with a Snap—like those saved to Memories or posted to Our Story—we’ll retain that location as long as we store the Snap.
-
-We’re constantly collecting and updating information about the things you might like and dislike, so we can provide you with more relevant content and advertisements. Go here to learn more.
+We store location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use. If location information is associated with a Snap—like those saved to Memories or posted to Snap Map—we’ll retain that location as long as we store the Snap. Pro tip: You can see the location data we retain about you by downloading your data.
-If you ever decide to stop using Snapchat, you can just ask us to delete your account. We’ll also delete most of the information we’ve collected about you after you’ve been inactive for a while—but don’t worry, we’ll try to contact you first!
+If you ever decide to stop using Snapchat, you can just ask us to delete your account. We’ll also delete most of the information we’ve collected about you after you’ve been inactive for a while!
-Keep in mind that, while our systems are designed to carry out our deletion practices automatically, we cannot promise that deletion will occur within a specific timeframe. There may be legal requirements to store your data and we may need to suspend those deletion practices if we receive valid legal process asking us to preserve content, if we receive reports of abuse or other Terms of Service violations, or if your account or content created by you is flagged by our automated systems for abuse or other Terms of Service violations. Finally, we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.
+Keep in mind that, while our systems are designed to carry out our deletion practices automatically, we cannot promise that deletion will occur within a specific timeframe. There may be legal requirements to store your data and we may need to suspend those deletion practices if we receive valid legal process asking us to preserve content, if we receive reports of abuse or other Terms of Service violations, or if your account or content created by you is flagged by others or our systems for abuse or other Terms of Service violations. Finally, we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.
Control Over Your Information
@@ -187,36 +189,12 @@ Access, Correction, and Portability. You can access and edit most of your basic
Revoking permissions. In most cases, if you let us use your information, you can simply revoke your permission by changing the settings in the app or on your device if your device offers those options. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.
-Deletion. While we hope you’ll remain a lifelong Snapchatter, if for some reason you ever want to delete your account, just go here to learn how. You can also delete some information in the app, like photos you’ve saved to Memories, Our Story submissions, and search history.
+Deletion. While we hope you’ll remain a lifelong Snapchatter, if for some reason you ever want to delete your account, just go here to learn how. You can also delete some information in the app, like photos you’ve saved to Memories, Spotlight submissions, and search history.
Advertising Preferences. We try to show you ads that we think will be relevant to your interests. If you would like to modify the information we and our advertising partners use to select these ads, you can do so in the app and through your device preferences. Go here to learn more.
Communicating with other Snapchatters. It’s important to us that you stay in control over whom you communicate with. That’s why we’ve built a number of tools in Settings that let you indicate, among other things, who you want to see your Stories, whether you’d like to receive Snaps from just your friends or all Snapchatters, and whether you’d like to block another Snapchatter from contacting you again. Go here to learn more.
-Users in the European Union
-
-If you’re a user in the European Union, you should know that Snap Inc. is the controller of your personal information. Here is some additional information we would like to bring to your attention:
-
-Rights of Access, Deletion, Correction, and Portability
-
-You can exercise your rights of access, deletion, correction, and portability as described in the Control Over Your Information section above.
-
-Bases for Using Your Information
-
-Your country only allows us to use your personal information when certain conditions apply. These conditions are called “legal bases” and, at Snap, we typically rely on one of four:
-
-Contract. One reason we might use your information is because you’ve entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you buy an On-Demand Geofilter and accepted our Custom Creative Tools Terms, we need to use some of your information to collect payment and make sure we show your Geofilter to the right people at the right place and time.
-
-Legitimate interest. Another reason we might use your information is because we have—or a third party has—a legitimate interest in doing so. For example, we need to use your information to provide and improve our services, including protecting your account, delivering your Snaps, providing customer support, and helping you find friends and content we think you’ll like. Because most of our services are free, we also use some information about you to try and show you ads you’ll find interesting. An important point to understand about legitimate interest is that our interests don’t outweigh your right to privacy, so we only rely on legitimate interest when we think the way we are using your data doesn’t significantly impact your privacy or would be expected by you, or there is a compelling reason to do so. We explain our legitimate business reasons for using your information in more detail here.
-
-Consent. In some cases we’ll ask for consent to use your information for specific purposes. If we do, we’ll make sure you can revoke your consent in our services or through your device permissions. Even if we’re not relying on consent to use your information, we may ask you for permission to access data like contacts and location.
-
-Legal obligation. We may be required to use your personal information to comply with the law, like when we respond to valid legal process or need to take action to protect our users. Our policy is to notify Snapchatters when we receive legal process seeking their account information, with some exceptions. Learn more here.
-
-Your Right to Object
-
-You have the right to object to our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things in the app. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with us processing, you can contact us.
-
International Transfers
We may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries outside of where you live. Whenever we share information of EU users outside the EU we make sure an adequate transfer mechanism is in place. You can find more information on the categories of third parties we share information with here.
@@ -231,56 +209,20 @@ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Complaints or questions? If you’re based in the EU, you can always file a complaint with the supervisory authority in your Member State. Additionally, we have appointed a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”). To contact our DPO, please email dpo @ snap.com.
-Users in Brazil
-
-If you’re a user in Brazil you should know that Snap Inc. is the controller of your personal information. Here is some additional information we would like to bring to your attention:
-
-Rights of Access, Deletion, Correction, and Portability
-
-You can exercise your rights of access, deletion, correction, and portability as described in the Control Over Your Information section above.
+State and Region Specific Information
-Bases for Using Your Information
-
-Your country only allows us to use your personal information when certain conditions apply. These conditions are called “legal bases” and, at Snap, we typically rely on one of four:
-
-Contract. One reason we might use your information is because you’ve entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you buy an On-Demand Geofilter and accepted our Custom Creative Tools Terms, we need to use some of your information to collect payment and make sure we show your Geofilter to the right people at the right place and time.
-
-Legitimate interest. Another reason we might use your information is because we have—or a third party has—a legitimate interest in doing so. For example, we need to use your information to provide and improve our services, including protecting your account, delivering your Snaps, providing customer support, and helping you find friends and content we think you’ll like. Because most of our services are free, we also use some information about you to try and show you ads you’ll find interesting. An important point to understand about legitimate interest is that our interests don’t outweigh your right to privacy, so we only rely on legitimate interest when we think the way we are using your data doesn’t significantly impact your privacy or would be expected by you, or there is a compelling reason to do so. We explain our legitimate business reasons for using your information in more detail here.
-
-Consent. In some cases we’ll ask for consent to use your information for specific purposes. If we do, we’ll make sure you can revoke your consent in our services or through your device permissions. Even if we’re not relying on consent to use your information, we may ask you for permission to access data like contacts and location.
-
-Legal obligation. We may be required to use your personal information to comply with the law, like when we respond to valid legal process or need to take action to protect our users.
-
-Your Right to Object
-
-You have the right to object to our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things in the app. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with us processing, you can contact us.
-
-Complaints or questions? You can always file a complaint with the national authority in your country. Additionally, we have appointed a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”). To contact our DPO, please email dpo @ snap.com.
-
-Users in Mexico
-
-If you’re a user in Mexico, you should know that Snap Inc., located at 2772 Donald Douglas Loop North, Santa Monica, California 90405, is the controller of your personal information. Here is some additional information we would like to bring to your attention:
-
-Rights of Access, Rectification, and Cancellation
-
-You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, and cancellation as described in the Control Over Your Information section above.
-
-Your Right to Object or Challenge
-
-You have the right to object to or challenge our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things in the app. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with us processing, you can contact us.
-
-California Residents
-
-If you’re a California resident, you have certain privacy rights under California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). Our California Privacy Notice specifies these rights, check it out.
+You may have specific privacy rights in your state or region. For example, in the United States, residents of California and other states have specific privacy rights. Snapchatters in the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK, Brazil, the Republic of Korea, and other jurisdictions also have specific rights. We keep an up-to-date overview of state and region specific disclosures here.
Children
-Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EU users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
+Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EEA and UK users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
Revisions to the Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we’ll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we’ll let you know by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that’s available on our website and mobile application. Other times, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our websites’ homepages or providing you with an in-app notification).
+We’ve updated our Privacy Policy, effective September 30, 2021. You can view the prior Privacy Policy below.
+
© 2021 Snap Inc.
CitizenSnap
Privacy Policy
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HomeCareersNewsSafety & ImpactInvestorsAdvertisers
Cookie Policy
-A browser cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your device to help websites and mobile apps remember things about you. Other technologies, including Web storage and identifiers associated with your device, may be used for similar purposes. In this policy, we say “cookies” to refer to all of these technologies.
+A browser cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your device to help websites and mobile apps remember things about you. Other technologies, including web beacons, web storage, and identifiers associated with your device, may be used for similar purposes. In this policy, we say “cookies” to refer to all of these technologies.
-Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use information from and about you when you use Snapchat and certain other Snap Inc. services. This policy explains more about how we use cookies and your related choices.
+Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use information from and about you when you use Snapchat and certain other Snap Inc. services. This policy explains more about how we use cookies and your related choices.
How We Use Cookies
-Like most providers of online services, Snap Inc. uses cookies, including third-party cookies, for a number of reasons, like protecting your Snapchat data and account, helping us see which features are most popular, counting visitors to a page, improving our users’ experience, keeping our services secure, providing relevant advertising, and just generally providing you with a better, more intuitive, and satisfying experience. The cookies we use generally fall into one of the following categories.
+Like most providers of online services, Snap Inc. uses cookies, including third-party cookies, for a number of reasons, like protecting your Snapchat data and account, helping us see which features are most popular, counting visitors to a page, understanding how you engage with web content and emails we send, improving our users’ experience, keeping our services secure, providing relevant advertising, and just generally providing you with a better, more intuitive, and satisfying experience. The cookies we use generally fall into one of the following categories.
Category of cookies Why we use these cookies
Necessary We use these cookies to run our site, and to identify and prevent security risks.
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@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ Privacy by Product
Privacy Policy
How We Use Your Information
Transparency Report
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-We’ve updated our Privacy Policy, effective September 30, 2021. You can view the prior Privacy Policy here.
-
Privacy Policy
Effective: July 9, 2021
@@ -54,7 +51,7 @@ Content Information. We collect content you create on our services, such as cust
Device Information. We collect information from and about the devices you use. For example, we collect:
-information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, advertising identifiers, unique application identifiers, apps installed, unique device identifiers, browser type, keyboards installed, language, battery level, and time zone;
+information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, advertising identifiers, unique application identifiers, apps installed, unique device identifiers, browser type, language, battery level, and time zone;
information from device sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, microphones, and whether you have headphones connected; and
@@ -104,7 +101,7 @@ send you communications, including by email. For example, we may use email to re
monitor and analyze trends and usage.
-personalize our services by, among other things, suggesting friends, profile information, or Bitmoji stickers, helping Snapchatters find each other in Snapchat, affiliate and third-party apps and services, or customizing the content we show you, including ads.
+personalize our services by, among other things, suggesting friends, profile information, or Bitmoji stickers, or customizing the content we show you, including ads.
contextualize your experience by, among other things, tagging your Memories content using your precise location information (if, of course, you’ve given us permission to collect that information) and applying other labels based on the content.
@@ -116,7 +113,7 @@ verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity
use information we’ve collected from cookies and other technology to enhance our services and your experience with them.
-enforce, investigate, and report conduct violating our Terms of Service and other usage policies, respond to requests from law enforcement, and comply with legal requirements.
+enforce our Terms of Service and other usage policies and comply with legal requirements.
We may also use information from Apple’s TrueDepth camera to improve the quality of Lenses. Information from the TrueDepth camera is used in real time—we don’t store this information on our servers or share it with third parties.
@@ -136,13 +133,13 @@ content you post or send. How widely your content is shared depends on your pers
With all Snapchatters, our business partners, and the general public. We may share the following information with all Snapchatters as well as with our business partners and the general public:
-public information like your name, username, profile pictures, Snapcode, and Public Profile.
+public information like your name, username, Snapcode and profile pictures.
-Public Content like your Highlights, Custom Stickers, Lenses, Story submissions that are set to be viewable by Everyone, and any content that you submit to an inherently public service, like Spotlight, Snap Map, and other crowd-sourced services. This content may be viewed, used, and shared by the public at large both on and off our services, including through search results, on websites, in apps, and in online and offline broadcasts.
+Story submissions that are set to be viewable by Everyone and any content that you submit to an inherently public service, like Our Story and other crowd-sourced services. This content may be viewed and shared by the public at large both on and off our services, including through search results, on websites, in apps, and in online and offline broadcasts.
With our affiliates. We may share information with entities within the Snap Inc. family of companies.
-With third parties. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps. Learn more here.
+With third parties. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps. Learn more here.
We may share information about you with business partners that provide services and functionality on our services. For more information about information collected by third parties on our services, visit our Support Site.
@@ -152,20 +149,19 @@ We may share information about you for legal, safety, and security reasons. We m
comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation.
-investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service and Community Guidelines violations.
+investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service violations.
protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others.
detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
We may share information about you as part of a merger or acquisition. If Snap Inc. gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes.
-Non-personal information. We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
-Non-personal information. We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
+We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
Third-Party Content and Integrations
-Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include third-party integrations in the Camera, third-party games in Chat, and third-party Snap Kit integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to Snap. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services. You can learn more about third-party services in Snapchat here.
+Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include third-party integrations in camera search, third-party games in Chat, and third-party Snap Kit integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to Snap. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services. You can learn more about third-party services in Snapchat here.
How Long We Keep Your Information
@@ -175,11 +171,13 @@ We store other information for longer periods of time. For example:
We store your basic account information—like your name, phone number, and email address—and list of friends until you ask us to delete them.
-We store location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use. If location information is associated with a Snap—like those saved to Memories or posted to Snap Map—we’ll retain that location as long as we store the Snap. Pro tip: You can see the location data we retain about you by downloading your data.
+We store location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use. For example, if you use the Map, we store information about your favorite places for up to 40 days so we can personalize and improve your experience. If location information is associated with a Snap—like those saved to Memories or posted to Our Story—we’ll retain that location as long as we store the Snap.
+
+We’re constantly collecting and updating information about the things you might like and dislike, so we can provide you with more relevant content and advertisements. Go here to learn more.
-If you ever decide to stop using Snapchat, you can just ask us to delete your account. We’ll also delete most of the information we’ve collected about you after you’ve been inactive for a while!
+If you ever decide to stop using Snapchat, you can just ask us to delete your account. We’ll also delete most of the information we’ve collected about you after you’ve been inactive for a while—but don’t worry, we’ll try to contact you first!
-Keep in mind that, while our systems are designed to carry out our deletion practices automatically, we cannot promise that deletion will occur within a specific timeframe. There may be legal requirements to store your data and we may need to suspend those deletion practices if we receive valid legal process asking us to preserve content, if we receive reports of abuse or other Terms of Service violations, or if your account or content created by you is flagged by others or our systems for abuse or other Terms of Service violations. Finally, we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.
+Keep in mind that, while our systems are designed to carry out our deletion practices automatically, we cannot promise that deletion will occur within a specific timeframe. There may be legal requirements to store your data and we may need to suspend those deletion practices if we receive valid legal process asking us to preserve content, if we receive reports of abuse or other Terms of Service violations, or if your account or content created by you is flagged by our automated systems for abuse or other Terms of Service violations. Finally, we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.
Control Over Your Information
@@ -189,12 +187,36 @@ Access, Correction, and Portability. You can access and edit most of your basic
Revoking permissions. In most cases, if you let us use your information, you can simply revoke your permission by changing the settings in the app or on your device if your device offers those options. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.
-Deletion. While we hope you’ll remain a lifelong Snapchatter, if for some reason you ever want to delete your account, just go here to learn how. You can also delete some information in the app, like photos you’ve saved to Memories, Spotlight submissions, and search history.
+Deletion. While we hope you’ll remain a lifelong Snapchatter, if for some reason you ever want to delete your account, just go here to learn how. You can also delete some information in the app, like photos you’ve saved to Memories, Our Story submissions, and search history.
Advertising Preferences. We try to show you ads that we think will be relevant to your interests. If you would like to modify the information we and our advertising partners use to select these ads, you can do so in the app and through your device preferences. Go here to learn more.
Communicating with other Snapchatters. It’s important to us that you stay in control over whom you communicate with. That’s why we’ve built a number of tools in Settings that let you indicate, among other things, who you want to see your Stories, whether you’d like to receive Snaps from just your friends or all Snapchatters, and whether you’d like to block another Snapchatter from contacting you again. Go here to learn more.
+Users in the European Union
+
+If you’re a user in the European Union, you should know that Snap Inc. is the controller of your personal information. Here is some additional information we would like to bring to your attention:
+
+Rights of Access, Deletion, Correction, and Portability
+
+You can exercise your rights of access, deletion, correction, and portability as described in the Control Over Your Information section above.
+
+Bases for Using Your Information
+
+Your country only allows us to use your personal information when certain conditions apply. These conditions are called “legal bases” and, at Snap, we typically rely on one of four:
+
+Contract. One reason we might use your information is because you’ve entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you buy an On-Demand Geofilter and accepted our Custom Creative Tools Terms, we need to use some of your information to collect payment and make sure we show your Geofilter to the right people at the right place and time.
+
+Legitimate interest. Another reason we might use your information is because we have—or a third party has—a legitimate interest in doing so. For example, we need to use your information to provide and improve our services, including protecting your account, delivering your Snaps, providing customer support, and helping you find friends and content we think you’ll like. Because most of our services are free, we also use some information about you to try and show you ads you’ll find interesting. An important point to understand about legitimate interest is that our interests don’t outweigh your right to privacy, so we only rely on legitimate interest when we think the way we are using your data doesn’t significantly impact your privacy or would be expected by you, or there is a compelling reason to do so. We explain our legitimate business reasons for using your information in more detail here.
+
+Consent. In some cases we’ll ask for consent to use your information for specific purposes. If we do, we’ll make sure you can revoke your consent in our services or through your device permissions. Even if we’re not relying on consent to use your information, we may ask you for permission to access data like contacts and location.
+
+Legal obligation. We may be required to use your personal information to comply with the law, like when we respond to valid legal process or need to take action to protect our users. Our policy is to notify Snapchatters when we receive legal process seeking their account information, with some exceptions. Learn more here.
+
+Your Right to Object
+
+You have the right to object to our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things in the app. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with us processing, you can contact us.
+
International Transfers
We may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries outside of where you live. Whenever we share information of EU users outside the EU we make sure an adequate transfer mechanism is in place. You can find more information on the categories of third parties we share information with here.
@@ -209,20 +231,56 @@ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Complaints or questions? If you’re based in the EU, you can always file a complaint with the supervisory authority in your Member State. Additionally, we have appointed a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”). To contact our DPO, please email dpo @ snap.com.
-State and Region Specific Information
+Users in Brazil
+
+If you’re a user in Brazil you should know that Snap Inc. is the controller of your personal information. Here is some additional information we would like to bring to your attention:
+
+Rights of Access, Deletion, Correction, and Portability
+
+You can exercise your rights of access, deletion, correction, and portability as described in the Control Over Your Information section above.
-You may have specific privacy rights in your state or region. For example, in the United States, residents of California and other states have specific privacy rights. Snapchatters in the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK, Brazil, the Republic of Korea, and other jurisdictions also have specific rights. We keep an up-to-date overview of state and region specific disclosures here.
+Bases for Using Your Information
+
+Your country only allows us to use your personal information when certain conditions apply. These conditions are called “legal bases” and, at Snap, we typically rely on one of four:
+
+Contract. One reason we might use your information is because you’ve entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you buy an On-Demand Geofilter and accepted our Custom Creative Tools Terms, we need to use some of your information to collect payment and make sure we show your Geofilter to the right people at the right place and time.
+
+Legitimate interest. Another reason we might use your information is because we have—or a third party has—a legitimate interest in doing so. For example, we need to use your information to provide and improve our services, including protecting your account, delivering your Snaps, providing customer support, and helping you find friends and content we think you’ll like. Because most of our services are free, we also use some information about you to try and show you ads you’ll find interesting. An important point to understand about legitimate interest is that our interests don’t outweigh your right to privacy, so we only rely on legitimate interest when we think the way we are using your data doesn’t significantly impact your privacy or would be expected by you, or there is a compelling reason to do so. We explain our legitimate business reasons for using your information in more detail here.
+
+Consent. In some cases we’ll ask for consent to use your information for specific purposes. If we do, we’ll make sure you can revoke your consent in our services or through your device permissions. Even if we’re not relying on consent to use your information, we may ask you for permission to access data like contacts and location.
+
+Legal obligation. We may be required to use your personal information to comply with the law, like when we respond to valid legal process or need to take action to protect our users.
+
+Your Right to Object
+
+You have the right to object to our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things in the app. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with us processing, you can contact us.
+
+Complaints or questions? You can always file a complaint with the national authority in your country. Additionally, we have appointed a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”). To contact our DPO, please email dpo @ snap.com.
+
+Users in Mexico
+
+If you’re a user in Mexico, you should know that Snap Inc., located at 2772 Donald Douglas Loop North, Santa Monica, California 90405, is the controller of your personal information. Here is some additional information we would like to bring to your attention:
+
+Rights of Access, Rectification, and Cancellation
+
+You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, and cancellation as described in the Control Over Your Information section above.
+
+Your Right to Object or Challenge
+
+You have the right to object to or challenge our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things in the app. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with us processing, you can contact us.
+
+California Residents
+
+If you’re a California resident, you have certain privacy rights under California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). Our California Privacy Notice specifies these rights, check it out.
Children
-Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EEA and UK users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
+Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EU users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
Revisions to the Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we’ll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we’ll let you know by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that’s available on our website and mobile application. Other times, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our websites’ homepages or providing you with an in-app notification).
-We’ve updated our Privacy Policy, effective September 30, 2021. You can view the prior Privacy Policy below.
-
© 2021 Snap Inc.
CitizenSnap
Privacy Policy
8614a6c26065f4b78e2db12f6426bd18ab31ea8a: https://www.snap.com/en-US/privacy/privacy-by-product @ 2021-08-21
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@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Saving and Deleting Snaps
Voice and Video Chat
+Snap and Chat Metadata
+
My Story
Snaps and Chats are like snippets of a personal conversation, while Stories are more like, well, a story you’re telling to a larger group of friends.
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ About Snap Map
Profiles
-Profiles make it easy to find the info and Snapchat features that you care about the most! There are different types of Profiles on Snapchat, including My Profile, Friendship Profiles, Group Profiles, and Public Profiles.
+Profiles make it easy to find the info and Snapchat features that you care about the most! There are different types of Profiles on Snapchat, including My Profile, Friendship Profiles, Group Profiles, and Public Profiles.
My Profile features your Snapchat info, like your Bitmoji, location on the Map, friend info, and more. Friendship Profile is as unique as each individual friendship, this is where you can find Snaps and messages you’ve saved, and this also where you can manage your friendship, and report, block, or remove the friend. Group Profiles showcase your saved Snaps and Chats within a Group Chat.
@@ -103,21 +105,23 @@ We are committed to creating products that make Snapchat better for everyone, wh
Every single person is different, and no one is going to like every ad they see. If an ad isn’t relevant to you or you don’t think it belongs on Snapchat, you can always let us know by tapping ⋮ , then tapping ⓘ to report the ad to us!
-We want to show you ads that are relevant to you and your interests — but we don’t want to serve ads that are so custom-tailored that they’re invasive or uncomfortable. It’s a difficult balance and we may not always get it right, so we’re always counting on Snapchatters for their feedback. Share your experience with us, if you have a moment!
+We want to show you ads that are relevant to you and your interests — but we don’t want to serve ads that are so custom-tailored that they’re invasive or uncomfortable. It’s a difficult balance and we may not always get it right, so we’re always counting on Snapchatters for their feedback. Share your experience with us, if you have a moment!
Spectacles
Spectacles are sunglasses that capture your world, the way you see it. Just press the button to save the moment, in the moment — without having a phone get in the way. We specifically made Spectacles sunglasses because they’re meant to be used when you’re out in the world — whether you’re on an adventure or just going about your day.
-Whenever you take a photo or video with Spectacles, LEDs will light up to let your friends know that you’re recording.
+Whenever you take a photo or video with Spectacles, LEDs will light up to let your friends know that you’re taking a Snap or recording a video.
Our Community Guidelines have always asked Snapchatters to be thoughtful and respect people’s privacy — and that same philosophy applies to Spectacles, down to their design!
+We are constantly innovating Spectacles — different generations have their own unique and exciting features. The new Spectacles overlay immersive Lenses on the world around you and incorporate some of the Scan features described below.
+
Learn About Spectacles
Your Snapchat Account
-You can view and edit most of your key account information and privacy settings right inside of Snapchat. But if you’re curious about something that’s not in our apps, you can visit accounts.snapchat.com, click ‘My Data,’ and then click ‘Submit Request.’ We’ll gather your account information and let you know when it’s ready for you to download. If you ever want to leave Snapchat for good, you can close your account on accounts.snapchat.com too.
+You can view and edit most of your key account information and privacy settings right inside of Snapchat. But if you’re curious about something that’s not in our apps, you can visit accounts.snapchat.com, click ‘My Data,’ and then click ‘Submit Request.’ We’ll gather your account information and let you know when it’s ready for you to download. If you ever want to leave Snapchat for good, you can close your account on accounts.snapchat.com too.
How to Change Your Privacy Settings
@@ -129,17 +133,17 @@ Pick a strong and unique password: It may be easier to use the same password for
Turn on Login Verification: This is an important feature that uses two-factor authentication to add an extra layer of security, if your password is ever compromised.
-Don’t use third-party apps: Third-party applications and plugins (or tweaks) are not supported by Snapchat, and can sometimes compromise the security of your account. We strongly suggest that you don’t install any, just to be safe!
+Don’t use unauthorized third-party apps: Unauthorized third-party applications and plugins (or tweaks) are not supported or permitted by Snapchat because they can sometimes compromise the security of your and other Snapchatters’ accounts.
Scan
-Use Scan to find a song, shop, or even calculate a math problem! To access Scan, either press and hold on the Camera screen, or tap on the Camera screen and then tap ‘Scan’ in the AR Bar. Scan options will appear across the carousel.
+Use Scan to find a song, shop, or even calculate a math problem! To access Scan on Snapchat, either press and hold on the Camera screen, or tap on the Camera screen and then tap ‘Scan’ in the AR Bar. Scan options will appear across the carousel. On the new Spectacles, start Scan by pressing the right button or saying “Hey Snapchat.”
-To power Scan, Snap partners with third parties like Amazon, Shazam, and Vivino. This means that when you press and hold on the Camera screen, certain information may be sent to these partners. For example, we may send images captured by your camera to Amazon, who’ll send back search results if they find a matching product. Similarly, we may send audio hashes captured by your microphone to Shazam, who’ll send back any matching songs.
+When you initiate Scan, images from your Camera are taken and sent to Snap’s servers where we classify what’s in the image. We then recommend Lenses or provide other Scan features to augment and complement your world.
-Voice Scan lets you do useful things like search for lenses. To power Voice Scan, Snap has partnered with SoundHound, which provides recognition and understanding technology. When Voice Scan is used, Snap and SoundHound may receive audio recordings.
+To power certain Scan features, Snap partners with third parties like Amazon, Shazam, and Vivino. This means that when you press and hold on the Camera screen, certain information may be sent to these partners. For example, we may send images captured by your camera to Amazon, who’ll send back search results if they find a matching product. Similarly, we may send audio hashes captured by your microphone to Shazam, who’ll send back any matching songs.
-To activate Voice Scan, you will be prompted to say “Hey Snapchat.” This will take you to the onboarding flow. This initial recognition to get you to the onboarding flow only happens on your device — no recording is sent to Snap or our partners. Once Voice Scan has been set up, you can use it by saying “Hey Snapchat” and recordings may be captured.
+Voice Scan lets you do useful things like search for Lenses. To power Voice Scan, Snap has partnered with SoundHound, which provides recognition and understanding technology. When Voice Scan is used, Snap and SoundHound receive the audio recordings.
Snap and our partners use the data collected in Scan and Voice Scan to provide you with relevant search results, track metrics around search activity, and help improve search algorithms and product features.
@@ -149,19 +153,19 @@ At the moment, Amazon Camera Search is only available to Snapchatters in the US.
Snap Map
-Snap Map lets you see where your friends are, what’s going on around them, find your favorite restaurants and bars, and even see what’s happening across the world!
+Snap Map lets you see where your friends are, what’s going on around them, find your favorite restaurants and bars, and even see what’s happening across the world!
You won’t appear on Snap Map until you open it for the first time and choose to share your location. If you don’t open the app for 8 hours, you won’t be visible on the Map until you open Snapchat again. You can always update the people you’re sharing your location with in Snap Map settings, or go into ‘Ghost Mode’ to hide your location from everyone. We may also remind you if you leave location sharing enabled for a while.
-Snaps that have been submitted to Our Story and Snap Map can also show up on the Map — but not every Snap will appear there. Most of the Snaps on the Map are selected through an automated process.
+Snaps that have been submitted to Our Story and Snap Map can also show up on the Map — but not every Snap will appear there. Most of the Snaps on the Map are selected through an automated process.
-When it looks like something interesting is happening, a Story thumbnail might appear on the Map! For the most part, these are also created automatically — while Stories that are labeled as ‘Featured’ receive a more hands-on approach. Snaps posted to Snap Map are also viewable on the web at map.snapchat.com and are embeddable on other websites.
+When it looks like something interesting is happening, a Story thumbnail might appear on the Map! For the most part, these are also created automatically — while Stories that are labeled as ‘Featured’ receive a more hands-on approach. Snaps posted to Snap Map are also viewable on the web at map.snapchat.com and are embeddable on other websites.
Please be mindful of the Snaps that you submit to Our Story and Snap Map. Although the Map only shows the general area where a Snap was taken, things like landmarks and street signs appearing in a Snap can show where you’re at, if you’re worried about that kind of thing.
Places make it easy to interact with local businesses on the Snap Map. Just tap a Place on the Map to view the place’s listing, or tap Search at the top of the Map screen to find a Place. Places provide a personalized Map experience, and you can even order food from your favorite restaurant via one of the delivery partners.
-If you come across anything that violates our Community Guidelines, please reach out to us and report it!
+If you come across anything that violates our Community Guidelines, please reach out to us and report it!
Location
@@ -169,19 +173,23 @@ Snapchat uses your device’s GPS to offer certain location-based features. For
We store GPS locations for a while to help improve the Map and other features. For example, we may store some of the locations you visit the most so we can show you more relevant Search content or update your Bitmoji’s activity on the Map. We may also store location information of the Snaps you save in Memories or submit to My Story, Our Story, Spotlight, or Snap Map to personalize your experience.
-You can still use Snapchat if you disable location permissions in your device’s settings, but many of these features won’t work right (or at all!) without it. Sometimes we can still infer an approximate location like a country or city, based on an IP address — but it’s not perfect.
+On the new Spectacles, some features may need location data to work properly. We may use data from a few sources to derive a more accurate representation of your location. For example, if the last location of your sunglasses is not available, we may rely on Snapchat’s use of your device’s GPS to offer location-based features.
+
+You can still use Snapchat and Spectacles if you disable location permissions in your device’s settings, but many of these features won’t work right (or at all!) without it. Sometimes we can still infer an approximate location like a country or city, based on an IP address — but it’s not perfect.
Learn About iOS Location Permissions
Learn About Android Location Permissions
+Learn About Location on the New Spectacles
+
Cameos
Cameos lets you be the star in your own short, looping videos that you can send to friends in Chat. To enable Cameos, we ask you to take a selfie to put you into fun scenes. We don’t use facial recognition software. Instead, Cameos segments the shape of your face and hair to place you into the scenes and ensure the Cameos are optimized.
You have full control over your selfie, and can change and delete it, and restrict others from using your selfie in two-person Cameos, in Snapchat settings.
-Learn about Cameos
+Learn About Cameos
Games and Minis
@@ -189,9 +197,9 @@ Games are a fun way to hang out with your friends on Snapchat. You’ll be able
Minis are a set of experiences in Snapchat. Whether it’s planning a movie night, making a deck of flashcards, or coordinating which artists to see at a music festival, Minis can bring friends together for just about anything. You’ll be able to see your friends in a Mini while you’re in a Chat with them, and they will be able to see you too. You can invite them to use a Mini. You choose which Mini you want to open and use within Snapchat.
-Learn about Games
+Learn About Games
-Learn about Minis
+Learn About Minis
Games and Minis Data and Privacy
@@ -199,13 +207,13 @@ Personalization
No two people are the same, so the app can tailor your Snapchat experience especially for you!
-For example, the friends you Snap with the most are usually easiest to find, and we generally try to show you ads that’ll be relevant to you. We’re able to do this by making some guesses about the things you like and don’t like.
+We personalize your Snapchat experience based on interactions you have with your friends. For example, the friends you Snap with the most are usually easiest to find, and Charms and Friend Emojis give you fun insights to celebrate your friendships.
-For example, if you’re constantly watching Snaps of puppies on Discover or Spotlight, you might be a “Pet & Animal Lover.” Or, if you regularly post Snaps of your sports memorabilia to My Story, our system might be able to guess that you’re a “Sports Fan.” We call guesses like these “Lifestyle Categories” and we use them to try and show you ads and content that’s relevant to your interests! If you’d like, you can always pick your own Lifestyle Categories.
+We generally try to show you ads that’ll be relevant to you. We’re able to do this by making some guesses about the things you like and don’t like. For example, if you’re constantly watching Snaps of puppies on Discover or Spotlight, you might be a “Pet & Animal Lover.” Or, if you regularly post Snaps of your sports memorabilia to My Story, our system might be able to guess that you’re a “Sports Fan.” We call guesses like these “Lifestyle Categories” and we use them to try and show you ads and content that’s relevant to your interests! If you’d like, you can always pick your own Lifestyle Categories.
We personalize the Snap Map. For example, if you visit a Place or apply a venue filter or sticker on a My Story, Our Story, Spotlight, or Snap Map submission, we may use that venue information to create a more personalized Map experience for you and your friends.
-We also try to personalize the content you see by using what we call “Content Interest Tags.” These tags are guesses about the content that you may be interested in based on activity, like things you search for, Stories you view, popular users you subscribe to, and types of locations you visit. So if you watch a lot of Stories about basketball, we may create “sports” and “basketball” Content Interest Tags, so we can show you more Snaps about basketball. You can reset Content Interest Tags at any time in Snapchat settings!
+We also try to personalize the content you see by using what we call “Content Interest Tags.” These tags are guesses about the content that you may be interested in based on activity, like things you search for, Stories you view, popular users you subscribe to, and types of locations you visit. So if you watch a lot of Stories about basketball, we may create “sports” and “basketball” Content Interest Tags, so we can show you more Snaps about basketball. You can reset Content Interest Tags at any time in Snapchat settings!
© 2021 Snap Inc.
CitizenSnap
cadb7d58850a40aad9f6ed3305e0f612cc2539a1: https://www.snap.com/en-US/cookie-policy @ 2021-08-28
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@@ -11,11 +11,14 @@ Like most providers of online services, Snap Inc. uses cookies, including third-
Category of cookies Why we use these cookies
Necessary We use these cookies to run our site, and to identify and prevent security risks.
- For example, we may use these cookies to store your session information to prevent others from changing your password without your username and password.
+
+For example, we may use these cookies to store your session information to prevent others from changing your password without your username and password.
Preferences We use these cookies to remember your settings and preferences, and to improve your experience on our site.
- For example, we may use these cookies to remember your language preferences.
-Performance We use these cookies to collect information about how you use our site, monitor site performance, and improve our site performance, our services, and your experience.
- For example, we can use these cookies to learn more about which features are the most popular with our users and which ones might need some tweaks.
+
+For example, we may use these cookies to remember your language preferences.
+Performance & Analytics We use these cookies to collect information about how you use our site, monitor site performance, and improve our site performance, our services, and your experience.
+
+For example, we can use these cookies to learn more about which features are the most popular with our users and which ones might need some tweaks.
Marketing We use these cookies to deliver advertisements, to make them more relevant and meaningful to consumers, and to track the efficiency of our advertising campaigns, both on our services and on other sites or mobile apps. Our
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Privacy Policy
How We Use Your Information
Transparency Report
+
+We’ve updated our Privacy Policy, effective September 30, 2021. You can view the prior Privacy Policy here.
+
+Privacy Policy
+
+Effective: September 30, 2021
+
+Snap Inc. is a camera company. Our products and services—including Snapchat, Bitmoji, Spectacles, advertising, and others that link to this Privacy Policy—provide fast and fun ways to express yourself, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together!
+
+When you use these services, you’ll share some information with us. So we want to be upfront about the information we collect, how we use it, whom we share it with, and the controls we give you to access, update, and delete your information.
+
+That’s why we’ve written this Privacy Policy. And it’s why we’ve tried to write it in a way that’s blissfully free of the legalese that often clouds these documents. Of course, if you still have questions about anything in our Privacy Policy, just contact us.
+
+You should read our entire Privacy Policy, but when you only have a few minutes or want to remember something later on, you can always take a look at this summary—so you can review some of the basics in just a few minutes.
+
+Information We Collect
+
+There are three basic categories of information we collect:
+
+Information you provide.
+
+Information we get when you use our services.
+
+Information we get from third parties.
+
+Here’s a little more detail on each of these categories.
+
+Information You Provide
+
+When you interact with our services, we collect information that you provide to us. For example, most of our services require you to set up a Snapchat account, so we need to collect a few important details about you, such as your name, username, password, email address, phone number, and date of birth. We may also ask you to provide us with some additional information that will be publicly visible on our services, such as a profile picture or Bitmoji avatar. Other services, such as commerce products, may require you to provide us with a debit or credit card number and its associated account information.
+
+Of course, you’ll also provide us whatever information you send through our services, such as Snaps and Chats. Keep in mind that the users who view your Snaps, Chats, and any other content can always save that content or copy it outside the app. So, the same common sense that applies to the internet at large applies to Snapchat as well: Don’t send messages or share content that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share.
+
+When you contact customer support or communicate with us in any other way, we’ll collect whatever information you volunteer or that we need to resolve your question.
+
+Information We Get When You Use Our Services
+
+When you use our services, we collect information about which of those services you’ve used and how you’ve used them. We might know, for instance, that you watched a particular Story, saw a specific ad for a certain period of time, and sent a few Snaps. Here’s a fuller explanation of the types of information we collect when you use our services:
+
+Usage Information. We collect information about your activity through our services. For example, we may collect information about:
+
+how you interact with our services, such as which filters you view or apply to Snaps, which Stories you watch on Discover, whether you’re using Spectacles, or which search queries you submit.
+
+how you communicate with other Snapchatters, such as their names, the time and date of your communications, the number of messages you exchange with your friends, which friends you exchange messages with the most, and your interactions with messages (such as when you open a message or capture a screenshot).
+
+Content Information. We collect content you create on our services, such as custom stickers, and information about the content you create or provide, such as if the recipient has viewed the content and the metadata that is provided with the content.
+
+Device Information. We collect information from and about the devices you use. For example, we collect:
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+information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, advertising identifiers, unique application identifiers, apps installed, unique device identifiers, browser type, keyboards installed, language, battery level, and time zone;
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+information from device sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, microphones, and whether you have headphones connected; and
+
+information about your wireless and mobile network connections, such as mobile phone number, service provider, IP address, and signal strength.
+
+Device Phonebook. Because Snapchat is all about communicating with friends, we may—with your permission—collect information from your device’s phonebook.
+
+Camera and Photos. Many of our services require us to collect images and other information from your device’s camera and photos. For example, you won’t be able to send Snaps or upload photos from your camera roll unless we can access your camera or photos.
+
+Location Information. When you use our services we may collect information about your location. With your permission, we may also collect information about your precise location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and compasses.
+
+Information Collected by Cookies and Other Technologies. Like most online services and mobile applications, we may use cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers, to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. We may also use these technologies to collect information when you interact with services we offer through one of our partners, such as advertising and commerce features. For example, we may use information collected on other websites to show you more relevant ads. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually remove or reject browser cookies through the settings on your browser or device. Keep in mind, though, that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our services. To learn more about how we and our partners use cookies on our services and your choices, please check out our Cookie Policy.
+
+Log Information. We also collect log information when you use our website, such as:
+
+details about how you’ve used our services;
+
+device information, such as your web browser type and language;
+
+access times;
+
+pages viewed;
+
+IP address;
+
+identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser; and
+
+pages you visited before or after navigating to our website.
+
+Information We Collect from Third Parties
+
+We may collect information about you from other users, our affiliates, and third parties. Here are a few examples:
+
+If you link your Snapchat account to another service (like Bitmoji or a third-party app), we may receive information from the other service, like how you use that service.
+
+Advertisers, app developers, publishers, and other third parties may share information with us as well. We may use this information, among other ways, to help target or measure the performance of ads. You can learn more about our use of this kind of third-party data in our Support Center.
+
+If another user uploads their contact list, we may combine information from that user’s contact list with other information we have collected about you.
+
+How We Use Information
+
+What do we do with the information we collect? For the detailed answer, go here. The short answer is: Provide you with an amazing set of products and services that we relentlessly improve. Here are the ways we do that:
+
+develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect our products and services.
+
+send you communications, including by email. For example, we may use email to respond to support inquiries or to share information about our products, services, and promotional offers that we think may interest you.
+
+monitor and analyze trends and usage.
+
+personalize our services by, among other things, suggesting friends, profile information, or Bitmoji stickers, helping Snapchatters find each other in Snapchat, affiliate and third-party apps and services, or customizing the content we show you, including ads.
+
+contextualize your experience by, among other things, tagging your Memories content using your precise location information (if, of course, you’ve given us permission to collect that information) and applying other labels based on the content.
+
+provide and improve our advertising services, ad targeting, and ad measurement, including through the use of your precise location information (again, if you’ve given us permission to collect that information), both on and off our services. See the Control Over Your Information section below for more information about Snap Inc.’s advertising practices and your choices.
+
+enhance the safety and security of our products and services.
+
+verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity.
+
+use information we’ve collected from cookies and other technology to enhance our services and your experience with them.
+
+enforce, investigate, and report conduct violating our Terms of Service and other usage policies, respond to requests from law enforcement, and comply with legal requirements.
+
+We may also use information from Apple’s TrueDepth camera to improve the quality of Lenses. Information from the TrueDepth camera is used in real time—we don’t store this information on our servers or share it with third parties.
+
+How We Share Information
+
+We may share information about you in the following ways:
+
+With other Snapchatters. We may share the following information with other Snapchatters:
+
+information about you, such as your username, name, and Bitmoji.
+
+information about how you have interacted with our services, such as your Snapchat “score,” the names of Snapchatters you are friends with, and other information that will help Snapchatters understand your connections with others using our services. For example, because it may not be clear whether a new friend request comes from someone you actually know, we may share whether you and the requestor have Snapchat friends in common.
+
+any additional information you have directed us to share. For example, Snap will share your information when you connect your Snapchat account to a third-party app, and if you share information or content from Snapchat to the third-party app.
+
+content you post or send. How widely your content is shared depends on your personal settings and the type of service you are using. For example, a Snap may be sent to just a single friend you select, but your My Story content may be seen by any Snapchatter whom you allow to see your My Story.
+
+With all Snapchatters, our business partners, and the general public. We may share the following information with all Snapchatters as well as with our business partners and the general public:
+
+public information like your name, username, profile pictures, Snapcode, and Public Profile.
+
+Public Content like your Highlights, Custom Stickers, Lenses, Story submissions that are set to be viewable by Everyone, and any content that you submit to an inherently public service, like Spotlight, Snap Map, and other crowd-sourced services. This content may be viewed, used, and shared by the public at large both on and off our services, including through search results, on websites, in apps, and in online and offline broadcasts.
+
+With our affiliates. We may share information with entities within the Snap Inc. family of companies.
+
+With third parties. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps. Learn more here.
+
+We may share information about you with business partners that provide services and functionality on our services. For more information about information collected by third parties on our services, visit our Support Site.
+
+We may share information about you, such as device and usage information, to help us and others prevent fraud.
+
+We may share information about you for legal, safety, and security reasons. We may share information about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the information is needed to:
+
+comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation.
+
+investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service and Community Guidelines violations.
+
+protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others.
+
+detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
+
+We may share information about you as part of a merger or acquisition. If Snap Inc. gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes.
+
+Non-personal information. We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
+
+Third-Party Content and Integrations
+
+Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include third-party integrations in the Camera, third-party games in Chat, and third-party Snap Kit integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to Snap. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services. You can learn more about third-party services in Snapchat here.
+
+How Long We Keep Your Information
+
+Snapchat lets you capture what it’s like to live in the moment. On our end, that means most messages—like Snaps and Chats—sent in Snapchat will be automatically deleted by default from our servers after we detect they’ve been opened by all recipients or have expired. Other content, like Story posts, are stored for longer. For detailed information about how long we store different types of content, check out our Support Site.
+
+We store other information for longer periods of time. For example:
+
+We store your basic account information—like your name, phone number, and email address—and list of friends until you ask us to delete them.
+
+We store location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use. If location information is associated with a Snap—like those saved to Memories or posted to Snap Map—we’ll retain that location as long as we store the Snap. Pro tip: You can see the location data we retain about you by downloading your data.
+
+If you ever decide to stop using Snapchat, you can just ask us to delete your account. We’ll also delete most of the information we’ve collected about you after you’ve been inactive for a while!
+
+Keep in mind that, while our systems are designed to carry out our deletion practices automatically, we cannot promise that deletion will occur within a specific timeframe. There may be legal requirements to store your data and we may need to suspend those deletion practices if we receive valid legal process asking us to preserve content, if we receive reports of abuse or other Terms of Service violations, or if your account or content created by you is flagged by others or our systems for abuse or other Terms of Service violations. Finally, we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.
+
+Control Over Your Information
+
+We want you to be in control of your information, so we provide you with the following tools.
+
+Access, Correction, and Portability. You can access and edit most of your basic account information right in our apps. You can also use Download My Data to obtain a copy of information that isn’t available in our apps in a portable format, so you can move it or store it wherever you want. Because your privacy is important to us, we will ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information before we let you access or update your personal information. We may also reject your request to access or update your personal information for a number of reasons, including, for example, if the request risks the privacy of other users or is unlawful.
+
+Revoking permissions. In most cases, if you let us use your information, you can simply revoke your permission by changing the settings in the app or on your device if your device offers those options. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.
+
+Deletion. While we hope you’ll remain a lifelong Snapchatter, if for some reason you ever want to delete your account, just go here to learn how. You can also delete some information in the app, like photos you’ve saved to Memories, Spotlight submissions, and search history.
+
+Advertising Preferences. We try to show you ads that we think will be relevant to your interests. If you would like to modify the information we and our advertising partners use to select these ads, you can do so in the app and through your device preferences. Go here to learn more.
+
+Communicating with other Snapchatters. It’s important to us that you stay in control over whom you communicate with. That’s why we’ve built a number of tools in Settings that let you indicate, among other things, who you want to see your Stories, whether you’d like to receive Snaps from just your friends or all Snapchatters, and whether you’d like to block another Snapchatter from contacting you again. Go here to learn more.
+
+International Data Transfers
+
+We may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries outside of where you live. Whenever we share information outside of where you live, when we are legally required to do so, we make sure an adequate transfer mechanism is in place. We also make sure any third parties we share information with have an adequate transfer mechanism in place, as well. You can find more information on what data transfer mechanism we use here, and the categories of third parties we share information with here.
+
+State and Region Specific Information
+
+You may have specific privacy rights in your state or region. For example, in the United States, residents of California and other states have specific privacy rights. Snapchatters in the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK, Brazil, the Republic of Korea, and other jurisdictions also have specific rights. We keep an up-to-date overview of state and region specific disclosures here.
+
+Children
+
+Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EEA and UK users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
+
+Revisions to the Privacy Policy
+
+We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we’ll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we’ll let you know by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that’s available on our website and mobile application. Other times, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our websites’ homepages or providing you with an in-app notification).
+
+We’ve updated our Privacy Policy, effective September 30, 2021. You can view the prior version below.
+
Privacy Policy
Effective: July 9, 2021
@@ -13,9 +220,9 @@ Snap Inc. is a camera company. Our products and services—including Snapchat, B
When you use these services, you’ll share some information with us. So we want to be upfront about the information we collect, how we use it, whom we share it with, and the controls we give you to access, update, and delete your information.
-That’s why we’ve written this Privacy Policy. And it’s why we’ve tried to write it in a way that’s blissfully free of the legalese that often clouds these documents. Of course, if you still have questions about anything in our Privacy Policy, just contact us.
+That’s why we’ve written this Privacy Policy. And it’s why we’ve tried to write it in a way that’s blissfully free of the legalese that often clouds these documents. Of course, if you still have questions about anything in our Privacy Policy, just contact us.
-You should read our entire Privacy Policy, but when you only have a few minutes or want to remember something later on, you can always take a look at this summary—so you can review some of the basics in just a few minutes.
+You should read our entire Privacy Policy, but when you only have a few minutes or want to remember something later on, you can always take a look at this summary—so you can review some of the basics in just a few minutes.
Information We Collect
@@ -137,11 +344,11 @@ public information like your name, username, Snapcode and profile pictures.
Story submissions that are set to be viewable by Everyone and any content that you submit to an inherently public service, like Our Story and other crowd-sourced services. This content may be viewed and shared by the public at large both on and off our services, including through search results, on websites, in apps, and in online and offline broadcasts.
-With our affiliates. We may share information with entities within the Snap Inc. family of companies.
+With our affiliates. We may share information with entities within the Snap Inc. family of companies.
-With third parties. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps. Learn more here.
+With third parties. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps. Learn more here.
-We may share information about you with business partners that provide services and functionality on our services. For more information about information collected by third parties on our services, visit our Support Site.
+We may share information about you with business partners that provide services and functionality on our services. For more information about information collected by third parties on our services, visit our Support Site.
We may share information about you, such as device and usage information, to help us and others prevent fraud.
@@ -155,17 +362,17 @@ protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others.
detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
-We may share information about you as part of a merger or acquisition. If Snap Inc. gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes.
+We may share information about you as part of a merger or acquisition. If Snap Inc. gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes.
We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
Third-Party Content and Integrations
-Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include third-party integrations in camera search, third-party games in Chat, and third-party Snap Kit integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to Snap. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services. You can learn more about third-party services in Snapchat here.
+Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include third-party integrations in camera search, third-party games in Chat, and third-party Snap Kit integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to Snap. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services. You can learn more about third-party services in Snapchat here.
How Long We Keep Your Information
-Snapchat lets you capture what it’s like to live in the moment. On our end, that means most messages—like Snaps and Chats—sent in Snapchat will be automatically deleted by default from our servers after we detect they’ve been opened by all recipients or have expired. Other content, like Story posts, are stored for longer. For detailed information about how long we store different types of content, check out our Support Site.
+Snapchat lets you capture what it’s like to live in the moment. On our end, that means most messages—like Snaps and Chats—sent in Snapchat will be automatically deleted by default from our servers after we detect they’ve been opened by all recipients or have expired. Other content, like Story posts, are stored for longer. For detailed information about how long we store different types of content, check out our Support Site.
We store other information for longer periods of time. For example:
@@ -183,11 +390,11 @@ Control Over Your Information
We want you to be in control of your information, so we provide you with the following tools.
-Access, Correction, and Portability. You can access and edit most of your basic account information right in our apps. You can also use Download My Data to obtain a copy of information that isn’t available in our apps in a portable format, so you can move it or store it wherever you want. Because your privacy is important to us, we will ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information before we let you access or update your personal information. We may also reject your request to access or update your personal information for a number of reasons, including, for example, if the request risks the privacy of other users or is unlawful.
+Access, Correction, and Portability. You can access and edit most of your basic account information right in our apps. You can also use Download My Data to obtain a copy of information that isn’t available in our apps in a portable format, so you can move it or store it wherever you want. Because your privacy is important to us, we will ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information before we let you access or update your personal information. We may also reject your request to access or update your personal information for a number of reasons, including, for example, if the request risks the privacy of other users or is unlawful.
-Revoking permissions. In most cases, if you let us use your information, you can simply revoke your permission by changing the settings in the app or on your device if your device offers those options. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.
+Revoking permissions. In most cases, if you let us use your information, you can simply revoke your permission by changing the settings in the app or on your device if your device offers those options. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.
-Deletion. While we hope you’ll remain a lifelong Snapchatter, if for some reason you ever want to delete your account, just go here to learn how. You can also delete some information in the app, like photos you’ve saved to Memories, Our Story submissions, and search history.
+Deletion. While we hope you’ll remain a lifelong Snapchatter, if for some reason you ever want to delete your account, just go here to learn how. You can also delete some information in the app, like photos you’ve saved to Memories, Our Story submissions, and search history.
Advertising Preferences. We try to show you ads that we think will be relevant to your interests. If you would like to modify the information we and our advertising partners use to select these ads, you can do so in the app and through your device preferences. Go here to learn more.
@@ -237,7 +444,7 @@ If you’re a user in Brazil you should know that Snap Inc. is the controller of
Rights of Access, Deletion, Correction, and Portability
-You can exercise your rights of access, deletion, correction, and portability as described in the Control Over Your Information section above.
+You can exercise your rights of access, deletion, correction, and portability as described in the Control Over Your Information section of the Privacy Policy.
Bases for Using Your Information
@@ -263,7 +470,7 @@ If you’re a user in Mexico, you should know that Snap Inc., located at 2772 Do
Rights of Access, Rectification, and Cancellation
-You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, and cancellation as described in the Control Over Your Information section above.
+You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, and cancellation as described in the Control Over Your Information section of the Privacy Policy.
Your Right to Object or Challenge
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We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we’ll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we’ll let you know by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that’s available on our website and mobile application. Other times, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our websites’ homepages or providing you with an in-app notification).
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Privacy policies tend to be pretty long — and pretty confusing. That’s why we did our best to make our Privacy Policy brief, clear, and easy-to-read!
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Still can’t find what you’re looking for? Don’t worry, just reach out to us and our friendly support team will get back to you!
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At Snap, we make your privacy a priority. We know your trust is earned every time you use Snapchat, or any of our other products—that is why we treat your information differently than most other tech companies. Even though our products are constantly evolving, our privacy principles and commitment to privacy remain unchanged.
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We also try to personalize the content you see by using what we call “Content Interest Tags.” These tags are guesses about the content that you may be interested in based on activity, like things you search for, Stories you view, popular users you subscribe to, and types of locations you visit. So if you watch a lot of Stories about basketball, we may create “sports” and “basketball” Content Interest Tags, so we can show you more Snaps about basketball. You can reset Content Interest Tags at any time in Snapchat settings!
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At Snap, we make your privacy a priority. We know your trust is earned every time you use Snapchat, or any of our other products—that is why we treat your information differently than most other tech companies. Even though our products are constantly evolving, our privacy principles and commitment to privacy remain unchanged.
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Your country only allows us to use your personal information when certain conditions apply. These conditions are called “legal bases” and, at Snap, we typically rely on one of four:
-Contract. One reason we might use your information is because you’ve entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you buy an On-Demand Geofilter and accepted our Custom Creative Tools Terms, we need to use some of your information to collect payment and make sure we show your Geofilter to the right people at the right place and time.
+Contract. One reason we might use your information is because you’ve entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you buy an On-Demand Geofilter and accept our Custom Creative Tools Terms, we need to use some of your information to collect payment and make sure we show your Geofilter to the right people at the right place and time.
Legitimate interest. Another reason we might use your information is because we have—or a third party has—a legitimate interest in doing so. For example, we need to use your information to provide and improve our services, including protecting your account, delivering your Snaps, providing customer support, and helping you find friends and content we think you’ll like. Because most of our services are free, we also use some information about you to try and show you ads you’ll find interesting. An important point to understand about legitimate interest is that our interests don’t outweigh your right to privacy, so we only rely on legitimate interest when we think the way we are using your data doesn’t significantly impact your privacy or would be expected by you, or there is a compelling reason to do so. We explain our legitimate business reasons for using your information in more detail here.
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At Snap, we make your privacy a priority. We know your trust is earned every time you use Snapchat, or any of our other products—that is why we treat your information differently than most other tech companies. Even though our products are constantly evolving, our privacy principles and commitment to privacy remain unchanged.
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+At Snap, we make your privacy a priority. We know your trust is earned every time you use Snapchat, or any of our other products—that is why we treat your information differently than most other tech companies. Even though our products are constantly evolving, our privacy principles and commitment to privacy remain unchanged.
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Enforcement actions could include removing the offending content; terminating or limiting the visibility of the account in question; and referring the content to law enforcement. If an account is terminated for violating our Guidelines, the account holder is not permitted to create a new account or use Snapchat again.
-During the reporting period, we saw a Violative View Rate (VVR) of 0.08 percent, which means that out of every 10,000 views of content on Snap, eight contained content that violated our guidelines.
+During the reporting period, we saw a Violative View Rate (VVR) of 0.08 percent. VVR is defined as the percentage of story snap views that contained violating content, as a proportion of all snap views across Snap. In other words, out of every 10,000 snap views on Snap, eight contained content that violated our guidelines.
We offer in-app reporting tools that allow Snapchatters to quickly and easily report content to our Trust and Safety teams, who investigate the report, and take appropriate action. Our teams work to take enforcement actions as quickly as possible and, in the vast majority of cases, take action within two hours of receiving an in-app report.
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Working with our Discover editorial partners to make sure publishers didn’t inadvertently amplify any misinformation through news coverage;
-Asking Snap Stars, whose content also appears on our Discover content platform to make sure they complied with our Community Guidelines and didn’t unintentionally spread false information;
+Asking Snapstrellas, whose content also appears on our Discover content platform to make sure they complied with our Community Guidelines and didn’t unintentionally spread false information;
Having clear enforcement outcomes for any violating content — rather than labeling content, we simply removed it, immediately reducing the harm of it being shared more widely; and
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At Snap, monitoring developments in this space and mitigating any potential vectors for abuse on our platform was a part of our U.S. election integrity task force work. Both our product architecture and the design of our Group Chat functionality limits the spread of harmful content and opportunities to organize. We offer Group Chats, but they are limited in size to several dozen members, are not recommended by algorithms, and are not discoverable on our platform if you are not a member of that Group.
-During the second half of 2020, we removed eight accounts for violations of our prohibition of terrorism, hate speech, and extremist content.
+During the second half of 2020, we removed eight accounts for violations of our prohibition of terrorism and extremist content.
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+July 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020
Throughout this Transparency Report, we highlight how we enforce safety across our platform. Beyond simply reporting our data, here we provide additional context and insight into our safety principles and practices, as well as links to various safety and privacy resources.
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+Launched in April 2021, our blog aims to serve as a helpful resource for anyone who wants to better understand how people experience our product, or the many stakeholders and advocates who seek to better understand how we approach critical issues around safety and trust.
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We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we’ll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we’ll let you know by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that’s available on our website and mobile application. Other times, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our websites’ homepages or providing you with an in-app notification).
-We’ve updated our Privacy Policy, effective September 30, 2021. You can view the prior version below.
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-Privacy Policy
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-Effective: July 9, 2021
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-Snap Inc. is a camera company. Our products and services—including Snapchat, Bitmoji, Spectacles, advertising, and others that link to this Privacy Policy—provide fast and fun ways to express yourself, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together!
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-When you use these services, you’ll share some information with us. So we want to be upfront about the information we collect, how we use it, whom we share it with, and the controls we give you to access, update, and delete your information.
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-That’s why we’ve written this Privacy Policy. And it’s why we’ve tried to write it in a way that’s blissfully free of the legalese that often clouds these documents. Of course, if you still have questions about anything in our Privacy Policy, just contact us.
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-You should read our entire Privacy Policy, but when you only have a few minutes or want to remember something later on, you can always take a look at this summary—so you can review some of the basics in just a few minutes.
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-Information We Collect
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-There are three basic categories of information we collect:
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-Information you provide.
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-Information we get when you use our services.
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-Information we get from third parties.
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-Here’s a little more detail on each of these categories.
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-Information You Provide
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-When you interact with our services, we collect information that you provide to us. For example, most of our services require you to set up a Snapchat account, so we need to collect a few important details about you, such as your name, username, password, email address, phone number, and date of birth. We may also ask you to provide us with some additional information that will be publicly visible on our services, such as a profile picture or Bitmoji avatar. Other services, such as commerce products, may require you to provide us with a debit or credit card number and its associated account information.
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-Of course, you’ll also provide us whatever information you send through our services, such as Snaps and Chats. Keep in mind that the users who view your Snaps, Chats, and any other content can always save that content or copy it outside the app. So, the same common sense that applies to the internet at large applies to Snapchat as well: Don’t send messages or share content that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share.
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-When you contact customer support or communicate with us in any other way, we’ll collect whatever information you volunteer or that we need to resolve your question.
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-Information We Get When You Use Our Services
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-When you use our services, we collect information about which of those services you’ve used and how you’ve used them. We might know, for instance, that you watched a particular Story, saw a specific ad for a certain period of time, and sent a few Snaps. Here’s a fuller explanation of the types of information we collect when you use our services:
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-Usage Information. We collect information about your activity through our services. For example, we may collect information about:
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-how you interact with our services, such as which filters you view or apply to Snaps, which Stories you watch on Discover, whether you’re using Spectacles, or which search queries you submit.
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-how you communicate with other Snapchatters, such as their names, the time and date of your communications, the number of messages you exchange with your friends, which friends you exchange messages with the most, and your interactions with messages (such as when you open a message or capture a screenshot).
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-Content Information. We collect content you create on our services, such as custom stickers, and information about the content you create or provide, such as if the recipient has viewed the content and the metadata that is provided with the content.
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-Device Information. We collect information from and about the devices you use. For example, we collect:
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-information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, advertising identifiers, unique application identifiers, apps installed, unique device identifiers, browser type, language, battery level, and time zone;
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-information from device sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, microphones, and whether you have headphones connected; and
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-information about your wireless and mobile network connections, such as mobile phone number, service provider, IP address, and signal strength.
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-Device Phonebook. Because Snapchat is all about communicating with friends, we may—with your permission—collect information from your device’s phonebook.
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-Camera and Photos. Many of our services require us to collect images and other information from your device’s camera and photos. For example, you won’t be able to send Snaps or upload photos from your camera roll unless we can access your camera or photos.
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-Location Information. When you use our services we may collect information about your location. With your permission, we may also collect information about your precise location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and compasses.
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-Information Collected by Cookies and Other Technologies. Like most online services and mobile applications, we may use cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers, to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. We may also use these technologies to collect information when you interact with services we offer through one of our partners, such as advertising and commerce features. For example, we may use information collected on other websites to show you more relevant ads. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually remove or reject browser cookies through the settings on your browser or device. Keep in mind, though, that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our services. To learn more about how we and our partners use cookies on our services and your choices, please check out our Cookie Policy.
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-Log Information. We also collect log information when you use our website, such as:
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-details about how you’ve used our services;
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-device information, such as your web browser type and language;
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-pages viewed;
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-IP address;
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-identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser; and
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-pages you visited before or after navigating to our website.
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-Information We Collect from Third Parties
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-We may collect information about you from other users, our affiliates, and third parties. Here are a few examples:
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-If you link your Snapchat account to another service (like Bitmoji or a third-party app), we may receive information from the other service, like how you use that service.
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-Advertisers, app developers, publishers, and other third parties may share information with us as well. We may use this information, among other ways, to help target or measure the performance of ads. You can learn more about our use of this kind of third-party data in our Support Center.
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-If another user uploads their contact list, we may combine information from that user’s contact list with other information we have collected about you.
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-How We Use Information
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-What do we do with the information we collect? For the detailed answer, go here. The short answer is: Provide you with an amazing set of products and services that we relentlessly improve. Here are the ways we do that:
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-develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect our products and services.
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-send you communications, including by email. For example, we may use email to respond to support inquiries or to share information about our products, services, and promotional offers that we think may interest you.
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-monitor and analyze trends and usage.
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-personalize our services by, among other things, suggesting friends, profile information, or Bitmoji stickers, or customizing the content we show you, including ads.
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-contextualize your experience by, among other things, tagging your Memories content using your precise location information (if, of course, you’ve given us permission to collect that information) and applying other labels based on the content.
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-provide and improve our advertising services, ad targeting, and ad measurement, including through the use of your precise location information (again, if you’ve given us permission to collect that information), both on and off our services. See the Control Over Your Information section below for more information about Snap Inc.’s advertising practices and your choices.
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-enhance the safety and security of our products and services.
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-verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity.
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-use information we’ve collected from cookies and other technology to enhance our services and your experience with them.
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-enforce our Terms of Service and other usage policies and comply with legal requirements.
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-We may also use information from Apple’s TrueDepth camera to improve the quality of Lenses. Information from the TrueDepth camera is used in real time—we don’t store this information on our servers or share it with third parties.
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-How We Share Information
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-We may share information about you in the following ways:
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-With other Snapchatters. We may share the following information with other Snapchatters:
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-information about you, such as your username, name, and Bitmoji.
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-information about how you have interacted with our services, such as your Snapchat “score,” the names of Snapchatters you are friends with, and other information that will help Snapchatters understand your connections with others using our services. For example, because it may not be clear whether a new friend request comes from someone you actually know, we may share whether you and the requestor have Snapchat friends in common.
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-any additional information you have directed us to share. For example, Snap will share your information when you connect your Snapchat account to a third-party app, and if you share information or content from Snapchat to the third-party app.
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-content you post or send. How widely your content is shared depends on your personal settings and the type of service you are using. For example, a Snap may be sent to just a single friend you select, but your My Story content may be seen by any Snapchatter whom you allow to see your My Story.
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-With all Snapchatters, our business partners, and the general public. We may share the following information with all Snapchatters as well as with our business partners and the general public:
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-public information like your name, username, Snapcode and profile pictures.
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-Story submissions that are set to be viewable by Everyone and any content that you submit to an inherently public service, like Our Story and other crowd-sourced services. This content may be viewed and shared by the public at large both on and off our services, including through search results, on websites, in apps, and in online and offline broadcasts.
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-With our affiliates. We may share information with entities within the Snap Inc. family of companies.
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-With third parties. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps. Learn more here.
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-We may share information about you with business partners that provide services and functionality on our services. For more information about information collected by third parties on our services, visit our Support Site.
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-We may share information about you, such as device and usage information, to help us and others prevent fraud.
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-We may share information about you for legal, safety, and security reasons. We may share information about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the information is needed to:
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-comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation.
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-investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service violations.
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-protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others.
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-detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
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-We may share information about you as part of a merger or acquisition. If Snap Inc. gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes.
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-We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
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-Third-Party Content and Integrations
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-Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include third-party integrations in camera search, third-party games in Chat, and third-party Snap Kit integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to Snap. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services. You can learn more about third-party services in Snapchat here.
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-How Long We Keep Your Information
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-Snapchat lets you capture what it’s like to live in the moment. On our end, that means most messages—like Snaps and Chats—sent in Snapchat will be automatically deleted by default from our servers after we detect they’ve been opened by all recipients or have expired. Other content, like Story posts, are stored for longer. For detailed information about how long we store different types of content, check out our Support Site.
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-We store other information for longer periods of time. For example:
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-We store your basic account information—like your name, phone number, and email address—and list of friends until you ask us to delete them.
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-We store location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use. For example, if you use the Map, we store information about your favorite places for up to 40 days so we can personalize and improve your experience. If location information is associated with a Snap—like those saved to Memories or posted to Our Story—we’ll retain that location as long as we store the Snap.
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-We’re constantly collecting and updating information about the things you might like and dislike, so we can provide you with more relevant content and advertisements. Go here to learn more.
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-If you ever decide to stop using Snapchat, you can just ask us to delete your account. We’ll also delete most of the information we’ve collected about you after you’ve been inactive for a while—but don’t worry, we’ll try to contact you first!
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-Keep in mind that, while our systems are designed to carry out our deletion practices automatically, we cannot promise that deletion will occur within a specific timeframe. There may be legal requirements to store your data and we may need to suspend those deletion practices if we receive valid legal process asking us to preserve content, if we receive reports of abuse or other Terms of Service violations, or if your account or content created by you is flagged by our automated systems for abuse or other Terms of Service violations. Finally, we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.
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-Control Over Your Information
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-We want you to be in control of your information, so we provide you with the following tools.
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-Access, Correction, and Portability. You can access and edit most of your basic account information right in our apps. You can also use Download My Data to obtain a copy of information that isn’t available in our apps in a portable format, so you can move it or store it wherever you want. Because your privacy is important to us, we will ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information before we let you access or update your personal information. We may also reject your request to access or update your personal information for a number of reasons, including, for example, if the request risks the privacy of other users or is unlawful.
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-Revoking permissions. In most cases, if you let us use your information, you can simply revoke your permission by changing the settings in the app or on your device if your device offers those options. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.
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-Deletion. While we hope you’ll remain a lifelong Snapchatter, if for some reason you ever want to delete your account, just go here to learn how. You can also delete some information in the app, like photos you’ve saved to Memories, Our Story submissions, and search history.
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-Advertising Preferences. We try to show you ads that we think will be relevant to your interests. If you would like to modify the information we and our advertising partners use to select these ads, you can do so in the app and through your device preferences. Go here to learn more.
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-Communicating with other Snapchatters. It’s important to us that you stay in control over whom you communicate with. That’s why we’ve built a number of tools in Settings that let you indicate, among other things, who you want to see your Stories, whether you’d like to receive Snaps from just your friends or all Snapchatters, and whether you’d like to block another Snapchatter from contacting you again. Go here to learn more.
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-Users in the European Union
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-If you’re a user in the European Union, you should know that Snap Inc. is the controller of your personal information. Here is some additional information we would like to bring to your attention:
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-Rights of Access, Deletion, Correction, and Portability
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-You can exercise your rights of access, deletion, correction, and portability as described in the Control Over Your Information section above.
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-Bases for Using Your Information
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-Your country only allows us to use your personal information when certain conditions apply. These conditions are called “legal bases” and, at Snap, we typically rely on one of four:
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-Contract. One reason we might use your information is because you’ve entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you buy an On-Demand Geofilter and accepted our Custom Creative Tools Terms, we need to use some of your information to collect payment and make sure we show your Geofilter to the right people at the right place and time.
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-Legitimate interest. Another reason we might use your information is because we have—or a third party has—a legitimate interest in doing so. For example, we need to use your information to provide and improve our services, including protecting your account, delivering your Snaps, providing customer support, and helping you find friends and content we think you’ll like. Because most of our services are free, we also use some information about you to try and show you ads you’ll find interesting. An important point to understand about legitimate interest is that our interests don’t outweigh your right to privacy, so we only rely on legitimate interest when we think the way we are using your data doesn’t significantly impact your privacy or would be expected by you, or there is a compelling reason to do so. We explain our legitimate business reasons for using your information in more detail here.
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-Consent. In some cases we’ll ask for consent to use your information for specific purposes. If we do, we’ll make sure you can revoke your consent in our services or through your device permissions. Even if we’re not relying on consent to use your information, we may ask you for permission to access data like contacts and location.
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-Legal obligation. We may be required to use your personal information to comply with the law, like when we respond to valid legal process or need to take action to protect our users. Our policy is to notify Snapchatters when we receive legal process seeking their account information, with some exceptions. Learn more here.
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-Your Right to Object
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-You have the right to object to our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things in the app. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with us processing, you can contact us.
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-International Transfers
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-We may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries outside of where you live. Whenever we share information of EU users outside the EU we make sure an adequate transfer mechanism is in place. You can find more information on the categories of third parties we share information with here.
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-Snap Inc. has appointed Snap B.V. as its EU representative. You can contact the EU representative here or at:
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-Snap B.V.
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-Complaints or questions? If you’re based in the EU, you can always file a complaint with the supervisory authority in your Member State. Additionally, we have appointed a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”). To contact our DPO, please email dpo @ snap.com.
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-Users in Brazil
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-If you’re a user in Brazil you should know that Snap Inc. is the controller of your personal information. Here is some additional information we would like to bring to your attention:
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-Rights of Access, Deletion, Correction, and Portability
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-You can exercise your rights of access, deletion, correction, and portability as described in the Control Over Your Information section of the Privacy Policy.
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-Bases for Using Your Information
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-Your country only allows us to use your personal information when certain conditions apply. These conditions are called “legal bases” and, at Snap, we typically rely on one of four:
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-Contract. One reason we might use your information is because you’ve entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you buy an On-Demand Geofilter and accept our Custom Creative Tools Terms, we need to use some of your information to collect payment and make sure we show your Geofilter to the right people at the right place and time.
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-Legitimate interest. Another reason we might use your information is because we have—or a third party has—a legitimate interest in doing so. For example, we need to use your information to provide and improve our services, including protecting your account, delivering your Snaps, providing customer support, and helping you find friends and content we think you’ll like. Because most of our services are free, we also use some information about you to try and show you ads you’ll find interesting. An important point to understand about legitimate interest is that our interests don’t outweigh your right to privacy, so we only rely on legitimate interest when we think the way we are using your data doesn’t significantly impact your privacy or would be expected by you, or there is a compelling reason to do so. We explain our legitimate business reasons for using your information in more detail here.
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-Consent. In some cases we’ll ask for consent to use your information for specific purposes. If we do, we’ll make sure you can revoke your consent in our services or through your device permissions. Even if we’re not relying on consent to use your information, we may ask you for permission to access data like contacts and location.
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-Legal obligation. We may be required to use your personal information to comply with the law, like when we respond to valid legal process or need to take action to protect our users.
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-Your Right to Object
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-You have the right to object to our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things in the app. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with us processing, you can contact us.
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-Complaints or questions? You can always file a complaint with the national authority in your country. Additionally, we have appointed a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”). To contact our DPO, please email dpo @ snap.com.
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-Users in Mexico
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-If you’re a user in Mexico, you should know that Snap Inc., located at 2772 Donald Douglas Loop North, Santa Monica, California 90405, is the controller of your personal information. Here is some additional information we would like to bring to your attention:
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-Rights of Access, Rectification, and Cancellation
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-You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, and cancellation as described in the Control Over Your Information section of the Privacy Policy.
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-Your Right to Object or Challenge
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-You have the right to object to or challenge our use of your information. With many types of data, we’ve provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you don’t want us processing it anymore. For other types of data, we’ve given you the ability to stop the use of your data by disabling the feature altogether. You can do these things in the app. If there are other types of information you don’t agree with us processing, you can contact us.
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-California Residents
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-If you’re a California resident, you have certain privacy rights under California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). Our California Privacy Notice specifies these rights, check it out.
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-Children
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-Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EU users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
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-Revisions to the Privacy Policy
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-We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we’ll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we’ll let you know by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that’s available on our website and mobile application. Other times, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our websites’ homepages or providing you with an in-app notification).
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Privacy Policy
-Effective: September 30, 2021
+Effective: November 17, 2021
-Snap Inc. is a camera company. Our products and services—including Snapchat, Bitmoji, Spectacles, advertising, and others that link to this Privacy Policy—provide fast and fun ways to express yourself, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together!
+Snap Inc. is a camera company. Our products and services — including Snapchat, Bitmoji, Spectacles, advertising, and others that link to this Privacy Policy — provide fast and fun ways to express yourself, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together!
When you use these services, you’ll share some information with us. So we want to be upfront about the information we collect, how we use it, whom we share it with, and the controls we give you to access, update, and delete your information.
-That’s why we’ve written this Privacy Policy. And it’s why we’ve tried to write it in a way that’s blissfully free of the legalese that often clouds these documents. Of course, if you still have questions about anything in our Privacy Policy, just contact us.
+That’s why we’ve written this Privacy Policy. And it’s why we’ve tried to write it in a way that’s easy to understand for all our users and blissfully free of the legalese that often clouds these documents. Of course, if you still have questions about anything in our Privacy Policy, just contact us.
-You should read our entire Privacy Policy, but when you only have a few minutes or want to remember something later on, you can always take a look at this summary—so you can review some of the basics in just a few minutes.
+You should read our entire Privacy Policy, but when you only have a few minutes or want to remember something later on, you can always take a look at this overview and video. We also encourage you to check out the rest of our Privacy Center. We designed it to give you easy-to-digest summaries of our privacy practices. For example, our Privacy by Product page provides a breakdown of specific privacy features for our products.
Information We Collect
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Information You Provide
-When you interact with our services, we collect information that you provide to us. For example, most of our services require you to set up a Snapchat account, so we need to collect a few important details about you, such as your name, username, password, email address, phone number, and date of birth. We may also ask you to provide us with some additional information that will be publicly visible on our services, such as a profile picture or Bitmoji avatar. Other services, such as commerce products, may require you to provide us with a debit or credit card number and its associated account information.
+When you interact with our services, we collect information that you provide to us. For example, many of our services require you to set up an account, so we may need to collect a few important details about you, such as your name, username, password, email address, phone number, and date of birth. We may also ask you to provide us with some additional information that will be publicly visible on our services, such as a profile picture or Bitmoji avatar. Some services, such as commerce products, may require you to provide us with a debit or credit card number and its associated account information.
-Of course, you’ll also provide us whatever information you send through our services, such as Snaps and Chats. Keep in mind that the users who view your Snaps, Chats, and any other content can always save that content or copy it outside the app. So, the same common sense that applies to the internet at large applies to Snapchat as well: Don’t send messages or share content that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share.
+Of course, you’ll also provide us whatever information you send through our services, such as Snaps and Chats. Keep in mind that the users who view your Snaps, Chats, and any other content can always save that content or copy it outside the app. So, the same common sense that applies to the internet at large applies to our services as well: Don’t send messages or share content that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share.
When you contact customer support or communicate with us in any other way, we’ll collect whatever information you volunteer or that we need to resolve your question.
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information about your wireless and mobile network connections, such as mobile phone number, service provider, IP address, and signal strength.
-Device Phonebook. Because Snapchat is all about communicating with friends, we may—with your permission—collect information from your device’s phonebook.
+Device Phonebook. Because our services are all about communicating with friends, we may — with your permission — collect information from your device’s phonebook.
Camera and Photos. Many of our services require us to collect images and other information from your device’s camera and photos. For example, you won’t be able to send Snaps or upload photos from your camera roll unless we can access your camera or photos.
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ monitor and analyze trends and usage.
personalize our services by, among other things, suggesting friends, profile information, or Bitmoji stickers, helping Snapchatters find each other in Snapchat, affiliate and third-party apps and services, or customizing the content we show you, including ads.
-contextualize your experience by, among other things, tagging your Memories content using your precise location information (if, of course, you’ve given us permission to collect that information) and applying other labels based on the content.
+add context to your Snapchat experience, for example by tagging your Memories with searchable labels based on your location (of course, if you’ve given us permission to collect your location) and the content of your photo or video (e.g., if there’s a dog in your photo, it may be searchable in Memories by the term “dog”).
-provide and improve our advertising services, ad targeting, and ad measurement, including through the use of your precise location information (again, if you’ve given us permission to collect that information), both on and off our services. See the Control Over Your Information section below for more information about Snap Inc.’s advertising practices and your choices.
+provide and improve our advertising services, ad targeting, and ad measurement, including through the use of your precise location information (again, if you’ve given us permission to collect that information), both on and off our services. We may also store information about your use of third-party apps and websites on your device to do this. Learn more. See the Control Over Your Information section below for more information about Snap Inc.’s advertising practices and your choices.
enhance the safety and security of our products and services.
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enforce, investigate, and report conduct violating our Terms of Service and other usage policies, respond to requests from law enforcement, and comply with legal requirements.
-We may also use information from Apple’s TrueDepth camera to improve the quality of Lenses. Information from the TrueDepth camera is used in real time—we don’t store this information on our servers or share it with third parties.
+We may also use information from Apple’s TrueDepth camera to improve the quality of Lenses. Information from the TrueDepth camera is used in real time — we don’t store this information on our servers or share it with third parties.
How We Share Information
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ information about you, such as your username, name, and Bitmoji.
information about how you have interacted with our services, such as your Snapchat “score,” the names of Snapchatters you are friends with, and other information that will help Snapchatters understand your connections with others using our services. For example, because it may not be clear whether a new friend request comes from someone you actually know, we may share whether you and the requestor have Snapchat friends in common.
+information about your device, such as the operating system and device type, to help you receive Chats, Snaps, and other content in the optimal viewing format.
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any additional information you have directed us to share. For example, Snap will share your information when you connect your Snapchat account to a third-party app, and if you share information or content from Snapchat to the third-party app.
content you post or send. How widely your content is shared depends on your personal settings and the type of service you are using. For example, a Snap may be sent to just a single friend you select, but your My Story content may be seen by any Snapchatter whom you allow to see your My Story.
@@ -132,7 +134,9 @@ Public Content like your Highlights, Custom Stickers, Lenses, Story submissions
With our affiliates. We may share information with entities within the Snap Inc. family of companies.
-With third parties. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps. Learn more here.
+With third parties. We may share information with third parties in the following ways:
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+We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to facilitate payments and measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps.
We may share information about you with business partners that provide services and functionality on our services. For more information about information collected by third parties on our services, visit our Support Site.
@@ -158,13 +162,13 @@ Our services may contain third-party content and integrations. Examples include
How Long We Keep Your Information
-Snapchat lets you capture what it’s like to live in the moment. On our end, that means most messages—like Snaps and Chats—sent in Snapchat will be automatically deleted by default from our servers after we detect they’ve been opened by all recipients or have expired. Other content, like Story posts, are stored for longer. For detailed information about how long we store different types of content, check out our Support Site.
+Snapchat lets you capture what it’s like to live in the moment. On our end, that means most messages — like Snaps and Chats — sent in Snapchat will be automatically deleted by default from our servers after we detect they’ve been opened by all recipients or have expired. Other content, like Story posts, are stored for longer. For detailed information about how long we store different types of content, check out our Support Site.
We store other information for longer periods of time. For example:
-We store your basic account information—like your name, phone number, and email address—and list of friends until you ask us to delete them.
+We store your basic account information — like your name, phone number, and email address — and list of friends until you ask us to delete them.
-We store location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use. If location information is associated with a Snap—like those saved to Memories or posted to Snap Map—we’ll retain that location as long as we store the Snap. Pro tip: You can see the location data we retain about you by downloading your data.
+We store location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use. If location information is associated with a Snap — like those saved to Memories or posted to Snap Map or Spotlight — we’ll retain that location as long as we store the Snap. Pro tip: You can see the location data we retain about you by downloading your data.
If you ever decide to stop using Snapchat, you can just ask us to delete your account. We’ll also delete most of the information we’ve collected about you after you’ve been inactive for a while!
@@ -182,11 +186,13 @@ Deletion. While we hope you’ll remain a lifelong Snapchatter, if for some reas
Advertising Preferences. We try to show you ads that we think will be relevant to your interests. If you would like to modify the information we and our advertising partners use to select these ads, you can do so in the app and through your device preferences. Go here to learn more.
+Tracking. If you opt out of tracking on devices running iOS 14.5 or more recent versions, we will not link identifiable information from third-party apps and websites with identifiable information from Snapchat for advertising purposes, except on your device. You can control use of this on-device data for advertising by opting out of Activity-Based Advertising in Snapchat Ad Preferences Settings. Go here to learn more.
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Communicating with other Snapchatters. It’s important to us that you stay in control over whom you communicate with. That’s why we’ve built a number of tools in Settings that let you indicate, among other things, who you want to see your Stories, whether you’d like to receive Snaps from just your friends or all Snapchatters, and whether you’d like to block another Snapchatter from contacting you again. Go here to learn more.
International Data Transfers
-We may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries outside of where you live. Whenever we share information outside of where you live, when we are legally required to do so, we make sure an adequate transfer mechanism is in place. We also make sure any third parties we share information with have an adequate transfer mechanism in place, as well. You can find more information on what data transfer mechanism we use here, and the categories of third parties we share information with here.
+We may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries outside of where you live. Whenever we share information outside of where you live, when we are legally required to do so, we make sure an adequate transfer mechanism is in place. We also make sure any third parties we share information with have an adequate transfer mechanism in place, as well. You can find more information on the categories of third parties we share information with here.
State and Region Specific Information
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Children
-Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EEA and UK users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
+Our services are not intended for — and we don’t direct them to — anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EEA and UK users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
Revisions to the Privacy Policy
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Performance & Analytics We use these cookies to collect information about how you use our site, monitor site performance, and improve our site performance, our services, and your experience.
For example, we can use these cookies to learn more about which features are the most popular with our users and which ones might need some tweaks.
-Marketing We use these cookies to deliver advertisements, to make them more relevant and meaningful to consumers, and to track the efficiency of our advertising campaigns, both on our services and on other sites or mobile apps. Our
+Marketing We use these cookies to deliver advertisements, to make them more relevant and meaningful to consumers, and to track the efficiency of our advertising campaigns, both on our services and on other websites or mobile apps. Our third-party advertising partners may use these cookies to build a profile of your interests and deliver relevant advertising on other sites.
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About Transparency Reporting
-July 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020
+January 1, 2021 – June 30, 2021
-Throughout this Transparency Report, we highlight how we enforce safety across our platform. Beyond simply reporting our data, here we provide additional context and insight into our safety principles and practices, as well as links to various safety and privacy resources.
+Throughout this Transparency Report, we highlight how we enforce safety and privacy across our platform. Beyond simply reporting our data, here we provide additional context and insight into our safety principles, policies, and practices, as well as links to various safety and privacy resources.
History of Snap’s Transparency Reporting
-Since 2015, we have produced Transparency Reports which provide important insight into the volume and nature of governmental requests for Snapchatters' account information and other legal notifications.
+Since 2015, we have produced Transparency Reports that provide important insight into the volume and nature of government requests for Snapchatters' account information and other legal notifications.
-Since November 15, 2015, our policy has been to notify Snapchatters when we receive legal process seeking their account information, with exceptions for cases where we are legally prohibited from doing so, or when we believe there are exceptional circumstances (like child exploitation or an imminent risk of death or bodily injury).
+Since November 15, 2015, our policy has been to notify Snapchatters when we receive legal process seeking their account information, with exceptions for cases where we are legally prohibited from doing so, or when we believe exceptional circumstances exist (like child sexual exploitation or an imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury).
-In 2020, we have enhanced our Transparency Report to provide insights into the volume and nature of accounts reported on Snapchat for violations of our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines.
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-For more information about our approach to safety and privacy, including how we prioritize wellness, review challenging content, process abuse reports, and handle law enforcement data requests, please take a look at our Safety Center, Law Enforcement Guide, Privacy Center, and Terms of Service.
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-Approach to Safety Partnerships
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-Snap is deeply committed to the safety and wellbeing of our community, and our teams, products, policies, and partnerships apply safety by design principles to keep Snapchatters safe and informed. Our Safety Advisory Board members also educate, challenge, raise issues, and advise Snap on how to keep the Snapchat community safe.
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-To learn more about our approach to safety partnerships, and general safety principles at Snap, please visit our Safety Center.
+In 2020, we enhanced our Transparency Report to provide insights into the volume and nature of accounts reported on Snapchat for violations of our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines. We also included country-level breakdowns, available for all countries in a downloadable CSV. In 2021, we expanded our categories to include false information, trademark notices and Violative View Rate.
Additional Safety and Privacy Resources
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Community Guidelines
-Our Community Guidelines form the foundation of our principles around safety and are intended to inform users on how to responsibly use Snapchat. We are constantly assessing our guidelines to ensure that we are proactive in keeping Snapchat a safe environment.
+Our Community Guidelines form the foundation of our safety principles and are intended to inform users about responsible use of Snapchat. We routinely assess our Guidelines as just one way of actively working to help keep Snapchat safe.
In-App Reporting
-While we have safety teams and advanced AI operating 24/7 to keep Snapchat safe, we also rely on our users to report inappropriate behavior. To do so, we offer tools both in-app and online to report users and content that violate our policies.
+While safety teams and advanced AI operate 24/7 to help keep Snapchat safe, we also rely on our users to report concerns. To do so, we offer tools both in-app and online to report content and individuals that violate our policies.
Here for You
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Privacy Center
-At Snap, we make your privacy a priority. We know your trust is earned every time you use Snapchat, or any of our other products—that is why we treat your information differently than most other tech companies. Even though our products are constantly evolving, our privacy principles and commitment to privacy remain unchanged.
+At Snap, we make your privacy a priority. We seek to earn your trust every time you use Snapchat, or any of our products—that is why we treat your information differently than most other tech companies. Even though our products are constantly evolving, our privacy principles and strong commitment to user privacy remain unchanged.
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+Law Enforcement Guide
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+This guide provides information for law enforcement officials seeking Snapchat account records (i.e., Snapchat user data) from Snap.
Safety & Impact Blog
-Launched in April 2021, our blog aims to serve as a helpful resource for anyone who wants to better understand how people experience our product, or the many stakeholders and advocates who seek to better understand how we approach critical issues around safety and trust.
+Launched in April 2021, our blog aims to serve as a helpful resource for the many stakeholders and advocates who are interested in how we work to support the safety, privacy and wellbeing of our Snapchat community.
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Transparency Report
-July 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020
+January 1, 2021 – June 30, 2021
-Released: July 1, 2021
+Released: November 22, 2021
-Updated: July 1, 2021
+Updated: November 22, 2021
-Every day, Snapchatters around the world use our app to talk to their close friends and express themselves creatively. Our goal is to design products and build technology that nurtures and supports real friendships in a healthy, safe, and fun environment. We are constantly working to improve the ways we do that — from our policies and Community Guidelines, to our tools for preventing, detecting and enforcing against harmful content, to initiatives that help educate and empower our community.
+As Snapchat continues to grow, we aim to foster a platform that empowers people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together -- all in a safe and secure environment. To do so, we continually improve our safety and privacy practices — from our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, to tools for preventing, detecting and enforcing against harmful content, to initiatives that help educate and empower our community.
-We are committed to providing more transparency about the prevalence of content that violates our guidelines, how we enforce our policies, how we respond to law enforcement and government requests for information, and where we seek to provide more insight in the future. We publish transparency reports twice a year to provide insight into these efforts, and are also committed to making these reports more comprehensive and helpful to the many stakeholders who care deeply about online safety and transparency.
+To provide insight into these efforts and visibility into the nature and volume of content reported on our platform, we publish transparency reports twice a year. We are committed to continuing to make these reports more comprehensive and informative to the many stakeholders who care deeply about online safety and transparency.
-This report covers the second half of 2020 (July 1 - December 31). As with our previous reports, it shares data about our total violations globally during this period; the number of content reports we received and enforced against across specific categories of violations; how we supported and fulfilled requests from law enforcement and governments; and our enforcements broken down by country.
+This report covers the first half of 2021 (January 1 - June 30). As with our previous reports, it shares data about the total number of policy violations globally during this period; the number of content and account-level reports we received and enforced against across specific categories of violations; how we responded to requests from law enforcement and governments; and our enforcement actions broken down by country. It also captures recent additions to this report including the Violative View Rate of Snapchat content, potential trademark violations, and incidences of false information on the platform.
-As part of our ongoing efforts to improve both our safety enforcement and our transparency reports themselves, this report also includes several new elements:
+As part of our ongoing efforts to improve both our safety enforcement and our transparency reports themselves, for the first time this report shares our median turnaround time to action user reports in minutes instead of hours, to provide more granular detail on our operational practices and efficacy.
-The Violative View Rate (VVR) of content, which offers a better understanding of the proportion of all Snaps (or views) that contained content that violated our policies;
+We have continued to expand our partnerships with industry experts as well as our in-app features to help educate Snapchatters about online risks and how to use in-app reporting to alert our Trust and Safety teams to any type of concern or policy violation.
-Total content and account enforcements of false information globally — which was especially relevant during this time period, as the world continued to battle a global pandemic and efforts to undermine civic and democratic norms; and
-Requests to support investigations into potential trademark violations.
+In addition, we continued to add partners to our trusted flagger program, which provides vetted safety experts with a confidential channel to report emergency escalations. We work closely with these partners to provide safety education, wellness resources, and other reporting guidance so they can help support the Snapchat community.
-We are working on a number of improvements that will enhance our ability to provide more detailed data in future reports. That includes expanding on subcategories of violating data. For example, we currently report violations related to regulated goods, which includes illegal drugs and weapons. Moving forward, we plan to include each in its own subcategory.
+For more information about our policies for combating online harms, and plans to continue evolving our reporting practices, please read our recent Safety & Impact blog about this transparency report.
-As new online threats and behaviors emerge, we will continue to improve our tools and tactics for fighting them. We constantly evaluate the risks and how we can advance our technological capabilities to better protect our community. We regularly seek guidance from security and safety experts about the ways we can stay a step ahead of bad actors — and are grateful to our growing list of partners who give invaluable feedback and push us to be better.
-For more information about our approach to and resources for safety and privacy, please take a look at our About Transparency Reporting tab at the bottom of the page.
+To find additional resources for safety and privacy on Snapchat, see our About Transparency Reporting tab at the bottom of the page.
Overview of Content and Account Violations
-Our Community Guidelines prohibit harmful content, including misinformation; conspiracy theories that can cause harm; deceptive practices; illegal activities, including buying or selling illegal drugs, counterfeit goods, contraband or illegal weapons; hate speech, hate groups and terrorism; harassment and bullying; threats, violence and harm, including the glorification of self-harm; sexually explicit content; and child sexual exploitation.
+Every day, on average more than five billion Snaps are created using our Snapchat camera. From January 1 - June 30, 2021, we enforced against 6,629,165 pieces of content globally that violated our policies.
-Every day, more than five billion Snaps are created using our Snapchat camera on average. From July 1 - December 31, 2020, we enforced against 5,543,281 pieces of content globally that violated our guidelines.
+Enforcement actions could include removing the offending content or terminating the account in question. If an account is terminated for violating our Guidelines, the account holder is not permitted to create a new account or use Snapchat again.
-Enforcement actions could include removing the offending content; terminating or limiting the visibility of the account in question; and referring the content to law enforcement. If an account is terminated for violating our Guidelines, the account holder is not permitted to create a new account or use Snapchat again.
+During the reporting period, we saw a Violative View Rate (VVR) of 0.10 percent, which means that out of every 10,000 snap views on Snapchat, 10 contained content that violated our guidelines.
-During the reporting period, we saw a Violative View Rate (VVR) of 0.08 percent. VVR is defined as the percentage of story snap views that contained violating content, as a proportion of all snap views across Snap. In other words, out of every 10,000 snap views on Snap, eight contained content that violated our guidelines.
+Total Content & Account Reports* Total Content Enforced Total Unique Accounts Enforced
+ 12,101,326 6,629,165 2,510,798
+Reason Content & Account Reports* Content Enforced % of Total Content Enforced Unique Accounts Enforced Turnaround Time**
+Sexually Explicit Content 6,638,110 4,783,518 73.2% 1,441,208 <1
+Regulated Goods 776,806 620,083 9.5% 274,883 <1
+Threatening / Violence / Harm 1,077,311 465,422 7.1% 288,091 13
+Harassment and Bullying 911,198 319,311 4.9% 249,421 27
+Spam 560,509 243,729 3.7% 120,898 5
+Hate Speech 241,332 121,639 1.9% 92,314 15
+Impersonation 1,896,060 75,463 1.2% 43,983 13
-We offer in-app reporting tools that allow Snapchatters to quickly and easily report content to our Trust and Safety teams, who investigate the report, and take appropriate action. Our teams work to take enforcement actions as quickly as possible and, in the vast majority of cases, take action within two hours of receiving an in-app report.
+*Content & Account Reports reflect reports via Snap's in-app reporting mechanism.
-In addition to in-app reporting, we also offer online reporting options through our support site. Furthermore, our teams are constantly improving capabilities for proactively detecting violating and illegal content, such as child sexual abuse material, content that involves illegal drugs or weapons, or threats of violence. We outline specific details of our work to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse in this report.
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-As the charts below lay out, during the second half of 2020, we received the most in-app reports or requests for support about content that involved impersonation or sexually explicit content. We were able to significantly improve our time responding to reports of violations, in particular for regulated goods, which includes illegal drugs, counterfeit goods, and weapons; sexually explicit content; and harassment and bullying.
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-Total Content Reports* Total Content Enforced Total Unique Accounts Enforced
- 10,131,891 5,543,281 2,100,124
-Reason Content Reports* Content Enforced % of Total Content Enforced Unique Accounts Enforced Turnaround Time**
-Sexually Explicit Content 5,839,778 4,306,589 77.7% 1,316,484 0.01
-Regulated Goods 523,390 427,272 7.7% 209,230 0.01
-Threatening / Violence / Harm 882,737 337,710 6.1% 232,705 0.49
-Harassment and Bullying 723,784 238,997 4.3% 182,414 0.75
-Spam 387,604 132,134 2.4% 75,421 0.21
-Hate Speech 222,263 77,587 1.4% 61,912 0.66
-Impersonation 1,552,335 22,992 0.4% 21,958 0.33
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-*The Content Reports reflect alleged violations via our in-app and support inquiries.
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-**Turnaround Time reflects the median time in hours to action on a user report.
+**Turnaround Time reflects the median time in minutes to action on a user report.
Expanded Violations
Combating The Spread of False Information
-We have always believed that when it comes to harmful content, it isn’t enough just to think about policies and enforcement — platforms need to think about their fundamental architecture and product design. From the beginning, Snapchat was built differently than traditional social media platforms, to support our primary use case of talking with close friends — rather than an open newsfeed where anyone has the right to distribute anything to anyone without moderation.
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-As we explain in our introduction, our guidelines clearly prohibit the spread of false information that could cause harm, including misinformation that aims to undermine civic processes, like voter suppression, unsubstantiated medical claims, and conspiracy theories such as the denial of tragic events. Our guidelines apply consistently to all Snapchatters — we don’t have special exceptions for politicians or public figures.
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-Across our app, Snapchat limits virality, which removes incentives for harmful and sensationalized content, and limits concerns associated with the spread of bad content. We don’t have an open newsfeed, and don’t give unvetted content an opportunity to ‘go viral.’ Our content platform, Discover, only features content from vetted media publishers and content creators.
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-In November of 2020, we launched our new entertainment platform, Spotlight, and proactively moderate content to make sure it complies with our guidelines before it can reach a large audience.
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-We have long taken a different approach to political advertising as well. As with all content on Snapchat, we prohibit false information and deceptive practices in our advertising. All political ads, including election-related ads, issue advocacy ads, and issue ads, must include a transparent “paid for” message that discloses the sponsoring organization. We use human review to fact check all political ads, and provide information about all ads that pass our review in our Political Ads library.
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-This approach isn’t perfect, but it has helped us protect Snapchat from the dramatic increase in misinformation in recent years, a trend that has been especially relevant during a period when false information about COVID-19 and the U.S. 2020 presidential election consumed many platforms.
+We have always believed that when it comes to harmful content, it isn’t enough to think about policies and enforcement — platforms need to consider their fundamental architecture and product design. From the beginning, Snapchat was built differently than traditional social media platforms, without an open newsfeed where anyone can broadcast to a large audience without moderation.
-Globally during this period, Snapchat enforced against 5,841 pieces of content and accounts for violations of our false information guidelines. In future reports, we plan to provide more detailed breakdowns of false information violations.
+Our Guidelines clearly prohibit the spread of false information that could cause harm, including misinformation that aims to undermine civic processes, like voter suppression; unsubstantiated medical claims; and the denial of tragic events. Our Guidelines and enforcement apply consistently to all Snapchatters — we don’t make special exceptions for politicians or other public figures.
-Given the heightened concern about efforts to undermine voting access and the election results in the U.S. in the summer of 2020, we formed an internal Task Force that focused on assessing any potential risk or vectors for misuse of our platform, monitored all developments, and worked to ensure Snapchat was a source for factual news and information. These efforts included:
+Globally during this period, Snapchat enforced against a combined total of 2,597 accounts and pieces of content for violations of our false information guidelines.
-Updating our community guidelines to add manipulating media for misleading purposes, such as deepfakes, to our categories of prohibited content;
+Total Content & Account Enforcements 2,597
-Working with our Discover editorial partners to make sure publishers didn’t inadvertently amplify any misinformation through news coverage;
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-Asking Snapstrellas, whose content also appears on our Discover content platform to make sure they complied with our Community Guidelines and didn’t unintentionally spread false information;
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-Having clear enforcement outcomes for any violating content — rather than labeling content, we simply removed it, immediately reducing the harm of it being shared more widely; and
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-Proactively analyzing entities and other sources of false information that could be used to distribute such information on Snapchat to assess risk and take preventative measures.
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-Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have taken a similar approach to providing factual news and information, including through coverage provided by our Discover editorial partners, through PSAs and Q&A’s with public health officials and medical experts, and through creative tools, such as Augmented Reality Lenses and filters, reminding Snapchatters of expert public health guidance.
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-Total Content & Account Enforcements 5,841
Combating Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
-The exploitation of any member of our community, especially young people and minors, is illegal, unacceptable, and prohibited by our guidelines. Preventing, detecting, and eliminating abuse on our platform is a top priority for us, and we continuously evolve our capabilities for combating Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and other types of exploitative content.
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-Our Trust and Safety teams use proactive detection tools, such as PhotoDNA technology, to identify known images of CSAM and report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). When we proactively detect or identify instances of CSAM, we preserve these and report them to NCMEC, who will then review and coordinate with law enforcement.
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-In the second half of 2020, 2.99 percent of the total accounts we took enforcement action against globally for violations of our Community Guidelines contained CSAM. Of this, we proactively detected and took action on 73 percent of content. Overall, we deleted 47,550 accounts for CSAM violations, and in each case reported that content to NCMEC.
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-During this time period, we took a number of steps to further combat CSAM. We adopted Google’s Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (CSAI) technology for videos, allowing us to identify videos of CSAM and report it to NCMEC. Combined with our PhotoDNA detection for known CSAM imagery and industry hash databases, we now can proactively detect and report to authorities known video and photo imagery. This enhanced capability has allowed us to become much more efficient in our detection — and thus our reporting of this criminal conduct.
+The sexual exploitation of any member of our community, especially minors, is illegal, unacceptable, and prohibited by our Community Guidelines. Preventing, detecting, and eradicating Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) on our platform is a top priority for us, and we continuously evolve our capabilities for CSAM and other types of child sexually exploitative content.
-In addition, we continued to expand our partnerships with industry experts and rolled out additional in-app features to help educate Snapchatters about the risks of contact with strangers and how to use in-app reporting to alert our Trust and Safety teams to any type of abuse. We continued to add partners to our trusted flagger program that provides vetted safety experts a confidential channel to report emergency escalations, such as an imminent threat to life or a case involving CSAM. We also work closely with these partners to provide safety education, wellness resources, and other reporting support so they can effectively support the Snapchat community.
+Our Trust and Safety teams use active technology detection tools, such as PhotoDNA robust hash-matching and Google’s Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (CSAI) Match to identify known illegal images and videos of CSAM and report them to the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), as required by law. NCMEC then, in turn, coordinates with domestic or international law enforcement, as required.
-Additionally, we serve on the Board of Directors for the Technology Coalition, a group of tech industry leaders who seek to prevent and eradicate online child sexual abuse exploitation and abuse, and are constantly working with other platforms and safety experts to explore additional solutions to strengthen our collective efforts in this space.
+In the first half of 2021, 5.43% of the total number of accounts enforced globally contained CSAM. Of this, we proactively detected and actioned 70 percent of CSAM violations. This increased proactive detection capability combined with increased spam attacks in this category resulted in a notable increase in this category for this reporting period.
-Total Account Deletions 47,550
-Terrorist & Extremist Content
+Total Account Deletions 119,134
-At Snap, monitoring developments in this space and mitigating any potential vectors for abuse on our platform was a part of our U.S. election integrity task force work. Both our product architecture and the design of our Group Chat functionality limits the spread of harmful content and opportunities to organize. We offer Group Chats, but they are limited in size to several dozen members, are not recommended by algorithms, and are not discoverable on our platform if you are not a member of that Group.
+Terrorist & Violent Extremist Content
-During the second half of 2020, we removed eight accounts for violations of our prohibition of terrorism and extremist content.
+During the reporting period, we removed five accounts for violations of our prohibition of terrorist and violent extremist content, a slight decrease from the last reporting cycle.
-Total Account Deletions 8
+Total Account Deletions 5
Country Overview
-This section gives an overview of the enforcement of our rules in a sampling of individual countries. Our Community Guidelines apply to all content on Snapchat—and all Snapchatters—across the globe, regardless of location.
+This section provides an overview of the enforcement of our Community Guidelines in a sampling of geographic regions. Our Guidelines apply to all content on Snapchat—and all Snapchatters—across the globe, regardless of location.
-Information for all other countries is available for download via the attached CSV file.
+Information for individual countries is available for download via the attached CSV file.
Region Content Reports* Content Enforced Unique Accounts Enforced
-North America 4,230,320 2,538,416 928,980
-Europe 2,634,878 1,417,649 535,649
-Rest of World 3,266,693 1,587,216 431,407
-Total 10,131,891 5,543,281 1,896,015
+North America 5,095,831 3,133,534 1,119,681
+Europe 3,081,426 1,615,381 573,009
+Rest of World 3,924,069 1,880,250 554,727
+Total 12,101,326 6,629,165 2,247,417
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