Facebook Applications Accessing Your Data: What You Need to Know

What kinds of information do Facebook collect?

To provide the Meta Products, Facebook must process information about you. The type of information that Facebook collect depends on how you use our Products. You can learn how to access and delete information that Facebook collect by visiting the Facebook settings and Instagram settings.

Things that you and others do and provide.

• Information and content you provide:

Facebook collect the content, communications and other information you provide when you use our Products, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content and message or communicate with others. This can include information in or about the content that you provide (e.g., metadata), such as the location of a photo or the date a file was created. It can also include what you see through features that Facebook provide, such as our camera, so Facebook can do things such as suggest masks and filters that you might like, or give you tips on using camera formats. Our systems automatically process content and communications that you and others provide to analyze context and what's in them for the purposes described below. Learn more about how you can control who can see the things you share.

• Data with special protections: 

You can choose to provide information in your Facebook profile fields or life events about your religious views, political views, who you are "interested in" or your health. This and other information (such as racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership) could be subject to special protections under the laws of your country.

• Networks and connections:

Facebook collect information about the people, accounts, hashtags, Facebook groups and Pages that you are connected to and how you interact with them across our Products, such as people you communicate with the most or groups that you are part of. Facebook also collect contact information if you choose to upload, sync or import it from a device (such as an address book or call log or SMS log history), which Facebook use for things such as helping you and others find people you may know and for the other purposes listed below.

• Your usage:

Facebook collect information about how you use our Products, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the people or accounts you interact with and the time, frequency and duration of your activities. For example, Facebook log when you're using and have last used our Products, and what posts, videos and other content you view on our Products. Facebook also collect information about how you use features such as our camera.

• Information about transactions made on our Products:

 If you use our Products for purchases or other financial transactions (such as when you make a purchase in a game or make a donation), Facebook collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes payment information, such as your credit or debit card number and other card information, other account and authentication information, and billing, delivery and contact details.

Things others do and information they provide about you. facebook also receive and analyse content, communications and information that other people provide when they use our Products. This can include information about you, such as when others share or comment on a photo of you, send a message to you or upload, sync or import your contact information.

Device information

As described below, Facebook collect information from and about the computers, phones, connected TVs and other Facebook-connected devices you use that integrate with our Products, and Facebook combine this information across different devices you use. For example, Facebook use information collected about your use of our Products on your phone to better personalize the content (including ads) or features that you see when you use our Products on another device, such as your laptop or tablet, or to measure whether you took an action in response to an ad that Facebook show you on your phone on a different device.

Information Facebook obtain from these devices includes:

1. Device attributes: information such as the operating system, hardware and software versions, battery level, signal strength, available storage space, browser type, app and file names and types, and plugins.
2. Device operations: information about operations and behaviors performed on the device, such as whether a window is in the foreground or background, or mouse movements (which can help distinguish humans from bots).
3. Identifiers: unique identifiers, device IDs and other identifiers, such as from games, apps or accounts that you use, and Family Device IDs (or other identifiers unique to Meta Company Products associated with the same device or account).
4. Device signals: Bluetooth signals, information about nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons and mobile phone masts.
5. Data from device settings: information you allow us to receive through device settings that you turn on, such as access to your GPS location, camera or photos.
6. Network and connections: information such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, language, time zone, mobile phone number, IP address, connection speed and, in some cases, information about other devices that are nearby or on your network, so Facebook can do things such as help you stream a video from your phone to your TV.
7. Cookie data: data from cookies stored on your device, including cookie IDs and settings. Learn more about how Facebook use cookies in the Facebook Cookies Policy and Instagram Cookies Policy.