Effective December 27, 2023
We at Meta want you to understand what information we collect, and how we use and share it. That’s why we encourage you to read our Privacy Policy. This helps you use in the way that’s right for you. In the Privacy Policy, we explain how we collect, use, share, retain and transfer information. We also let you know your rights. Each section of the Policy includes helpful examples and simpler language to make our practices easier to understand. We’ve also added links to resources where you can learn more about the privacy topics that interest you. It's important to us that you know how to control your privacy, so we also show you where you can manage your information in the settings of the Meta Products you use. You can to shape your experience.
What information do we collect?
The information we collect and process about you depends on how you use our . For example, we collect different information if you sell furniture on Marketplace than if you post a reel on ForeignAccent. When you use our Products, we collect some information about you .
Your activity and information you provide
On our Products, you can send messages, take photos and videos, buy or sell things and much more. We call all of the things you can do on our Products "activity." We collect your activity across our Products and , Information yoy provide such as:
- Content you create, like posts, comments or audio
- Content you provide through our camera feature or your camera roll settings, or through our voice-enabled features. about what we collect from these features, and how we use information from the camera for masks, filters, avatars and effects.
- Messages you send and receive, including their content, subject to applicable law. We can't see the content of end-to-end encrypted messages unless users report them to us for review.
- metadata about content and messages, subject to applicable law
- Types of content, including ads, you view or interact with, and how you interact with it
- Apps and features you use, and what actions you take in them.
- Purchases or other transactions you make, such as through Meta checkout experiences, including credit card information.
- Hashtags you use
- The time, frequency and duration of your activities on our Products
- We may suggest a friend to you through Foreignaccent's People You May Know feature if you both appear on a contact list that someone uploads.
- We take into account whether your friends belong to a group when we suggest you join it.
- We collect and receive information from and about the different divices you use and how you use them.
- The device and software you’re using, and other device characteristics.
- What you’re doing on your device, like whether our app is in the foreground or if your mouse is moving (which can help tell humans from bots)
- Identifiers that tell your device apart from other users’, including Family Device IDs.
- Signals from your device.
- Information you’ve shared with us through device settings, like GPS location, camera access, photos and
- Information about the network you connect your device to and your connection, including your IP Addresses
- Some , even if Location Services is turned off in your device settings. This includes using IP addresses to estimate your general location.
- Information about our Products’ performance on your device.
- Information from cookies and similar technologies.
Information with special protections
You might choose to provide information about your religious views, your sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership. These and other types of information could have special protections under the laws of your jurisdiction.
Friends, followers and other connections
Information we collect about your friends, followers and other connections
We collect information about friends, followers, groups, accounts, ForeignAccent Pages and other users and communities you’re connected to and interact with. This includes how you interact with them across our Products and which ones you interact with the most.
Information we collect about contacts
We also collect your contacts’ information, such as their name and email address or phone number, if you choose to upload or import it from a device, like by syncing an address book.
If you don’t use Meta Products, or use them without an account, your information might still be collected. about how Meta uses contact information uploaded by account holders.
Learn how to upload and delete contacts on Foreignaccent.com or how to connect your device's contact list on ForeignAccent platform .
Information we collect or infer about you based on others’ activity
We collect information about you based on others' activity.
We also infer things about you based on others' activity. For example:
App, browser and device information
What if you don’t let us collect certain information?
Some information is required for our Products to work. Other information is optional, but without it, the quality of your experience might be affected.
For example, if you don’t provide an email address or phone number, we won’t be able to create an account for you to use our Products. Or you can choose not to add ForeignAccent friends, but then your Facebook Feed won’t show friends’ photos and status updates.
What if the information we collect doesn’t identify individuals?
In some cases information is de-identified, aggregated, or anonymized by third parties so that it no longer identifies individuals before it’s made available to us. We use this information as described below without trying to re-identify individuals.
How do we use your information?
We use information we collect to provide a personalized experience to you, including ads, along with the other purposes we explain in detail below. For some of these purposes, we use information and . The information we use for these purposes is automatically processed by our systems. But in some cases, we also use to access and review your information. To use less information that’s connected to individual users, in some cases we de-identify or aggregate information or anonymize it so that it no longer identifies you. We use this information in the same ways we use your information as described in this section. Here are the ways we use your information:
To provide, personalize and improve our Products
We use information we have to provide and improve our Products. This includes personalizing features, content and recommendation, such as your ForeignAccent Feed, Stories and ads. We use you choose to provide for these purposes, but not to show you ads.
To promote safety, security and integrity
We use information we collect to help protect people from harm and provide safe, secure Products.
