Meta collects information from both visitors to its public pages and registered users. The table below gives an overview of Meta’s data collection and use practices. For a full description of these practices, please see our Privacy and Cookies policies.
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Relationship to Meta
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What does Meta collect about me?
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Where does Meta get that information from?
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What does Meta use this information for?
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Registered Meta user
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- Information you provide, like your profile, feed interests and preferences, and searches.
- Information from your engagement with the site, like the articles you click on and how often you log in.
- Information from your browser, like cookies that tell us you’re logged in.
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- From the registered user and their browser.
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- To provide you with Meta services and to improve the services for all Meta users.
- There are no advertisements on Meta and we won’t use your information for any third-party advertising.
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Visitor to Meta’s public pages (e.g. www.meta.org)
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- Depending on the permissions you’ve given us, we may use cookies on your browser for analytics, security, and site optimization purposes.
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- From the visitor’s browser.
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- Analytics so that we can understand when people come to visit our site and the things they find useful or interesting
- Security purposes.
- Site optimization- so that we can understand when the site does not work or work well for visitors
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