Meta Terms of Service

This document is Meta Platforms, Inc.'s Terms of Service governing use of Facebook, Messenger, and related Meta Products as of January 1, 2025. The terms authorize Meta to use personal data including activity and interest information to serve personalized ads, and grant Meta a royalty-free worldwide license to host, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from user-uploaded content such as photos and videos. Users are required to submit any legal claims against Meta to courts in the Northern District of California or San Mateo County, with Meta's aggregate liability capped at the greater of $100 or amounts paid in the past twelve months.

These Terms of Service govern user access to Facebook, Messenger, and other Meta Products offered by Meta Platforms, Inc., effective January 1, 2025, and constitute the entire agreement between users and Meta Platforms, Inc. regarding those products. The agreement states that users grant Meta a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of user content, and the terms authorize Meta to use user names, profile pictures, and actions taken on Facebook in connection with ads and sponsored content without compensation. The forum selection clause requires that user-initiated disputes be resolved exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California or San Mateo County state courts under California law, while the terms separately reserve Meta's right to bring claims against users in any competent court in the user's country of residence; aggregate liability is capped at the greater of $100 or amounts paid in the prior twelve months. The terms engage GDPR, CCPA, COPPA (given the age restriction of 13), and EU consumer protection frameworks; forum selection clauses mandating U.S. courts for EU and UK users may interact with applicable consumer protection law in those jurisdictions, and the liability cap may face constraints under applicable law depending on jurisdiction and the nature of the claim.

The agreement establishes that users grant Meta a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, and create derivative works of content they post, with the license persisting in certain circumstances even after deletion requests. Under these terms, Meta's aggregate liability to any individual user is limited to the greater of $100 or amounts paid in the prior twelve months, and user-initiated disputes must be filed exclusively in specified California courts. You can review and adjust your ad and privacy settings through the settings pages of the relevant Meta Product at any time.