Meta Terms of Service

The Meta Terms of Service govern user access to and use of Facebook, Messenger, and other Meta products, features, apps, services, technologies, and software, establishing a contractual relationship between Meta Platforms, Inc. and users under U.S. law with California courts designated as the exclusive jurisdiction for disputes. The terms authorize Meta to use content that users post across its services under a broad, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license, and assert the right to remove content, restrict access, or terminate accounts at Meta's discretion when the company determines users have violated its policies or the terms. The intellectual property license granted to Meta is notably broad in scope, covering content shared publicly or with specific audiences, persisting for the duration of the licensing period, and extending to sub-licensees, though the terms do state this license ends when content is deleted unless shared with others who have not deleted it, and applicable law in some jurisdictions may limit how these assertions operate in practice. The document engages the GDPR and related EU data protection frameworks for users in the European Economic Area, the UK, and Switzerland, as well as the California Consumer Privacy Act for California residents, with Meta's Privacy Policy incorporated by reference as governing data collection and use practices. Material compliance considerations include the terms' assertion of California-exclusive jurisdiction and choice of law, which may face enforceability questions for users in jurisdictions with mandatory consumer protection forum rules, and the document's reliance on referenced external policies for key data rights disclosures rather than consolidating them in the terms themselves.