These rights give you meaningful control over your personal information, but exercising them typically requires submitting formal requests and may be subject to legal exceptions.
Consumer impact
Snapchat collects extensive personal data including precise location, device identifiers, contact lists, and behavioural data, which is used to build advertising profiles and shared with third-party advertisers and partners. Users in certain jurisdictions have enhanced rights including the right to opt out of personalised advertising and the sale or sharing of personal data. You can manage your privacy preferences and submit data access or deletion requests through Snapchat's in-app privacy settings or at https://www.snap.com/en-US/privacy/privacy-policy.
What you can do
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Export Your Data
Open Snapchat, tap your Profile icon, go to Settings, select Privacy Controls, then My Data, and submit a request to download a copy of your personal data.
Delete Your Data
Visit Snap's privacy portal or use the in-app Settings > Privacy Controls > Clear Data to submit a formal data deletion request.
Applicable agencies
FTC
The FTC can investigate failures to honour consumer data rights including access and deletion requests.