“We store messages, photos, videos and documents from your cloud chats on our servers so that you can access your data from any of your devices anytime...”
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Cloud chat content—including private messages and media—resides on Telegram's servers, making it accessible to Telegram and subject to any server-side processing or legal demands.
Your cloud chat content is held on Telegram's servers and is not stored only on your device.
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Cloud chat content—including private messages and media—resides on Telegram's servers, making it accessible to Telegram and subject to any server-side processing or legal demands.
Your cloud chat content is held on Telegram's servers and is not stored only on your device.
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