You have the right to access, correct, delete, and move your personal data, and to object to how Telegram processes it, with the ability to complain to a data protection authority if needed.
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These rights are legally enforceable under GDPR for EEA users and equivalent frameworks elsewhere, giving users meaningful control over their data held by Telegram.
EEA and UK users can request their data, ask for deletion, correct inaccuracies, and file regulatory complaints about Telegram's data practices, all of which are enforceable rights under GDPR rather than discretionary policy commitments.
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You may contact our privacy team with any requests of disclosure, correction, or deletion of your personal information. You may also request suspension of use or suspension of sharing of your personal information with certain third parties.
If you choose to reveal any personal information about yourself to other users, you do so at your own risk. We strongly encourage you to use caution in disclosing any personal information online.
When you are asked to provide information, you may decline to do so; but if you choose not to provide information that is necessary to provide some of our Services, you may not be able to use those Services.
"Under applicable data protection legislation, in certain circumstances, you have rights concerning your personal data. You have a right to: (1) request a copy of all your personal data that we store and to transmit that copy to another data controller; (2) delete (see section 10 below) or amend your personal data; (3) restrict, or object to, the processing of your personal data; (4) correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold on you; and (5) lodge a complaint with national data protection authorities regarding our processing of your personal data.Excerpt from Telegram's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision reflects GDPR Articles 15-21 (data subject rights including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection) and Article 77 (right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority).
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These rights are legally enforceable under GDPR for EEA users and equivalent frameworks elsewhere, giving users meaningful control over their data held by Telegram.
EEA and UK users can request their data, ask for deletion, correct inaccuracies, and file regulatory complaints about Telegram's data practices, all of which are enforceable rights under GDPR rather than discretionary policy commitments.
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