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WhatsApp's Privacy Policy explains what data WhatsApp collects about you, how it is used, and who it is shared with. Your messages are protected by end-to-end encryption and deleted from WhatsApp's servers once delivered, but information about you—including your phone number—can be stored and reshared by anyone you communicate with, and is shared with Meta Companies for advertising. To fully delete your data, you must use the in-app account deletion feature rather than simply uninstalling the app.
WhatsApp's Privacy Policy establishes the conditions under which WhatsApp collects, uses, retains, and shares user information in connection with its Services. WhatsApp requires a mobile phone number and profile name for account creation, and automatically collects device and connection data upon installation, access, or use. The policy provides end-to-end encryption designed to prevent WhatsApp and third parties from reading message content, while delivered messages are deleted from WhatsApp's servers and undelivered messages are retained in encrypted form for up to 30 days. User information is shared with Meta Company Partners for targeted advertising across Meta products, with successor entities in corporate transactions, and with government or law enforcement based on WhatsApp's good-faith belief of legal necessity. The policy explicitly acknowledges that third parties a user communicates with—including businesses and their service providers—may store or reshare user information, including phone numbers and message content, outside WhatsApp's control.
As an individual user, your message content is protected by end-to-end encryption and WhatsApp deletes delivered messages from its servers, but your phone number, profile information, and device data are collected and shared with Meta Companies, used for targeted advertising across Meta products, and may be disclosed to governments based on WhatsApp's own good-faith assessment. Any person or business you message can store and reshare your phone number or message content with others on or off WhatsApp, and businesses may grant their third-party service providers—potentially including Meta—access to those communications. If you want to stop WhatsApp from retaining your information, you should use the in-app 'delete my account' feature rather than simply uninstalling the app.
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