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• Our Privacy Principles
• Your Privacy, Explained
• Privacy by Product
• Privacy Policy
• How We Employ Your Information
• Transparency Report

Snaps & Chats

Simply like talking to someone in person or on the phone, having a conversation through Snaps and Chats lets you lot limited any'due south on your mind at the time — without automatically keeping a permanent record of everything you lot've ever said.

Of form, you can as well choose to save a Snap earlier you lot send information technology and recipients tin always take a screenshot. Yous tin can also save a message in Chat. Just tap information technology. Snapchat makes information technology like shooting fish in a barrel to relieve what's important, without being bogged down past the residuum.

Saving Snaps was designed with privacy in mind. You command whether your Snaps can be saved. Ready the Snap time to no fourth dimension limit to allow a Snap to exist saved. You can always delete whatsoever message you sent, including Snaps that have been saved in Chat. Just press and hold to unsave.

Voice and Video Chat allows yous to bank check in with your Friends. If you lot just want to leave a vocalization message, nosotros've got you covered, merely press and hold the microphone to tape a Vox Note.

Snaps and Chats, including Voice and Video Chats, betwixt you and your friends are individual, that's why we don't scan their content to personalize your experience or bear witness yous ads. This means we don't know what you're saying or Snapping, though we practice keep some metadata on the Snaps and Chats you send and receive.

My Story

Snaps and Chats are similar snippets of a personal conversation, while Stories are more than similar, well, a story you're telling to a larger grouping of friends.

Y'all tin share Snaps in your Story with just your friends, or with the entire Snapchat community. Sometimes, if a My Story is set up to viewable past 'Everyone' and becomes popular, information technology may be featured in Discover and other places so more people can see it! Snaps in your Story are posted for 24 hours, though you lot tin remove them from your Story at any time.

Our Story, Spotlight & Snap Map Snaps

Snaps you submit to Our Story, Spotlight, or Snap Map can show up in Spotlight, Stories, Detect, Search, on the Snap Map, or even on third-party platforms — for example when someone shares your Snap to another platform or service. Keep in heed: Snaps that are submitted to Our Story, Spotlight, and Snap Map are Public Content, and your Snap may yet appear off Snapchat if it has been shared off of Snapchat! Also, Our Story, Spotlight, and Snap Map submissions may be stored indefinitely and may be visible on Snapchat for long periods of time — sometimes for months or more. If you'd like to remove a Snap you lot've submitted to Our Story, Spotlight, or Snap Map, y'all can do and so by going to your contour.

Profiles

Profiles make information technology easy to observe the info and Snapchat features that you care most the most! At that place are different types of Profiles on Snapchat, including My Profile, Friendship Profiles, Group Profiles, and Public Profiles.

My Profile features your Snapchat info, like your Bitmoji, location on the Map, friend info, and more. Friendship Profile is every bit unique as each individual friendship, this is where you can find Snaps and messages yous've saved, and this as well where you tin manage your friendship, and study, cake, or remove the friend. Group Profiles showcase your saved Snaps and Chats within a Group Conversation.

Public Profiles enable Snapchatters to be discovered in the app. If you desire a Public Profile, you will need to create one start. Once you've created a Public Profile, you can showcase your favorite public Snaps, share your Lenses, and other information. Other Snapchatters volition be able to subscribe to your Public Profile. Your subscriber count is turned off by default, but if you desire you can turn it on in Settings.

Spotlight

Spotlight allows yous to discover the globe of Snapchat in 1 place, and shines a light on the virtually entertaining Snaps, no matter who created them!

Snaps submitted to Spotlight are public and other Snapchatters will be able to share them both on and off Snapchat or even 'Remix' them. For instance, they may accept your funny dance Snap and layer a reaction over information technology. Your Profile is where you will exist able to command and come across an overview of Spotlight Snaps you've submitted. Y'all tin can also favorite Spotlight Snaps, when you practice and then we volition add information technology to your favorites list and use information technology to personalize your Spotlight feel.

As you explore and engage with more Spotlight Snaps, nosotros will tailor your Spotlight experience and show you Spotlight Snaps nosotros think yous will like. For instance, if you tin't cease watching dance challenges, we will testify y'all more than dance related Spotlight Snaps.

When you submit Snaps to Spotlight we ask you lot to comply with our Community Guidelines, Spotlight Terms and Spotlight Guidelines.

Memories

Memories makes it piece of cake to look dorsum on Snaps you've saved, and fifty-fifty edit and resend them!

Memories was developed with privacy and security in mind. Early, we recognized that merely because you want to be able to await back on something, doesn't mean that yous desire everyone else to exist able to, too!

Subsequently all, diaries and photo albums exist for a reason — they're something private you keep to expect dorsum on a memory, or share them with someone special. That's why only you tin can view your own Memories!

Keeping Memories backed upwards online helps proceed them from beingness lost, but that shouldn't mean you accept to sacrifice your privacy or security. That's why we made "My Eyes Only," which lets you keep your Snaps prophylactic and encrypted, and protected behind a password you choose. That style, even if someone steals your device and logs in to Snapchat somehow, those private Snaps are still condom.

Without the countersign, no 1 tin can view the things you've saved to My Optics Only — not even us! Be careful, though, because if you forget your countersign, there'south no way to recover those encrypted Snaps.

Lenses

Ever wonder how Lenses swap your face with a friend'due south or requite you puppy dog ears?

Some of the magic behind Lenses is due to "object recognition." Object recognition is an algorithm designed to assistance a calculator generally understand what objects are in an image. In this example, it lets u.s.a. know that a nose is a nose or an eye is an middle.

But, object recognition isn't the same as facial recognition. While Lenses tin can tell what is or isn't a face up, they don't recognize specific faces!

Snap Kit

Snap Kit is a set of developer tools that let you easily share Snaps, Stories, and Bitmojis with your favorite apps or from apps and websites to your Snapchat account! When you choose to connect to an app or website, you lot can review and customize the information that is shared through Snap Kit. You can too remove an app or website's admission at any time right in Snapchat settings.

If you haven't opened a connected app or website in ninety days, we'll automatically remove its admission, but yous may need to contact the developer if you have questions about whatsoever data that has already been shared.

Advertising

We are committed to creating products that make Snapchat amend for anybody, which is why our advertizement products are built from scratch. These include things like movie trailers in Discover, or Sponsored Filters and Lenses.

Every unmarried person is different, and no one is going to similar every advertising they come across. If an ad isn't relevant to you or you don't think it belongs on Snapchat, yous can always permit us know by tapping ⋮ , so tapping ⓘ to study the ad to us!

We want to show you ads that are relevant to you and your interests — but nosotros don't desire to serve ads that are and so custom-tailored that they're invasive or uncomfortable. It'southward a difficult remainder and we may not e'er go information technology right, and then we're ever counting on Snapchatters for their feedback. Share your experience with us, if you accept a moment!

Spectacles

Spectacles are sunglasses that capture your world, the way you see it. Just printing the button to save the moment, in the moment — without having a phone get in the manner. We specifically fabricated Spectacles sunglasses considering they're meant to be used when you're out in the world — whether you lot're on an take chances or just going about your day.

Whenever you have a photo or video with Glasses, LEDs volition light up to permit your friends know that you're taking a Snap or recording a video.

Our Community Guidelines have ever asked Snapchatters to be thoughtful and respect people's privacy — and that same philosophy applies to Spectacles, downward to their design!

We are constantly innovating Glasses — unlike generations have their ain unique and exciting features. The new Spectacles overlay immersive Lenses on the world around you and incorporate some of the Browse features described below.

Your Snapchat Account

Y'all can view and edit most of your key account information and privacy settings right within of Snapchat. But if y'all're curious nearly something that's non in our apps, you lot can visit accounts.snapchat.com, click 'My Data,' and and so click 'Submit Request.' We'll gather your account information and permit yous know when it's ready for you to download. If yous ever want to get out Snapchat for adept, you can close your account on accounts.snapchat.com too.

Account Security

It'due south hard to have a sense of privacy if you don't feel rubber and secure as well. That'southward why we provide you with features similar Login Verification (a form of 2-factor authentication) to secure your account, and why nosotros take considerable efforts to secure our own infrastructure. But there are also a few actress steps you lot can take to go on your Snapchat account peculiarly secure:

• Choice a potent and unique password: It may exist easier to employ the same password for all your apps, only to brand certain your account's secure, attempt flexing your artistic muscles to come up upwards with a long, unique one — and no, "Password123" isn't going to fool anyone. If you lot have trouble remembering passwords, consider using a password managing director to generate secure passwords that you don't have to memorize! Whatever your method, remember: never share your password with anyone, simply to exist safe.

• Turn on Login Verification: This is an important feature that uses two-factor authentication to add an extra layer of security, if your password is ever compromised.

• Don't use unauthorized third-party apps: Unauthorized third-party applications and plugins (or tweaks) are not supported or permitted by Snapchat because they tin sometimes compromise the security of your and other Snapchatters' accounts.

Browse

Use Browse to find a song, shop, or fifty-fifty calculate a math problem! To admission Scan on Snapchat, either printing and hold on the Camera screen, or tap on the Camera screen and then tap 'Scan' in the AR Bar. Scan options volition announced across the carousel. On the new Glasses, start Browse by pressing the right button or saying "Hey Snapchat."

When you initiate Scan, images from your Camera are taken and sent to Snap's servers where we classify what's in the image. We then recommend Lenses or provide other Scan features to augment and complement your globe.

To power certain Scan features, Snap partners with tertiary parties like Amazon, Shazam, and Vivino. This means that when you printing and hold on the Camera screen, sure information may be sent to these partners. For example, nosotros may ship images captured past your photographic camera to Amazon, who'll send back search results if they find a matching product. Similarly, we may ship audio hashes captured past your microphone to Shazam, who'll send back any matching songs.

Voice Scan lets yous do useful things similar search for Lenses. To ability Vox Scan, Snap has partnered with SoundHound, which provides recognition and agreement technology. When Voice Scan is used, Snap and SoundHound receive the audio recordings.

Snap and our partners use the data collected in Scan and Vocalism Scan to provide you with relevant search results, track metrics around search activity, and help amend search algorithms and product features.

Our partners do non receive data about which Snapchat account is making a search. Snap and our partners retain the images and audio collected during the search for only a short menstruum of fourth dimension.

At the moment, Amazon Photographic camera Search is only available to Snapchatters in the U.s..

Snap Map

Snap Map lets you encounter where your friends are, what's going on around them, discover your favorite restaurants and confined, and even come across what's happening beyond the world!

You won't appear on Snap Map until you open information technology for the first time and choose to share your location. If you don't open the app for 8 hours, yous won't be visible on the Map until you open Snapchat again. You can e'er update the people you're sharing your location with in Snap Map settings, or go into 'Ghost Mode' to hide your location from everyone. We may also remind you if you leave location sharing enabled for a while.

Snaps that take been submitted to Our Story and Snap Map can likewise show upwardly on the Map — but not every Snap volition appear there. Almost of the Snaps on the Map are selected through an automated process.

When it looks like something interesting is happening, a Story thumbnail might appear on the Map! For the most part, these are also created automatically — while Stories that are labeled as 'Featured' receive a more easily-on approach. Snaps posted to Snap Map are besides viewable on the web at map.snapchat.com and are embeddable on other websites.

Please be mindful of the Snaps that yous submit to Our Story and Snap Map. Although the Map simply shows the general area where a Snap was taken, things similar landmarks and street signs appearing in a Snap tin testify where you're at, if you're worried well-nigh that kind of matter.

Places make information technology easy to interact with local businesses on the Snap Map. Just tap a Place on the Map to view the place'south list, or tap Search at the top of the Map screen to notice a Place. Places provide a personalized Map experience, and you tin even order food from your favorite eating place via one of the commitment partners.

If you come beyond annihilation that violates our Community Guidelines, please reach out to us and report it!

Location

Snapchat uses your device'due south GPS to offer certain location-based features. For example, we employ your device's location to provide Geofilters based on where you're at or what'due south going on around you, or nosotros can use your location to position the Map to bear witness you what's nearby. We also apply your location to figure out what you'd like to see — then people in France see content from French publishers, French ads, and so on.

We shop GPS locations for a while to help improve the Map and other features. For example, we may store some of the locations you lot visit the virtually so we can show yous more than relevant Search content or update your Bitmoji's activeness on the Map. Nosotros may too store location information of the Snaps you save in Memories or submit to My Story, Our Story, Spotlight, or Snap Map to personalize your experience.

On the new Glasses, some features may need location data to work properly. We may use data from a few sources to derive a more than accurate representation of your location. For example, if the concluding location of your sunglasses is non available, nosotros may rely on Snapchat's utilize of your device's GPS to offer location-based features.

Yous tin can still use Snapchat and Glasses if you disable location permissions in your device's settings, but many of these features won't work right (or at all!) without it. Sometimes we tin still infer an approximate location like a country or city, based on an IP address — but it's not perfect.

Cameos

Cameos lets you be the star in your ain brusk, looping videos that you can send to friends in Chat. To enable Cameos, we ask you lot to take a selfie to put you into fun scenes. We don't employ facial recognition software. Instead, Cameos segments the shape of your face and hair to identify you into the scenes and ensure the Cameos are optimized.

You have total command over your selfie, and can change and delete it, and restrict others from using your selfie in 2-person Cameos, in Snapchat settings.

Games and Minis

Games are a fun way to hang out with your friends on Snapchat. You'll be able to run into your friends in a game when you're playing in a Chat with them, and they will exist able to see you likewise. Y'all tin can invite them to play games with you lot and enable your microphone and so you tin can talk while you play. Depending on the game, your display proper noun may exist visible to other players, both friends and non-friends, when you play. Your friends volition also be able to come across your score on leaderboards unless you hide your score in Games settings.

Minis are a set of experiences in Snapchat. Whether it's planning a flick nighttime, making a deck of flashcards, or coordinating which artists to meet at a music festival, Minis tin bring friends together for just about anything. You'll be able to see your friends in a Mini while you're in a Chat with them, and they will be able to see you as well. You tin invite them to utilize a Mini. You lot cull which Mini you want to open and use within Snapchat.

Personalization

No two people are the aforementioned, and then the app can tailor your Snapchat experience specially for yous!

Nosotros personalize your Snapchat feel based on interactions you have with your friends. For case, the friends you Snap with the virtually are usually easiest to notice, and Charms and Friend Emojis give yous fun insights to celebrate your friendships.

We generally try to show you lot ads that'll be relevant to you. We're able to exercise this by making some guesses near the things yous like and don't like. For example, if you're constantly watching Snaps of puppies on Observe or Spotlight, y'all might be a "Pet & Animal Lover." Or, if you regularly post Snaps of your sports memorabilia to My Story, our system might exist able to judge that y'all're a "Sports Fan." We call guesses like these "Lifestyle Categories" and we utilise them to try and evidence you ads and content that's relevant to your interests! If yous'd like, y'all can always pick your own Lifestyle Categories.

We personalize the Snap Map. For example, if you visit a Place or apply a venue filter or sticker on a My Story, Our Story, Spotlight, or Snap Map submission, nosotros may utilize that venue data to create a more than personalized Map experience for you and your friends.

We likewise endeavour to personalize the content you lot see by using what nosotros call "Content Involvement Tags." These tags are guesses nigh the content that yous may be interested in based on activity, like things you search for, Stories y'all view, popular users y'all subscribe to, and types of locations you visit. So if you lot watch a lot of Stories near basketball, we may create "sports" and "basketball" Content Interest Tags, then nosotros can testify you more Snaps about basketball. You can reset Content Interest Tags at any fourth dimension in Snapchat settings!

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