We collect information to provide better services to all our users — from figuring out basic stuff like which language you speak, to more complex things like which ads you’ll find most useful, the people who matter most to you online. The information we collect, and how that information is used, depends on how you use our services.
When you’re signed in, we also collect information that we store with your Account, which we treat as personal information When you create an Account, you provide us with personal information that includes your name and a password. You can also choose to add a phone number or payment information to your account. Even if you aren’t signed in to an Account, you might choose to provide us with information — like an email address to receive updates about our services.
We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services. This includes things like email you write and receive, photos and videos you save, docs and spreadsheets you create,
We collect information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access our services, which helps us provide features like automatic product updates and dimming your screen if your battery runs low.
If you use our services to make and receive calls or send and receive messages, we may collect telephony log information like your phone number, calling-party number, receiving-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls and messages, duration of calls, routing information, and types of calls.
We collect information about your location when you use our services, which helps us offer features like driving directions for your weekend getaway or showtimes for movies playing near you.
We also receive information from advertisers to provide advertising and research services on their behalf. We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs.
We also use your information to ensure our services are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues that you report to us. And we use your information to make improvements to our services, We use the information we collect in existing services to help us develop new ones.
We use the information we collect to customize our services for you, including providing recommendations, personalized content. Depending on your settings, we may also show you personalized ads based on your interests. We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used.
We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of our company except in the following cases:
We’ll share personal information outside when we have your consent.
We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We will share personal information outside if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations, Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
If the company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we’ll continue to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We regularly review this Privacy Policy and make sure that we process your information in ways that comply with it.