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What information does WhatsApp share with the Meta Companies?
WhatsApp currently shares certain categories of information with its parent company, Meta, and the Meta Companies.
If you use WhatsApp Messenger
The information we share with the other Meta Companies includes your account registration information (such as your phone number), transaction data (for example, if you use Facebook Pay), service-related information, information on how you interact with businesses when using our Services, mobile device information, your IP address, and may include other information identified in the Privacy Policy section entitled ‘Information We Collect’ or obtained upon notice to you or based on your consent.
If you use the WhatsApp Business app
The information we share with the other Meta Companies includes your account registration information (such as your phone number and information from your business profile and product catalog), transaction data (for example, if you use Facebook Pay), service-related information, information on how you interact with customers when using our Services, mobile device information, your IP address, and may include other information identified in the WhatsApp Business Terms of Service section entitled ‘Our Data Practices - Other Information’ or obtained upon notice to you or based on your consent.
We limit the information we share with Meta in important ways. For example, we will always protect your personal conversations with end-to-end encryption, so that neither WhatsApp nor Meta can see these private messages. We don’t keep logs of who everyone’s messaging or calling and can’t see your shared location so we cannot and do not share this with Meta. We need your contacts to provide the service, but don’t share your contacts with Meta. You can learn more about some of these limitations here.
