Why we share across the Meta Companies

Promoting safety, security and integrity and complying with applicable law

For example, we share information with Meta Companies that provide financial products and services to help them promote safety, security and integrity and comply with applicable law. This includes:
  • Complying with their legal obligations
  • Helping keep you and others safe
  • Performing account verification
  • Investigating suspicious activities
  • Creating analytics
For these purposes, we might share your name, email address, who you’re friends with and other account information within the Meta Companies.

Developing and providing features and integrations

For example, where available in your country, you can choose to use certain integrations that connect your WhatsApp experiences with other Meta Company Products. These integrations let you do things like:
  • Use your Meta Pay account to pay for things on WhatsApp
  • Chat with your friends on other Meta Company Products, such as Portal, by connecting your WhatsApp account
We also share information with Meta Companies to support innovation. For example, your videos can help train our products to recognize objects, like trees, or activities, like when a dog chases a ball. They can also help train tools that let people and businesses create content, like images and videos. This technology is used to help us offer new products or features in the future.

Understanding how people use our products

We count the number of unique users, monthly active users and daily active users on our products. This information helps us understand the community using our products and publicly share important trends about how our products are used.