Privacy Policy

 Privacy Policy

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    -   [1. Information You Share With Us](#chapter1)
    -   [2. Additional Information We Recieve About You](#chapter2)
    -   [3. Information We Share and Disclose](#chapter3)
    -   [4. Managing Your Personal Information With Us](#chapter4)
    -   [5. Children and Our Services](#chapter5)
    -   [6. Our Global Operations and Privacy Shield](#chapter6)
    -   [7. Changes to This Privacy Policy](#chapter7)
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We have made revisions to this Privacy Policy, effective May 25th, 2018.
You can see the new version [here](#update). By continuing to use our
services after May 25th, you agree to the new Privacy Policy. A summary
of changes can be found on our [Help
Center](https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/update-privacy-policy).

#### Twitter Privacy Policy

Our Services instantly connect people everywhere to what\'s most
meaningful to them. For example, any registered user of Twitter can send
a Tweet, which is public by default, and can include a message of 140
characters or less and content like photos, videos, and links to other
websites.\

What you share on Twitter may be viewed all around the world instantly.
You are what you Tweet!\

This Privacy Policy describes how and when we collect, use, and share
your information across our websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications,
applications, buttons, embeds, ads, and [our other covered
services](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172501#) that link to
this Policy (collectively, the "Services"), and from our partners and
other third parties. For example, you send us information when you use
our Services on the web, via SMS, or from an application such as Twitter
for Mac, Twitter for Android, or TweetDeck. When using any of our
Services you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, disclosure,
and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This
includes any information you choose to provide that is deemed sensitive
under applicable law.

When this policy mentions "we" or "us," it refers to the controller of
your information under this policy. If you live in the United States,
your information is controlled by Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street,
Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 U.S.A. If you live outside the United
States, the data controller responsible for your information is Twitter
International Company, an Irish company with its registered office at
One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07 Ireland. Despite
this, you alone control and are responsible for the posting of your
Tweets and other content you submit through the Services, as provided in
the [Terms of Service](https://twitter.com/tos) and [Twitter
Rules](https://twitter.com/rules).\

Irrespective of which country you live in, you authorize us to transfer,
store, and use your information in the United States, Ireland, and any
other country where we operate. In some of these countries, the privacy
and data protection laws and rules regarding when government authorities
may access data may vary from those in the country where you live. Learn
more about our global operations and data transfer
[here](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20174632#).\

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please
submit a request through our form, available at
<https://support.twitter.com/forms/privacy>.\

##### Information Collection and Use

We collect and use your information below to provide, understand, and
improve our Services.\

Basic Account Information: If you choose to create a Twitter account,
you must provide us with some personal information, such as your name,
username, password, email address, or phone number. On Twitter, your
name and username are always listed publicly, including on your profile
page and in search results, and you can use either your real name or a
pseudonym. You can create and manage multiple Twitter accounts. If you
use [Digits by Twitter](https://get.digits.com/), the contact
information you provide to log in is not public. Some of our product
features, such as searching and viewing public Twitter user profiles or
watching a broadcast on Periscope's website, do not require you to
create an account.

Contact Information: You may use your contact information, such as your
email address or phone number, to customize your account or enable
certain account features, for example, for[login
verification](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170388) or [Twitter
via SMS](https://support.twitter.com/articles/14589#). If you provide us
with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages to that
number from us. We may use your contact information to send you
information about our Services, to market to you, to help prevent spam,
fraud, or abuse, and to help others find your account, including through
third-party services and client applications. You may use your settings
for [email](https://twitter.com/settings/notifications) and [mobile
notifications](https://twitter.com/settings/devices) to control
notifications you receive from Twitter. You may also unsubscribe from a
notification by following the instructions contained within the
notification or the instructions on our website. Your Discoverability
[privacy settings](https://twitter.com/settings/safety) control whether
others can find you on Twitter by your email address or phone number.

Additional Information: You may choose to provide us with additional
information to help improve and personalize your experience across our
Services. For example, you may choose to upload and sync your address
book so that we can help you find and connect with users you know or
help other users find and connect with you. We may later personalize
content, such as making suggestions or showing user accounts and Tweets
for you and other users, based on imported address book contacts. You
can delete your imported address book contacts at any time by visiting
your Contacts Dashboard at
<https://twitter.com/settings/contacts_dashboard>. If you email us, we
may keep your message, email address, and contact information to respond
to your request. If you connect your account on our Services to your
account on another service, the other service may send us information
that you authorize for use in the Services. This information may enable
cross-posting or otherwise help us improve the Services, and is deleted
from our Services within a few weeks of your disconnecting from our
Services your account on the other service.

Tweets, Following, Lists, Profile, and Other Public Information: Twitter
is primarily designed to help you share information with the world. Most
of the information you provide us through Twitter is information you are
asking us to make public. You may provide us with profile information
such as a short biography, your location, your website, date of birth,
or a picture. Additionally, your public information includes the
messages you Tweet; the metadata provided with Tweets, such as when you
Tweeted and the client application you used to Tweet; information about
your account, such as creation time, language, country, and time zone;
and the lists you create, people you follow, Tweets you Like or Retweet,
and Periscope broadcasts you click or otherwise engage with (such as by
commenting or hearting) on Twitter. Twitter broadly and instantly
disseminates your public information to a wide range of users,
customers, and services, including search engines, developers, and
publishers that integrate Twitter content into their services, and
organizations such as universities, public health agencies, and market
research firms that analyze the information for trends and insights.
When you share information or content like photos, videos, and links via
the Services, you should think carefully about what you are making
public. We may use this information to make
[inferences](https://twitter.com/your_twitter_data), like what topics
you may be interested in. Our default is almost always to make the
information you provide through the Services public for as long as you
do not delete it, but we generally give you
[settings](https://twitter.com/settings/safety) or features, like
[protected Tweets](https://support.twitter.com/articles/14016#), to make
the information more private if you want. For certain profile
information fields we provide you with [visibility
settings](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172733#) to select who
can see this information in your profile. If you provide us with profile
information and you don't see a visibility setting, that information is
public. You can change the
[language](https://support.twitter.com/articles/119137#) and [time
zone](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169405#) associated with
your account at any time using your account settings, available at
<https://twitter.com/settings/account>.

Direct Messages and Non-Public Communications: We provide certain
features that allow you to communicate more privately. For example, you
can use Direct Messages to have private conversations with other Twitter
users. When you privately communicate with others through our Services,
such as by sending and receiving Direct Messages, we will store and
process your communications, and information related to them. Please
note that if you interact with public Twitter content shared with you
via Direct Message, for instance by liking a Tweet shared via Direct
Message, those interactions may be public. When you use features like
Direct Messages to communicate privately, please remember that
recipients may copy, store, and re-share the contents of your
communications.

Location Information: We may receive information about your location.
For example, you may choose to publish your location in your Tweets and
in your Twitter profile. You may also tell us your location when you set
your trend location on Twitter.com. We may also determine location by
using other data from your device, such as precise location information
from GPS, information about wireless networks or cell towers near your
mobile device, or your IP address. We may use and store information
about your location to provide features of our Services, such as
allowing you to Tweet with your location, and to improve and customize
the Services, for example, with more relevant content like local trends,
stories, ads, and suggestions for people to follow. Learn more about our
use of location [here](https://support.twitter.com/articles/78525#), and
how to set your location preferences
[here](https://support.twitter.com/articles/118492#).

Links: We may keep track of how you interact with links across our
Services, including our email notifications, third-party services, and
client applications, by redirecting clicks or through other means. We do
this to help improve our Services, to provide more relevant advertising,
and to be able to share aggregate click statistics such as how many
times a particular link was clicked on. Links, Tweets, and non-public
communications like Direct Messages shared on the Services will be
processed and links shortened to a [http://t.co](http://t.co/) link.

Cookies: Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to
collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services, but
we do not require cookies for many parts of our Services such as
searching and looking at public user profiles. A cookie is a small data
file that is transferred to your computer or mobile device. We may use
both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you
interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and
web traffic routing on our Services, and to customize and improve our
Services. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, some
browsers' settings can be modified to decline cookies or alert you when
a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However,
some Services may not function properly if you disable cookies. You can
control how we personalize your Twitter experience and ads by using your
Personalization and Data settings, which are available at
<https://twitter.com/personalization> whether or not you have a Twitter
account. We respond to these settings rather than the Do Not Track
browser option, which we no longer support. Learn more about how we use
cookies and similar technologies
[here](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514#).

Using Our Services: We receive information when you view content on or
otherwise interact with our Services, even if you have not created an
account ("Log Data"). For example, when you visit our websites, sign
into our Services, interact with our email notifications, use your
account to authenticate to a third-party website, application, or
service, or visit a third-party website, application, or service that
includes Twitter content, we may receive information about you. This Log
Data may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, the
referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device
information (including device and application IDs), search terms, or
cookie information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view or
interact with links on our Services, including links to third-party
applications, such as when you choose to install another application
through Twitter. We use Log Data to make inferences, like what topics
you may be interested in, and to customize the content we show you,
including ads. You can learn about the interests we have inferred about
you from your activity on and off of Twitter in Your Twitter Data,
available at <https://twitter.com/your_twitter_data>. We keep Log Data
as needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We will
either delete Log Data or remove any common account identifiers, such as
your username, full IP address, email address, or phone number, after a
maximum of 18 months, if not
sooner[](https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en#tfw).

Twitter for Web Data: We may personalize the Services for you based on
your visits to third-party websites that integrate Twitter content such
as embedded timelines or Tweet buttons. When you view our content on
these websites, we may receive Log Data that includes the web page you
visited. We never associate this web browsing history with your name,
email address, phone number, or Twitter handle, and we delete,
obfuscate, or aggregate it after no longer than 30 days. We may use
interests or other information that we derive from this data to improve
our Services and personalize content for you, such as suggestions for
people to follow, advertising, and other content you may be interested
in. You can see and control interests that we use to personalize your
experience in Your Twitter Data, available at
<https://twitter.com/your_twitter_data>. You can also control whether we
keep track of your visits to websites with Twitter content by using your
Personalization and Data settings, available at
<https://twitter.com/personalization>.\

Advertising: Our Services are supported by advertising. We may use the
information described in this Privacy Policy to help make our
advertising more relevant to you, to measure its effectiveness, and to
help recognize your devices to serve you ads on and off of Twitter. We
do not use the content you share privately in Direct Messages to serve
you ads. Our Twitter Ads Policy also prohibits advertisers from
targeting ads based on categories we consider
[sensitive](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170368#), such as
race, religion, politics, sex life, or health. Twitter adheres to the
Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Principles for Online
Behavioral Advertising (also referred to as "interest-based
advertising"). If you prefer, you can opt out of interest-based
advertising by unchecking Personalize Ads in your Personalization and
Data settings, available at <https://twitter.com/personalization> or
through the DAA's consumer choice tool at
[https://optout.aboutads.info](https://optout.aboutads.info/). We will
not use information from the browser (and for logged in users, the
account) on which you opt out for interest-based advertising, and that
browser or account will not be eligible to receive interest-based ads
from Twitter. Learn more about your privacy options for interest-based
ads
[here](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514#privacy-options)
and about how ads work on our Services
[here](https://business.twitter.com/en/help/troubleshooting/how-twitter-ads-work.html).

Third-Parties and Affiliates: We may receive information about you from
third parties, such as other Twitter users, partners (including ad
partners), or our [corporate
affiliates](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172501#). For
example, other users may share or disclose information about you, such
as when they mention you, share a photo of you, or tag you in a photo.
Your [privacy settings](https://twitter.com/settings/safety) control who
can tag you in a photo. Our ad partners and affiliates may share
information with us such as a browser cookie ID, mobile device ID, or
cryptographic hash of an email address, as well as demographic or
interest data and content viewed or actions taken on a website or app.
Our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, may enable us to collect
similar information directly from their website or app by integrating
our advertising technology.

Personalizing Across Your Devices: When you log into your account with a
browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your
account for purposes such as authentication and personalization.
Depending on your settings, we may also personalize your experience on,
and based on information from, other browsers or devices besides the
ones you use to log into Twitter. For example, if you visit websites
with sports content on your laptop, we may show you sports-related ads
on Twitter for Android. You can control whether we link your account to
browsers or devices other than the ones you use to log into Twitter (or
if you're logged out, whether we link the browser or device you're
currently using to any other devices) through your Personalization and
Data settings, available at <https://twitter.com/personalization>.

##### Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not disclose your private personal information except in the
limited circumstances described here.\

User Consent or Direction: We may share or disclose your information at
your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or
application to access your account or when you direct us to share your
feedback with a business. When you use Digits by Twitter to sign up for
or log in to a third-party application, you are directing us to share
your contact information, such as your phone number, with that
application. If you've shared information, like Direct Messages or
protected Tweets, with another user who accesses Twitter through a
third-party service, keep in mind that the information may be shared
with the third-party service.

Service Providers: We engage service providers to perform functions and
provide services to us in the United States, Ireland, and other
countries. For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help
provide our Services, such as hosting our various blogs and wikis, and
to help us understand and improve the use of our Services, such as
Google Analytics. We may share your private personal information with
such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this
Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security
measures, and on the condition that the third parties use your private
personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions. We
share your payment information, including your credit or debit card
number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address with payment
services providers to process payments; prevent, detect and investigate
fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute resolution such
as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes associated with the
acceptance of credit or debit cards.

Law and Harm: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy
Policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that
it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, [legal
process, or governmental
request](https://support.twitter.com/articles/41949#); to protect the
safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or
to protect our or our users' rights or property. However, nothing in
this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or
objections that you may have to a third party's, including a
government's, request to disclose your information.

Business Transfers and Affiliates: In the event that we are involved in
a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets,
your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction.
This Privacy Policy will apply to your information as transferred to the
new entity. We may also disclose information about you to our [corporate
affiliates](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172501) in order to
help provide, understand, and improve our Services and our affiliates'
services, including the delivery of ads.

Public Information: We may share or disclose your public information,
such as your public user profile information, public Tweets, or the
people you follow or that follow you. Remember: your privacy and
visibility settings control whether your Tweets and certain profile
information are made public. Other information, like your name and
username, is always public on Twitter, unless you delete your account,
as described below.

Non-Personal, Aggregated, or Device-Level Information: We may share or
disclose non-personal, aggregated, or device-level information such as
the total number of times people engaged with a Tweet, the number of
users who clicked on a particular link or voted on a poll in a Tweet
(even if only one did), the characteristics of a device or its user when
it is available to receive an ad, the topics that people are Tweeting
about in a particular location, or aggregated or device-level reports to
advertisers about users who saw or clicked on their ads. This
information does not include your name, email address, phone number, or
Twitter handle. We may, however, share non-personal, aggregated, or
device-level information through partnerships with entities that may use
data in their possession (including data you may have given them) to
link your name, email address, or other personal information to the
information we provide them. These partnerships require that they get
your consent before doing so. You can control whether Twitter shares
your information under [these
partnerships](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175379#) by using
your Personalization and Data settings, available at
<https://twitter.com/personalization>.\

##### Accessing and Modifying Your Personal Information

If you are a registered user of our Services, we provide you with tools
and [account settings](https://twitter.com/account/settings) to access,
correct, delete, or modify the personal information you provided to us
and associated with your account. You can download certain account
information, including your Tweets, by following the instructions
[here](https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170160-downloading-your-twitter-archive).
You can learn more about the interests we have inferred about you in
[Your Twitter Data](https://twitter.com/your_twitter_data) and request
access to additional information
[here](https://support.twitter.com/forms/privacy).

You can also permanently delete your Twitter account. If you follow the
instructions
[here](https://support.twitter.com/articles/15358-how-to-deactivate-your-account),
your account will be deactivated and then deleted. When deactivated,
your account, including your name, username, and public profile, is not
viewable on Twitter.com. For up to 30 days after deactivation it is
still possible to restore your account if it was accidentally or
wrongfully deactivated. Absent a separate arrangement between you and us
to extend your deactivation period, after 30 days, we begin the process
of deleting your account from our systems, which can take up to a week.

Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still
retain copies of your public information, like your user profile
information and public Tweets, even after you have deleted the
information from the Twitter Services or deactivated your account. Learn
more
[here](https://support.twitter.com/articles/15349-why-is-my-twitter-profile-in-google-search).

##### Our Global Operations

To bring you the Services, we operate globally. Twitter, Inc. complies
with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles (the "Principles")
regarding the collection, use, sharing, and retention of personal
information from the European Union and Switzerland, as described in our
[EU-US Privacy Shield certification](https://www.privacyshield.gov/list)
and Swiss-US Privacy Shield certification.

If you have a Privacy Shield-related complaint, please contact us
[here](https://support.twitter.com/forms/privacy). As part of our
participation in Privacy Shield, if you have a dispute with us about our
adherence to the Principles, we will seek to resolve it through our
internal complaint resolution process, alternatively through the
independent dispute resolution body
[JAMS](https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-privacy-shield), and under certain
conditions, through the [Privacy Shield arbitration
process](https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=G-Arbitration-Procedures).\

Privacy Shield participants are subject to the investigatory and
enforcement powers of the US Federal Trade Commission and other
authorized statutory bodies. Under certain circumstances, participants
may be liable for the transfer of personal information from the EU or
Switzerland to third parties outside the EU and Switzerland. Learn more
about the EU-US Privacy Shield and Swiss-US Privacy Shield
[here](https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome).\

##### Changes to this Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current
version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will
always be at <https://twitter.com/privacy>. If we make a change to this
policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via
an [\@Twitter](https://twitter.com/Twitter) update or email to the email
address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the
Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by
the revised Privacy Policy.

Effective: June 18, 2017

[Archive of Previous Privacy
Policies](https://twitter.com/privacy/previous)

Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please, let us know by
contacting us [here](https://support.twitter.com/forms/privacy) or
writing to us at the appropriate address below.

For accounts based in the United States:\

Twitter, Inc.\
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry\
1355 Market Street, Suite 900\
San Francisco, CA 94103

For accounts outside the United States:\

Twitter International Company\
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry\
One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street\
Dublin 2, D02 AX07 IRELAND

 

Twitter Privacy Policy
======================

We believe you should always know what data we collect from you and how
we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. We
want to empower you to make the best decisions about the information
that you share with us.\
\
That's the basic purpose of this Privacy Policy.

You should read this policy in full, but here are a few key things we
hope you take away from it:

Twitter is public and Tweets are immediately viewable and searchable by
anyone around the world. We give you non-public ways to communicate on
Twitter too, through protected Tweets and Direct Messages. You can also
use Twitter under a pseudonym if you prefer not to use your name.

When you use Twitter, even if you're just looking at Tweets, we receive
some personal information from you like the type of device you're using
and your IP address. You can choose to share additional information with
us like your email address, phone number, address book contacts, and a
public profile. We use this information for things like keeping your
account secure and showing you more relevant Tweets, people to follow,
events, and ads.

We give you control through your
[settings](https://twitter.com/settings/account) to limit the data we
collect from you and how we use it, and to control things like account
security, marketing preferences, apps that can access your account, and
address book contacts you've uploaded to Twitter. You can also always
[download](https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive)
the information you have shared on Twitter. 

In addition to information you share with us, we use your Tweets,
content you've read, Liked, or Retweeted, and other information to
determine what topics you're interested in, your age, the languages you
speak, and other signals to show you more relevant content. We give you
[transparency](https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data) into that
information, and you can modify or correct it at any time.

If you have questions about this policy, how we collect or process your
personal data, or anything else related to our privacy practices, we
want to hear from you. You can [contact
us](https://help.twitter.com/forms/privacy) at any time.

 

1

Information You Share With Us
-----------------------------

**We require certain information to provide our services to you. For
example, you must have an account in order to upload or share content on
Twitter. When you choose to share the information below with us, we
collect and use it to operate our services.**\

 

-   [Basic Account Information](#chapter1.1)
-   [Public Information](#chapter1.2)
-   [Contact Information and Address Books](#chapter1.3)
-   [Direct Messages and Non-Public Communications](#chapter1.4)
-   [Payment Information](#chapter1.5)
-   [How You Control the Information You Share With Us](#chapter1.6)

 

-   [Basic Account Information](#chapter1.1)
-   [Public Information](#chapter1.2)
-   [Contact Information and Address Books](#chapter1.3)
-   [Direct Messages and Non-Public Communications](#chapter1.4)
-   [Payment Information](#chapter1.5)
-   [How You Control the Information You Share With Us](#chapter1.6)

 

1.1

Basic Account Information
-------------------------

You don't have to create an account to use some of our service features,
such as searching and viewing public Twitter profiles or watching a
broadcast on Periscope's website. If you do choose to create an account,
you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide our
services to you. On Twitter this includes a display name (for example,
"Twitter Moments"), a username (for example, \@TwitterMoments), a
password, and an email address or phone number. Your display name and
username are always public, but you can use either your real name or a
pseudonym. You can also [create and manage multiple Twitter
accounts](#tooltip-chapter1.1.1), for example to express different parts
of your identity.\

pageReference:
/content/twitter-com/legal/en/privacy/chapter-1/chapter-1-1

Content:

The many sides of you

Let your imagination run free. Explore your interests with a number of
different identities.

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1.2

Public Information
------------------

Most activity on Twitter is public, including your [profile
information](#tooltip-chapter1.2.1), [your time zone and
language](https://twitter.com/settings/account), when you created your
account, and your Tweets and certain information about your Tweets like
the date, time, and application and version of Twitter you Tweeted from.
You also may choose to publish your location in your Tweets or your
Twitter profile. The lists you create, people you follow and who follow
you, and Tweets you Like or Retweet are also public. Periscope
broadcasts you create, click on, or otherwise engage with, either on
Periscope or on Twitter, are public along with when you took those
actions. So are your hearts, comments, the number of hearts you've
received, which accounts you are a Superfan of, and whether you watched
a broadcast live or on replay. Any hearts, comments, or other content
you contribute to another account's broadcast will remain part of that
broadcast for as long as it remains on Periscope. Information posted
about you by other people who use our services may also be public. For
example, other people may [tag you in a photo](#tooltip-chapter1.2.2)
(if your settings allow) or mention you in a Tweet.

You are responsible for your Tweets and other information you provide
through our services, and you should [think carefully about what you
make public](#overlay-chapter1.2.1), especially if it is sensitive
information. If you update your public information on Twitter, such as
by deleting a Tweet or deactivating your account, we will reflect your
updated content on Twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, and Twitter for
Android.

In addition to providing your public information to the world directly
on Twitter, [we also use technology like application programming
interfaces](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-api)
([APIs](https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/twitter-api)) and
embeds to make that information available to websites, apps, and others
for their use - for example, displaying Tweets on a news website or
analyzing what people say on Twitter. We generally make this content
available in limited quantities for free and charge licensing fees for
large-scale access. We have [standard
terms](https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms) that govern how
this data can be used, and a compliance program to enforce these terms.
But these individuals and companies are not affiliated with Twitter, and
their offerings may not reflect updates you make on Twitter. For more
information about how we make public data on Twitter available to the
world, visit <https://developer.twitter.com>.

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Hello, World

Your profile information is displayed under your photo and username on
your profile page.

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Keep a low profile

Friend want to tag you in a photo? Lucky you. If you're not into that
sort of thing, you can always change your settings.

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Think carefully
===============

What you Tweet becomes instantly public worldwide on Twitter, and can
appear on other media like websites, newspapers, or television.

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1.3

Contact Information and Address Books
-------------------------------------

We use your contact information, such as your email address or phone
number, to authenticate your account and keep it - and our services -
secure, and to help prevent spam, fraud, and abuse. We also use contact
information to personalize our services, enable certain account features
(for example, for[login
verification](https://help.twitter.com/managing-your-account/two-factor-authentication)
or [Twitter via
SMS](https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/create-twitter-account-mobile#)),
and to send you information about our services. If you provide us with
your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from Twitter to
that number as your country's laws allow. Twitter also uses your contact
information to market to you as your country's laws allow, and to help
others find your account if your settings permit, including through
third-party services and client applications. You can use your settings
for [email](https://twitter.com/settings/notifications) and [mobile
notifications](https://twitter.com/settings/devices) to control
notifications you receive from Twitter. You can also unsubscribe from a
notification by following the instructions contained within the
notification or
[here](https://help.twitter.com/managing-your-account#notifications).

You can choose to upload and sync your address book on Twitter so that
we can help you find and connect with people you know and help others
find and connect with you. We also use this information to better
recommend content to you and others.

You can sign up for Periscope with an account from another service like
Twitter, Google, or Facebook, or connect your Periscope account to these
other services. If you do, we will use information from that service,
including your email address, friends, or contacts list, to recommend
other accounts or content to you or to recommend your account or content
to others. You can control whether your Periscope account is
discoverable by email through your [Periscope
settings](https://pscp.tv/account/settings).

If you email us, we will keep the content of your message, your email
address, and your contact information to respond to your request.

 

1.4

Direct Messages and Non-Public Communications
---------------------------------------------

We provide certain features that let you communicate more privately or
control who sees your content. For example, you can use [Direct
Messages](https://help.twitter.com/using-twitter/direct-messages) to
have non-public conversations on Twitter, [protect your
Tweets](https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/public-and-protected-tweets),
or host [private
broadcasts](https://help.pscp.tv/customer/portal/articles/2017789) on
Periscope. When you communicate with others by sending or receiving
Direct Messages, we will store and process your communications and
information related to them. This includes link scanning for malicious
content, link shortening to [http://t.co](http://t.co/) URLs, [detection
of spam](#tooltip-chapter1.4.1) and prohibited images, and review of
reported issues. We also use information about whom you have
communicated with and when (but not the content of those communications)
to better understand the use of our services, to protect the safety and
integrity of our platform, and to show more relevant content. We share
the content of your Direct Messages with the people you've sent them to;
we do not use them to serve you ads. Note that if you interact in a way
that would ordinarily be public with Twitter content shared with you via
Direct Message, for instance by liking a Tweet, those interactions will
be public. When you use features like Direct Messages to communicate,
remember that [recipients have their own copy](#tooltip-chapter1.4.2) of
your communications on Twitter - even if you delete your copy of those
messages from your account - which they may duplicate, store, or
re-share.

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Spam stinks

We scan your Direct Messages to try and prevent spam for you and on our
service.

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Just like email

Only send Direct Messages to people you trust. Remember, even though
someone can't Retweet your Direct Messages, they still have a copy of
your message.

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1.5

Payment Information
-------------------

You may provide us with [payment information](#tooltip-chapter1.5.1),
including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV
code, and billing address, in order to purchase advertising or other
offerings provided as part of our services.

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Approved by you

We use your payment information to process transactions you've approved
and for fraud detection.

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1.6

How You Control the Information You Share with Us
-------------------------------------------------

Your [Privacy and safety
settings](https://twitter.com/settings/safety) let [you
decide](#overlay-chapter1.6.1):\

-   Whether your Tweets are publicly available on Twitter\
-   Whether others can tag you in a photo\
-   Whether you will be able to receive Direct Messages from anyone on
    Twitter or just your followers\
-   Whether others can find you based on your email or phone number\
-   Whether you upload your address book to Twitter for storage and use\
-   When and where you may see sensitive content on Twitter\
-   Whether you want to
    [block](https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/blocking-and-unblocking-accounts)
    or [mute](https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-mute)
    other Twitter accounts\

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Your settings
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You have options when it comes to what information you share and see on
Twitter.

 

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Additional Information We Receive About You
-------------------------------------------

**We receive certain information when you use our services or other
websites or mobile applications that include our content, and from third
parties including advertisers. Like the information you share with us,
we use the data below to operate our services.**

-   [Location Information](#chapter2.1)
-   [Links](#chapter2.2)
-   [Cookies](#chapter2.3)
-   [Log Data](#chapter2.4)
-   [Twitter for Web Data](#chapter2.5)
-   [Advertisers and Other Ad Partners](#chapter2.6)
-   [Developers](#chapter2.7)
-   [Other Third Parties and Affiliates](#chapter2.8)
-   [Personalizing Across Your Devices](#chapter2.9)
-   [How You Control Additional Information We Receive](#chapter2.10)

 

-   [Location Information](#chapter2.1)
-   [Links](#chapter2.2)
-   [Cookies](#chapter2.3)
-   [Log Data](#chapter2.4)
-   [Twitter for Web Data](#chapter2.5)
-   [Advertisers and Other Ad Partners](#chapter2.6)
-   [Developers](#chapter2.7)
-   [Other Third Parties and Affiliates](#chapter2.8)
-   [Personalizing Across Your Devices](#chapter2.9)
-   [How You Control Additional Information We Receive](#chapter2.10)

 

2.1

Location Information
--------------------

We require information about your signup and current location, which we
get from signals such as your IP address or device settings, to securely
and reliably set up and maintain your account and to provide our
services to you.

Subject to your settings, we may collect, use, and store additional
information about [your location](#overlay-chapter2.1.1) - such as your
current precise position or places where you've previously used Twitter
- to operate or personalize our services including with more relevant
content like local trends, stories, ads, and suggestions for people to
follow. Learn more about Twitter's use of location
[here](https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/tweet-location-settings),
and how to set your Twitter location preferences
[here](https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/twitter-location-services-for-mobile).
Learn more about how to share your location in Periscope broadcasts
[here](https://help.pscp.tv/customer/portal/articles/2017791-how-do-i-share-my-location-).

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Basic location data
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Whenever you use Twitter, Twitter gets a general sense of your location
from things like the network you're using to access the Internet. This
helps Twitter to provide you with relevant content.\

 

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Precise location data
=====================

You can turn on Twitter's location services, letting Twitter pinpoint
your position. This enables you to use additional features on Twitter,
like Tweeting with your precise location.\

 

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Tweet your location
===================

You can choose to share your location in a Tweet publicly, letting
everyone know you're at an event, venue, or anywhere else.

 

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2.2

Links
-----

In order to operate our services, we keep track of how you interact with
links across our services. This includes links in emails we send you and
links in Tweets that appear on other websites or mobile applications.

If you click on an external link or ad on our services, that advertiser
or website operator might figure out that you came from Twitter or
Periscope, along with other information associated with the ad you
clicked such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to
reach. They may also collect other personal data from you, such as
cookie identifiers or your IP address.

 

2.3

Cookies
-------

A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or
mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar
technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our
services. Cookies are not required for many parts of our services such
as searching and looking at public profiles. Although most web browsers
automatically accept cookies, many browsers' settings can be set to
decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to [place a
cookie on your computer](#tooltip-chapter2.3.1). However, some of our
services may not function properly if you disable cookies. When your
browser or device allows it, we use both session cookies and persistent
cookies to better understand how you interact with our services, to
monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise
operate our services such as by providing account security,
personalizing the content we show you including ads, and remembering
your language preferences. We do not support the Do Not Track browser
option. You can learn more about how we use cookies and similar
technologies
[here](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies#).

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Not hungry?

You can change your cookie settings in your web browser.

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Log Data
--------

We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact
with our services, which we refer to as "Log Data," even if you have not
created an account. For example, when you visit our websites, sign into
our services, interact with our email notifications, use your account to
authenticate to a third-party service, or visit a third-party service
that includes Twitter content, we may receive information about you.
This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser
type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location,
your mobile carrier, device information (including device and
application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We also receive
Log Data when you click on, view, or interact with links on our
services, including when you install another application through
Twitter. We use Log Data to operate our services and ensure their
secure, reliable, and robust performance. For example, we use Log Data
to protect the security of accounts and to determine what content is
popular on our services. We also use this data to improve the content we
show you, including ads.

[We use information you provide to us and data we receive, including Log
Data and data from third parties](#overlay-chapter2.4.1), to make
inferences like what topics you may be interested in, how old you are,
and what languages you speak. This helps us better design our services
for you and personalize the content we show you, including ads.

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Better data, better content
===========================

Using data like the Tweets and accounts you view on Twitter...

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Better data, better content
===========================

\...Twitter can suggest relevant content you may also like.\

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2.5

Twitter for Web Data
--------------------

When you view our content on [third-party
websites](#overlay-chapter2.5.1) that integrate Twitter content such as
embedded timelines or Tweet buttons, we may receive Log Data that
includes the web page you visited. We use this information to better
understand the use of our services, to protect the safety and integrity
of our platform, and to show more relevant content, including ads. We do
not associate this web browsing history with your name, email address,
phone number, or username, and we delete, obfuscate, or aggregate it
after no longer than 30 days. We do not collect this data from browsers
that we believe to be located in the European Union or EFTA States.\

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Third-party websites
====================

You can see Twitter content on Twitter's website and apps - but many
other websites also choose to include Twitter content.

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2.6

Advertisers and Other Ad Partners
---------------------------------

Advertising revenue allows us to support and improve our services. We
use the information described in this Privacy Policy to help make our
advertising more relevant to you, to measure its effectiveness, and to
help recognize your devices to serve you ads on and off of Twitter. Our
ad partners and affiliates [share information with us such as browser
cookie IDs, mobile device IDs, hashed email addresses, demographic or
interest data, and content viewed or actions taken on a website or
app](#overlay-chapter2.6.1). Some of our ad partners, particularly our
advertisers, also enable us to collect similar information directly from
their website or app by integrating our advertising technology.

Twitter adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory
Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising (also referred to as
"interest-based advertising") and respects the DAA's consumer choice
tool for you to opt out of interest-based advertising at
[https://optout.aboutads.info](https://optout.aboutads.info/). In
addition, our ads policies prohibit advertisers from targeting ads based
on
[categories](https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/other-policy-requirements/policies-for-keyword-targeting.html#)
that we consider sensitive or are prohibited by law, such as race,
religion, politics, sex life, or health. Learn more about your privacy
options for interest-based ads
[here](https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies#privacy-options)
and about how ads work on our services
[here](https://business.twitter.com/en/help/troubleshooting/how-twitter-ads-work.html).

If you are an advertiser or a prospective advertiser, we process your
personal data to help offer and provide our advertising services. You
can update your data in your Twitter Ads dashboard or by contacting us
directly as described in this Privacy Policy.

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Data from advertising partners
==============================

Advertisers share information on Twitter...

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Better ads
==========

\...so that, if your settings allow, they can show their most relevant
ads.

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2.7

Developers
----------

[If you access our APIs or developer
portal](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-api), we
process your personal data to help provide our services. You can update
your data by contacting us directly as described in this Privacy Policy.

 

2.8

Other Third Parties and Affiliates
----------------------------------

We may receive information about you from third parties who are not our
ad partners, such as others on Twitter, partners who help us evaluate
the safety and quality of content on our platform, our [corporate
affiliates](https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/twitter-services-and-corporate-affiliates),
and other services you link to your Twitter account.

You may choose to connect your Twitter account to accounts on another
service, and that other service may send us information about your
account on that service. We use the information we receive to provide
you features like cross-posting or cross-service authentication, and to
operate our services. For integrations that Twitter formally supports,
you may revoke this permission at any time from your application
settings; for other integrations, please visit the other service you
have connected to Twitter.

 

2.9

Personalizing Across Your Devices
---------------------------------

When you log into Twitter on a browser or device, we will associate that
browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication,
security, and personalization. Subject to your settings, we may also
associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use
to log into Twitter (or associate your logged-out device or browser with
other browsers or devices). We do this to operate and [personalize our
services](#overlay-chapter2.9.1). For example, if you visit websites
with sports content on your laptop, we may show you sports-related ads
on Twitter for Android.

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Personalizing across devices
============================

To help make your Twitter experience better on one of your devices\...\

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Personalizing across devices
============================

\...Twitter may use information from another device of yours.

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2.10

How You Control Additional Information We Receive
-------------------------------------------------

Your Twitter [Personalization and data
settings](https://twitter.com/personalization) let [you
decide](#overlay-chapter2.10.1):

-   Whether we show you interest-based ads on and off Twitter\
-   How we personalize your experience across devices\
-   Whether we collect and use your precise location\
-   Whether we personalize your experience based on where you've been\
-   Whether we keep track of the websites where you see Twitter content\

You can use [Your Twitter data](https://twitter.com/your_twitter_data)
to review:\

-   Advertisers who have included you in tailored audiences to serve you
    ads\
-   Demographic and interest data about your account from our ads
    partners\
-   Information that Twitter has inferred about you such as your age
    range, gender, languages, and interests\

We also provide a version of these tools on Twitter if you don't have a
Twitter account, or if you're logged out of your account. This lets you
see the data and settings for the logged out browser or device you are
using, separate from any Twitter account that uses that browser or
device. On Periscope, you can control whether we personalize your
experience based on your watch history through your
[settings](https://www.pscp.tv/account/settings).

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Your settings
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You have options when it comes to what information you share and see on
Twitter.\

 

3

Information We Share and Disclose
---------------------------------

**As noted above, Twitter is designed to broadly and instantly
disseminate information you share publicly through our services. In the
limited circumstances where we disclose your private personal data, we
do so subject to your control, because it's necessary to operate our
services, or because it's required by law.**

-   [Sharing You Control](#chapter3.1)
-   [Service Providers](#chapter3.2)
-   [Law, Harm, and the Public Interest](#chapter3.3)
-   [Affiliates and Change of Ownership](#chapter3.4)
-   [Non-Personal Information](#chapter3.5)

 

-   [Sharing You Control](#chapter3.1)
-   [Service Providers](#chapter3.2)
-   [Law, Harm, and the Public Interest](#chapter3.3)
-   [Affiliates and Change of Ownership](#chapter3.4)
-   [Non-Personal Information](#chapter3.5)

 

3.1

Sharing You Control
-------------------

We share or disclose your personal data with your consent or at your
direction, such as when you [authorize a third-party web client or
application](https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/connect-or-revoke-access-to-third-party-apps?lang=browser)
to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback with
a business. If you've shared information like Direct Messages or
protected Tweets with someone else who accesses Twitter through a
third-party service, keep in mind that the information may be shared
with the third-party service.

Subject to your settings, we also provide certain third parties with
personal data to help us offer or operate our services. For example, we
share with advertisers the identifiers of devices that saw their ads, to
enable them to measure the effectiveness of our advertising business.
[We also share device identifiers, along with the interests or other
characteristics of a device or the person using it, to help partners
decide whether to serve an ad to that device or to enable them to
conduct marketing, brand analysis, interest-based advertising, or
similar activities.](#overlay-chapter3.1.1) You can learn more about
these partnerships in our [Help
Center](https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/data-through-partnerships),
and you can control whether Twitter shares your personal data in this
way by using the "Share your data with Twitter's business partners"
option in your [Personalization and Data
settings](https://twitter.com/personalization). (This setting does not
control sharing described elsewhere in our Privacy Policy, such as when
we share data with our service providers.) The information we share with
these partners does not include your name, email address, phone number,
or Twitter username, but some of these partnerships allow the
information we share to be linked to other personal information if the
partner gets your consent first.

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Sharing data with advertisers
=============================

When you click on or view an ad on Twitter, if your settings allow,
Twitter may send data about your device back to the advertiser to help
them measure their success and improve future ads.

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3.2

Service Providers
-----------------

We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to
us in the United States, Ireland, and other countries. For example, we
use a variety of third-party services to help operate our services, such
as hosting our various blogs and wikis, and to help us understand the
use of our services, such as Google Analytics. We may share your private
personal data with such service providers subject to obligations
consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the
third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and
pursuant to our instructions. We share your payment information with
payment services providers to process payments; prevent, detect, and
investigate fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute
resolution such as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes
associated with the acceptance of credit and debit cards.

 

3.3

Law, Harm, and the Public Interest
----------------------------------

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or
controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, or
disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonably
necessary to comply with a law, regulation, [legal process, or
governmental
request](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-law-enforcement-support);
to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity
of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious
actors on our services, or to [explain why we have removed content or
accounts from our services](#tooltip-chapter3.3.1); to address fraud,
security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or
the rights or property of those who use our services. However, nothing
in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or
objections that you may have to a third party's, including a
government's, request to disclose your personal data.

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We remove content from our services when it violates our rules, like if
it glorifies violence. When that content is gone, we want you to know.

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3.4

Affiliates and Change of Ownership
----------------------------------

In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition,
reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or
transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply
to your personal data as transferred to the new entity. We may also
disclose personal data about you to our [corporate
affiliates](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-services-and-corporate-affiliates)
in order to help operate our services and our affiliates' services,
including the delivery of ads.

 

3.5

Non-Personal Information
------------------------

We share or disclose non-personal data, such as aggregated information
like the total number of times people engaged with a Tweet, the number
of people who clicked on a particular link or voted on a poll in a Tweet
(even if only one did), the topics that people are Tweeting about in a
particular location, or reports to advertisers about how many people saw
or clicked on their ads.

 

4

Managing Your Personal Information With Us
------------------------------------------

**You control the personal data you share with us. You can access or
rectify this data at any time. You can also deactivate your account. We
also provide you tools to object, restrict, or withdraw consent where
applicable for the use of data you have provided to Twitter. And we make
the data you shared through our services portable and provide easy ways
for you to contact us.**\

-   [Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data](#chapter4.1)
-   [Deletion](#chapter4.2)
-   [Object, Restrict, or Withdraw Consent](#chapter4.3)
-   [Portability](#chapter4.4)
-   [Additional Information or Assistance](#chapter4.5)

 

-   [Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data](#chapter4.1)
-   [Deletion](#chapter4.2)
-   [Object, Restrict, or Withdraw Consent](#chapter4.3)
-   [Portability](#chapter4.4)
-   [Additional Information or Assistance](#chapter4.5)

 

4.1

Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data
------------------------------------------

If you have registered an account on Twitter, we provide you with tools
and [account settings](https://twitter.com/settings/account) to access,
correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us and
associated with your account. You can download certain account
information, including your Tweets, by following the instructions
[here](https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive).
On Periscope, you can request correction, deletion, or modification of
your personal data, and download your account information, by following
the instructions
[here](https://help.pscp.tv/customer/portal/articles/2932270). You can
learn more about the interests we have inferred about you in [Your
Twitter Data](https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data) and
request access to additional information
[here](https://help.twitter.com/forms/privacy).

 

4.2

Deletion
--------

We keep Log Data for a maximum of 18 months. If you follow the
instructions
[here](https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-deactivate-twitter-account)
(or for Periscope
[here](https://help.pscp.tv/customer/portal/articles/2460220)), your
account will be deactivated and then deleted. When deactivated, your
Twitter account, including your display name, username, and public
profile, will no longer be viewable on Twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, and
Twitter for Android. For up to 30 days after deactivation it is still
possible to restore your Twitter account if it was accidentally or
wrongfully deactivated.

Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still
retain copies of your public information, like your profile information
and public Tweets, even after you have deleted the information from our
services or deactivated your account. Learn more
[here](https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/remove-twitter-profile-from-google-search).

 

4.3

Object, Restrict, or Withdraw Consent
-------------------------------------

When you are logged into your Twitter account, you can manage your
privacy settings and other account features
[here](https://twitter.com/settings/account) at any time.

 

4.4

Portability
-----------

Twitter provides you a means to download the information you have shared
through our services by following the steps
[here](https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive).
Periscope provides you a means to download the information you have
shared through our services by following the steps
[here](https://help.pscp.tv/customer/portal/articles/2932270).

 

4.5

Additional Information or Assistance
------------------------------------

Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by
contacting us [here](https://help.twitter.com/forms/privacy) or writing
to us at the appropriate address below.

If you live in the United States, the data controller responsible for
your personal data is Twitter, Inc. with an address of:

Twitter, Inc.\
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry\
1355 Market Street, Suite 900\
San Francisco, CA 94103

If you live outside the United States, the data controller is Twitter
International Company, with an address of:

Twitter International Company\
Attn: Data Protection Officer\
One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street\
Dublin 2, D02 AX07 IRELAND

If you are located in the European Union or EFTA States, you can
confidentially contact Twitter's Data Protection Officer
[here](https://twitter.ethicspointvp.com/custom/twitter/forms/data/form_data.asp).
If you wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and
without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right
to do so with your local supervisory authority or Twitter International
Company's lead supervisory authority, the Irish Data Protection
Commission. You can find their contact details
[here](https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Contact-us/b/11.htm).

 

5

Children and Our Services
-------------------------

 

Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our
services if you are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to
consent to the processing of your personal data in your country (in some
countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).
You must be at least 16 years of age to use Periscope.

 

6

Our Global Operations and Privacy Shield
----------------------------------------

 

To bring you our services, we operate globally. Where the laws of your
country allow you to do so, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use
your data in the United States, Ireland, and any other country where we
operate. In some of the countries to which we transfer personal data,
the privacy and data protection laws and rules regarding when government
authorities may access data may vary from those of your country. Learn
more about our global operations and data transfer
[here](https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/global-operations-and-data-transfer).

When we transfer personal data outside of the European Union or EFTA
States, we ensure an adequate level of protection for the rights of data
subjects based on the adequacy of the receiving country's data
protection laws, contractual obligations placed on the recipient of the
data (model clauses may be requested by inquiry as described below), or
EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles.

Twitter, Inc. complies with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield
principles (the "Principles") regarding the collection, use, sharing,
and retention of personal data from the European Union and Switzerland,
as described in our [EU-US Privacy Shield certification and Swiss-US
Privacy Shield
certification](https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO).

If you have a Privacy Shield-related complaint, please contact us
[here](https://help.twitter.com/forms/privacy). As part of our
participation in Privacy Shield, if you have a dispute with us about our
adherence to the Principles, we will seek to resolve it through our
internal complaint resolution process, alternatively through the
independent dispute resolution body
[JAMS](https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-privacy-shield), and under certain
conditions, through the [Privacy Shield arbitration
process](https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=G-Arbitration-Procedures).

Privacy Shield participants are subject to the investigatory and
enforcement powers of the US Federal Trade Commission and other
authorized statutory bodies. Under certain circumstances, participants
may be liable for the transfer of personal data from the EU or
Switzerland to third parties outside the EU and Switzerland. Learn more
about the EU-US Privacy Shield and Swiss-US Privacy Shield
[here](https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome).

 

7

Changes to This Privacy Policy
------------------------------

 

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current
version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal data
and will always be at <https://twitter.com/privacy>. If we make a change
to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify
you via an [\@Twitter](https://twitter.com/Twitter) update or email to
the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access
or use the Services after those changes become effective, [you
agree](#tooltip-chapter7.0.1) to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

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You\'re in control

Even as Twitter evolves, you can always change your privacy settings.
The power is yours to choose what you share in the world.

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Effective: May 25, 2018

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