FaceBook- Un-plugged
We felt it was important to provide you with some highlights from the Facebook privacy controversy that keep coming to our attention. In addition, see how you can help to prevent id theft for your friends and yourself by knowing what the settings are and what they do. We do not want to discourage you from using social networks since they are, well, social. We feel it is important for you to have a better appreciation of what is involved and what can happen. To help, we have provided a lot of info from the horse's mouth here from Facebook and various- abet- serious concerns by others. Quick Tip: Enable encryption to avoid new privacy glitch.
For more information on how to protect yourself better- see our Home page.
Facebook Comments- various sources of known information
June 22, 2011- FaceBook the social networking site has been making the facial recognition feature a default setting. Facebook has been rolling out a facial recognition feature that makes it easier to tag friends in snaps. You can change thsi setting or not, but we have since it is very intrusive.
March 27, 2010- 1. - Your questions and answers are not private. When you ask a question, initially only your Facebook friends can view and answer it. However, if one of your friends does answer it, your question becomes visible and available to all of his or her Facebook friends to answer, and so on. Likewise, everyone will be able to see the questions that you have participated in, so only ask and answer questions that you are comfortable sharing with everyone. Be sure to check your Facebook privacy settings: If you allow everyone to comment on your posts, your Questions will be available to everyone. In this case, responses to your questions will be filtered to show responses from your friends first. To change your settings, visit your Privacy Settings page > Customize settings > Posts by me.
2. - You cannot edit the text of questions or posts. Facebook does not let you edit the text of your questions or posts, but you can delete both. To delete your question, go to the question box and click the Delete button, located in the lower right of the box. To delete question options that people voted on, go to the question box and click the "Edit options" button, located in the lower right of the box. Then, delete individual options by clicking the X beside them. Note that deleting a question option will delete associated votes for that option. To delete a post you provided as an answer, go to the question box and find your post within the "Posts" section. The, click the X in the upper right of your post to remove it. To remove your vote from a poll, go to the question box and click the "Unvote" button, located in the lower right of the box. If you voted for multiple options, uncheck each of your votes to remove them.
3. - Right now, search engines will not index questions and answers. With sites such as Twitter, your actions--i.e. tweets--are indexed by search engines like Google, and are searchable by everyone (unless you have made your account private). Facebook says that "No, search engines cannot index Facebook Questions at this time." The key here is "at this time"--it appears that in the future, Facebook could allow search engines to index your questions and answers, so again, be careful with what you ask and answer.
4. - Facebook Pages can ask and answer questions. Facebook Pages will also be granted access to Questions. This means that when a Page asks a question, it will be shared with everyone who has "liked" the page. Similarly, Pages can answer questions. When they do so, their answers will also be shared with everyone who "likes" the page. Facebook cautions that it is easy for people to unlike Pages from the Questions stories that appear in their News Feeds, so Page administrators should proceed carefully when determining how often they ask questions and what they ask questions about.
October 6, 2010- Users and competitors such as Google have criticized the social-networking website for keeping its members' information largely inaccessible to the rest of the web. Facebook makes a good portion of its revenue by targeting ads to users based on information found in their profiles. Read more.. They thing they do not mention is that you can't take your info off or edit it and put it back. Hummm...
September 22, 2010- New Privacy controls minimized- Canadian Federal Privacy Commissioer, Mrs.J. Stoddart reiterated, however, that Facebook users also need to take responsibility. "The investigation has led to more privacy information and improved privacy tools," she said. "Facebook users should take advantage of those changes." Read more..
August 23, 2010- Now FaceBook will allow to to notify your friends using "Places" and "checking in" your exact location for dinner, a vacation, the movies, etc and tag friends that are with you. It is felt this could further assist intruders and the like to track your whereabouts, buying habits and other information. Revealing this kind of information in a social network setting is like candy to zealous marketers and id thieves. Facebook creates a story in your Friends' news feeds then posts a notice in the recent activity section in the location page for several hours.. Read more. We suggest minimizing the amount of identifiable that can help to pin point you personally, for your friends, family's and your sake. Your real friends will know.
May 6, 2010- Watch out Facebook users - Your chat conversations on the social media site may not be as secure as you think. According to CNBC, the Wall Street Journal reported today that there's been a glitch in the privacy system, potentially exposing users' private chats to other friends on the site. A spokesperson for the company said that for a limited period of time, a bug permitted some users’ chat messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends by manipulating the “preview my profile” feature of Facebook privacy settings.
Facebook told CNBC that the bug was in effect for a "limited amount of time," and that the company has disabled Facebook Chat for the time being as it works on the problem.
Update: Integration with BUZZ- Google's new service- A number of users expressed dismay over the service's loose handling of user privacy. It automatically makes the user's Gmail address book into a public Buzz contact list, a move that is of questionable value to users and subjects some to the risk of exposing sensitive information to the wrong people.
Publicly available information includes your name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks, Friend List, and Pages. You can always hide yourself from search results from your Privacy page. points Google recklessly abused information entrusted to it by users—their address books—to gain a competitive advantage in a market where it is entering late and facing off against popular competitors. This raises serious questions of trust. Google attempted to overcome its market disadvantage in competing with Twitter and Facebook by making a secondary use of your information. Google is increasingly targeted with criticism over its privacy practices.
April 12, 2010
"Months ago Facebook announced it would be revamping its privacy settings to give users more control over what good friends, mere acquaintances, and outright strangers can see on your profile page. Last week, Facebook finally rolled out those changes... and as with anything Facebook has even done with the site, people are now outraged.
The new controls are mandatory, and if you've logged into your account recently you'll have certainly seen the pop-ups telling you to check various privacy settings. The impetus is a sound one: The new settings have most of the same options as before, but now they are streamlined and simplified. Why is this confusing? Mainly because so many Facebook users have never touched the site's privacy settings at all and have just kept the defaults.
Even though the new privacy settings are simpler than the old ones, they're certainly more difficult than doing nothing at all. One of the most useful aspects of the new system is that posts can now be privacy-controlled on an individual basis. You can write an update that is visible to everyone or just to your friends, or anywhere in between. In other words, the whole world can see your links to a topical news story, while you can keep your tales of Chinatown revelries to only your close confidants. But the real anger is erupting over one key change in the philosophy of Facebook's privacy system: certain facts about yourself can no longer be made private at all, including your profile photo, name, location, and your pages list (which includes those items you're a "fan" of). Those are largely harmless, but the big issue for many is that your friends list is also now made public by default, so anyone can now see who's in your inner circle.
This actually got at least one writer in trouble when his friends list - which included many of his sources, some of whom he might have quoted anonymously in the past - was made public without his knowledge.
Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg found some of his private photos made public, likely not on purpose. After a couple of days, Facebook made it possible to hide your friends list (though you do this through a different mechanism than the privacy settings page), but the solution was ham-fisted at best. When you do this, it hides your friends list from everyone, even the friends on that list. The result: Millions of people have made their list of friends invisible, which in my mind runs counter to the whole idea of social networking."
F-Secure identifies that Facebook use can negatively impact employment potential
Mar. 19, 2010- WATCH OUT in your email in box!
FACEBOOK SPAM E-MAIL-The messages claim to be from Facebook, with a return address that looks legitimate. A message sent twice to a CNN.com staffer reads: Hey [user's name], Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed. You can find your new password in attached document. Thanks, The Facebook Team. McAfee security warned users in a blog post Wednesday that the link is a password stealer that becomes active when the user clicks on it. Once installed, malicious software, or malware, could potentially access all username and password information used on a computer, not just on Facebook, the post said. Reports suggest the scheme continued to spread on Friday. McAfee and Facebook urged users to not open the attachment and immediately delete the message, if up-to-date security software programs don't catch the message first. Facebook’s Privacy Policy.
The company, which aspires to make the world's data "universally accessible," is accused of retaining too much and over sharing without permission. The company lags its competitors in committing to shorter search retention times, and its log anonymization practices have also been criticized. The fiasco with Buzz heightens the risk that Google's do-no-evil image will continue to be tarnished by privacy fears. Google is clearly cognizant of that fact and has gone out of its way to be responsive to user feedback in the aftermath of the launch. It remains unclear, however, if Google will bend to the privacy groups and make Buzz an opt-in service.
How to Address the Privacy settings?
Log on> Account> Privacy. These are the categories you can alter to protect your privacy better.
"Profile Information Control" who can see your profile and who can post to your Wall. This is where it gets very personal and reduces your privacy greatly on the Internet to outside tracking.
"Contact Information Control" who can contact you on Facebook and see your contact information and email.
"Applications and Websites Control" what information is available to Facebook-enhanced applications and websites.
"Search Control" who can see your search result on Facebook and in search engines.
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Block List Control" who can interact with you on Facebook.
Some important things to remember:
You can change your settings at any time from your Privacy page and those changes will take effect immediately.
Information you choose to share with "Everyone" is available to million of people on the Internet.
When you visit a Facebook-enhanced application, it will be able to access your publicly available information, which includes Name, Profile Photo, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages. This information is considered visible to "Everyone".
Instant Messenger
Screen Name Only Friends
Mobile Phone Only Friends
Other Phone Only Friends
Current Address Only Friends
Website Friends
Hometown Only friends
Add me as a friend Friends of Friends
Control who can add you as a friend from search results and from your profile
Send me a message Everyone
Control who can send you a message from search results and from your profile
mehere@yahoo.com
Under Privacy uncheck
Do not use Remember Me when sighing on to Facebook because it will track you even after to log off Facebook, It will track your online purchases and can share this information with their advertisers and your Friends.
Beacon is used by Facebook to track your activities & shopping habits. To turn them off, go to Privacy tab on and Block Third Party External websites uncheck don't allow 3rd Party. After you log out on the Facebook clear your cache and delete browsing history under Tools with Preserve Favorite sites unchecked. Deactivate - delete all things on your page first - friends, pictures, opt out.
Settings
Facebook Search Results- Who can see your search result on Facebook Everyone Public Search Results This setting only allows search engines to access your publicly available information and any information you set to Everyone. This does not include anything you've shared with just your friends or friends of friends (see preview).
Privacy Settings Contact Information
Add me as a friend Control- who can add you as a friend from search results and from your profile
Privacy Announcement- We're making some changes to give you more control of your information and help you stay connected. We've simplified the Privacy page and added the ability to set privacy on everything you share, from status updates to photos. At the same time, we're helping everyone find and connect with each other by keeping some information—like your name and profile picture—publicly available. The next step will guide you through choosing your privacy settings. You can learn more about how privacy works here.
Date of last revision: December 9, 2009. Facebook
"We want to earn your trust by being transparent about how Facebook works. You should read this policy in its entirety, but should pay particular attention to these four highlights: Facebook is designed to make it easy for you to share your information with anyone you want. You decide how much information you feel comfortable sharing on Facebook and you control how it is distributed through your privacy settings. You should review the default privacy settings and change them if necessary to reflect your preferences. You should also consider your settings whenever you share information.
Facebook is not just a website. It is also a service for sharing your information on Facebook-enhanced applications and websites. You can control how you share information with those third-party applications and websites through your application settings and you can learn more about how information is shared with them on our About Platform page.
You can also limit how your friends share your information with applications through your privacy settings. Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available to everyone, including Facebook-enhanced applications, and therefore do not have privacy settings.
You can, however, limit the ability of others to find this information through search using your search privacy settings. Facebook is a free service supported primarily by advertising. We will not share your information with advertisers without your consent. We allow advertisers to select characteristics of users they want to show their advertisements to and we use the information we have collected to serve those advertisements.
This policy contains eight sections:
1. Introduction
2. Information We Receive
3. Information You Share With Third Parties
4. How We Use Your Information
5. How We Share Information
6. How You Can View, Change, or Remove Information
7. How We Protect Information
8. Other Terms
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Introduction Questions.
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, contact our privacy team through this help page. You may also contact us by mail at 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304. TRUSTe Program.
Facebook is a certified licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Seal Program. This means that our privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe, an independent organization focused on reviewing privacy and security policies and practices, for compliance with its strict program requirements. This privacy policy covers the website www.facebook.com. The TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected through this Web site, and does not cover other information, such as information that may be collected through software downloaded from Facebook. If you have any complaints about our policy or practices please let us know through this help page . If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact TRUSTe. Safe Harbor. Facebook also adheres to the Safe Harbor framework developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Union. As part of our participation in the Safe Harbor, we agree to resolve all disputes you have with us in connection with our policies and practices through TRUSTe.
To view our certification, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Safe Harbor Web site. Scope.
This privacy policy covers all of Facebook. It does not, however, apply to entities that Facebook does not own or control, such as Facebook-enhanced applications and websites. By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to our privacy practices outlined here.
No information from children under age 13. If you are under age 13, please do not attempt to register for Facebook or provide any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 13, please contact us through this help page. Parental participation. We strongly recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices. Materials to help parents talk to their children about safe internet use can be found on this help page.
2. Information We Receive Information you provide to us: Personal information. When you sign up for Facebook you provide us with your name, email, gender, and birth date. During the registration process we give you the opportunity to provide additional profile information, such as where you went to school and where you work, and to add a picture of yourself, to help your friends connect with you. In some cases we may ask for additional information for security reasons or to provide specific services to you. Once you register you can visit your profile at any time to add or remove personal information about yourself. You can add basic information about yourself, such as information about your hometown, family, relationships, and your political and religious views. You can also add other information about yourself including your activities, interests, contact information, as well as more information about your education and job history. Content.
One of the primary reasons people use Facebook is to share content with others. Examples include when you update your status, upload or take a photo, upload or record a video, share a link, create an event or a group, make a comment, write something on someone’s Wall, write a note, or send someone a message. If you do not want us to store metadata associated with content you share on Facebook (such as photos), please remove the metadata before uploading the content.
Transactional Information. We may retain the details of transactions or payments you make on Facebook. However, we will only keep your payment source account number with your consent.
Friend Information. We offer contact importer tools to help you upload your friends’ addresses so that you can find your friends on Facebook, and invite your contacts who do not have Facebook accounts to join. If you do not want us to store this information, visit this help page. If you give us your password to retrieve those contacts, we will not store your password after you have uploaded your contacts’ information.
Location Information. When you share your location with others or add a location to something you post, we treat that like any other content you post (for example, it is subject to your privacy settings). If we offer a service that supports this type of location sharing we will present you with an opt-in choice of whether you want to participate.
Information we collect when you interact with Facebook: Site activity information. We keep track of the actions you take on Facebook, such as adding a friend, becoming a fan of a Facebook Page, joining a group or an event, creating a photo album, sending a gift, poking another user, indicating you “like” a post, attending an event, or authorizing an application. In some cases you are also taking an action when you provide information or content to us. For example, if you share a video, in addition to storing the actual content you uploaded, we might log the fact you shared it.
Access Device and Browser Information. When you access Facebook from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages you visit.
Cookie Information. We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make Facebook easier to use, to make our advertising better, and to protect both you and Facebook. For example, we use them to store your login ID (but never your password) to make it easier for you to login whenever you come back to Facebook. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into Facebook, and to know when you are interacting with Facebook Platform applications and websites, our widgets and Share buttons, and our advertisements. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use Facebook.
Information we receive from third parties: Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect. We do not own or operate the applications that you use through Facebook Platform (such as games and utilities) or the websites that you interact with through Facebook Connect. We refer to them as “Facebook-enhanced” applications and websites because they use our Platform to provide you with social features. Whenever you authorize a Facebook-enhanced application or website, we will receive information from them, including information about actions you take. In some cases, in order to personalize the process of connecting, we may receive a limited amount of information even before you authorize the application or website.
Information from other websites. We may institute programs with advertising partners and other websites in which they share information with us: - We may ask advertisers to tell us how our users responded to the ads we showed them (and for comparison purposes, how other users who didn’t see the ads acted on their site). This data sharing, commonly known as “conversion tracking,” helps us measure our advertising effectiveness and improve the quality of the advertisements you see. - We may receive information about whether or not you’ve seen or interacted with certain ads on other sites in order to measure the effectiveness of those ads. If in any of these cases we receive data that we do not already have, we will “anonymize” it within 180 days, meaning we will stop associating the information with any particular user. If we institute these programs, we will only use the information in the ways we explain in the “How We Use Your Information” section below.
Information from other users. We may collect information about you from other Facebook users, such as when a friend tags you in a photo or video, provides friend details, or indicates a relationship with you. You can limit who can see that you have been tagged in a photo or video – which we refer to as photos or videos “of me” – in your privacy settings.
3. Information You Share With Third Parties. We take steps to ensure that others use information that you share on Facebook in a manner consistent with your privacy settings, but we cannot guarantee that they will follow our rules. Read the following section to learn more about how you can protect yourself when you share information with third parties.
Sharing information on Facebook. We designed our privacy settings to enable you to control how you share your information on Facebook. You should review the default privacy settings to make sure they reflect your preferences. Here are some specific things to remember: - You can control the visibility of most of the information you share on Facebook through the privacy settings you select. - Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available, and therefore do not have privacy settings.
You can limit the ability of others to find this information on third party search engines through your search privacy settings. - Some of the content you share and the actions you take will show up on your friends’ home pages and other pages they visit. - Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users.
You understand that information might be re-shared or copied by other users. - Certain types of communications that you send to other users cannot be removed, such as messages.
When you post information on another user’s profile or comment on another user’s post, that information will be subject to the other user’s privacy settings. - If you use an external source to publish information to Facebook (such as a mobile application or a Connect site), you should check the privacy setting for that post, as it is set by that external source.
“Everyone” Privacy Setting. Information set to “everyone” is publicly available information, may be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Facebook), is subject to indexing by third party search engines, may be associated with you outside of Facebook (such as when you visit other sites on the internet), and may be imported and exported by us and others without privacy limitations. The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” You can review and change the default settings in your privacy settings. If you delete “everyone” content that you posted on Facebook, we will remove it from your Facebook profile, but have no control over its use outside of Facebook.
Facebook Platform.
As mentioned above, we do not own or operate Facebook-enhanced applications or websites. That means that when you visit Facebook-enhanced applications and websites you are making your Facebook information available to someone other than Facebook. To help those applications and sites operate, they receive publicly available information automatically when you visit them, and additional information when you formally authorize or connect your Facebook account with them. You can learn more details about which information the operators of those applications and websites can access on our About Platform page. Prior to allowing them to access any information about you, we require them to agree to terms that limit their use of your information (which you can read about in Section 9 of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities) and we use technical measures to ensure that they only obtain authorized information. We also give you tools to control how your information is shared with them: - You can choose to opt-out of Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect altogether through your privacy settings - You can block specific applications from accessing your information by visiting your application settings or the application’s “About” page - You can use your privacy settings to limit which of your information is available to “everyone” (by default, every application and website, including those you have not connected with, can access “everyone” and other publicly available content) - You can use your application settings to limit which of your information your friends can make available to applications and websites - We may make information about the location of your computer or access device and your age available to Facebook –enhanced applications and websites in order to help them implement appropriate security measures and control the distribution of age-appropriate content. You should always review the policies of third party applications and websites to make sure you are comfortable with the ways in which they use information you share with them. We do not guarantee that they will follow our rules. If you find an application or website that violates our rules, you should report the violation to us on this help page and we will take action as necessary. Exporting Information. You (and those you make your information available to) may use tools like RSS feeds, mobile phone address books, or copy and paste functions, to capture and export information from Facebook, including your information and information about you. Advertisements. Sometimes the advertisers who present ads on Facebook use technological methods to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. You may opt-out of the placement of cookies by many of these advertisers here. You may also use your browser cookie settings to limit or prevent the placement of cookies by advertising networks. Links. When you click on links on Facebook you may leave our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, and we encourage you to read their privacy statements.
4. How We Use Your Information. We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and customized experience. Here are some of the details on how we do that: To manage the service. We use the information we collect to provide our services and features to you, to measure and improve those services and features, and to provide you with customer support. We use the information to prevent potentially illegal activities, and to enforce our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. For example, we ask for your date of birth to verify that you are over age 13 and so that we can better limit your access to content and advertisements that are not age appropriate. We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous activity and screen content to prevent abuse such as spam. These efforts may on occasion result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users. To contact you. We may contact you with service-related announcements from time to time. You may opt out of all communications except essential updates on your account notifications page. We may include content you see on Facebook in the emails we send to you. To serve personalized advertising to you. We don’t share your information with advertisers without your consent. (An example of consent would be if you asked us to provide your shipping address to an advertiser to receive a free sample.) We allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements and we may use any of the non-personally identifiable attributes we have collected (including information you may have decided not to show to other users, such as your birth year or other sensitive personal information or preferences) to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. For example, we might use your interest in soccer to show you ads for soccer equipment, but we do not tell the soccer equipment company who you are. You can see the criteria advertisers may select by visiting our advertising page. Even though we do not share your information with advertisers without your consent, when you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement there is a possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and note that it meets the criteria they selected. To serve social ads. We occasionally pair advertisements we serve with relevant information we have about you and your friends to make advertisements more interesting and more tailored to you and your friends. For example, if you become a fan of a Page, we may display your name and profile photo next to an advertisement for that Page that is displayed to your friends. We only share the personally identifiable information visible in the social ad with the friend who can see the ad. You can opt out of having your information used in social ads on this help page. To supplement your profile. We may use information about you that we collect from other Facebook users to supplement your profile (such as when you are tagged in a photo or mentioned in a status update). In such cases we generally allow you to direct how that information is shared in your privacy settings or give you the ability to remove the content (such as allowing you to remove a photo tag of you) or limit its visibility on Facebook. To make Suggestions. We use your profile information, the addresses you import through our contact importers, and other relevant information, to help you connect with your friends, including making suggestions to you and other users that you connect with on Facebook. If you want to limit your visibility in suggestions we make to other people, you can adjust your search visibility privacy setting, as you will only be visible in our suggestions to the extent you choose to be visible in public search listings. You may also block specific individual users from being suggested to you and you from being suggested to them. Downloadable Software. Certain downloadable software applications and applets that we offer, such as our browser toolbars and photo uploaders, transmit data to us. We may not make a formal disclosure if we believe our collection of and use of the information is the obvious purpose of the application, such as the fact that we receive photos when you use our photo uploader. If we believe it is not obvious that we are collecting or using such information, we will make a disclosure to you the first time you provide the information to us so that you can decide whether you want to use that feature. Memorializing Accounts. If we are notified that a user is deceased, we may memorialize the user’s account. In such cases we restrict profile access to confirmed friends, and allow friends and family to write on the user’s Wall in remembrance. We may close an account if we receive a formal request from the user’s next of kin or other proper legal request to do so.
5. How We Share Information Facebook is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your networks — while providing you with privacy settings that you can use to restrict other users from accessing your information. We share your information with third parties when we believe the sharing is permitted by you, reasonably necessary to offer our services, or when legally required to do so. For example: When you make a payment. When you enter into transactions with others or make payments on Facebook, we will only share transaction information with those third parties necessary to complete the transaction and will require those third parties to agree to respect the privacy of your information. When you invite a friend to join. When you ask us to invite a friend to join Facebook, we will send your friend a message on your behalf using your name. We may also send up to two reminders to them in your name. If your friend does not want us to keep their information, we will remove it at their request on this help page.
When you choose to share your information with marketers. You may choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers that are not associated with Facebook through on-site offers. This is entirely at your discretion and we will not provide your information to these marketers without your consent. To help your friends find you. By default, we make certain information you have posted to your profile available in search results on Facebook to help your friends find you. However, you can control who has access to this information, as well as who can find you in searches, through your privacy settings. We also partner with email and instant messaging providers to help their users identify which of their contacts are Facebook users, so that we can promote Facebook to those users. To give search engines access to publicly available information. We generally limit search engines’ access to our site. We may allow them to access information set to the “everyone” setting and your public search listing (but you can turn off your public search listing in your privacy settings). To help improve or promote our service. Sometimes we share aggregated information with third parties to help improve or promote our service. But we only do so in such a way that no individual user can be identified or linked to any specific action or information. To provide you with services. We may provide information to service providers that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use third parties to help host our website, send out email updates about Facebook, remove repetitive information from our user lists, process payments, or provide search results or links (including sponsored links). These service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to limit their use of that information to helping us provide the service. To advertise our services. We may ask advertisers outside of Facebook to display ads promoting our services. We may ask them to deliver those ads based on the presence of a cookie, but in doing so will not share any other information with the advertiser. To offer joint services. We may provide services jointly with other companies, such as the classifieds service in the Facebook Marketplace. If you use these services, we may share your information to facilitate that service. However, we will identify the partner and present the joint service provider’s privacy policy to you before you use that service. To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law. This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, apply to users from that jurisdiction, and are consistent with generally accepted international standards. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.
Facebook Beacon. We have announced a settlement of a lawsuit related to the Beacon product: the Beacon product will be discontinued and this language removed from the privacy policy upon approval of a settlement by the court.] Facebook Beacon is a means of sharing actions you have taken on third party sites, such as when you make a purchase or post a review, with your friends on Facebook. In order to provide you as a Facebook user with clear disclosure of the activity information being collected on third party sites and potentially shared with your friends on Facebook, we collect certain information from that site and present it to you after you have completed an action on that site. You have the choice to have us discard that information, or to share it with your friends.
To learn more about the operation of the service, we encourage you to read the tutorial here. To opt out of the service altogether, click here. Like many other websites that interact with third party sites, we may receive some information even if you are logged out from Facebook, or that pertains to non-Facebook users, from those sites in conjunction with the technical operation of the system. In cases where we receive information from Beacon sites on users that are not logged in, or on non-Facebook users, we do not attempt to associate it with individual Facebook accounts and will discard it. Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control. If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner so that the service can continue to operate. In such a case, your information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
6. How You Can View, Change, or Remove Information Viewing and editing your profile. You may change or delete your profile information at any time by going to your profile page and clicking “Edit My Profile.” Information will be updated immediately. While you cannot delete your date of birth, you can use the setting on the info tab of your profile information page to hide all or part of it from other users. Delete uploaded contacts. If you use our contact importer to upload addresses, you can later delete the list on this help page. Deactivating or deleting your account. If you want to stop using your account you may deactivate it or delete it. When you deactivate an account, no user will be able to see it, but it will not be deleted. We save your profile information (friends, photos, interests, etc.) in case you later decide to reactivate your account. Many users deactivate their accounts for temporary reasons and in doing so are asking us to maintain their information until they return to Facebook. You will still have the ability to reactivate your account and restore your profile in its entirety. When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted. You should only delete your account if you are certain you never want to reactivate it. You may deactivate your account on your account settings page or delete your account on this help page. Limitations on removal. Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users. However, your name will no longer be associated with that information on Facebook. (For example, if you post something to another user’s profile, and then you delete your account, that post may remain, but be attributed to an “Anonymous Facebook User.”)
Additionally, we may retain certain information to prevent identity theft and other misconduct even if deletion has been requested.
Backup copies. Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies for up to 90 days, but will not be available to others.
Non-user contact information. If a user provides your email address to us, and you are not a Facebook user but you want us to delete your address, you can do so on this help page. However, that request will only apply to addresses we have at the time of the request and not to any addresses that users provide to us later.
7. How We Protect Information. We do our best to keep your information secure, but we need your help. For more detailed information about staying safe on Facebook, visit the Facebook Security Page. Steps we take to keep your information secure. We keep your account information on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers and passwords), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also use automated and social measures to enhance security, such as analyzing account behavior for fraudulent or otherwise anomalous behavior, may limit use of site features in response to possible signs of abuse, may remove inappropriate content or links to illegal content, and may suspend or disable accounts for violations of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Risks inherent in sharing information. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you share your information. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your information. We cannot ensure that information you share on Facebook will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on Facebook. You can reduce these risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a strong password, using different passwords for different services, and using up to date antivirus software. Report Violations. You should report any security violations to us on this help page.
`8. Other Terms Changes. We may change this Privacy Policy pursuant to the procedures outlined in the Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by publication here and on the Facebook Site Governance Page. You can make sure that you receive notice directly by becoming a fan of the Facebook Site Governance Page.
Consent to Collection and Processing in the United States. By using Facebook, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States. Defined Terms. "Us," "we," "our," "Platform" and "Facebook" mean the same as they do in the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. “Information” and “content” are used more generally and interchangeably here than in the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities unless otherwise limited by the context. Helpful links for the latest on FaceBooks Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Facebook Site Governance. Page application settings privacy settings account notifications page help page for complaints about our privacy policies or practices help page to report use by a child under age 13 help page with info to help parents talk to children about safe internet use deleting an account reporting a deceased user reporting an impostor reporting abusive content reporting a compromised account requesting deletion of data for non-user removing Friend Finder contacts reporting and blocking third-party applications general explanation of third-party applications and how they access data
Did you get all that? Nothing is scared on Facebook- Govern yourself accordingly. More info on FaceBook privacy.
