Facebook, Inc., v. Grunin
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COMPLAINT against Martin Grunin ( Filing fee $ 400, receipt number 0971-8629250.). Filed byFacebook, Inc.,. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit, # 2 Civil Cover Sheet)(Jennison, Judith) (Filed on 5/20/2014)
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This agreement was written in English (US). To the extent any translated version of this agreement conflicts with the English version, the English version controls. Please note
that Section 16 contains certain changes to the general terms for users outside the United States.
Date of Last Revision: October 4, 2010.
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
This Statement of Rights and Responsibilities ("Statement") derives from the Facebook Principles, and governs our relationship with users and others who interact with
Facebook. By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement.
1. Privacy
Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Privacy Policy to make important disclosures about how you can use Facebook to share with others and how we
collect and can use your content and information. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy, and to use it to help make informed decisions.
2. Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your
privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post
on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with
others, and they have not deleted it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may
persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
3. When you use an application, your content and information is shared with the application. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement
with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and information. (To learn more about Platform, read our Privacy
Policy and About Platform page.)
4. When you publish content or information using the "everyone" setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and
use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
5. We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about Facebook, but you understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you
for them (just as you have no obligation to offer them).
3. Safety
We do our best to keep Facebook safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that, which includes the following commitments:
1. You will not send or otherwise post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on Facebook.
2. You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers)
without our permission.
3. You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on Facebook.
4. You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
6. You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.
7. You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
8. You will not develop or operate a third-party application containing alcohol-related or other mature content (including advertisements) without appropriate
age-based restrictions.
9. You will not offer any contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes ("promotion") on Facebook without our prior written consent. If we consent, you take full responsibility
for the promotion, and will follow our Promotions Guidelines and all applicable laws.
10. You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
11. You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working of Facebook, such as a denial of service attack.
12. You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement.
4. Registration and Account Security
Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to
registering and maintaining the security of your account:
1. You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
2. You will not create more than one personal profile.
3. If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
4. You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser).
5. You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.
6. You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.
7. You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
8. You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize
the security of your account.
9. You will not transfer your account (including any page or application you administer) to anyone without first getting our written permission.
10. If you select a username for your account we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains
about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name).
5. Protecting Other People's Rights
We respect other people's rights, and expect you to do the same.
1. You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.
2. We can remove any content or information you post on Facebook if we believe that it violates this Statement.
3. We will provide you with tools to help you protect your intellectual property rights. To learn more, visit our How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property
Infringement page.
4. If we remove your content for infringing someone else's copyright, and you believe we removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.
5. If you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, we will disable your account when appropriate.
6. You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Wall and 32665), or any confusingly similar
marks, without our written permission.
7. If you collect information from users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you (and not Facebook) are the one collecting their information, and post a
privacy policy explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.
8. You will not post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on Facebook.
9. You will not tag users or send email invitations to non-users without their consent.
6. Mobile
1. We currently provide our mobile services for free, but please be aware that your carrier's normal rates and fees, such as text messaging fees, will still apply.
2. In the event you change or deactivate your mobile telephone number, you will update your account information on Facebook within 48 hours to ensure that your
messages are not sent to the person who acquires your old number.
3. You provide all rights necessary to enable users to sync (including through an application) their contact lists with any basic information and contact information
that is visible to them on Facebook, as well as your name and profile picture.
7. Payments
If you make a payment on Facebook or use Facebook Credits, you agree to our Payments Terms.
8. Special Provisions Applicable to Share Links
If you include our Share Link button on your website, the following additional terms apply to you:
1. We give you permission to use Facebook's Share Link button so that users can post links or content from your website on Facebook.
2. You give us permission to use and allow others to use such links and content on Facebook.
3. You will not place a Share Link button on any page containing content that would violate this Statement if posted on Facebook.
9. Special Provisions Applicable to Developers/Operators of Applications and Websites
If you are a developer or operator of a Platform application or website, the following additional terms apply to you:
1. You are responsible for your application and its content and all uses you make of Platform. This includes ensuring your application or use of Platform meets our
Developer Principles and Policies and our Advertising Guidelines.
2. Your access to and use of data you receive from Facebook, will be limited as follows:
1. You will only request data you need to operate your application.
2. You will have a privacy policy that tells users what user data you are going to use and how you will use, display, share, or transfer that data and you will
include your privacy policy URL in the Developer Application.
3. You will not use, display, share, or transfer a user’s data in a manner inconsistent with your privacy policy.
4. You will delete all data you receive from us concerning a user if the user asks you to do so, and will provide a mechanism for users to make such a
request.
5. You will not include data you receive from us concerning a user in any advertising creative.
6. You will not directly or indirectly transfer any data you receive from us to (or use such data in connection with) any ad network, ad exchange, data
broker, or other advertising related toolset, even if a user consents to that transfer or use.
7. You will not sell user data. If you are acquired by or merge with a third party, you can continue to use user data within your application, but you cannot
transfer user data outside of your application.
8. We can require you to delete user data if you use it in a way that we determine is inconsistent with users’ expectations.
9. We can limit your access to data.
10. You will comply with all other restrictions contained in our Developer Principles and Policies.
3. You will not give us information that you independently collect from a user or a user's content without that user's consent.
4. You will make it easy for users to remove or disconnect from your application.
5. You will make it easy for users to contact you. We can also share your email address with users and others claiming that you have infringed or otherwise
violated their rights.
6. You will provide customer support for your application.
7. You will not show third party ads or web search boxes on Facebook.
8. We give you all rights necessary to use the code, APIs, data, and tools you receive from us.
9. You will not sell, transfer, or sublicense our code, APIs, or tools to anyone.
10. You will not misrepresent your relationship with Facebook to others.
11. You may use the logos we make available to developers or issue a press release or other public statement so long as you follow our Developer Principles and
Policies.
12. We can issue a press release describing our relationship with you.
13. You will comply with all applicable laws. In particular you will (if applicable):
1. have a policy for removing infringing content and terminating repeat infringers that complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
2. comply with the Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA"), and obtain any opt-in consent necessary from users so that user data subject to the VPPA may be
shared on Facebook. You represent that any disclosure to us will not be incidental to the ordinary course of your business.
14. We do not guarantee that Platform will always be free.
15. You give us all rights necessary to enable your application to work with Facebook, including the right to incorporate content and information you provide to us
into streams, profiles, and user action stories.
16. You give us the right to link to or frame your application, and place content, including ads, around your application.
17. We can analyze your application, content, and data for any purpose, including commercial (such as for targeting the delivery of advertisements and indexing
content for search).
18. To ensure your application is safe for users, we can audit it.
19. We can create applications that offer similar features and services to, or otherwise compete with, your application.
10. About Advertisements and Other Commercial Content Served or Enhanced by Facebook
Our goal is to deliver ads that are not only valuable to advertisers, but also valuable to you. In order to do that, you agree to the following:
1. You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name and profile picture may be associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a
brand you like) served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in connection with that content, subject to the limits you
place.
2. We do not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent.
3. You understand that we may not always identify paid services and communications as such.
11. Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers
You can target your specific audience by buying ads on Facebook or our publisher network. The following additional terms apply to you if you place an order through
our online advertising portal ("Order"):
1. When you place an Order, you will tell us the type of advertising you want to buy, the amount you want to spend, and your bid. If we accept your Order, we will
deliver your ads as inventory becomes available. When serving your ad, we do our best to deliver the ads to the audience you specify, although we cannot
guarantee in every instance that your ad will reach its intended target.
2. In instances where we believe doing so will enhance the effectiveness of your advertising campaign, we may broaden the targeting criteria you specify.
3. You will pay for your Orders in accordance with our Payments Terms. The amount you owe will be calculated based on our tracking mechanisms.
4. Your ads will comply with our Advertising Guidelines.
5. We will determine the size, placement, and positioning of your ads.
6. We do not guarantee the activity that your ads will receive, such as the number of clicks you will get.
7. We cannot control how people interact with your ads, and are not responsible for click fraud or other improper actions that affect the cost of running ads. We
do, however, have systems to detect and filter certain suspicious activity, learn more here.
8. You can cancel your Order at any time through our online portal, but it may take up to 24 hours before the ad stops running. You are responsible for paying for
those ads.
9. Our license to run your ad will end when we have completed your Order. You understand, however, that if users have interacted with your ad, your ad may
remain until the users delete it.
10. We can use your ads and related content and information for marketing or promotional purposes.
11. You will not issue any press release or make public statements about your relationship with Facebook without written permission.
12. We may reject or remove any ad for any reason.
If you are placing ads on someone else's behalf, we need to make sure you have permission to place those ads, including the following:
13. You warrant that you have the legal authority to bind the advertiser to this Statement.
14. You agree that if the advertiser you represent violates this Statement, we may hold you responsible for that violation.
12. Special Provisions Applicable to Pages
If you create or administer a Page on Facebook, you agree to our Pages Terms.
13. Amendments
1. We can change this Statement if we provide you notice (by posting the change on the Facebook Site Governance Page) and an opportunity to comment. To get
notice of any future changes to this Statement, visit our Facebook Site Governance Page and become a fan.
2. For changes to sections 7, 8, 9, and 11 (sections relating to payments, application developers, website operators, and advertisers), we will give you a minimum
of three days notice. For all other changes we will give you a minimum of seven days notice. All such comments must be made on the Facebook Site Governance
Page.
3. If more than 7,000 users comment on the proposed change, we will also give you the opportunity to participate in a vote in which you will be provided
alternatives. The vote shall be binding on us if more than 30% of all active registered users as of the date of the notice vote.
4. We can make changes for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate statement, upon notice without opportunity to comment.
14. Termination
If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create risk or possible legal exposure for us, we can stop providing all or part of Facebook to you. We
will notify you by email or at the next time you attempt to access your account. You may also delete your account or disable your application at any time. In all such
cases, this Statement shall terminate, but the following provisions will still apply: 2.2, 2.4, 3-5, 8.2, 9.1-9.3, 9.9, 9.10, 9.13, 9.15, 9.18, 10.3, 11.2, 11.5, 11.6, 11.9,
11.12, 11.13, and 14-18.
15. Disputes
1. You will resolve any claim, cause of action or dispute ("claim") you have with us arising out of or relating to this Statement or Facebook exclusively in a state or
federal court located in Santa Clara County. The laws of the State of California will govern this Statement, as well as any claim that might arise between you and
us, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located in Santa Clara County, California for the
purpose of litigating all such claims.
2. If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions, content or information on Facebook, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all
damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such claim.
3. WE TRY TO KEEP FACEBOOK UP, BUG-FREE, AND SAFE, BUT YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE PROVIDING FACEBOOK "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT FACEBOOK WILL BE SAFE OR SECURE. FACEBOOK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS, CONTENT,
INFORMATION, OR DATA OF THIRD PARTIES, AND YOU RELEASE US, OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM ANY CLAIMS AND DAMAGES,
KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY SUCH THIRD PARTIES. IF YOU ARE A
CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE §1542, WHICH SAYS: "A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR
DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED
HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR." WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS STATEMENT OR FACEBOOK, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THIS STATEMENT OR FACEBOOK WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100) OR THE
AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH CASES, FACEBOOK'S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO
THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
16. Special Provisions Applicable to Users Outside the United States
We strive to create a global community with consistent standards for everyone, but we also strive to respect local laws. The following provisions apply to users outside
the United States:
1. You consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
2. If you are located in a country embargoed by the United States, or are on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals you will not
engage in commercial activities on Facebook (such as advertising or payments) or operate a Platform application or website.
3. Certain specific terms that apply only for German users are available here.
17. Definitions
1. By "Facebook" we mean the features and services we make available, including through (a) our website at www.facebook.com and any other Facebook branded
or co-branded websites (including sub-domains, international versions, widgets, and mobile versions); (b) our Platform; (c) social plugins such as the like
button, the share button and other similar offerings and (d) other media, software (such as a toolbar), devices, or networks now existing or later developed.
2. By "Platform" we mean a set of APIs and services that enable others, including application developers and website operators, to retrieve data from Facebook or
provide data to us.
3. By "information" we mean facts and other information about you, including actions you take.
4. By "content" we mean anything you post on Facebook that would not be included in the definition of "information."
5. By "data" we mean content and information that third parties can retrieve from Facebook or provide to Facebook through Platform.
6. By "post" we mean post on Facebook or otherwise make available to us (such as by using an application).
7. By "use" we mean use, copy, publicly perform or display, distribute, modify, translate, and create derivative works of.
8. By "active registered user" we mean a user who has logged into Facebook at least once in the previous 30 days.
9. By "application" we mean any application or website that uses or accesses Platform, as well as anything else that receives or has received data from us. If you
no longer access Platform but have not deleted all data from us, the term application will apply until you delete the data.
18. Other
1. If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the US or Canada, this Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook, Inc. Otherwise,
this Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook Ireland Limited. References to “us,” “we,” and “our” mean either Facebook, Inc. or Facebook Ireland
Limited, as appropriate.
2. This Statement makes up the entire agreement between the parties regarding Facebook, and supersedes any prior agreements.
3. If any portion of this Statement is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect.
4. If we fail to enforce any of this Statement, it will not be considered a waiver.
5. Any amendment to or waiver of this Statement must be made in writing and signed by us.
6. You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Statement to anyone else without our consent.
7. All of our rights and obligations under this Statement are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of
law or otherwise.
8. Nothing in this Statement shall prevent us from complying with the law.
9. This Statement does not confer any third party beneficiary rights.
10. You will comply with all applicable laws when using or accessing Facebook.
You may also want to review the following documents:
Privacy Policy: The Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use information.
Payment Terms: These additional terms apply to all payments made on or through Facebook.
About Platform: This page helps you better understand what happens when you add a third-party application or use Facebook Connect, including how they may access and
use your data.
Developer Principles and Policies: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to applications, including Connect sites.
Advertising Guidelines: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to advertisements placed on Facebook.
Promotions Guidelines: These guidelines outline the policies that apply if you have obtained written pre-approval from us to offer contests, sweepstakes, and other types of
promotions on Facebook.
How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement
How to Appeal Claims of Copyright Infringement
Pages Terms
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This agreement was written in English (US). To the extent any translated version of this agreement
conflicts with the English version, the English version controls. Please note that Section 16 contains
certain changes to the general terms for users outside the United States.
Date of Last Revision: April 26, 2011.
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
This Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (Statement) derives from the Facebook Principles, and
governs our relationship with users and others who interact with Facebook. By using or accessing
Facebook, you agree to this Statement.
1. Privacy
Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Privacy Policy to make important
disclosures about how you can use Facebook to share with others and how we collect and can
use your content and information. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy, and to use it to
help make informed decisions.
2. Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is
shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP
content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and
application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable,
royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection
with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or
your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted
it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin
on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup
copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
3. When you use an application, your content and information is shared with the
application. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with
that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content
and information. (To learn more about Platform, read our Privacy Policy and Platform
Page.)
4. When you publish content or information using the everyone setting, it means that you
are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that
information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
5. We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about Facebook, but you
understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you for them
(just as you have no obligation to offer them).
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3. Safety
We do our best to keep Facebook safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that,
which includes the following commitments:
1. You will not send or otherwise post unauthorized commercial communications (such as
spam) on Facebook.
2. You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using
automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our
permission.
3. You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on
Facebook.
4. You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
6. You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.
7. You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence;
or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
8. You will not develop or operate a third-party application containing alcohol-related or
other mature content (including advertisements) without appropriate age-based
restrictions.
9. You will follow our Promotions Guidelines and all applicable laws if you publicize or
offer any contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes (“promotion”) on Facebook.
10. You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or
discriminatory.
11. You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working of
Facebook, such as a denial of service attack.
12. You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement.
4. Registration and Account Security
Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that
way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the
security of your account:
1. You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account
for anyone other than yourself without permission.
2. You will not create more than one personal profile.
3. If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
4. You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling
your status update to an advertiser).
5. You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.
6. You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.
7. You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
8. You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let
anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of
your account.
9. You will not transfer your account (including any page or application you administer) to
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anyone without first getting our written permission.
10. If you select a username for your account we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if
we believe appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username
that does not closely relate to a user's actual name).
5. Protecting Other People's Rights
We respect other people's rights, and expect you to do the same.
1. You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates
someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.
2. We can remove any content or information you post on Facebook if we believe that it
violates this Statement.
3. We will provide you with tools to help you protect your intellectual property rights. To
learn more, visit our How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement page.
4. If we remove your content for infringing someone else's copyright, and you believe we
removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.
5. If you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, we will disable your
account when appropriate.
6. You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F
Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Wall and 32665), or any confusingly similar marks, without our
written permission.
7. If you collect information from users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you
(and not Facebook) are the one collecting their information, and post a privacy policy
explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.
8. You will not post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on
Facebook.
9. You will not tag users or send email invitations to non-users without their consent.
6. Mobile
1. We currently provide our mobile services for free, but please be aware that your carrier's
normal rates and fees, such as text messaging fees, will still apply.
2. In the event you change or deactivate your mobile telephone number, you will update
your account information on Facebook within 48 hours to ensure that your messages are
not sent to the person who acquires your old number.
3. You provide all rights necessary to enable users to sync (including through an
application) their contact lists with any basic information and contact information that is
visible to them on Facebook, as well as your name and profile picture.
7. Payments and Deals
1. If you make a payment on Facebook or use Facebook Credits, you agree to our Payments
Terms.
2. If purchase a Deal, you agree to our Deals Terms.
3. If you provide a Deal or partner with us to provide a Deal, you agree to the Merchant
Deal Terms in addition to any other agreements you may have with us.
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8. Special Provisions Applicable to Share Links
If you include our Share Link button on your website, the following additional terms apply to
you:
1. We give you permission to use Facebook's Share Link button so that users can post links
or content from your website on Facebook.
2. You give us permission to use and allow others to use such links and content on
Facebook.
3. You will not place a Share Link button on any page containing content that would violate
this Statement if posted on Facebook.
9. Special Provisions Applicable to Developers/Operators of Applications and Websites
If you are a developer or operator of a Platform application or website, the following additional
terms apply to you:
1. You are responsible for your application and its content and all uses you make of
Platform. This includes ensuring your application or use of Platform meets our Facebook
Platform Policies and our Advertising Guidelines.
2. Your access to and use of data you receive from Facebook, will be limited as follows:
1. You will only request data you need to operate your application.
2. You will have a privacy policy that tells users what user data you are going to use
and how you will use, display, share, or transfer that data and you will include your
privacy policy URL in the Developer Application.
3. You will not use, display, share, or transfer a user’s data in a manner inconsistent
with your privacy policy.
4. You will delete all data you receive from us concerning a user if the user asks you
to do so, and will provide a mechanism for users to make such a request.
5. You will not include data you receive from us concerning a user in any advertising
creative.
6. You will not directly or indirectly transfer any data you receive from us to (or use
such data in connection with) any ad network, ad exchange, data broker, or other
advertising related toolset, even if a user consents to that transfer or use.
7. You will not sell user data. If you are acquired by or merge with a third party, you
can continue to use user data within your application, but you cannot transfer user
data outside of your application.
8. We can require you to delete user data if you use it in a way that we determine is
inconsistent with users’ expectations.
9. We can limit your access to data.
10. You will comply with all other restrictions contained in our Facebook Platform
Policies.
3. You will not give us information that you independently collect from a user or a user's
content without that user's consent.
4. You will make it easy for users to remove or disconnect from your application.
5. You will make it easy for users to contact you. We can also share your email address with
users and others claiming that you have infringed or otherwise violated their rights.
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6. You will provide customer support for your application.
7. You will not show third party ads or web search boxes on Facebook.
8. We give you all rights necessary to use the code, APIs, data, and tools you receive from
us.
9. You will not sell, transfer, or sublicense our code, APIs, or tools to anyone.
10. You will not misrepresent your relationship with Facebook to others.
11. You may use the logos we make available to developers or issue a press release or other
public statement so long as you follow our Facebook Platform Policies.
12. We can issue a press release describing our relationship with you.
13. You will comply with all applicable laws. In particular you will (if applicable):
1. have a policy for removing infringing content and terminating repeat infringers that
complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
2. comply with the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and obtain any opt-in
consent necessary from users so that user data subject to the VPPA may be shared
on Facebook. You represent that any disclosure to us will not be incidental to the
ordinary course of your business.
14. We do not guarantee that Platform will always be free.
15. You give us all rights necessary to enable your application to work with Facebook,
including the right to incorporate content and information you provide to us into streams,
profiles, and user action stories.
16. You give us the right to link to or frame your application, and place content, including
ads, around your application.
17. We can analyze your application, content, and data for any purpose, including
commercial (such as for targeting the delivery of advertisements and indexing content for
search).
18. To ensure your application is safe for users, we can audit it.
19. We can create applications that offer similar features and services to, or otherwise
compete with, your application.
10. About Advertisements and Other Commercial Content Served or Enhanced by Facebook
Our goal is to deliver ads that are not only valuable to advertisers, but also valuable to you. In
order to do that, you agree to the following:
1. You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name and profile picture may be
associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like)
served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in
connection with that content, subject to the limits you place.
2. We do not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent.
3. You understand that we may not always identify paid services and communications as
such.
11. Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers
You can target your specific audience by buying ads on Facebook or our publisher network. The
following additional terms apply to you if you place an order through our online advertising
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portal (Order):
1. When you place an Order, you will tell us the type of advertising you want to buy, the
amount you want to spend, and your bid. If we accept your Order, we will deliver your
ads as inventory becomes available. When serving your ad, we do our best to deliver the
ads to the audience you specify, although we cannot guarantee in every instance that your
ad will reach its intended target.
2. In instances where we believe doing so will enhance the effectiveness of your advertising
campaign, we may broaden the targeting criteria you specify.
3. You will pay for your Orders in accordance with our Payments Terms. The amount you
owe will be calculated based on our tracking mechanisms.
4. Your ads will comply with our Advertising Guidelines.
5. We will determine the size, placement, and positioning of your ads.
6. We do not guarantee the activity that your ads will receive, such as the number of clicks
you will get.
7. We cannot control how people interact with your ads, and are not responsible for click
fraud or other improper actions that affect the cost of running ads. We do, however, have
systems to detect and filter certain suspicious activity, learn more here.
8. You can cancel your Order at any time through our online portal, but it may take up to 24
hours before the ad stops running. You are responsible for paying for those ads.
9. Our license to run your ad will end when we have completed your Order. You understand,
however, that if users have interacted with your ad, your ad may remain until the users
delete it.
10. We can use your ads and related content and information for marketing or promotional
purposes.
11. You will not issue any press release or make public statements about your relationship
with Facebook without written permission.
12. We may reject or remove any ad for any reason.
13. If you are placing ads on someone else's behalf, we need to make sure you have
permission to place those ads, including the following:
1. You warrant that you have the legal authority to bind the advertiser to this
Statement.
2. You agree that if the advertiser you represent violates this Statement, we may hold
you responsible for that violation.
12. Special Provisions Applicable to Pages
If you create or administer a Page on Facebook, you agree to our Pages Terms.
13. Amendments
1. We can change this Statement if we provide you notice (by posting the change on the
Facebook Site Governance Page) and an opportunity to comment. To get notice of any
future changes to this Statement, visit our Facebook Site Governance Page and become a
fan.
2. For changes to sections 7, 8, 9, and 11 (sections relating to payments, application
developers, website operators, and advertisers), we will give you a minimum of three
days notice. For all other changes we will give you a minimum of seven days notice. All
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such comments must be made on the Facebook Site Governance Page.
3. If more than 7,000 users comment on the proposed change, we will also give you the
opportunity to participate in a vote in which you will be provided alternatives. The vote
shall be binding on us if more than 30% of all active registered users as of the date of the
notice vote.
4. We can make changes for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate
statement, upon notice without opportunity to comment.
14. Termination
If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create risk or possible legal
exposure for us, we can stop providing all or part of Facebook to you. We will notify you by
email or at the next time you attempt to access your account. You may also delete your account
or disable your application at any time. In all such cases, this Statement shall terminate, but the
following provisions will still apply: 2.2, 2.4, 3-5, 8.2, 9.1-9.3, 9.9, 9.10, 9.13, 9.15, 9.18, 10.3,
11.2, 11.5, 11.6, 11.9, 11.12, 11.13, and 14-18.
15. Disputes
1. You will resolve any claim, cause of action or dispute (claim) you have with us arising
out of or relating to this Statement or Facebook exclusively in a state or federal court
located in Santa Clara County. The laws of the State of California will govern this
Statement, as well as any claim that might arise between you and us, without regard to
conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts
located in Santa Clara County, California for the purpose of litigating all such claims.
2. If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions, content or information on
Facebook, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all damages, losses,
and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such
claim.
3. WE TRY TO KEEP FACEBOOK UP, BUG-FREE, AND SAFE, BUT YOU USE IT AT
YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE PROVIDING FACEBOOK AS IS WITHOUT ANY
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT
FACEBOOK WILL BE SAFE OR SECURE. FACEBOOK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE ACTIONS, CONTENT, INFORMATION, OR DATA OF THIRD PARTIES,
AND YOU RELEASE US, OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND
AGENTS FROM ANY CLAIMS AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN,
ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY CLAIM YOU
HAVE AGAINST ANY SUCH THIRD PARTIES. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA
RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE §1542, WHICH SAYS: A
GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR
DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF
EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE
MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR. WE WILL
NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR OTHER
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CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS STATEMENT OR FACEBOOK, EVEN
IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR
AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THIS STATEMENT OR FACEBOOK
WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100) OR
THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS.
APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF
LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE
LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH CASES,
FACEBOOK'S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
16. Special Provisions Applicable to Users Outside the United States
We strive to create a global community with consistent standards for everyone, but we also
strive to respect local laws. The following provisions apply to users outside the United States:
1. You consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United
States.
2. If you are located in a country embargoed by the United States, or are on the U.S.
Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals you will not engage in
commercial activities on Facebook (such as advertising or payments) or operate a
Platform application or website.
3. Certain specific terms that apply only for German users are available here.
17. Definitions
1. By Facebook we mean the features and services we make available, including through (a)
our website at www.facebook.com and any other Facebook branded or co-branded
websites (including sub-domains, international versions, widgets, and mobile versions);
(b) our Platform; (c) social plugins such as the like button, the share button and other
similar offerings and (d) other media, software (such as a toolbar), devices, or networks
now existing or later developed.
2. By Platform we mean a set of APIs and services that enable others, including application
developers and website operators, to retrieve data from Facebook or provide data to us.
3. By information we mean facts and other information about you, including actions you
take.
4. By content we mean anything you post on Facebook that would not be included in the
definition of information.
5. By data we mean content and information that third parties can retrieve from Facebook or
provide to Facebook through Platform.
6. By post we mean post on Facebook or otherwise make available to us (such as by using
an application).
7. By use we mean use, copy, publicly perform or display, distribute, modify, translate, and
create derivative works of.
8. By active registered user we mean a user who has logged into Facebook at least once in
the previous 30 days.
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9. By application we mean any application or website that uses or accesses Platform, as well
as anything else that receives or has received data from us. If you no longer access
Platform but have not deleted all data from us, the term application will apply until you
delete the data.
18. Other
1. If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the US or Canada, this
Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook, Inc. Otherwise, this Statement is
an agreement between you and Facebook Ireland Limited. References to “us,” “we,” and
“our” mean either Facebook, Inc. or Facebook Ireland Limited, as appropriate.
2. This Statement makes up the entire agreement between the parties regarding Facebook,
and supersedes any prior agreements.
3. If any portion of this Statement is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will
remain in full force and effect.
4. If we fail to enforce any of this Statement, it will not be considered a waiver.
5. Any amendment to or waiver of this Statement must be made in writing and signed by us.
6. You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Statement to anyone else
without our consent.
7. All of our rights and obligations under this Statement are freely assignable by us in
connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or
otherwise.
8. Nothing in this Statement shall prevent us from complying with the law.
9. This Statement does not confer any third party beneficiary rights.
10. You will comply with all applicable laws when using or accessing Facebook.
You may also want to review the following documents:
Privacy Policy: The Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use
information.
Payment Terms: These additional terms apply to all payments made on or through Facebook.
Platform Page: This page helps you better understand what happens when you add a third-party
application or use Facebook Connect, including how they may access and use your data.
Facebook Platform Policies: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to applications,
including Connect sites.
Advertising Guidelines: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to advertisements
placed on Facebook.
Promotions Guidelines: These guidelines outline the policies that apply if you have obtained
written pre-approval from us to offer contests, sweepstakes, and other types of promotions on
Facebook.
How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement
How to Appeal Claims of Copyright Infringement
Pages Terms
To access the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities in several different languages,
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change the language setting for your Facebook session by clicking on the language link in
the left corner of most pages. If the Statement is not available in the language you select,
we will default to the English version.
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This agreement was written in English (US). To the extent any translated version of this agreement
conflicts with the English version, the English version controls. Please note that Section 17 contains
certain changes to the general terms for users outside the United States.
Date of Last Revision: June 8, 2012.
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
This Statement of Rights and Responsibilities ("Statement," "Terms," or "SRR") derives from the
Facebook Principles, and is our terms of service that governs our relationship with users and others
who interact with Facebook. By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement, as updated
from time to time in accordance with Section 14 below. Additionally, you will find resources at the
end of this document that help you understand how Facebook works.
1. Privacy
Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Data Use Policy to make important
disclosures about how you can use Facebook to share with others and how we collect and can
use your content and information. We encourage you to read the Data Use Policy, and to use it
to help you make informed decisions.
2. Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is
shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP
content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and
application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable,
royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection
with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or
your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted
it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin
on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup
copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
3. When you use an application, the application may ask for your permission to access your
content and information as well as content and information that others have shared with
you. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that
application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and
information. (To learn more about Platform, including how you can control what
information other people may share with applications, read our Data Use Policy and
Platform Page.)
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4. When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are
allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information,
and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
5. We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about Facebook, but you
understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you for them
(just as you have no obligation to offer them).
3. Safety
We do our best to keep Facebook safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to keep
Facebook safe, which includes the following commitments by you:
1. You will not post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on Facebook.
2. You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using
automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our prior
permission.
3. You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on
Facebook.
4. You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
6. You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.
7. You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites
violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
8. You will not develop or operate a third-party application containing alcohol-related,
dating or other mature content (including advertisements) without appropriate age-based
restrictions.
9. You will follow our Promotions Guidelines and all applicable laws if you publicize or
offer any contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes (“promotion”) on Facebook.
10. You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or
discriminatory.
11. You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working or
appearance of Facebook, such as a denial of service attack or interference with page
rendering or other Facebook functionality.
12. You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement or our policies.
4. Registration and Account Security
Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that
way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the
security of your account:
1. You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account
for anyone other than yourself without permission.
2. You will not create more than one personal account.
3. If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
4. You will not use your personal timeline for your own commercial gain (such as selling
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your status update to an advertiser).
You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.
You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.
You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let
anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of
your account.
9. You will not transfer your account (including any Page or application you administer) to
anyone without first getting our written permission.
10. If you select a username or similar identifier for your account or Page, we reserve the
right to remove or reclaim it if we believe it is appropriate (such as when a trademark
owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name).
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5. Protecting Other People's Rights
We respect other people's rights, and expect you to do the same.
1. You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates
someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.
2. We can remove any content or information you post on Facebook if we believe that it
violates this Statement or our policies.
3. We provide you with tools to help you protect your intellectual property rights. To learn
more, visit our How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement page.
4. If we remove your content for infringing someone else's copyright, and you believe we
removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.
5. If you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, we will disable your
account when appropriate.
6. You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F
Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Book and Wall), or any confusingly similar marks, except as
expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written permission.
7. If you collect information from users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you
(and not Facebook) are the one collecting their information, and post a privacy policy
explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.
8. You will not post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on
Facebook.
9. You will not tag users or send email invitations to non-users without their consent.
Facebook offers social reporting tools to enable users to provide feedback about tagging.
6. Mobile and Other Devices
1. We currently provide our mobile services for free, but please be aware that your carrier's
normal rates and fees, such as text messaging fees, will still apply.
2. In the event you change or deactivate your mobile telephone number, you will update
your account information on Facebook within 48 hours to ensure that your messages are
not sent to the person who acquires your old number.
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3. You provide consent and all rights necessary to enable users to sync (including through
an application) their devices with any information that is visible to them on Facebook.
7. Payments
If you make a payment on Facebook or use Facebook Credits, you agree to our Payments
Terms.
8. Special Provisions Applicable to Social Plugins
If you include our Social Plugins, such as the Share or Like buttons on your website, the
following additional terms apply to you:
1. We give you permission to use Facebook's Social Plugins so that users can post links or
content from your website on Facebook.
2. You give us permission to use and allow others to use such links and content on
Facebook.
3. You will not place a Social Plugin on any page containing content that would violate this
Statement if posted on Facebook.
9. Special Provisions Applicable to Developers/Operators of Applications and Websites
If you are a developer or operator of a Platform application or website, the following additional
terms apply to you:
1. You are responsible for your application and its content and all uses you make of
Platform. This includes ensuring your application or use of Platform meets our Facebook
Platform Policies and our Advertising Guidelines.
2. Your access to and use of data you receive from Facebook, will be limited as follows:
1. You will only request data you need to operate your application.
2. You will have a privacy policy that tells users what user data you are going to use
and how you will use, display, share, or transfer that data and you will include your
privacy policy URL in the Developer Application.
3. You will not use, display, share, or transfer a user’s data in a manner inconsistent
with your privacy policy.
4. You will delete all data you receive from us concerning a user if the user asks you
to do so, and will provide a mechanism for users to make such a request.
5. You will not include data you receive from us concerning a user in any advertising
creative.
6. You will not directly or indirectly transfer any data you receive from us to (or use
such data in connection with) any ad network, ad exchange, data broker, or other
advertising related toolset, even if a user consents to that transfer or use.
7. You will not sell user data. If you are acquired by or merge with a third party, you
can continue to use user data within your application, but you cannot transfer user
data outside of your application.
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8. We can require you to delete user data if you use it in a way that we determine is
inconsistent with users’ expectations.
9. We can limit your access to data.
10. You will comply with all other restrictions contained in our Facebook Platform
Policies.
You will not give us information that you independently collect from a user or a user's
content without that user's consent.
You will make it easy for users to remove or disconnect from your application.
You will make it easy for users to contact you. We can also share your email address with
users and others claiming that you have infringed or otherwise violated their rights.
You will provide customer support for your application.
You will not show third party ads or web search boxes on www.facebook.com.
We give you all rights necessary to use the code, APIs, data, and tools you receive from
us.
You will not sell, transfer, or sublicense our code, APIs, or tools to anyone.
You will not misrepresent your relationship with Facebook to others.
You may use the logos we make available to developers or issue a press release or other
public statement so long as you follow our Facebook Platform Policies.
We can issue a press release describing our relationship with you.
You will comply with all applicable laws. In particular you will (if applicable):
1. have a policy for removing infringing content and terminating repeat infringers that
complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
2. comply with the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and obtain any opt-in
consent necessary from users so that user data subject to the VPPA may be shared
on Facebook. You represent that any disclosure to us will not be incidental to the
ordinary course of your business.
We do not guarantee that Platform will always be free.
You give us all rights necessary to enable your application to work with Facebook,
including the right to incorporate content and information you provide to us into streams,
timelines, and user action stories.
You give us the right to link to or frame your application, and place content, including
ads, around your application.
We can analyze your application, content, and data for any purpose, including
commercial (such as for targeting the delivery of advertisements and indexing content for
search).
To ensure your application is safe for users, we can audit it.
We can create applications that offer similar features and services to, or otherwise
compete with, your application.
10. About Advertisements and Other Commercial Content Served or Enhanced by Facebook
Our goal is to deliver ads and commercial content that are valuable to our users and advertisers.
In order to help us do that, you agree to the following:
1. You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name and profile picture may be
associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like)
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served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in
connection with that content, subject to the limits you place.
2. We do not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent.
3. You understand that we may not always identify paid services and communications as
such.
11. Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers
You can target your desired audience by buying ads on Facebook or our publisher network. The
following additional terms apply to you if you place an order through our online advertising
portal (Order):
1. When you place an Order, you will tell us the type of advertising you want to buy, the
amount you want to spend, and your bid. If we accept your Order, we will deliver your
ads as inventory becomes available. When serving your ad, we do our best to deliver the
ads to the audience you specify, although we cannot guarantee in every instance that your
ad will reach its intended target.
2. In instances where we believe doing so will enhance the effectiveness of your advertising
campaign, we may broaden the targeting criteria you specify.
3. You will pay for your Orders in accordance with our Payments Terms. The amount you
owe will be calculated based on our tracking mechanisms.
4. Your ads will comply with our Advertising Guidelines.
5. We will determine the size, placement, and positioning of your ads.
6. We do not guarantee the activity that your ads will receive, such as the number of clicks
your ads will get.
7. We cannot control how clicks are generated on your ads. We have systems that attempt to
detect and filter certain click activity, but we are not responsible for click fraud,
technological issues, or other potentially invalid click activity that may affect the cost of
running ads.
8. You can cancel your Order at any time through our online portal, but it may take up to 24
hours before the ad stops running. You are responsible for paying for all ads that run.
9. Our license to run your ad will end when we have completed your Order. You understand,
however, that if users have interacted with your ad, your ad may remain until the users
delete it.
10. We can use your ads and related content and information for marketing or promotional
purposes.
11. You will not issue any press release or make public statements about your relationship
with Facebook without our prior written permission.
12. We may reject or remove any ad for any reason.
13. If you are placing ads on someone else's behalf, you must have permission to place those
ads, including the following:
1. You warrant that you have the legal authority to bind the advertiser to this
Statement.
2. You agree that if the advertiser you represent violates this Statement, we may hold
you responsible for that violation.
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12. Special Provisions Applicable to Pages
If you create or administer a Page on Facebook, you agree to our Pages Terms.
13. Special Provisions Applicable to Software
1. If you download our software, such as a stand-alone software product or a browser
plugin, you agree that from time to time, the software may download upgrades, updates
and additional features from us in order to improve, enhance and further develop the
software.
2. You will not modify, create derivative works of, decompile or otherwise attempt to
extract source code from us, unless you are expressly permitted to do so under an open
source license or we give you express written permission.
14. Amendments
1. We can change this Statement if we provide you notice (by posting the change on the
Facebook Site Governance Page) and an opportunity to comment. To get notice of any
future changes to this Statement, visit our Facebook Site Governance Page and "like" the
Page.
2. For changes to sections 7, 8, 9, and 11 (sections relating to payments, application
developers, website operators, and advertisers), we will give you a minimum of three
days notice. For all other changes we will give you a minimum of seven days notice.
Comments to proposed changes will be made on the Facebook Site Governance Page.
3. If more than 7,000 users post a substantive comment on a particular proposed change, we
will also give you the opportunity to participate in a vote in which you will be provided
alternatives. The vote shall be binding on us if more than 30% of all active registered
users as of the date of the notice vote.
4. If we make changes to policies referenced in or incorporated by this Statement, we may
provide notice on the Site Governance Page.
5. We can make changes for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate
statement, upon notice without opportunity to comment.
6. Your continued use of Facebook following changes to our terms constitutes your
acceptance of our amended terms.
15. Termination
If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create risk or possible legal
exposure for us, we can stop providing all or part of Facebook to you. We will notify you by
email or at the next time you attempt to access your account. You may also delete your account
or disable your application at any time. In all such cases, this Statement shall terminate, but the
following provisions will still apply: 2.2, 2.4, 3-5, 8.2, 9.1-9.3, 9.9, 9.10, 9.13, 9.15, 9.18, 10.3,
11.2, 11.5, 11.6, 11.9, 11.12, 11.13, and 15-19.
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16. Disputes
1. You will resolve any claim, cause of action or dispute (claim) you have with us arising
out of or relating to this Statement or Facebook exclusively in a state or federal court
located in Santa Clara County. The laws of the State of California will govern this
Statement, as well as any claim that might arise between you and us, without regard to
conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts
located in Santa Clara County, California for the purpose of litigating all such claims.
2. If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions, content or information on
Facebook, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all damages, losses,
and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such
claim. Although we provide rules for user conduct, we do not control or direct users'
actions on Facebook and are not responsible for the content or information users transmit
or share on Facebook. We are not responsible for any offensive, inappropriate, obscene,
unlawful or otherwise objectionable content or information you may encounter on
Facebook. We are not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, or any user
of Facebook.
3. WE TRY TO KEEP FACEBOOK UP, BUG-FREE, AND SAFE, BUT YOU USE IT AT
YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE PROVIDING FACEBOOK AS IS WITHOUT ANY
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT
FACEBOOK WILL ALWAYS BE SAFE, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE OR THAT
FACEBOOK WILL ALWAYS FUNCTION WITHOUT DISRUPTIONS, DELAYS OR
IMPERFECTIONS. FACEBOOK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS,
CONTENT, INFORMATION, OR DATA OF THIRD PARTIES, AND YOU RELEASE
US, OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM ANY
CLAIMS AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY SUCH
THIRD PARTIES. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE
CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE §1542, WHICH SAYS: A GENERAL RELEASE DOES
NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR
SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE
RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED
HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU
FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT,
OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
STATEMENT OR FACEBOOK, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING
OUT OF THIS STATEMENT OR FACEBOOK WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER
OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN
THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE
LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION
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MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH CASES, FACEBOOK'S LIABILITY WILL BE
LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
17. Special Provisions Applicable to Users Outside the United States
We strive to create a global community with consistent standards for everyone, but we also
strive to respect local laws. The following provisions apply to users and non-users who interact
with Facebook outside the United States:
1. You consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United
States.
2. If you are located in a country embargoed by the United States, or are on the U.S.
Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals you will not engage in
commercial activities on Facebook (such as advertising or payments) or operate a
Platform application or website.
3. Certain specific terms that apply only for German users are available here.
18. Definitions
1. By "Facebook" we mean the features and services we make available, including through
(a) our website at www.facebook.com and any other Facebook branded or co-branded
websites (including sub-domains, international versions, widgets, and mobile versions);
(b) our Platform; (c) social plugins such as the Like button, the Share button and other
similar offerings and (d) other media, software (such as a toolbar), devices, or networks
now existing or later developed.
2. By "Platform" we mean a set of APIs and services (such as content) that enable others,
including application developers and website operators, to retrieve data from Facebook or
provide data to us.
3. By "information" we mean facts and other information about you, including actions taken
by users and non-users who interact with Facebook.
4. By "content" we mean anything you or other users post on Facebook that would not be
included in the definition of information.
5. By "data" or "user data" or "user's data" we mean any data, including a user's content or
information that you or third parties can retrieve from Facebook or provide to Facebook
through Platform.
6. By "post" we mean post on Facebook or otherwise make available by using Facebook.
7. By "use" we mean use, copy, publicly perform or display, distribute, modify, translate,
and create derivative works of.
8. By "active registered user" we mean a user who has logged into Facebook at least once in
the previous 30 days.
9. By "application" we mean any application or website that uses or accesses Platform, as
well as anything else that receives or has received data from us. If you no longer access
Platform but have not deleted all data from us, the term application will apply until you
delete the data.
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19. Other
1. If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the US or Canada, this
Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook, Inc. Otherwise, this Statement is
an agreement between you and Facebook Ireland Limited. References to “us,” “we,” and
“our” mean either Facebook, Inc. or Facebook Ireland Limited, as appropriate.
2. This Statement makes up the entire agreement between the parties regarding Facebook,
and supersedes any prior agreements.
3. If any portion of this Statement is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will
remain in full force and effect.
4. If we fail to enforce any of this Statement, it will not be considered a waiver.
5. Any amendment to or waiver of this Statement must be made in writing and signed by us.
6. You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Statement to anyone else
without our consent.
7. All of our rights and obligations under this Statement are freely assignable by us in
connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or
otherwise.
8. Nothing in this Statement shall prevent us from complying with the law.
9. This Statement does not confer any third party beneficiary rights.
10. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
11. You will comply with all applicable laws when using or accessing Facebook.
You may also want to review the following documents, which provide additional information
about your use of Facebook:
Data Use Policy: The Data Use Policy contains information to help you understand how we
collect and use information.
Payment Terms: These additional terms apply to all payments made on or through Facebook.
Platform Page: This page helps you better understand what happens when you add a third-party
application or use Facebook Connect, including how they may access and use your data.
Facebook Platform Policies: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to applications,
including Connect sites.
Advertising Guidelines: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to advertisements
placed on Facebook.
Promotions Guidelines: These guidelines outline the policies that apply if you offer contests,
sweepstakes, and other types of promotions on Facebook.
Brand Permissions Center: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to use of Facebook
trademarks, logos and screenshots.
How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement
Pages Terms: These guidelines apply to your use of Facebook Pages.
Community Standards: These guidelines outline our expectations regarding the content you post
to Facebook and your activity on Facebook.
To access the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities in several different languages, change the
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language setting for your Facebook session by clicking on the language link in the left corner of most
pages. If the Statement is not available in the language you select, we will default to the English
version.
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This agreement was written in English (US). To the extent any translated version of this agreement
conflicts with the English version, the English version controls. Please note that Section 17 contains
certain changes to the general terms for users outside the United States.
Date of Last Revision: December 11, 2012.
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
This Statement of Rights and Responsibilities ("Statement," "Terms," or "SRR") derives from the
Facebook Principles, and is our terms of service that governs our relationship with users and others
who interact with Facebook. By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement, as updated
from time to time in accordance with Section 14 below. Additionally, you will find resources at the
end of this document that help you understand how Facebook works.
1. Privacy
Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Data Use Policy to make important
disclosures about how you can use Facebook to share with others and how we collect and can
use your content and information. We encourage you to read the Data Use Policy, and to use it
to help you make informed decisions.
2. Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is
shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP
content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and
application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable,
royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection
with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or
your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted
it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin
on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup
copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
3. When you use an application, the application may ask for your permission to access your
content and information as well as content and information that others have shared with
you. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that
application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and
information. (To learn more about Platform, including how you can control what
information other people may share with applications, read our Data Use Policy and
Platform Page.)
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4. When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are
allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information,
and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
5. We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about Facebook, but you
understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you for them
(just as you have no obligation to offer them).
3. Safety
We do our best to keep Facebook safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to keep
Facebook safe, which includes the following commitments by you:
1. You will not post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on Facebook.
2. You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using
automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our prior
permission.
3. You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on
Facebook.
4. You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
6. You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.
7. You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites
violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
8. You will not develop or operate a third-party application containing alcohol-related,
dating or other mature content (including advertisements) without appropriate age-based
restrictions.
9. You will follow our Promotions Guidelines and all applicable laws if you publicize or
offer any contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes (“promotion”) on Facebook.
10. You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or
discriminatory.
11. You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working or
appearance of Facebook, such as a denial of service attack or interference with page
rendering or other Facebook functionality.
12. You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement or our policies.
4. Registration and Account Security
Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that
way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the
security of your account:
1. You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account
for anyone other than yourself without permission.
2. You will not create more than one personal account.
3. If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
4. You will not use your personal timeline primarily for your own commercial gain, and will
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use a Facebook Page for such purposes.
You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.
You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.
You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let
anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of
your account.
9. You will not transfer your account (including any Page or application you administer) to
anyone without first getting our written permission.
10. If you select a username or similar identifier for your account or Page, we reserve the
right to remove or reclaim it if we believe it is appropriate (such as when a trademark
owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name).
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5. Protecting Other People's Rights
We respect other people's rights, and expect you to do the same.
1. You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates
someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.
2. We can remove any content or information you post on Facebook if we believe that it
violates this Statement or our policies.
3. We provide you with tools to help you protect your intellectual property rights. To learn
more, visit our How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement page.
4. If we remove your content for infringing someone else's copyright, and you believe we
removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.
5. If you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, we will disable your
account when appropriate.
6. You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F
Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Book and Wall), or any confusingly similar marks, except as
expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written permission.
7. If you collect information from users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you
(and not Facebook) are the one collecting their information, and post a privacy policy
explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.
8. You will not post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on
Facebook.
9. You will not tag users or send email invitations to non-users without their consent.
Facebook offers social reporting tools to enable users to provide feedback about tagging.
6. Mobile and Other Devices
1. We currently provide our mobile services for free, but please be aware that your carrier's
normal rates and fees, such as text messaging fees, will still apply.
2. In the event you change or deactivate your mobile telephone number, you will update
your account information on Facebook within 48 hours to ensure that your messages are
not sent to the person who acquires your old number.
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3. You provide consent and all rights necessary to enable users to sync (including through
an application) their devices with any information that is visible to them on Facebook.
7. Payments
If you make a payment on Facebook or use Facebook Credits, you agree to our Payments
Terms.
8. Special Provisions Applicable to Social Plugins
If you include our Social Plugins, such as the Share or Like buttons on your website, the
following additional terms apply to you:
1. We give you permission to use Facebook's Social Plugins so that users can post links or
content from your website on Facebook.
2. You give us permission to use and allow others to use such links and content on
Facebook.
3. You will not place a Social Plugin on any page containing content that would violate this
Statement if posted on Facebook.
9. Special Provisions Applicable to Developers/Operators of Applications and Websites
If you are a developer or operator of a Platform application or website, the following additional
terms apply to you:
1. You are responsible for your application and its content and all uses you make of
Platform. This includes ensuring your application or use of Platform meets our Facebook
Platform Policies and our Advertising Guidelines.
2. Your access to and use of data you receive from Facebook, will be limited as follows:
1. You will only request data you need to operate your application.
2. You will have a privacy policy that tells users what user data you are going to use
and how you will use, display, share, or transfer that data and you will include your
privacy policy URL in the Developer Application.
3. You will not use, display, share, or transfer a user’s data in a manner inconsistent
with your privacy policy.
4. You will delete all data you receive from us concerning a user if the user asks you
to do so, and will provide a mechanism for users to make such a request.
5. You will not include data you receive from us concerning a user in any advertising
creative.
6. You will not directly or indirectly transfer any data you receive from us to (or use
such data in connection with) any ad network, ad exchange, data broker, or other
advertising related toolset, even if a user consents to that transfer or use.
7. You will not sell user data. If you are acquired by or merge with a third party, you
can continue to use user data within your application, but you cannot transfer user
data outside of your application.
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8. We can require you to delete user data if you use it in a way that we determine is
inconsistent with users’ expectations.
9. We can limit your access to data.
10. You will comply with all other restrictions contained in our Facebook Platform
Policies.
You will not give us information that you independently collect from a user or a user's
content without that user's consent.
You will make it easy for users to remove or disconnect from your application.
You will make it easy for users to contact you. We can also share your email address with
users and others claiming that you have infringed or otherwise violated their rights.
You will provide customer support for your application.
You will not show third party ads or web search boxes on www.facebook.com.
We give you all rights necessary to use the code, APIs, data, and tools you receive from
us.
You will not sell, transfer, or sublicense our code, APIs, or tools to anyone.
You will not misrepresent your relationship with Facebook to others.
You may use the logos we make available to developers or issue a press release or other
public statement so long as you follow our Facebook Platform Policies.
We can issue a press release describing our relationship with you.
You will comply with all applicable laws. In particular you will (if applicable):
1. have a policy for removing infringing content and terminating repeat infringers that
complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
2. comply with the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and obtain any opt-in
consent necessary from users so that user data subject to the VPPA may be shared
on Facebook. You represent that any disclosure to us will not be incidental to the
ordinary course of your business.
We do not guarantee that Platform will always be free.
You give us all rights necessary to enable your application to work with Facebook,
including the right to incorporate content and information you provide to us into streams,
timelines, and user action stories.
You give us the right to link to or frame your application, and place content, including
ads, around your application.
We can analyze your application, content, and data for any purpose, including
commercial (such as for targeting the delivery of advertisements and indexing content for
search).
To ensure your application is safe for users, we can audit it.
We can create applications that offer similar features and services to, or otherwise
compete with, your application.
10. About Advertisements and Other Commercial Content Served or Enhanced by Facebook
Our goal is to deliver ads and commercial content that are valuable to our users and advertisers.
In order to help us do that, you agree to the following:
1. You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name and profile picture may be
associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like)
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served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in
connection with that content, subject to the limits you place.
2. We do not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent.
3. You understand that we may not always identify paid services and communications as
such.
11. Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers
You can target your desired audience by buying ads on Facebook or our publisher network. The
following additional terms apply to you if you place an order through our online advertising
portal (Order):
1. When you place an Order, you will tell us the type of advertising you want to buy, the
amount you want to spend, and your bid. If we accept your Order, we will deliver your
ads as inventory becomes available. When serving your ad, we do our best to deliver the
ads to the audience you specify, although we cannot guarantee in every instance that your
ad will reach its intended target.
2. In instances where we believe doing so will enhance the effectiveness of your advertising
campaign, we may broaden the targeting criteria you specify.
3. You will pay for your Orders in accordance with our Payments Terms. The amount you
owe will be calculated based on our tracking mechanisms.
4. Your ads will comply with our Advertising Guidelines.
5. We will determine the size, placement, and positioning of your ads.
6. We do not guarantee the activity that your ads will receive, such as the number of clicks
your ads will get.
7. We cannot control how clicks are generated on your ads. We have systems that attempt to
detect and filter certain click activity, but we are not responsible for click fraud,
technological issues, or other potentially invalid click activity that may affect the cost of
running ads.
8. You can cancel your Order at any time through our online portal, but it may take up to 24
hours before the ad stops running. You are responsible for paying for all ads that run.
9. Our license to run your ad will end when we have completed your Order. You understand,
however, that if users have interacted with your ad, your ad may remain until the users
delete it.
10. We can use your ads and related content and information for marketing or promotional
purposes.
11. You will not issue any press release or make public statements about your relationship
with Facebook without our prior written permission.
12. We may reject or remove any ad for any reason.
13. If you are placing ads on someone else's behalf, you must have permission to place those
ads, including the following:
1. You warrant that you have the legal authority to bind the advertiser to this
Statement.
2. You agree that if the advertiser you represent violates this Statement, we may hold
you responsible for that violation.
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12. Special Provisions Applicable to Pages
If you create or administer a Page on Facebook, or run a promotion or an offer from your Page,
you agree to our Pages Terms.
13. Special Provisions Applicable to Software
1. If you download our software, such as a stand-alone software product or a browser
plugin, you agree that from time to time, the software may download upgrades, updates
and additional features from us in order to improve, enhance and further develop the
software.
2. You will not modify, create derivative works of, decompile or otherwise attempt to
extract source code from us, unless you are expressly permitted to do so under an open
source license or we give you express written permission.
14. Amendments
1. Unless we make a change for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate
statement, we will provide you with seven (7) days notice (for example, by posting the
change on the Facebook Site Governance Page) and an opportunity to comment on
changes to this Statement. You can also visit our Facebook Site Governance Page and
"like" the Page to get updates about changes to this Statement.
2. If we make changes to policies referenced in or incorporated by this Statement, we may
provide notice on the Site Governance Page.
3. Your continued use of Facebook following changes to our terms constitutes your
acceptance of our amended terms.
15. Termination
If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create risk or possible legal
exposure for us, we can stop providing all or part of Facebook to you. We will notify you by
email or at the next time you attempt to access your account. You may also delete your account
or disable your application at any time. In all such cases, this Statement shall terminate, but the
following provisions will still apply: 2.2, 2.4, 3-5, 8.2, 9.1-9.3, 9.9, 9.10, 9.13, 9.15, 9.18, 10.3,
11.2, 11.5, 11.6, 11.9, 11.12, 11.13, and 15-19.
16. Disputes
1. You will resolve any claim, cause of action or dispute (claim) you have with us arising
out of or relating to this Statement or Facebook exclusively in a state or federal court
located in Santa Clara County. The laws of the State of California will govern this
Statement, as well as any claim that might arise between you and us, without regard to
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conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts
located in Santa Clara County, California for the purpose of litigating all such claims.
2. If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions, content or information on
Facebook, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all damages, losses,
and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such
claim. Although we provide rules for user conduct, we do not control or direct users'
actions on Facebook and are not responsible for the content or information users transmit
or share on Facebook. We are not responsible for any offensive, inappropriate, obscene,
unlawful or otherwise objectionable content or information you may encounter on
Facebook. We are not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, or any user
of Facebook.
3. WE TRY TO KEEP FACEBOOK UP, BUG-FREE, AND SAFE, BUT YOU USE IT AT
YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE PROVIDING FACEBOOK AS IS WITHOUT ANY
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT
FACEBOOK WILL ALWAYS BE SAFE, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE OR THAT
FACEBOOK WILL ALWAYS FUNCTION WITHOUT DISRUPTIONS, DELAYS OR
IMPERFECTIONS. FACEBOOK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS,
CONTENT, INFORMATION, OR DATA OF THIRD PARTIES, AND YOU RELEASE
US, OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM ANY
CLAIMS AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY SUCH
THIRD PARTIES. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE
CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE §1542, WHICH SAYS: A GENERAL RELEASE DOES
NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR
SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE
RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED
HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU
FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT,
OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
STATEMENT OR FACEBOOK, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING
OUT OF THIS STATEMENT OR FACEBOOK WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER
OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN
THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE
LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH CASES, FACEBOOK'S LIABILITY WILL BE
LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
17. Special Provisions Applicable to Users Outside the United States
We strive to create a global community with consistent standards for everyone, but we also
strive to respect local laws. The following provisions apply to users and non-users who interact
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with Facebook outside the United States:
1. You consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United
States.
2. If you are located in a country embargoed by the United States, or are on the U.S.
Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals you will not engage in
commercial activities on Facebook (such as advertising or payments) or operate a
Platform application or website.
3. Certain specific terms that apply only for German users are available here.
18. Definitions
1. By "Facebook" we mean the features and services we make available, including through
(a) our website at www.facebook.com and any other Facebook branded or co-branded
websites (including sub-domains, international versions, widgets, and mobile versions);
(b) our Platform; (c) social plugins such as the Like button, the Share button and other
similar offerings and (d) other media, software (such as a toolbar), devices, or networks
now existing or later developed.
2. By "Platform" we mean a set of APIs and services (such as content) that enable others,
including application developers and website operators, to retrieve data from Facebook or
provide data to us.
3. By "information" we mean facts and other information about you, including actions taken
by users and non-users who interact with Facebook.
4. By "content" we mean anything you or other users post on Facebook that would not be
included in the definition of information.
5. By "data" or "user data" or "user's data" we mean any data, including a user's content or
information that you or third parties can retrieve from Facebook or provide to Facebook
through Platform.
6. By "post" we mean post on Facebook or otherwise make available by using Facebook.
7. By "use" we mean use, copy, publicly perform or display, distribute, modify, translate,
and create derivative works of.
8. By "active registered user" we mean a user who has logged into Facebook at least once in
the previous 30 days.
9. By "application" we mean any application or website that uses or accesses Platform, as
well as anything else that receives or has received data from us. If you no longer access
Platform but have not deleted all data from us, the term application will apply until you
delete the data.
19. Other
1. If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the US or Canada, this
Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook, Inc. Otherwise, this Statement is
an agreement between you and Facebook Ireland Limited. References to “us,” “we,” and
“our” mean either Facebook, Inc. or Facebook Ireland Limited, as appropriate.
2. This Statement makes up the entire agreement between the parties regarding Facebook,
and supersedes any prior agreements.
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3. If any portion of this Statement is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will
remain in full force and effect.
4. If we fail to enforce any of this Statement, it will not be considered a waiver.
5. Any amendment to or waiver of this Statement must be made in writing and signed by us.
6. You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Statement to anyone else
without our consent.
7. All of our rights and obligations under this Statement are freely assignable by us in
connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or
otherwise.
8. Nothing in this Statement shall prevent us from complying with the law.
9. This Statement does not confer any third party beneficiary rights.
10. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
11. You will comply with all applicable laws when using or accessing Facebook.
You may also want to review the following documents, which provide additional information
about your use of Facebook:
Data Use Policy: The Data Use Policy contains information to help you understand how we
collect and use information.
Payment Terms: These additional terms apply to all payments made on or through Facebook.
Platform Page: This page helps you better understand what happens when you add a third-party
application or use Facebook Connect, including how they may access and use your data.
Facebook Platform Policies: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to applications,
including Connect sites.
Advertising Guidelines: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to advertisements
placed on Facebook.
Promotions Guidelines: These guidelines outline the policies that apply if you offer contests,
sweepstakes, and other types of promotions on Facebook.
Brand Permissions Center: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to use of Facebook
trademarks, logos and screenshots.
How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement
Pages Terms: These guidelines apply to your use of Facebook Pages.
Community Standards: These guidelines outline our expectations regarding the content you post
to Facebook and your activity on Facebook.
To access the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities in several different languages, change the
language setting for your Facebook session by clicking on the language link in the left corner of most
pages. If the Statement is not available in the language you select, we will default to the English
version.
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