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We use cookies and similar technologies to help provide and improve content on Meta Products. We also use them to provide a safer experience by using information we receive from cookies on and off Facebook, and to provide and improve Meta Products for people who have an account.

Essential cookies: These cookies are required to use Meta Products and are necessary for our sites to work as intended.
Cookies from other companies: We use these cookies to show you ads off of Meta Products and to provide features like maps and videos on Meta Products. These cookies are optional.

You have control over the optional cookies we use. Learn more about cookies and how we use them, and review or change your choices at any time in our Cookies Policy.

About cookies

What are cookies?

Why do we use cookies?

What are Meta Products?

Your cookie choices

Cookies from other companies

We use cookies from other companies in order to show you ads off of our Products, and provide features like maps, payment services and video.

We use cookies from other companies on our Products:

To show you ads about our Products and features on other companies’ apps and websites.
To provide features on our Products such as maps, payment services and video.
For analytics.

Features you use on Meta Products will not be affected.
We'll be able to better personalise ads for you off of Meta Products, and measure their performance.
Other companies will receive information about you by using their cookies.

Some features on our products may not work.
We won't use cookies from other companies to personalise ads for you off of Meta products, or measure their performance.

Other ways you can control your information

If you have a Facebook account, you can manage how different data is used to personalize ads with these tools.

Ad settings

To show you more relevant ads, we receive and use data that advertisers and other partners provide to us about your activity on their websites and apps, as well as certain offline interactions, such as purchases. You can control whether you see ads based on your activity off of Instagram through data about your activity from partners in your Settings.

Ad preferences

You can choose to see fewer ads about certain topics using ad topics in your settings.

You can opt out of seeing online interest-based ads from Meta and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the US, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe, or through your mobile device settings, if you are using Android, iOS 13 or an earlier version of iOS. Please note that ad blockers and tools that restrict our cookie use may interfere with these controls.

Your browser or device may offer settings that allow you to choose whether browser cookies are set and to delete them. These controls vary by browser, and manufacturers may change both the settings they make available and how they work at any time. As of 5 October 2020, you may find additional information about the controls offered by popular browsers at the links below. Certain parts of Meta Products may not work properly if you have disabled browser cookies. Please be aware that these controls are distinct from the controls that Facebook offers.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text that are used to store and receive identifiers on a web browser. We use cookies and similar technologies to offer Meta Products and understand information we receive about users, like their activity on other websites and apps.

Learn more about cookies and the similar technologies we use in our Cookies Policy.

Why do we use cookies?

Cookies help us provide, protect and improve the Meta Products, such as by personalising content, tailoring and measuring ads, and providing a safer experience.

While the cookies that we use may change from time to time as we improve and update the Meta Products, we use them for the following purposes:

Authentication to keep users logged in
To ensure security, site and product integrity
To provide advertising, recommendations, insights and measurement
To provide site features and services
To understand our Products' performance
To enable analytics and research
On third-party websites and apps to help companies that incorporate Meta technologies to share information with us about activity on their apps and websites. If you don't have an account, we don't use cookies to personalise ads for you, and activity we receive will be used only for the security and integrity of our Products.

Learn more about cookies and how we use them in our Cookies Policy.

What are Meta Products?

Meta Products include the Facebook, Instagram and Messenger apps, and any other features, apps, technologies, software or services offered by Meta under our Privacy Policy.

You can learn more about Meta Products in our Privacy Policy.

Your cookie choices

You have control over optional cookies we use:

Our cookies on other apps and websites owned by companies that use Meta technologies, such as the Like button and Meta Pixel, can be used to personalise your ads.
We use cookies from other companies to show you ads off of Meta Products, and to provide features like maps and video on Meta Products.

You can review or change your choices at any time in your Cookies settings.