WhatsApp on late Tuesday evening started sending in-app notifications to its users informing them about a change in its Terms of Service and its privacy policy.
The firm said in the note that is being sent to all Android and iOS devices, “WhatsApp is updating its terms and privacy policy.” Key updates, such as how the organization handles user data, how organizations can use Facebook hosted services to store and handle their WhatsApp chats, and how Facebook is a parent company, are also listed in the notification. It’s a parent company, to offer integrations across the Facebook Company Product. These are the same details that WABetaInfo mentioned in a report earlier this week.
On February 8, 2021, WhatsApp’s updated terms and privacy policies will come into effect. In order to keep using their WhatsApp accounts after February 8, users would need to accept these terms and improvements. Simply put, people who do not support these improvements are going to be banished for good from the site.
As far as the facts are concerned, WhatsApp has now updated its website that offers comprehensive updates to individuals as to what is changing exactly. Most of the main improvements that the organisation has made applies to the data it gathers. When a user forwards media inside a post, we momentarily store the media on our servers in encrypted form to assist in more effective distribution. WhatsApp wrote. This section was missing the previous edition that was last updated in December 2019.
The organisation has since revised information about a user’s ties. “We will manage this information for you in a way that ensures that those contacts can not be identified by us if any of your contacts are not yet using our services,” the firm said.
A new section on ‘Transactions And Payments Records’ has now been introduced by the company. We process additional information on you, including payment account and transaction information, whether you use our payment system or use our services for sales or other financial transactions. Details on the payment account and transaction provides information required to conclude the transaction.
In addition to this, WhatsApp also clarified how it processes’ system and communication data ‘and’ location data ‘. When you install, view, or use our services, we gather computer and connection-specific information. This entails details such as hardware model, information on the operating system, battery level, signal power, version of the software, browser information, mobile network, connection information (including phone number, mobile operator or ISP), language and time zone, IP address, device operations information, and identifiers,” WhatsApp wrote.
“With your permission, we collect and use accurate location data from your device when you choose to use location-related features, such as when you decide to share your location with your contacts or view nearby locations or locations that others have shared with you,” the firm continued.
In addition, the ‘Associated Businesses’ segment has now been renamed to’ How We Operate With Other Facebook Companies ‘by WhatsApp. WhatsApp shares in depth how the partnership runs and impacts its day-to-day activities in the revised section. This also represents a big change in the attitude of Facebook to its clients from being independent corporations to being part of the family of a corporation.
