User Agreement
User Agreement
Twitter Terms of Service
If you live outside the European Union,
EFTA States, or the United Kingdom,
including if you live in the United States
,
the Twitter User Agreement comprises
these
, our
,
the
incorporated policies
If you live in the European Union, EFTA
States, or the United Kingdom
, the Twitter
User Agreement comprises these
,
our
, the
, and all incorporated policies.
If you live outside the European Union,
EFTA States, or the United Kingdom,
including if you live in the United States
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of our services,
including our various websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications,
buttons, widgets, ads, commerce services, and our
(
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-services-and-corporate-
) that link to these Terms (collectively, the “Services”), and any information,
text, links, graphics, photos, audio, videos, or other materials or arrangements
of materials uploaded, downloaded or appearing on the Services (collectively
referred to as “Content”). By using the Services you agree to be bound by these
Terms.
1 Who May Use
the Services
You may use the Services only if you agree to form a binding contract with Twitter
and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the applicable
jurisdiction. In any case, you must be at least 13 years old, or in the case of
Periscope 16 years old, to use the Services. If you are accepting these Terms and
using the Services on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal
entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and have the
authority to bind such entity to these Terms, in which case the words “you” and
“your” as used in these Terms shall refer to such entity.
2 Privacy
Our
https://www.twitter.com/privacy
) describes how we handle the
information you provide to us when you use our Services. You understand that
through your use of the Services you consent to the collection and use (as set forth
in the Privacy Policy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to
the United States, Ireland, and/or other countries for storage, processing and use
by Twitter and its affiliates.
3 Content on the Services
You are responsible for your use of the Services and for any Content you provide,
including compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. You should only
provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others.
Any use or reliance on any Content or materials posted via the Services or
obtained by you through the Services is at your own risk. We do not endorse,
support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or
reliability of any Content or communications posted via the Services or endorse
any opinions expressed via the Services. You understand that by using the
Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful,
inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been
mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. All Content is the sole responsibility of the
person who originated such Content. We may not monitor or control the Content
posted via the Services and, we cannot take responsibility for such Content.
We reserve the right to remove Content that violates the User Agreement,
including for example, copyright or trademark violations or other intellectual
property misappropriation, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment.
Information regarding specific policies and the process for reporting or appealing
violations can be found in our Help Center (
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-
policies/twitter-report-violation#specific-violations
If you believe that your Content has been copied in a way that constitutes
copyright infringement, please report this by visiting our Copyright reporting
form (
https:// help.twitter.com/forms/dmca
) or contacting our designated copyright
agent at:
Twitter, Inc.
Attn: Copyright Agent
1355
Market Street, Suite
900
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reports:
https://help.twitter.com/forms/dmca
(for content on Twitter)
Twitter, Inc.
Attn: Copyright Agent - Periscope
1355
Market Street, Suite
900
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reports:
https://help.twitter.com/forms/dmca
(for content on Periscope)
Your Rights and Grant of Rights in the
Content
You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through
the Services. What’s yours is yours — you own your Content (and your incorporated
audio, photos and videos are considered part of the Content).
By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant
us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to
use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and
distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or
later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming,
and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the
rest of the world and to let others do the same. You agree that this license includes
the right for Twitter to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make
Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies,
organizations or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, Retweet,
promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to
our terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional uses by Twitter, or
other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid
to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise
make available through the Services as the use of the Services by you is hereby
agreed as being sufficient compensation for the Content and grant of rights herein.
Twitter has an evolving set of rules for how ecosystem partners can interact with
your Content on the Services. These rules exist to enable an open ecosystem with
your rights in mind. You understand that we may modify or adapt your Content as
it is distributed, syndicated, published, or broadcast by us and our partners and/or
make changes to your Content in order to adapt the Content to different media.
You represent and warrant that you have, or have obtained, all rights, licenses,
consents, permissions, power and/or authority necessary to grant the rights granted
herein for any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services.
You agree that such Content will not contain material subject to copyright or other
proprietary rights, unless you have necessary permission or are otherwise legally
entitled to post the material and to grant Twitter the license described above.
4 Using the Services
Please review the
), which are part of the User
Agreement and outline what is prohibited on the Services. You may use the Services
only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable laws, rules and regulations.
Our Services evolve constantly. As such, the Services may change from time to
time, at our discretion. We may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the
Services or any features within the Services to you or to users generally. We also
retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any
time. We may also remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services,
limit distribution or visibility of any Content on the service, suspend or terminate
users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you.
In consideration for Twitter granting you access to and use of the Services, you
agree that Twitter and its third-party providers and partners may place advertising
on the Services or in connection with the display of Content or information from
the Services whether submitted by you or others. You also agree not to misuse our
Services, for example, by interfering with them or accessing them using a method
other than the interface and the instructions that we provide. You may not do any
of the following while accessing or using the Services: (i) access, tamper with, or
use non-public areas of the Services, Twitter’s computer systems, or the technical
delivery systems of Twitter’s providers; (ii) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of
any system or network or breach or circumvent any security or authentication
measures; (iii) access or search or attempt to access or search the Services by
any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available,
published interfaces that are provided by Twitter (and only pursuant to the
applicable terms and conditions), unless you have been specifically allowed to do
so in a separate agreement with Twitter (NOTE: crawling the Services is permissible
if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file, however, scraping
the Services without the prior consent of Twitter is expressly prohibited); (iv) forge
any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or
posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-
identifying information; or (v) interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the
access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus,
overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the Services, or by scripting the
creation of Content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden
on the Services. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose
any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable
law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (ii) enforce the Terms,
including investigation of potential violations hereof, (iii) detect, prevent, or
otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (iv) respond to user support
requests, or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of Twitter, its users and the
public. Twitter does not disclose personally-identifying information to third parties
except in accordance with our
If you use developer features of the Services, including but not limited to
https://developer.twitter.com/docs/twitter-for-websites/overview
https://developer.twitter.com/docs/tweets/optimize-with-cards/guides/
),
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs
https://developer.twitter.com/docs/basics/authentication/guides/log-in-with-
), you agree to our
(
https://developer.twitter.com/en/
) and
https://developer.twitter.com/en/
). If you want to reproduce, modify, create derivative works,
distribute, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, or otherwise use
the Services or Content on the Services, you must use the interfaces and
instructions we provide, except as permitted through the Twitter Services, these
Terms, or the terms provided on
https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms
you are a security researcher, you are required to comply with the rules of the
Twitter
Vulnerability Reporting Program
requirements set out in the preceding paragraph may not apply to those
participating in Twitter’s Vulnerability Reporting Program.
If you use advertising features of the Services, you must agree to our
If you use Super Hearts, Coins, or Stars on Periscope, you must agree to our
Your Account
You may need to create an account to use some of our Services. You are
responsible for safeguarding your account, so use a strong password and limit its
use to this account. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising
from your failure to comply with the above.
You can control most communications from the Services. We may need to
provide you with certain communications, such as service announcements
and administrative messages. These communications are considered part of
the Services and your account, and you may not be able to opt-out from receiving
them. If you added your phone number to your account and you later change or
deactivate that phone number, you must update your account information to help
prevent us from communicating with anyone who acquires your old number.
Your License to Use the Services
Twitter gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-
exclusive license to use the software provided to you as part of the Services.
This license has the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit
of the Services as provided by Twitter, in the manner permitted by these Terms.
The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the
United States and other countries. Nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use
the Twitter name or any of the Twitter trademarks, logos, domain names, other
distinctive brand features, and other proprietary rights. All right, title, and interest
in and to the Services (excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain
the exclusive property of Twitter and its licensors. Any feedback, comments, or
suggestions you may provide regarding Twitter, or the Services is entirely voluntary
and we will be free to use such feedback, comments or suggestions as we see fit
and without any obligation to you.
Ending These Terms
You may end your legal agreement with Twitter at any time by deactivating your
accounts and discontinuing your use of the Services. See
en/managing-your-account/how-to-deactivate-twitter-account
https://help.pscp.tv/customer/portal/articles/2460220
) for instructions on how
to deactivate your account and the Privacy Policy for more information on what
happens to your information.
We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or
part of the Services at any time for any or no reason, including, but not limited to,
if we reasonably believe: (i) you have violated these Terms or the
Periscope Community Guidelines
, (ii) you create risk or possible legal
exposure for us; (iii) your account should be removed due to unlawful conduct,
(iv) your account should be removed due to prolonged inactivity; or (v) our provision
of the Services to you is no longer commercially viable. We will make reasonable
efforts to notify you by the email address associated with your account or the next
time you attempt to access your account, depending on the circumstances. In all
such cases, the Terms shall terminate, including, without limitation, your license
to use the Services, except that the following sections shall continue to apply:
II, III, V, and VI. If you believe your account was terminated in error you can file an
appeal following the steps found in our
https://help.twitter.com/forms/
). For the avoidance of doubt, these Terms survive the
deactivation or termination of your account.
5 Disclaimers and
Limitations of Liability
The Services are Available “AS-IS”
Your access to and use of the Services or any Content are at your own risk. You
understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and
“AS AVAILABLE” basis. The “Twitter Entities” refers to Twitter, its parents, affiliates,
related companies, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, partners,
and licensors. Without limiting the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted
under applicable law, THE TWITTER ENTITIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND
CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. The Twitter
Entities make no warranty or representation and disclaim all responsibility and
liability for: (i) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or
reliability of the Services or any Content; (ii) any harm to your computer system,
loss of data, or other harm that results from your access to or use of the Services
or any Content; (iii) the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content
and other communications maintained by the Services; and (iv) whether the
Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure,
or error-free basis. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from
the Twitter Entities or through the Services, will create any warranty or
representation not expressly made herein.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE TWITTER
ENTITIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR
REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS
OFÂ DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING
FROMÂ (i) YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE
THEÂ SERVICES; (ii) ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON
THEÂ SERVICES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DEFAMATORY,
OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD PARTIES;
(iii)Â ANY CONTENT OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICES; OR (iv) UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS, USE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT. IN
NOÂ EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE TWITTER ENTITIES
EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (U.S. $100.00) OR
THEÂ AMOUNT YOU PAID TWITTER, IF ANY, IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS FOR
THEÂ SERVICES GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THE LIMITATIONS OF THIS
SUBSECTION SHALL APPLY TO ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER BASED
ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, STATUTE, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR
OTHERWISE, ANDÂ WHETHER OR NOT THE TWITTER ENTITIES HAVE BEEN
INFORMED OF THEÂ POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF
AÂ REMEDY SET FORTHÂ HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL
PURPOSE.
6 General
We may revise these Terms from time to time. The changes will not be retroactive,
and the most current version of the Terms, which will always be at
will govern our relationship with you. We will try to notify you of material revisions,
for example via a service notification or an email to the email associated with your
account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those revisions become
effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.
The laws of the State of California, excluding its choice of law provisions, will
govern these Terms and any dispute that arises between you and Twitter. All
disputes related to these Terms or the Services will be brought solely in the federal
or state courts located in San Francisco County, California, United States, and you
consent to personal jurisdiction and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum.
If you are a federal, state, or local government entity in the United States using
the Services in your official capacity and legally unable to accept the controlling
law, jurisdiction or venue clauses above, then those clauses do not apply to you.
For such U.S. federal government entities, these Terms and any action related
thereto will be governed by the laws of the United States of America (without
reference to conflict of laws) and, in the absence of federal law and to the extent
permitted under federal law, the laws of the State of California (excluding choice
of law).
In the event that any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable,
then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary,
and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.
Twitter’s failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed
a waiver of such right or provision.
These Terms are an agreement between you and Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street,
Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 U.S.A. If you have any questions about these
Terms, please contact
.
Effective:
June 18, 2020
If you live in the European Union, EFTA
States, or the United Kingdom
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of our services,
including our various websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications,
buttons, widgets, ads, commerce services, and our other covered services
(
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-services-and-corporate-
) that link to these Terms (collectively, the “Services”), and any information,
text, links, graphics, photos, audio, videos, or other materials or arrangements of
materials uploaded, downloaded or appearing on the Services (collectively referred
to as “Content”). By using the Services you agree to be bound by these Terms.
1 Who May Use
the Services
You may use the Services only if you agree to form a binding contract with Twitter
and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the applicable
jurisdiction. In any case, you must be at least 13 years old, or in the case of
Periscope 16 years old, to use the Services. If you are accepting these Terms and
using the Services on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal
entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and have the
authority to bind such entity to these Terms, in which case the words “you” and
“your” as used in these Terms shall refer to such entity.
2 Privacy
Our
https://www.twitter.com/privacy
) describes how we handle the
information you provide to us when you use our Services. You understand that
through your use of the Services you consent to the collection and use (as set forth
in the Privacy Policy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to
the United States, Ireland, and/or other countries for storage, processing and use
by Twitter and its affiliates.
3 Content on the Services
You are responsible for your use of the Services and for any Content you provide,
including compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. You should only
provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others.
Any use or reliance on any Content or materials posted via the Services or
obtained by you through the Services is at your own risk. We do not endorse,
support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or
reliability of any Content or communications posted via the Services or endorse
any opinions expressed via the Services. You understand that by using the
Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful,
inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been
mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. All Content is the sole responsibility of the
person who originated such Content. We may not monitor or control the Content
posted via the Services and, we cannot take responsibility for such Content.
We reserve the right to remove Content that violates the User Agreement, including
for example, copyright or trademark violations or other intellectual property
misappropriation, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment. Information
regarding specific policies and the process for reporting or appealing violations can
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-
report-violation#specific-violations
https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-
account/suspended-twitter-accounts
).
If you believe that your Content has been copied in a way that constitutes
copyright infringement, please report this by visiting our Copyright reporting
form (
https://help.twitter.com/forms/dmca
) or contacting our designated copyright
agent at:
Twitter, Inc.
Attn: Copyright Agent
1355 Market Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reports:
https://help.twitter.com/forms/dmca
(for content on Twitter)
Twitter, Inc.
Attn: Copyright Agent - Periscope
1355
Market Street, Suite
900
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reports:
https://help.twitter.com/forms/dmca
(for content on Periscope)
Your Rights and Grant of Rights in the
Content
You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the
Services. What’s yours is yours — you own your Content (and your incorporated
audio, photos and videos are considered part of the Content).
By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant
us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to
use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and
distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or
later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming,
and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the
rest of the world and to let others do the same. You agree that this license includes
the right for Twitter to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make
Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies,
organizations or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, Retweet,
promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to
our terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional uses by Twitter, or
other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid
to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise
make available through the Services as the use of the Services by you is hereby
agreed as being sufficient compensation for the Content and grant of rights herein.
Twitter has an evolving set of rules for how ecosystem partners can interact with
your Content on the Services. These rules exist to enable an open ecosystem with
your rights in mind. You understand that we may modify or adapt your Content as it
is distributed, syndicated, published, or broadcast by us and our partners and/or
make changes to your Content in order to adapt the Content to different media.
You represent and warrant that you have, or have obtained, all rights, licenses,
consents, permissions, power and/or authority necessary to grant the rights granted
herein for any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services.
You agree that such Content will not contain material subject to copyright or other
proprietary rights, unless you have necessary permission or are otherwise legally
entitled to post the material and to grant Twitter the license described above.
4 Using the Services
Please review the
), which are part of the User
Agreement and outline what is prohibited on the Services. You may use the
Services only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable laws, rules
and regulations.
Our Services evolve constantly. As such, the Services may change from time to
time, at our discretion. We may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the
Services or any features within the Services to you or to users generally. We also
retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time.
We may also remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, limit
distribution or visibility of any Content on the service, suspend or terminate users,
and reclaim usernames without liability to you.
In consideration for Twitter granting you access to and use of the Services, you
agree that Twitter and its third-party providers and partners may place advertising
on the Services or in connection with the display of Content or information from
the Services whether submitted by you or others. You also agree not to misuse our
Services, for example, by interfering with them or accessing them using a method
other than the interface and the instructions that we provide. You may not do any
of the following while accessing or using the Services: (i) access, tamper with, or
use non-public areas of the Services, Twitter’s computer systems, or the technical
delivery systems of Twitter’s providers; (ii) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of
any system or network or breach or circumvent any security or authentication
measures; (iii) access or search or attempt to access or search the Services by any
means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available,
published interfaces that are provided by Twitter (and only pursuant to the
applicable terms and conditions), unless you have been specifically allowed to do
so in a separate agreement with Twitter (NOTE: crawling the Services is permissible
if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file, however, scraping
the Services without the prior consent of Twitter is expressly prohibited); (iv) forge
any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or
posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-
identifying information; or (v) interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the
access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus,
overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the Services, or by scripting the
creation of Content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden
on the Services. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose
any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable
law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (ii) enforce the Terms,
including investigation of potential violations hereof, (iii) detect, prevent, or
otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (iv) respond to user support
requests, or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of Twitter, its users and the
public. Twitter does not disclose personally-identifying information to third parties
except in accordance with our
.
If you use developer features of the Services, including but not limited to
https://developer.twitter.com/docs/twitter-for-websites/overview
https://developer.twitter.com/docs/tweets/optimize-with-cards/guides/
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs
https://developer.twitter.com/docs/basics/authentication/guides/log-in-with-
https://developer.twitter.com/en/
https://developer.twitter.com/en/
). If you want to reproduce, modify, create derivative works,
distribute, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, or otherwise
use the Services or Content on the Services, you must use the interfaces and
instructions we provide, except as permitted through the Twitter Services, these
Terms, or the terms provided on
https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/
. If you are a security researcher, you are required to comply with the rules
of the Twitter
Vulnerability Reporting Program
).
The requirements set out in the preceding paragraph may not apply to those
participating in Twitter’s Vulnerability Reporting Program.
If you use advertising features of the Services, you must agree to our
(
If you use Super Hearts, Coins, or Stars on Periscope, you agree to our
https://legal.twitter.com/en/periscope/super/terms.html
Your Account
You may need to create an account to use some of our Services. You are responsible
for safeguarding your account, so use a strong password and limit its use to this
account. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your
failure to comply with the above.
You can control most communications from the Services. We may need to
provide you with certain communications, such as service announcements and
administrative messages. These communications are considered part of the
Services and your account, and you may not be able to opt-out from receiving
them. If you added your phone number to your account and you later change or
deactivate that phone number, you must update your account information to help
prevent us from communicating with anyone who acquires your old number.
Your License to Use the Services
Twitter gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-
exclusive license to use the software provided to you as part of the Services.
This license has the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit
of the Services as provided by Twitter, in the manner permitted by these Terms.
The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the
United States and other countries. Nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use
the Twitter name or any of the Twitter trademarks, logos, domain names, other
distinctive brand features, and other proprietary rights. All right, title, and interest
in and to the Services (excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain
the exclusive property of Twitter and its licensors. Any feedback, comments, or
suggestions you may provide regarding Twitter, or the Services is entirely voluntary
and we will be free to use such feedback, comments or suggestions as we see fit
and without any obligation to you.
Ending These Terms
You may end your legal agreement with Twitter at any time by deactivating your
accounts and discontinuing your use of the Services. See
en/managing-your-account/how-to-deactivate-twitter-account
https://help.pscp.tv/customer/portal/articles/2460220
deactivate your account and the Privacy Policy for more information on what
happens to your information.
We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part
of the Services at any time for any or no reason, including, but not limited to, if we
reasonably believe: (i) you have violated these Terms or the
Periscope Community Guidelines
, (ii) you create risk or possible legal
exposure for us; (iii) your account should be removed due to unlawful conduct,
(iv)Â your account should be removed due to prolonged inactivity; or (v) our provision
of the Services to you is no longer commercially viable. We will make reasonable
efforts to notify you by the email address associated with your account or the next
time you attempt to access your account, depending on the circumstances. In all
such cases, the Terms shall terminate, including, without limitation, your license to
use the Services, except that the following sections shall continue to apply: II, III, V,
and VI. If you believe your account was terminated in error you can file an appeal
following the steps found in our
https://help.twitter.com/forms/
). For the avoidance of doubt, these Terms survive
the deactivation or termination of your account.
5 Limitation of Liability
By using the Services you agree that Twitter, its parents, affiliates, related
companies, officers, directors, employees, agents representatives, partners and
licensors, liability is limited to the maximum extent permissible in your country of
residence.
6 General
We may revise these Terms from time to time. The changes will not be retroactive,
and the most current version of the Terms, which will always be at
will govern our relationship with you. Other than for changes addressing new
functions or made for legal reasons, we will notify you 30 days in advance of
making effective changes to these Terms that impact the rights or obligations of
any party to these Terms, for example via a service notification or an email to the
email associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services
after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.
In the event that any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable,
then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary,
and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.
Twitter’s failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed
a waiver of such right or provision.
These Terms are an agreement between you and Twitter International Company,
(Co. number 503351, VAT number IE9803175Q), an Irish company with its
registered office at One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street Dublin 2, D02 AX07
Ireland. If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact
.
Effective:
June 18, 2020
Twitter Privacy Policy
We believe you should always know what
data we collect from you and how we use it,
and that you should have meaningful control
over both. We want to empower you to make
the best decisions about the information that
you share with us.
That’s the basic purpose of this
Privacy Policy.
You should read this policy in full, but
here are a few key things we hope you
take away from it:
•
Twitter is public and Tweets are immediately viewable and searchable by
anyone around the world. We give you non-public ways to communicate on
Twitter too, through protected Tweets and Direct Messages. You can also use
Twitter under a pseudonym if you prefer not to use your name.
•
When you use Twitter, even if you’re just looking at Tweets, we receive some
personal information from you like the type of device you’re using and your
IP address. You can choose to share additional information with us like your
email address, phone number, address book contacts, and a public profile.
We use this information for things like keeping your account secure and
showing you more relevant Tweets, people to follow, events, and ads.
•
We give you control through your
to limit the data we collect from
you and how we use it, and to control things like account security, marketing
preferences, apps that can access your account, and address book contacts
you’ve uploaded to Twitter. You can also
shared on Twitter.
•
In addition to information you share with us, we use your Tweets, content
you’ve read, Liked, or Retweeted, and other information to determine what
topics you’re interested in, your age, the languages you speak, and other
signals to show you more relevant content. We give you
into
that information, and you can modify or correct it at any time.
•
If you have questions about this policy, how we collect or process your
personal data, or anything else related to our privacy practices, we want
to hear from you. You can
at any time.
1 Information You Share
With Us
We require certain information to provide
our services to you. For example, you must
have an account in order to upload or share
content on Twitter. When you choose to
share the information below with us, we
collect and use it to operate our services.
1.1 Basic Account Information
You don’t have to create an account to use some of our service features, such
as searching and viewing public Twitter profiles or watching a broadcast on
Periscope’s website. If you do choose to create an account, you must provide us
with some personal data so that we can provide our services to you. On Twitter
this includes a display name (for example, “Twitter Moments”), a username
(for example, @TwitterMoments), a password, and an email address or phone
number. Your display name and username are always public, but you can use either
your real name or a pseudonym. You can also create and manage multiple Twitter
accounts
1
, for example to express different parts of your identity.
1
The many sides of you.
Let your imagination run free. Explore your interests with a number of different
identities.
1.2 Public Information
Most activity on Twitter is public, including your profile information
2
, when you created your account, and your Tweets and certain
information about your Tweets like the date, time, and application and version of
Twitter you Tweeted from. You also may choose to publish your location in your
Tweets or your Twitter profile. The lists you create, people you follow and who
follow you, and Tweets you Like or Retweet are also public. If you like, Retweet,
reply, or otherwise publicly engage with an ad on our services, that advertiser
might thereby learn information about you associated with the ad with which you
engaged such as characteristics of the audience the ad was intended to reach.
Periscope broadcasts you create, click on, or otherwise engage with, either on
Periscope or on Twitter, are public along with when you took those actions. So are
your hearts, comments, the number of hearts you’ve received, which accounts
you are a Superfan of, and whether you watched a broadcast live or on replay.
Any hearts, comments, or other content you contribute to another account’s
broadcast will remain part of that broadcast for as long as it remains on Periscope.
Information posted about you by other people who use our services may also be
public. For example, other people may tag you in a photo
3
(if your settings allow)
or mention you in a Tweet.
You are responsible for your Tweets and other information you provide through our
services, and you should think carefully about what you make public, especially if it
is sensitive information. If you update your public information on Twitter, such as by
deleting a Tweet or deactivating your account, we will reflect your updated content
on Twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, and Twitter for Android.
By publicly posting content when you Tweet, you are directing us to disclose that
information as broadly as possible, including through our APIs, and directing those
accessing the information through our APIs to do the same. To facilitate the fast
global dissemination of Tweets to people around the world,
application programming interfaces
) and embeds to make that information
available to websites, apps, and others for their use - for example, displaying
Tweets on a news website or analyzing what people say on Twitter. We generally
make this content available in limited quantities for free and charge licensing fees
for large-scale access. We have
that govern how this data can be
used, and a compliance program to enforce these terms. But these individuals and
companies are not affiliated with Twitter, and their offerings may not reflect updates
you make on Twitter. For more information about how we make public data on
Twitter available to the world, visit
https:// developer.twitter.com
2
Hello, World!
Your profile information is displayed under your photo and username on your profile page.
3
Keep a low profile.
Friends want to tag you in a photo? Lucky you. If you›re not into that sort of thing, you
can always change your settings.
1.3 Contact Information and Address
Books
We use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number,
to authenticate your account and keep it - and our services - secure, and to help
prevent spam, fraud, and abuse. We also use contact information to enable certain
account features (for example, for
), and to send
you information about our services, and to personalize our services, including ads.
If you provide us with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from
Twitter to that number as your country’s laws allow. Twitter also uses your contact
information to market to you as your country’s laws allow, and to help others find
your account if your settings permit, including through third-party services and
client applications. You can use your settings for
to control notifications you receive from Twitter. You can also unsubscribe from a
notification by following the instructions contained within the notification or
You can choose to upload and sync your address book on Twitter so that we can help
you find and connect with people you know and help others find and connect with
you. We also use this information to better recommend content to you and others.
You can sign up for Periscope with an account from another service like Twitter,
Google, or Facebook, or connect your Periscope account to these other services.
If you do, we will use information from that service, including your email address,
friends, or contacts list, to recommend other accounts or content to you or to
recommend your account or content to others. You can control whether your
Periscope account is discoverable by email through your
If you email us, we will keep the content of your message, your email address, and
your contact information to respond to your request.
1.4 Direct Messages and Non-Public
Communications
We provide certain features that let you communicate more privately or control who
sees your content. For example, you can use
to have non-public
conversations on Twitter,
, or host
Periscope. When you communicate with others by sending or receiving Direct
Messages, we will store and process your communications and information
related to them. This includes link scanning for malicious content, link shortening
to
URLs, detection of spam
4
, abuse and prohibited images, and use of
reported issues. We also use information about whom you have communicated
with and when (but not the content of those communications) to better understand
the use of our services, to protect the safety and integrity of our platform, and to
4
Spam stinks.
We scan your Direct Messages to try and prevent spam for you and our service.
show more relevant content. We share the content of your Direct Messages with
the people you’ve sent them to; we do not use them to serve you ads. Note that
if you interact in a way that would ordinarily be public with Twitter content shared
with you via Direct Message, for instance by liking a Tweet, those interactions will
be public. When you use features like Direct Messages to communicate, remember
that recipients have their own copy
5
of your communications on Twitter - even if you
delete your copy of those messages from your account - which they may duplicate,
store, or re-share.
1.5 Payment Information
You may provide us with payment information
6
, including your credit or debit card
number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address, in order to purchase
advertising or other offerings provided as part of our services.
1.6 How You Control the Information
You Share with Us
Your
let you decide:
•
Whether your Tweets are publicly available on Twitter
•
Whether others can tag you in a photo
•
Whether you will be able to receive Direct Messages from anyone on Twitter
or just your followers
•
Whether others can find you based on your email or phone number
•
Whether you upload your address book to Twitter for storage and use
•
When and where you may see sensitive content on Twitter
•
other Twitter accounts
5
Just like email.
Only send Direct Messages to people you trust. Remember, even though someone can’t
Retweet your Direct Messages, they still have a copy of your message.
6
Approved by you.
We use your payment information to process transactions you’ve approved and for fraud
detection.
2 Additional Information
We Receive About You
We receive certain information when
you use our services or other websites
or mobile applications that include our
content, and from third parties including
advertisers. Like the information you share
with us, we use the data below to operate
our services.
2.1 Location Information
We require information about your signup and current location, which we get from
signals such as your IP address or device settings, to securely and reliably set up
and maintain your account and to provide our services to you.
Subject to your settings, we may collect, use, and store additional information
about your location - such as your current precise position or places where you’ve
previously used Twitter - to operate or personalize our services including with more
relevant content like local trends, stories, ads, and suggestions for people to follow.
Learn more about Twitter’s use of location
, and how to set your Twitter location
preferences
. Learn more about how to share your location in Periscope
broadcasts
2.2 Links
In order to operate our services, we keep track of how you interact with links across
our services. This includes links in emails we send you and links in Tweets that
appear on other websites or mobile applications.
If you click on an external link or ad on our services, that advertiser or website
operator might figure out that you came from Twitter or Periscope, along with
other information associated with the ad you clicked such as characteristics of the
audience it was intended to reach. They may also collect other personal data from
you, such as cookie identifiers or your IP address.
2.3 Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device.
Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional
website usage data and to operate our services. Cookies are not required for many
parts of our services such as searching and looking at public profiles. Although
most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers’ settings can be
set to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie
on your computer
7
. However, some of our services may not function properly if
you disable cookies. When your browser or device allows it, we use both session
cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our
services, to monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise
operate our services such as by providing account security, personalizing the
content we show you including ads, and remembering your language preferences.
We do not support the Do Not Track browser option. You can learn more about how
we use cookies and similar technologies
.
2.4 Log Data
We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our
services, which we refer to as “Log Data,” even if you have not created an account.
For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our services, interact with our
email notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third-party service, or
visit a third-party service that includes Twitter content, we may receive information
about you. This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser
type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your
mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search
terms (including those not submitted as queries), and cookie information. We also
receive Log Data when you click on, view, or interact with links on our services,
including when you install another application through Twitter. We use Log Data to
operate our services and ensure their secure, reliable, and robust performance. For
example, we use Log Data to protect the security of accounts and to determine
what content is popular on our services. We also use this data to improve the
content we show you, including ads and to improve the effectiveness of our
own marketing.
7
Not hungry?
You can change your cookie settings in your web browser
We use information you provide to us and data we receive, including Log Data and
data from third parties, to make inferences like what topics you may be interested
in, how old you are, and what languages you speak. This helps us better promote
and design our services for you and personalize the content we show you,
including ads.
2.5 Twitter for Web Data
When you view our content on third-party websites that integrate Twitter content
such as embedded timelines or Tweet buttons, we may receive Log Data that
includes the web page you visited. We use this information to better understand
the use of our services, to protect the safety and integrity of our platform, and to
show more relevant content, including ads. We do not associate this web browsing
history with your name, email address, phone number, or username, and we delete,
obfuscate, or aggregate it after no longer than 30
days. We do not collect this data
from browsers that we believe to be located in the European Union or EFTA States.
2.6 Advertisers and Other Ad Partners
Advertising revenue allows us to support and improve our services. We use the
information described in this Privacy Policy to help make our advertising more
relevant to you, to measure its effectiveness, and to help recognize your devices to
serve you ads on and off of Twitter. Our ad partners and affiliates share information
with us such as browser cookie IDs, mobile device IDs, hashed email addresses,
demographic or interest data, and content viewed or actions taken on a website or
app. Some of our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, also enable us to collect
similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising
technology. Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by Twitter
from the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with
the other information you share with Twitter and that Twitter receives about you
described elsewhere in our Privacy Policy.
Twitter adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Principles for
Online Behavioral Advertising (also referred to as “interest-based advertising”)
and respects the DAA’s consumer choice tool for you to opt out of interest-based
advertising at
. In addition, our ads policies prohibit
advertisers from targeting ads based on
that we consider sensitive or
are prohibited by law, such as race, religion, politics, sex life, or health. Learn more
about your privacy options for interest-based ads
and about how ads work on
If you are an advertiser or a prospective advertiser, we process your personal data
to help offer and provide our advertising services. You can update your data in
your Twitter Ads dashboard or by contacting us directly as described in this
Privacy Policy.
2.7 Developers
If you access our APIs or developer portal
, we process your personal data to
help provide our services. You can update your data by contacting us directly
as described in this Privacy Policy.
2.8 Other Third Parties and Affiliates
We may receive information about you from third parties who are not our ad
partners, such as others on Twitter, partners who help us evaluate the safety
and quality of content on our platform, our
services you link to your Twitter account.
You may choose to connect your Twitter account to accounts on another service,
and that other service may send us information about your account on that service.
We use the information we receive to provide you features like cross-posting or
cross-service authentication, and to operate our services. For integrations that
Twitter formally supports, you may revoke this permission at any time from your
application settings; for other integrations, please visit the other service you have
connected to Twitter.
2.9 Personalizing Based On Your
Inferred Identity
When you log into Twitter on a browser or device, we will associate that browser
or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and
personalization. Subject to your settings, we may also associate your account
with browsers or devices other than those you use to log into Twitter (or associate
your logged-out device or browser with other browsers or devices). When you
provide other information to Twitter, including an email address, we associate that
information with your Twitter account. Subject to your settings, we may also use
this information in order to infer other information about your identity, for example
by associating your account with hashes of email addresses that share common
components with the email address you have provided to Twitter. We do this to
operate and personalize our services. For example, if you visit websites with sports
content on your laptop, we may show you sports-related ads on Twitter for Android
and, if the email address associated with your account shares components with
another email address, such as shared first name, last name, or initials, we may
later match advertisements to you from advertisers that were trying to reach email
addresses containing those components.
2.10 How You Control Additional
Information We Receive
Your Twitter
Personalization and data settings
•
Whether we show you interest-based ads on and off Twitter
•
based on your inferred identity
•
Whether we collect and use your
•
Whether we personalize your experience based on where you’ve been
•
Whether we keep track of the websites where you see Twitter content
You can use
Your Twitter data to review:
•
Advertisers who have included you in tailored audiences to serve you ads
•
Demographic and interest data about your account from our ads partners
•
Information that Twitter has inferred about you such as your age range, gender,
languages, and interests
We also provide a version of these tools on Twitter if you don’t have a Twitter
account, or if you’re logged out of your account. This lets you see the data and
settings for the logged out browser or device you are using, separate from any
Twitter account that uses that browser or device. On Periscope, you can control
whether we personalize your experience based on your watch history through
your
.
Please see
for more details of how we collect and use your data.
3 Information We Share
and Disclose
As noted above, Twitter is designed
to broadly and instantly disseminate
information you share publicly through
our services. In the limited circumstances
where we disclose your private personal
data, we do so subject to your control,
because it’s important for operating our
services, or because it’s required by law.
3.1 Sharing You Control
We share or disclose your personal data with your consent or at your direction,
authorize a third-party web client or application
to access your
account or when you direct us to share your feedback with a business. If you’ve
shared information like Direct Messages or protected Tweets with someone
else who accesses Twitter through a third-party service, keep in mind that the
information may be shared with the third-party service.
Subject to your settings, we also provide certain third parties with personal data to
help us offer or operate our services. You can learn more about these partnerships
in our
, and you can control whether Twitter shares your personal data in
this way by using the “Allow additional information sharing with business partners”
option in your
Personalization and Data settings
. (This setting does not control
sharing described elsewhere in our Privacy Policy, such as when we share data with
our service providers or through partnerships other than as described in our
)
3.2 Service Providers
to perform functions and provide services for us in
the United States, Ireland, and other countries. For example, we use a variety of
third-party services to help operate our services, such as hosting our various blogs
and wikis, and to help us understand the use of our services, such as Google
Analytics. We may share your private personal data with such service providers
subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the third parties
use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions
(service providers may use other non-personal data for their own benefit). We share
your payment information with payment services providers to process payments;
prevent, detect, and investigate fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute
resolution such as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes associated with
the acceptance of credit and debit cards.
3.3 Law, Harm, and the Public Interest
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or controls we may
otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, share, or disclose your personal
data or other safety data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply
with a law, regulation,
legal process, or governmental request;
to protect the safety
of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help
prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we
have removed content or accounts from our services
8
; to address fraud, security,
or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of
those who use our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to
limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including
a government’s, request to disclose your personal data.
3.4 Affiliates and Change of Ownership
In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization,
or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of that
transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as transferred to the
new entity. We may also disclose personal data about you to our
in order to help operate our services and our affiliates’ services, including the delivery
of ads.
3.5 Non-Personal Information
We share or disclose non-personal data, such as aggregated information like the
total number of times people engaged with a Tweet, demographics, the number
of people who clicked on a particular link or voted on a poll in a Tweet (even if only
one did), the topics that people are Tweeting about in a particular location, some
inferred interests, or reports to advertisers about how many people saw or clicked
on their ads.
8
Transparency matters.
We remove content from our services when it violates our rules, like if it glorifies
violence. When that content is gone, we want you to know.
4 Managing Your Personal
Information With Us
You control the personal data you share
with us. You can access or rectify this
data at any time. You can also deactivate
your account. We also provide you tools
to object, restrict, or withdraw consent
where applicable for the use of data you
have provided to Twitter. And we make
the data you shared through our services
portable and provide easy ways for you to
contact us. Please note, to help protect
your privacy and maintain security, we take
steps to verify your identity before granting
you access to your personal information
or complying with deletion, portability,
or other related requests.
4.1 Accessing or Rectifying Your
Personal Data
If you have registered an account on Twitter, we provide you with tools and
to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us
and associated with your account. You can download certain account information,
including your Tweets, by following the instructions
. On Periscope, you can
request correction, deletion, or modification of your personal data, and download
your account information, by following the instructions
. You can learn more
about the interests we have inferred about you in
and request
access to additional information
. To submit a request related to access,
modification or deletion of your information, you may also contact us as specified
in the How To Contact Us section of our Privacy Policy (
4.2 Deletion
We keep Log Data for a maximum of
18 months. If you follow the instructions
), your account will be deactivated. When deactivated, your
Twitter account, including your display name, username, and public profile, will no
longer be viewable on Twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, and Twitter for Android. For up to
30 days after deactivation it is still possible to restore your Twitter account if it was
accidentally or wrongfully deactivated.
Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of
your public information, like your profile information and public Tweets, even after
you have deleted the information from our services or deactivated your account.
Learn more
4.3 Object, Restrict, or Withdraw
Consent
When you are logged into your Twitter account, you can manage your privacy
settings and other account features
at any time. It may take a short amount
of time for privacy settings to be fully reflected throughout our systems.
4.4 Portability
Twitter provides you a means to download the information you have shared through
our services by following the steps
. Periscope provides you a means to
download the information you have shared through our services by following the
steps
.
4.5 Additional Information
or Assistance
Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by contacting
or writing to us at the appropriate address below.
If you live in the United States or any other country outside of the European Union,
EFTA States, or the United Kingdom, the data controller responsible for your
personal data is Twitter, Inc. with an address of:
Twitter, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry
1355
Market Street, Suite
900
San Francisco, CA 94103
If you live in the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom, the data
controller is Twitter International Company, with an address of:
Twitter International Company
Attn: Data Protection Officer
One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street
Dublin 2, D02
AX
07
IRELAND
You can confidentially contact Twitter’s Data Protection Officer
. If you wish
to raise a concern about
(and without prejudice to any
other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local supervisory
authority or Twitter International Company’s lead supervisory authority, the Irish
Data Protection Commission. You can find their contact details
.
5 Children and
Our Services
Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you
are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing
of your personal data in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent
or guardian to do so on your behalf). You must be at least 16 years of age to use
Periscope.
6 Our Global Operations
and Privacy Shield
To bring you our services, we operate globally. Where the laws of your country allow
you to do so, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your data in the United
States, Ireland, and any other country where we operate. In some of the countries
to which we transfer personal data, the privacy and data protection laws and rules
regarding when government authorities may access data may vary from those of
your country. Learn more about our global operations and data transfer
When we transfer personal data outside of the European Union, EFTA States or the
United Kingdom we ensure an adequate level of protection for the rights of data
subjects based on the adequacy of the receiving country’s data protection laws,
contractual obligations placed on the recipient of the data (model clauses may be
requested by inquiry as described below), or EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield
principles.
Twitter, Inc. complies with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles
(the “Principles”) regarding the collection, use, sharing, and retention of personal
data from the European Union, EFTA States, and the United Kingdom as described
in our
EU-US Privacy Shield certification and Swiss-US Privacy Shield certification
If you have a Privacy Shield-related complaint, please contact us
of our participation in Privacy Shield, if you have a dispute with us about our
adherence to the Principles, we will seek to resolve it through our internal complaint
resolution process, alternatively through the independent dispute resolution body
, and under certain conditions, through the
Privacy Shield arbitration process
Privacy Shield participants are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers
of the US Federal Trade Commission and other authorized statutory bodies. Under
certain circumstances, participants may be liable for the transfer of personal data
from the EU, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom to third parties outside the EU,
EFTA States, and the United Kingdom. Learn more about the EU-US Privacy Shield
and Swiss-US Privacy Shield
7 Changes to This
Privacy Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of
the policy will govern our processing of your personal data and will always be at
. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole
discretion, is material, we will notify you within Twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, or
Twitter for Android, via a Twitter owned and operated Twitter account (for example
), or by sending an email to the email address associated with your
account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become
effective, you agree
9
to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Effective:
June 18, 2020
9
You’re in control.
Even as Twitter evolves, you can always change your privacy settings. The power is
yours to choose what you share in the world.
The Twitter Rules
Twitter’s purpose is to serve the public
conversation. Violence, harassment
and other similar types of behavior
discourage people from expressing
themselves, and ultimately diminish
the value of global public conversation.
Our rules are to ensure all people can
participate in the public conversation
freely and safely.
Safety
Violence: You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people.
We also prohibit the glorification of violence. Learn more about our
Terrorism/violent extremism: You may not threaten or promote terrorism or violent
extremism.
.
Child sexual exploitation:
We have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation on
Twitter.
Abuse/harassment: You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone,
or incite other people to do so. This includes wishing or hoping that someone
experiences physical harm.
.
Hateful conduct:
You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other
people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender,
gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.
Suicide or self-harm: You may not promote or encourage suicide or self-harm.
.
Sensitive media, including graphic violence and adult content: You may not post
media that is excessively gory or share violent or adult content within live video or
in profile or header images. Media depicting sexual violence and/or assault is also
not permitted.
.
Illegal or certain regulated goods or services: You may not use our service for any
unlawful purpose or in furtherance of illegal activities. This includes selling, buying,
or facilitating transactions in illegal goods or services, as well as certain types of
regulated goods or services.
Privacy
Private information:
You may not publish or post other people’s private information
(such as home phone number and address) without their express authorization and
permission. We also prohibit threatening to expose private information or
incentivizing others to do so.
.
Non-consensual nudity: You may not post or share intimate photos or videos of
someone that were produced or distributed without their consent.
.
Authenticity
Platform manipulation and spam:
You may not use Twitter’s services in a manner
intended to artificially amplify or suppress information or engage in behavior that
manipulates or disrupts people’s experience on Twitter.
Civic Integrity:
You may not use Twitter’s services for the purpose of manipulating or
interfering in elections or other civic processes. This includes posting or sharing
content that may suppress participation or mislead people about when, where, or
how to participate in a civic process.
Impersonation: You may not impersonate individuals, groups, or organizations in
a manner that is intended to or does mislead, confuse, or deceive others.
Synthetic and manipulated media: You may not deceptively share synthetic or
manipulated media that are likely to cause harm. In addition, we may label Tweets
containing synthetic and manipulated media to help people understand their
authenticity and to provide additional context.
Copyright and trademark: You may not violate others’ intellectual property rights,
including copyright and trademark. Learn more about our
and
.
Enforcement and Appeals
Learn more about our
, including potential consequences
for violating these rules or attempting to circumvent enforcement, as well as how to
appeal.
Third-party advertising in video content
You may not submit, post, or display any video content on or through our services
that includes third-party advertising, such as pre-roll video ads or sponsorship
graphics, without our prior consent.
Note: we may need to change these rules from time to time in order to support our
goal of promoting a healthy public conversation. The most current version is always
available at