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It’s really hard to make everyone happy with a Privacy Policy. Most people who use
Twitter want something short and easy to understand. While we wish we could fit
everything you need to know into a Tweet, our regulators ask us to meet our legal
obligations by describing them all in a lot of detail.With that in mind, we’ve written our
Privacy Policy as simply as possible to empower you to make informed decisions when
you use Twitter by making sure you understand and have control over the information
we collect, how it’s used, and when it’s shared. So if you skip reading every word of the
Privacy Policy, at least know this:
What data do you collect about me?
You give some data, we get some data. In return we offer useful
services. Not what you had in mind? Check your settings.
1. Information We Collect
The information we collect when you use Twitter falls into three categories.
1.1 Information you provide us.
To use some of our products and services you need to have an account, and to create
an account, you need to provide us certain information. Likewise, if you use our paid
products and services, we cannot provide them to you without getting payment
information. Basically, certain information is necessary if you want to use many of our
products and services.
• Personal Accounts. If you create an account, you must provide us with some
information so that we can provide our services to you. This includes a
display name (for example, “Twitter Moments”); a username (for example, @
TwitterMoments); a password; an email address or phone number; a date of
birth; your display language; and third-party single sign-in information (if you
choose this sign-in method). You can also choose to share your location in
your profile and Tweets, and to upload your address book to Twitter to help find
people you may know. Your profile information, which includes your display
name and username, is always public, but you can use either your real name
or a pseudonym. And remember, you can create multiple Twitter accounts, for
example, to express different parts of your identity, professional or otherwise.
• Professional Accounts. If you create a professional account, you also need to
provide us with a professional category, and may provide us with other
information, including street address, contact email address, and contact phone
number, all of which will always be public.
• Payment Information. In order to purchase ads or other offerings provided as part of
our paid products and services you will need to provide us payment information,
including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and
billing address.
• Preferences. When you set your preferences using your settings, we collect that
information so that we can respect your preferences.
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