Cookies

Effective February 1, 2024

A cookie is a small text file that a website you visit asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device.

We use cookies to understand, secure, operate, and provide our Services. For example, we use cookies:

• to provide WhatsApp for web and desktop and other Services that are web-based, improve your experiences, understand how our Services are being used, and customize our Services;
• to understand which of our FAQs are most popular and to show you relevant content related to our Services;
• to remember your choices, such as your language preferences, and otherwise to customize our Services for you; and
• to rank the FAQs on our website based on popularity, understand mobile versus desktop users of our web-based Services, or understand popularity and effectiveness of certain of our web pages.

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You can follow the instructions provided by your browser or device (usually located under "Settings" or "Preferences") to modify your cookie settings.

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. Additional information about the controls offered by popular browsers can be found at the links below. Certain parts of WhatsApp Products may not work properly if you have disabled browser cookies.

• Google Chrome
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• Firefox
• Safari
• Safari Mobile
• Opera

The https://www.whatsapp.com website exclusively uses First-Party cookies.

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