Known for its temporary images, unless a friend takes a screenshot, (as of October 28th) Snapchat has now updated its terms of service that gives the app every right to users’ photos.
In order to use the updated app, users must agree to these new terms, consenting to Snapchat doing whatever they’d like with your images/videos.
By agreeing to its terms of service, users are granting the company
a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to:
host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from, publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, syndicate, promote, exhibit, and publicly display that content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).
The new privacy policy also allows your content to be possibly shared with other users and/or the public.
Basically, you’re granting Snapchat permission to use name or voice anywhere, your snaps in any promotional material, on its website or even its social media accounts.
Update: Snapchat released a blog post explaining the changes in their privacy policy.
We are not stockpiling your private Snaps! Our updated Privacy Policy & Terms of Service explained https://t.co/rQhFzmB2rj
— Snapchat (@Snapchat) November 2, 2015
Snapchat stressed on the fact that photos and videos are not stored after they have been viewed or expired.
Snapchat is not—and never has been—stockpiling your private Snaps or Chats, and because we continue to delete them from our servers as soon as they’re read, we could not—and do not—share them with advertisers or business partners.
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