Pinterest vs Facebook

If you live outside the EEA, Switzerland, or UK, most disputes must go through individual binding arbitration after a mandatory notice process. You also waive court access for many claims and cannot join class actions.

You keep ownership of your posts, but Pinterest, its providers, and other users get a very broad worldwide license to use, modify, distribute, and monetize your content. You are not entitled to payment if your content is monetized.

Pinterest uses your activity, partner data, and offsite behavior to personalize ads and may disclose data for advertising and measurement. It expressly says some of this may count as targeted advertising, sharing, or selling under U.S. state laws.

Pinterest collects data from cookies, the Pinterest Save button, advertisers, partners, and linked third-party accounts to infer your interests. This means your activity beyond Pinterest can affect what content and ads you see.

For many users, Pinterest limits its total liability to $100 and excludes many categories of damages. If the service causes harm, recovering meaningful compensation may be difficult.

Pinterest offers built-in ways to delete your account and data, access your information, and receive it in a portable format. This gives users meaningful control if they want to leave the service.

Deleting your account or content does not guarantee immediate or complete disappearance. Pinterest may retain content for backup, archival, or audit purposes, and copies saved or shared by others may remain available.

Pinterest says it reviews activity and messages for safety, fraud, policy enforcement, legal matters, and age verification. Users should not assume private communications are free from monitoring.

Users can opt out of targeted advertising, sharing, or sale uses in Privacy and Data Settings. Pinterest also says it honors Global Privacy Control for eligible U.S. state residents.

Pinterest says it will notify users before material changes to the Terms take effect, rather than changing them silently. That is better than purely unilateral updates with no advance notice.

Consumers in the EEA, Switzerland, and UK are not subject to the arbitration clause and can rely on their home-country law and courts. This is a meaningful procedural protection for those users.

Pinterest transfers and stores data outside your home country, including in the United States. This is common for global platforms, but it can mean different legal protections and government access rules apply.

Meta collects a very broad range of data, including activity, device details, contacts, location, cookies, and partner data, even in some cases without an account. In practice, using Facebook can involve tracking across devices, services, and third-party sites.

Your personal data is used to target and measure ads on and off Meta products. This means your behavior and inferred interests help shape advertising across Facebook's ecosystem.

You keep ownership of your posts, photos, and videos, but grant Meta a worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use and modify them for service operation. This is a broad permission that continues until content is fully deleted.

Meta can use your name, profile photo, and ad-related actions next to sponsored content without paying you. Your social activity may therefore be used to endorse ads to others who can view that activity.

Public posts and profile information can be copied, reshared, downloaded, or indexed off-platform, including by search engines and third parties. Once something is public, practical control over it can be hard to regain.

Apps and websites connected through Facebook Login or integrations may access non-public information, and may retain data you already shared even after access expires. That creates ongoing privacy exposure outside Meta's direct control.

Facebook is provided 'as is' and Meta disclaims warranties while limiting liability for indirect and consequential damages as far as law allows. If the service causes losses or disruptions, user remedies may be narrow.

The policy expressly provides rights to access, correct, download, port, erase, object, and complain to a regulator. These are meaningful user protections, especially in regions covered by data protection law.

Consumer disputes are generally governed by the law of your home country and can be brought in competent local courts. This is more user-friendly than mandatory arbitration or exclusive foreign forum clauses for consumers.

Deleting content or an account is not immediate: primary deletion may take up to 90 days, with up to another 90 days for backups, and some data may be kept longer for legal or safety reasons. Users should not expect instant erasure.

Meta says it does not sell your personal data to advertisers or share direct identifiers like your name or email without specific permission. That reduces one common privacy risk, though substantial ad profiling and reporting still occur.

Meta says it will usually give at least 30 days' notice before material terms changes take effect. That gives users some time to review changes and decide whether to keep using the service.