Spread builds technologies and services that enable people to connect with each other, build communities, and grow businesses. These Terms govern your use of Spread, Messenger, and the other products, features, apps, services, technologies, and software we offer (the Spread Products or Products), except where we expressly state that separate terms (and not these) apply. These Products are provided to you by Spread. By using our Products, you agree that we can show you ads that we think will be relevant to you and your interests.
We use your personal data to help determine which ads to show you. There is a subscription plan called a PRO Plan for PRO Users on Spread though this is optional, being a pro user does not prevent us from serving some Ads on your page or timeline. We don’t sell your personal data to advertisers, and we don’t share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address or other contact information) with advertisers unless you give us specific permission. Instead, advertisers can tell us things like the kind of audience they want to see their ads or certain countries, and we show those ads to people who may be interested.
We provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads that help them understand how people are interacting with their content. Our Data Policy explains how Spread collect and use your personal data to determine some of the ads you see and provide all of the other services described below. You can also go to your settings at any point in time to review the privacy choices you have about how we use your data. The services we provide
Our mission is to give people the platform to build community and bring the world closer together and kill boredom. To help advance this mission, we provide the Products and services described below: Provide a personalized experience for you: Your experience on Spread is unlike anyone else's: from the stories, posts, and other content you see in News Feed. We use the data we have - for example, about the connections you make, the choices and settings you select, and what you share and do on and off our Products - to personalize your experience. Connect you with people and organizations you care about: This platform helps you find and connect with people, groups, businesses, organizations, and others that matter to you across the Spread Products you use.
We use the data we have to make suggestions for you and others - for example, groups to join, events to attend, Pages to follow or send a message to, shows to watch, and people you may want to become friends with and follow. Stronger ties make for better communities, and we believe our services are most useful when people are connected to people, groups, and organizations they care about. Avenue to express yourself and communicate about what matters to you: There are several ways to express yourself on Spread and let your voice be heard, communicate with friends, family, and others about what matters to you, share information that are important and helpful to you and others - for example, sharing status updates, photos, videos, and stories across the Spread Products you use, sending messages to a friend or several people, sharing updates across platforms, creating events or groups, or adding content to your profile.
Discovering products and services, contents that may be of interest to you: We show you ads, offers, and other sponsored content to help you discover content, products, and services that are offered by the many businesses and organizations that use Spread and other Spread Products.
Our platform allows others to share your posts to their stories. If you create a public post, anyone on Spread can share it to their story. If you tag someone in any post, they can share it to their story and will be visible for 24 hours.
Combat harmful conduct and protect and support our community: We want Spread to be safe and enjoyable; thus users will only build community on Spread if they feel safe. We have qualified teams and develop advanced systems to detect misuse or abuse of any of our Products, harmful conduct towards others, and situations where we may be able to help support or protect our community. If we learn of content or conduct like this, we will take appropriate action immediately- for instance, offering help, removing content, removing or restricting access to certain features, disabling or even deleting an account, or contacting law enforcement agencies where required.
We share data with other Spread Companies when we detect misuse or harmful conduct by someone using one of our Products. Always improving to make our services better for our users: We always conduct research to develop, test, implement and improve our Products. This ludes analyzing the data we have about our users and understanding how people use our Products, for example by conducting surveys and testing and troubleshooting new features. Our Data Policy explains how we use data to support this research for the purposes of developing and improving our services. Provide consistent and seamless experiences across the Spread Company Products: Our Products help you find and connect with people, groups, businesses, organizations, and others that are important to you. We design our systems so that your experience is consistent and seamless across the different Spread Company Products that you use. For example, we use data about the people you engage with on Spread to make it easier for you to connect with them on Messenger, and we enable you to communicate with a business you follow on Spread through Messenger.
Enable global access to our services: To operate our global service, we need to store and distribute content and data in our data centers and systems around the world, luding outside your country of residence. This infrastructure may be operated or controlled by Spread, or its affiliates. Your commitments to Spread and our community
We provide these services to you and others to help advance our mission. In exchange, we need you to make the following commitments: Who can use Spread
When people stand behind their opinions and actions, our community is safer and more accountable. For this reason, you must: Use the same name that you use in everyday life. Provide accurate information about yourself. Create only one account (your own) and use your timeline for personal purposes. Not share your password, give access to your Spread account to others, or transfer your account to anyone else (without our permission).
We try to make Spread broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use Spread if: You are under 13 years old (or the minimum legal age in your country to use our Products). You are a convicted sex offender. We've previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms or Policies. You are prohibited from receiving our products, services, or software under applicable laws. What you can share and do on Spread
We want people to use Spread to express themselves and to share content that is important to them, but not at the expense of the safety and well-being of others or the integrity of our community. You therefore agree not to engage in the conduct described below (or to facilitate or support others in doing so): You may not use our Products to do or share anything: That violates these Terms, our Community Standards, and other terms and policies that apply to your use of Spread. That is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent. That infringes or violates someone else's rights, luding their intellectual property rights. You may not upload viruses or malicious code or do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working or appearance of our Products.
You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access. We can remove or restrict access to content that is in violation of these provisions. If we remove content that you have shared in violation of our Community Standards, we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request another review, unless you seriously or repeatedly violate these Terms or if doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons. To help support our community, we encourage you to report content or conduct that you believe violates your rights or our terms and policies. We also can remove or restrict access to your content, services or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts to Spread.
The permissions you give us
We need certain permissions from you to provide our services: Permission to use content you create and share: Some content that you share or upload, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws. You own the intellectual property rights (things like copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on Spread and the other Spread Company Products you use. Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want. However, to provide our services we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a ‘license’) to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services as described in Section 1 above. Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings).
This means, for example, that if you share a photo on Spread, you give us permission to store, copy, and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as service providers that support our service or other Spread Products you use. This license will end when your content is deleted from our systems. You can delete content individually or all at once by deleting your account. Learn more about how to delete your account. You can download a copy of your data at any time before deleting your account. When you delete content, it’s no longer visible to other users, however it may continue to exist elsewhere on our systems where: immediate deletion is not possible due to technical limitations (in which case, your content will be deleted within a maximum of 90 days from when you delete it); your content has been used by others in accordance with this license and they have not deleted it (in which case this license will continue to apply until that content is deleted); or where immediate deletion would restrict our ability to: investigate or identify illegal activity or violations of our terms and policies (for example, to identify or investigate misuse of our Products or systems); comply with a legal obligation, such as the preservation of evidence; or comply with a request of a judicial or administrative authority, law enforcement or a government agency; in which case, the content will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it has been retained (the exact duration will vary on a case-by-case basis).
In each of the above cases, this license will continue until the content has been fully deleted. Permission to use your name, profile picture, and information about your actions with ads and sponsored content: You give us permission to use your name and profile picture and information about actions you have taken on Spread next to or in connection with ads, offers, and other sponsored content that we display across our Products, without any compensation to you. For example, we may show your friends that you are interested in an advertised event or have liked a Page created by a brand that has paid us to display its ads on Spread. Ads like this can be seen only by people who have your permission to see the actions you've taken on Spread. You can learn more about your ad settings and preferences.
Permission to update software you use or download: If you download or use our software, you give us permission to download and install updates to the software where available. Limits on using our intellectual property If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Products (for example, images, designs, videos, or sounds we provide that you add to content you create or share on Spread), we retain all rights to that content (but not yours). You can only use our copyrights or trademarks (or any similar marks) as expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written permission. You must obtain our written permission (or permission under an open source license) to modify, create derivative works of, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us
