Notice of Recording to Improve your Experience in Worlds

To Provide Information for Safety Reports

When you use Worlds, the last few minutes of your most recent audio, video and other interactions in Worlds are recorded in case you want to report anything you’ve encountered. These recordings may be stored on our servers. We do not review these recordings unless you or someone else submits a report. If no report is submitted, the recordings are deleted on a rolling basis.

These recordings enable you to report abuse, combat harmful conduct, and protect and support our community. Other users in close proximity to you in Worlds may submit recordings of the same event.

If you submit a report, we use the recordings to investigate and resolve it. We use a combination of technology and trained safety specialists to review reports and recordings and determine whether the person being reported violated the Code of Conduct for Virtual Experiences. If we find a violation of our policies, we’ll take appropriate action, which may include temporarily suspending or permanently banning the violating user’s account.

We retain recordings that are part of a user report for as long as necessary (up to 2 years) to investigate and fully resolve the report, and to help train models to better combat harmful behavior. We then delete the recordings, except where we may need to retain them for longer to comply with applicable law.

To Provide Captions

If your microphone is on, your audio data may be used to show captions if you’re near someone who has captions turned on. Your audio is deleted right after captions are shown.