Parent Privacy Disclosure

Change your child’s default account settings anytime in Family Center, including reviewing or editing your child’s Meta account information, such as the password used to log into their device, and changing the settings that govern your child’s Active Status, which allows their followers to see whether they are online or were recently online.

• Irrespective of these default privacy settings, users who are currently in the same app or experience may be able to see your child’s presence in that app or experience, and Meta Quest users can still search for your child’s name or username and send your child a follow request.

Add users as approved contacts that your child can call and chat with. These users will be able to send or receive invites from your child to join them in an app or experience. You can remove approved contacts any time in Family Center. Your child can remove approved contacts anytime in the Meta Horizon mobile app and in virtual reality.

View your child’s follower and following lists, and block users. If you choose to manage your child’s follower and following lists, you can approve your child’s follower and following requests.

Approve your child’s app downloads and purchases and manage which Horizon worlds they access, create and collaborate on.

Set time limits, such as a daily time limit and breaks when your child cannot use the headset or Horizon Worlds.

Access, download and delete information collected about or from your child and delete your child’s Meta account. Your child can also exercise the same privacy rights, including deleting their Meta account. Learn more in our United States Regional Privacy Notice.

Information about your child’s connections to others, such as whom your child follows, whom you have added as an approved contact for your child, and when the same parent or guardian manages your child’s account

Information about your child’s activity in Meta Quest devices and apps, including the apps they download, and the time, frequency, and duration of their activities

Information about your child’s gameplay activity and statistics, including actions in a game and associated metadata

Information about content your child creates on Meta VR Products, such as a picture, or an object your child builds. We also collect information about this content, such as the date and time your child created it

Video and audio information recorded when cameras and microphones are enabled on Meta VR Products

Audio recordings of your child’s voice and related data about their voice interactions if you choose to enable voice services on their Meta Quest device

Headset location via WiFi and IP signals to determine general location when location services are on

With your approval, additional information about how your child uses their Meta Quest device to improve Meta Quest products for everyone and/or further tailor your child’s experiences in virtual reality, so they’ll see more of what’s relevant to them

With your approval, information about the size of walls, surfaces, and objects in your child’s room and the distances between them and your child’s headset to offer experiences that blend their virtual and real-world environments

Personal information necessary to provide services so that the device and any features you or your child turn on function optimally

Physical information about or related to your child, such as estimated hand size and body scale, and hand and body pose data, if you choose to enable the hand and body tracking feature

Information about or related to the position and orientation of the headset, controllers and body movements to determine body pose, make your child’s avatar’s movements more realistic, and deliver an immersive virtual experience

Information about or related to your child’s fitness activities in virtual reality if you choose to enable fitness-related experiences such as Move

Information collected in or through various technologies on the Meta Quest website, browser, and Meta Horizon mobile app, including cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies, as described in the sections about essential cookies in the Meta Cookies Policy.

Technical information about the devices your child uses and how they use them, including performance and device attributes, system logs and settings, success or failure of specific functions, use of third-party services, and crash reports.

We use your child’s information to communicate with them, provide services like Meta accounts, undertake analytics and measurement, promote safety, security, integrity, and optimal operation on Meta VR Products and to conduct research and innovate for social good.

We use information such as age, chosen language, general location, and people your child is connected with, so that we can provide your child with additional product functionalities and safe, age-appropriate experiences, such as enabling them to invite people to specific apps and worlds and placing them in apps and worlds with people they know, and/or contacts you have approved.

Users you add as approved contacts, your child’s followers, and those they follow may appear higher in your child’s search results.

We also offer optional personalization to help your child find relevant experiences, for example, to recommend apps based on their interests or worlds that they or people they know have visited.

We use device performance and reliability data to improve and develop Meta VR products.

Information that is Public: Your child’s Meta Horizon Profile information including their display name, username, profile picture, and avatar will be public and visible to other users on or off Meta Quest products.

Information Shared While Playing Online: When your child uses a multi-user app on their Meta Quest device, their activity and other information they provide including their avatar, in-app profile information, and in-app activity are visible to all within the app, irrespective of the privacy settings you’ve selected for your child.

Information Shared with Third Party Developers: We share your child’s Meta Horizon profile information with apps they use so they can appear as their Meta Horizon profile in those apps. We may also share information about your child’s age category (not including birthdate), followers, blocked users, subscriptions, personal identifiers, app invites (when social features are enabled), and in-app purchases and destinations with app developers.

Information Shared with Other Users: We may share certain information about your child including the fact that they have a parent-managed Meta account and the apps they have, with other users who are managed or supervised by the same parent or guardian. Your child’s activity, such as apps your child has used and achievements in those apps, will be visible to their followers.

Vendors and Service Providers: We share your child’s information with vendors and service providers who support our business, such as by providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how products are used, providing customer service, facilitating payments, or conducting surveys.

Third Parties for Security, Integrity, and Legal Requests: Meta may share your child’s information in response to valid law enforcement requests for information, including emergency requests related to credible threats of violence or harm, as well as other legal requests.