Upload Your Contacts to Facebook
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How do I upload my contacts to Facebook from my mobile phone or other accounts?
How do I upload my contacts to Facebook from my mobile phone or other accounts?
You can't currently upload contacts from facebook.com on your mobile phone. Learn how to upload contacts with the:
1.
Facebook for Android app
2.
Facebook Lite app
3.
Facebook for iOS app
Note: To upload your contacts from your email account, you'll need to log into Facebook on a computer.
For more information, please see our notice on contact uploading
for Non-Users.
How do I delete contacts I uploaded to Facebook?
How do I delete contacts I uploaded to Facebook?
To stop your contacts from being uploaded again, you'll need to turn off continuous contact uploading
on each of the devices where you're using the Facebook app.
To delete the
contacts that you've uploaded
to Facebook:
1.
Go to the Uploading and Managing Your Contacts
screen.
2.
Tap Delete All
.
For more information, please see our notice on contact uploading
for Non-Users.
I don't know why someone received an invitation to join Facebook from me.
I don't know why someone received an invitation to join Facebook from me.
When you upload your contacts
to Facebook, you can choose to send your contacts an invitation to join Facebook. If people received an invitation from you that you didn't mean to send, please let us know
.
Note: we can't delete SMS or email invitations that have already been sent, but you can remove your uploaded contacts
to make sure that they don't get more invitation reminders.
For more information, please see our notice on contact uploading
for Non-Users.
Information for people who don’t use Meta Products
Information for people who don’t use Meta Products
Meta Platforms, Inc. (“ Meta
”, “ we
”, “ our
” or “ us
”) processes your name, mobile phone number and/or your email address if we receive it from our users through the contact uploading
or contact syncing
feature available on Facebook, Messenger or Instagram (“ Contact Uploading
”). We process this information even if you are not a user of Facebook, Messenger or Instagram and/or don’t have an account with us (a “ Non-User
”).
About Contact Uploading and how it works
When a user uses Contact Uploading and grants us access to their device’s address book. We will access and upload the names, phone numbers and email addresses in their address book on a daily basis to our servers, including those of both users of Facebook, Messenger and/or Instagram and other contacts who are not users or don’t have an account (i.e., Non-Users).
What information is collected about Non-Users?
We collect the name, mobile phone number and/or email address of a user's contacts.
How do we use a Non-User’s information?
Contact Uploading is an optional feature where users can choose to upload their device's address book to Facebook, Messenger and/or Instagram. We process the names, phone numbers and/or e-mail addresses in the address book to see if any of the numbers or email addresses belong to users. If a user’s contact is also on Facebook, Messenger and/or Instagram, we can suggest this contact on Facebook as someone to send a friend request to in the Facebook user’s People You May Know
or as a suggested account to follow on Instagram. Users can also invite Non-Users to join Facebook, Messenger and/or Instagram via text or email.
Contact Uploading also allows us to suggest a Non-User who joins as a user of Facebook as a friend to add for the user through People You May Know
or as a suggested account to follow on Instagram.
Finally, we will also use the address books uploaded to investigate suspicious activity on the Meta Products
and keep our platform safe and secure. We also conduct business intelligence and analytics using the address books uploaded to accurately count people and users of the Meta Company Products
.
Meta shares information we collect, infrastructure, systems and technology with the other Meta Companies
. We share Non-Users’ data with other Meta Companies to be able to provide the contact import feature and for the purposes set out above.
We retain Non-User’s personal information for as long as needed to provide the Contact Importer feature to users and for the purposes described above. In certain cases, we need to keep your contact information for longer, including after you ask us to erase it. This includes for legal reasons such as to respond to a legal request or comply with applicable law, for regulatory or litigation matters, to prevent harm or for safety, security and integrity purposes. The length of time we need to keep it will depend on the specific reason.
How Non-Users can exercise their rights
We provide Non-users the ability to exercise their rights under applicable laws. To exercise your rights, contact us using the contact information below.
You can learn more about how privacy works on Facebook
and on Instagram
, and in the Facebook Help Center
.
We hope that we can satisfy any queries a Non-User may have about the way in which we process their personal information. In some countries you may also be able to contact the Data Protection Officer for Meta Platforms, Inc., and depending on your jurisdiction, you may also contact your local Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) directly.
Click here
if you have a question about the rights you may have.
How we Transfer information
We share the information we collect globally, both internally across our offices and data centers, and externally with our partners, service providers and vendors. Because Meta is global, with users, partners and employees around the world, transfers are necessary for a variety of reasons, including so we can operate and provide the services described in this Data Notice.
Non-User information will be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in:
Places we have infrastructure or data centers, including the United States, Ireland, Denmark and Sweden, among others
Countries where Meta Products are available
Other countries where our partners, service providers and vendors are located outside of the country where you live, for purposes as described in this Data Notice.
We rely on appropriate mechanisms for international data transfers. For example, for information we collect:
We utilize standard contractual clauses
approved by the European Commission and by other relevant authorities.
We rely on determinations from the European Commission, and from other relevant authorities, about whether other countries have adequate levels of data protection
.
We use equivalent mechanisms under applicable laws that apply to data transfers to the United States and other relevant countries.
United States Regional Privacy Notice
If you are a United States resident, you can learn more about your consumer privacy rights by reviewing the United States Regional Privacy Notice
.
Contact us
If you have questions about this Notice, or have questions, complaints or requests regarding your information, please use this form
.
Alternatively, if you don’t have access to the form, you can also write to us at the following address:
Meta Platforms, Inc.
ATTN: Privacy Operations
1601 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Something Isn't Working
I'm trying to upload my contacts to Facebook but was told that I entered the wrong password.
I'm trying to upload my contacts to Facebook but was told that I entered the wrong password.
When you upload your contacts
to Facebook, make sure that you enter the password for that account and not your Facebook password. For example, enter your email password if you're uploading contacts from an email address.
If you're still having trouble uploading your contacts, you can learn how to report it
.
I'm seeing an unsupported email error message when I try to upload my contacts to Facebook.
I'm seeing an unsupported email error message when I try to upload my contacts to Facebook.
If you see an error that your email is unsupported, you may not be able to upload your contacts
from that email service right now.
If you think you're seeing this error message by mistake, you can learn how to report it
.
