Know how the company keeps your data store after deleting WhatsApp account and for what it does.
Whatsapp Account Delete
WhatsApp may have ended the deadline for accepting its privacy policy, but somewhere it still seems to be forcing the users to accept it. The company has said that users will be given repeated reminders to accept WhatsApp privacy and even if they do not accept this policy, then gradually their services will be stopped. After this, the policy of the interactive user will be applied on it and it is also possible that then their account gets deleted.
Accepting this new policy of the company means that somewhere you have to share your data with her, which she can share with Facebook and other companies for advertising. In such a situation, if you do not want to accept and want to stop using WhatsApp and delete your account, then you can follow these steps. Also, before deleting the account, you will have to do some more important work, so that you can also store your WhatsApp data. But keep in mind that even after the account is deleted, the company can keep your data, about which we are going to give you complete information here.
First of all, know what information you have with WhatsApp.
If you want to know what information you have with WhatsApp, then for this you will have to download WhatsApp report. To download the report, first go to the WhatsApp settings, then go to the account and then tap on the request report. After submitting the request for the report, you will get the report after three days. Keep in mind that this feature cannot be used in WhatsApp web and desktop.
Download data before deleting account
Before deleting your WhatsApp account, you can download your WhatsApp data, this will include your chat and other media files. To export your chat, you have to go to Settings> Chats> Chat History> Export Chat. In this, you can choose the chat according to which you want to export.
If you want to download your media files such as photos, videos and other media, then you have to click on ‘include media’. After this you can choose the app according to which you want to export the data. WhatsApp shows options like Google Drive and Gmail.
Follow these steps to delete WhatsApp account
Now it is time to delete WhatsApp account. If you want to delete the account, first open WhatsApp and then go to Settings and then Account. Here you will get the option of Delete My Account, click on it. After doing this, WhatsApp will ask you to verify your phone number again and after doing this you can delete the account by clicking on “Delete My Account”.
Company keeps your data even after account is deleted
– If you delete the account from WhatsApp, the old messages will be deleted.
– You will be removed from all WhatsApp groups.
– Backup taken in Google Drive will be deleted.
– According to WhatsApp, it can take up to 90 days to delete your WhatsApp details. The company can save a copy of your account details in backup storage even after 90 days, which can be used for any major problem, software malfunction or recovery of lost data. During this time, you will not be able to see your account details on WhatsApp.
– The information related to you such as your sent messages, photos, videos etc. in your created group or with other users will not be deleted.
– Some content such as log records can be kept by the company in its database, but users cannot be identified from them.
– As part of efforts to protect users from legal matters, violation of terms or damage, the company can store your details. although
Your details shared with other Facebook companies will be deleted.
You can check the privacy policy of the company (https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy#privacy-policy-law-and-protection) to know more about it.
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