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Snapchat claims they delete snaps immediately after snaps are opened, but unopened snaps stay on their servers for 30 days after they're sent: > Snapchat serve
by relyks 10y ago
Snapchat claims they delete snaps immediately after snaps are opened, but unopened snaps stay on their servers for 30 days after they're sent:
> Snapchat servers are designed to automatically delete Snaps after they’ve been viewed by all recipients. Opened Snaps typically cannot be retrieved from Snapchat's servers by anyone, for any reason. Also, Snapchat servers are designed to automatically delete unopened Snaps after 30 days. However, unopened Snaps sent to a Group Chat are deleted by default after 24 hours. [1]
[1] https://support.snapchat.com/en-US/a/when-are-snaps-chats-deleted https://support.snapchat.com/en-US/a/when-are-snaps-chats-de...
- angryasian 10y agoI'm pretty sure this only has to do with snaps and not stories, as the terms on their stories is much broader "You grant Snapchat a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from, publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, syndicate, promote, exhibit, and publicly display that content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods,”
- Shank 10y agoAside from this being legal boilerplate used in most terms of service documents, this snippet doesn't say anything about data retention.
- angryasian 10y agoyou're right but it certainly implies that there is no limit and can be easily circumvented. Example, they might delete what you uploaded, but that doesn't mean they didn't duplicate it and keep it around. legalspeak.