We do not require your screen name to be your real name.

We don't want to know your real name, gender, age or what you like. To make it easier for your contacts and other people to reach you and recognize who you are, the screen name you choose, your profile pictures, and your username (should you choose to set one) on Telegram are always public. You provide your mobile number and basic account data (which may include profile name, profile picture and about information) to create a Telegram account. We process your personal data on the ground that such processing is necessary to further our legitimate interests (including: (1) providing effective and innovative Services to our users and (2) to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud or security issues in respect of our provision of Services), unless those interests are overridden by your interest or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protections of personal data. Legal Ground for Processing Your Personal Data However, as Telegram is located outside the EEA, we have designated one of our EEA-based group companies, Telegram UK Holdings Ltd (71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, England, WC2H 9JQ), as a representative to whom you may direct any issues you have relating to our processing of your personal data. If you live in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), the Services are provided by Telegram, which for the purposes of applicable data protection legislation is the data controller responsible for your personal data when you use our Services. your rights regarding your personal data.who your personal data may be shared with and.what we may use your personal data for.what personal data we may collect from you.the legal basis for processing your personal data.This Privacy Policy explains the following: This Privacy Policy should therefore be read in conjunction with those terms. This Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms of Service, which describes the terms under which you use our Services and which are available at. We only store the data that Telegram needs to function as a secure and feature-rich messaging service.We don't use your data to show you ads.Telegram has two fundamental principles when it comes to collecting and processing private data: For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ refers to Telegram, and ‘you’ refers to you, the user of the Services. (“Telegram”), use and protect your personal data that you provide to us, or that is otherwise obtained or generated by us, in connection with your use of our cloud-based messaging services (the “Services”). This Privacy Policy sets out how we, Telegram Messenger Inc.

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