WhatsApp Terms of Service: the ordinary app may not be used for non-personal purposes unless WhatsApp authorized it (WhatsApp Terms of Service, Acceptable Use of Our Services, Legal and Acceptable Use, item (f))
The general terms bind the person who holds the account and bar non-personal use without WhatsApp's authorization. A business that served customers from a personal WhatsApp account was outside these terms already, so licensing those chats is doubtful.
Dated 31 Oct 2026Source checked 31 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
Selling a company's data? This is one of the rules a sale has to meet, and the guide beside the button reads it in plain words.
- No data upload
- About two minutes
- No email needed
In the source's own words
“involve any non-personal use of our Services unless otherwise authorized by us”
Where it was read
Figures it counts in
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
Cited in this guide