WhatsApp Terms of Service: users may not sell or charge for data obtained from WhatsApp in an unauthorized manner (WhatsApp Terms of Service, Acceptable Use of Our Services, Harm to WhatsApp or Our Users, item (g))
The general terms that govern the ordinary WhatsApp app bar selling data obtained from the service in an unauthorized manner. A business that runs customer chats on a personal WhatsApp account, rather than WhatsApp Business, is bound by these terms.
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
“sell, resell, rent, or charge for our Services or data obtained from us or our Services in an unauthorized manner”
Where it was read
Figures it counts in
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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