How does Facebook use cookies?

We use cookies to make Facebook better, faster and safer. For example, cookies help us:

• Enable certain features
• Provide you with a more personalized experience
• Protect the security of your account, the accounts of others and Facebook
• Improve, deliver, and understand the ads you see on and off Facebook
• Research, understand the use of, and improve our and partners' our products and services

As our Data Use Policy indicates, we use cookies to show you ads on and off Facebook. We don't use cookies to create a profile of your browsing behavior on third-party sites to show you ads. However, we may use anonymous or aggregate data to improve ads generally and study, develop or test new and existing products or services.

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