Location
We
use your device’s location to support all kinds of features, like
Geofilters, Snap Map, and to show you what’s nearby in Search. We also
make guesses about where you live and work, so your Bitmoji on Snap Map
can reflect what you might be up to.
You can still use Snapchat if you disable location permissions in your
device’s settings, but many of these features won’t work right (or at
all!) without it. Even without location permissions, Snapchat can
sometimes still guess your approximate location based on your IP address
— but it’s not perfect.
Since we collect and use location data for specific purposes, we’ve
presented the data to you in the various ways we store it. The sections
below explain how we use your location data in the context of providing
you with interesting product features, as well as meeting some important
business needs.
Frequent Locations
Your
Frequent Locations are the cities you've visited most in the last 28
days. We base these locations on your IP address, so they may not be
perfect.
City | Country | Region |
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chicago | il | midwest |
chicago | il | midwest |
Latest Location
Your
Latest Location is the last location we've saved for you, based on your
IP address. Sometimes there's a delay in getting this information and,
like Frequent Locations, we might not always get it exactly right.
City | Country | Region |
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chicago | il | midwest |
Home & Work
Depending
on which features you use, we may try to guess roughly where your home
and work are located. For example, if you're at the same location
between 9am and 5pm on weekdays, we might guess that's where you work.
We don't need to know exactly where your home and work are, so we limit
our guesses to pretty broad areas (usually between 800 and 25,000 square
meters).
Home: | lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
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Work: | lat 41.885 ± 17.64 meters, long -87.627 ± 17.64 meters |
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Daily Top Locations
Depending
on which features you use, we may store a list of the places you
visited the most each day, for the last six days. We don't need to know
exactly where you visit, so we limit our guesses to pretty broad areas
(usually between 800 and 25,000 square meters).
Date: 2020-05-03 UTC |
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lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
lat 41.885 ± 17.64 meters, long -87.627 ± 17.64 meters |
Date: 2020-05-04 UTC |
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lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
lat 41.885 ± 17.64 meters, long -87.627 ± 17.64 meters |
lat 41.885 ± 17.64 meters, long -87.627 ± 17.64 meters |
lat 41.885 ± 17.64 meters, long -87.627 ± 17.64 meters |
lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
Top Locations Per Six-Day Period
After
six days, we stop storing your Daily Top Locations. Instead, we store a
list of your most visited places across each six-day period. Like your
Daily Top Locations, these locations are stored as pretty broad areas
(usually between 800 and 25,000 square meters).
Location History
If you enable location permissions on your device, we store a list of the locations you've visited.
Time | Latitude, Longitude |
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2020/05/07 21:51:32 UTC | lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
2020/05/07 21:51:34 UTC | lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
2020/05/07 21:51:35 UTC | lat 41.890 ± 50.62 meters, long -87.625 ± 50.62 meters |
2020/05/07 21:51:45 UTC | lat 41.885 ± 17.64 meters, long -87.627 ± 17.64 meters |
2020/05/07 21:52:44 UTC | lat 41.885 ± 17.64 meters, long -87.627 ± 17.64 meters |
2020/05/07 22:13:48 UTC | lat 41.885 ± 17.64 meters, long -87.627 ± 17.64 meters |
Businesses and public places you may have visited
If
you enable location permissions on your device, we store a list of the
businesses and public places you may have visited so we can show you
relevant Geofilters, improve the accuracy of Snap Map, improve ad
targeting, measure ad performance, and more.
Date | Name |
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2020-03-06 | Ambrose |
2020-02-28 | McDonald's |
2020-02-24 | Subway |
Areas you may have visited in the last two years