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Reddit Privacy Policy

Effective: June 28, 2025. Last Revised: May 29, 2025.

Introduction

At Reddit, we believe that privacy is a right. We want to empower our users to be the masters of their identity. In this privacy policy, we want to help you understand how and why Reddit (“Reddit,” “we” or “us”) collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our websites, mobile apps, widgets, APIs, emails, and other online products and services (collectively, the "Services") or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us.

We want this privacy policy to empower you to make better choices about how you use Reddit. We’d love for you to read the whole policy, but if you don’t, here is the TL;DR:

Reddit is a public platform. Our communities are largely public and anyone can see your profile, posts, and comments.

We collect minimal information that can be used to identify you by default. If you want to just browse, you don’t need an account. If you want to create an account to participate in a subreddit, we don’t require you to give us your real name. We don’t track your precise location. You can even browse anonymously. You can share as much or as little about yourself as you want when using Reddit.

Any data we collect is used primarily to provide our Services, which are focused on allowing people to come together and form communities. We don’t sell your personal data to third parties, including data brokers.

Privacy rights are for everyone. At Reddit, anyone can request a copy of their data, account deletion, or information about our policies.

We’ve tried our best to make this as easy to understand as possible but sometimes privacy policies are still confusing. If you need help understanding this policy or anything about Reddit, just ask.

Reddit Is a Public Platform

Much of the information on the Services is public and accessible to everyone, even without an account.

When you submit content (for example, a post, comment, or chat message) to a public part of the Services, any visitors to and users of our Services will be able to see that content, the username associated with that content, and the date and time you originally submitted that content. That content and information may also be available in search results on internet search engines like Google or in responses provided by an AI chatbot like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. You should take the public nature of the Services into consideration before posting. By using the Services, you are directing us to share this information publicly and freely.

Your Reddit account has a profile page that is public. Your profile contains information about your activities on the Services, such as your username, prior posts and comments, karma, trophies and achievement badges, profile display name, about section, social links, avatar or profile image, moderator, contributor, and Reddit Premium status, communities you are active in, and how long you have been a member of the Services (your cake day).

We offer social sharing features that let you share content or actions you take on our Services with other media. Your use of these features enables the sharing of certain information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the third parties that provide these social sharing features (for example, Tumblr, Facebook, and X).

Reddit allows moderators to access Reddit content and information using moderator bots and tools. Reddit also allows other third parties to access Reddit public content and information using Reddit’s developer services, including Reddit Embeds, our APIs, Developer Platform, and similar technologies. We limit third-party access to this content and aggregate information (for example, voting ratios) before sharing. We also require third parties to pay licensing fees for access to larger quantities of content and information. Reddit’s Developer Terms are our standard terms governing how these services are used by third parties. Please review our Public Content Policy for more information about how your public content is publicly available and accessible to anyone with access to the internet.

What Information We Collect


Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide to us directly when you use the Services. This includes:

Account Information

You don’t need an account to use Reddit. If you create a Reddit account, your account will have a username, which you provide or which is automatically generated. Your username is public, and it doesn’t have to be related to your real name. You may need to provide a password, depending on whether you register using an email address, Single Sign-On (SSO) feature (such as Apple or Google), or phone number. If your account does not have a password, we may send you a SMS message for verification purposes. We also ask you to select an interest, or multiple interests, during account creation (for example, history, nature, sports) to help generate content and community recommendations or select more relevant advertising for you.

When you use Reddit, you may also provide other information, such as a bio, gender, birthday, location, language, profile picture, or social link. You can remove or revise this information at any time.

We also store your user account preferences and settings. We may ask for such information prior to you creating a username or account to help improve your experience exploring Reddit.

Public Content You Submit

Public content you submit includes your public posts, comments, and chat messages, usernames, and some of your profile information, as well as related metadata. Public content you submit may also include text, links, images, gifs, audio, videos, software, and tools. Our Public Content Policy applies to this content.

Non-Public Content You Submit

Non-public content you submit includes your saved drafts of posts or comments, your non-public messages with other users (such as private messages, private chats, and modmail), and your reports and other communications with moderators and with us. Non-public content you submit may also include text, links, images, gifs, audio, videos, software, and tools.

It also includes information you submit when you fill out a form or survey, participate in Reddit-sponsored activities, promotions, or programs, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.

Actions You Take

We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This includes your interactions with the platform and content, like voting, saving, hiding, and reporting. It also includes your interactions with other users, such as following and blocking. We collect your interactions with communities, like your subscriptions or moderator status.

Transactional Information

If you purchase products or services from us or otherwise through the Services, you will have to provide payment information in order to complete your purchase. Reddit uses industry-standard payment processor services (such as Stripe) to handle payment information, and those services are subject to separate terms and conditions and privacy policies. We will collect information about the product or service you are purchasing (for example, purchase dates, amounts paid or received, and expiration and renewal dates).

We may also collect public blockchain data and addresses, such as when you purchase or create a Collectible Avatar, receive or mint an NFT, or create a Reddit Vault. However, we never store Reddit Vault private key information.


Information We Collect As You Use Our Services
We automatically collect information as you use our Services. This includes:

Logs Data

We collect device and network connection information when you access and use the Services. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (such as device IDs), device settings, and mobile carrier name. Except for the IP address used to create your account, Reddit will delete any IP addresses collected after 100 days.

Usage Information

Information Collected From Cookies and Similar Technologies

We may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests, and similar technologies. We use this information to deliver and maintain our Services, improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, measure the effectiveness of advertising on and off Reddit, and improve the quality of our Services. For example, we store and retrieve information about your preferred language and other settings. See our Cookie Notice for more information about how Reddit uses cookies. For more information on how you can disable cookies, please see “Your Rights and Choices” below.

Location Information

We automatically collect information about your approximate location based on our Logs Data. We may also receive location information from you when you choose to share such information on our Services, including via the Location Customization setting or by associating your content with a location.

Public Content Related to You

Information that we collect about you based on your interactions on our Services will appear on your public profile. This includes your karma scores, trophies and achievement badges, moderator, contributor, and Reddit Premium status, communities you are active in, and how long you have been a member of the Services (your cake day), as well as related metadata. Our Public Content Policy applies to this content.

Inferred Information

We infer attributes such as age range, gender, and/or preferred language(s) based on the information we have about you.


Information Collected from Other Sources
We may receive information about you from other sources, including from other users and third parties, and combine that information with the other information we have about you. For example, we may receive demographic or interest information about you from third parties, including advertisers (such as the fact that an advertiser is interested in showing you an ad), and combine it with data you have provided to Reddit, using a common account identifier such as a hash of an email address or a mobile-device ID. You can control how we use this information to personalize advertisements for you by visiting the User Settings menu in your account, as described in the section titled “Your Rights and Choices” below.

Linked Services

If you authorize or link a third-party service, such as an unofficial mobile app client, to access your Reddit account, Reddit receives information about your use of that service when it uses that authorization. Linking services may also cause the other service to send us information about your account with that service. For example, if you sign in to Reddit with a third-party identity provider, that provider may share an email address with us. To learn how information is shared with linked services, see “How We Share Your Information” below.

Information Collected From Integrations

We also may receive information about you, including log and usage data and cookie information, from third-party sites that integrate our Services, including our embeds and advertising technology. For example, when you visit a site that uses Reddit Embeds, we may receive information about the web page you visited. Similarly, if an advertiser incorporates Reddit’s ad technology, Reddit may receive limited information about your activity on the advertiser’s site or app, such as whether you bought something from the advertiser. You can control how we use this information to personalize the Services and ads on and off Reddit for you as described in “Your Rights and Choices” below.


Information Collected if You Use Certain Reddit Offerings

Reddit Ads Users

If you use Reddit Ads (Reddit’s self-serve ads platform at ads.reddit.com) on behalf of your business or organization, we collect some additional information. To sign up for Reddit Ads, you must provide your name, email address, and information about your company. Reddit may make information about your company public to comply with applicable law. If you purchase advertising services, you will need to provide transactional information as described above in “Information We Collect - Transactional Information,” and we may also require additional documentation to verify your identity. When using Reddit Ads, we may record a session replay of your visit for customer service, troubleshooting, and usability research purposes.