Reddit Privacy Policy
We’ve updated our Privacy Policy. Please take a look before the changes take effect on July 1, 2026.
This page is the updated Privacy Policy; for the version effective until July 1, 2026, click here.
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, though you may have different feature experiences if you choose to share less.
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 personal 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 and reshare 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 as well as reshared by others without permission or where Reddit has no control. 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 personal 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
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How We Use Your Information
We use information about you to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve the Services;
- Provide you personalized, age-appropriate services, content, and features;
- Provide you with relevant advertising, including personalized advertising on and off Reddit;
- Optimize and measure the effectiveness of ads shown on our Services;
- Advertise Reddit Services to you on other sites and apps, including measuring the performance of those ads;
- Help protect the safety of Reddit and our users, which includes blocking suspected spammers, addressing abuse, age restricting certain content and enforcing our rights, the Reddit User Agreement and our other terms and policies, as well as comply with applicable law;
- Research and develop new services;
- Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, invoices, and other support and administrative messages;
- Provide customer service;
- Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, events, and programs, and provide other news and information we think will be of interest to you (for information about how to opt out of these communications, see “Your Rights and Choices” below); and
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services.
How We Protect Your Information
We take measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. For example, we use HTTPS while information is being transmitted. We also enforce technical and administrative access controls to limit which of our employees have access to non-public personal information.
You can help maintain the security of your account by configuring two-factor authentication.
We store the information we collect for as long as it is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes and/or if we believe doing so is in accordance with, or as required by, any applicable law. For example, if you violate our policies and your account is suspended or banned, we may store the identifiers used to create the account (such as phone number) to prevent you from creating new accounts.
Your Rights and Choices
You have choices about how to protect and limit the collection, use, and sharing of information about you when you use the Services. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to correction/rectification of your personal information, to opt out of certain advertising practices, or to withdraw consent for processing where you have previously provided consent. Please see “Additional Information for EEA, Swiss, and UK Users” and “Additional Information for California & Other U.S. State Users.” Below we explain how to exercise each of these rights. Reddit does not discriminate against users for exercising their rights under data protection laws.
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If you have questions or are not able to submit a request to exercise your rights using the mechanisms above, you may also email us at redditdatarequests@reddit.com from the email address that you have verified with your Reddit account, or submit your requests here.
Before we process a request from you about your personal information, we need to verify the request via your access to your Reddit account or to a verified email address associated with your Reddit account. If we deny your request, you may appeal our decision by contacting us at redditdatarequests@reddit.com.
International Data Transfers
Reddit is a global platform with operations across the world. We process and store information on servers located in the United States, and we may transfer it to our affiliates, service providers, and other third parties located in various countries depending on factors such as the locations of our users and operational needs.
When we transfer the personal data of users in the EEA, UK and/or Switzerland to countries outside these regions, we ensure an adequate level of protection through mechanisms such as adequacy decisions and the Standard Contractual Clauses (with the UK Addendum or Swiss equivalent where applicable), along with the supplementary measures where required.
EU-U.S., UK Extension, and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks Disclosure
Reddit, Inc., complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Reddit, Inc., has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (EU-U.S. DPF Principles) with regard to the processing of personal data received from the European Union and the United Kingdom in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF. Reddit, Inc., has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles) with regard to the processing of personal data received from Switzerland in reliance on the Swiss-U.S. DPF. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the EU-U.S. DPF Principles and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles, the Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) Program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/.
Reddit, Inc.’s compliance with the DPF is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In accordance with the DPF, Reddit, Inc., is also liable for onward transfers to third parties that process personal information in a way that does not follow the DPF unless Reddit, Inc., was not responsible for the event giving rise to any alleged damage.
In some situations, the DPF Framework gives you the right to invoke binding arbitration. You can do this to resolve complaints not resolved by other means, as described in Annex I to the DPF framework. In compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF and the Swiss-U.S. DPF, Reddit, Inc., commits to refer unresolved complaints concerning our handling of personal data received in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF and the Swiss-U.S. DPF to JAMS, an alternative dispute resolution provider based in the United States. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your DPF Principles-related complaint from us, or if we have not addressed your DPF Principles-related complaint to your satisfaction, please visit https://www.jamsadr.com/dpf-dispute-resolution for more information or to file a complaint. The services of JAMS are provided at no cost to you.
Additional Information for EEA, Swiss, and UK Users
If you live in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland, Reddit Netherlands B.V. is the controller of information processed in connection with the Reddit platform and this policy. If you live in the United Kingdom (“UK”), Reddit, Inc., is the data controller and Reddit UK Limited is Reddit’s UK GDPR Article 27 Representative.
Users in the EEA, Switzerland, and UK have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of their personal data; to data portability in certain circumstances; to request restriction of processing; to object to processing; and to withdraw consent for processing where they have previously provided consent. These rights can be exercised as described in the “Your Rights and Choices" section above. EEA and Swiss users also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local supervisory authority.
As required by applicable law, we collect and process information about individuals in the EEA, Switzerland, and UK only where we have a legal basis for doing so. Our legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them.
Similarly, depending on the services, we may also process the same information for different purposes. We explain below these processing purposes, the categories of data processed and the legal basis for processing this data, in more detail:
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Additional Information for California & Other US State Users
Some US state laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), as amended, require us to provide residents with some additional information and rights, which we address in this section.
In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information from residents, depending on the Services used:
- Identifiers and account information, like your Reddit username, email address, phone number, IP address, and cookie information.
- Commercial information, including information about transactions you undertake with us.
- Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information about your activity on our Services and limited information about your activity on the services of advertisers who use our advertising technology.
- Geolocation information based on your IP address.
- Your messages with other users (for example, private messages, private chats, and modmail).
- Audiovisual information in pictures, audio, or video content submitted to Reddit.
- Professional or employment-related information or demographic information, but only if you explicitly provide it to us, such as by filling out a survey.
- Inferences we make based on other collected data, for purposes such as recommending content, advertising, and analytics.
You can find more information about (a) what we collect and sources of that information in the “What Information We Collect” section of this notice, (b) the business and commercial purposes for collecting that information in the “How We Use Your Information” section, and (c) the categories of third parties with whom we share that information and the purpose for sharing that information in the “How We Share Your Information” section.
Depending on your jurisdiction, and subject to exceptions and limitations provided by local law, in addition to the rights listed in “Your Rights and Choices” above, you may have: the right to opt out of any sales or sharing of your personal information, to request access to and information about our data practices, and to request deletion or correction of your personal information, as well as the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights. For users in states with applicable privacy laws, you may exercise your rights via your Privacy Settings. You can opt out of the sharing of your personal information with third-party partners, used to measure the effectiveness of Reddit's advertisements on other platforms by toggling the “Ads off Reddit” setting to off in your privacy preferences. Reddit does not “sell” personal information as those terms are defined under applicable state privacy laws. Reddit does not have knowledge that it “sells” or “shares” the personal information of users under 16 years of age. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information except to provide you the Services or as otherwise permitted by applicable regulations. We do not engage in profiling of consumers in furtherance of automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects as those terms are defined in applicable regulations.
You may exercise your rights to access, delete, or correct your personal information as described in the “Your Rights and Choices” section of this notice. When you make a request, we will verify your identity by asking you to sign into your account or if necessary by requesting additional information from you. You may also make a rights request using an authorized agent. If you submit a rights request from an authorized agent who does not provide a valid power of attorney, we may ask the authorized agent to provide proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request to exercise rights on your behalf. In the absence of a valid power of attorney, we may also require you to verify your own identity directly with us or confirm to us that you otherwise provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request. If you have any questions or concerns, you may reach us using the methods described under “Your Rights and Choices” or by emailing us at redditdatarequests@reddit.com.
The CCPA requires us to disclose certain metrics about the various requests we receive, such as how many specific requests we received from California residents in the last calendar year. See our CCPA Metrics Disclosure.
Additional Information for Brazilian Users
All information regarding the processing of your personal data is detailed in the Privacy Policy, and any differences arising from the application of Law No. 13,709/18 ("Brazilian General Data Protection Law" or "LGPD") will be addressed in this section.
In case of conflict between the Privacy Policy and this section, this section shall prevail for users in Brazil.
Identification of the Controller
For all processing activities related to users in Brazil, the controller is Reddit, Inc.,
located at 548 Market St. #16093, San Francisco, California 94104, United States.
Your Rights
The LGPD grants certain rights regarding your personal data, which are not absolute and may
be subject to restrictions. Your rights under the LGPD are the following:
- Confirmation on whether your data is being processed.
- Access to your data.
- Correction of incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated data.
- Anonymization, blocking, or erasure of data, when applicable.
- Deletion of personal data processed on the basis of consent, when you choose to withdraw it.
- Portability of personal data to a third party.
- Information on the sharing of your personal data.
- Information about the possibility of refusing to provide consent and the respective consequences, when applicable.
- Withdrawing your consent.
- Request a review of decisions made solely based on automated processing of personal data.
Please note that these rights are not absolute and may not apply in certain circumstances.
Fulfilling Your Rights
Before responding to any request to exercise the rights mentioned above, we may ask you to
provide certain information so that we can confirm your identity. We will comply with your
request after your identity has been verified, in accordance with applicable law.
International Data Transfers
In order to facilitate our operations and provide you with the requested Services, certain
personal data will be transferred to, used, accessed, processed, and stored in other
countries, including the United States. Privacy and data protection laws in these countries
may not be equivalent to the laws of Brazil.
If your personal information is shared with corporate affiliates or third-party service providers outside of Brazil, we will implement the necessary safeguards to uphold an adequate level of data protection for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes described in our Privacy Policy. These international transfers are carried out using one of the valid mechanisms provided for in the LGPD and in regulations issued by the Brazilian Data Protection Agency (ANPD). All recipients are subject to appropriate technical, administrative, and contractual measures to ensure the security, confidentiality, and integrity of the information, in accordance with applicable legislation.
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
In accordance with Article 41 of the LGPD, our Data Protection Officer (DPO) for Brazil acts
as the communication channel between Reddit, data subjects in Brazil, and the ANPD. You can
contact the DPO directly for any questions, requests, or appeals related to your Personal
Information.
If you have questions regarding your rights or wish to make a request related to your personal data, you can contact the Controller or the Data Protection Officer by emailing us at dpo@reddit.com.
Changes to This Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If the changes, in our sole discretion, are material, we may also notify you by sending an email to the address associated with your account (if you have chosen to provide a verified email address) or by otherwise providing notice through our Services. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. By continuing to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised policy.
Contact Us
If you have other questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Reddit, Inc.
548 Market St. #16093
San Francisco, California 94104
If you live in the United States, the data controller responsible for your information is Reddit, Inc.
For email inquiries, you may email us at redditdatarequests@reddit.com or reach our Data Protection Office at dpo@reddit.com.
Users in the European Economic Area or Switzerland may contact us at:
Reddit Netherlands B.V.
Euro Business Center
Looiersgracht 43, 1016 VR Amsterdam
Netherlands
dpo@reddit.com
United Kingdom users may contact us at:
Reddit UK Limited
5 New Street Square
London, United Kingdom
EC4A 3TW
ukrepresentative@reddit.com
Users in Brazil may contact us at:
Reddit Rede de Comunidades do Brasil Ltda
Rua Barão de Itapetininga, 37
Edifício Barão III – Sala 104
República 01042-916 São Paulo
dpo@reddit.com
