Messenger Kids does not have advertisements.  

Messenger Kids does not offer specific, age-related content filters. However, the Parent Dashboard on parents’ and caregivers’ Facebook accounts allows them to report text and voice messages, photos, videos, and profiles on their child’s Messenger Kids account that are inappropriate. 

Messenger Kids, and owner Meta, does collect data from users. They use this information in a variety of ways including to improve the app, improve safety, understand users’ interests and personalize future experiences. The following are the types of data that Messenger Kids collects from its users: 

• Profile details: Full name, profile photo, birthday, demographic information, Messenger Kids username, connection to a parent/caregiver’s managing account (i.e., their personal account where they’re using Parent Dashboard). 
• Content: Messages, stickers, GIFs, photos, videos that are sent and received by the user. MetadataMetadataMetadata is information about data, such as when it was created, who created it, and what it's about. It's used to help people find, use, and manage data.  like file size and date and time of communications on the app are collected. Parents/caregivers can turn off Messenger Kids’ access to a user’s camera roll settings (i.e., data is collected in the process of a child using effects, masks, and filters). 
• Friending: Frequency of friend interactions, time and duration of activities engaged in (e.g., game play or group chats) on the app, surveys and contact forms for product research. 
• Device: Operating system, available storage space, hardware and software versions, device IDs/unique identifiers, time zone, user’s settings that are enabled for camera/video, language, IP address, connection speed. 

How to get involved in Messenger Kid’s data collection processes in the Parents Dashboard: 

• Download a user’s data – Parents/caregivers can ask for a copy of their child’s app information (i.e., friend list, messages sent and received, images, videos) 
• To stop Meta from collecting and using a child's data, parents/caregivers can delete their child's Messenger Kids account  through the Help Center. When an account is deleted, all of Meta’s systems information linked to the account (e.g., messages sent and received) is also deleted. (Important to note: Messages and content sent or received by the user before the account deletion will still be visible to friends with whom it was shared). 

Users can block other profiles on Messenger Kids. When a user blocks another individual: 

• The blocked individual can no longer contact that user. 
• The blocked individual will remain in group chats unless the user leaves those chats. 
• The user can continue to view the profile photo of the blocked individual and read any conversations prior to blocking them (if the blocked individual is removed as a friend, then past conversations aren’t accessible). 
• Parents/caregivers will be notified about blocking in the Parent Dashboard. 

Parents/caregivers control Friending in the Parent Dashboard. Here are the options: 

• My child can choose friends – Users can add and remove people from their friend list. Parents/caregivers will be notified each time, and they can make changes to the friend list themselves in the Parent Dashboard.  
• Only I can choose friends – Only parents/caregivers have control over adding and removing friends in the Parent Dashboard. 

Additional features for monitoring Friending include: 

• Monitoring a user’s activities – Parents/caregivers can view who and how often the child is messaging or video chatting with other users within the last 30 days. The content of messages can be accessed as well. 
• Turning on or off kid codes – If you turn on kid codes, the user or the parent/guardian will receive a four-word code your child can share with their friends. Your child's friends can use this code to request permission to chat with your child in the Messenger Kids app.
• Turning on or off controls to allow friends of your child’s friends to ask to chat  – When this is turned on, friends of your child’s friends and their parents, kids of your Facebook friends who manage Messenger Kids accounts, and kids of people you invite to the app will be able to see your child’s name and photo.

Messenger Kids does not offer specific Nighttime Settings. Sleep Mode (found in the Parents Dashboard) allows parents/caregivers to decide the days and time periods in which their child can access Messenger Kids. The user isn’t able to use the app when it’s in Sleep Mode.  

Sleep Mode automatically turns off all Messenger Kids notifications. Otherwise, Messenger Kids doesn’t offer any other specific notification settings. 

Aside from Sleep Mode, Messenger Kids does not offer nudges to take a break. 

Parents/caregivers have the following supervision options on Messenger Kids:  

• Account Management: Each child’s Messenger Kids account is managed through the Facebook account of their parent or guardian 
• Supervised Friending: Parents manage the contact list and can monitor friending activity in the Parent Dashboard 
• Sleep Mode: Sleep mode allows parents to control which days and times their child can use the app  
• Blocking and Reporting: Kids can block or report at any time. Doing so will notify parents so they can check-in
• Download your Child’s Information: You can request a copy of your child’s Messenger Kids information that includes their contact list, messages, images, and videos
• Activity Monitoring:
  • Recent contacts and chat history – See who your child is chatting with and how frequently over the last 30 days
  • Log of images in chat – See the most recent photos and videos your child has sent and received. If you believe an image or video is inappropriate, you can remove it from your child’s device and report it. 

Sleep Mode (found in the Parents Dashboard) allows parents/caregivers to decide the days and time periods in which their child can access Messenger Kids. The user isn’t able to use the app when it’s in Sleep Mode.