WhatsApp will keep accounts that have not accepted new terms

The new WhatsApp Conditions and Privacy policy will take effect on May 15th, but it will no longer be necessary to accept it to continue using the service, although the company will continue to display reminders.

WhatsApp began to show a notification in January for users to accept the new terms before February 8, although days later it postponed its launch until May 15th, given the amount of rumors and misinformation that emerged in relation to this upgrade.

It is a message in which WhatsApp notifies of changes in the service about the data collected by the users’ own application and its treatment, as well as about the way in which businesses can use Facebook’s hosted services to store and manage your WhatsApp chats.

One of the most controversial points of this message was the requirement of having to accept the new policies in order to continue using WhatsApp. That is, if they were not accepted before May 15th, the company could delete the accounts after that date.

However, in a statement collected by The Next Web, WhatsApp has changed its criteria and now ensures that it will not delete the accounts nor will anyone lose the functionality of the service. “While the majority of users who have received the new terms of service have accepted them, we have appreciated that some people have not had the opportunity to do so yet,” the company explains.

Source: dpa