WhatsApp just changed its terms and conditions. Here's what it means for you

WhatsApp is bringing in three key changes in privacy policy - how it processes user data; how businesses can use Facebook hosted services to store and manage their WhatsApp chats; and how WhatsApp partners with Facebook to offer integrations across the company products.

WhatsApp will collect usage and log information, phone number, mobile operator, ISP data, browser information, hardware model, operating system information, battery level, location Information, cookies, and transactions and payments data. WhatsApp, however, added that user messages, once delivered, are deleted from its servers and added that the messages are encrypted.

WhatsApp has made it clear that users need to accept these updates to continue using the app. So you have time till February 8 to either accept WhatsApp's new privacy policy or exit the platform.

WhatsApp said it works with third-party service providers and other Facebook companies to help it operate, provide, improve, understand, customise, support and market its services. "As part of the Facebook Companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information with, the other Facebook Companies... We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customise, support, and market our services and their offerings, including the Facebook Company Products," it said.