Meta: DPA, subprocessors and transfers

Links last opened 3 October 2026. Record confirmed by a person on 2 October 2026. 2 recorded changes, listed below.

Meta contracts through Meta Platforms, Inc., registered in United States. Transfers of personal data out of the EEA are covered by EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). Its customer data processing agreement, also called a data processing addendum, is published by Meta itself; the link is below. We open those pages every day — last on 3 October 2026 — and a person last went through this record on 2 October 2026.

Contracting legal entity: Meta Platforms, Inc.
Country of registration: United States
Transfer mechanism: EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF)
A US certification scheme covered by an EU adequacy decision. Transfers to a certified US organisation need no further mechanism for the certified scope.
Data processing agreement: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/dataprocessing
Subprocessor list: Meta's own site would not let us read it when we last tried, on 6 October 2026, so this is a gap in our reading and not in what they publish.
Security or trust page: Meta's own site would not let us read it when we last tried, on 6 October 2026, so this is a gap in our reading and not in what they publish.

What to put in your subprocessor list

A ready row. Replace the purpose with what your client actually uses Meta for.

Subprocessor	Legal entity	Country	Purpose	Transfer	DPA
Meta	Meta Platforms, Inc.	US	Communication	DPF	https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/dataprocessing

Questions people ask about Meta

Where is Meta's DPA?: Meta publishes its customer data processing agreement at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/dataprocessing. We last opened that link on 3 October 2026.
Is Meta's DPA the same thing as a data processing addendum?: Yes. A data processing agreement and a data processing addendum are two names for the document Article 28 of the GDPR requires between a controller and a processor; vendors use both, and some call it processor terms. What it has to contain does not change with the name. Meta's is at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/dataprocessing.
Which legal entity does Meta contract through?: Meta Platforms, Inc., registered in United States. That is the name to put in a record of processing or a sub-processor list, not the brand.
What covers a transfer of personal data to Meta outside the EEA?: EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). A US certification scheme covered by an EU adequacy decision. Transfers to a certified US organisation need no further mechanism for the certified scope. Whether that is enough for a particular processing operation is a judgement for the controller.

What has changed, and when

Changes we noticed on Meta's own pages, each with the page we saw it on. The vendor does not publish this, and neither does anyone else.

2 October 2026
We recorded a change to the data processing agreement link.
27 September 2026
We recorded a change to the transfer mechanism.

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Meta: DPA, subprocessors and transfers

What to put in your subprocessor list

Questions people ask about Meta

What has changed, and when

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Meta: DPA, subprocessors and transfers

What to put in your subprocessor list

Questions people ask about Meta

What has changed, and when

Building your own sub-processor list?

Where to go next

Other communication