you own all of the content and information you post on facebook and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. in addition for content that is covered by intellectual property rights like photos and videos ip content you specifically give us the following permission subject to yourprivacy and application settings you grant us a non exclusive transferable sub licensable royalty free worldwide license to use any ip content that you post on or in connection with facebook ip license. this ip license ends when you delete your ip content or your account unless your content has been shared with others and they have not deleted it. when you delete ip content it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. however you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be available to others when you use an application the application may ask for your permission to access your content and information as well as content and information that others have shared with you. we require applications to respect your privacy and your agreement with that application will control how the application can use store and transfer that content and information. to learn more about platform including how you can control what information other people may share with applications read our data use policy and platform page. when you publish content or information using the public setting it means that you are allowing everyone including people off of facebook to access and use that information and to associate it with you i e your name and profile picture.
facebook can use stuff that you post on or in connection with facebook that you have intellectual property rights to. facebook loses rights to your stuff if you delete it or your account so long as others have not shared without later deleting your stuff. publishing stuff using the public setting gives everyone else rights to that stuff.