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<li>to provide WhatsApp for web and desktop and other Services that are web-based, improve your experiences, understand how our Services are being used, and customize our Services.
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<li>to understand which of our FAQs are most popular and to show you relevant content related to our Services.
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<li>to remember your choices, such as your language preferences, and otherwise to customize our Services for you.
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<li>to rank the FAQs on our website based on popularity, understand mobile versus desktop users of our web-based Services, or understand popularity and effectiveness of certain of our web pages.</li>
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