Snapchat, the social media service beloved by teens and media outlets, recently updated its terms of service (TOS) and privacy policy. Not long after, the company, with its fairly lackluster legacy on privacy issues, had to reassure users that it wasn't trying to hoard all those selfies and sexts.

The TOS and privacy policy were both updated by Snapchat on Oct. 28, but on Sunday, the platform released a blog post explaining the changes after media reports suggested that Snapchat had given itself a carte blanche to use everything uploaded onto its servers.

Concerns about the update centered on Snapchat's broad rights to user's content. By uploading pictures onto the service, "you grant Snapchat a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from, publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, syndicate, promote, exhibit, and publicly display that content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed)," the TOS states.

In other words, they can do whatever with everything. Still, this is nothing new. A similar paragraph appears in the previous version of the TOS stored in July on WayBackMachine.

We are not stockpiling your private Snaps! Our updated Privacy Policy & Terms of Service explained https://t.co/rQhFzmB2rj — Snapchat (@Snapchat) November 2, 2015

In its blogpost, the platform particularly wants to clarify that messages are not stored in perpetuity after they have been viewed or expired. "Snapchat is not—and never has been—stockpiling your private Snaps or Chats," it reads. "And because we continue to delete them from our servers as soon as they’re read, we could not—and do not—share them with advertisers or business partners."

Note, however, that the privacy policy also says the company can't "guarantee" that messages and metadata will be deleted within a specific timeframe.

The post claims the TOS and privacy policy were rewritten to make them simpler to read, to clarify rules around in-app purchases and to explain what identifying information will be available to other users.

In 2014, Snapchat agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over misleading claims that snaps "disappear forever," despite users being able to use third party apps to save them. Also in 2014, the personal details of more than four-and-a-half million Snapchat users were leaked online after the company was hacked.

For now, although it's something of a copout from a company whose whole premise is "disappearing" messages, it might be best to take the advice contained in the company's own privacy policy: "The same common sense that applies to the Internet at large applies to Snapchat as well: Don’t send messages that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share."