In recent months, Snapchat has faced numerous accusations that the private communications its app allowed for weren’t so private after all. The Snapchat app thrives on the core concept of messages, photos, and videos that disappear seconds after they are received and can therefore not be saved or viewed later like more traditional text messages. However, advocates for social media privacy claim that there are a number of ways that users can beat the Snapchat system and save their communications.

All of this aroused the attention of the FTC, which, according to an article published in The Washington Post on Thursday, has opted not to fine Snapchat for its privacy oversights. Instead, the FTC entered into a consent settlement with Snapchat, which says that the social media company will make strides to increase the privacy safeguards of its mobile applications…or else.

Some of those increased safeguards will relate back to Snapchat’s disappearing message concept, and will likely be designed with the goal of stopping users from saving content for later. Currently, some third party apps can access so-called “deleted” content from Snapchat, while a bug in the program allows users to look at old Snapchat videos by simply plugging their phone into a computer.

Other changes, however, will have more to do with Snapchat itself, and will force the company to stop snooping on its customers. The Android version of the Snapchat app currently obtains data about users’ geographic locations, while the Apple app scours users’ contact lists. Both of these tasks are performed without user knowledge or permission.

Essentially, the FTC let Snapchat off with a warning this time, though, if the social media company fails to correct its privacy oversights, it will likely face hefty fines. After the settlement was reached, Snapchat made a statement ensuring customers that it hadn’t meant to snoop, and that it had been so focused on building the app that “some things didn’t get the attention they could have.”