Security & Safeguards · Company practice
Security cookies detect fraud, bots and suspicious activity and check for suspended accounts
TikTok uses some cookies to keep you and the Platform safe and secure. The examples given are: preventing fraudulent attacks on the Platform; detecting non-human traffic (bots); detecting suspicious activity; checking whether an account was suspended for violating TikTok’s Community Guidelines, so TikTok can take appropriate action; and scheduling traffic and distributing it across networks. The cookies used for these purposes include “ttwid” (retained for 1 year) and “security_verification_ticket” (retained for 1 month). The analytics section separately says “ttwid” lasts up to 13 months.
Supporting quotations
We use some cookies to keep you and the Platform safe and secure.
For example, these types of cookies enable us to:
Prevent fraudulent attacks to our Platform.
Detect non-human traffic (bots).
Detect suspicious activity.
Check if an account was suspended for violating our Community Guidelines. This will let us take appropriate action.
Schedule traffic and distribute it properly across networks.
The cookies used for these purposes include “ttwid” cookies (retained for 1 year) and “security_verification_ticket” cookies (retained for 1 month).
Qualifications & exceptions
- The purposes are introduced “for example”, so the list is not closed.
- The policy does not describe what “appropriate action” for a suspended account involves.
Not stated here
- The Community Guidelines are a separate document not supplied here.
Cross-references
- contrast (model-proposed): Analytics cookies track pages viewed and interactions; ttwid lasts up to 13 months, Google Analytics 24 — contrast: The same “ttwid” cookie is given two retention statements: “retained for 1 year” in the security section and “a maximum of 13 months” in the analytics section. The policy does not reconcile them; a reader cannot tell which period applies to which use.