TikTok keeps information as long as needed for the Platform, legal duties, business interests and legal claims
TikTok retains information for as long as necessary to provide the Platform and for the other purposes in the policy. It also keeps information when necessary to meet contractual and legal obligations, when it has a legitimate business interest (such as improving and developing the Platform and enhancing its safety, security and stability), and to exercise or defend legal claims. No fixed retention period is stated in this section.
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How long we keep your information
We retain information for as long as necessary to provide the Platform and for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We also retain information when necessary to comply with contractual and legal obligations, when we have a legitimate business interest to do so (such as improving and developing the Platform, and enhancing its safety, security and stability), and for the exercise or defence of legal claims.
Qualifications & exceptions
Retention for legitimate business interests is open-ended; improvement and safety are given as examples ("such as").
Not stated here
No specific retention periods are given.
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
Retention periods vary by information type and purpose; account information is kept while you have an account
Retention periods depend on criteria such as the type of information and the purpose for which TikTok uses it. For example, account information used to provide the Platform is kept for as long as you have an account.
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The retention periods are different depending on different criteria, such as the type of information and the purposes for which we use the information. For example, when we process your information such as your account information to provide you with the Platform, we keep this information for as long as you have an account.
Qualifications & exceptions
The account example is one illustration; other information types may have different periods that are not stated.
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
If you break TikTok's rules it may remove your account or content at once but keep other information to process it
If you violate the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines or other conditions or policies, TikTok may immediately remove your account from the Platform or your User Content from public view, but may keep other information about you to process the violation.
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If you violate our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other conditions or policies, we may remove your account from the Platform or User Content from public view immediately, but may keep other information about you to process the violation.
Qualifications & exceptions
Removal from public view is not the same as deletion; TikTok may keep other information to process the violation.
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How long information kept to process a violation is retained is not stated.
The Terms of Service and Community Guidelines were not supplied.
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
Indonesia: data kept while needed or for a business purpose, and on some occasions for five years or longer
For users in Indonesia, TikTok retains your information for as long as necessary to provide the service. Where it does not need the information for the service, it keeps it only as long as it has a legitimate business purpose. On some occasions it is likely to keep data for five years, or longer if required, under its legal obligations or where needed to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
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Data retention. We retain your information for as long as it is necessary to provide you with the service. Where we do not need your information in order to provide the service to you, we retain it only for so long as we have a legitimate business purpose in keeping such data. However, there are occasions where we are likely to keep this data for five (5) years (or longer if required) in accordance with our legal obligations or where it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Indonesia
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to use of the services in Indonesia.
The five-year period applies on some occasions, linked to legal obligations or legal claims, and may be longer if required.
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Which occasions trigger the five-year retention is not specified.
Indonesia: after you stop using TikTok and five years pass, data is kept aggregated and anonymised
For users in Indonesia, after you stop using the Platform and the five-year retention period has passed, TikTok stores your information in an aggregated and anonymised format. Non-personally identifiable information may be kept indefinitely for analytics.
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After you have terminated your use of our Platform and the five (5) years retention period has lapsed, we store your information in an aggregated and anonymised format. Non-personally identifiable information may be retained indefinitely for analytics.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to use of the services in Indonesia.
Indefinite retention is stated for non-personally identifiable information used for analytics.
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The policy does not describe the anonymisation method.