Logging in with Apple, Facebook or Google gives TikTok profile data; TikTok sends the network your app ID and token
If you choose to register or use the Platform with a third-party social network account or login service (examples: Apple, Facebook, Google), you provide or allow the provider to give TikTok your username, public profile and other possible information related to that account. The Business Partners sharing section adds phone number and email address to what the social network may provide. In return TikTok shares certain information with your social network, such as your app ID, access token and the referring URL. If you link your TikTok account to another service, TikTok may receive information about your use of that service.
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If you choose to register or use the Platform using a third-party social network account details (e.g., Apple, Facebook, or Google) or login service, you will provide us or allow to provide us with your username, public profile, and other possible information related to such account. We will likewise share certain information with your social network such as your app ID, access token and the referring URL. If you link your TikTok account to another service, we may receive information about your use of that service.
If you choose to register to use the Platform using your social network account details (e.g., Apple, Facebook, or Google), you will provide us or allow your social network to provide us with your phone number, email address, username and public profile.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only if you choose to register or use the Platform through a third-party login.
The two descriptions of what the social network provides differ: this block names username, public profile and other possible information; the sharing section names phone number, email address, username and public profile.
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What other possible information a login provider may send is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
TikTok may obtain information about you, including your activity, from affiliated entities in its corporate group
TikTok may obtain information about you from certain affiliated entities within its corporate group, including information about your activities on their platforms.
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We may obtain information about you from certain affiliated entities within our corporate group, including about your activities on their platforms.
Qualifications & exceptions
Stated with may; limited to certain affiliated entities.
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Which affiliated entities and platforms are meant is not stated.
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TikTok uses and shares your information with sellers and payment or fulfilment providers to process shopping orders
One listed use is providing the shopping features and facilitating the purchase and delivery of products, goods and services. This expressly includes sharing your information with sellers, payment and transaction fulfilment providers, and other service providers in order to process your orders.
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To provide our shopping features and facilitate the purchase and delivery of products, goods and services, including sharing your information with sellers, payment and transaction fulfillment providers, and other service providers in order to process your orders.
Qualifications & exceptions
Sharing under this use is for processing your orders.
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Which service providers beyond sellers and payment or fulfilment providers receive order data is not named.
Sharing & Disclosure · Context
TikTok lists the kinds of parties it shares your information with
The sharing section opens by saying TikTok shares your information with the parties described under the headings that follow: business partners, service providers, advertisers and measurement partners, independent researchers, its corporate group, recipients for legal reasons, viewers of public profiles, parties to business transactions, and sellers and payment or fulfilment providers. Each heading has its own purposes and conditions, which the following cards explain separately.
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How we share your information
We share your information with the following parties:
Qualifications & exceptions
The opening sentence does not say whether the listed recipients are the only ones; each heading carries its own limits.
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Social login and third-party services you authorise can receive account information from TikTok
If you register with a social network account such as Apple, Facebook or Google, you provide (or let the network provide) your phone number, email address, username and public profile, and TikTok shares certain information back with that network, such as your app ID, access token and the referring URL. If you choose to let a third-party service access your account, TikTok shares certain information about you with it, for example letting sellers view and manage your orders through shopping features and helping third-party platforms and partners authenticate users. Depending on the permissions you grant, that third party may be able to obtain your account information and other information you choose to provide.
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Business Partners
We will likewise share certain information with the relevant social network such as your app ID, access token and the referring URL.
If you choose to allow a third-party service to access your account, we will share certain information about you with the third party, such as allowing sellers to view and manage your orders through our shopping features, and enabling third-party platforms and partners to better authenticate users.
Depending on the permissions you grant, the third party may be able to obtain your account information and other information you choose to provide.
you will provide us or allow your social network to provide us with your phone number, email address, username and public profile
Qualifications & exceptions
This applies only if you choose to register through a social network or choose to allow a third-party service to access your account.
What the third party can obtain depends on the permissions you grant.
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The policy gives examples ("such as") rather than a complete list of the information shared with social networks or authorised third parties.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Sharing your content to social media sends the video, username and text; messaging apps get a link
When you choose to share content on a social media platform, the video, your username and the accompanying text are shared on that platform. When you share through an instant messaging platform, a link to the content is shared instead.
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Where you opt to share content on social media platforms, the video, username and accompanying text will be shared on that platform or, in the case of sharing via instant messaging platforms, a link to the content will be shared.
Qualifications & exceptions
This happens where you opt to share content.
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How the receiving platform then uses the shared content is governed by that platform, not described here.
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Advertisers, creators, partners and sellers receive aggregated statistics about engagement and audiences
TikTok shares aggregated statistics and insights with users of its analytics services so they can understand how people engage with the Platform or with its ads. For example, advertisers, creators, partners and sellers can receive the number of views, likes, comments and shares of their content, and information to understand their followers, buyers and audience.
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We share aggregated statistics and insights with users of our analytics services to help them understand how people are engaging with the Platform or with the ads we show.
For example, advertisers, creators, partners, and sellers can receive information about the number of views, likes, comments, and shares of their content, as well as information to understand their followers, buyers, and the audience of their content.
Qualifications & exceptions
The sharing is described as aggregated statistics and insights.
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The policy does not define aggregated or say how detailed the information about followers, buyers and audiences is.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Service providers such as cloud, moderation, marketing and payment providers receive information to support TikTok
TikTok provides information and content to service providers who support its business, such as cloud service providers, content moderation providers (to keep the Platform safe and enjoyable) and providers that help market the Platform. If you buy Coins or make other payment transactions, TikTok shares data with the relevant payment provider to facilitate the transaction; for Coin purchases it shares a transaction ID so it can identify you and credit your account with the correct number of coins after you pay.
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Service Providers
We provide information and content to service providers who support our business, such as cloud service providers and providers of content moderation services to ensure that the Platform is a safe and enjoyable place and service providers that assist us in marketing the Platform.
If you choose to buy Coins or conduct other payment related transactions, we will share data with the relevant payment provider to facilitate this transaction. For Coin transactions, we share a transaction ID to enable us to identify you and credit your account with the correct value in coins once you have made the payment.
Qualifications & exceptions
Payment-provider sharing applies when you choose to buy Coins or conduct other payment transactions.
The listed provider types are examples ("such as").
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Third-party analytics providers help improve TikTok and also help serve personalised ads
TikTok uses analytics providers to help optimise and improve the Platform. The policy states that these third-party analytics providers also help TikTok serve personalised advertisements, so information shared with them supports advertising as well as product improvement.
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Analytics providers: We use analytics providers to help us in the optimisation and improvement of the Platform. Our third-party analytics providers also help us serve personalised advertisements.
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The policy does not name the analytics providers or list the information they receive.
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Advertisers, publishers and measurement firms learn which users saw or clicked ads, and some may bid on ads
TikTok shares information with advertisers, advertising partners, publishers and third-party measurement companies to show how many and which users viewed or clicked an ad, to help advertisers understand their audience and customer feedback about their products and services, and to help publishers understand the types of ads served so they can measure the effectiveness and value of TikTok's advertising network services. It also shares information to enable certain advertisers and advertising partners to bid on ad opportunities, where permitted under applicable law.
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Advertisers, Advertising Networks, Publishers, and Measurement Partners
We share information with advertisers, advertising partners, publishers, and third-party measurement companies to show how many and which users of the Platform have viewed or clicked on an advertisement
to help advertisers understand their audience and customer feedback about their products and services; and to help publishers understand the types of ads served, so that they can measure the effectiveness and value of our advertising network services; and, to enable certain advertisers and advertising partners to bid on ad opportunities where permitted under applicable law.
Qualifications & exceptions
Sharing to enable bidding on ad opportunities is limited to certain advertisers and partners and to where applicable law permits it.
The measurement purpose covers which users viewed or clicked an ad, not only how many.
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The linked page about ads and your data was not supplied, so its contents are not described here.
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TikTok shares your information with independent researchers whose research meets certain criteria
TikTok shares your information with independent researchers to facilitate research that meets certain criteria. The policy does not state the criteria, which researchers qualify, or what information they receive.
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Independent Researchers
We share your information with independent researchers to facilitate research that meets certain criteria.
Qualifications & exceptions
Limited to research that meets certain criteria.
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The criteria, the researchers and the information shared are not described in this policy.
Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license
TikTok may share your information with members, subsidiaries and affiliates of its corporate group
TikTok may share your information with other members, subsidiaries or affiliates of its corporate group, including to provide, improve and optimise the Platform, to prevent illegal use and to support users. The word including means these purposes are examples rather than a closed list.
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Our Corporate Group
We may also share your information with other members, subsidiaries, or affiliates of our corporate group, including to provide the Platform, to improve and optimise the Platform, to prevent illegal use and to support users.
Qualifications & exceptions
The listed purposes follow including, so they are not presented as the only purposes.
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The policy does not name the corporate group members that receive information.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
TikTok may exchange information with other companies for fraud protection and credit risk reduction
Within the legal-reasons sharing, the protection purpose expressly includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. This exchange sits under protecting the rights, property or safety of TikTok, its users, third parties or the public, as required or permitted by law.
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(including exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction)
Qualifications & exceptions
Framed as part of protecting rights, property or safety as required or permitted by law.
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The policy does not identify the companies or organisations or the information exchanged.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
With a public profile, anyone on TikTok and third parties such as search engines may see and share your content
If your profile is public, your content is visible to anyone on the Platform and may also be accessed or shared by your friends and followers and by third parties such as search engines, content aggregators and news sites. You can choose who can see each video when you upload it, or make your profile private by default by switching on 'Private Account' in the Manage my account settings.
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Public Profiles
Please note that if your profile is public, your content will be visible to anyone on the Platform and may also be accessed or shared by your friends and followers as well as third parties such as search engines, content aggregators and news sites.
You can change who can see a video each time you upload a video. Alternatively, you can change your profile to default private by changing your settings to 'Private Account' in “Manage my account” settings.
Qualifications & exceptions
Visibility to anyone applies when your profile is public.
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This section does not say whether a profile is public by default for every user.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Your information may be disclosed or transferred in a sale, merger, acquisition, partnership or bankruptcy
TikTok may disclose your information to third parties if it sells or buys any business or assets, including as a result of liquidation or bankruptcy, in which case it will disclose your data to the prospective seller or buyer. It may also disclose information if it sells, buys, merges with, is acquired by or partners with other companies or businesses, or sells some or all of its assets; in such transactions user information may be among the transferred assets.
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Sale, Merger or Other Business Transactions
We may also disclose your information to third parties:
in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets (whether a result of liquidation, bankruptcy or otherwise), in which case we will disclose your data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; or
if we sell, buy, merge, are acquired by, or partner with other companies or businesses, or sell some or all of our assets. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets.
Qualifications & exceptions
Partnering with other companies is listed alongside mergers and acquisitions as a trigger for disclosure.
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Shopping purchases share order, contact and delivery details with sellers; sellers may get your email for marketing
When you buy through TikTok's shopping features, TikTok shares information about the transaction with the seller, payment and transaction fulfilment providers and other service providers, for example the order items, contact details and delivery information needed to process your order. TikTok may also share your email address with sellers so they can send you marketing communications. These recipients may use the shared information under their own privacy policies.
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When you make a purchase through our shopping features, we share the information related to the transaction with the seller, payment and transaction fulfillment providers, and other service providers. For example, we will share the order items, contact details and delivery information so your order can be processed.
We may share your email address with sellers so that they can send marketing communications to you. These entities may use the information shared in accordance with their privacy policies.
Sellers, Payment and Transaction Fulfillment Providers, and Other Service Providers
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when you make a purchase through the shopping features.
Sharing your email with sellers for their marketing is stated as something TikTok may do, not something it always does.
Recipients use the information under their own privacy policies, not this one.
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The sellers' and providers' privacy policies were not supplied.
This section does not describe a way to stop TikTok sharing your email with sellers for marketing.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Australia: corporate group entities outside Australia get limited remote access to your information
For users in Australia, additional terms apply. Certain TikTok corporate group entities located outside Australia are given limited remote access to your information so they can provide certain functions described in the sharing section. TikTok links to a separate page listing the countries where these entities are located; that page was not supplied.
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Australia
If you are using the Platform in Australia, the following additional terms shall apply.
Certain entities in our corporate group, located outside of Australia, are given limited remote access to your information so that they can provide certain functions, as described in the section on "How we share your information".
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies if you use the Platform in Australia.
Access is described as limited and for certain functions.
Not stated here
The linked list of countries was not supplied.
The specific functions are not listed here beyond the reference to the sharing section.
Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license
Indonesia: TikTok may also share data with group companies for an integrated, personalised experience
For users in Indonesia, in addition to the purposes in the main sharing section, TikTok may share certain personal data with other members, subsidiaries or affiliates of its corporate group to deliver an integrated, seamless and personalised user experience across related services.
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How We Share Your Personal Data. In addition to the purposes described in “How we share your information”, we may share certain of your personal data with other members, subsidiaries, or affiliates of our corporate group for the purpose of delivering an integrated, seamless, and personalized user experience across related services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to use of the services in Indonesia.
This adds a purpose to the general corporate-group sharing; it covers certain personal data, not all of it.
Indonesia: you can withdraw consent to disclosure to third parties, possibly losing some features
In Indonesia you may withdraw your consent to TikTok disclosing your personal data to third parties. On your request, TikTok will stop displaying, publishing, transmitting, disseminating or opening access to your personal data to third parties. Withdrawing consent to disclosure or collection may mean TikTok cannot fulfil your requests and you may lose some features.
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Your Choices. You may withdraw your consent to TikTok's disclosure of personal data to third parties. Upon your request, we will cease to display, publish, transmit, disseminate, and/or open the access to your personal data to third parties.
Please note that by withdrawing your consent to the disclosure and/or collection of your personal data, we may not be able to fulfill your requests and you may not be able to use some of TikTok features and functionality.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to use of the services in Indonesia.
Withdrawing consent may limit the features available to you.
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Latin America: data may go to third parties for their own purposes and to servers abroad
For users in Spanish-speaking Latin America, TikTok may share your personal data with a third party for purposes other than processing on TikTok's behalf, and your data may be transferred to servers or data centres outside your country, such as in Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland and the United States, for storage or processing. The categories of recipients and purposes are those in the main sharing section, and you can use the contact route to ask how TikTok, its business partners or service providers (including corporate group entities, some outside your country) may process personal data.
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How we share your personal data. We may share your personal data with a third party for purposes other than processing on our behalf. Your personal data may also be transferred/transmitted to servers or data centers outside the country where you live, such as in Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland and the United States, for storage and/or processing.
The categories of the recipients of your personal data and its purposes are described in the section “How we share your information” of the main body of the Privacy Policy.
please use the "Contact" section set out above.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to use of the services in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
The listed countries are examples ("such as").
Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license
Latin America: providing data and using TikTok counts as consent to sharing and transfers that need consent
In Spanish-speaking Latin America, the policy says that by providing personal data and using the Platform you consent to the sharing and transfer activities described in the main sharing and storage sections that require your consent. It adds that you can always exercise your rights as outlined in the rights paragraph.
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By providing us with your personal data and using our Platform, you consent to those data sharing and transfer activities described in the “How we share your information" and "Where we store your information" sections of this Privacy Policy that require your consent.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to use of the services in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Covers only those sharing and transfer activities that require consent.
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The policy does not identify which sharing or transfer activities require consent.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Nigeria: international transfers rely on contract performance or other legal bases under applicable law
For users in Nigeria, TikTok says international data transfers are necessary to provide its services, and that it relies on performance of contract or, where necessary, other legal bases for international transfers under applicable data protection laws.
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International Transfers. International data transfers are necessary for us to provide our services. If you are located in Nigeria, we rely on the performance of contract or where necessary, any other legal bases for international data transfer under the applicable data protection laws and regulations.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies if you are located in Nigeria.
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The other legal bases for transfer are not named.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
Russia: a Public Profile setting is treated as consent to public distribution of your data; you can go private
Under the Russia heading, TikTok says it relies on your consent for public distribution of personal data when your account is set to Public Profile. You can make your profile private by switching on 'Private Account' in the Manage my account settings.
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Public profiles. We rely on your consent to public distribution of personal data, when your account settings are 'Public Profile'. You can change your profile to private by changing your settings to 'Private Account' in “Manage my account” settings.
Qualifications & exceptions
Stated under the Russia heading.
Consent is tied to the Public Profile account setting.
UAE: using TikTok there means agreeing to the policy and consenting to sharing under the main text
For users in the United Arab Emirates, these additional terms prevail over the main policy if they conflict. In addition to the main text, by using the Platform in the UAE you agree to the policy and consent to TikTok sharing your personal data as described in the main sharing section.
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United Arab Emirates
If you are using the Platform in the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”), the following additional terms apply. If any conflict arises between the main Privacy Policy and the additional terms, the following terms shall prevail:
How we share your personal data
In addition to the main text of this policy, by using the Platform in the UAE you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to our sharing of your personal data in line with the main text of this Privacy Policy.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to use of the Platform in the UAE.
Consent is framed as given by using the Platform there.