Privacy Policy - non-EU

Data Access & Collection · Context

TikTok lists the information it may collect: what you provide, what is collected automatically, and other sources

The policy opens by saying TikTok may collect the listed categories of information about you. The categories are grouped into information you provide, information collected automatically, and information from other sources. The word may means these are categories TikTok reserves the right to collect, not a promise that every item is collected from every user. This ROW policy carries jurisdiction-specific supplemental terms at the end that supersede the general text where they conflict for a given jurisdiction, so the collection descriptions below may be modified for Australia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Latin America, Nigeria, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Türkiye, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.

Supporting quotations

We may collect the following information about you:

What information we collect

Information You Provide

Automatically Collected Information

Qualifications & exceptions

• Collection is stated with may: a reserved category, not a guarantee of collection from every user.
• The jurisdiction-specific supplemental terms at the end of the policy supersede the general text where they conflict for the reader's jurisdiction.

Not stated here

• Which categories are actually collected from a given user depends on the features that user uses; the policy does not say.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

Registration collects your username, password, date of birth, email or phone, profile details and photo or video

When you register on the Platform, TikTok collects your account information: username, password, date of birth (where applicable), email address and/or telephone number, whatever you disclose in your user account, and your photograph or profile video.

Supporting quotations

You give us information when you register on the Platform, including your username, password, date of birth (where applicable), email address and/or telephone number, information you disclose in your user account, and your photograph or profile video.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Date of birth is collected where applicable.
• Email address and telephone number are alternatives: and/or.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok processes User Content and metadata, collects it at creation before you save, and may keep an effect-free copy

TikTok processes the content you generate on the Platform (photos, audio, videos, comments, hashtags, feedback, reviews, livestreams) together with metadata such as when, where and by whom it was created; the policy calls this User Content. Three points are easy to miss. First, information about you can appear in User Content even if you are not a TikTok user. Second, TikTok collects User Content by pre-loading it at the time of creation, import or upload, regardless of whether you choose to save or upload it, stating the purpose of recommending audio options and other personalised recommendations. Third, if you apply an effect, TikTok may collect a version of the content without the effect.

Supporting quotations

We process the content you generate on the Platform, including photographs, audios and videos you upload or create, comments, hashtags, feedback, reviews, and livestreams you make, and the associated metadata, such as when, where, and by whom the content was created (“User Content”).

Even if you are not a user, information about you may appear in User Content created or published by users on the Platform.

We collect User Content through pre-loading at the time of creation, import, or upload, regardless of whether you choose to save or upload that User Content, in order to recommend audio options and provide other personalized recommendations.

If you apply an effect to your User Content, we may collect a version of your User Content that does not include the effect.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Pre-loading collection applies regardless of whether you choose to save or upload the content.
• The stated purpose of pre-loading is audio recommendations and other personalised recommendations.
• An effect-free version is collected with may, not always.

Not stated here

• The policy does not say how long pre-loaded but unsaved content is kept; the retention section states general rules only.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok collects message content and metadata, including seller chats and virtual assistants, subject to applicable laws

TikTok collects what you provide when you compose, send or receive messages through the Platform's messaging features, plus the associated metadata, subject to applicable laws. This covers chat with sellers who sell you goods and your use of virtual assistants when purchasing. The collected data includes the content of the message and information about it: when it was sent, received or read, and who the participants were. The policy warns that messages you send to other users are accessible to those users and that TikTok is not responsible for how those users use or share them.

Supporting quotations

We collect information you provide when you compose, send, or receive messages through the Platform’s messaging functionalities and the associated metadata, subject to applicable laws.

That information includes the content of the message and information about the message, such as when it was sent, received, or read, and message participants.

Please be aware that messages you choose to send to other users of the Platform will be accessible by those users and that we are not responsible for the manner in which those users use or share the messages.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Message collection is stated as subject to applicable laws.
• Recipients can access messages you send them; TikTok disclaims responsibility for their use or sharing.

Not stated here

• Which laws limit message collection in a given country is not stated here; the jurisdiction supplements may add terms.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok may read your device clipboard, with your permission, to fulfil a sharing or paste request

With your permission, TikTok may access content in your device's clipboard, including text, images and video. The stated trigger is a request you make, such as initiating content sharing with a third-party platform or pasting clipboard content into the Platform; TikTok says it accesses the clipboard to fulfil that request.

Supporting quotations

We may access content, including text, images, and video, found in your device’s clipboard, with your permission.

we access this information stored in your clipboard in order to fulfill your request.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Access is conditioned on your permission.
• The examples given are sharing to a third-party platform and pasting into the Platform.

Not stated here

• How permission is obtained (an operating-system prompt or an in-app setting) is not stated.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

Purchases, including TikTok Coins and shopping, collect payment card, billing, delivery, contact and item data

When you make a purchase or payment on or through the Platform, including buying TikTok Coins or goods through shopping features, TikTok collects information about the transaction: payment card information, billing, delivery and contact information, and the items you bought.

Supporting quotations

When you make a purchase or payment on or through the Platform, including when you buy TikTok Coins or purchase goods through our shopping features, we collect information about the purchase or payment transaction, such as payment card information, billing, delivery, and contact information, and items you purchased.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to purchases and payments on or through the Platform, including TikTok Coins and shopping features.

Not stated here

• Whether card numbers are stored by TikTok or by a payment provider is not stated here; the sharing section says transaction data is shared with payment and fulfilment providers.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

If you sync phone contacts or share social contacts, TikTok collects and matches them against existing users

If you choose to sync your phone contacts, TikTok accesses and collects names, phone numbers and email addresses and matches them against existing Platform users. If you choose to share your social network contacts, TikTok collects your public profile information and the names and profiles of those contacts. Both are conditioned on your choice to sync or share.

Supporting quotations

If you choose to sync your phone contacts, we will access and collect information such as names, phone numbers, and email addresses, and match that information against existing users of the Platform.

If you choose to share your social network contacts, we will collect your public profile information as well as names and profiles of your social network contacts.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Each collection is triggered only if you choose to sync or share.
• Phone contacts are matched against existing users of the Platform.

Not stated here

• How long synced contact data is kept, and whether non-user contacts' data is retained, is not stated here.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok sometimes asks for proof of identity or age for livestream, verified or Business Accounts, or age checks

TikTok sometimes asks you to provide proof of identity or age. The stated occasions are using certain features such as livestream or verified accounts, applying for a Business Account, ensuring you are old enough to use the Platform, and other instances where verification may be required.

Supporting quotations

We sometimes ask you to provide proof of identity or age in order to use certain features, such as livestream or verified accounts, or when you apply for a Business Account, ensure that you are old enough to use the Platform, or in other instances where verification may be required.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The list ends with an open category: other instances where verification may be required.

Not stated here

• What documents count as proof, and how long they are kept, is not stated here.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok collects your support or feedback correspondence and survey, promotion, contest and event information

Two further categories of information you provide: the content of correspondence you send to TikTok, including support requests and feedback, and information gathered through surveys, research, promotions, contests, marketing campaigns, challenges, competitions or events that TikTok conducts or sponsors and in which you participate.

Supporting quotations

Information in correspondence you send to us, including when you contact us for support or feedback.

Information through surveys, research, promotion, contests, marketing campaigns, challenges, competitions or events conducted or sponsored by us, in which you participate.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The survey and event category applies to activities conducted or sponsored by TikTok in which you participate.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok collects how you use the Platform: content and ads viewed, search history, likes, favourites and follows

TikTok collects usage information about how you engage with the Platform: how you interact with content shown to you, the advertisements you view, the videos you watch, problems encountered, your browsing and search history, the content you like, the content you save to My Favourites, the users you follow and how you engage with mutual followers.

Supporting quotations

We collect information regarding your use of the Platform, e.g., how you engage with the Platform, including how you interact with content we show to you, the advertisements you view, videos you watch and problems encountered, browsing and search history, the content you like, the content you save to ‘My Favourites’, the users you follow and how you engage with mutual followers.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The list is introduced with e.g., so it is illustrative rather than exhaustive.

Inference & Profiling · Company practice

TikTok infers your interests, gender and age range to personalise content

Beyond what it collects directly, TikTok infers attributes about you, including your interests, gender and age range. The stated purpose is personalising content.

Supporting quotations

We also infer your attributes, including your interests, gender and age range for the purpose of personalising content.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The stated purpose is personalising content; the listed attributes are introduced with including, so others may be inferred.

Not stated here

• How inferences are made, and whether you can see or correct them, is not stated in this block; the rights section describes general access and deletion options.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok collects device and technical data, including keystroke patterns, and links your activity across devices

TikTok collects technical information about the device you use: IP address, user agent, mobile carrier, time zone, advertising identifiers, device model and system, network type, screen resolution and operating system, app and file names and types, keystroke patterns or rhythms, battery state, audio settings and connected audio devices. It automatically assigns user IDs and device IDs. Where you log in from several devices, it uses device IDs and your user ID to identify your activity across them, and it may also associate you with information collected from devices other than those you use to log in.

Supporting quotations

We collect certain information about the device you use to access the Platform, such as your IP address, user agent, mobile carrier, time zone settings, identifiers for advertising purposes, model of your device, the device system, network type, your screen resolution and operating system, app and file names and types, keystroke patterns or rhythms, battery state, audio settings and connected audio devices.

Where you log-in from multiple devices, we use your information such as your device IDs and user ID to identify your activity across devices. We may also associate you with information collected from devices other than those you use to log-in to the Platform.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Cross-device identification applies where you log in from multiple devices.
• Association with non-login devices is stated with may.

Not stated here

• What keystroke patterns or rhythms are used for is not stated in this block.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok collects approximate location from SIM or IP, precise GPS only with permission, and places you tag in content

TikTok collects approximate location information, including from your SIM card and/or IP address, without any permission step being described. Precise location data such as GPS may be collected only with your permission. TikTok also collects location information (such as attractions, shops or points of interest) if you choose to add it to your User Content. A support page is linked for more detail but is not part of this policy.

Supporting quotations

We collect information about your approximate location, including location information based on your SIM card and/or IP address. With your permission, we may also collect precise location data (such as GPS).

In addition, we collect location information (such as tourist attractions, shops, or other points of interest) if you choose to add location information to your User Content.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Precise location (GPS) collection is conditioned on your permission.
• Tagged location collection depends on your choice to add location to User Content.

Not stated here

• The linked support page about location services was not supplied and is not described here.

Use & Processing · Company practice

TikTok may analyse faces, bodies, objects, audio and spoken words in your content for effects, moderation and ads

TikTok may collect information about the videos, images and audio in your User Content: identifying objects and scenery, the existence and location within an image of face and body features and attributes, the nature of the audio, and the text of the words spoken. The stated purposes are special video effects, content moderation, demographic classification, content and ad recommendations, and other non-personally-identifying operations. A linked support page about face and voice processing is not part of this policy.

Supporting quotations

We may collect information about the videos, images and audio that are a part of your User Content, such as identifying the objects and scenery that appear, the existence and location within an image of face and body features and attributes, the nature of the audio, and the text of the words spoken in your User Content.

We may collect this information to enable special video effects, for content moderation, for demographic classification, for content and ad recommendations, and for other non-personally-identifying operations.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Collection and the purposes are stated with may.
• The purpose list ends with an open category: other non-personally-identifying operations.

Not stated here

• The linked support page on face and voice information was not supplied and is not described here.
• Whether this processing creates biometric identifiers, and for how long results are kept, is not stated in this block.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok, its service providers and partners use cookies and web beacons for analytics, ads on and off TikTok

TikTok and its service providers and business partners use cookies and similar technologies, including web beacons and flash cookies, to automatically collect information, measure and analyse how you use the Platform, enhance and improve it, provide advertising on and off the Platform, and measure the effectiveness of ads and other content. TikTok and its partners also use cookies to promote the Platform on other platforms and websites. Web beacons are small images or data in images that can recognise cookies, when a page is viewed, the page where the tag is placed and similar device information. The policy points to the Your rights and choices section for how to disable certain cookies.

Supporting quotations

We and our service providers and business partners use cookies and other similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, flash cookies, etc.) (“Cookies”) to automatically collect information, measure and analyze how you use the Platform, including which pages you view most often and how you interact with content, enhance your experience using the Platform, improve the Platform, provide you with advertising on and off the Platform, and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and other content.

We and our partners also use Cookies to promote the Platform on other platforms and websites.

To learn how to disable certain Cookies, see the “Your rights and choices” section below.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Cookies are used by TikTok, its service providers and its business partners, not TikTok alone.
• Only certain cookies can be disabled; the method is in the rights and choices section.

Not stated here

• Which cookies are essential and cannot be disabled is not stated; a separate Cookie Policy was not supplied.

Data Access & Collection · Context

TikTok may receive the information described in the policy from sources other than you

Besides what you provide and what is collected automatically, TikTok may receive the information described in the policy from other sources. The following cards cover the listed sources: third-party login and linked services, advertisers and measurement partners, affiliated entities in the corporate group, other people and public sources, and sellers and payment providers. The list is introduced with such as, so it is illustrative.

Supporting quotations

We may receive the information described in this Privacy Policy from other sources, such as:

Information From Other Sources

Qualifications & exceptions

• Introduced with such as: the listed sources are examples, not a closed list.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

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.

Supporting quotations

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.

Not stated here

• What other possible information a login provider may send is not stated.

Linking & Identification · Company practice

Advertisers and partners send TikTok your off-platform activity, which TikTok matches to your account for ads

Advertisers, publishers, measurement and other partners share information with TikTok about you and your actions outside the Platform, such as activity on other websites and apps or in stores, including products or services you purchased online or in person. They also share mobile advertising identifiers, device information, hashed email addresses and phone numbers, cookie identifiers, ad interaction and conversion events, and inferences about your preferences and characteristics. TikTok uses this to match you and your off-platform actions with your TikTok account and to personalise the ads you see on and off the Platform. Some partners let TikTok collect similar information directly from their websites or apps through TikTok Advertiser Tools.

Supporting quotations

Advertisers, publishers, and measurement and other partners share information with us about you and the actions you have taken outside of the Platform, such as your activities on other websites and apps or in stores, including the products or services you purchased, online or in person.

These partners also share information with us, such as mobile identifiers for advertising, device information, hashed email addresses and phone numbers, cookie identifiers, information regarding your interaction with ads and conversion events, and inferences related to preferences and characteristics, which we use to help match you and your actions outside of the Platform with your TikTok account and to personalise the ads you see on and off the Platform.

Some of our advertisers and other partners enable us to collect similar information directly from their websites or apps by integrating our

Qualifications & exceptions

• Matching uses hashed email addresses and phone numbers and advertising identifiers supplied by partners.
• Direct collection through TikTok Advertiser Tools applies where a partner has integrated them.

Not stated here

• Which partners share this data, and whether you can opt out of matching, is not stated in this block; the rights section was not supplied in this packet.

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.

Supporting quotations

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.

Not stated here

• Which affiliated entities and platforms are meant is not stated.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

TikTok may receive information about you from other people, complaints, shared contacts and publicly available sources

TikTok may receive information about you from others: where you are included or mentioned in User Content or direct messages, in a complaint, appeal, request or feedback submitted to TikTok, or when someone provides your contact information. TikTok may also collect information about you from other publicly available sources. This applies whether or not you are a user.

Supporting quotations

We may receive information about you from others, including where you are included or mentioned in User Content, direct messages, in a complaint, appeal, request or feedback submitted to us, or if your contact information is provided to us. We may collect information about you from other publicly available sources.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Both routes are stated with may.

Not stated here

• Which publicly available sources are used is not stated.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

Sellers and payment or fulfilment providers may send TikTok payment confirmations and delivery details

TikTok may receive information about you from sellers and payment and transaction fulfilment providers, such as payment confirmation details and information about the delivery of products you bought through the shopping features. This is the return flow of the purchase data TikTok collects and shares when you buy through the Platform.

Supporting quotations

We may receive information from sellers and payment and transaction fulfillment providers about you, such as payment confirmation details, and information about the delivery of products you have purchased through our shopping features.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to products purchased through TikTok's shopping features.

Use & Processing · Context

TikTok uses your information to run the Platform, enforce its Terms, personalise content and ads on and off TikTok

The uses section opens with a summary: TikTok uses your information to improve, support and administer the Platform, to let you use its features, and to fulfil and enforce its Terms of Service. It may also use your information, among other things, to personalise the content you see, promote the Platform, and personalise your ad experience on and off the Platform. The list that follows is introduced as how TikTok generally uses the information, so it is a general description rather than an exhaustive or exclusive list. The cards that follow group the listed uses.

Supporting quotations

As explained below, we use your information to improve, support and administer the Platform, to allow you to use its functionalities, and to fulfill and enforce our Terms of Service. We may also use your information to, among other things, personalise content you see on the Platform, promote the Platform, and personalise your ad experience on and off the Platform. We generally use the information we collect in the following ways:

How we use your information

Qualifications & exceptions

• Among other things and generally signal that the listed uses are not exhaustive.
• Ad personalisation is stated to apply on and off the Platform.

Not stated here

• The Terms of Service referred to were not supplied and are not described here.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Uses for providing, supporting, improving and communicating about the Platform, including internal research and testing

Several listed uses are operational: fulfilling requests for products, services, Platform features, support and information for internal operations (troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistics, surveys) and soliciting your feedback; improving and developing the Platform and conducting product development; presenting content in the most effective way for you and your device; communicating with you, including notifying you about changes in services; and facilitating and fulfilling sales, promotions and purchases of goods and services and providing user support.

Supporting quotations

To fulfill requests for products, services, Platform functionality, support and information for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes and to solicit your feedback.

To improve and develop our Platform and conduct product development.

To ensure content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device.

To communicate with you, including to notify you about changes in our services.

To facilitate and fulfill sales, promotion, and purchases of goods and services and to provide user support.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

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.

Supporting quotations

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.

Not stated here

• Which service providers beyond sellers and payment or fulfilment providers receive order data is not named.

Use & Processing · Company practice

TikTok personalises what you see, for example by your country settings or content similar to what you liked

TikTok uses your information to personalise the content you see on the Platform. Its examples are providing services based on the country settings you chose and showing content similar to content you liked or interacted with. A linked support page about recommendation systems is not part of this policy.

Supporting quotations

To personalise the content you see when you use the Platform. For example, we may provide you with services based on the country settings you have chosen or show you content that is similar to content that you have liked or interacted with.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The examples are introduced with for example and may.

Not stated here

• The linked recommendation-systems page was not supplied and is not described here.

Use & Processing · Company practice

TikTok may send promotions for itself, affiliates and trusted third parties, and use your content in campaigns

Three listed uses concern marketing. TikTok sends promotional materials, including by instant messaging or email, from itself or on behalf of its affiliates and trusted third parties. It uses User Content in its own advertising and marketing campaigns to promote the Platform, to invite you to events, and to promote popular topics, hashtags and campaigns. It may announce you as a winner of contests or promotions if the promotion rule permits, and send you applicable prizes.

Supporting quotations

To send promotional materials, including by instant messaging or email, from us or on behalf of our affiliates and trusted third parties.

To use User Content as part of our advertising and marketing campaigns to promote the Platform, to invite you to participate in an event, and to promote popular topics, hashtags and campaigns on the Platform.

To announce you as a winner of our contests or promotions if permitted by the promotion rule, and to send you any applicable prizes.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Winner announcements are conditioned on the promotion rule permitting them.
• Promotional messages can be on behalf of affiliates and trusted third parties, not only TikTok.

Not stated here

• Who counts as a trusted third party is not stated.
• Whether you can opt out of promotional messages is addressed, if at all, in the rights section, not here.

Use & Processing · Company practice

TikTok measures ads, delivers personalised ads on and off the Platform, and gives creators and advertisers analytics

TikTok uses your information to measure and understand the effectiveness of ads and other content served to you and others, and to deliver advertising, including personalised advertising, on and off the Platform. It also performs analytics so that creators, advertisers, partners and sellers can see how their content, ads or products perform and better understand their audience and buyers.

Supporting quotations

To measure and understand the effectiveness of the advertisements and other content we serve to you and others, and to deliver advertising, including personalised advertising, to you on and off the Platform.

To perform analytics so that our creators, advertisers, partners, and sellers can see how their content, ads, or products are performing and to better understand their audience and buyers.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Advertising delivery is stated to apply on and off the Platform.

Not stated here

• Whether analytics shared with creators and advertisers identify you individually is not stated here; the sharing section addresses what is shared.

Use & Processing · Company practice

TikTok uses your data for Find Friends, sharing your active status, account suggestions and interactive content

TikTok uses your information to support social functions: letting you and others connect (for example through Find Friends), sharing whether you are active on the Platform and other information you choose to share with your friends, providing messaging if you choose to use it, suggesting accounts to you and suggesting your account to others, and letting people share, download and interact with User Content posted on the Platform. Related uses are letting you take part in interactive features, such as enabling your content to be used in other users' videos, and letting you participate in the virtual items program.

Supporting quotations

To support the social functions of the Platform, including to permit you and others to connect with each other (for example, through our Find Friends function) and to share whether you are active on the Platform (and other information which you choose to share) with your friends, to provide our messaging service if you choose to use this function, to suggest accounts to you and suggest your account to others, and for you and others to share, download, and otherwise interact with User Content posted through the Platform.

To allow you to participate in interactive features of the Platform, such as enabling your content to be used in other users’ videos.

To enable you to participate in the virtual items program.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Messaging is provided if you choose to use it; active status and other information are shared with friends, with other information limited to what you choose to share.
• Your account may be suggested to others, not only accounts to you.

Not stated here

• Whether sharing of active status can be turned off is not stated in this block.

Inference & Profiling · Company practice

TikTok uses your information to understand your use across devices and to infer your age range, gender and interests

Two listed uses: understanding how you use the Platform, including across your devices, and inferring additional information about you such as your age range, gender and interests. This matches the collection section, which says TikTok infers attributes for personalising content and links activity across devices by user and device IDs.

Supporting quotations

To understand how you use the Platform, including across your devices.

To infer additional information about you, such as your age range, gender, and interests.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The inferred attributes are introduced with such as; others may be inferred.

Use & Processing · Company practice

TikTok scans User Content, messages and metadata to detect abuse, enforce its rules and defend its legal rights

TikTok uses your information to detect and combat abuse, harmful activity, fraud, spam and illegal activity; to promote the safety and security of the Platform, including by scanning, analysing and reviewing User Content, messages and associated metadata for violations of its Terms of Service, Community Guidelines or other conditions and policies; to enforce those Terms, Guidelines and policies; and to protect the Platform and defend the legal rights and commercial interests of TikTok, its affiliates, users and the public. The scanning of messages is stated expressly.

Supporting quotations

To help us detect and combat abuse, harmful activity, fraud, spam, and illegal activity on the Platform.

To promote the safety, security of the Platform, including by scanning, analyzing, and reviewing User Content, messages and associated metadata for violations of our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other conditions and policies.

To enforce our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, and other conditions and policies.

To protect the Platform and defend our legal rights and commercial interests, and those of our affiliates, users, and the public.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Scanning covers User Content, messages and associated metadata.
• Protection extends to the interests of affiliates, users and the public, not only TikTok.

Not stated here

• The Community Guidelines and other policies were not supplied; the linked enforcement page is not described here.

Use & Processing · Company practice

TikTok uses your information to facilitate research by independent researchers who meet certain criteria

One listed use is facilitating research conducted by independent researchers that meets certain criteria. The criteria are not stated here; the sharing section has a separate Independent Researchers heading.

Supporting quotations

To facilitate research conducted by independent researchers that meets certain criteria.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Limited to research meeting certain criteria.

Not stated here

• The criteria for research and researchers are not stated in this block.

Use & Processing · Company practice

TikTok uses your information to verify your identity or age

One listed use is verifying your identity or age. The collection section says proof of identity or age is sometimes requested for features such as livestream, verified accounts and Business Accounts, and to ensure you are old enough.

Supporting quotations

To verify your identity or age.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Consistent with your permissions, TikTok provides location-based services such as advertising and personalised content

TikTok uses your information, consistent with your permissions, to provide location-based services such as advertising and other personalised content. The permission qualifier connects to the collection section: approximate location from SIM or IP is collected without a described permission step, while precise location such as GPS is collected only with your permission.

Supporting quotations

Consistent with your permissions, to provide you with location-based services, such as advertising and other personalized content.

With your permission, we may also collect precise location data (such as GPS).

Qualifications & exceptions

• Stated as consistent with your permissions.
• Precise (GPS) location requires your permission; approximate location from SIM or IP does not, per the collection section.

Not stated here

• Whether location-based advertising uses approximate location when GPS permission is refused is not stated.

Use & Processing · Company practice

TikTok uses your information to train and improve its technology, including machine learning models and algorithms

One listed use is training and improving TikTok's technology, such as its machine learning models and algorithms. The policy does not limit which categories of information are used for this.

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To train and improve our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms.

Not stated here

• Which information is used for model training, and whether you can object, is not stated here.

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.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

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.

Not stated here

• 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.

Not stated here

• How the receiving platform then uses the shared content is governed by that platform, not described here.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

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.

Not stated here

• 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").

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

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.

Not stated here

• The policy does not name the analytics providers or list the information they receive.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

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.

Not stated here

• The linked page about ads and your data was not supplied, so its contents are not described here.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

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.

Not stated here

• 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.

Not stated here

• The policy does not name the corporate group members that receive information.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company practice

TikTok shares data with authorities when legally required or reasonably necessary for legal, safety or fraud reasons

TikTok will share your information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities or other organisations if it is legally required to, or if doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with a legal obligation, process or request; enforce its Terms of Service and other agreements, policies and standards, including investigating potential violations; detect, prevent or address security, fraud or technical issues; or protect the rights, property or safety of TikTok, its users, a third party or the public as required or permitted by law.

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For Legal Reasons

We will share your information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities or other organisations if legally required to do so, or if such use is reasonably necessary to:

comply with legal obligation, process or request;

enforce our Terms of Service and other agreements, policies, and standards, including investigation of any potential violation thereof;

detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or

protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, a third party or the public as required or permitted by law

Qualifications & exceptions

• Besides legally required disclosures, sharing is allowed where it is reasonably necessary for one of the four listed purposes.
• The first purpose includes responding to a legal request, not only a binding legal obligation.
• Protecting rights, property or safety is limited to what is required or permitted by law.

Not stated here

• The Terms of Service and other policies referred to were not supplied.

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.

Not stated here

• 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.

Not stated here

• 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.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

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.

Not stated here

• 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.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Your information may be stored outside your country, for example in Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland and the US

TikTok says your information may be stored on servers outside the country where you live, giving Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland and the United States as examples. It explains that it maintains major servers around the world to provide its services globally and continuously.

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Where we store your information

Your information may be stored on servers located outside the country where you live, such as in Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland and the United States. We maintain major servers around the world to bring you our services globally and continuously.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The listed countries are examples ("such as"), not a complete list of storage locations.

Not stated here

• This section does not describe the safeguards used for storage or transfer outside your country.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

Depending on local law you may have rights to access, delete or correct data, request online and appeal

TikTok says you may have certain rights under applicable laws, which may include rights to access, delete, update or rectify your data, to be informed about its processing, to file complaints with authorities, and potentially others. You can submit a request to exercise those rights through TikTok's online privacy request form, and you can appeal a decision on your request by following the instructions in TikTok's decision notice. The policy also points to the Supplemental Terms for whether a local representative or contact is available in your country.

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Your rights and choices

You may be afforded certain rights under applicable laws, which may include the right to access, delete, update, or rectify your data, to be informed of the processing of your data, to file complaints with authorities, and potentially other rights.

You may appeal any decision we have made about your request by following the instructions in the communication you receive from us notifying you of our decision. Please also see the Supplemental Terms on whether a local representative or local contact is available for your country.

You have rights and choices when it comes to your information.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Which rights you have depends on the laws that apply to you; the list is introduced with may include.
• Country-specific rights and contacts are set out in the Supplemental Terms, explained in their own cards.

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

You can edit most account information, delete your content, control who interacts with you and delete your account

By signing in you can access and edit most of your account information, and you can delete User Content you uploaded. Settings include tools that let you control, among other things, who can view your videos, send you messages or comment on your videos. You may also delete your entire account in Settings.

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You can access and edit most of your account information by signing into TikTok. You can delete the User Content you uploaded. We also provide a number of tools in Settings that allow you to control, among others, who can view your videos, send you messages, or post comments to your videos. Should you choose to do so, you may delete your entire account in Settings.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Access and editing cover most, not all, account information.

Not stated here

• What happens to information after account deletion is governed by the retention section; this paragraph does not say.

Data Access & Collection · User right or choice

You may disable cookies in your browser, but ad opt-outs differ for apps and apply per browser or device

You may be able to refuse or disable Cookies through your browser settings, following your browser's instructions, and some types of Cookies may need additional steps. Opting out of Cookies used for targeted advertising in a browser is different from opting out of targeted advertising in a mobile app, which you may control through device settings or app permissions. An opt-out applies only to the browser or device you used, so you may need to repeat it on each one. If you refuse, disable or delete Cookies, some Platform features may stop working.

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You may be able to refuse or disable Cookies by adjusting your device browser settings.

you may need to take different steps to opt out of Cookies used for targeted advertising in a browser and to opt out of targeted advertising for a mobile application, which you may control through your device settings or mobile app permissions

In addition, your opt-out selection is specific to the particular browser or device that you are using when you opt out, so you may need to opt-out separately for each of browser or device. If you choose to refuse, disable, or delete Cookies, some of the functionality of the Platform may no longer be available to you.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Opt-outs are specific to the browser or device used.
• Disabling Cookies may make some functionality unavailable.

Security & Safeguards · Company commitment

TikTok says it uses reasonable, risk-appropriate technical and organisational security measures, such as encryption

TikTok says it takes steps to treat your information securely and in line with the policy, uses reasonable measures such as encryption to protect personal data, and has technical and organisational measures giving security appropriate to the risk to your rights and freedoms and those of other users. It says it maintains these measures and will amend them from time to time to improve security.

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The security of your information

We take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this policy.

We have appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of you and other users. We maintain these technical and organizational measures and will amend them from time to time to improve the overall security of our systems.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The commitment is to reasonable and risk-appropriate measures, not to guaranteed security; see the transmission-risk card.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

TikTok does not guarantee the security of information you send through the Platform; transmission is at your risk

TikTok notes that internet transmission is not completely secure. Although it will use reasonable measures such as encryption, it says it cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted via the Platform and that any transmission is at your own risk.

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Although we will use reasonable measures to protect your personal data, for example, by encryption, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted via the Platform; any transmission is at your own risk.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Linked partner, advertiser and affiliate websites have their own privacy policies TikTok disclaims responsibility for

TikTok will from time to time include links to and from websites of its partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. Those websites have their own privacy policies, and TikTok says it accepts no responsibility or liability for those policies. It asks you to check them before submitting information to those sites.

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We will, from time to time, include links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

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.

Not stated here

• How long information kept to process a violation is retained is not stated.
• The Terms of Service and Community Guidelines were not supplied.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

TikTok is not directed at children under 13, or a higher local age such as 16 in Australia; report underage users

TikTok says the Platform is not directed at children under 13, and that in some places the age may be higher because of local regulatory requirements, as set out in the local supplemental terms. For example, the Australia supplemental terms say TikTok is not directed at children under 16. If you believe a user is below the minimum age, you can tell TikTok through its online privacy request form.

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Information relating to children and teens

TikTok is not directed at children under the age of 13. In certain cases this age may be higher due to local regulatory requirements, please see your local supplemental terms for more information. If you believe that there is a user who is below this minimum age, please contact us at

TikTok is not directed at children under the age of 16.

Australia

Qualifications & exceptions

• The minimum age is 13 unless local supplemental terms set a higher age, as Australia does with 16.

Not stated here

• This section does not say what TikTok does with an account or data once it learns a user is under the minimum age.
• This section does not describe separate data practices for teens above the minimum age.

Account & Service Control · Context

Parents and guardians are pointed to a Guardian's Guide on TikTok's tools and controls

If you are a parent or guardian, TikTok points you to its Guardian's Guide for information and resources about the Platform and the tools and controls you can use. The guide itself was not supplied with this policy, so its contents are not described here.

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contains information and resources to help you understand the Platform and the tools and controls you can use.

Not stated here

• The Guardian's Guide was not supplied.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

TikTok may update the policy by changing the date and posting it; continuing to use TikTok means you accept

TikTok may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. It will notify you by updating the Last Updated date and posting the new policy, or by giving any other notice that applicable law requires. Continuing to access or use the Platform after the updated policy's date counts as accepting it, and if you do not agree you must stop using the Platform.

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Privacy Policy update

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we update the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy and posting the new Privacy Policy or providing any other notice required by applicable law. Your continued access to or use of the Platform after the date of the updated policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy. If you do not agree to the updated policy, you must stop accessing or using the Platform.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Notice may consist only of a changed date and the posted policy unless applicable law requires another form of notice.
• Acceptance is tied to continued use after the date of the updated policy.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

Contact TikTok about the policy through its online form; complaints to a data protection authority stay available

Questions, comments, complaints or requests about the policy go through TikTok's online privacy request form, and the supplemental terms say whether a local representative or contact is available in your country. TikTok says it will endeavour to deal with your request as soon as possible, and that this does not affect your right to complain to a relevant data protection authority, where applicable.

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Contact

If you have questions, comments, complaints or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Please also see the supplemental terms below on whether a local representative or local contact is available for your country.

We will endeavour to deal with your request as soon as possible. This is without prejudice to your right to make a complaint with a relevant data protection authority, where applicable.

Qualifications & exceptions

• TikTok commits only to endeavour to respond as soon as possible; no deadline is stated here.
• The right to complain to a data protection authority applies where applicable.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Jurisdiction-specific Supplemental Terms override the main policy where they conflict for your jurisdiction

The policy ends with Supplemental Terms for specific jurisdictions. If the supplemental terms relevant to the jurisdiction from which you access or use the services conflict with the rest of the policy, those supplemental terms supersede and control. Outside a conflict, the main policy continues to apply alongside them.

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Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction-Specific

In the event of a conflict between the provisions of the Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction-Specific that are relevant to your jurisdiction from which you access or use the services, and the rest of policy, the relevant jurisdictions’ Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction-Specific will supersede and control.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Precedence applies only where there is a conflict.
• The relevant jurisdiction is the one from which you access or use the services.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): TikTok lists the information it may collect: what you provide, what is collected automatically, and other sources — qualifies: The general collection overview notes, and the Supplemental Terms state, that jurisdiction-specific terms supersede the main policy where they conflict for your jurisdiction.

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.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Australia: TikTok is not directed at children under 16

For users in Australia, the supplemental terms raise the minimum age: TikTok is not directed at children under 16. If you believe a user is below that age, you can report it through TikTok's online privacy request form. This replaces the general age of 13 for Australia.

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TikTok is not directed at children under the age of 16.

If you believe that there is a user who is below this minimum age, please contact us at

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the Platform in Australia.

Cross-references

• narrows (model-proposed): TikTok is not directed at children under 13, or a higher local age such as 16 in Australia; report underage users — exception_to: For Australia the minimum age is 16 instead of the general 13, as the general rule anticipates for local regulatory requirements.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

Australia: you can complain to TikTok and, if you disagree with its response, to the OAIC

In Australia you can raise complaints, exercise your rights or seek remedies through TikTok's online privacy request form. If you disagree with TikTok's response, you also have the right to complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), whose website and phone number the policy lists.

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You may raise complaints, exercise your rights or seek any remedies by contacting us at

If you disagree with our response, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at:

Website:

Phone: 1300 363 992

Qualifications & exceptions

• The OAIC route is described for when you disagree with TikTok's response.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Egypt: you declare you are over 18, or a guardian declares an under-18 user is over 13 and consents

For users in Egypt, you declare that you are over 18. If you are under 18, you are asked to have a parent or legal guardian read the policy with you. A parent or guardian reviewing the terms for a user under 18 declares that the user is over 13, that they have read and acknowledged TikTok's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and that they agree to the child using the Platform and registering an account.

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Egypt

If you are using our services in Egypt, the following additional terms apply.

You declare that you are over the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please have your parent or legal guardian read this with you. If you are reviewing these terms as the parent/legal guardian of a user who is under the age of 18, you hereby declare that such user is above the age of 13 and that you have read and acknowledged TikTok's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and agree to the use by your child of the Platform and registration for an account.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Egypt.
• Users between 13 and 18 rely on a parent or guardian's declaration and agreement.

Not stated here

• The Terms of Use referred to were not supplied.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

India: the Platform is provided and controlled by a ByteDance Indian entity, which 'TikTok' and 'we' refer to

For use from India, the Platform is provided and controlled by ByteDance (India) Technology Private Limited, and TikTok is the brand used for the services. References to TikTok, we or us in the policy are to be read as referring to the Indian entity. The source names that entity in two slightly different ways in the same paragraph (ByteDance (India) Technology Private Limited and Bytedance (India) Technology India Private Limited).

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India

If you are using our services in India, the Platform is provided and controlled by ByteDance (India) Technology Private Limited.

When using these services from India, please accordingly read “TikTok”, “we” or “us” in this policy to refer to Bytedance (India) Technology India Private Limited.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies when using the services from India.

Not stated here

• The paragraph gives two different spellings of the entity name; which is the exact legal name is not resolved by the source.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Indonesia: under-18 users need parental approval, parents are responsible, and without consent you must stop

For users in Indonesia, these additional terms apply and prevail over the main policy if they conflict. By using the Platform you represent that you are at least 18. If you are under 18 and not married, or are under guardianship, you must get approval from your parent or legal guardian, and they become responsible for all your actions on the Platform, your compliance with the policy, and ensuring your participation does not violate child-protection laws. If you lack that consent and your parent or guardian is not willing to open the account in their name, you must stop accessing the Platform.

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Indonesia

If you are using our services in Indonesia, the following additional terms apply. In the event of any conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of this policy, the following terms shall apply.

Age, Parental and Guardian Consent. By accessing and/or using this Platform, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age. If you are below 18 years old and you are not married, or under guardianship:

you must obtain approval from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s); and

your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) are responsible for: (i) all your actions in connection with your access to and use of the Platform; (ii) your compliance with this policy; and (iii) ensuring that any of your participation in the Platform will not, in any event, result in any violation of applicable laws and regulations relating to child protections.

If you do not have consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) and your parent(s) or guardian(s) is not willing to open the account under their name, you must cease accessing the Platform.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Indonesia.
• The parental-approval rule applies to users under 18 who are not married, or who are under guardianship.

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.

Not stated here

• The related services are not named.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): TikTok may share your information with members, subsidiaries and affiliates of its corporate group — qualifies: For Indonesia, corporate-group sharing gains an additional stated purpose: an integrated, seamless and personalised experience across related services.

Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice

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.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

Indonesia: you can ask for the history of data collected and for erasure, using TikTok's request form

In Indonesia you may ask TikTok to disclose the history of personal data it has collected and to erase and dispose of personal data it has collected on its servers. Erasure may mean you cannot use some features. You exercise these rights through TikTok's online privacy request form.

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You may request TikTok to (i) disclose the history of personal data that we have collected; and/or (ii) erase and dispose of your personal data that we have collected on our server. Please note that by requesting us to erase and dispose of your personal data, you may not be able to use some of TikTok’s features and functionality.

To exercise any of your rights, contact us at:

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Indonesia.
• Erasure may make some features unavailable.

Security & Safeguards · Company commitment

Indonesia: TikTok will notify you of a personal data breach and give you information about it

For users in Indonesia, TikTok commits that if there is a breach of personal data, it will notify you and provide information about the breach.

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Notification. In the event of any breach of personal data, we will notify you and provide you with information regarding such breach of personal data.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Indonesia.

Not stated here

• No notification timeframe or content is specified.

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.

Not stated here

• Which occasions trigger the five-year retention is not specified.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): TikTok keeps information as long as needed for the Platform, legal duties, business interests and legal claims — qualifies: For Indonesia, the open-ended general retention rule is narrowed to retention while needed or for a legitimate business purpose, with a likely five-year period on some occasions.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

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.

Not stated here

• The policy does not describe the anonymisation method.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Israel: you declare you are over 18, or a guardian declares an under-18 user is over 13 and consents

For users in Israel, you declare that you are over 18. If you are under 18, you are asked to have a parent or legal guardian read the policy with you. A parent or guardian reviewing the terms for a user under 18 declares that the user is over 13, that they have read and acknowledged TikTok's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and that they agree to the child using the Platform and registering an account.

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Israel

If you are using our services in Israel, the following additional terms apply.

You declare that you are over the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please have your parent or legal guardian read this with you. If you are reviewing these terms as the parent/legal guardian of a user who is under the age of 18, you hereby declare that such user is above the age of 13 and that you have read and acknowledged TikTok's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and agree to the use by your child of the Platform and registration for an account.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Israel.

Not stated here

• The Terms of Use referred to were not supplied.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Japan: additional terms and a separate Japanese-language Privacy Policy apply

For users in Japan, the Japan supplemental terms and TikTok's Japanese-language Privacy Policy apply. That Japanese policy was not supplied with this document, so its content is not described here.

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Japan

If you are using our services in Japan, the following additional terms and our

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Japan.

Not stated here

• The Japanese-language Privacy Policy was not supplied; how it relates to this English policy is not stated.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Japan: under-15 users need a guardian's consent and declaration, including to TikTok processing the child's data

In Japan, if you are under 15 you are asked to have a parent or legal guardian read the policy with you; without their consent, and if they will not open the account in their name, you must stop accessing the Platform. A parent or guardian reviewing for a user under 15 declares that the user is over 13, that they have read and acknowledged the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and that they agree to the child's use and registration and to TikTok processing the child's personal data under the Privacy Policy.

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If you are under the age of 15, please have your parent or legal guardian read this with you. If you do not have consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) and your parent(s) or guardian(s) is not willing to open the account under their name, you must cease accessing the Platform.

If you are reviewing these terms as the parent/legal guardian of a user who is under the age of 15, you hereby declare that such user is above the age of 13 and that you have read and acknowledged TikTok's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and agree to the use by your child of the Platform and registration for an account, as well as TikTok's processing of your child's personal data in accordance with TikTok's Privacy Policy.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Japan; the threshold is 15, not 18.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Japan shopping: Bytedance KK is data controller, with TikTok Pte. Ltd. controlling some shopping activities

If you use TikTok's shopping features in Japan, the data controller for your personal data is Bytedance KK in Tokyo. Some activities in operating the shopping features may be performed by TikTok Pte. Ltd., which is the controller for those activities; for example it may be responsible for developing and improving the shopping features. The item then says that TikTok, we or us in the policy means TikTok Pte. Ltd. and Bytedance KK.

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If you are using our shopping features in Japan, the data controller responsible for the processing of your personal data is Bytedance KK., whose address is at Shibuya Hikarie, 2-21-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-8510, Japan.

However, certain activities relating to the operation of our shopping features may be performed by TikTok Pte. Ltd., which will be the data controller for these processing activities. For example, TikTok Pte. Ltd. may be responsible for the development and improvement of our shopping features and will be a data controller for such purposes. When we refer to “TikTok”, “we” or “us” in this Privacy Policy, we mean TikTok Pte. Ltd. and Bytedance KK.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Stated for use of the shopping features in Japan.

Not stated here

• The definition of TikTok, we or us appears inside the shopping item, so whether it applies to all use in Japan or only shopping is not clear from the text.

Use & Processing · Context

Kenya: processing rests on contract necessity, or else legitimate interests, legal obligations or consent

For users in Kenya, these additional terms prevail over the main policy if they conflict. TikTok says it collects and uses personal data to offer the Platform on the basis that the processing is necessary to perform a contract you are entering or have entered. Where it processes data for purposes not necessary for the contract, the processing may rely on its legitimate interests, compliance with its legal obligations, or consent you may have given.

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Kenya

If you are using our services in Kenya, the following additional terms apply. In the event of any conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of this Policy, the following terms shall prevail.

We do so under the lawful basis that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract in which you are entering or have entered. In some circumstances, we may have to process data for other purposes that are not necessary for the performance of the contract. In such cases, the processing may be based upon (i) our legitimate interests; (ii) compliance with our legal obligations; and/or (iii) consent you may have provided to us.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Kenya.
• The policy does not match each non-contract purpose to a specific basis.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Kenya: under-18 users need parental consent and parents are responsible; without consent you must stop

In Kenya you declare that you are over 18. If you are under 18, you must get consent from your parent or legal guardian, who becomes responsible for all your actions on the Platform and your compliance with the policy. If you are under 18 without that consent and your parent or guardian is not willing to open an account in their name, you must stop accessing the Platform.

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Age, Parental and Guardian Consent: You declare that you are over the age of 18. If you are below 18 years old:

you must obtain consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s); and

your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) shall be responsible for: (i) all your actions in connection with your access to and use of the Platform; and (ii) your compliance with this Policy.

If you are not at least 18 years of age and you do not have consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) and your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) are not willing to open an account under their name(s), you must cease accessing the Platform.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Kenya.

Data Access & Collection · Context

Kenya: not providing requested information may limit your access to TikTok or some features

In Kenya, you will be asked for certain information described in the collection section before using the Platform or certain functions. Not providing all or part of it may limit your access to the Platform or some of its features.

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Consequences for Failing to Provide Certain Personal Data: You will be asked to provide certain information (as described above under the ‘What information we collect’ section) before using the Platform or certain functions. Failure to provide all or any part of such information may limit your access to the Platform or some of its features and functionalities.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Kenya.

Use & Processing · User right or choice

Spanish-speaking Latin America: personalised ads, promotions and seller marketing are secondary uses needing consent

For users in Spanish-speaking Latin America, these terms prevail over the main policy if they conflict. TikTok says most uses in the main uses section are necessary purposes, but it requests your consent, as required by applicable laws, for secondary purposes: personalised advertising; sending promotional materials from TikTok or on behalf of its affiliates, sellers and trusted third parties; measuring ad effectiveness and delivering advertising, including personalised advertising, on the Platform and elsewhere online; and facilitating marketing communications from sellers to you on the Platform.

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Latin America

If you are using our services in Spanish-speaking Latin America, the following additional terms apply and shall prevail in the event of any conflict with the main body of the Privacy Policy.

Most purposes of processing described in the “How we use your information” section of this Privacy Policy are necessary purposes. The following are secondary purposes for which we hereby request your consent as required by applicable laws:

To provide you with personalized advertising.

To send promotional materials from us or on behalf of our affiliates, sellers, and trusted third parties.

To measure and understand the effectiveness of the advertisements we serve to you and others, and to deliver advertising, including personalized advertising, to you on the Platform and elsewhere online.

To facilitate the sending of marketing communications by sellers to you on our Platform.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
• Consent is requested for these secondary purposes as required by applicable laws; other listed uses are described as necessary.

Not stated here

• Which of the main uses are treated as necessary is not listed item by item.

Use & Processing · Permission or license

Latin America: using TikTok is treated as your consent to the secondary ad and marketing purposes

In Spanish-speaking Latin America, after listing the secondary purposes (including seller marketing on the Platform), the policy says these purposes give you a better experience and that by using the Platform you consent to processing your personal data for them. It adds that you can always exercise your rights as described in the Your rights paragraph. So the consent requested for secondary purposes is framed as given through use of the Platform rather than through a separate opt-in described here.

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By using our Platform, you consent to the processing of your personal data for these purposes. You can always exercise your rights, as stipulated under “Your rights” below.

To facilitate the sending of marketing communications by sellers to you on our Platform.

Latin America

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
• Your rights, including revoking consent, remain available as described in the Latin America rights paragraph.

Not stated here

• The policy does not describe a separate consent screen or opt-in for these secondary purposes.

Cross-references

• contrast (model-proposed): Spanish-speaking Latin America: personalised ads, promotions and seller marketing are secondary uses needing consent — contrast: The Latin America terms say TikTok requests your consent for secondary ad and marketing purposes as applicable law requires, but then state that using the Platform is consent to those purposes. The two statements pull in different directions on how consent is obtained; recorded as a reviewed tension, not a legal finding.

Use & Processing · User right or choice

Latin America: Settings tools let you limit certain processing and choose how data is used and disclosed

For users in Spanish-speaking Latin America, TikTok says it offers choices about how it uses and discloses your personal data, and that you can limit certain processing using the tools available in Settings.

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We also offer you choices regarding how we use and disclose your personal data, and you can limit certain processing by using the tools available in Settings.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
• The Settings tools limit certain processing, not all processing.

Not stated here

• The specific Settings tools are not listed.

Data Access & Collection · Context

Latin America: inaccurate data can affect the Platform, and refusing data may restrict some services

In Spanish-speaking Latin America, the policy warns that wrong or inaccurate data can affect the efficiency, purpose or other aspects of the Platform, and that in some cases refusing to provide your data may restrict your use of certain services.

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Providing wrong or inaccurate data can affect the efficiency, purpose, objective or any other aspect of the Platform. In some cases, if you refuse to provide your data, you may be restricted from the use of certain Services.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
• Restriction applies in some cases and to certain services.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

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.

Not stated here

• The policy does not identify which sharing or transfer activities require consent.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

Latin America: rights may include access, correction, deletion, portability, revoking consent and objecting

Depending on where you live in Spanish-speaking Latin America, your rights under applicable law may include: knowing, accessing, deleting, updating or correcting your data; being informed how it is processed; limiting its use and disclosure; transfer and portability; revoking consent and requesting evidence of consent; objecting to certain processing; not being subject to decisions based solely on automated processing; and complaining to the competent data protection authority, especially if TikTok rejects your request or does not respond in time. Revoking consent does not affect processing done before the revocation, and some rights apply only in certain circumstances or jurisdictions and may be limited by law.

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Depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, your rights under applicable laws may include the following: to know, access, delete, update, or correct/rectify your personal data; to be informed of the ways in which we process your personal data; to limit the use and disclosure of your data; to transfer and data portability; to revoke your consent and to request evidence of your consent; to object to certain processing activities; to not be affected by a decision based solely on automated processing; and to file complaints before the competent data protection authority, where applicable, but especially if we reject your request or do not respond in a timely manner.

Revoking your consent does not affect the lawfulness of our use or processing of your data undertaken prior to such revocation. Some of your rights apply generally, while others will only apply in certain circumstances and jurisdictions, and, depending on the scenario, these rights may be subject to some limitations by law.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Which rights apply depends on the jurisdiction in which you reside.
• Revocation is not retroactive.
• Some rights apply only in certain circumstances and may be limited by law.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

Latin America: rights requests are free, handled within legal deadlines, via the contact route

In Spanish-speaking Latin America you can exercise your rights free of charge by sending a request through the contact details in the policy. TikTok says requests will be resolved as soon as possible according to their nature and within the deadlines set by applicable law, and encourages you to contact it if you are not satisfied with its response. TikTok's Data Protection office is reached through the same online privacy request form.

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You can exercise your rights free of charge, by sending your request to the contact details set forth in the “Contact” section. Your rights requests will be resolved as soon as possible according to the nature of your request and within the terms established by applicable laws.

If you wish to reach TikTok’s Data Protection office, contact us at:

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

Use & Processing · Context

Nigeria: using TikTok means agreeing to processing; bases are contract, interests, law, consent and more

For users in Nigeria, these terms prevail over the main policy if they conflict. TikTok says it follows the data processing principles in Nigerian law, and that by signing up or using the Platform you agree to processing under the policy. Processing to offer the Platform rests on contract necessity; processing for other purposes may rely on legitimate interests, legal obligations, consent you have given, performance of a task in the public interest, or protection of vital interests.

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Nigeria

If you are using our services in Nigeria, the following additional terms apply. In the event of any conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of this Privacy Policy, the following terms shall prevail.

By signing up to and/or using the Platform, you agree to the processing and use of your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We process your personal data on the basis that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract which you are entering or have entered.

In such cases, the processing may be based upon (i) our legitimate interests; (ii) compliance with our legal obligations; (iii) consent you may have provided to us; (iv) for the performance of a task in public interest; and/or (v) to protect vital interests.

We abide by the relevant principles for the processing of personal data as stipulated under Nigerian law.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Nigeria.
• The policy does not match each non-contract purpose to a specific basis.

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.

Not stated here

• The other legal bases for transfer are not named.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Nigeria: under-18 users need parental consent and parents are responsible; without consent you must stop

In Nigeria you declare that you are 18 or older. If you are under 18, you must get consent from your parent or legal guardian, who becomes responsible for all your actions on the Platform and your compliance with the policy. If you are under 18 without that consent and your parent or guardian is not willing to open an account in their name, you must stop accessing the Platform.

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Age, Parental and Guardian Consent. You declare that you are 18 or over the age of 18.

If you are below 18 years of age:

you must obtain consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s); and

your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) shall be responsible for: (i) all your actions in connection with your access to and use of the Platform; and (ii) your compliance with this Privacy Policy.

If you are not at least 18 years of age and you do not have consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) and your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) are not willing to open an account under their name(s), you must cease accessing the Platform.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Nigeria.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

Nigeria: extra rights to withdraw consent, object, restrict processing and data portability

For users in Nigeria, to the extent the relevant data privacy laws recognise them, and in addition to the rights listed in the main policy, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time where TikTok relies on consent, to object to processing of your personal data, to request restriction of processing in specific circumstances, and to data portability.

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Your Rights. To the extent that the relevant laws, rules and regulations on data privacy recognize your rights and freedoms as data subjects, in addition to the rights listed above, you shall have the right to: withdraw your consent at any time where the legal basis of our processing is consent; object to the processing of your personal data; request the restriction of processing in specific circumstances; and data portability.

Nigeria

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Nigeria.
• These rights apply to the extent the relevant laws recognise them; withdrawal of consent applies where consent is the legal basis; restriction applies in specific circumstances.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Nigeria: TikTok enforces its rules with automated tools and human moderators and may remove content or ban accounts

For users in Nigeria, TikTok says it may process your personal data by manual and automated methods, and uses your information to enforce its Terms, Guidelines and policies through a mix of automated technology and human moderation. This may include removing content or suspending or banning your account if TikTok determines you are violating its Terms or Guidelines.

Supporting quotations

Processing. We may process your personal data through manual and automated methods. We use your information to enforce our Terms, Guidelines, and policies (through a mix of technology including (a) automated means and (b) human moderation). This may include removing content or suspending or banning your account if we determine that you are violating our Terms or Guidelines.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Nigeria.
• Removal, suspension or banning follows TikTok's determination that you are violating its Terms or Guidelines.

Not stated here

• The Terms and Guidelines were not supplied.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

Nigeria: a right not to face solely automated significant decisions, except for contract, consent or law

In Nigeria you have the right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects on you. TikTok says you may not be entitled to this right where the decision is necessary to perform the contract between you and TikTok, where you have given consent, or where it is authorised by law.

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You have the right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing which produces legal or similar significant effect concerning you. However, you may not be entitled to this right, where the decision becomes necessary for the performance of the contract between us, or where you have given us your consent, or as authorised by law.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Nigeria.
• The right covers decisions based solely on automated processing with legal or similarly significant effects.
• It may not apply where the decision is necessary for the contract, you consented, or law authorises it.

Not stated here

• Whether moderation decisions such as account bans fall under the contract exception is not stated.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): Nigeria: TikTok enforces its rules with automated tools and human moderators and may remove content or ban accounts — qualifies: In Nigeria, automated enforcement decisions are subject to the right not to face solely automated significant decisions, unless the contract, consent or law exception applies.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

Nigeria: contact TikTok's privacy team, verify your identity, and complain to the Data Protection Commission

In Nigeria you can raise complaints, exercise your rights, seek remedies or reach TikTok's Data Protection Officer or Privacy Team through its online privacy request form. TikTok may require you to verify your identity or account details before responding to a rights request. You also have the right to complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission by email or through the complaint channels on its website.

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Complaints and Remedies. You may raise complaints, exercise your rights or seek any remedies or reach our Data Protection Officer/Privacy Team at

Before we can respond to a request to exercise one or more of the rights listed above, you may be required to verify your identity or your account details. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission via email at info@ndpc.gov.ng or through platforms available for complaints via its website at

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Nigeria.
• Identity or account verification may be required before TikTok responds.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

Philippines: rights to information, objection, access, correction, erasure, NPC complaints, damages and portability

For users in the Philippines, additional terms apply under the laws and issuances of the National Privacy Commission (NPC). To the extent those laws recognise them, you have rights to information, to object, to access, to rectification, to erasure or blocking, to lodge complaints with the NPC, to damages and to data portability. TikTok may require you to verify your identity or account details before responding to a request.

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Philippines

If you are using our services in the Philippines, the following additional terms shall apply pursuant to the relevant laws, rules and regulations and issuances by the Philippines National Privacy Commission (“NPC”) on data privacy.

Your Rights. To the extent that the relevant laws, rules and regulations on data privacy recognize your rights and freedoms as data subjects, you shall have the right to information, object, access, rectification, erasure or blocking, lodge complaints before the NPC, damages and data portability. Before we can respond to a request to exercise one or more of the rights listed above, you may be required to verify your identity or your account details.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in the Philippines.
• Rights apply to the extent the relevant laws recognise them.
• Identity or account verification may be required.

Use & Processing · Permission or license

Russia: processing relies on consent, contract, legitimate interest or law; signing up counts as consent

Under the Russia heading, TikTok says it processes personal data on the grounds of your consent, performance of a contract, its legitimate interest and obligations to process personal data, or where required by law. By signing up and using the Platform, you consent to processing of personal data under the policy.

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Russia

What are legal grounds for data processing. When we process your personal data, we rely on the grounds of your consent, performance of a contract, our legitimate interest and obligations to process personal data, or when we are so required by law.

By signing up and using the Platform, you consent to the processing of personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Stated under the Russia heading; the section has no separate sentence defining who it applies to.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Russia: your personal data may be transferred from Russia to Singapore and stored there

Under the Russia heading, TikTok says your personal data may be transferred from Russia to Singapore and stored there, outside the country where you live.

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Where we store your personal data. Your personal data may be transferred from Russia to Singapore and stored in that location, outside of the country where you live.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Stated under the Russia heading.

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.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): With a public profile, anyone on TikTok and third parties such as search engines may see and share your content — qualifies: Under the Russia heading, public visibility of a Public Profile is framed as relying on your consent given through that setting.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

Singapore: you can contact TikTok's Data Protection Officer through a dedicated form

For users in Singapore, TikTok provides a separate contact page for its Data Protection Officer.

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Singapore

If you are using our services in Singapore, the following additional terms apply:

Data Protection Officer: If you wish to reach TikTok’s Data Protection Officer, please contact us at:

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Singapore.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

South Africa: you declare you are over 18, or a guardian declares an under-18 user is over 13 and consents

For users in South Africa, you declare that you are over 18. If you are under 18, you are asked to have a parent or legal guardian read the policy with you. A parent or guardian reviewing for a user under 18 declares that the user is over 13, that they have read and acknowledged TikTok's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and that they agree to the child using the Platform and registering an account.

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South Africa

If you are using our services in South Africa, the following additional terms apply.

You declare that you are over the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please have your parent or legal guardian read this with you. If you are reviewing these terms as the parent/legal guardian of a user who is under the age of 18, you hereby declare that such user is above the age of 13 and that you have read and acknowledged TikTok's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and agree to the use by your child of the Platform and registration for an account.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in South Africa.

Not stated here

• The Terms of Use referred to were not supplied.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

South Africa: TikTok SA keeps a PAIA Manual on its processing, your rights and how to request records

TikTok's South African entity, TikTok South Africa (Pty) Limited, says South African access-to-information law (section 51 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000, PAIA) requires it to compile an information manual. The manual covers its personal information processing under the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA), how individuals exercise their data subject rights under POPIA, the records it holds, and how to request access to those records. The manual is available through a link that was not supplied.

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TikTok's legal entity in South Africa, TikTok South Africa (Pty) Limited (TikTok SA), is required by the terms of section 51 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA) to compile an information manual (PAIA Manual) that provides details: (i) on its processing of personal information activities in terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA); (ii) the process that must be followed for relevant individuals to exercise their data subject rights as provided for in POPIA; (iii) the records held by TikTok SA in terms of PAIA; and (iv) the process that needs to be followed by relevant individuals to request access to such records in terms of PAIA.

TikTok SA's PAIA Manual can be accessed

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to TikTok's South African entity and users in South Africa.

Not stated here

• The PAIA Manual was not supplied.
• The cited Acts are external laws; their requirements are not supplied or explained here.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Türkiye: users are referred to a separate Turkish-language Privacy Policy on Law No. 6698 compliance

For users in Türkiye, TikTok refers you to its Turkish-language Privacy Policy for further information on its compliance with Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data. That policy was not supplied, so its content is not described here.

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Türkiye

If you are using our services in Türkiye, please refer to the

for further information on our compliance with Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Türkiye.

Not stated here

• The Turkish-language Privacy Policy was not supplied.

Use & Processing · Context

Uganda: processing rests on contract necessity, or else legal obligations or your consent

For users in Uganda, additional terms apply. TikTok says it collects and uses personal data to offer the Platform on the basis that processing is necessary to perform a contract you are entering or have entered. Where it processes data for other purposes not necessary for the contract, the processing may rely on compliance with its legal obligations or consent you may have given. Unlike the otherwise similar Kenya terms, the Uganda list does not include legitimate interests.

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We do so under the lawful basis that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract in which you are entering or have entered. In some circumstances, we may have to process data for other purposes that are not necessary for the performance of the contract. In such cases, the processing may be based upon (i) compliance with our legal obligations; and/or (ii) consent you may have provided to us.

Uganda

If you are using our services in Uganda the following additional terms apply.

(i) our legitimate interests; (ii) compliance with our legal obligations; and/or (iii) consent you may have provided to us.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Uganda.

Data Access & Collection · Context

Uganda: not providing requested information may limit your access to TikTok or some features

In Uganda, you will be asked for certain information described in the collection section before using the Platform or certain functions. Not providing all or part of it may limit your access to the Platform or some of its features.

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Consequences for Failing to Provide Certain Personal Data: You will be asked to provide certain information (as described above under the 'What information we collect' section) before using the Platform or certain functions. Failure to provide all or any part of such information may limit your access to the Platform or some of its features and functionalities.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Uganda.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Uganda: under-18 users need parental consent and parents are responsible; without consent you must stop

In Uganda you declare that you are over 18. If you are under 18, you must get consent from your parent or legal guardian, who becomes responsible for all your actions on the Platform and your compliance with the policy. If you are under 18 without that consent and your parent or guardian is not willing to open an account in their name, you must stop accessing the Platform.

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Age, Parental and Guardian Consent: You declare that you are over the age of 18. If you are below 18 years old:

you must obtain consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s); and

your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) shall be responsible for: (i) all your actions in connection with your access to and use of the Platform; and (ii) your compliance with this Policy.

If you are not at least 18 years of age and you do not have consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) and your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) are not willing to open an account under their name(s), you must cease accessing the Platform.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Uganda.

Data Access & Collection · Restriction or exception

Uganda: you have a duty to give complete and accurate personal data when you consent to processing

For users in Uganda, the policy states that it is your duty to provide complete and accurate personal data when you give consent to processing of your personal data.

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It is your duty to provide complete and accurate personal data upon giving consent to the processing of your personal data.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Uganda; the duty is tied to giving consent.

Not stated here

• The consequences of breaching this duty are not stated.

Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license

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.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

UAE: UAE law governs the policy; small-value disputes go to the DIFC Small Claims Tribunal

If you use the Platform in the UAE, the Privacy Policy is governed by and interpreted under UAE law. For a dispute in connection with the policy where the claim is within the DIFC Small Claims Tribunal's limits as set from time to time, either party refers it to that Tribunal. Other disputes follow the mediation and arbitration route in the next card.

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Governing law and dispute resolution

By using our Platform in the UAE, this Privacy Policy will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the UAE. In the event of a dispute arising between the parties in connection with this Privacy Policy:

where the dispute relates to a claim for a sum within the limits specified by the DIFC Small Claims Tribunal from time to time, then the dispute shall be referred by either party to the said Tribunal; and

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the Platform in the UAE.
• The small-claims route depends on the Tribunal's limits as they change from time to time.

Not stated here

• The Tribunal's current monetary limits are not stated.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

UAE: other disputes go to DIFC-LCIA mediation, then binding arbitration in Dubai by one arbitrator

For UAE users, disputes about the policy that are not small claims must first go to mediation under the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre's Mediation Rules. If mediation does not settle the dispute within 30 days of starting, or a longer period agreed in writing, it is referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Rules. Mediation and arbitration are in English, with one arbitrator, conducted in Dubai.

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for all other disputes, the parties shall seek settlement of that dispute by mediation in accordance with the Mediation Rules of the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre, which Rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference to this clause.

If the dispute is not settled by mediation within 30 days of the commencement of the mediation, or such further period as the parties shall agree in writing, the dispute shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration Rules of the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre

The language to be used in the mediation and in the arbitration, shall be English. In any arbitration commenced pursuant to this clause the number of arbitrators shall be one and the arbitration shall be conducted in Dubai.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to disputes in connection with the policy for use of the Platform in the UAE, other than small claims.
• Arbitration follows only if mediation does not settle within 30 days or an agreed longer period.

Not stated here

• The DIFC-LCIA rules incorporated by reference were not supplied.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Vietnam: TikTok may process your personal data by manual or automated methods

For users in Vietnam, these additional terms prevail over the main policy if they conflict. TikTok states that it may process your personal data by manual or automated methods.

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Vietnam

If you are using our services in Vietnam, the following additional terms apply. In the event of any conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of this policy, the following terms shall prevail.

Methods of processing your personal data. We may process your personal data by manual or automated methods.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Vietnam.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

Vietnam: statutory rights include knowing, consent withdrawal, access, deletion, objection, complaints and damages

In Vietnam, subject to certain exceptions, you have statutory rights under applicable laws, in particular the rights to know; to consent and withdraw consent; to access; to delete data; to restrict processing; to be provided with data; to object to processing; to complain, denounce or start lawsuits; to claim damages; and to self-protection. You exercise these rights through the contact details in the policy, and TikTok says it will respond regardless of where your data is stored.

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Data subject's rights and obligations. Subject to certain exceptions, you have statutory rights and obligations under applicable laws. In particular, you have the following statutory rights:

Right to know;

Right to consent and withdraw consent;

Right to access;

Right to delete data;

Right to restrict data processing;

Right to be provided with data;

Right to object data processing;

Right to complain, denounce or initiate lawsuits;

Right to claim for damages; and

Right to self-protection.

You may exercise these rights by contacting us through the details in the Contact section, and we will respond to your requests regardless of the location in which your data is stored.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Vietnam.
• The rights are subject to certain exceptions under applicable law.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Vietnam: you have statutory duties to protect your own and others' data and give complete, accurate data

In Vietnam the policy lists your statutory obligations: to protect your own personal data; to ask other relevant organisations and individuals to protect it; to respect and protect others' personal data; to provide complete and accurate personal data when you consent to processing; and other obligations under applicable laws.

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You have the following statutory obligations:

Protect your own personal data;

Request other relevant organizations and individuals to protect your personal data;

Respect and protect personal data of others;

Provide complete and accurate personal data upon giving consent to the processing of your personal data; and

Other obligations under applicable laws.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Vietnam.
• The list ends with other obligations under applicable laws, so it is not complete.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Vietnam: users under 16 or under guardianship must get approval from a parent or legal guardian

In Vietnam, if you are under 16 or under guardianship, you must obtain approval from your parent or legal guardian. The parents' responsibilities that follow in the same list are explained in the next card.

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Age, Parental and Guardian Consent. If you are below 16 years old or under guardianship:

you must obtain approval from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s); and

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Vietnam; the threshold is 16, or any age under guardianship.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Vietnam: guardians are responsible for under-16 users, who must stop using TikTok without consent

In Vietnam, where a user under 16 or under guardianship needs parental approval, the parent or legal guardian is responsible for all the user's actions on the Platform, the user's compliance with the policy, and ensuring the user's participation does not violate child-protection laws. If you do not have that consent and your parent or guardian is not willing to open the account in their name, you must stop accessing the Platform if you are under 16.

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your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) are responsible for: (i) all your actions in connection with your access to and use of the Platform; (ii) your compliance with this policy; and (iii) ensuring that any of your participation in the Platform will not, in any event, result in any violation of applicable laws and regulations relating to child protections.

If you do not have consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) and your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) is not willing to open the account under their name, you must cease accessing the Platform if you are not at least 16 years of age.

Vietnam

you must obtain approval from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s); and

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to use of the services in Vietnam.
• The duty to stop using the Platform applies to users under 16 without consent whose guardian will not open the account in their name.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company commitment

Nothing in the policy waives statutory consumer rights that cannot be limited by contract

The policy states that nothing in it should be read as waiving or limiting statutory consumer rights that cannot be contractually limited under applicable laws. The sentence appears at the end of the Vietnam supplemental terms, before the Other Jurisdictions heading, but its wording refers to the Privacy Policy as a whole.

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Nothing in this Privacy Policy shall be construed as a waiver or limitation to statutory consumer rights that cannot be contractually limited under applicable laws.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Covers only statutory consumer rights that applicable law does not allow to be contractually limited.

Not stated here

• Because it sits inside the Vietnam section, whether it is meant to apply only to Vietnam or to all users is not clear from the text.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Other jurisdictions: a local-language version of the policy may add terms specific to your country

In jurisdictions where the national or official language is not English, the local-language version of TikTok's Privacy Policy may set out additional jurisdiction-specific terms, and TikTok asks you to refer to it for further information. Those local-language versions were not supplied with this document.

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Other Jurisdictions

In jurisdictions where the national or official language is not English, the version of the TikTok Privacy Policy in your local language may set out additional terms specific to your jurisdiction. Please also refer to the version of this Privacy Policy in your local language for further information.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies in jurisdictions whose national or official language is not English.
• Local versions may, not necessarily will, contain additional terms.

Not stated here

• The local-language versions were not supplied, so any additional terms in them are not described here.