TikTok Consumer Health Data Policy

Inference & Profiling · Company practice

Analyzes videos, images and audio for objects, faces, body parts and spoken words

TikTok may collect information about the videos, images and audio in your user content, such as identifying objects and scenery, whether and where a face or other body parts appear, and the text of the words spoken.

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Information about the videos, images and audio recordings that are a part of your user content, such as by identifying objects and scenery; the existence and location of a face and other body parts; and the text of the words spoken in your user content.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to what is in your user content.

Not stated here

• The "such as" wording means these are examples; the policy does not list every kind of information drawn from content.
• The policy does not say whether this applies to private or non-public content.

Inference & Profiling · Company practice

May collect other information that can be used to infer health data

TikTok may also collect other information that may be used to infer or derive consumer health data. The item is open-ended: it does not say what the information is or how an inference would be made.

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Other information that may be used to infer or derive consumer health data.

Not stated here

• The policy does not say what this other information is or whether TikTok itself makes the inferences.