Privacy Policy - non-EU

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

TikTok keeps information as long as necessary to provide the Platform, meet legal duties and pursue legitimate interests

TikTok retains information as long as necessary to provide the Platform and for the other purposes in the policy. It also retains information when necessary to comply with contractual and legal obligations, when it has a legitimate business interest (such as improving the Platform and enhancing its safety, security and stability), and for the exercise or defence of legal claims.

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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 length is tied to necessity, not to a fixed period in this paragraph.
• Legitimate business interests are given as examples ("such as").

Not stated here

• Fixed periods are not stated in the main text; the Indonesia terms mention five years.

Cross-references

• narrowed by (model-proposed): Indonesia section: data kept as long as necessary, often five years or more, then aggregated and anonymised — The Indonesia paragraphs give a likely five-year period and a later aggregated, anonymised form, where the general text gives only necessity-based retention.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Account information is kept while you have an account; other information may be kept after a violation

Retention periods differ by type of information and purpose. Account information used to provide the Platform is kept for as long as you have an account. If you violate the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines or other conditions or policies, TikTok may remove your account or User Content from public view immediately but may keep other information about you to process the violation.

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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.

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

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

• Account information is kept for as long as you have an account.
• Removal for violations is stated with "may", and other information may be kept to process the violation.

Not stated here

• The policy does not give retention periods for other types of information, or say how long violation records are kept.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Indonesia section: data kept as long as necessary, often five years or more, then aggregated and anonymised

In the Indonesia section, TikTok retains your information for as long as necessary to provide the service and, where it does not need the information for that, only while it has a legitimate business purpose. It says there are occasions where it is likely to keep data for five years (or longer if required) under legal obligations or for establishing, exercising or defending legal claims. After you stop using the Platform and the five-year period has lapsed, TikTok stores your information in an aggregated and anonymised format, and non-personally identifiable information may be retained indefinitely for analytics.

Supporting quotations

We retain your information for as long as it is necessary to provide you with the service.

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

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

• The five-year figure is stated as an occasion where TikTok is "likely" to keep data, with "or longer if required".
• Indefinite retention applies to non-personally identifiable information, "may" be retained for analytics.
• These paragraphs follow the Indonesia terms in the document; the text itself does not repeat the country name.

Not stated here

• The paragraphs do not name Indonesia; they are read as part of the Indonesia section by position, and the policy does not say whether they apply elsewhere.

Cross-references

• narrows (model-proposed): TikTok keeps information as long as necessary to provide the Platform, meet legal duties and pursue legitimate interests — The Indonesia paragraphs give a likely five-year period and a later aggregated, anonymised form, where the general text gives only necessity-based retention.