Privacy Policy

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

Privacy settings let you limit the audience for your videos

TikTok points you to information about privacy settings, including how to limit the audience for your videos.

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You can learn about privacy settings, including how to limit the audience for your videos,

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• The linked support page on privacy settings is not supplied in this document, so the available settings are unknown.

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• narrows (model-proposed): Public accounts and unrestricted posts can be viewed by anyone and may appear on search engines and news sites — Privacy settings, including limiting the audience for your videos, narrow how widely your information and content are visible to other users and the public.

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

You can ask TikTok to tell you, give you, correct or delete your information, and appeal its decision

You may submit a request to know, access, correct or delete the information TikTok has collected from or about you, and may appeal any decision TikTok has made about your request. Requests go through TikTok’s privacy webform or by sending the request to the physical address given in the Contact Us section, and appeals use the same methods.

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You may submit a request to know, access, correct or delete the information we have collected from or about you

or by sending your request to the physical address provided in the “

You may appeal any decision we have made about your request through these same methods.

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• The linked privacy webform page is not supplied in this document, so how its form works is unknown.

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• qualified by (model-proposed): You can use an authorized agent if you give evidence of their authority — Where applicable law allows, requests may be submitted through an authorized agent who provides evidence of power of attorney or other valid written authority.
• qualified by (model-proposed): TikTok verifies requests, asking for the account email or other account information, and responds as law allows — Requests are answered consistent with applicable law and subject to proper verification, by asking you to send the request from the account email or provide verifying information.

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

In-app settings let you update your account information, get a copy of your data, and deactivate or delete your account

Through your in-app settings, you can directly update your account information, request a copy of your data, or deactivate or delete your account, following the instructions TikTok links for deactivation and deletion.

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Through your in-app settings, you can directly update your account information, request a copy of your data, or deactivate or delete your account

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• The linked deactivation and deletion instruction pages are not supplied in this document, so the steps and any effects on your data are unknown.

Account & Service Control · Procedure

You can use an authorized agent if you give evidence of their authority

You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to submit a request through an authorized agent. To designate one, you must provide evidence that you have given the agent power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests on your behalf.

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You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to submit a request through an authorized agent. To designate an authorized agent to exercise choices on your behalf, please provide evidence that you have given such agent power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests to exercise rights on your behalf.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Available where applicable law entitles you to use an agent.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): You can ask TikTok to tell you, give you, correct or delete your information, and appeal its decision — Where applicable law allows, requests may be submitted through an authorized agent who provides evidence of power of attorney or other valid written authority.

Account & Service Control · Procedure

TikTok verifies requests, asking for the account email or other account information, and responds as law allows

TikTok says it will respond to your request consistent with applicable law and subject to proper verification. It will verify the request by asking you to send it from the email address associated with your account or to provide information needed to verify your account.

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We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law and subject to proper verification. We will verify your request by asking you to send it from the email address associated with your account or to provide information necessary to verify your account.

Qualifications & exceptions

• A response is subject to proper verification and applicable law.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): You can ask TikTok to tell you, give you, correct or delete your information, and appeal its decision — Requests are answered consistent with applicable law and subject to proper verification, by asking you to send the request from the account email or provide verifying information.

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

You can opt out of marketing emails with the unsubscribe link

You can opt out of receiving marketing emails by using the “unsubscribe” link or mechanism noted in those emails.

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You can opt out of receiving marketing emails by using the “unsubscribe” link or mechanism noted in those emails.

Account & Service Control · Procedure

You can report a user you believe is under 13 outside the children’s experience

If you believe a user of the Services is below the age of 13, other than a user of the separate children’s experience, the policy asks you to contact TikTok through its feedback webform.

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If you believe there is a user of the Services who is below the age of 13 (excluding any users of this separate experience for Children), please contact us at

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• The linked feedback webform is not supplied in this document, and the policy does not say what TikTok does after a report beyond its statement about deleting information.

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

Parents or guardians can request deletion of a Child’s account or a download of their data

As a parent or guardian, you can request to delete your Child’s account or to download their data by contacting TikTok through its privacy webform. Depending on your state of residence, you may also be able to exercise these rights over your teen’s account, or other rights in connection with your Child or teen. TikTok says it will address these requests in accordance with applicable law.

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As a parent or guardian, you can also request to delete the account of your Child or to download their data, by contacting us at

Depending on your state of residence, you may also have the ability to exercise these rights over your teen’s account, or to exercise other rights in connection with your Child or teen by contacting us at

We will address these requests in accordance with applicable law.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Rights over a teen’s account depend on your state of residence.
• Requests are addressed in accordance with applicable law.

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• The policy does not say which states give these rights over a teen’s account.
• The linked privacy webform is not supplied in this document.

Account & Service Control · Context

A Guardian’s Guide explains the Services and tools for parents of teens

If you are a parent or guardian of a teen, the policy points to a Guardian’s Guide that it says contains information and resources to help you understand the Services and the tools and controls you can use.

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If you are a parent or guardian of a teen, our Guardian's Guide contains information and resources to help you understand the Services and the tools and controls you can use.

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• The linked Guardian’s Guide is not supplied in this document, so the tools and controls it describes are unknown.

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

Connecticut minors, and parents of Connecticut teens under 16, can ask to unpublish or delete an account

Users who are Connecticut residents under 18, and parents and guardians of Connecticut resident users under 16, may request that TikTok unpublish or delete the account: their own account for users aged 13 through 17, or their Child’s account for parents and guardians with teen users under 16. They follow the instructions TikTok links for parents and guardians.

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Users of the Services who are Connecticut residents and are under 18 years of age, and parents and guardians of users of the Services who are Connecticut residents under 16 years of age, may request that we unpublish or delete their own account (for users aged 13 through 17) or their Child’s account (for parents and guardians with teen users under 16) by following the instructions

Qualifications & exceptions

• Own account for users aged 13 through 17; a Child’s account for parents and guardians with teen users under 16.

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• The linked instructions page is not supplied in this document.