Privacy Policy

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Information is kept as long as needed for the Services, legal duties, legitimate business interests and legal claims

TikTok retains information for as long as necessary to provide the Services 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 and developing the Services and enhancing their safety, security and stability), and for the exercise or defense of legal claims.

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We retain information for as long as necessary to provide the Services 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 Services, and enhancing its safety, security and stability), and for the exercise or defense of legal claims.

Not stated here

• The policy gives no fixed retention periods for these purposes.

Cross-references

• qualified by (model-proposed): Retention periods vary; account registration information is kept for as long as you have an account — The general retention rule is qualified by the statement that retention periods differ by type of information and purpose, with account registration information kept while the account exists.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Retention periods vary; account registration information is kept for as long as you have an account

The retention periods differ depending on criteria such as the type of information and the purposes for which it is used. For example, when TikTok processes your account registration information to provide the Services, it keeps that information for as long as you have an account, subject to your updates of it.

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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 registration information to provide you with the Services, we keep this information for as long as you have an account, subject to your updates of such information.

Not stated here

• The policy does not say how long information is kept after an account is closed, or give periods for other types of information.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): Information is kept as long as needed for the Services, legal duties, legitimate business interests and legal claims — The general retention rule is qualified by the statement that retention periods differ by type of information and purpose, with account registration information kept while the account exists.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

If you violate its rules, TikTok may remove you immediately but keep information to process the violation

If you violate TikTok’s Terms of Service, Community Guidelines or other conditions or policies, TikTok may remove you from the Services immediately but may keep 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 you from the Services immediately, but may keep information about you to process the violation.

Not stated here

• The linked Terms of Service and Community Guidelines are not supplied in this document, so which conduct counts as a violation is unknown.
• The policy does not say how long information about a violation is kept.

Retention & Deletion · Company commitment

TikTok deletes a Child’s information collected outside the children’s experience and ends the account

If TikTok becomes aware that a Child’s personal information was collected outside the separate children’s experience, it says it will delete that information in accordance with applicable law and terminate the Child’s account.

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If we become aware that a Child’s personal information has been collected outside of this separate experience for Children, we will delete this information in accordance with applicable law and terminate the Child’s account.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies when TikTok becomes aware; deletion is in accordance with applicable law.

Cross-references

• refers to (model-proposed): TikTok provides a separate, limited-collection experience for users under 13 in the United States — The deletion commitment applies to a Child’s information collected outside the separate children’s experience described in the earlier card.