Terms of Service

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Agreeing on behalf of a business confirms you have the right to bind it

If you agree to these Terms on behalf of a business or organization, you are confirming that you have the right to enter into the Terms for it.

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you confirm that you have the right to enter into these Terms on its behalf

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Under 13 (under 14 in Florida) cannot use the Platform except through the separate Under 13 Experience

People under 13, or under 14 in Florida, cannot use the Platform unless they use the separate United States experience called the Under 13 Experience, which the Terms say limits the information collected and adds safety protections. A dedicated Children’s Privacy Policy gives further detail on how personal information of Under 13 Experience users is handled. The Terms say TikTok will ban an account if it becomes aware that the user is under 13 and not using the Under 13 Experience.

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If you are under 13 years of age, or under 14 years of age in Florida, you cannot use the Platform

which limits the information we collect and includes additional safety protections

A dedicated Children's Privacy Policy provides further details about how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process the personal information of users of the Under 13 Experience.

We will ban your account if we become aware that you are under 13 and not using the Under 13 Experience.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The Florida threshold is 14 years of age; elsewhere the stated threshold is 13.

Not stated here

• The ban sentence mentions only users under 13; the Terms do not say here whether it also applies to 13-year-olds in Florida.
• The text of the Children’s Privacy Policy is not supplied in this document.

Cross-references

• referred to by (model-proposed): TikTok monitors for underage use and may ban accounts or remove features; you can appeal — Section 3.3 restates the under-13 and Florida under-14 rule and adds how it is enforced.

Account & Service Control · Context

Some features work without an account, but the Terms still apply; full functionality needs an account

You can use some basic features of the Platform without an account, and the Terms still apply to you if you do. To access the full functionality you must create an account, and TikTok may offer different types of accounts.

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You can use some basic features of the Platform without having an account. If you use the Platform without an account, then these Terms still apply to you.

To access the full functionality of the Platform, you must create an account with us. We may offer different types of accounts.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Only some basic features are available without an account.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not list which features count as basic or what the different account types are.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You represent and warrant that information you give is complete and accurate, and will stay so

You represent and warrant that all information you provide when you create an account, and when you access and use the Platform, is and will remain complete and accurate. The summary says to keep your details up to date.

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You represent and warrant that all information you provide to us when you create an account, and when you access and use the Platform, is and will remain complete and accurate.

Keep your details up to date.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Covers information given at account creation and when accessing and using the Platform.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

TikTok may revoke, reclaim or reassign your username, for example after 180 days without logging in

TikTok may revoke, reclaim and/or reassign your account username in certain circumstances. The Terms give examples: you have not logged in for 180 days, TikTok bans your account, or TikTok reasonably believes your username violates the Terms, Community Guidelines or other conditions or policies and/or interferes with or infringes other users’ rights.

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We may revoke, reclaim, and/or reassign the username of your account in certain circumstances, such as, when you have not logged into your account for 180 days, if we ban your account, or if we reasonably believe that your username violates our Terms

We may revoke, reclaim, or reassign the username of your account under certain circumstances.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The circumstances are introduced by “such as”, so the three listed are examples rather than a complete list.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say whether notice is given before a username is reassigned.

Account & Service Control · Company practice

TikTok monitors for underage use and may ban accounts or remove features; you can appeal

The minimum age is 13 (14 in Florida) unless the user is in the separate Under 13 Experience. TikTok says it monitors for underage use and will ban an account or remove access to certain features if it believes the user does not meet the minimum age requirements. You can appeal a decision to ban or restrict your account if you think it should not have been made.

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If you are under 13 years of age, or under 14 years of age in Florida, you may not use the Platform, unless you are using the separate Under 13 Experience.

We monitor for underage use of the Platform and we will ban your account or remove your access to certain features if we believe that you do not meet the minimum age requirements.

You can appeal our decision to ban or restrict your account if you think we should not have done so.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The trigger is TikTok’s belief that you do not meet the minimum age requirements.

Not stated here

• The appeal outcome and timing are not described in the Terms.

Cross-references

• refers to (model-proposed): Under 13 (under 14 in Florida) cannot use the Platform except through the separate Under 13 Experience — Section 3.3 restates the under-13 and Florida under-14 rule and adds how it is enforced.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Under 18: some features may be disabled, and a parent or guardian must review the Terms and give permission

If you are under 18, certain features on the Platform may be disabled or restricted for you. You must review the Terms and the Privacy Policy with a parent or guardian and obtain their permission before using the Platform. A parent or guardian of such a user accepts and agrees to the Terms on the user’s behalf and agrees to be responsible for their use of the Platform.

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If you are under 18 years of age, certain features on the Platform may be disabled or restricted for your use.

you must review these Terms (and our Privacy Policy) with your parent or guardian, and obtain their permission before you use the Platform.

If you are the parent or guardian of such a user, you accept and agree to these Terms on their behalf and further agree that you are responsible for their use of the Platform.

You must review these Terms and our Privacy Policy with your parent or guardian if you are under 18.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to users under 18 and their parents or guardians.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say which features are disabled or restricted for under-18 users.
• The text of the linked Privacy Policy is not supplied here, so this card cannot say what it contains.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

TikTok may remove or restrict any content, public or private, for any reason

TikTok may remove or restrict access to any content, including yours and whether posted publicly or privately, for any reason, including if (a) it violates the Terms, the Community Guidelines or other conditions or policies, (b) it may cause harm to, or violate the rights of, users, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, its affiliates or third parties, or (c) TikTok is required to do so by a legal requirement or court order, or is permitted to do so by law. The Community Guidelines further describe why content might be removed or restricted. The Terms define “including” as including but not limited to, so the three reasons are examples.

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the content that you create, post or share on the Platform

We may remove or restrict access to any content, including yours, whether publicly or privately posted, for any reason, including if (a) it violates these Terms

(b) it may cause harm to, or violate the rights of, our users, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, our affiliates, or other third parties, or (c) we are required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or court order, or are permitted to do so by law.

We may remove or restrict access to Your Content, and you can delete Your Content

In these Terms, “include” or “including” means “including but not limited to.”

Qualifications & exceptions

• “For any reason”: the listed grounds (a) to (c) are examples because “including” means including but not limited to.
• Covers content posted privately as well as publicly.

Not stated here

• The text of the Community Guidelines is not supplied here, so this card cannot say what grounds they describe.
• The Terms do not say here whether notice is given before content is removed or restricted.

Account & Service Control · Context

If you delete your account the Terms end, but listed sections and obligations that by nature should survive continue

If you delete your account, the Terms (as may be amended) end as an agreement between you and TikTok, except for obligations that by their nature should survive. The Terms list Section 3.5 (ownership of content and grant of licenses), Section 4 (limitation of liability), Section 5, Section 7 (indemnity), Section 8 (resolving disputes) and Section 9 (other) as examples, and say obligations under legal requirements or court orders also remain. The indemnity section separately says your indemnification obligations survive termination. Section 3.5 includes licenses that it describes as irrevocable (and, for other users, perpetual and irrevocable), so those terms are among those the survival clause names.

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If you delete your account, these Terms (as may be amended) will terminate as an agreement between you and us, except for obligations that remain in place which by their nature should survive the termination of these Terms, including the obligations set out in: Section 3.5 “Ownership of content and grant of licenses,” Section 4 “Limitation of liability,” Section 5 "Suspending or ending our relationship," Section 7 “Indemnity,” Section 8 “Resolving disputes,” and Section 9 “Other.”

Obligations under applicable legal requirements or court order will also remain in place despite the termination.

if you delete your account, some obligations under these Terms will survive

This provision and your indemnification obligations will survive any termination of your relationship with TikTok USDS Joint Venture and the expiration or termination of these Terms, by either party.

3.5 Ownership of content and grant of licenses

non-exclusive, irrevocable, and royalty-free

perpetual and irrevocable

In these Terms, “include” or “including” means “including but not limited to.”

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies when you delete your account.
• The listed sections are introduced by “including”, which means including but not limited to.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say which other obligations “by their nature” survive beyond the sections named.
• The Terms do not say here how long TikTok keeps data after account deletion.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

TikTok may ban, suspend or restrict your account at any time, without notice, at its sole discretion

TikTok reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to ban or suspend your account, or restrict your access to features of the Platform, at its sole discretion. The Terms say this includes cases where TikTok has reason to believe, in its sole discretion, that you violated the Terms, the Community Guidelines or other conditions or policies. “Including” means including but not limited to, so the listed grounds do not limit the right. The plain-language summary says TikTok can take these account actions as specified.

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We reserve the right, at any time and without prior notice, to ban or suspend your account, or restrict your access to features of the Platform, at our sole discretion, including if:

we have reason to believe in our sole discretion that you have violated these Terms

We can take actions related to your account as specified above.

In these Terms, “include” or “including” means “including but not limited to.”

Qualifications & exceptions

• No prior notice is required.
• The grounds listed in the following items are examples, not a limit on the right.

Not stated here

• The text of the Community Guidelines is not supplied here.
• The Terms do not say here whether a reason is given to the user.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

Listed grounds for bans include legal requirements, security issues, suspected fraud and sanctions designations

The Terms give these examples of when TikTok may ban or suspend your account or restrict features: it is legally required to do so; in its judgment it is necessary to respond to a technical or security issue; it suspects fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, activities that violate anti-corruption, economic sanctions or export control laws, or other illegal activity by the user; you or any of your shareholders is designated on any Sanctioned Party Lists, or blocked by being directly or indirectly 50% or more owned or controlled by a designated party; or it determines it cannot perform its obligations under “this Agreement” because of prohibitions or exposure to sanctions risk.

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we are legally required to do so

it is necessary in our judgment to respond to a technical or security issue

we suspect fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, activities that violate anti-corruption, economic sanctions or export control laws, or other illegal activity by the user

you or any of your shareholders is designated on any Sanctioned Party Lists or blocked by virtue of being directly or indirectly, 50% or more, owned or controlled by any party designated on any Sanctioned Party Lists

we determine that we cannot perform our obligations under this Agreement due to prohibitions, or exposure to risk of sanctions.

Qualifications & exceptions

• These are examples introduced by “including”.
• The sanctions ground applies to you or any of your shareholders.

Not stated here

• The Terms use “this Agreement” in the last item but elsewhere use “these Terms” and do not define “Agreement” separately.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

If you were banned or suspended and open another account, TikTok may ban or suspend those accounts too

If TikTok has previously banned or suspended your account and you use the Platform again, for example by opening another account, TikTok is entitled to ban or suspend any such accounts.

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If we have previously banned or suspended your account, but you use our Platform again (for example, by opening another account), we are entitled to ban or suspend any such accounts.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies where you were previously banned or suspended and use the Platform again.

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

You can appeal a ban, suspension or restriction, and TikTok says it will review its decision

If you think TikTok should not have banned or suspended your account, or restricted your access to features, you may submit an appeal through the functionalities provided on the Platform, and TikTok says it will review its decision. The Terms point to a linked help page for more.

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If you think we should not have banned or suspended your account, or restricted your access to features of the Platform, you may submit an appeal through the functionalities provided on the Platform and we will review our decision.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Appeals go through the functionalities provided on the Platform.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say how long a review takes or what outcome it can have.
• The linked help page is not supplied here.

Account & Service Control · Context

A permanent ban ends the Terms as an agreement, except surviving obligations

If TikTok permanently bans your accounts, the Terms (as may be amended) end as an agreement between you and TikTok, except for obligations that by their nature should survive. The same sections are listed as after account deletion: Section 3.5, Section 4, Section 5, Section 7, Section 8 and Section 9, and obligations under legal requirements or court orders also remain.

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If we permanently ban your accounts, these Terms (as may be amended) will terminate as an agreement between you and us, except those obligations will remain in place which by their nature should survive the termination of these Terms, including the obligations set out in: Section 3.5 “Ownership of content and grant of licenses,” Section 4 “Limitation of liability,” Section 5 "Suspending or ending our relationship," Section 7 “Indemnity,” Section 8 “Resolving disputes,” and Section 9 “Other.” Obligations under applicable legal requirements or court order will also remain in place despite the termination.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies when TikTok permanently bans your accounts.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say which other obligations “by their nature” survive beyond the sections named.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You must not engage with minors in an exploitative or inappropriate way

You must not use, or help anyone else use, the Platform to engage with minors in an exploitative or inappropriate way. The Terms do not define “inappropriate” in this passage.

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engage with minors in an exploitative or inappropriate way

Not stated here

• “Inappropriate” is not defined in this passage.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You must not engage in inauthentic commercial behavior such as spam or impersonation accounts

You must not engage in inauthentic commercial behaviors, such as operating spam or impersonation accounts or other means further detailed in the Community Guidelines.

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engage in inauthentic commercial behaviors, such as by operating spam or impersonation accounts or any other means further detailed in our

Qualifications & exceptions

• Further means are detailed in the Community Guidelines.

Not stated here

• The Community Guidelines are linked but their text is not supplied here.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You must not use or try to use another user’s account without authorization

You must not use, or attempt to use, another user’s account without authorization.

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use or attempt to use another user’s account without authorization

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say who must give the authorization (the account holder or TikTok).