Terms of Service

Use & Processing · Permission or license

TikTok may use your name, profile image and username with ads and sponsored content you interact with, without pay

You agree that TikTok can use your name, profile image and username in connection with ads, sponsored gifts, offers and other branded or sponsored content that you interact with, without any compensation to you. This does not apply to compensation covered by a separate commercial agreement with you for a specific promotion or advertisement. The Terms frame this as a way to enable features that let you interact with sponsored content, for which TikTok may receive compensation from advertisers and partners.

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To help us provide the Platform, including to give our users a better experience, you agree that we can:

you give us permission to use your name, profile image and username, in connection with ads, sponsored gifts, offers, and other branded or sponsored content that you interact with, without any compensation to you, unless we have entered into a separate commercial agreement with you with respect to a specific promotion or advertisement.

We may receive compensation from our advertisers and our partners with which you choose to interact.

you agree that we can undertake the activities described in this Section.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to content you interact with.
• No compensation to you unless TikTok has entered into a separate commercial agreement with you for a specific promotion or advertisement.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say here who sees your name, profile image and username in these uses.

Use & Processing · Permission or license

You agree TikTok can use automated tools and human moderators to review Your Content and metadata

You agree that TikTok can use automated tools and human moderators to review Your Content, as defined in Section 3.5, and its associated metadata on the Platform. The purposes are to identify, detect and enforce potential or actual violations of the Terms, Community Guidelines and other conditions or policies, and to keep the community safe and prevent harmful or illegal conduct. Another section says TikTok’s affiliates, service providers and business partners may also use technology, human moderation and reports for similar purposes.

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To help us provide the Platform, including to give our users a better experience, you agree that we can:

You agree that we can use automated tools and human moderators to review Your Content (as defined in Section 3.5) and associated metadata on the Platform, to identify, detect, and enforce potential or actual violations of these Terms

and to keep our community safe and prevent harmful or illegal conduct on the Platform.

Your Content includes content you create, import, upload, publish, or generate with the Platform, including messages.

who may use a mix of technology (including through automated means), human moderation, and reports from our users and others to identify suspected violations of these Terms

Qualifications & exceptions

• Review is for enforcement and safety purposes stated in the Terms.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not define “associated metadata” here.
• The text of the Community Guidelines is not supplied here.

Cross-references

• refers to (model-proposed): TikTok and its partners use technology, human moderation and user reports to find suspected violations — The permission to review Your Content in Section 3.8 is the user-facing side of the moderation methods described in Section 3.1.
• contrast (model-proposed): TikTok is not responsible for users’ content or conduct and has no obligation to pre-screen or monitor content — The Terms say TikTok has no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review or edit content, while another section has you agree TikTok may use automated tools and human moderators to review Your Content; one disclaims a duty and the other grants permission.

Use & Processing · Permission or license

If you use TikTok software, you give TikTok permission to install updates

If you download or otherwise use TikTok’s software, including its applications, you give TikTok permission to install updates to that software.

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To help us provide the Platform, including to give our users a better experience, you agree that we can:

If you download or otherwise use our software, including our applications, you give us permission to install updates to the software.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies if you download or otherwise use TikTok software, including applications.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say whether updates are installed with notice or can be declined.

Use & Processing · Context

TikTok may provide generative AI features for you to supply Input and generate Output

TikTok may provide and make available generative AI-enabled features, with related services, applications, products and content, for you to provide Input and generate Output as described in Section 3.5. The Terms state this as something TikTok may do, not a commitment to provide any particular feature.

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We may provide and make available to you generative AI-enabled features (and their related services, applications, products and content) for you to provide Input and generate Output as described in Section 3.5.

Your Content also includes prompts, questions, files, and other types of information that you submit to our AI-powered interfaces ("Input") together with the responses those interfaces generate ("Output").

Qualifications & exceptions

• Stated as something TikTok “may” provide.