Terms of Service

Security & Safeguards · Company practice

TikTok and its partners use technology, human moderation and user reports to find suspected violations

To keep the community safe, TikTok works with affiliates, service providers and business partners who may use a mix of technology (including automated means), human moderation, and reports from users and others to identify suspected violations of these Terms, the Community Guidelines and other conditions or policies. Users are encouraged to report suspected violations through reporting tools on the Platform or a linked support page. The plain-language summary adds that TikTok may take steps to identify and take action against content that may violate those rules.

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we work with our affiliates, service providers, and business partners 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

you are encouraged to report any suspected violations through the reporting functionalities provided on the Platform

We may take steps to identify and take action against content that may violate our Terms, Community Guidelines, and other conditions or policies, to protect you and others in our community.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The methods are stated as things the partners “may” use, not a commitment to use each one.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say here what action follows a suspected violation; consequences are not stated in this passage.

Cross-references

• referred to by (model-proposed): You agree TikTok can use automated tools and human moderators to review Your Content and metadata — The permission to review Your Content in Section 3.8 is the user-facing side of the moderation methods described in Section 3.1.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Keep your password confidential and do not give others access to or transfer your account without permission

You should take reasonable steps to keep your account password confidential and not disclose it to any third party. If you know or suspect a third party knows your password or has accessed your account, you should tell TikTok through a linked reporting page. You must not give others access to your account, or transfer it to anyone else, without TikTok’s permission.

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It is important that you take reasonable steps to keep your account password confidential and that you do not disclose it to any third party.

If you know or suspect that any third party knows your password or has accessed your account, please let us know

Do not give others access to your account, or transfer your account to anyone else, without our permission.

Keep it secure.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Access sharing or transfer is allowed only with TikTok’s permission.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

You may not use generative AI features through automated systems or bots unless authorized

You agree not to use generative AI-enabled features via any automated system or software, including automated bots, unless otherwise authorized. The Terms do not say who gives the authorization in this passage.

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Use generative AI-enabled features via any automated system or software, including automated

unless otherwise authorized

Qualifications & exceptions

• Unless otherwise authorized.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not say who may authorize automated use of the AI features or how.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

You may not interfere with, disable or circumvent Platform restrictions, filters, controls or safety measures

In the same list of things you agree not to do with generative AI Output, you agree not to interfere with, disable or circumvent any restrictions, filters, controls or safety measures on the Platform, including its generative AI-enabled features. “Including” means including but not limited to, so the rule is not confined to the AI features.

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and you agree not to:

Interfere with, disable, or circumvent any restrictions, filters, controls or safety measures on our Platform, including our generative AI-enabled features.

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

Qualifications & exceptions

• Appears as the last item of the list that follows “you agree not to:” in the generative AI section, but is worded to cover the whole Platform.

Not stated here

• The Terms do not list the restrictions, filters, controls or safety measures in this passage.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

You must not interfere with Platform security or reverse engineer it without written authorization

You must not upload viruses or malicious code, or do anything that could disable, overburden, interfere with or undermine the Platform’s operations or security. You also must not reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile the Platform or any of its components, including its algorithms, code or infrastructure, without explicit written authorization from TikTok USDS Joint Venture.

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upload viruses or malicious code, or do anything that could disable, overburden, interfere with, or undermine, the Platform’s operations or security

reverse engineer, disassemble, or decompile the Platform or any of its components, including its algorithms, code, or infrastructure, without explicit written authorization from TikTok USDS Joint Venture

Qualifications & exceptions

• Reverse engineering is allowed only with explicit written authorization from TikTok USDS Joint Venture.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Automated scraping, crawling or extraction of Platform data is banned unless TikTok approves it in writing

You must not scrape, crawl, export or otherwise extract any data or content, in any form and for any purpose, from the Platform using any automated system or software, including automated bots, except as approved in writing by TikTok USDS Joint Venture.

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scrape, crawl, export or otherwise extract any data or content in any form, for any purpose, from the Platform using any automated system or software, including automated “bots,” except as approved in writing by TikTok USDS Joint Venture

Qualifications & exceptions

• Only written approval from TikTok USDS Joint Venture lifts the ban.