Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
TikTok runs the Platform with service providers, business partners and affiliates, including for ads
TikTok USDS Joint Venture operates the Platform for you and others to create, view, interact with and share content. It works with service providers, business partners (the Terms name BD TikTok USA LLC, called “TT Commerce & Global Services”, and its affiliates) and its own affiliates to provide certain important functions of the Platform, including in connection with e-commerce, marketing, advertising and other commercial services and activities. The Terms define “include” and “including” to mean “including but not limited to”, so the examples are not a complete list.
Details
- Who
- TikTok USDS Joint Venture with service providers, business partners (including BD TikTok USA LLC) and affiliates
- Why
- Provide important functions of the Platform, including e-commerce, marketing, advertising and other commercial activities
Supporting quotations
We operate the Platform for you and others to create, view, interact with, and share content
We work with our service providers and business partners, such as BD TikTok USA LLC (hereinafter referred to as "TT Commerce & Global Services") and its affiliates, and our affiliates, to provide certain important functions of the Platform
including in connection with e-commerce, marketing, advertising, and other commercial services and activities
In these Terms, “include” or “including” means “including but not limited to.”
Qualifications & exceptions
- The functions and activities named are examples (“including” means including but not limited to), not a closed list.
Not stated here
- The Terms do not say here what information these providers, partners and affiliates receive to perform those functions.
Also annotated in the same passage (10)
- TikTok may remove or restrict any content, public or private, for any reason
- Paid or incentivized brand promotion must follow the Branded Content Policy and applicable disclosure rules
- You may not interfere with, disable or circumvent Platform restrictions, filters, controls or safety measures
- TikTok, TT Commerce & Global Services and their affiliates disclaim all warranties, express or implied
- If you delete your account the Terms end, but listed sections and obligations that by nature should survive continue
- TikTok may ban, suspend or restrict your account at any time, without notice, at its sole discretion
- You must defend, indemnify and hold harmless TikTok, its affiliates, partners and personnel from claims tied to your use
- Not enforcing a term is not a waiver, and an invalid provision is removed only as far as needed