Law Enforcement Guidelines

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

TikTok U.S. will preserve user data for 90 days on a qualifying formal request, with one 90-day extension

TikTok U.S. says it will honor formal law enforcement requests to preserve user data for 90 days, but only if the request fulfils the criteria above. It preserves information for an initial 90-day period and may extend it for an additional 90 days on receipt of a formal request to extend. It may not honor multiple extension requests beyond one additional 90-day period.

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TikTok U.S. will honor formal requests by law enforcement to preserve user data for 90 days only if it fulfils the criteria above.

TikTok U.S. will preserve information for an initial 90 day period (and may extend for an additional 90-day period upon receipt of a formal request to extend the preservation). We may not honour multiple extension requests beyond one additional 90-day period.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Only if the request meets the criteria above.
• Extension requires a formal request; further extensions "may" not be honored.

Not stated here

• "The criteria above" is not spelled out beyond the requirements of Sections 1 and 3 that the source mentions for preservation and disclosure.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Preserved data may be deleted when the preservation period ends without formal legal process

If TikTok U.S. does not receive formal legal process for the preserved information before the preservation period ends, the preserved information may be deleted when the period expires.

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If TikTok U.S. does not receive formal legal process for the preserved information before the end of the preservation period, the preserved information may be deleted when the preservation period expires.

Qualifications & exceptions

• "May be deleted": deletion is not promised.

Not stated here

• The source does not say when or whether preserved information is actually deleted after expiry, or what happens to it if legal process arrives.