A short-form video sharing platform where users create, edit, and share videos up to 10 minutes long, featuring music, effects, and social interaction through likes, comments, and shares. The platform uses algorithmic content recommendation to personalize user feeds and enables creators to monetize content through various programs. Policy changes significantly impact user experience, content moderation practices, data handling procedures, and creator monetization opportunities for its large global user base.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from TikTok’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
The cap means that regardless of the severity of harm a user suffers, TikTok's financial exposure is limited to a very small dollar amount, which effectively constrains any monetary recovery.
The clause establishes that users have a mechanism to exercise data rights over information TikTok holds, providing a pathway to transparency and correction or deletion of personal data.
International data transfers subject user information to foreign legal regimes and data-protection standards that may differ from US protections, with compliance conditioned on evolving legal obligat…
The no-sale and no-behavioral-advertising-sharing commitment is conditioned on legal restriction, meaning the protection applies only where law mandates it rather than as an unconditional policy.
User behavior data is applied to improve TikTok's AI systems, meaning routine platform use directly contributes to the development of TikTok's proprietary technology.
TikTok's Terms give TikTok broad rights over your content—including using it to train its AI systems—while capping what TikTok owes you in a dispute at $100 or what you paid …
This document explains what information TikTok collects about you—including biometric data from your videos, content you create but never post, and data about your activity on other websites sent to …
TikTok's Community Guidelines, effective September 24, 2026, set the rules for what content is permitted, prohibited, age-restricted, or excluded from the For You Feed recommendation system across the platform. The …
TikTok updated its Community Guidelines with a new effective date of September 24, 2026, and made three substantive changes to its regulated goods policy. The platform changed 'trade, marketing, or …
View change record →TikTok expanded its age-restriction policy to include users under 14 in Florida, in addition to the existing under-13 restriction. The updated terms now state that users under 13 years of …
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Companies change their terms without announcing it. We capture governance documents, compare each new version with the last, and publish what changed, with the source text behind it. One email a week on what we found and what we could not reach.
TikTok's data collection extends to device sensors, clipboard content, geolocation, and cross-site tracking. Here is what their Privacy Pol…
ConductAtlas tracked the restructuring, new disclosures, and entity changes that followed the largest privacy fine in EU history.
ConductAtlas tracks 3 TikTok documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
TikTok has made 3 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 38 provisions across TikTok's tracked documents.
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