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.
High, provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium, provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low, standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
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 restriction to limited data collection for children under 13 reflects heightened legal protections for minors; the clause confirms TikTok operates a distinct data environment for this age group.
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 13, 2025, establish the rules for what content is permitted, prohibited, age-restricted, or ineligible for algorithmic recommendation in the For You Feed across the entire …
TikTok removed references to its Children's Privacy Policy from the footer navigation of its Community Guidelines document on May 5, 2026. The updated footer no longer links to or mentions …
View change record →TikTok has substantially reduced its Community Guidelines document, removing 53 sentences of explanatory text while retaining only a single sentence. The prior version provided detailed guidance on what is and …
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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 5 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 83 provisions across TikTok's tracked documents. 21 are rated high severity, 55 medium, and 7 low.
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