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The provision establishes a technical monitoring mechanism for battery API access, allowing TikTok to collect data on when and how the Battery API is invoked by its application, which can inform performance optimization and diagnostic analysis.
The updated Community Guidelines footer no longer includes a direct link to TikTok's Children's Privacy Policy. Previously, users navigating the Community Guidelines could access child-specific privacy disclosures through the footer link. The Children's Privacy Policy itself may remain available on TikTok's platform, but this change reduces the visibility and discoverability of that document from the Community Guidelines page. Users seeking child privacy information from the Community Guidelines will need to navigate elsewhere or search for it independently.
View change record →The terms authorize TikTok to access and monitor device battery information through this API at the specified sampling frequency. Users operating the TikTok service accept this data collection as written within the Community Guidelines.
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The provision establishes a technical monitoring mechanism for battery API access, allowing TikTok to collect data on when and how the Battery API is invoked by its application, which can inform performance optimization and diagnostic analysis.
The terms authorize TikTok to access and monitor device battery information through this API at the specified sampling frequency. Users operating the TikTok service accept this data collection as written within the Community Guidelines.
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