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Device sensor and telemetry collection enables TikTok to obtain technical operational data about device performance, connectivity, and user interaction patterns. This data collection supports service functionality, performance optimization, and analytics operations.
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 →Users operating the TikTok service consent to the collection of device sensor data and telemetry information as a condition of service access. The provision establishes that such data collection occurs during active use and continues under the terms as written.
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Device sensor and telemetry collection enables TikTok to obtain technical operational data about device performance, connectivity, and user interaction patterns. This data collection supports service functionality, performance optimization, and analytics operations.
Users operating the TikTok service consent to the collection of device sensor data and telemetry information as a condition of service access. The provision establishes that such data collection occurs during active use and continues under the terms as written.
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