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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 them in the last year, whichever is more. TikTok can suspend or ban your account at any time without warning or explanation. If you have a dispute with TikTok, you must go through TikTok's informal resolution process first and bring any legal claim within one year.
TikTok's Terms of Service establish a platform access relationship in which TikTok grants users a limited right to use the Platform while retaining broad rights over user content, including a license to use that content to train, test, and improve machine learning models. TikTok limits its aggregate financial liability to the greater of $100 or the user's payments in the prior 12 months, excludes punitive, consequential, and related damages entirely, and places all consequences of AI-generated output on users to the maximum extent permitted by law. TikTok may suspend or ban accounts or restrict feature access at any time, without prior notice, at its sole discretion. Users are required to indemnify TikTok and its affiliates for claims arising from their Platform use, complete an informal dispute resolution process before filing any legal action, and initiate any proceeding within one year of the relevant event. California law governs the Terms and all claims.
As an individual user, you grant TikTok a license to use your content—including your name, profile image, and username in ads and branded content you interact with—without compensation, and to train its AI models. You bear all consequences of using AI-generated output on the Platform. If TikTok harms you, your maximum monetary recovery is capped at $100 or what you paid TikTok in the past 12 months, and you cannot recover punitive or consequential damages. You are also required to defend and cover costs for any claims TikTok faces arising from your use of the Platform. If you have a dispute, you must complete TikTok's informal dispute resolution process before taking any legal action, and you must initiate any proceeding within one year of the event giving rise to your claim.
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