TikTok Terms of Service

This document governs use of the TikTok platform in the United States, establishing a contract between users and TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, last updated January 22, 2026. The agreement states that by posting content users grant TikTok USDS Joint Venture a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, assignable, sublicensable, and worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, adapt, and use that content for operating the platform, improving services, and training machine learning models and algorithms; the terms also require US-based disputes to be resolved through binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association, with a class action waiver. The content license for AI training purposes and the irrevocable nature of that license, combined with the perpetual license granted to other platform users upon sharing, are operationally distinct provisions; the agreement asserts these rights broadly, though applicable law, including copyright doctrine and consumer protection statutes, may constrain their full application depending on jurisdiction and enforcement context. The document engages the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act given its Under 13 Experience provisions, the California Consumer Privacy Act given its California-specific disclosures, and the FTC Act given its consumer protection and advertising disclosure obligations; the mandatory arbitration and class action waiver provisions may require evaluation under applicable state and federal consumer protection frameworks, as some states limit the enforceability of such clauses in consumer contracts.