If you send TikTok suggestions, ideas, or feedback about the platform, TikTok can use those ideas however it chooses, for any purpose, without paying you or keeping your input confidential. TikTok will own any product or feature it develops based on your ideas.
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The agreement states that TikTok owns all rights in anything developed from user feedback and may use submitted ideas for any purpose without compensation or confidentiality obligations, which means users who submit product ideas or improvement suggestions have no ownership or compensation rights in resulting developments.
This provision assigns to TikTok full ownership of any product, feature, or service developed from feedback or ideas users submit, with no compensation obligation and no confidentiality protection for the submitted ideas.
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"If you choose to submit comments, ideas, or feedback to us, you give us permission to use them in connection with the Platform and any other services that we choose, for any purpose, without any restriction or compensation to you. You agree that we do not have to consider or act on them, return them, or keep them confidential. We will own all rights in anything we develop based on your comments, ideas, or feedback.Excerpt from TikTok's Terms of Service
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The agreement states that TikTok owns all rights in anything developed from user feedback and may use submitted ideas for any purpose without compensation or confidentiality obligations, which means users who submit product ideas or improvement suggestions have no ownership or compensation rights in resulting developments.
This provision assigns to TikTok full ownership of any product, feature, or service developed from feedback or ideas users submit, with no compensation obligation and no confidentiality protection for the submitted ideas.
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