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Your Content also includes prompts, questions, files, and other types of information that you submit to our AI-powered interfaces (\" Input \") together with the responses those interfaces generate (\" Output \"). Except with respect to TikTok Content and unless expressly stated otherwise, as between you and TikTok USDS Joint Venture, you own Your Content.\n Due to the nature of generative AI, output may not be unique to a specific user, and your ownership of Output does not extend to other users' output.\n 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.\n You represent and warrant that you have, and will continue to have, all necessary rights in and to Your Content, including licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to create, post, input, and distribute Your Content on the Platform. For the avoidance of doubt, this includes any music that you use which was not selected from the TikTok music library; learn more here .\n Separately, we may make certain content available on the Platform for you to use in accordance with these Terms, including images, designs, videos, filters, text, music, or sounds (“ TikTok Content ”). 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You are responsible for your Input and your use of Output, and for all consequences resulting therefrom, and you agree that you will not use, attempt to use, or help anyone else use or attempt to use, the Platform, including its generative AI-enabled features, in violation of these Terms. You understand that no contract or enforceable promise between you and TikTok USDS Joint Venture can be created or modified by any Output, and you agree not to:\n Provide, create, or otherwise use Input or Output in a way that violates these Terms, our Community Guidelines , or other conditions or policies or any applicable laws, or that infringes, violates or misappropriates the rights of TikTok USDS Joint Venture, our users, or any third party,\n Use generative AI-enabled features via any automated system or software, including automated “bots,\" unless otherwise authorized,\n Represent, imply or otherwise create an impression that your Output is human-generated or otherwise generated without the use of AI, including by removing, obscuring, or altering any watermarks, content-authenticating metadata, or other marking or disclosure applied to or associated with your Output,\n Provide, create, or otherwise use Input or Output in a fraudulent manner or to deceive, mislead or impersonate others,\n Interfere with, disable, or circumvent any restrictions, filters, controls or safety measures on our Platform, including our generative AI-enabled","caution":null,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en","snapshot_sha256":"97400c371067311dadbed3c5a2ed554481c76078dcf0baa4ebd3577171837738","wayback_url":null,"deep_link":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en#:~:text=%20We%20may%20provide,including%20our%20generative%20AI-enabled","structural_citation":"§ 3.10 (Using our generative AI features)","citation_basis":"section_number","char_start":23002,"char_end":24795,"retrieved_at":"2026-07-20T11:50:03.374971+00:00"}},{"surface":"prompt_ownership","risk":"unknown","confidence":"medium","tier":"All","verified":true,"quote":" In short: You are responsible for your Input and your use of Output, and you agree not to provide, create, or otherwise use Input or Output in violation of these Terms, our Community Guidelines , or other conditions or policies or any applicable laws, or in a way that infringes rights. 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Users and others are solely responsible for their content and use of the Platform. We are not responsible for users’ and others’ actions or conduct (whether on or off the Platform) and we do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, appropriateness, or quality, of any content that users and others share on the Platform (including offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful, and other objectionable content). You acknowledge that we have no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review, or edit any content posted by you or other users on the Platform. \n In addition to the limitation above, to the maximum extent permitted by law: WE AND TT COMMERCE & GLOBAL SERVICES, ALONG WITH EACH'S AFFILIATES, AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND ADVISORS, MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE OF OUR GENERATIVE AI-ENABLED FEATURES AND OUTPUT. 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You are responsible for reviewing, verifying, and deciding how to use Output, and you should not rely on Output as a source of truth or fact, as a substitute for professional advice, or to inform decisions related to e.g., health, finance, or law. Due to the inherent limitations of generative AI, Output you generate may be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, objectionable, inappropriate, unlawful, and unfit for a particular purpose, and by using the Platform, including its generative AI-enabled features, you recognize and assume this risk. \n EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF: \n ANY RELIANCE PLACED BY YOU ON THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY OR EXISTENCE OF ANY ADVERTISING, OR AS A RESULT OF ANY RELATIONSHIP OR TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY ADVERTISER OR SPONSOR WHOSE ADVERTISING APPEARS ON THE PLATFORM, \n ANY CHANGES WHICH WE MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE PLATFORM (OR ANY FEATURES WITHIN THE SERVICES), \n YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE AND CONFIDENTIAL, \n ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES ON THE PLATFORM, INCLUDING WITH RESPECT TO OUTPUT THAT IS INACCURATE, INCOMPLETE, MISLEADING, OBJECTIONABLE, INAPPROPRIATE, UNLAWFUL, OR UNFIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, \n PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM, ","caution":null,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en","snapshot_sha256":"97400c371067311dadbed3c5a2ed554481c76078dcf0baa4ebd3577171837738","wayback_url":null,"deep_link":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en#:~:text=Your%20use%20of%20Output%2C,OF%20THE%20PLATFORM%2C%20","structural_citation":"§ 4 (Limitation of liability)","citation_basis":"section_number","char_start":26775,"char_end":28563,"retrieved_at":"2026-07-20T11:50:03.374971+00:00"}},{"surface":"output_ownership","risk":"unknown","confidence":"medium","tier":"All","verified":true,"quote":"To the extent permitted by applicable law, the maximum aggregate liability of TikTok USDS Joint Venture and our affiliates, service providers and business partners, including TT Commerce & Global Services, and its affiliates, and each of our respective officers, directors, employees, agents, and advisors, arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the Platform shall, under no circumstance, exceed the greater of $100 or the amount you have paid us in the past 12 months. \n Third-party applications and services. You can use third-party applications and services that integrate with the Platform, such as when you log in to the Platform using a single sign-on tool or share content on other social media platforms. The Platform may also integrate third-party services, including software and products, to provide generative AI-enabled features.\n Your use of these third-party applications and services is governed by their terms and privacy policies, not ours. We make no commitments, warranties or representations about the quality, security or integrity of third-party applications and services you choose to use with the Platform.\n In short: We will always seek to provide you with a great and safe user experience, but you take the Platform as it is and understand that we cannot guarantee that everything that is on the Platform, including Output, or that integrates with it, is safe and complies with our policies. The Platform is provided “as is\" and by using the Platform, you agree that our liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. 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And, depending on the specific services you use, the additional terms and policies listed below or that are otherwise made available to you may apply (“ Additional Terms ”). If you use such services, the Additional Terms become part of these Terms. If any specific provision of the Additional Terms conflicts with these Terms, the specific provision of the Additional Terms will prevail with respect to your use of the applicable services.\n Music Terms : These terms apply when you post content on the Platform that includes music sourced from the music library or your personal device.\n Commercial Music Library Terms : These terms apply if you are a commercial entity or you want to post content on the Platform that includes music sourced from the Commercial Music Library.\n Intellectual Property Policy : This policy applies to all content on the Platform that is protected by intellectual property rights.\n TikTok Buyer Policy : This policy applies when you buy items on TikTok Shop.\n Branded Content Policy : This policy applies when you post content on the Platform that promotes a third-party brand or its products or services in exchange for payment or any other incentive.\n Virtual Items Policy : This policy governs the access and use of Virtual Items (such as virtual coins and diamonds) on the Platform.\n Rewards Policy : This policy governs the virtual and physical rewards you may be eligible to receive when you participate in an incentive program, promotion, and/or campaign offered by TikTok USDS Joint Venture.\n","caution":null,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en","snapshot_sha256":"97400c371067311dadbed3c5a2ed554481c76078dcf0baa4ebd3577171837738","wayback_url":null,"deep_link":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en#:~:text=%20Your%20use%20of,USDS%20Joint%20Venture.%20","structural_citation":"§ 2","citation_basis":"section_number","char_start":1927,"char_end":3549,"retrieved_at":"2026-07-20T11:50:03.374971+00:00"}},{"surface":"commercial_use","risk":"unknown","confidence":"medium","tier":"All","verified":true,"quote":" We operate the Platform for you and others to create, view, interact with, and share content, and engage with others throughout the TikTok community. We work with our service providers and business partners, such as BD TikTok USA LLC (hereinafter referred to as \"TT Commerce & Global Services\") and its affiliates, and our affiliates, to provide certain important functions of the Platform so that you and other users can use it and enjoy a global experience, including in connection with e-commerce, marketing, advertising, and other commercial services and activities.\n To make the Platform more relevant and enjoyable for you, we customize parts of your experience on the Platform to show you creators and content we think you will be interested in, including ads and other content sponsored by or in collaboration with our creators and our partners . We customize what you see on the Platform based on, for example, the users you follow and engage with, your interests and activity on the Platform, popularity of videos, diversity among content, your device and account settings, and language preference. We may also customize your experience, including the ads you see on and off the Platform. Based on the settings we offer, you may control how your information is used to inform the ads we show you.\n We want the platform to be a safe place, where people can be who they are and have fun. To help protect you and others in our community, we work with our affiliates, service providers, and business partners who may use a mix of technology (including through automated means), human moderation, and reports from our users and others to identify suspected violations of these Terms, our Community Guidelines , and other conditions or policies. ","caution":null,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en","snapshot_sha256":"97400c371067311dadbed3c5a2ed554481c76078dcf0baa4ebd3577171837738","wayback_url":null,"deep_link":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en#:~:text=%20We%20operate%20the,conditions%20or%20policies.%20","structural_citation":"§ 3.1 (The services we provide to you)","citation_basis":"section_number","char_start":4034,"char_end":5785,"retrieved_at":"2026-07-20T11:50:03.374971+00:00"}},{"surface":"commercial_use","risk":"unknown","confidence":"medium","tier":"All","verified":true,"quote":" These Terms and our Community Guidelines , apply to everyone and to all content on the Platform. If you want to use the Platform, you can’t create, post, share, link to or otherwise interact with content in violation of them.\n For example, you must not use, or help anyone else use, the Platform to:\n do anything misleading or harmful,\n do anything that we determine violates or risks violating applicable laws, regulations, or requirements where you live or where we operate, including anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, counter terrorist financing, import controls, export controls, and economic sanctions laws or regulations,\n engage with minors in an exploitative or inappropriate way,\n upload content in violation of applicable laws, including laws requiring the consent of individuals whose images appear in Your Content, or their legally authorized representatives,\n upload viruses or malicious code, or do anything that could disable, overburden, interfere with, or undermine, the Platform’s operations or security,\n reverse engineer, disassemble, or decompile the Platform or any of its components, including its algorithms, code, or infrastructure, without explicit written authorization from TikTok USDS Joint Venture,\n engage in inauthentic commercial behaviors, such as by operating spam or impersonation accounts or any other means further detailed in our Community Guidelines ,\n submit appeals, reports, notices or complaints which are unfounded,\n scrape, crawl, export or otherwise extract any data or content in any form, for any purpose, from the Platform using any automated system or software, including automated “bots,” except as approved in writing by TikTok USDS Joint Venture,\n use or attempt to use another user’s account without authorization,\n use TikTok Content (as","caution":null,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en","snapshot_sha256":"97400c371067311dadbed3c5a2ed554481c76078dcf0baa4ebd3577171837738","wayback_url":null,"deep_link":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en#:~:text=%20These%20Terms%20and,use%20TikTok%20Content%20(as","structural_citation":"§ 3.4 (What you can’t do on the Platform)","citation_basis":"section_number","char_start":9460,"char_end":11260,"retrieved_at":"2026-07-20T11:50:03.374971+00:00"}},{"surface":"commercial_use","risk":"unknown","confidence":"medium","tier":"All","verified":true,"quote":" defined in Section 3.5), another user's content or generative AI-enabled features for commercial purposes unless permitted by TikTok USDS Joint Venture or the user, respectively (including via applicable account settings),\n sell, transfer, export, reexport, finance, order, buy, remove, conceal, store, use, loan, dispose of, transport, forward, or otherwise service, in whole or in part, any technology, software, commodity, or other item:\n to any country or territory for which the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Singapore or any other applicable jurisdiction requires an export license, in violation of export controls or economic sanctions laws of the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Singapore, or any other applicable jurisdiction,\n to any country or territory against which comprehensive sanctions are imposed, administered, implemented or enforced by any relevant government authority or regulatory body ( \"Embargoed Jurisdictions\" ). 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We may receive compensation from our advertisers and our partners with which you choose to interact. To enable these features, you give us permission to use your name, profile image and username, in connection with ads, sponsored gifts, offers, and other branded or sponsored content that you interact with, without any compensation to you, unless we have entered into a separate commercial agreement with you with respect to a specific promotion or advertisement.\n Review Your Content and associated metadata, to enforce our Terms, Community Guidelines and other conditions or policies. You agree that we can use automated tools and human moderators to review Your Content (as defined in Section 3.5) and associated metadata on the Platform, to identify, detect, and enforce potential or actual violations of these Terms, our Community Guidelines , and other conditions or policies, and to keep our community safe and prevent harmful or illegal conduct on the Platform.\n Show you customized ads and other sponsored content. You agree that we can customize ads and other sponsored content from creators, advertisers, and partners, that you see on and off the Platform based on, among other points, information we receive from third parties.\n","caution":null,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en","snapshot_sha256":"97400c371067311dadbed3c5a2ed554481c76078dcf0baa4ebd3577171837738","wayback_url":null,"deep_link":"https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en#:~:text=%20To%20help%20us,from%20third%20parties.%20","structural_citation":"§ 3.8 (Permissions you give TikTok USDS Joint Venture)","citation_basis":"section_number","char_start":20490,"char_end":22061,"retrieved_at":"2026-07-20T11:50:03.374971+00:00"}},{"surface":"privacy_data_use","risk":"unknown","confidence":"medium","tier":"All","verified":true,"quote":" We want the Platform to provide a safe and positive experience.\n If you are under 13 years of age, or under 14 years of age in Florida, you may not use the Platform, unless you are using the separate Under 13 Experience. A dedicated Children's Privacy Policy provides further details about how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process the personal information of users of the Under 13 Experience.\n If you are under 18 years of age, certain features on the Platform may be disabled or restricted for your use.\n We monitor for underage use of the Platform and we will ban your account or remove your access to certain features if we believe that you do not meet the minimum age requirements. You can appeal our decision to ban or restrict your account if you think we should not have done so.\n If you are under 18 years of age, you must review these Terms (and our Privacy Policy ) with your parent or guardian, and obtain their permission before you use the Platform. If you are the parent or guardian of such a user, you accept and agree to these Terms on their behalf and further agree that you are responsible for their use of the Platform.\n In short: If you are under 13 years of age, or under 14 years of age in Florida, you cannot use the Platform unless you are using the Under 13 Experience. We will ban your account if we become aware that you are under 13 and not using the Under 13 Experience. You must review these Terms and our Privacy Policy with your parent or guardian if you are under 18. 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Please read these Terms carefully.\n You form a contract with us when you accept these Terms or when you otherwise use or access the Platform.\n If you agree to these Terms on behalf of a business or organization, you confirm that you have the right to enter into these Terms on its behalf.\n If you are under 13 years of age, or under 14 years of age in Florida, you cannot use the Platform, unless you are using the the separate experience of the Platform in the United States (the “Under 13 Experience” ) which limits the information we collect and includes additional safety protections.\n In short: This is a contract between you and TikTok USDS Joint Venture. You should read it. By using the Platform, you are agreeing with these Terms. 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If you use the Platform without an account, then these Terms still apply to you.\n To access the full functionality of the Platform, you must create an account with us. We may offer different types of accounts.\n You represent and warrant that all information you provide to us when you create an account, and when you access and use the Platform, is and will remain complete and accurate. See our Help Center for information about creating an account.\n It is important that you take reasonable steps to keep your account password confidential and that you do not disclose it to any third party. If you know or suspect that any third party knows your password or has accessed your account, please let us know here . Do not give others access to your account, or transfer your account to anyone else, without our permission.\n We may revoke, reclaim, and/or reassign the username of your account in certain circumstances, such as, when you have not logged into your account for 180 days, if we ban your account, or if we reasonably believe that your username violates our Terms, Community Guidelines , or other conditions or policies, and/or interferes with or infringes upon the rights of other users.\n In short: Your account is important. Keep it secure. Keep your details up to date. We may revoke, reclaim, or reassign the username of your account under certain circumstances. 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Under no circumstance will TikTok USDS Joint Venture or our affiliates, service providers, or business partners, including TT Commerce & Global Services, and its affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, and advisors, be liable under these Terms, whether in an action in tort (including negligence) or contract or otherwise for any punitive, consequential, incidental, exemplary or special damages, or any damages that were not reasonably foreseeable at the time that these Terms were entered into by the parties, or any damages based on lost profits (whether incurred directly or indirectly), loss of reputation or diminution in value, loss of goodwill, loss of opportunity, loss of anticipated savings, loss or corruption of data suffered by you, or indirect or consequential losses which may be incurred by you, even if TikTok USDS Joint Venture has been advised of the possibility of such damages. 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In these Terms, “include” or “including” means “including but not limited to.”\n The Platform contains certain open source software. Each item of open source software is subject to its own applicable license terms, which can be found at Open Source Policy .\n In short: These Terms are assignable by us. Even if there is a dispute about one part of the Terms, this does not change that we both agree that the rest of these Terms, as written, are the agreement between us. 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