What information do we collect?  Registration information, such as age, username and password, language, and email or phone number Profile information, such as name, social media account information, and profile image User-generated content, including comments, photographs, livestreams, audio recordings, videos, and virtual item videos that you choose to create with or upload to the Platform (“User Content”). We collect User Content through pre-loading at the time of creation, import, or upload, regardless of whether you choose to save or upload that User Content, in order to recommend audio options and provide other personalized recommendations. If you apply an effect to your User Content, we may collect a version of your User Content that does not include the effect. Content, including text, images, and video, found in your device’s clipboard, with your permission. For example, if you choose to initiate content sharing with a third-party platform, or choose to paste content from the clipboard into the TikTok App, we access this information stored in your clipboard in order to fulfill your request. Payment information, including payment card numbers or other third-party payment information (such as PayPal) where required for the purpose of payment Your phone and social network contacts, with your permission. If you choose to find other users through your phone contacts, we will access and collect the names and phone numbers and match that information against existing users of the Platform. If you choose to find other users through your social network contacts, we will collect your public profile information as well as names and profiles of your social network contacts We may collect information about you from third-party services, such as advertising partners, data providers, and analytics providers We automatically collect certain information from you when you use the Platform, including internet or other network activity information such as your IP address  Messages  We collect and process, which includes scanning and analyzing, information you provide when you compose, send, or receive&nbsp. messages through the Platform’s messaging functionality. That information includes the content of the message and information about when the message has been sent, received and/or read, as well as the participants of the communication. We and our service providers and business partners use cookies and other similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, flash cookies, etc.) (“Cookies”) to automatically collect information We and our service providers and business partners may link your contact or account information with your activity on and off our Platform across all your devices, using your email or other log-in or device information. Our service providers and business partners may use this information to display advertisements on our Platform and elsewhere online and across your devices tailored to your interests, preferences, and characteristics.  How we use your information We generally use the information we collect:  To fulfill requests for products, services, Platform functionality, support and information for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes and to solicit your feedback To customize the content you see when you use the Platform. For example, we may provide you with services based on the country settings you have chosen or show you content that is similar to content that you like or interacted with To send promotional materials from us or on behalf of our affiliates and trusted third parties To improve and develop our Platform and conduct product development To measure and understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others and to deliver advertising To make suggestions and provide a customized ad experience To support the social functions of the Platform, including to permit you and other users to connect with each other through the Platform and for you and other users to share, download, and otherwise interact with User Content posted through the Platform To use User Content as part of our advertising and marketing campaigns to provide you with location-based services, such as advertising and other personalized content TikTok does not sell personal information to third parties We share the categories of personal information listed above with service providers and business partners to help us perform business operations and for business purposes, including research, payment processing and transaction fulfillment, database maintenance, administering contests and special offers, technology services, deliveries, sending communications, advertising, analytics  We may share all of the information we collect in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of a website, a merger, consolidation, asset sales, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy. Some browsers transmit “do-not-track” signals to websites. Because of differences in how browsers incorporate and activate this feature, we currently do not take action in response to these signals. 

Summary:
Details are provided about what kind of information they collect. Many different types of personal data are collected. Information is gathered about you through third parties. Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location. Private messages can be read. You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels and device fingerprinting. Your profile is combined across various products. Your personal data is used to employ targeted third-party advertising. Information is provided about how your personal data is used. Your personal information is used for many different purposes. This service may collect, use, and share location data. Your personal data is not sold. This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation. This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not involved in its operation. Your personal data may be sold or otherwise transferred as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction. This service ignores the Do Not Track (DNT) header and tracks users anyway even if they set this header..