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If you are a user having your usual residence in the US, this EULA shall apply.

If you are a user having your usual residence in the EEA, the United Kingdom or

Switzerland, this EULA shall apply.

If you are a user having your usual residence in India, this EULA shall apply.

If you are not in the US, EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or India, this EULA shall apply. There may

also be jurisdiction specific provisions for certain countries or regions.

Please refer to your local EULA for more information.

Terms of Service

(If you are a user having your usual residence in the US)

Last updated: February 2019

1. Your Relationship With Us

Welcome to TikTok (the “Platform”), which is provided by TikTok Inc. in the United States (collectively

such entities will be referred to as “TikTok”, “we” or “us”).

You are reading the terms of service (the “Terms”), which govern the relationship and serve as an

agreement between you and us and set forth the terms and conditions by which you may access and

use the Platform and our related websites, services, applications, products and content (collectively, the

“Services”). Access to certain Services or features of the Services (such as, by way of example and not

limitation, the ability to submit or share User Content (defined below)) may be subject to age restrictions

and not available to all users of the Services. Our Services are provided for private, non-commercial use.

For purposes of these Terms, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services.

The Terms form a legally binding agreement between you and us. Please take the time to read them

carefully. If you are under age 18, you may only use the Services with the consent of your parent or legal

How TikTok is supporting our community through COVID-19

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guardian. Please be sure your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and discussed these Terms with

you.

ARBITRATION NOTICE FOR USERS IN THE UNITED STATES: THESE TERMS CONTAIN AN ARBITRATION

CLAUSE AND A WAIVER OF RIGHTS TO BRING A CLASS ACTION AGAINST US. EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN

TYPES OF DISPUTES MENTIONED IN THAT ARBITRATION CLAUSE, YOU AND TIKTOK AGREE THAT

DISPUTES BETWEEN US WILL BE RESOLVED BY MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION, AND YOU AND

TIKTOK WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT OR CLASS-WIDE

ARBITRATION.

2. Accepting the Terms

By accessing or using our Services, you confirm that you can form a binding contract with TikTok, that

you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. Your access to and use of our Services

is also subject to our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, the terms of which can be found directly

on the Platform, or where the Platform is made available for download, on your mobile device’s

applicable app store, and are incorporated herein by reference. By using the Services, you consent to

the terms of the Privacy Policy.

If you are accessing or using the Services on behalf of a business or entity, then (a) “you” and “your”

includes you and that business or entity, (b) you represent and warrant that you are an authorized

representative of the business or entity with the authority to bind the entity to these Terms, and that you

agree to these Terms on the entity’s behalf, and (c) your business or entity is legally and financially

responsible for your access or use of the Services as well as for the access or use of your account by

others affiliated with your entity, including any employees, agents or contractors.

You can accept the Terms by accessing or using our Services. You understand and agree that we will

treat your access or use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.

You should print off or save a local copy of the Terms for your records.

3. Changes to the Terms

We amend these Terms from time to time, for instance when we update the functionality of our Services,

when we combine multiple apps or services operated by us or our affiliates into a single combined

service or app, or when there are regulatory changes. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to

generally notify all users of any material changes to these Terms, such as through a notice on our

Platform, however, you should look at the Terms regularly to check for such changes. We will also update

the “Last Updated” date at the top of these Terms, which reflect the effective date of such Terms. Your

continued access or use of the Services after the date of the new Terms constitutes your acceptance of

the new Terms. If you do not agree to the new Terms, you must stop accessing or using the Services.

4. Your Account with Us

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To access or use some of our Services, you must create an account with us. When you create this

account, you must provide accurate and up-to-date information. It is important that you maintain and

promptly update your details and any other information you provide to us, to keep such information

current and complete.

It is important that you 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, you must notify us immediately at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback.

You agree that you are solely responsible (to us and to others) for the activity that occurs under your

account.

We reserve the right to disable your user account at any time, including if you have failed to comply with

any of the provisions of these Terms, or if activities occur on your account which, in our sole discretion,

would or might cause damage to or impair the Services or infringe or violate any third party rights, or

violate any applicable laws or regulations.

If you no longer want to use our Services again, and would like your account deleted, contact us

at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback. We will provide you with further assistance and guide

you through the process. Once you choose to delete your account, you will not be able to reactivate

your account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added.

5. Your Access to and Use of Our Services

Your access to and use of the Services is subject to these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations.

You may not:

access or use the Services if you are not fully able and legally competent to agree to

these Terms or are authorized to use the Services by your parent or legal guardian;

make unauthorised copies, modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble,

decompile or create any derivative works of the Services or any content included

therein, including any files, tables or documentation (or any portion thereof) or determine

or attempt to determine any source code, algorithms, methods or techniques embodied

by the Services or any derivative works thereof;

distribute, license, transfer, or sell, in whole or in part, any of the Services or any

derivative works thereof

market, rent or lease the Services for a fee or charge, or use the Services to advertise or

perform any commercial solicitation;

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use the Services, without our express written consent, for any commercial or

unauthorized purpose, including communicating or facilitating any commercial

advertisement or solicitation or spamming;

interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services, disrupt our

website or any networks connected to the Services, or bypass any measures we may

use to prevent or restrict access to the Services;

incorporate the Services or any portion thereof into any other program or product. In

such case, we reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts or limit access to

the Services in our sole discretion;

use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Services;

impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent you or your

affiliation with any person or entity, including giving the impression that any content you

upload, post, transmit, distribute or otherwise make available emanates from the

Services;

intimidate or harass another, or promote sexually explicit material, violence or

discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or

age;

use or attempt to use another’s account, service or system without authorisation from

TikTok, or create a false identity on the Services;

use the Services in a manner that may create a conflict of interest or undermine the

purposes of the Services, such as trading reviews with other users or writing or soliciting

fake reviews;

use the Services to upload, transmit, distribute, store or otherwise make available in any

way: files that contain viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is

malicious or technologically harmful;

any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk

mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other prohibited form of

solicitation;

any private information of any third party, including addresses, phone numbers, email

addresses, number and feature in the personal identity document (e.g., National

Insurance numbers, passport numbers) or credit card numbers;

any material which does or may infringe any copyright, trademark or other intellectual

property or privacy rights of any other person;

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any material which is defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, pornographic,

hateful or inflammatory;

any material that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal

offence, dangerous activities or self-harm;

any material that is deliberately designed to provoke or antagonise people, especially

trolling and bullying, or is intended to harass, harm, hurt, scare, distress, embarrass or

upset people;

any material that contains a threat of any kind, including threats of physical violence;

any material that is racist or discriminatory, including discrimination on the basis of

someone’s race, religion, age, gender, disability or sexuality;

any answers, responses, comments, opinions, analysis or recommendations that you are

not properly licensed or otherwise qualified to provide; or

material that, in the sole judgment of TikTok, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits

any other person from using the Services, or which may expose TikTok, the Services or

its users to any harm or liability of any type.

In addition to the above, your access to and use of the Services must, at all times, be compliant with

our Community Guidelines.

We reserve the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to content at our

discretion for any reason or no reason. Some of the reasons we may remove or disable access to

content may include finding the content objectionable, in violation of these Terms or our Community

Policy, or otherwise harmful to the Services or our users. Our automated systems analyze your content

(including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search

results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is

sent, received, and when it is stored.

6. Intellectual Property Rights

We respect intellectual property rights and ask you to do the same. As a condition of your access to and

use of the Services, you agree to the terms of the Copyright Policy.

7. Content

TikTok Content

As between you and TikTok, all content, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents,

trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music on and “look and feel” of the

Services, and all intellectual property rights related thereto (the “TikTok Content”), are either owned or

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licensed by TikTok, it being understood that you or your licensors will own any User Content (as defined

below) you upload or transmit through the Services. Use of the TikTok Content or materials on the

Services for any purpose not expressly permitted by these Terms is strictly prohibited. Such content may

not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed or

otherwise exploited for any purpose whatsoever without our or, where applicable, our licensors’ prior

written consent. We and our licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to their content.

You acknowledge and agree that we may generate revenues, increase goodwill or otherwise increase

our value from your use of the Services, including, by way of example and not limitation, through the sale

of advertising, sponsorships, promotions, usage data and Gifts (defined below), and except as

specifically permitted by us in these Terms or in another agreement you enter into with us, you will have

no right to share in any such revenue, goodwill or value whatsoever. You further acknowledge that,

except as specifically permitted by us in these Terms or in another agreement you enter into with us, you

(i) have no right to receive any income or other consideration from any User Content (defined below) or

your use of any musical works, sound recordings or audiovisual clips made available to you on or

through the Services, including in any User Content created by you, and (ii) are prohibited from

exercising any rights to monetize or obtain consideration from any User Content within the Services or

on any third party service ( e.g. , you cannot claim User Content that has been uploaded to a social

media platform such as YouTube for monetization).

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Terms, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, nontransferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, worldwide license to access and use the Services, including

to download the Platform on a permitted device, and to access the TIkTok Content solely for your

personal, non-commercial use through your use of the Services and solely in compliance with these

Terms. TikTok reserves all rights not expressly granted herein in the Services and the TikTok Content.

You acknowledge and agree that TikTok may terminate this license at any time for any reason or no

reason.

NO RIGHTS ARE LICENSED WITH RESPECT TO SOUND RECORDINGS AND THE MUSICAL WORKS

EMBODIED THEREIN THAT ARE MADE AVAILABLE FROM OR THROUGH THE SERVICE.

You acknowledge and agree that when you view content provided by others on the Services, you are

doing so at your own risk. The content on our Services is provided for general information only. It is not

intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice

before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Services.

We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that any TikTok

Content (including User Content) is accurate, complete or up to date. Where our Services contain links to

other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. Such links should not be interpreted

as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. You acknowledge

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that we have no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review, or edit any content posted by you and other

users on the Services (including User Content).

User-Generated Content

Users of the Services may be permitted to upload, post or transmit (such as via a stream) or otherwise

make available content through the Services including, without limitation, any text, photographs, user

videos, sound recordings and the musical works embodied therein, including videos that incorporate

locally stored sound recordings from your personal music library and ambient noise (“User Content”).

Users of the Services may also extract all or any portion of User Content created by another user to

produce additional User Content, including collaborative User Content with other users, that combine

and intersperse User Content generated by more than one user. Users of the Services may also overlay

music, graphics, stickers, Virtual Items (as defined and further explained Virtual Items Policy) and other

elements provided by TikTok (“TikTok Elements”) onto this User Content and transmit this User Content

through the Services. The information and materials in the User Content, including User Content that

includes TikTok Elements, have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other

users on the Services (including through use of the virtual gifts) do not represent our views or values.

Whenever you access or use a feature that allows you to upload or transmit User Content through the

Services (including via certain third party social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,

Twitter), or to make contact with other users of the Services, you must comply with the standards set out

at “Your Access to and Use of Our Services” above. You may also choose to upload or transmit your

User Content, including User Content that includes TikTok Elements, on sites or platforms hosted by

third parties. If you decide to do this, you must comply with their content guidelines as well as with the

standards set out at “Your Access to and Use of Our Services” above. As noted above, these features

may not be available to all users of the Services, and we have no liability to you for limiting your right to

certain features of the Services.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us

and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or

damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any User Content will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You must not post any User

Content on or through the Services or transmit to us any User Content that you consider to be

confidential or proprietary. When you submit User Content through the Services, you agree and

represent that you own that User Content, or you have received all necessary permissions, clearances

from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to submit it to the Services, to transmit it

from the Services to other third party platforms, and/or adopt any third party content.

If you only own the rights in and to a sound recording, but not to the underlying musical works embodied

in such sound recordings, then you must not post such sound recordings to the Services unless you

have all permissions, clearances from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to

submit it to the Services

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You or the owner of your User Content still own the copyright in User Content sent to us, but by

submitting User Content via the Services, you hereby grant us an unconditional irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide licence to use, modify, adapt, reproduce,

make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit, and/or distribute and to authorise other users of the

Services and other third-parties to view, access, use, download, modify, adapt, reproduce, make

derivative works of, publish and/or transmit your User Content in any format and on any platform, either

now known or hereinafter invented.

You further grant us a royalty-free license to use your user name, image, voice, and likeness to identify

you as the source of any of your User Content; provided, however, that your ability to provide an image,

voice, and likeness may be subject to limitations due to age restrictions.

For the avoidance of doubt, the rights granted in the preceding paragraphs of this Section include, but

are not limited to, the right to reproduce sound recordings (and make mechanical reproductions of the

musical works embodied in such sound recordings), and publicly perform and communicate to the public

sound recordings (and the musical works embodied therein), all on a royalty-free basis. This means that

you are granting us the right to use your User Content without the obligation to pay royalties to any third

party, including, but not limited to, a sound recording copyright owner (e.g., a record label), a musical

work copyright owner (e.g., a music publisher), a performing rights organization (e.g., ASCAP, BMI,

SESAC, etc.) (a “PRO”), a sound recording PRO (e.g., SoundExchange), any unions or guilds, and

engineers, producers or other royalty participants involved in the creation of User Content.

Specific Rules for Musical Works and for Recording Artists. If you are a composer or author of a musical

work and are affiliated with a PRO, then you must notify your PRO of the royalty-free license you grant

through these Terms in your User Content to us. You are solely responsible for ensuring your compliance

with the relevant PRO’s reporting obligations. If you have assigned your rights to a music publisher, then

you must obtain the consent of such music publisher to grant the royalty-free license(s) set forth in these

Terms in your User Content or have such music publisher enter into these Terms with us. Just because

you authored a musical work (e.g., wrote a song) does not mean you have the right to grant us the

licenses in these Terms. If you are a recording artist under contract with a record label, then you are

solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the Services is in compliance with any contractual

obligations you may have to your record label, including if you create any new recordings through the

Services that may be claimed by your label.

Through-To-The-Audience Rights. All of the rights you grant in your User Content in these Terms are

provided on a through-to-the-audience basis, meaning the owners or operators of third party services

will not have any separate liability to you or any other third party for User Content posted or used on

such third party service via the Services.

Waiver of Rights to User Content. By posting User Content to or through the Services, you waive any

rights to prior inspection or approval of any marketing or promotional materials related to such User

Content. You also waive any and all rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights of a similar nature in

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connection with your User Content, or any portion thereof. To the extent any moral rights are not

transferable or assignable, you hereby waive and agree never to assert any and all moral rights, or to

support, maintain or permit any action based on any moral rights that you may have in or with respect to

any User Content you Post to or through the Services.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any User Content

posted or uploaded by you to our Services constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or

of their right to privacy.

We, or authorised third parties, reserve the right to cut, crop, edit or refuse to publish, your content at our

or their sole discretion. We have the right to remove, disallow, block or delete any posting you make on

our Services if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out at “Your

Access to and Use of Our Services”above. In addition, we have the right – but not the obligation – in our

sole discretion to remove, disallow, block or delete any User Content (i) that we consider to violate these

Terms, or (ii) in response to complaints from other users or third parties, with or without notice and

without any liability to you. As a result, we recommend that you save copies of any User Content that

you post to the Services on your personal device(s) in the event that you want to ensure that you have

permanent access to copies of such User Content. We do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity,

appropriateness or quality of any User Content, and under no circumstances will we be liable in any way

for any User Content.

You control whether your User Content is made publicly available on the Services to all other users of

the Services or only available to people you approve. To restrict access to your User Content, you

should select the privacy setting available within the Platform.

We accept no liability in respect of any content submitted by users and published by us or by authorised

third parties.

If you wish to file a complaint about information or materials uploaded by other users, contact us

at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback.

TikTok takes reasonable measures to expeditiously remove from our Services any infringing material that

we become aware of.It is TikTok’s policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable or

terminate the accounts of users of the Services who repeatedly infringe copyrights or intellectual

property rights of others.

While our own staff is continually working to develop and evaluate our own product ideas and features,

we pride ourselves on paying close attention to the interests, feedback, comments, and suggestions we

receive from the user community. If you choose to contribute by sending us or our employees any ideas

for products, services, features, modifications, enhancements, content, refinements, technologies,

content offerings (such as audio, visual, games, or other types of content), promotions, strategies, or

product/feature names, or any related documentation, artwork, computer code, diagrams, or other

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materials (collectively “Feedback”), then regardless of what your accompanying communication may say,

the following terms will apply, so that future misunderstandings can be avoided. Accordingly, by sending

Feedback to us, you agree that:

TikTok has no obligation to review, consider, or implement your Feedback, or to return to you all or part

of any Feedback for any reason;

Feedback is provided on a non-confidential basis, and we are not under any obligation to keep any

Feedback you send confidential or to refrain from using or disclosing it in any way; and

You irrevocably grant us perpetual and unlimited permission to reproduce, distribute, create derivative

works of, modify, publicly perform (including on a through-to-the-audience basis), communicate to the

public, make available, publicly display, and otherwise use and exploit the Feedback and derivatives

thereof for any purpose and without restriction, free of charge and without attribution of any kind,

including by making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing, and promoting commercial products and

services that incorporate or embody Feedback, whether in whole or in part, and whether as provided or

as modified.

8. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless TikTok, its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and

each of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors from any and all claims,

liabilities, costs, and expenses, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and expenses, arising out of

a breach by you or any user of your account of these Terms or arising out of a breach of your obligations,

representation and warranties under these Terms.

9. EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS SHALL AFFECT ANY STATUTORY RIGHTS THAT YOU CANNOT

CONTRACTUALLY AGREE TO ALTER OR WAIVE AND ARE LEGALLY ALWAYS ENTITLED TO AS A

CONSUMER.

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION TO YOU

WITH RESPECT TO THEM. IN PARTICULAR WE DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT:

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS;

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE

FROM ERROR;

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES

WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; AND

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DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO

YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.

NO CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES OR OTHER TERMS (INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED TERMS AS TO

SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR PURPOSE OR CONFORMANCE WITH DESCRIPTION) APPLY TO

THE SERVICES EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY ARE EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THE TERMS. WE

MAY CHANGE, SUSPEND, WITHDRAW OR RESTRICT THE AVAILABILITY OF ALL OR ANY PART OF OUR

PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS AND OPERATIONAL REASONS AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT OUR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES WHICH MAY NOT

BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THIS INCLUDES LIABILITY FOR DEATH

OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE OR THE NEGLIGENCE OF OUR EMPLOYEES,

AGENTS OR SUBCONTRACTORS AND FOR FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION.

SUBJECT TO THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR:

(I) ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY);

(II) ANY LOSS OF GOODWILL;

(III) ANY LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY;

(IV) ANY LOSS OF DATA SUFFERED BY YOU; OR

(V) ANY INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU.

ANY OTHER LOSS WILL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO TIKTOK

WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS.

ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF:

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 SERVICE;

ANY CHANGES WHICH WE MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT

OR TEMPORARY CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES (OR ANY

FEATURES WITHIN THE SERVICES);

THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY CONTENT AND

OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED BY OR THROUGH

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES;

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YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE US WITH ACCURATE ACCOUNT INFORMATION; OR

YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE AND

CONFIDENTIAL.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ONLY PROVIDE OUR PLATFORM FOR DOMESTIC AND PRIVATE USE. YOU

AGREE NOT TO USE OUR PLATFORM FOR ANY COMMERCIAL OR BUSINESS PURPOSES, AND WE

HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF GOODWILL OR

BUSINESS REPUTATION, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

IF DEFECTIVE DIGITAL CONTENT THAT WE HAVE SUPPLIED DAMAGES A DEVICE OR DIGITAL

CONTENT BELONGING TO YOU AND THIS IS CAUSED BY OUR FAILURE TO USE REASONABLE CARE

AND SKILL, WE WILL EITHER REPAIR THE DAMAGE OR PAY YOU COMPENSATION. HOWEVER, WE

WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGE THAT YOU COULD HAVE AVOIDED BY FOLLOWING OUR ADVICE

TO APPLY AN UPDATE OFFERED TO YOU FREE OF CHARGE OR FOR DAMAGE THAT WAS CAUSED BY

YOU FAILING TO CORRECTLY FOLLOW INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS OR TO HAVE IN PLACE THE

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ADVISED BY US.

THESE LIMITATIONS ON OUR LIABILITY TO YOU SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN

ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MOBILE CHARGES THAT MAY APPLY TO YOUR USE OF OUR

SERVICE, INCLUDING TEXT-MESSAGING AND DATA CHARGES. IF YOU’RE UNSURE WHAT THOSE

CHARGES MAY BE, YOU SHOULD ASK YOUR SERVICE PROVIDER BEFORE USING THE SERVICE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY DISPUTE YOU HAVE WITH ANY THIRD PARTY

ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE AND NOT

LIMITATION, ANY CARRIER, COPYRIGHT OWNER OR OTHER USER, IS DIRECTLY BETWEEN YOU AND

SUCH THIRD PARTY, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY RELEASE US AND OUR AFFILIATES FROM ANY AND

ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND

NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH

DISPUTES.

11. Other Terms

Open Source.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.

Entire Agreement.These Terms constitute the whole legal agreement between you and TikTok and

govern your use of the Services and completely replace any prior agreements between you and TikTok

in relation to the Services.

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Links. You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not

damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest

any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish

a link to our Services in any website that is not owned by you. The website in which you are linking must

comply in all respects with the content standards set out at “Your Access to and Use of Our Services”

above. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

No Waiver. Our failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these Terms shall not be construed as a

waiver of any provision or right.

Security. We do not guarantee that our Services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are

responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access

our Services. You should use your own virus protection software.

Severability. If any court of law, having jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of

these Terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of

the Terms, and the remaining provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.

ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER. This Section includes an arbitration agreement and an

agreement that all claims will be brought only in an individual capacity (and not as a class action or other

representative proceeding). Please read it carefully. You may opt out of the arbitration agreement by

following the opt out procedure described below.

Informal Process First. You agree that in the event of any dispute between you and TikTok, you will first

contact TikTok and make a good faith sustained effort to resolve the dispute before resorting to more

formal means of resolution, including without limitation any court action.

Arbitration Agreement. After the informal dispute resolution process any remaining dispute, controversy,

or claim (collectively, “Claim”) relating in any way to your use of TikTok’s services and/or products,

including the Services, or relating in any way to the communications between you and TikTok or any

other user of the Services, will be finally resolved by binding arbitration. This mandatory arbitration

agreement applies equally to you and TikTok. However, this arbitration agreement does not (a) govern

any Claim by TikTok for infringement of its intellectual property or access to the Services that is

unauthorized or exceeds authorization granted in these Terms or (b) bar you from making use of

applicable small claims court procedures in appropriate cases. If you are an individual you may opt out of

this arbitration agreement within thirty (30) days of the first of the date you access or use this Services by

following the procedure described below.

You agree that the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this

provision, and that you and TikTok are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class

action. This arbitration provision will survive any termination of these Terms.

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If you wish to begin an arbitration proceeding, after following the informal dispute resolution procedure,

you must send a letter requesting arbitration and describing your claim to:

TikTok Inc., 5800 Bristol Parkway, Culver City, CA 90230

Email Address: legal@tiktok.com

The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules

including, if you are an individual, the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes.

If you are not an individual or have used the Services on behalf of an entity, the AAA's Supplementary

Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes will not be used. The AAA's rules are available at

www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879.

Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA's rules. If you are an

individual and have not accessed or used the Services on behalf of an entity, we will reimburse those

fees for claims where the amount in dispute is less than $10,000, unless the arbitrator determines the

claims are frivolous, and we will not seek attorneys’ fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator

determines the claims are frivolous.

The arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court, will have exclusive authority to resolve any

dispute relating to the interpretation, applicability, unconscionability, arbitrability, enforceability, or

formation of this arbitration agreement, including any claim that all or any part of this arbitration

agreement is void or voidable. However, the preceding sentence will not apply to the “Class Action

Waiver” section below.

If you do not want to arbitrate disputes with TikTok and you are an individual, you may opt out of this

arbitration agreement by sending an email to legal@tiktok.com within thirty (30) days of the first of the

date you access or use the Services.

Class Action Waiver. Any Claim must be brought in the respective party’s individual capacity, and not as a

plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, representative, multiple plaintiff, or similar

proceeding (“Class Action”). The parties expressly waive any ability to maintain any Class Action in any

forum. If the Claim is subject to arbitration, the arbitrator will not have authority to combine or aggregate

similar claims or conduct any Class Action nor make an award to any person or entity not a party to the

arbitration. Any claim that all or part of this Class Action Waiver is unenforceable, unconscionable, void,

or voidable may be determined only by a court of competent jurisdiction and not by an arbitrator. The

parties understand that any right to litigate in court, to have a judge or jury decide their case, or to be a

party to a class or representative action, is waived, and that any claims must be decided individually,

through arbitration.

If this class action waiver is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of the Arbitration Agreement, if

otherwise effective, will be null and void. The arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in

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favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by

that party's individual claim. If for any reason a claim proceeds in court rather than in arbitration, you and

TikTok each waive any right to a jury trial.

If a counter-notice is received by TikTok’s Copyright Agent, we may send a copy of the counter-notice to

the original complaining party informing that person that we may replace the removed content or cease

disabling it. Unless the original complaining party files an action seeking a court order against the

Content Provider, member or user, the removed content may be replaced, or access to it restored, in ten

business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at TikTok’s sole discretion.

Please understand that filing a counter-notification may lead to legal proceedings between you and the

complaining party to determine ownership. Be aware that there may be adverse legal consequences in

your country if you make a false or bad faith allegation by using this process.

California Consumer Rights Notice. Under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California users of the

Services receive the following specific consumer rights notice: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the

Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in

writing at the contact information set forth at https://www.dca.ca.gov/about_dca/contactus.shtml.

Users of the Services who are California residents and are under 18 years of age may request and obtain

removal of User Content they posted by contacting us at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback.

All requests must be labeled "California Removal Request" on the email subject line. All requests must

provide a description of the User Content you want removed and information reasonably sufficient to

permit us to locate that User Content. We do not accept California Removal Requests via postal mail,

telephone or facsimile. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, and we

may not be able to respond if you do not provide adequate information.

Exports. You agree that you will not export or re-export, directly or indirectly the Services and/or other

information or materials provided by TikTok hereunder, to any country for which the United States or any

other relevant jurisdiction requires any export license or other governmental approval at the time of

export without first obtaining such license or approval. In particular, but without limitation, the Services

may not be exported or re-exported (a) into any U.S. embargoed countries or any country that has been

designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, or (b) to anyone listed on any U.S.

Government list of prohibited or restricted parties, including the U.S. Treasury Department's list of

Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Person’s List or Entity List.

U.S. Government Restricted Rights. The Services and related documentation are "Commercial Items", as

that term is defined at 48 C.F.R. §2.101, consisting of "Commercial Computer Software" and "Commercial

Computer Software Documentation", as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48 C.F.R. §227.7202,

as applicable. Consistent with 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48 C.F.R. §227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4, as

applicable, the Commercial Computer Software and Commercial Computer Software Documentation are

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being licensed to U.S. Government end users (a) only as Commercial Items and (b) with only those rights

as are granted to all other end users pursuant to the terms and conditions herein.

App Stores

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the following supplemental terms shall apply when accessing

the Platform through specific devices:

Notice regarding Apple.

By downloading the Platform from a device made by Apple, Inc. (“Apple”) or from Apple’s App Store, you

specifically acknowledge and agree that:

These Terms between TikTok and you; Apple is not a party to these Terms.

The license granted to you hereunder is limited to a personal, limited, non-exclusive,

non-transferable right to install the Platform on the Apple device(s) authorised by Apple

that you own or control for personal, non-commercial use, subject to the Usage Rules set

forth in Apple’s App Store Terms of Services.

Apple is not responsible for the Platform or the content thereof and has no obligation

whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the Platform.

In the event of any failure of the Platform to conform to any applicable warranty, you may

notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the Platform, if any, to you. To

the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty

obligation whatsoever with respect to the Platform.

Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the

Platform or your possession or use of the Platform, including without limitation (a)

product liability claims; (b) any claim that the Platform fails to conform to any applicable

legal or regulatory requirement; and (c) claims arising under consumer protection or

similar legislation.

In the event of any third party claim that the Platform or your possession and use of the

Platform infringes such third party’s intellectual property rights, Apple is not responsible

for the investigation, defence, settlement or discharge of such intellectual property

infringement claim.

You represent and warrant that (a) you are not located in a country that is subject to a

U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a

“terrorist supporting” country; and (b) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of

prohibited or restricted parties.

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Apple and its subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these Terms and upon your

acceptance of the terms and conditions of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and

will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third

party beneficiary hereof.

TikTok expressly authorises use of the Platform by multiple users through the Family

Sharing or any similar functionality provided by Apple.

Windows Phone Store.

By downloading the Platform from the Windows Phone Store (or its successors) operated by Microsoft,

Inc. or its affiliates, you specifically acknowledge and agree that:

You may install and use one copy of the Platform on up to five (5) Windows Phone

enabled devices that are affiliated with the Microsoft account you use to access the

Windows Phone Store. Beyond that, we reserve the right to apply additional conditions

or charge additional fees.

You acknowledge that Microsoft Corporation, your phone manufacturer and network

operator have no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support

services with respect to the Platform.

Amazon Appstore.

By downloading the Platform from the Amazon Appstore (or its successors) operated by Amazon Digital

Services, Inc. or affiliates (“Amazon”), you specifically acknowledge and agree that:

to the extent of any conflict between (a) the Amazon Appstore Terms of Use or such

other terms which Amazon designates as default end user license terms for the Amazon

Appstore (“Amazon Appstore EULA Terms”), and (b) the other terms and conditions in

these Terms, the Amazon Appstore EULA Terms shall apply with respect to your use of

the Platform that you download from the Amazon Appstore, and

Amazon does not have any responsibility or liability related to compliance or noncompliance by TikTok or you (or any other user) under these Terms or the Amazon

Appstore EULA Terms.

Google Play.

By downloading the Platform from Google Play (or its successors) operated by Google, Inc. or one of its

affiliates (“Google”), you specifically acknowledge and agree that:

to the extent of any conflict between (a) the Google Play Terms of Services and the

Google Play Business and Program Policies or such other terms which Google

designates as default end user license terms for Google Play (all of which together are

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referred to as the “Google Play Terms”), and (b) the other terms and conditions in these

Terms, the Google Play Terms shall apply with respect to your use of the Platform that

you download from Google Play, and

you hereby acknowledge that Google does not have any responsibility or liability related

to compliance or non-compliance by TikTok or you (or any other user) under these Terms

or the Google Play Terms.

Contact Us.

You can reach us at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback or write us at TikTok Inc.: 10100 Venice

Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 , USA

Terms of Service

(If you are a user having your residence in the EEA, the United Kingdom or Switzerland)

Last updated: July 2020

1. Your Relationship With Us

Welcome to TikTok.

TikTok is a leading platform for creating and sharing short-form videos (the “Platform”). You are reading

the terms of service (the “Terms”), which govern the relationship and serve as an agreement between

you and us and set forth the terms and conditions by which you may access and use the Platform and

our related websites (such as tiktok.com), services, applications, products and other content which are

stated to be offered subject to these Terms (collectively, the “Services”).

The Services are provided by the company that offers the Services in your region (“TikTok”, “we” or “us”):

Residents of the EEA + Switzerland: The Services are provided by TikTok Technology

Limited, which is registered in Ireland with its registered office at 10 Earlsfort Terrace,

Dublin, D02 T380, Ireland and company number 635755.

Residents of the United Kingdom: The Services are provided by TikTok Information

Technologies UK Limited, which is registered in England with its registered office at 6th

Floor, One London Wall, London, EC2Y 5EB, United Kingdom.

Your Service provider may change if you relocate to another country and continue using our Services.

The Services are provided for private, non-commercial use. For the purposes of these Terms, “you” and

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“your” means you as the user of the Services.

The Terms form a legally binding agreement between you and us. Please take the time to read them

carefully and if you do not agree to them, please do not register, access or use any of the Services.

2. Description of the Services

The Services and the Platform are only for people 13 years old and over.

You can use the Services and the Platform via the TikTok mobile apps (“App”) and via the TikTok Website

(“Website”). Certain functions are available only in the App. Further, not all Services or features may be

available in your country or region. Different features may be available in different versions of the

Services. Certain features are not available for users under a certain age.

The Services allow you to create, publish and share short-form videos and to consume videos other

users have created and interact with those videos and other users.

Create and share videos: In particular:

You can record or import videos into the Services.

You can edit videos and enrich them with filters and additional elements.

You can also include content from other users in your videos, provided the creator of the

respective video allows the use of their content for such purposes. Other users can use

your content in their videos, if you allow the use of your content for such purposes.

You can publish videos in the Services so that other users can consume your videos.

Videos you publish publicly will be available in the App and on the Website.

You can share your videos, or videos of others that have enabled sharing, via various

messaging services and on third-party social media platforms (e.g. Instagram, Facebook,

YouTube, Twitter) in accordance with the respective terms of service.

You can enter a video description, tags and various privacy settings when publishing a

video.

You can enter a short biography text and profile picture in your public user profile.

Subject to the conditions of our Virtual Items Policy you can live stream, use live

streaming features, purchase coins and exchange coins for gifts (the “Live Stream

Program”).

Consume videos: You can consume videos of other users of the Services. In particular:

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You can consume videos that other users have shared publicly or by users you follow.

The Service provides you with a customised “For You” page in which the Service selects

videos to show you based on what the Service determines could be interesting for you.

For further information, please see the Privacy Policy.

The Service provides other ways to find content for you to consume, e.g. a list of other

users’ videos on their profile, a search function, and category selection.

You can watch live streams of other users.

Interact with other users: You can interact with users’ content and other users. In particular:

Direct messages: You can send direct messages to users if they follow you.

Likes: You can like videos.

Comments: Subject to users’ settings, you can post comments on their videos.

Follows: You can follow users. If users restrict their profile, you can only follow users if

they approve your request to follow.

“Find Friends” functionality: You can find friends through your phone address book and

through Facebook.

Pro Accounts: You can also upgrade your user account to a free “Pro Account”. A Pro Account gives you

access to additional features, such as aggregated statistics about your content. If you participate in the

TikTok Creator Marketplace (“Marketplace”), you can use the Pro Account menu to access settings and

manage requests relating to Marketplace functions.

Limitations to the Services: We strive to offer the Service without significant interruptions and to improve

the Service continuously. However, it may occur that the service is completely or partially unavailable for

certain periods of time for reasons of planned or unplanned downtime, for maintenance or in case of

technical difficulties.

3. Accepting the Terms

By registering, accessing or using the Services, you agree that you can, and are entering into a legally

binding contract with TikTok comprised of the Terms, that you are 13 years old or over and that you

accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them.

Your access to and use of our Services is also subject to our Community Guidelines and our Virtual Items

Policy, the terms of which can be found directly on the Platform, or where the Platform is made available

for download, on your mobile device’s applicable app store. Those additional guidelines and policies are

incorporated into this legally binding contract between you and us by reference.

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Please also review our Privacy Policy as this governs how we use your personal information.

If you are accessing or using the Services on behalf of a business or entity, then (a) “you” and “your”

includes you and that business or entity, (b) you represent and warrant that you are an authorized

representative of the business or entity with the authority to bind the entity to these Terms, and that you

agree to these Terms on the entity’s behalf, and (c) your business or entity is legally and financially

responsible for your access or use of the Services as well as for the access or use of your account by

others affiliated with your entity, including any employees, agents or contractors.

While we will always have a copy of our current Terms available on the Platform (including the “Last

Updated” date), you should print off or save a local copy of the Terms for your records.

4. Changes to the Terms and Services

We are constantly innovating, changing and improving the Services. We may also amend these Terms

from time to time, for instance when we update the functionality of the Services, or when there are

regulatory changes that impact these Terms or the Services.

We will provide reasonable advance notice such as through a notice on our Platform of any material

modifications to these Terms or our Services that will materially disadvantage you or materially limit the

access or usage of our Services. However, you should also look at the Terms regularly to check for such

changes. We will also update the “Last Updated” date at the top of these Terms, to reflect the effective

date of the most recently updated version of the Terms. As we do not permit the use of the Services by

persons who do not agree to comply with our Terms, your continued access or use of the Services after

the date of the new Terms constitutes your acceptance of such new Terms. If you do not agree to the

new Terms, you must stop accessing or using the Services and close your account (if applicable).

For modifications to the Terms or to the Services that we need to make to meet security, safety, legal or

regulatory requirements, we may not be able to notify you in advance but we will let you know as soon

as practicable.

5. Your Account with Us

To access or use some of our Services, you must create an account with us. When you create this

account, you must provide accurate and up-to-date information. It is important that you maintain and

promptly update your details and any other information you provide to us, to keep such information

current and complete. The Terms are also accessible to you on the Platform at all times. It is important

that you 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, you must

notify us immediately at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback.

6. Termination

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We reserve the right to temporarily or permanently suspend or terminate your user account or impose

limits on or restrict your access to parts or all of the Services with or without notice at any time for any or

no reason including:

if we reasonably believe you violate, or we have objective grounds to reasonably

believe you are about to violate, the Terms, including any incorporated agreements,

policies or guidelines (such as our Community Guidelines), or any applicable laws or

regulations;

if activities occur on your account which, in our sole discretion, would or might cause

damage to or impair us or our Services or infringe or violate any third party rights

(including intellectual property rights);

in response to requests by law enforcement or other government agencies under valid

legal process;

due to unexpected technical or security issues or problems; or

if there are extended periods of inactivity in your account.

If we permanently suspend or terminate your user account, we will notify you in advance in order to

allow you time to access and save your information and content unless we have reason to believe that

continued access to your account will cause damage to us or our Services, or violate requests by law

enforcement or other government agencies, applicable laws or regulations or third party rights.

Subject to any statutory rights you might have, if your account is temporarily or permanently suspended

or terminated, access to your username, password, and any related information or content associated

with your account may be suspended or terminated. As we do not guarantee the permanent availability

of your content, you should make backups of any content you value.

If you no longer want to use our Services, you can request the deletion of your account through the

functionalities provided on the Platform. You can also contact us

at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback. We will provide you with further assistance and guide

you through the process of the deletion of your account. Please be aware that once you choose to

delete your account, you will not be able to reactivate your account or retrieve any of the content or

information you have added.

7. Your use of the Services

Your access to and use of the Services is subject to these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations.

You may not:

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access or use the Services if you are not 13 years old or older, or if you are otherwise

unable to agree to these Terms;

make copies, modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or

create any derivative works based on the Services, including any files, tables or

documentation (or any portion thereof) or determine or attempt to determine any source

code, algorithms, methods or techniques embodied in the Platform or any derivative

works thereof unless any such activities are expressly authorised by us in advance;

distribute, license, transfer, or sell, in whole or in part, any of the Services or any

derivative works thereof;

market, rent or lease the Services for a fee or charge, or use the Platform to advertise or

perform any commercial solicitation unless such activities are expressly authorised by us

in advance;

use the Services, without our express written consent, for any commercial or

unauthorized purpose, including communicating or facilitating any commercial

advertisement or solicitation or spamming;

interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services, disrupt the

Platform, our Website or any networks connected to the Services, or bypass any

measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Services;

incorporate the Platform or any portion thereof into any other program or product and, in

such case, we reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts or limit access to

the Services at our sole discretion;

use any automated system or software, whether operated by a third party or otherwise,

to extract any data from the Service for commercial purposes (“screen scraping”);

impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent you or your

affiliation with any person or entity, including giving the impression that any content you

upload, post, transmit, distribute or otherwise make available emanates from the

Services;

intimidate or harass another, or promote sexually explicit material, violence or

discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or

age;

use or attempt to use another’s account, service or system without authorisation from

TikTok, or create a false identity on the Services;

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use the Services in a manner that may create a conflict of interest for you or us or that

undermine the purposes of the Services, such as trading reviews with other users or

writing or soliciting shill reviews;

use the Services to either intentionally, recklessly or negligently upload, transmit,

distribute, store or otherwise make available:

any material which does or may infringe applicable laws or which infringes someone

else’s rights;

any viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or

technologically harmful;

any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk

mail”, “spam”, “chain letters”, “pyramid schemes”, or any other prohibited form of

solicitation;

any material which does or may infringe any copyright, trade mark or other

intellectual property of any other person;

any material which infringes privacy or personality rights of any other person or

deceased person;

any material which is defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, pornographic,

hateful or inflammatory;

any material that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal

offence, dangerous activities or self-harm;

any material that is deliberately designed to provoke or antagonise people, especially

trolling and bullying, or is intended to harass, harm, hurt, scare, distress, embarrass or

upset people;

any material that contains a threat of any kind, including threats of physical violence;

any material that is racist or discriminatory, including discrimination on the basis of

someone’s race, religion, age, gender, disability or sexuality;

any answers, responses, comments, opinions, analysis or recommendations that you

are not properly licensed or otherwise qualified to provide;

any material that, in the sole judgment of TikTok, is objectionable or which restricts or

inhibits any other person from using the Services, or which may expose TikTok, the

Services or its users to any harm or liability of any type.

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In addition to the above, your access to and use of the Services must, at all times, be compliant with

our Community Guidelines.

We reserve the right, at any time and without prior notice, to permanently or temporarily remove or

suspend access to content if in our sole opinion the content violates or potentially violates these Terms

or our Community Guidelines, third party rights (including intellectual property rights), applicable laws or

regulations or is otherwise harmful to the Services, our users or third-parties.

8. Intellectual Property Rights

We respect intellectual property rights and ask you to do the same. As a condition of your access to and

use of the Services, you agree not to infringe intellectual property rights of any person while using the

Services. For example, you agree not to upload any content that is the property of someone else to the

Services.

9. Content

TikTok Content

As between you and TikTok, all content, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations,

logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music

on and “look and feel” of the Services, the Platform and the App, and all intellectual

property rights related thereto (the “TikTok Content”), are either owned or licensed by

TikTok, it being understood that you or your licensors will own any User Content (as

defined below) you upload or transmit through the Services. Use by you of the TikTok

Content or other materials available as part of the Services for any purpose not

expressly permitted by these Terms is strictly prohibited. Such content and materials may

not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed,

sold, licensed or otherwise exploited for any purpose whatsoever without our or, where

applicable, our licensors’ prior express written consent. We and our licensors reserve

absolutely and unconditionally all rights arising out of or in connection with the Services

and the TikTok Content not expressly granted in and to such content and materials.

You acknowledge and agree that we may generate revenues, increase goodwill or

otherwise increase our value from your use of the Services, including, by way of example

and not limitation, through the sale of advertising, sponsorships, promotions, usage data

and gifts and except as specifically permitted by us in these Terms or in another

agreement you enter into with us, you will have no right to share in any such revenue,

goodwill or value whatsoever. You further acknowledge that, except as specifically

permitted by us in these Terms or in another agreement you enter into with us, you (i)

have no right to receive any income or other consideration from any User Content

(defined below) or your use of any musical works, sound recordings or audiovisual clips

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made available to you on or through the Services, including in any User Content created

by you, and (ii) are prohibited from exercising any rights to monetize or obtain

consideration from any User Content within the Services or on any third party service

(including, without limitation, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or any other social

media platform) to the extent that such User Content has been in any way edited or

otherwise altered through the Services (including through the use of TikTok Elements (as

defined below)).

Subject to these Terms, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, nontransferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, worldwide license to access and use the

Services, including to download the Platform on a permitted device, and to access the

TikTok Content solely for your personal, non-commercial use through your use of the

Services and solely in compliance with these Terms. TikTok reserves absolutely and

unconditionally all rights not expressly granted herein in the Services and the TikTok

Content. You acknowledge and agree that upon any termination of your account or

these Terms, this license granted to you in respect of the Services will automatically

terminate.

NO RIGHTS ARE LICENSED TO YOU UNDER THESE TERMS WITH RESPECT TO SOUND

RECORDINGS (AND THE MUSICAL WORKS EMBODIED THEREIN) THAT ARE MADE

AVAILABLE FROM OR THROUGH THE SERVICES.

You acknowledge and agree that when you view content provided by others on the

Services, you are doing so at your own risk. The content on our Services is provided for

general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.

You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any

action on the basis of the content on the Services.

We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that

any TikTok Content (including User Content) is accurate, complete or up to date. Where

the Services contain links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these

links are provided for your information only. We have no visibility or control over the

contents on or available through those sites or resources and you acknowledge and

agree that we have no liability for any such content. Such links should not be interpreted

as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain on or through

them. You acknowledge that we have no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review, or

edit any content posted by you and other users on the Platform (including User Content).

User-Generated Content

Users of the Services may be permitted to upload, post or transmit (such as via a stream)

or otherwise make available content through the Services including, without limitation,

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any text, photographs, user videos, sound recordings and the musical works embodied

therein (including videos that incorporate locally stored sound recordings from your

personal music library and ambient noise) uploaded to, or otherwise made available

through, the Services (“User Content”). You acknowledge and agree that users of the

Services may also extract all or any portion of User Content uploaded or otherwise made

available by you through the Services so as to produce additional User Content,

including collaborative User Content with other users that combine and intersperse with

User Content generated by you and other users.

Users of the Services may also overlay music, graphics, stickers, Virtual Items (as defined

and further explained in the Virtual Items Policy) and other elements provided bv TikTok

(“TikTok Elements”) onto User Content and transmit this User Content through the

Services. The information and materials in the User Content, including User Content that

includes TikTok Elements, have not been verified or approved by us. The views

expressed by other users on the Services (including through use of the virtual gifts) do

not represent our views or values.

Whenever you access or use a feature that allows you to upload or transmit User

Content through the Services (including via certain third party social media platforms

such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or Twitter), or to make contact with other users of

the Services, you must comply with the standards set out at Section 7 above. You may

also choose to upload or transmit your User Content, including User Content that

includes TikTok Elements, on sites or platforms hosted by third parties. If you decide to

do this, you must comply with their content guidelines as well as with the standards set

out in this Section 9 above. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with

those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that

warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a

result of your breach of warranty.

Any User Content will be considered non-confidential. You must not post any User

Content on or through the Services or transmit to us any User Content that you consider

to be confidential or proprietary to any other person. When you submit User Content

through the Services, you agree and represent that you own that User Content, or you

have received all necessary permissions (including any necessary licenses), clearances

from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to submit such User

Content to the Services, to transmit it from the Services to other third party platforms,

and/or to otherwise make any use of such User Content on or through the Services.

If you only own the rights in and to a sound recording, but not to the underlying musical

works embodied in such sound recordings, then you must not upload or otherwise make

available such sound recordings through the Services unless you have all permissions

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(including any necessary licenses), clearances from, or are authorised by, the owner of

any part of the content to submit it to the Services .

Except as expressly provided otherwise in these Terms, you or the owner of your User

Content still own the copyright and any other intellectual property rights in User Content

sent to us, but by submitting User Content via the Services, you hereby grant (i) to us

and our affiliates, agents, services providers, partners and other connected third parties

an unconditional irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable (including sublicensable), perpetual worldwide licence to use, modify, adapt, reproduce, make

derivative works of, publish and/or transmit, and/or distribute and to authorise others

users of the Services and other third-parties to view, access, use, download, modify,

adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit your User Content in

any format and on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented; (ii) to other

users of the Services an unconditional irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual

worldwide licence to use, modify, adapt, reproduce, make derivative works of, download,

publish and/or transmit, and/or distribute some or all of your User Content in any format

and on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented for the purpose of

generating other User Content or viewing your User Content for entertainment or other

private, non-commercial purposes.

You further grant us and our affiliates, agents, services providers, partners and other

connected third parties a royalty-free license to use your user name, image, voice, and

likeness to identify you as the source of any of your User Content.

For the avoidance of doubt, the rights granted in the preceding paragraphs of this

Section include, but are not limited to, the right to reproduce sound recordings (and

make mechanical reproductions of the musical works embodied in such sound

recordings), and publicly perform and communicate to the public sound recordings (and

the musical works embodied therein), all on a royalty-free basis. This means that you are

granting us the right to use your User Content without the obligation to pay royalties to

you or any third party, including, but not limited to, a sound recording copyright owner

(e.g. a record label), a musical work copyright owner (e.g. a music publisher), a

performing rights organisation (e.g. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, etc.) (a “PRO”), a sound

recording PRO (e.g. SoundExchange), any unions or guilds, and engineers, producers or

other royalty participants that may be involved (either knowingly or otherwise) in the

creation of User Content.

Specific Rules for Musical Works and for Recording Artists. If you are a composer or author of a musical

work and are affiliated with a PRO, then you must notify your PRO of the royalty-free license you grant

through these Terms in your User Content to us. You are solely responsible for ensuring your compliance

with the relevant PRO’s reporting obligations and any other terms of that PRO applicable to you. If you

have assigned your rights to a music publisher, then you must obtain the consent of such music

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publisher to grant the royalty-free license(s) set forth in these Terms in your User Content or have such

music publisher enter into these Terms with us. Just because you authored a musical work (e.g. wrote a

song) does not mean you have the right to grant us the licenses in these Terms. If you are a recording

artist under contract with a record label, then you are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the

Services is in compliance with any contractual obligations you may have to your record label, including if

you create any new recordings through the Services that may be claimed by your label.

Through-To-The-Audience Rights. All of the rights you grant in your User Content in these Terms are

provided on a through-to-the-audience basis, meaning the owners or operators of third party services

will not have any separate liability to you or any other third party arising out of or in connection with such

availability of your User Content through such third party services.

Waiver of Rights to User Content. By posting User Content to or through the Services, you waive any

rights to prior inspection or approval of any marketing or promotional materials related to such User

Content. You also waive (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any and all rights of privacy, publicity,

or any other rights of a similar nature in connection with your User Content, or any portion thereof. You

hereby waive (to the extent permitted by applicable law) and agree never to assert any and all moral

rights you may have in or with respect of any of the User Content you upload or otherwise make

available through the Services, or to support, maintain or permit any action based on any such moral

rights.

You acknowledge and agree that in certain circumstances, we also have the right to disclose your

identity to any third party who is claiming that any User Content posted or uploaded by you to our

Services constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We, or authorised third parties, reserve the right to cut, crop, edit or refuse to publish your content at our

or their sole discretion. We have the right to remove, disallow, block or delete any posting you make on

our Platform if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out at Section 7

(Your Use of Our Services) above. In addition, we have the right – but not the obligation – in our sole

discretion to remove, disallow, block or delete any User Content (i) that we consider to violate these

Terms, or (ii) in response to complaints from other users or third parties, with or without notice and

without any liability to you. As a result, we recommend that you save copies of any User Content that

you post to the Services on your personal device(s) in the event that you want to ensure that you have

permanent access to copies of such User Content. We do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity,

appropriateness or quality of any User Content, and under no circumstances will we be liable in any way

for any User Content.

You control whether your User Content is made publicly available on the Services to all other users of

the Services or only available to people you approve. To change the default access setting for how your

User Content is made available to other users, you should access the privacy setting available within the

Services and follow the simple and clearly delineated steps set out therein.

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We accept no liability in respect of any content or information submitted by users of the Services and

published by us, or on our behalf, on any of the Services or elsewhere by third parties.

If you find inappropriate content that violates our Community Guidelines or have any other issues you'd

like to raise, you can send us a report.

While our own staff is continually working to develop and evaluate our own product ideas and features,

we pride ourselves on paying close attention to the interests, feedback, comments, and suggestions we

receive from the user community. If you choose to contribute by sending us or our employees any ideas

for products, services, features, modifications, enhancements, content, refinements, technologies,

content offerings (such as audio, visual, games, or other types of content), promotions, strategies, or

product/feature names, or any related documentation, artwork, computer code, diagrams, or other

materials (collectively “Feedback”), then regardless of what your accompanying communication may say,

the following terms will apply, so that the status of such Feedback is clearly understood by you and us.

Accordingly, by sending Feedback to us, you agree that:

we have no obligation to review, consider, or implement your Feedback, or to return to

you all or part of any Feedback for any reason;

Feedback is provided on a non-confidential basis, and we are not under any obligation

to keep any Feedback you send confidential or to refrain from using or disclosing it in

any way; and

you irrevocably grant us an unconditional, non-exclusive, royalty free, fully transferable

(including sub-licensable), perpetual worldwide and unlimited license to adapt,

reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, modify, publicly perform (including on a

through-to-the-audience basis), communicate to the public, make available, publicly

display, and otherwise use and exploit the Feedback and derivatives thereof for any

purpose and without restriction, free of charge and without attribution of any kind,

including by making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing, and promoting

commercial products and services that incorporate or embody Feedback, whether in

whole or in part, and whether as provided or as modified.

10. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless TikTok, its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and

each of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors from any and all claims,

liabilities, costs, damages, losses and expenses (including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and

expenses) arising out of or in connection with any breach by you (or any user of your account for any of

the Services) of these Terms, including but not limited to a breach of your obligations, representation and

warranties.

11. EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES

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NOTHING IN THESE TERMS SHALL AFFECT ANY STATUTORY RIGHTS THAT YOU: (I) CANNOT

CONTRACTUALLY AGREE TO ALTER OR WAIVE; AND (II) ARE LEGALLY ALWAYS ENTITLED TO AS A

CONSUMER.

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION TO YOU

WITH RESPECT TO THEM. IN PARTICULAR WE DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT:

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS;

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE

FROM ERROR;

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES

WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE OR FREE FROM ERROR; AND

DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO

YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, NO CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS,

WARRANTIES, STATEMENTS OR OTHER TERMS (INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED TERMS AS TO

SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR PURPOSE OR CONFORMANCE WITH DESCRIPTION) APPLY TO

THE SERVICES EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY ARE EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THE TERMS. WE

MAY CHANGE, SUSPEND, WITHDRAW OR RESTRICT THE AVAILABILITY OF ALL OR ANY PART OF OUR

PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS AND OPERATIONAL REASONS AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE.

12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT OUR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES WHICH MAY NOT

BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THIS INCLUDES LIABILITY FOR DEATH

OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE OR THE NEGLIGENCE OF OUR EMPLOYEES,

AGENTS OR SUBCONTRACTORS AND FOR FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION.

SUBJECT TO THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU WHETHER

IN CONTRACT, IN TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), UNDER ANY STATUTE OR

OTHERWISE UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR THE PROVISION OR

RECEIPT OF THE SERVICES FOR : (I) ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (II) ANY LOSS OF

GOODWILL; (III) ANY LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY; (IV) ANY LOSS OF DATA; (V) ANY LOSS

OF BUSINESS; (VI) ANY BUSINESS INTERRUPTION; (VII) ANY LOSS OF BUSINESS

REPUTATION; OR (VIII) ANY INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES OF WHATEVER

NATURE.

SUBJECT TO THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THIS SECTION 12, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE

LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT, IN TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), UNDER ANY

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STATUTE OR OTHERWISE UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS AND THE

PROVISION AND RECEIPT OF THE SERVICES WILL BE LIMITED TO THE HIGHER OF: (I)

THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO TIKTOK WITHIN THE 12 MONTH PERIOD IMMEDIATELY

PRECEDING YOUR CLAIM AGAINST TIKTOK; OR (II) € 100.00.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT SUBJECT TO THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF

THIS SECTION 12, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE WHETHER IN CONTRACT, IN TORT

(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), UNDER ANY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE FOR ANY LIABILITY,

LOSS, EXPENSE (INCLUDING LEGAL FEES), COST CLAIM OR DAMAGES WHICH MAY

BE INCURRED BY YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON ARISING OUT OF OR IN

CONNECTION WITH: 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 SERVICES; ANY CHANGES

WHICH WE MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY

CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES (OR ANY FEATURES WITHIN THE

SERVICES); THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY

CONTENT AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED BY

OR THROUGH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES; YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE US WITH

ACCURATE ACCOUNT INFORMATION; OR YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD

OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE AND CONFIDENTIAL.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ONLY PROVIDE OUR PLATFORM FOR DOMESTIC AND PRIVATE USE. YOU

AGREE NOT TO USE OUR PLATFORM FOR ANY COMMERCIAL OR BUSINESS PURPOSES UNLESS WE

HAVE GRANTED EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT.

IF DEFECTIVE DIGITAL CONTENT THAT WE HAVE SUPPLIED DAMAGES A DEVICE OR DIGITAL

CONTENT BELONGING TO YOU AND THIS IS CAUSED BY OUR FAILURE TO USE REASONABLE CARE

AND SKILL, WE WILL EITHER REPAIR THE DAMAGE (IN WHICH CASE YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

COMPLYING WITH OUR DIRECTIONS IN RELATION TO THE DELIVERY OF THE DEVICE TO US OR OUR

SERVICE PROVIDERS) OR PAY YOU REASONABLE COMPENSATION. HOWEVER, WE WILL NOT BE

LIABLE FOR DAMAGE THAT YOU COULD HAVE AVOIDED BY FOLLOWING OUR ADVICE TO APPLY AN

UPDATE OFFERED TO YOU FREE OF CHARGE OR FOR DAMAGE THAT WAS CAUSED BY YOU FAILING

TO CORRECTLY FOLLOW INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS OR TO HAVE IN PLACE THE MINIMUM

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ADVISED BY US.

THESE LIMITATIONS ON OUR LIABILITY TO YOU SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN

ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MOBILE CHARGES THAT MAY APPLY TO YOUR USE OF OUR

SERVICE, INCLUDING TEXT-MESSAGING AND DATA CHARGES. IF YOU’RE UNSURE WHAT THOSE

CHARGES MAY BE, YOU SHOULD ASK YOUR SERVICE PROVIDER BEFORE USING THE SERVICE.

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13. Other Terms

Governing Law and Jurisdiction.

Residents of the EEA and Switzerland. These Terms and any dispute or claim

(including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with their

subject matter, are governed by the laws of Ireland subject only to any applicable

mandatory law in the country in which you reside. The United Nations Convention on

Contracts for the International Sale of Goods as well as any other similar law,

regulation or statute in effect in any other jurisdiction shall not apply. You and TikTok

agree that the Irish courts shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or

claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection

with the Terms or their subject matter or formation subject only to any applicable

mandatory law in the country in which you reside or choice of jurisdiction provisions

that cannot be varied by contract. Alternatively, you may raise the dispute with an

alternative dispute resolution body via the EU Commission’s Online Dispute

Resolution (ODR) Platform.

Residents of the United Kingdom. These Terms and any dispute or claim (including

non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with their subject

matter, are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The United Nations

Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods as well as any other

similar law, regulation or statute in effect in any other jurisdiction shall not apply. You

and TikTok agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have non-exclusive

jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims)

arising out of or in connection with the Terms or their subject matter or formation.

Alternatively, you may raise the dispute with an alternative dispute resolution body via

the EU Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Platform.

Open Source. The Apps contain certain open source software. Each item of open source

software is subject to its own applicable license terms, which can be found in our Open

Source Policy.

Entire Agreement. These Terms (including the Supplemental Terms below) constitute the

whole legal agreement between you and TikTok and replace any prior applicable Terms

and Conditions that governed the service prior to the Last Updated date specified

above.

No Waiver. Our failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these Terms (or to

exercise any other right or remedy under these Terms) shall not be construed as a

waiver of any provision or right under these Terms nor shall it prevent or restrict the

further exercise of that or any other right or remedy.

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Security. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer

programmes and platform to access our Platform. You should use your own virus

protection software.

Severability. If any court of law, having jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any

provision of these Terms is invalid, illegal or unenforceable then that provision shall be

removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of the Terms, and the remaining

provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.

Questions? Contact us at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback.

Consequences of termination. In the event of the termination of the legally binding

agreement between you and us, the following provisions of the Terms shall survive

termination:

Our right to use and disclose Feedback as described in Section 9

Other users’ rights to further re-share User Content and any other information you

shared through the Services to the extent you did so prior to termination

Any amounts owed by you to TikTok

Sections 10, 11, 12 and 13.

Supplemental Terms – App Stores

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the following supplemental terms shall apply:

Notice regarding Apple. By accessing the Platform through a device made by Apple, Inc. (“Apple”), you

specifically acknowledge and agree that:

These Terms are between TikTok and you; Apple is not a party to these Terms.

The license granted to you hereunder is limited to a personal, limited, non-exclusive,

non-transferable right to install the Platform on the Apple device(s) authorised by Apple

that you own or control for personal, non-commercial use, subject to the Usage Rules set

forth in Apple’s App Store Terms of Services.

Apple is not responsible for the Platform or the content thereof and has no obligation

whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the Platform.

In the event of any failure of the Platform to conform to any applicable warranty, you may

notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the Platform, if any, to you. To

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the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty

obligation whatsoever with respect to the Platform.

Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the

Platform or your possession or use of the Platform, including without limitation (a)

product liability claims; (b) any claim that the Platform fails to conform to any applicable

legal or regulatory requirement; and (c) claims arising under consumer protection or

similar legislation.

In the event of any third party claim that the Platform or your possession and use of the

Platform infringes such third party’s intellectual property rights, Apple is not responsible

for the investigation, defence, settlement or discharge of such intellectual property

infringement claim.

You represent and warrant that (a) you are not located in a country that is subject to a

U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a

“terrorist supporting” country; and (b) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of

prohibited or restricted parties.

Apple and its subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these Terms and upon your

acceptance of the terms and conditions of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and

will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third

party beneficiary hereof.

TikTok expressly authorises use of the Platform by multiple users through the Family

Sharing or any similar functionality provided by Apple.

Windows Phone Store. By downloading the Platform from the Windows Phone Store (or its successors)

operated by Microsoft, Inc. or its affiliates, you specifically acknowledge and agree that:

You may install and use one copy of the Platform on up to five (5) Windows Phone

enabled devices that are affiliated with the Microsoft account you use to access the

Windows Phone Store. Beyond that, we reserve the right to apply additional conditions

or charge additional fees.

You acknowledge that Microsoft Corporation, your phone manufacturer and network

operator have no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support

services with respect to the Platform.

Amazon Appstore. By downloading the Platform from the Amazon Appstore (or its successors) operated

by Amazon Digital Services, Inc. or affiliates (“Amazon”), you specifically acknowledge and agree that:

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to the extent of any conflict between (a) the Amazon Appstore Terms of Use or such

other terms which Amazon designates as default end user license terms for the Amazon

Appstore (“Amazon Appstore EULA Terms”), and (b) the other terms and conditions in

these Terms, the Amazon Appstore EULA Terms shall apply with respect to your use of

the Platform that you download from the Amazon Appstore, and

Amazon does not have any responsibility or liability related to compliance or noncompliance by TikTok or you (or any other user) under these Terms or the Amazon

Appstore EULA Terms.

Google Play. By downloading the Platform from Google Play (or its successors) operated by Google, Inc.

or one of its affiliates (“Google”), you specifically acknowledge and agree that:

to the extent of any conflict between (a) the Google Play Terms of Services and the

Google Play Business and Program Policies or such other terms which Google

designates as default end user license terms for Google Play (all of which together are

referred to as the “Google Play Terms”), and (b) the other terms and conditions in these

Terms, the Google Play Terms shall apply with respect to your use of the Platform that

you download from Google Play, and

you hereby acknowledge that Google does not have any responsibility or liability related

to compliance or non-compliance by TikTok or you (or any other user) under these Terms

or the Google Play Terms.

Terms of Service

(If you are a user having your usual residence in India)

Last updated: February 2020

General Terms

1. Your Relationship with Us

Welcome to TikTok (the “Platform”), which is provided by Bytedance (India) Technology Private Limited.

TikTok is our brand for providing and promoting the services. When using these services from India,

please accordingly read “TikTok”, “we” or “us”.

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You are reading these terms of service (the “Terms”), which is an electronic contract recognised under

the provisions of the Information Technology Act of 2000 read along with its Rules, and thereby governs

the relationship and serve as an agreement between you and us and set forth the terms and conditions

by which you may access and use the Platform and our related websites, services, applications, products

and content (collectively, the “Services”). Our Services are provided for private, non-commercial use. For

purposes of these Terms, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services.

The Terms form a legally binding agreement between you and us, and hence, please take the time to

read them carefully. By using our services, you state that:

(a) you are legally capable of forming a binding contract;

(b) you are not a convicted sex offender;

(c) your account has not been previously disabled for breach of our Terms or Policies or Standards; and

(d) you will comply with these Terms and all applicable domestic and international laws and regulations.

2. Accepting the Terms

By accessing or using our Services, you confirm that you can form a binding contract with TikTok, that

you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. Your access to and use of our Services

is also subject to our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, the terms of which can be found directly

on the Platform, or where the Platform is made available for download, on your mobile device’s

applicable app store, and are incorporated herein by reference. By using the Services, you consent to

the terms of the Privacy Policy.

If you access or use the Services from within a jurisdiction for which there are separate supplemental

terms, you also hereby agree to the supplemental terms applicable to users in each jurisdiction as

outlined below, and in the event of a conflict between the provisions of the Supplemental Terms –

Jurisdiction-Specific that are relevant to your jurisdiction from which you access or use the Services, and

the rest of these Terms, the relevant jurisdictions’ Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction-Specific will

supersede and control. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use our Services.

If you are accessing or using the Services on behalf of a business or entity, then (a) “you” and “your”

includes you and that business or entity, (b) you represent and warrant that you are an authorized

representative of the business or entity with the authority to bind the entity to these Terms, and that you

agree to these Terms on the entity’s behalf, and (c) your business or entity is legally and financially

responsible for your access or use of the Services as well as for the access or use of your account by

others affiliated with your entity, including any employees, agents or contractors.

You can accept the Terms by accessing or using our Services. You understand and agree that we will

treat your access or use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.

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You should print or save a local copy of the Terms for your records.

3. Changes to the Terms

We amend these Terms from time to time, for instance when we update the functionality of our Services,

when we combine multiple apps or services operated by us or our affiliates into a single combined

service or app, or when there are regulatory changes. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to

generally notify all users of any material changes to these Terms, such as through a notice on our

Platform, however, you should look at the Terms regularly to check for such changes. We will also update

the “Last Updated” date at the top of these Terms, which reflect the effective date of such Terms. Your

continued access or use of the Services after the date of the new Terms constitutes your acceptance of

the new Terms. If you do not agree to the new Terms, you must stop accessing or using the Services.

4. Your Account with Us

To access or use some of our Services, you must create an account with us. When you create this

account, you must provide accurate and up-to-date information. It is important that you maintain and

promptly update your details and any other information you provide to us, to keep such information

current and complete.

It is important that you 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, you must notify us immediately at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback.

You agree that you are solely responsible (to us and to others) for the activity that occurs under your

account. When creating an account, you must provide accurate information about yourself and create

only one account for strictly personal purposes.

We reserve the right to disable your user account, and remove or disable any content you upload or

share, at any time, including if you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms, or if

activities occur on your account which, in our sole discretion, would or might cause damage to or impair

the Services or infringe or violate any third party rights, or violate any applicable laws or regulations.

We take the protection of your privacy very seriously, and hence we accord all information related to

your account with the high standards of data protection and security measures as mandated under the

Information Technology Act 2000 and the rules thereunder. Our current Privacy Policy is available here.

If you no longer want to use our Services again, and would like your account deleted, contact us

at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback. We will provide you with further assistance and guide

you through the process. Once you choose to delete your account, you will not be able to reactivate

your account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added.

5. Your Access to and Use of Our Services

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Your access to and use of the Services is subject to these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations.

You may not:

access or use the Services if you are not fully able and legally competent to agree to

these Terms;

carry out any activity during the access or use of our Services which is unlawful,

misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent in any way.

make unauthorised copies, modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble,

decompile or create any derivative works of the Services or any content included

therein, including any files, tables or documentation (or any portion thereof) or determine

or attempt to determine any source code, algorithms, methods or techniques embodied

by the Services or any derivative works thereof;

distribute, license, transfer, or sell, in whole or in part, any of the Services or any

derivative works thereof;

market, rent or lease the Services for a fee or charge, or use the Services to advertise or

perform any commercial solicitation;

use the Services, without our express written consent, for any commercial or

unauthorized purpose, including communicating or facilitating any commercial

advertisement or solicitation or spamming;

interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services, disrupt our

website or any networks connected to the Services, or bypass any measures we may

use to prevent or restrict access to the Services;

incorporate the Services or any portion thereof into any other program or product. In

such case, we reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts or limit access to

the Services in our sole discretion;

use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Services;

impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent you or your

affiliation with any person or entity, including giving the impression that any content you

upload, post, transmit, distribute or otherwise make available emanates from the

Services;

intimidate or harass another, or promote sexually explicit material, violence or

discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or

age;

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use or attempt to use another’s account, service or system without authorisation from

TikTok, or create a false identity on the Services;

use the Services in a manner that may create a conflict of interest or undermine the

purposes of the Services, such as trading reviews with other users or writing or soliciting

fake reviews;

use the Services to upload, transmit, distribute, store or otherwise make available in any

way:

files that contain viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is

malicious or technologically harmful;

any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk

mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other prohibited form of

solicitation;

any private information of any third party, including addresses, phone numbers, email

addresses, number and feature in the personal identity document (e.g., National

Insurance numbers, passport numbers) or credit card numbers;

any material which does or may infringe any copyright, trade mark or other

intellectual property or privacy rights of any other person;

any material which is defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, pornographic,

hateful or inflammatory;

any material that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal

offence, dangerous activities or self-harm;

any material that is deliberately designed to provoke or antagonise people, especially

trolling and bullying, or is intended to harass, harm, hurt, scare, distress, embarrass or

upset people;

any material that contains a threat of any kind, including threats of physical violence;

any material that is racist or discriminatory, including discrimination on the basis of

someone’s race, religion, age, gender, disability or sexuality;

any answers, responses, comments, opinions, analysis or recommendations that you

are not properly licensed or otherwise qualified to provide; or

material that, in the sole judgment of TikTok, is objectionable or which restricts or

inhibits any other person from using the Services, or which may expose TikTok, the

Services or its users to any harm or liability of any type.

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In addition to the above, your access to and use of the Services must, at all times, be compliant with our

Community Guidelines.

We reserve the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to content at our

discretion for any reason or no reason. Some of the reasons we may remove or disable access to

content may include finding the content objectionable, in violation of these Terms or our Community

Guidelines, or otherwise harmful to the Services or our users. Our automated systems analyze your

content to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored

advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and

when it is stored.

6. Intellectual Property Rights

We respect intellectual property rights and ask you to do the same. As a condition of your access to and

use of the Services, you agree not to use the Services to infringe on any intellectual property rights. We

reserve the right, with or without notice, at any time and in our sole discretion to block access to and/or

terminate the accounts of any user who infringes or is alleged to infringe any copyrights or other

intellectual property rights.

Further, all legal right, title, interest and intellectual property in the platform and the Services,

(irrespective of whether those rights are registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may

exist), belong solely with TikTok, and nothing in these terms gives you the right to use any of TikTok’s

trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features in

any manner whatsoever without our express and prior written consent.

7. Content

A. TikTok Content

As between you and TikTok, all content, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents,

trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music on and “look and feel” of the

Services, and all intellectual property rights related thereto (the “TikTok Content”), are either owned or

licensed by TikTok, it being understood that you or your licensors will own any User Content (as defined

below) you upload or transmit through the Services. Use of the TikTok Content or materials on the

Services for any purpose not expressly permitted by these Terms is strictly prohibited. Such content may

not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed or

otherwise exploited for any purpose whatsoever without our or, where applicable, our licensors’ prior

written consent. We and our licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to their content.

You acknowledge and agree that we may generate revenues, increase goodwill or otherwise increase

our value from your use of the Services, including, by way of example and not limitation, through the sale

of advertising, sponsorships, promotions, usage data and Gifts (defined in the Virtual Items Policy), and

except as specifically permitted by us in these Terms or in another agreement you enter into with us, you

will have no right to share in any such revenue, goodwill or value whatsoever. You further acknowledge

that, except as specifically permitted by us in these Terms or in another agreement you enter into with

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us, you (i) have no right to receive any income or other consideration from any User Content (defined

below) or your use of any musical works, sound recordings or audiovisual clips made available to you on

or through the Services, including in any User Content created by you, and (ii) are prohibited from

exercising any rights to monetize or obtain consideration from any User Content within the Services or

on any third party service ( e.g. , you cannot claim User Content that has been uploaded to a social

media platform such as YouTube for monetization).

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Terms, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, nontransferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, worldwide license to access and use the Services, including

to download the Platform on a permitted device, and to access the TikTok Content solely for your

personal, non-commercial use through your use of the Services and solely in compliance with these

Terms. TikTok reserves all rights not expressly granted herein in the Services and the TikTok Content.

You acknowledge and agree that TikTok may terminate this license at any time for any reason or no

reason.

NO RIGHTS ARE LICENSED WITH RESPECT TO SOUND RECORDINGS AND THE MUSICAL WORKS

EMBODIED THEREIN THAT ARE MADE AVAILABLE FROM OR THROUGH THE SERVICE.

You acknowledge and agree that when you view content provided by others on the Services, you are

doing so at your own risk. The content on our Services is provided for general information only. It is not

intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice

before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Services.

We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that any TikTok

Content (including User Content) is accurate, complete or up to date. Where our Services contain links to

other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. Such links should not be interpreted

as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. You acknowledge

that we have no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review, or edit any content posted by you and other

users on the Services (including User Content).

B. User-Generated Content

Users of the Services may be permitted to upload, post or transmit (such as via a stream) or otherwise

make available content through the Services including, without limitation, any text, photographs, user

videos, sound recordings and the musical works embodied therein, including videos that incorporate

locally stored sound recordings from your personal music library and ambient noise (“User Content”).

Users of the Services may also extract all or any portion of User Content created by another user to

produce additional User Content, including collaborative User Content with other users, that combine

and intersperse User Content generated by more than one user. Users of the Services may also overlay

music, graphics, stickers, Virtual Items (as defined and further explained in the “ Virtual Items Policy“) and

other elements provided by TikTok (“TikTok Elements”) onto this User Content and transmit this User

Content through the Services. The information and materials in the User Content, including User Content

that includes TikTok Elements, have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other

users on the Services (including through use of the virtual gifts) do not represent our views or values.

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Whenever you access or use a feature that allows you to upload or transmit User Content through the

Services (including via certain third party social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,

Twitter), or to make contact with other users of the Services, you must comply with the standards set out

at “Your Access to and Use of Our Services” above. You may also choose to upload or transmit your

User Content, including User Content that includes TikTok Elements, on sites or platforms hosted by

third parties. If you decide to do this, you must comply with their content guidelines as well as with the

standards set out at “Your Access to and Use of Our Services” above.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us

and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or

damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any User Content will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You must not post any User

Content on or through the Services or transmit to us any User Content that you consider to be

confidential or proprietary. When you submit User Content through the Services, you agree and

represent that you own that User Content, or you have received all necessary permissions, clearances

from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to submit it to the Services, to transmit it

from the Services to other third party platforms, and/or adopt any third party content.

If you only own the rights in and to a sound recording, but not to the underlying musical works embodied

in such sound recordings, then you must not post such sound recordings to the Services unless you

have all permissions, clearances from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to

submit it to the Services

You or the owner of your User Content still own the copyright in User Content sent to us, but by

submitting User Content via the Services, you hereby grant us an unconditional irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide licence to use, modify, adapt, reproduce,

make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit, and/or distribute and to authorise other users of the

Services and other third-parties to view, access, use, download, modify, adapt, reproduce, make

derivative works of, publish and/or transmit your User Content in any format and on any platform, either

now known or hereinafter invented.

You further grant us a royalty-free license to use your user name, image, voice, and likeness to identify

you as the source of any of your User Content.

For the avoidance of doubt, the rights granted in the preceding paragraphs of this Section include, but

are not limited to, the right to reproduce sound recordings (and make mechanical reproductions of the

musical works embodied in such sound recordings), and publicly perform and communicate to the public

sound recordings (and the musical works embodied therein), all on a royalty-free basis. This means that

you are granting us the right to use your User Content without the obligation to pay royalties to any third

party, including, but not limited to, a sound recording copyright owner (e.g., a record label), a musical

work copyright owner (e.g., a music publisher), a performing rights organization (e.g., ASCAP, BMI,

SESAC, etc.) (a “PRO”), a sound recording PRO (e.g., SoundExchange), any unions or guilds, and

engineers, producers or other royalty participants involved in the creation of User Content.

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We do not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or

reliability of any User-Generated Content or endorse any opinions expressed thereof. You understand

that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate

or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mis-labeled or are otherwise

deceptive. All Content is the sole responsibility of the person who originated such Content.

Specific Rules for Musical Works and for Recording Artists. If you are a composer or author of a musical

work and are affiliated with a PRO, then you must notify your PRO of the royalty-free license you grant

through these Terms in your User Content to us. You are solely responsible for ensuring your compliance

with the relevant PRO’s reporting obligations. If you have assigned your rights to a music publisher, then

you must obtain the consent of such music publisher to grant the royalty-free license(s) set forth in these

Terms in your User Content or have such music publisher enter into these Terms with us. Just because

you authored a musical work (e.g., wrote a song) does not mean you have the right to grant us the

licenses in these Terms. If you are a recording artist under contract with a record label, then you are

solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the Services is in compliance with any contractual

obligations you may have to your record label, including if you create any new recordings through the

Services that may be claimed by your label.

Through-To-The-Audience Rights. All of the rights you grant in your User Content in these Terms are

provided on a through-to-the-audience basis, meaning the owners or operators of third party services

will not have any separate liability to you or any other third party for User Content posted or used on

such third party service via the Services.

Waiver of Rights to User Content. By posting User Content to or through the Services, you waive any

rights to prior inspection or approval of any marketing or promotional materials related to such User

Content. You also waive any and all rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights of a similar nature in

connection with your User Content, or any portion thereof. To the extent any moral rights are not

transferable or assignable, you hereby waive and agree never to assert any and all moral rights, or to

support, maintain or permit any action based on any moral rights that you may have in or with respect to

any User Content you Post to or through the Services.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any User Content

posted or uploaded by you to our Services constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or

of their right to privacy.

We, or authorised third parties, reserve the right to cut, crop, edit or refuse to publish, your content at our

or their sole discretion. We have the right to remove, disallow, block or delete any posting you make on

our Services if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out at “Your

Access to and Use of Our Services” above. In addition, we have the right – but not the obligation – in

our sole discretion to remove, disallow, block or delete any User Content (i) that we consider to violate

these Terms, or (ii) in response to complaints from other users or third parties, with or without notice and

without any liability to you. As a result, we recommend that you save copies of any User Content that

you post to the Services on your personal device(s) in the event that you want to ensure that you have

permanent access to copies of such User Content. We do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity,

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appropriateness or quality of any User Content, and under no circumstances will we be liable in any way

for any User Content.

You control whether your User Content is made publicly available on the Services to all other users of

the Services or only available to people you approve. To restrict access to your User Content, you

should select the privacy setting available within the Platform.

We accept no liability in respect of any content submitted by users and published by us or by authorised

third parties.

If you wish to file a complaint about information or materials uploaded by other users, contact us

at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback.

TikTok takes reasonable measures to expeditiously remove from our Services any infringing material that

we become aware of. It is TikTok’s policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable or

terminate the accounts of users of the Services who repeatedly infringe copyrights or intellectual

property rights of others.

While our own staff is continually working to develop and evaluate our own product ideas and features,

we pride ourselves on paying close attention to the interests, feedback, comments, and suggestions we

receive from the user community. If you choose to contribute by sending us or our employees any ideas

for products, services, features, modifications, enhancements, content, refinements, technologies,

content offerings (such as audio, visual, games, or other types of content), promotions, strategies, or

product/feature names, or any related documentation, artwork, computer code, diagrams, or other

materials (collectively “Feedback”), then regardless of what your accompanying communication may say,

the following terms will apply, so that future misunderstandings can be avoided. Accordingly, by sending

Feedback to us, you agree that:

i. TikTok has no obligation to review, consider, or implement your Feedback, or to return to you all or part

of any Feedback for any reason;

ii. Feedback is provided on a non-confidential basis, and we are not under any obligation to keep any

Feedback you send confidential or to refrain from using or disclosing it in any way; and

iii. You irrevocably grant us perpetual and unlimited permission to reproduce, distribute, create derivative

works of, modify, publicly perform (including on a through-to-the-audience basis), communicate to the

public, make available, publicly display, and otherwise use and exploit the Feedback and derivatives

thereof for any purpose and without restriction, free of charge and without attribution of any kind,

including by making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing, and promoting commercial products and

services that incorporate or embody Feedback, whether in whole or in part, and whether as provided or

as modified.

8. Indemnity

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You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless TikTok, its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and

each of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors from any and all claims,

liabilities, costs, and expenses, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and expenses, arising out of

a breach by you or any user of your account of these Terms or arising out of a breach of your obligations,

representation and warranties under these Terms.

9. EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS SHALL AFFECT ANY STATUTORY RIGHTS THAT YOU CANNOT

CONTRACTUALLY AGREE TO ALTER OR WAIVE AND ARE LEGALLY ALWAYS ENTITLED TO AS A

CONSUMER.THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OR

REPRESENTATION TO YOU WITH RESPECT TO THEM. IN PARTICULAR WE DO NOT REPRESENT OR

WARRANT TO YOU THAT:

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS;

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE

FROM ERROR;

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES

WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; AND

DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO

YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.

NO CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES OR OTHER TERMS (INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED TERMS AS TO

SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR PURPOSE OR CONFORMANCE WITH DESCRIPTION) APPLY TO

THE SERVICES EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY ARE EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THE TERMS. WE

MAY CHANGE, SUSPEND, WITHDRAW OR RESTRICT THE AVAILABILITY OF ALL OR ANY PART OF OUR

PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS AND OPERATIONAL REASONS AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT OUR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES WHICH MAY NOT

BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THIS INCLUDES LIABILITY FOR DEATH

OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE OR THE NEGLIGENCE OF OUR EMPLOYEES,

AGENTS OR SUBCONTRACTORS AND FOR FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION.

SUBJECT TO THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR:

∙ (I) ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY); (II) ANY LOSS OF

GOODWILL; (III) ANY LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY; (IV) ANY LOSS OF DATA SUFFERED BY YOU; OR (V) ANY

INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU. ANY OTHER LOSS WILL

BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO TIKTOK WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS.

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∙ ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF:

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 SERVICE;

ANY CHANGES WHICH WE MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT

OR TEMPORARY CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES (OR ANY

FEATURES WITHIN THE SERVICES);

THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY CONTENT AND

OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED BY OR THROUGH

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES;

ANY ACTION OR CONDUCT OF ANOTHER USER;

YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE US WITH ACCURATE ACCOUNT INFORMATION;

OR YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE AND

CONFIDENTIAL.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ONLY PROVIDE OUR PLATFORM FOR DOMESTIC AND PRIVATE USE. YOU

AGREE NOT TO USE OUR PLATFORM FOR ANY COMMERCIAL OR BUSINESS PURPOSES, AND WE

HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF GOODWILL OR

BUSINESS REPUTATION, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

IF DEFECTIVE DIGITAL CONTENT THAT WE HAVE SUPPLIED DAMAGES A DEVICE OR DIGITAL

CONTENT BELONGING TO YOU AND THIS IS CAUSED BY OUR FAILURE TO USE REASONABLE CARE

AND SKILL, WE WILL EITHER REPAIR THE DAMAGE OR PAY YOU COMPENSATION. HOWEVER, WE

WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGE THAT YOU COULD HAVE AVOIDED BY FOLLOWING OUR ADVICE

TO APPLY AN UPDATE OFFERED TO YOU FREE OF CHARGE OR FOR DAMAGE THAT WAS CAUSED BY

YOU FAILING TO CORRECTLY FOLLOW INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS OR TO HAVE IN PLACE THE

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ADVISED BY US.

THESE LIMITATIONS ON OUR LIABILITY TO YOU SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN

ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MOBILE CHARGES THAT MAY APPLY TO YOUR USE OF OUR

SERVICE, INCLUDING TEXT-MESSAGING AND DATA CHARGES. IF YOU’RE UNSURE WHAT THOSE

CHARGES MAY BE, YOU SHOULD ASK YOUR SERVICE PROVIDER BEFORE USING THE SERVICE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY DISPUTE YOU HAVE WITH ANY THIRD PARTY

ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE AND NOT

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LIMITATION, ANY CARRIER, COPYRIGHT OWNER OR OTHER USER, IS DIRECTLY BETWEEN YOU AND

SUCH THIRD PARTY, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY RELEASE US AND OUR AFFILIATES FROM ANY AND

ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND

NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH

DISPUTES.

11. Other Terms

a. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction. Subject to the Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction Specific, these

Terms, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by the laws of India. Any dispute arising

out of or in connection with these Terms, including any question regarding existence, validity or

termination of these Terms, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration as per the provisions of

The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, and any amended to it from time to time. The venue of such

arbitration shall be Delhi.

The Tribunal shall consist of three (3) arbitrators. The language of the arbitration shall be English.

b. Open Source. 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.

c. Entire Agreement. These Terms (including the Supplemental Terms below) constitute the whole legal

agreement between you and TikTok and govern your use of the Services and completely replace any

prior agreements between you and TikTok in relation to the Services.

d. Links. You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not

damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest

any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish

a link to our Services in any website that is not owned by you. The website in which you are linking must

comply in all respects with the content standards set out at “Your Access to and Use of Our Services”

above. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

e. Age Limit. The Services are only for people 13 years old and over (with additional limits that may be

set forth in the Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction-Specific). By using the Services, you confirm that you

are over the relevant age specified herein. If we learn that someone under the relevant age specified

above is using the Services, we will terminate that user’s account.

f. No Waiver. Our failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these Terms shall not be construed as

a waiver of any provision or right.

g. Security. We do not guarantee that our Services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are

responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access

our Services. You should use your own virus protection software.

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h. Severability. If any court of law, having jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of

these Terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of

the Terms, and the remaining provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.

Grievance Officer for India

A compliant or other issue faced by a user of our product may be submitted through email at the below

address. The complaint should provide: (i) username of the relevant account holder (ii) specific

content/video that is of concern and (iii) reason(s) for such a takedown request.

In accordance with Information Technology Act 2000 and rules made there under, the contact detail of

the Grievance Officer is provided below:

Mr Anuj Bhatia

Email: grievance.officer@tiktok.com

Alternatively, you can also report content by using the report content feature within the app on any

offending content.

Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction-Specific

India. If you are using our Services in India, the following additional terms apply. In the event of any

conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of these Terms, the

following terms shall prevail.

Accepting the Terms. By agreeing to these Terms and by accessing or using our

Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms and provide

your consent to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy and Community

Guidelines.

Your access to and use of our Services. You may not use the Services to upload,

transmit, distribute, store or otherwise make available in any way (including for the

purposes of creating and/or streaming content) any User Content that:

is obscene, pornographic, paedophilic;

is relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise any activity

that is unlawful in any manner whatsoever;

harms minors in any way;

deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or

communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature; or

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threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly

relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission

of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any

other nation.

User–Generated Content. You hereby irrevocably waive any right to raise any objection

or other claim before any authority including any copyright board in relation to the rights

granted and licensed to us under these Terms, including any right under the provisions

of section 30A of the (Indian) Copyright Act, 1957 or other applicable law. The above

waiver is granted by you in favour of TikTok and all of its group companies, affiliates and

successors in title and interest, whether existing or in future.

Indemnity. In the event you are required to indemnify us pursuant to these Terms or any

order or ruling of a court of law, you will obtain all necessary approvals and consents

from regulatory authorities for the remittance of such amount to us.

Terms of Service

(If you are not in the US, EEA, the United Kindom, Switzerland or India)

Last updated: February 2021

General Terms – All Users

1. Your Relationship With Us

Welcome to TikTok (the “Platform”), which is provided by TikTok Pte. Ltd. or one of its affiliates (“TikTok”,

“we” or “us”).

You are reading the terms of service (the “Terms”), which govern the relationship and serve as an

agreement between you and us and set forth the terms and conditions by which you may access and

use the Platform and our related websites, services, applications, products and content (collectively, the

“Services”). Our Services are provided for private, non-commercial use. For purposes of these Terms,

“you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services.

The Terms form a legally binding agreement between you and us. Please take the time to read them

carefully.

2. Accepting the Terms

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By accessing or using our Services, you confirm that you can form a binding contract with TikTok, that

you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. Your access to and use of our Services

is also subject to our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, the terms of which can be found directly

on the Platform, or where the Platform is made available for download, on your mobile device’s

applicable app store, and are incorporated herein by reference. By using the Services, you consent to

the terms of the Privacy Policy.

If you access or use the Services from within a jurisdiction for which there are separate supplemental

terms, you also hereby agree to the supplemental terms applicable to users in each jurisdiction as

outlined below, and in the event of a conflict between the provisions of the Supplemental Terms –

Jurisdiction-Specific that are relevant to your jurisdiction from which you access or use the Services, and

the rest of these Terms, the relevant jurisdictions’ Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction-Specific will

supersede and control. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use our Services.

If you are accessing or using the Services on behalf of a business or entity, then (a) “you” and “your”

includes you and that business or entity, (b) you represent and warrant that you are an authorized

representative of the business or entity with the authority to bind the entity to these Terms, and that you

agree to these Terms on the entity’s behalf, and (c) your business or entity is legally and financially

responsible for your access or use of the Services as well as for the access or use of your account by

others affiliated with your entity, including any employees, agents or contractors.

You can accept the Terms by accessing or using our Services. You understand and agree that we will

treat your access or use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.

You should print off or save a local copy of the Terms for your records.

3. Changes to the Terms

We amend these Terms from time to time, for instance when we update the functionality of our Services,

when we combine multiple apps or services operated by us or our affiliates into a single combined

service or app, or when there are regulatory changes. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to

generally notify all users of any material changes to these Terms, such as through a notice on our

Platform, however, you should look at the Terms regularly to check for such changes. We will also update

the “Last Updated” date at the top of these Terms, which reflect the effective date of such Terms. Your

continued access or use of the Services after the date of the new Terms constitutes your acceptance of

the new Terms. If you do not agree to the new Terms, you must stop accessing or using the Services.

4. Your Account with Us

To access or use some of our Services, you must create an account with us. When you create this

account, you must provide accurate and up-to-date information. It is important that you maintain and

promptly update your details and any other information you provide to us, to keep such information

current and complete.

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It is important that you 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, you must notify us immediately at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback.

You agree that you are solely responsible (to us and to others) for the activity that occurs under your

account.

We reserve the right to disable your user account at any time, including if you have failed to comply with

any of the provisions of these Terms, or if activities occur on your account which, in our sole discretion,

would or might cause damage to or impair the Services or infringe or violate any third party rights, or

violate any applicable laws or regulations.

If you no longer want to use our Services again, and would like your account deleted, contact us

at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback. We will provide you with further assistance and guide

you through the process. Once you choose to delete your account, you will not be able to reactivate

your account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added.

5. Your Access to and Use of Our Services

Your access to and use of the Services is subject to these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations.

You may not:

access or use the Services if you are not fully able and legally competent to agree to

these Terms;

make unauthorised copies, modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble,

decompile or create any derivative works of the Services or any content included

therein, including any files, tables or documentation (or any portion thereof) or determine

or attempt to determine any source code, algorithms, methods or techniques embodied

by the Services or any derivative works thereof;

distribute, license, transfer, or sell, in whole or in part, any of the Services or any

derivative works thereof;

market, rent or lease the Services for a fee or charge, or use the Services to advertise or

perform any commercial solicitation;

use the Services, without our express written consent, for any commercial or

unauthorized purpose, including communicating or facilitating any commercial

advertisement or solicitation or spamming;

interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services, disrupt our

website or any networks connected to the Services, or bypass any measures we may

use to prevent or restrict access to the Services;

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incorporate the Services or any portion thereof into any other program or product. In

such case, we reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts or limit access to

the Services in our sole discretion;

use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Services;

impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent you or your

affiliation with any person or entity, including giving the impression that any content you

upload, post, transmit, distribute or otherwise make available emanates from the

Services;

intimidate or harass another, or promote sexually explicit material, violence or

discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or

age;

use or attempt to use another’s account, service or system without authorisation from

TikTok, or create a false identity on the Services;

use the Services in a manner that may create a conflict of interest or undermine the

purposes of the Services, such as trading reviews with other users or writing or soliciting

fake reviews;

use the Services to upload, transmit, distribute, store or otherwise make available in any

way: files that contain viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is

malicious or technologically harmful; any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising,

solicitations, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid

schemes,” or any other prohibited form of solicitation; any private information of any third

party, including addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, number and feature in the

personal identity document (e.g., National Insurance numbers, passport numbers) or

credit card numbers; any material which does or may infringe any copyright, trade mark

or other intellectual property or privacy rights of any other person; any material which is

defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, pornographic, hateful or inflammatory;

any material that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal

offence, dangerous activities or self-harm; any material that is deliberately designed to

provoke or antagonise people, especially trolling and bullying, or is intended to harass,

harm, hurt, scare, distress, embarrass or upset people; any material that contains a threat

of any kind, including threats of physical violence; any material that is racist or

discriminatory, including discrimination on the basis of someone’s race, religion, age,

gender, disability or sexuality;

any answers, responses, comments, opinions, analysis or recommendations that you

are not properly licensed or otherwise qualified to provide; or

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material that, in the sole judgment of TikTok, is objectionable or which restricts or

inhibits any other person from using the Services, or which may expose TikTok, the

Services or its users to any harm or liability of any type.

In addition to the above, your access to and use of the Services must, at all times, be compliant with our

Community Guidelines.

We reserve the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to content at our

discretion for any reason or no reason. Some of the reasons we may remove or disable access to

content may include finding the content objectionable, in violation of these Terms or our Community

Guidelines, or otherwise harmful to the Services or our users. Our automated systems analyze your

content to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored

advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and

when it is stored.

6. Intellectual Property Rights

We respect intellectual property rights and ask you to do the same. As a condition of your access to and

use of the Services, you agree not to use the Services to infringe on any intellectual property rights. We

reserve the right, with or without notice, at any time and in our sole discretion to block access to and/or

terminate the accounts of any user who infringes or is alleged to infringe any copyrights or other

intellectual property rights.

7. Content

A. TikTok Content

As between you and TikTok, all content, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents,

trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music on and “look and feel” of the

Services, and all intellectual property rights related thereto (the “TikTok Content”), are either owned or

licensed by TikTok, it being understood that you or your licensors will own any User Content (as defined

below) you upload or transmit through the Services. Use of the TikTok Content or materials on the

Services for any purpose not expressly permitted by these Terms is strictly prohibited. Such content may

not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed or

otherwise exploited for any purpose whatsoever without our or, where applicable, our licensors’ prior

written consent. We and our licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to their content.

You acknowledge and agree that we may generate revenues, increase goodwill or otherwise increase

our value from your use of the Services, including, by way of example and not limitation, through the sale

of advertising, sponsorships, promotions, usage data and Gifts (as defined and further explained in the

“Virtual Items Policy”), and except as specifically permitted by us in these Terms or in another agreement

you enter into with us, you will have no right to share in any such revenue, goodwill or value whatsoever.

You further acknowledge that, except as specifically permitted by us in these Terms or in another

agreement you enter into with us, you (i) have no right to receive any income or other consideration from

any User Content (defined below) or your use of any musical works, sound recordings or audiovisual

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clips made available to you on or through the Services, including in any User Content created by you,

and (ii) are prohibited from exercising any rights to monetize or obtain consideration from any User

Content within the Services or on any third party service (e.g., you cannot claim User Content that has

been uploaded to a social media platform such as YouTube for monetization).

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Terms, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, nontransferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, worldwide license to access and use the Services, including

to download the Platform on a permitted device, and to access the TikTok Content solely for your

personal, non-commercial use through your use of the Services and solely in compliance with these

Terms. TikTok reserves all rights not expressly granted herein in the Services and the TikTok Content.

You acknowledge and agree that TikTok may terminate this license at any time for any reason or no

reason.

NO RIGHTS ARE LICENSED WITH RESPECT TO SOUND RECORDINGS AND THE MUSICAL WORKS

EMBODIED THEREIN THAT ARE MADE AVAILABLE FROM OR THROUGH THE SERVICE.

You acknowledge and agree that when you view content provided by others on the Services, you are

doing so at your own risk. The content on our Services is provided for general information only. It is not

intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice

before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Services.

We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that any TikTok

Content (including User Content) is accurate, complete or up to date. Where our Services contain links to

other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. Such links should not be interpreted

as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. You acknowledge

that we have no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review, or edit any content posted by you and other

users on the Services (including User Content).

B. User-Generated Content

Users of the Services may be permitted to upload, post or transmit (such as via a stream) or otherwise

make available content through the Services including, without limitation, any text, photographs, user

videos, sound recordings and the musical works embodied therein, including videos that incorporate

locally stored sound recordings from your personal music library and ambient noise (“User Content”).

Users of the Services may also extract all or any portion of User Content created by another user to

produce additional User Content, including collaborative User Content with other users, that combine

and intersperse User Content generated by more than one user. Users of the Services may also overlay

music, graphics, stickers, Virtual Items (as defined and further explained in the “Virtual Items Policy“) and

other elements provided by TikTok (“TikTok Elements”) onto this User Content and transmit this User

Content through the Services. The information and materials in the User Content, including User Content

that includes TikTok Elements, have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other

users on the Services (including through use of the virtual gifts) do not represent our views or values.

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Whenever you access or use a feature that allows you to upload or transmit User Content through the

Services (including via certain third party social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,

Twitter), or to make contact with other users of the Services, you must comply with the standards set out

at “Your Access to and Use of Our Services” above. You may also choose to upload or transmit your

User Content, including User Content that includes TikTok Elements, on sites or platforms hosted by

third parties. If you decide to do this, you must comply with their content guidelines as well as with the

standards set out at “Your Access to and Use of Our Services” above.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us

and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or

damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any User Content will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You must not post any User

Content on or through the Services or transmit to us any User Content that you consider to be

confidential or proprietary. When you submit User Content through the Services, you agree and

represent that you own that User Content, or you have received all necessary permissions, clearances

from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to submit it to the Services, to transmit it

from the Services to other third party platforms, and/or adopt any third party content.

If you only own the rights in and to a sound recording, but not to the underlying musical works embodied

in such sound recordings, then you must not post such sound recordings to the Services unless you

have all permissions, clearances from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to

submit it to the Services

You or the owner of your User Content still own the copyright in User Content sent to us, but by

submitting User Content via the Services, you hereby grant us an unconditional irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide licence to use, modify, adapt, reproduce,

make derivative works of, publish and/or transmit, and/or distribute and to authorise other users of the

Services and other third-parties to view, access, use, download, modify, adapt, reproduce, make

derivative works of, publish and/or transmit your User Content in any format and on any platform, either

now known or hereinafter invented.

You further grant us a royalty-free license to use your user name, image, voice, and likeness to identify

you as the source of any of your User Content.

For the avoidance of doubt, the rights granted in the preceding paragraphs of this Section include, but

are not limited to, the right to reproduce sound recordings (and make mechanical reproductions of the

musical works embodied in such sound recordings), and publicly perform and communicate to the public

sound recordings (and the musical works embodied therein), all on a royalty-free basis. This means that

you are granting us the right to use your User Content without the obligation to pay royalties to any third

party, including, but not limited to, a sound recording copyright owner (e.g., a record label), a musical

work copyright owner (e.g., a music publisher), a performing rights organization (e.g., ASCAP, BMI,

SESAC, etc.) (a “PRO”), a sound recording PRO (e.g., SoundExchange), any unions or guilds, and

engineers, producers or other royalty participants involved in the creation of User Content.

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Specific Rules for Musical Works and for Recording Artists. If you are a composer or author of a musical

work and are affiliated with a PRO, then you must notify your PRO of the royalty-free license you grant

through these Terms in your User Content to us. You are solely responsible for ensuring your compliance

with the relevant PRO’s reporting obligations. If you have assigned your rights to a music publisher, then

you must obtain the consent of such music publisher to grant the royalty-free license(s) set forth in these

Terms in your User Content or have such music publisher enter into these Terms with us. Just because

you authored a musical work (e.g., wrote a song) does not mean you have the right to grant us the

licenses in these Terms. If you are a recording artist under contract with a record label, then you are

solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the Services is in compliance with any contractual

obligations you may have to your record label, including if you create any new recordings through the

Services that may be claimed by your label.

Through-To-The-Audience Rights. All of the rights you grant in your User Content in these Terms are

provided on a through-to-the-audience basis, meaning the owners or operators of third party services

will not have any separate liability to you or any other third party for User Content posted or used on

such third party service via the Services.

Waiver of Rights to User Content. By posting User Content to or through the Services, you waive any

rights to prior inspection or approval of any marketing or promotional materials related to such User

Content. You also waive any and all rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights of a similar nature in

connection with your User Content, or any portion thereof. To the extent any moral rights are not

transferable or assignable, you hereby waive and agree never to assert any and all moral rights, or to

support, maintain or permit any action based on any moral rights that you may have in or with respect to

any User Content you Post to or through the Services.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any User Content

posted or uploaded by you to our Services constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or

of their right to privacy.

We, or authorised third parties, reserve the right to cut, crop, edit or refuse to publish, your content at our

or their sole discretion. We have the right to remove, disallow, block or delete any posting you make on

our Services if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out at “Your

Access to and Use of Our Services” above. In addition, we have the right – but not the obligation – in

our sole discretion to remove, disallow, block or delete any User Content (i) that we consider to violate

these Terms, or (ii) in response to complaints from other users or third parties, with or without notice and

without any liability to you. As a result, we recommend that you save copies of any User Content that

you post to the Services on your personal device(s) in the event that you want to ensure that you have

permanent access to copies of such User Content. We do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity,

appropriateness or quality of any User Content, and under no circumstances will we be liable in any way

for any User Content.

You control whether your User Content is made publicly available on the Services to all other users of

the Services or only available to people you approve. To restrict access to your User Content, you

should select the privacy setting available within the Platform.

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We accept no liability in respect of any content submitted by users and published by us or by authorised

third parties.

If you find inappropriate content that violates our Community Guidelines or have any other issues you'd

like to raise, you can send us a report.

TikTok takes reasonable measures to expeditiously remove from our Services any infringing material that

we become aware of. It is TikTok’s policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable or

terminate the accounts of users of the Services who repeatedly infringe copyrights or intellectual

property rights of others.

While our own staff is continually working to develop and evaluate our own product ideas and features,

we pride ourselves on paying close attention to the interests, feedback, comments, and suggestions we

receive from the user community. If you choose to contribute by sending us or our employees any ideas

for products, services, features, modifications, enhancements, content, refinements, technologies,

content offerings (such as audio, visual, games, or other types of content), promotions, strategies, or

product/feature names, or any related documentation, artwork, computer code, diagrams, or other

materials (collectively “Feedback”), then regardless of what your accompanying communication may say,

the following terms will apply, so that future misunderstandings can be avoided. Accordingly, by sending

Feedback to us, you agree that:

i. TikTok has no obligation to review, consider, or implement your Feedback, or to return to you all or part

of any Feedback for any reason;

ii. Feedback is provided on a non-confidential basis, and we are not under any obligation to keep any

Feedback you send confidential or to refrain from using or disclosing it in any way; and

iii. You irrevocably grant us perpetual and unlimited permission to reproduce, distribute, create derivative

works of, modify, publicly perform (including on a through-to-the-audience basis), communicate to the

public, make available, publicly display, and otherwise use and exploit the Feedback and derivatives

thereof for any purpose and without restriction, free of charge and without attribution of any kind,

including by making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing, and promoting commercial products and

services that incorporate or embody Feedback, whether in whole or in part, and whether as provided or

as modified.

8. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless TikTok, its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and

each of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors from any and all claims,

liabilities, costs, and expenses, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and expenses, arising out of

a breach by you or any user of your account of these Terms or arising out of a breach of your obligations,

representation and warranties under these Terms.

9. EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES

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NOTHING IN THESE TERMS SHALL AFFECT ANY STATUTORY RIGHTS THAT YOU CANNOT

CONTRACTUALLY AGREE TO ALTER OR WAIVE AND ARE LEGALLY ALWAYS ENTITLED TO AS A

CONSUMER.

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION TO YOU

WITH RESPECT TO THEM. IN PARTICULAR WE DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT:

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS;

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE

FROM ERROR;

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES

WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; AND

DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO

YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.

NO CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES OR OTHER TERMS (INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED TERMS AS TO

SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR PURPOSE OR CONFORMANCE WITH DESCRIPTION) APPLY TO

THE SERVICES EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY ARE EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THE TERMS. WE

MAY CHANGE, SUSPEND, WITHDRAW OR RESTRICT THE AVAILABILITY OF ALL OR ANY PART OF OUR

PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS AND OPERATIONAL REASONS AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT OUR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES WHICH MAY NOT

BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THIS INCLUDES LIABILITY FOR DEATH

OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE OR THE NEGLIGENCE OF OUR EMPLOYEES,

AGENTS OR SUBCONTRACTORS AND FOR FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION.

SUBJECT TO THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR:

(I) ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY); (II) ANY LOSS OF

GOODWILL; (III) ANY LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY; (IV) ANY LOSS OF DATA SUFFERED BY YOU; OR (V) ANY

INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU. ANY OTHER LOSS WILL

BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO TIKTOK WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS.

ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF:

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 SERVICE;

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ANY CHANGES WHICH WE MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT

OR TEMPORARY CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES (OR ANY

FEATURES WITHIN THE SERVICES);

THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY CONTENT AND

OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED BY OR THROUGH

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES;

YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE US WITH ACCURATE ACCOUNT INFORMATION;

OR YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE AND

CONFIDENTIAL.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ONLY PROVIDE OUR PLATFORM FOR DOMESTIC AND PRIVATE USE. YOU

AGREE NOT TO USE OUR PLATFORM FOR ANY COMMERCIAL OR BUSINESS PURPOSES, AND WE

HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF GOODWILL OR

BUSINESS REPUTATION, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

IF DEFECTIVE DIGITAL CONTENT THAT WE HAVE SUPPLIED DAMAGES A DEVICE OR DIGITAL

CONTENT BELONGING TO YOU AND THIS IS CAUSED BY OUR FAILURE TO USE REASONABLE CARE

AND SKILL, WE WILL EITHER REPAIR THE DAMAGE OR PAY YOU COMPENSATION. HOWEVER, WE

WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGE THAT YOU COULD HAVE AVOIDED BY FOLLOWING OUR ADVICE

TO APPLY AN UPDATE OFFERED TO YOU FREE OF CHARGE OR FOR DAMAGE THAT WAS CAUSED BY

YOU FAILING TO CORRECTLY FOLLOW INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS OR TO HAVE IN PLACE THE

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ADVISED BY US.

THESE LIMITATIONS ON OUR LIABILITY TO YOU SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN

ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MOBILE CHARGES THAT MAY APPLY TO YOUR USE OF OUR

SERVICE, INCLUDING TEXT-MESSAGING AND DATA CHARGES. IF YOU’RE UNSURE WHAT THOSE

CHARGES MAY BE, YOU SHOULD ASK YOUR SERVICE PROVIDER BEFORE USING THE SERVICE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY DISPUTE YOU HAVE WITH ANY THIRD PARTY

ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE AND NOT

LIMITATION, ANY CARRIER, COPYRIGHT OWNER OR OTHER USER, IS DIRECTLY BETWEEN YOU AND

SUCH THIRD PARTY, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY RELEASE US AND OUR AFFILIATES FROM ANY AND

ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND

NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH

DISPUTES.

11. Other Terms

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a. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction. Subject to the Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction Specific, these

Terms, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by the laws of Singapore. Any dispute

arising out of or in connection with these Terms, including any question regarding existence, validity or

termination of these Terms, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the

Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the

Singapore International Arbitration Centre ("SIAC Rules") for the time being in force, which rules are

deemed to be incorporated by reference in this clause. The seat of the arbitration shall be Singapore.

The Tribunal shall consist of three (3) arbitrators. The language of the arbitration shall be English.

b. Open Source. 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.

c. Entire Agreement. These Terms (including the Supplemental Terms below) constitute the whole legal

agreement between you and TikTok and govern your use of the Services and completely replace any

prior agreements between you and TikTok in relation to the Services.

d. Links. You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not

damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest

any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish

a link to our Services in any website that is not owned by you. The website in which you are linking must

comply in all respects with the content standards set out at “Your Access to and Use of Our Services”

above. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

e. Age Limit. The Services are only for people 13 years old and over (with additional limits that may be

set forth in the Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction-Specific). By using the Services, you confirm that you

are over the relevant age specified herein. If we learn that someone under the relevant age specified

above is using the Services, we will terminate that user’s account.

f. No Waiver. Our failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these Terms shall not be construed as

a waiver of any provision or right.

g. Security. We do not guarantee that our Services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are

responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access

our Services. You should use your own virus protection software.

h. Severability. If any court of law, having jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of

these Terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of

the Terms, and the remaining provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.

i. Questions? Contact us at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback.

Supplemental Terms – App Stores

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To the extent permitted by applicable law, the following supplemental terms shall apply when accessing

the Platform through specific devices:

Notice regarding Apple.

These Terms between TikTok and you; Apple is not a party to these Terms.

The license granted to you hereunder is limited to a personal, limited, non-exclusive,

non-transferable right to install the Platform on the Apple device(s) authorised by Apple

that you own or control for personal, non-commercial use, subject to the Usage Rules set

forth in Apple’s App Store Terms of Services.

Apple is not responsible for the Platform or the content thereof and has no obligation

whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the Platform.

In the event of any failure of the Platform to conform to any applicable warranty, you may

notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the Platform, if any, to you. To

the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty

obligation whatsoever with respect to the Platform.

Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the

Platform or your possession or use of the Platform, including without limitation (a)

product liability claims; (b) any claim that the Platform fails to conform to any applicable

legal or regulatory requirement; and (c) claims arising under consumer protection or

similar legislation.

In the event of any third party claim that the Platform or your possession and use of the

Platform infringes such third party’s intellectual property rights, Apple is not responsible

for the investigation, defence, settlement or discharge of such intellectual property

infringement claim.

You represent and warrant that (a) you are not located in a country that is subject to a

U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a

“terrorist supporting” country; and (b) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of

prohibited or restricted parties.

Apple and its subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these Terms and upon your

acceptance of the terms and conditions of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and

will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third

party beneficiary hereof.

TikTok expressly authorises use of the Platform by multiple users through the Family

Sharing or any similar functionality provided by Apple.

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Windows Phone Store. By downloading the Platform from the Windows Phone Store (or its successors)

operated by Microsoft, Inc. or its affiliates, you specifically acknowledge and agree that:

You may install and use one copy of the Platform on up to five (5) Windows Phone

enabled devices that are affiliated with the Microsoft account you use to access the

Windows Phone Store. Beyond that, we reserve the right to apply additional conditions

or charge additional fees.

You acknowledge that Microsoft Corporation, your phone manufacturer and network

operator have no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support

services with respect to the Platform.

Amazon Appstore. By downloading the Platform from the Amazon Appstore (or its successors) operated

by Amazon Digital Services, Inc. or affiliates (“Amazon”), you specifically acknowledge and agree that:

to the extent of any conflict between (a) the Amazon Appstore Terms of Use or such

other terms which Amazon designates as default end user license terms for the Amazon

Appstore (“Amazon Appstore EULA Terms”), and (b) the other terms and conditions in

these Terms, the Amazon Appstore EULA Terms shall apply with respect to your use of

the Platform that you download from the Amazon Appstore, and

Amazon does not have any responsibility or liability related to compliance or noncompliance by TikTok or you (or any other user) under these Terms or the Amazon

Appstore EULA Terms.

Google Play. By downloading the Platform from Google Play (or its successors) operated by Google, Inc.

or one of its affiliates (“Google”), you specifically acknowledge and agree that:

to the extent of any conflict between (a) the Google Play Terms of Services and the

Google Play Business and Program Policies or such other terms which Google

designates as default end user license terms for Google Play (all of which together are

referred to as the “Google Play Terms”), and (b) the other terms and conditions in these

Terms, the Google Play Terms shall apply with respect to your use of the Platform that

you download from Google Play, and

you hereby acknowledge that Google does not have any responsibility or liability related

to compliance or non-compliance by TikTok or you (or any other user) under these Terms

or the Google Play Terms.

Supplemental Terms – Jurisdiction-Specific

Brazil. If you are using our Services in Brazil, the following additional terms apply. In the event of any

conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of these Terms, the

following terms shall prevail.

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Applicable Law and Jurisdiction. These Terms, their subject matter and their formation,

are governed by Brazilian law. You and we both agree that the courts of Brazil will have

exclusive jurisdiction.

Parental and Guardian Consent. If you are over the age of 16 but under the age of 18,

you declare that you had the consent of your parent or legal guardian to use the

Services or to register an account on the Services.

India. If you are using our Services in India, the following additional terms apply. In the event of any

conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of these Terms, the

following terms shall prevail.

Accepting the Terms. By agreeing to these Terms and by accessing or using our

Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms and provide

your consent to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy and Community

Guidelines.

Your access to and use of our Services. You may not use the Services to upload,

transmit, distribute, store or otherwise make available in any way (including for the

purposes of creating and/or streaming content) any User Content that:

is obscene, pornographic, paedophilic;

is relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise any activity

that is unlawful in any manner whatsoever;

harms minors in any way;

deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or

communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature; or

threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly

relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission

of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any

other nation.

User–Generated Content. You hereby irrevocably waive any right to raise any objection

or other claim before any authority including any copyright board in relation to the rights

granted and licensed to us under these Terms, including any right under the provisions

of section 30A of the (Indian) Copyright Act, 1957 or other applicable law. The above

waiver is granted by you in favour of TikTok and all of its group companies, affiliates and

successors in title and interest, whether existing or in future.

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Indemnity. In the event you are required to indemnify us pursuant to these Terms or any

order or ruling of a court of law, you will obtain all necessary approvals and consents

from regulatory authorities for the remittance of such amount to us.

Indonesia. If you are using our Services in Indonesia, the following additional terms apply. In the event of

any conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of these Terms,

the following terms shall prevail.

Accepting the Terms. By participating in the Services, you represent that you are at least

21 years of age or married or not under guardianship. If you are below 21 years old and

you are not married, your account must be opened under the name of your parent(s) or

guardian(s). Further, you represent and warrant that you have obtained consent from

your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) unless you indicate otherwise. By consenting, your

parent(s) or legal guardian(s) are agreeing to take responsibility for: (i) all your actions in

connection with your access to the Services; (ii) any fees or charges associated with your

use of any of the Services (as applicable); (iii) your compliance with this Terms; and (iv)

ensuring that any of your participation in Services will not, in any event, result in any

violation of applicable laws and regulations relating to child protections. If you do not

have consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) and your parent(s) or guardian(s) is

not willing to open the account under their name, you must cease accessing the

Services.”

Limitation of Liabilities. No limitation of liabilities set out in Section 10 (Limitation of

Liability) above shall not be applicable to the extent any loss or damage is incurred by

you as a result of our willful misconduct or negligence.

Age Limit. The Services are only for people 14 years old and over in Indonesia.

Language. These Terms has been prepared in the English language and Indonesian

language. In the event of any inconsistency or different interpretation between the

English text and Indonesian text, the English text shall prevail and the relevant

Indonesian text shall be deemed to be automatically amended to conform with and to

make the relevant Indonesian text consistent with the relevant English text. Each party

acknowledges that it has read these Terms and understands its content and that these

Terms have been entered into freely and without duress. You acknowledge that you fully

understand the language and the content of these Terms, and you agree that you will

not use the provisions under Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 24 of 2009 on Flag,

Language, State Emblem and National Anthem or any of its implementing regulations to

invalidate these Terms.

United Arab Emirates. If you are using our Services in the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”), the following

additional terms shall apply. In the event of any conflict between the following additional terms and the

provisions of the main body of these Terms, the following terms shall prevail.

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Accepting the Terms: By agreeing to these Terms and accessing or using our Services,

you acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms, the additional terms

herein and provide your consent to be bound by these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the

Community Guidelines and all other policies or agreements referred to herein.

Mexico. If you are using our Services in Mexico, the following additional terms shall apply. In the event of

any conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of these Terms,

the following terms shall prevail.

If you are under age 18, you may only use the Services with the consent of your parent

or legal guardian. Please be sure your parent or legal guardian has reviewed, discussed

and agreed to these Terms, with you.

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