Grade B+ — Fair terms (score 80/100)
The updated Terms of Service maintain broad, perpetual licensing rights over user content and limit company liability, while providing a self-serve mechanism for account deletion.
Perpetual content license, unilateral changes, and liability caps remain.
By submitting User Content via the Services, you grant TikTok USDS Joint Venture... an unconditional, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual and worldwide license to use your User Content.
You grant the company a permanent, global right to use, modify, and distribute your content for any purpose without compensation.
We will notify you of any material changes by updating the 'Last Updated' date... Your continued access to or use of the Platform and/or Services after the effective date of the updated Terms constitutes your acceptance.
The company can change the rules at any time, and your continued use acts as your agreement to the new terms.
TIKTOK USDS JOINT VENTURE’S... MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU... SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE HIGHER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID TO US WITHIN TWELVE (12) MONTHS... OR (B) FIFTY US DOLLARS (USD $50).
The company limits its financial responsibility to you to a maximum of $50, even if they cause significant harm.
If you no longer want to use or access the Platform and our Services, you can choose to delete your account through the 'Manage account' page on the Platform.
You have a self-serve, online option to delete your account and data.
Last reviewed 2026-09-01 under rubric v3.5.