TikTok TOS Changed

What changed

The updated Terms expand the minimum age requirement in Florida to 14, add detailed sanctions/export control obligations to the prohibited conduct section, expand account suspension grounds, add export control violations to the indemnity clause, and add account suspension/termination as a non-liable event in the limitation of liability section.

Details

• •Minimum age raised to 14 for users in Florida specifically, in addition to the existing under-13 restriction that applies nationwide
• •The prohibited conduct section now includes a detailed and expanded list of sanctions and export control restrictions, including specific definitions of Embargoed Jurisdictions (naming Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, occupied Kherson, and occupied Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine), named Sanctioned Party Lists, and a prohibition on supporting production of firearms and military weapons
• •Users must now certify they are not located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in an Embargoed Country, and that they and their officers/directors/shareholders are not on Sanctioned Party Lists — this certification was moved from Section 9 into Section 3.4
• •Account suspension/ban grounds in Section 5.2 expanded to explicitly include suspected fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions violations, and situations where the user or their shareholders appear on Sanctioned Party Lists, or where TikTok determines it cannot perform obligations due to sanctions risk
• •The indemnity clause in Section 7 now explicitly covers violations of export controls and economic sanctions laws across multiple jurisdictions (US, UK, EU, Singapore, and others)
• •The limitation of liability section now explicitly lists account suspension or termination and end of relationship as events for which TikTok is not liable — this was not in the previous version
• •The sanctions compliance language that was previously in Section 9 (Other) has been removed from that section and expanded/reorganized into Section 3.4 (prohibited conduct) and Section 5.2 (account suspension grounds)