Does TikTok train on your data?
TikTok trains its machine-learning models on how you use the platform, including interactions monitored across your devices. No product opt-out is offered.
"Review, improve, and develop the Platform, including by monitoring interactions and usage across your devices, analysing how people are using it, and by training, testing, and improving our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms."
- 21 Sept 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All accounts
- eu
- Fetched from the company
- 03382995…E177
How we read it: Read the jurisdiction note before this grade travels: this quotes TikTok's EEA privacy policy, because the rest-of-world version renders client-side and normalises to three paragraphs of navigation furniture. The EEA document is the only one this monitor can read, and TikTok may say something different elsewhere. Within it, training sits among the legitimate-interest purposes, no setting to decline it is named, and what is offered instead is the GDPR right to object — a legal remedy rather than a product control. Regraded F to D on 19 Aug 2026 for consistency, not because anything changed: Monzo, HubSpot and LinkedIn are graded D for that same statutory route. The headline is untouched.
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What the document does offer
- "Legitimate Interest relied upon: To improve, promote, and develop the Platform in an informed way" — the basis for the clause quoted here
- "Your Rights: Whenever we use your information on the basis that it is necessary for legitimate interests, you can object to, and request restriction of, such usage"
- withdraw consent at any time, where consent is the basis
- settings governing Duet and Stitch, profile information, and advertising — none of them training
Why none of it applies: The chain is complete and unusually explicit: TikTok names the legal basis for each purpose, puts platform improvement under legitimate interests, and grants an objection right over legitimate-interest processing. That is a route, and it is why this is D. It is not a switch: nothing in the product turns training off, which is what the headline says.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Contact support
- Not stated
- 56 / 100
- Not stated
- Unknown
How to opt out of TikTok AI training
Plan by plan, from what TikTok's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All accounts
Yes, but not self-serve: TikTok makes you contact support.
- Open TikTok's right-to-object page at tiktok.com/legal/right-to-object, or its privacy webform at tiktok.com/legal/report/privacy.
- Object to the use of your information to train, test and improve its machine learning models, which it processes under legitimate interests.
This is the EEA policy. The objection is the statutory right, not a switch, and TikTok can refuse where it shows overriding grounds.
What this policy has done since we started watching
No change detected. We've held a copy of TikTok's policy since 13 Aug 2026 and re-read it since, across 2 captures. The text hasn't moved in a way that touches this verdict. That's a fact about the document, and it's only knowable by having kept the earlier copies.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We haven't yet written to TikTok about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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