Lemon8
- The policy allows AI training; it does not describe an opt-out.
- Your data is used for personalized ads, including by third-party ad companies.
- Data is shared with partners and affiliates; you can opt out.
- Staff may review your content; the policy does not describe an opt-out.
Lemon8 runs on TikTok’s rules: broad data, AI training, ads, biometrics, and they can shut your account anytime.
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- Uses your content for AI training with no opt-out
Collected
Account info, posts, messages, AI chats, device IDs, contacts, clipboard, and sometimes precise location.
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Privacy policy
“We collect your information in three ways: information that you provide, automatically collected information, and information from other sources.”
Training
They use your stuff to run the app, personalize feeds, show ads, and train machine learning models.
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Privacy policy
“To review, support, improve, and develop the Services, and train, test, and improve technology, such as machine learning models and algorithms”
Sharing
Service providers, ad partners, affiliates, other users, and the public depending on your settings.
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“Based on your privacy settings, your information, including certain of your account information, user content, and usage information, may be visible to other users and the public.”
Kept
They keep data as long as they say they need it, including to improve the service.
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Privacy policy
“We retain information for as long as necessary to provide the Services and for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.”
Controls
You can delete your account in the app, request your data, and manage some ads in settings.
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Privacy policy
“Through your in-app settings, you can directly update your account information, request a copy of your data, or deactivate or delete your account”
Fine print
They can disable your account at any time; content can be cross-posted to TikTok.
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Terms of service
“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 the Terms”
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What you can turn off
The controls and opt-outs their own documents describe, and where they say to find them.
Manage ads in in-app Ads settings
TikTok/Lemon8 in-app settings → “Ads”
Delete or deactivate your account
In-app settings (deletion instructions linked in the privacy policy) or https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/feedback
Request a copy or deletion of your data
https://www.tiktok.com/legal/report/privacy or in-app settings
Turn off device location and contact sync
Your device settings for the app
If a switch is not where they say, the deletion request above still applies.
Line by line
The lines that matter most, worst first.
Your activity and content can be used to train their AI and algorithms. The policy does not give a simple off switch for that.
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Privacy policy
“train, test, and improve technology, such as machine learning models and algorithms, including by analyzing how people are using the Services”
For example, a caption you write or an AI prompt you type could be used to improve their models.
They may take face and voice prints from videos you make. They only promise extra permission where the law already requires it.
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“We may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under US laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints, from your user content.”
For example, a selfie video could be used to create a faceprint for effects, ads, or moderation.
If you tap sync, they copy your address book and match it to TikTok users.
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Privacy policy
“Your phone and social network contacts, with your permission. If you choose to sync your contacts, we will collect information, such as names, phone numbers, and email addresses”
For example, your friend’s phone number from your contacts could be uploaded even if they never used Lemon8.
Outside websites and apps send them data so they can target and measure ads.
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“Advertisers, publishers, and measurement and other partners provide us with information about you and the actions you have taken outside of our websites and apps”
For example, a shop you visited on another site could help decide which ads you see in the app.
They can shut your account whenever they decide, including for reasons they judge on their own.
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Terms of service
“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 the Terms”
For example, they could lock you out and you would lose access to posts tied to that account.
You still own your posts, but they get a free worldwide license they can pass to others to run the service.
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Terms of service
“you grant to us a: non-exclusive (which means that you can licence your content to others), (which means that we don't pay you for this licence), transferable”
For example, they can copy and show your photo on Lemon8 and related services without paying you.
People as well as computers can look at content when they review it for rules.
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Terms of service
“To do this we deploy a combination of technology and human moderators.”
For example, a photo you posted could be seen by a human moderator checking for guideline breaches.
They say they do not sell data where the law forbids that kind of ad sharing, but they still share with many partners.
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Privacy policy
“while we do not sell your personal information or share your personal information with third parties for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising where restricted by applicable law”
For example, in some states you may have extra opt-outs; elsewhere partner sharing may still happen.
There is an in-app place to limit some off-app activity used for ads.
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Privacy policy
“If you have a TikTok account, you can navigate to “Ads” in your in-app settings to manage how your activity elsewhere online is used to serve you ads”
For example, you can open Ads settings and turn down use of other sites’ activity for ads on TikTok/Lemon8.
Words to know
Legal words from the lines above, in plain English.
- model training
- Using your content and conversations as examples to teach an AI system, which can then echo them in future answers. For example, a story you write in a chatbot may be studied by the company to make the next version of the bot.
- retention
- How long a company keeps your data before deleting it. For example, a policy might keep your messages for 30 days after you delete them, or for as long as it likes.
- biometric
- Measurements of your body that identify you, like your face, fingerprint or voice. For example, a selfie used to unlock the app or a voice recording matched to you.
- royalty-free
- The company can use your content without ever paying you for it. For example, your photo can appear in the app's ads and you get nothing.
- human review
- Company staff or contractors may read your messages or content, usually to check for rule breaking. For example, a flagged private chat with an AI can be read by a person at the company.
- sell or share
- Under California law, selling means passing your data to others for money or other value; sharing means passing it on for targeted ads. For example, letting an ad network use your browsing history in return for ad space counts as a sale.
- personal data
- Any information that is about you or can be linked to you, from your name to your phone's ID. For example, your email, your IP address and the list of apps on your phone are all personal data.
- third parties
- Any company or person other than you and the app, such as advertisers, partners or analytics firms. For example, an analytics company that receives a record of every screen you tap is a third party.
- targeted advertising
- Ads chosen for you based on what you have done across other apps and websites, not just this one. For example, you look at shoes in one app and see shoe ads in a totally different app the next day.
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What does the app collect beyond what it needs to work?
They collect far more than account and posts: contacts, clipboard, precise location if enabled, device and ad IDs, in-app browsing, and partner data.
Does it record your voice, face or body, and what happens to that?
They may take faceprints and voiceprints from your videos for effects, moderation, recommendations, and similar uses, with permission only where law requires it.
Are your chats and uploads used to train AI models, and is that off by default?
They say they train and improve machine learning models using how you use the service, including content, messages, and AI interactions, with no training opt-out described.
Can employees or contractors read your conversations, and when?
They scan and review content, messages, and AI chats, and Lemon8 terms say they use technology plus human moderators. No review opt-out is described.
Are you profiled or tracked for advertising?
Partners and advertisers send them off-app activity and ad IDs, and they use cookies and pixels for advertising. Some ad controls exist in settings.
Do they sell or share your data, and can you opt out?
They say they do not sell or share for cross-context ads where the law restricts it, but they share with ad, analytics, and other partners, and offer some ads settings.
What rights do they take over what you type and what the AI makes?
You own your content, but you grant a royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable worldwide license. It mostly ends if you remove content, except reuse and legal storage.
How long do they keep your data after you delete it, and can you delete it in the app?
You can delete an account in settings, but they keep information as long as needed for the service, legal reasons, and improving the product, with no set wipe deadline.
Does it build a lasting memory or profile of you, and can you see, edit or turn it off?
They infer extra facts about you such as age, gender, and interests. The documents do not describe viewing or turning that profile off.
Do they commit to basic security, and have they leaked data?
They say they use reasonable measures to protect information, but they do not describe audits or a vulnerability program here.
Is there a real age gate, and are teens protected?
You must be 13 or older. They say they monitor for underage use and will terminate accounts, but signup is still based on the age you give.
Will they tell you when the rules change, and is the policy specific?
Both documents are dated. Privacy updates may be just a new date; Lemon8 says they will notify material changes, and continued use means you accept.
Can they close your account without warning, and can you get your data out first?
They reserve the right to disable your account at any time. Deleting means you cannot retrieve content you added.
If something goes wrong, who pays?
They limit responsibility unless they breach the terms or harm was foreseeable, and they say they do not take away rights the law will not let you give up.
Do subscriptions renew on their own, and can you get a refund?
Not stated in the documents.
The privacy policy is 4,107 words at a professional or legal expert level (Flesch reading ease 0.7); the terms are 3,814 words at a college level.
