The growing pains of building a TikTok following is something you never want to go through again if you can help it, right? But TikTok sometimes has other plans, because you might wake up one day with a nasty account ban.

If this scenario sounds a bit too much for your current situation, then it’s time to pick yourself up again. We’ve gathered all the legitimate ways to appeal a TikTok account ban for you here.

There are many reasons why an account can be banned, but the basis is the violation of one or more clauses in the TikTok Community Guidelines. The more serious the violation, the more severe the punishment.

There are 4 types of bans on TikTok and 3 of them are account related. They are — shadow bans (which block your videos from other users’ For You page); temporary bans (account suspension for a certain period of time to limit account activity such as uploading videos), permanent bans (account is permanently deleted) and livestream ban (when you are banned from participating or commenting on a particular livestream).