What happens to your CMYK profile at the printers? How does that affect TIC?

Say I work in CMYK, embed the profile in the PDF and send off to the printers. Say it has a TIC of 330%...

Hopefully, the printer will use my profile to print.
Do they ever do that?

They 'strip' my profile and use their own, say a 'similar' 330% TIC profile.
Everything should be okay, then?

They 'strip' my profile and use a profile with say 300% TIC.
Does that put too much ink on the print?

They 'strip' my profile and use a profile with say 400% TIC.
Now my blacks print lighter?

They don't 'strip' my profile and use their own profile on top of it.
Is that possible?

If the profile is 'stripped' from my PDF, what does that mean in fact?  Especially in terms of the TIC?

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Seamus

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