Google Terms of Service - Privacy & Terms - Google
Google Terms of Service - Privacy & Terms - Google
Welcome to Google!
Thanks for using our products and services (“Services”). If you’re based in the European Economic Area or Switzerland,
unless stated otherwise in any additional terms, the Services are provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), a company
incorporated and operating under the laws of Ireland (Registered Number: 368047), and located at Gordon House, Barrow
Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
By using our Services, you are agreeing to these terms. Please read them carefully.
Our Services are very diverse, so sometimes additional terms or product requirements (including age requirements) may
apply. Additional terms will be available with the relevant Services, and those additional terms become part of your
agreement with us if you use those Services.
Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than
the interface and the instructions that we provide. You may use our Services only as permitted by law, including applicable
export and re-export control laws and regulations. We may suspend or stop providing our Services to you if you do not
comply with our terms or policies or if we are investigating suspected misconduct.
Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in our Services or the content you
access. You may not use content from our Services unless you obtain permission from its owner or are otherwise
permitted by law. These terms do not grant you the right to use any branding or logos used in our Services. Don’t remove,
obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with our Services.
Our Services display some content that is not Google’s. This content is the sole responsibility of the entity that makes it
available. We may review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies, and we may remove or refuse to
display content that we reasonably believe violates our policies or the law. But that does not necessarily mean that we
review content, so please don’t assume that we do.
In connection with your use of the Services, we may send you service announcements, administrative messages, and other
information. You may opt out of some of those communications.
Some of our Services are available on mobile devices. Do not use such Services in a way that distracts you and prevents
you from obeying tra`c or safety laws.
To protect your Google Account, keep your password conadential. You are responsible for the activity that happens on or
through your Google Account. Try not to reuse your Google Account password on third-party applications. If you learn of
any unauthorized use of your password or Google Account, follow these instructions.
We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the
process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
We provide information to help copyright holders manage their intellectual property online. If you think somebody is
violating your copyrights and want to notify us, you can and information about submitting notices and Google’s policy
about responding to notices in our Help Center.
When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work
with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from
translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate,
publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited
purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you
stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you
ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms
or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary
rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.
Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such
as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content
is sent, received, and when it is stored.
If you have a Google Account, we may display your Proale name, Proale photo, and actions you take on Google or on third-
party applications connected to your Google Account (such as +1’s, reviews you write and comments you post) in our
Services, including displaying in ads and other commercial contexts. We will respect the choices you make to limit sharing
or visibility settings in your Google Account. For example, you can choose your settings so your name and photo do not
appear in an ad.
You can and more information about how Google uses and stores content in the privacy policy or additional terms for
particular Services. If you submit feedback or suggestions about our Services, we may use your feedback or suggestions
without obligation to you.
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When a Service requires or includes downloadable software, this software may update automatically on your device once a
new version or feature is available. Some Services may let you adjust your automatic update settings.
Google gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software
provided to you by Google as part of the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the
beneat of the Services as provided by Google, in the manner permitted by these terms. You may not copy, modify,
distribute, sell, or lease any part of our Services or included software, nor may you reverse engineer or attempt to extract
the source code of that software, unless laws prohibit those restrictions or you have our written permission.
Open source software is important to us. Some software used in our Services may be offered under an open source
license that we will make available to you. There may be provisions in the open source license that expressly override
some of these terms.
You can stop using our Services at any time, although we’ll be sorry to see you go. Google may also stop providing
Services to you, or add or create new limits to our Services at any time.
We believe that you own your data and preserving your access to such data is important. If we discontinue a Service,
where reasonably possible, we will give you reasonable advance notice and a chance to get information out of that Service.
Other than as expressly set out in these terms or additional terms, neither Google nor its suppliers or distributors make any
speciac promises about the Services. For example, we don’t make any commitments about the content within the Services,
the speciac functions of the Services, or their reliability, availability, or ability to meet your needs. We provide the Services
“as is”.
Some jurisdictions provide for certain warranties, like the implied warranty of merchantability, atness for a particular
purpose and non-infringement. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties.
To the extent permitted by law, the total liability of Google, and its suppliers and distributors, for any claims under these
terms, including for any implied warranties, is limited to the amount you paid us to use the Services (or, if we choose, to
supplying you the Services again).
In all cases, Google, and its suppliers and distributors, will not be liable for any loss or damage that is not reasonably
foreseeable.
We recognize that in some countries, you might have legal rights as a consumer. If you are using the Services for a
personal purpose, then nothing in these terms or any additional terms limits any consumer legal rights which may not be
waived by contract.
If there is a confict between these terms and the additional terms, the additional terms will control for that confict.
These terms control the relationship between Google and you. They do not create any third party beneaciary rights.
If you do not comply with these terms, and we don’t take action right away, this doesn’t mean that we are giving up any
rights that we may have (such as taking action in the future).
If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will not affect any other terms.
If you are a business user in the European Economic Area or Switzerland: these terms are governed by English law and you
and Google submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in relation to any dispute arising out of or relating to
these terms, but Google will still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or other equivalent types of urgent legal
remedy) in any jurisdiction.
For information about how to contact Google, please visit our contact page.