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Google Privacy Policy en Eu
This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we
collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.
If European Union or United Kingdom data protection law applies to the processing of
your information, you can review the European requirements section below to learn more
about your rights and Google’s compliance with these laws.
Privacy Checkup
We build a range of services that help millions of people daily to explore and interact with
the world in new ways. Our services include:
Google apps, sites, and devices, like Search, YouTube, and Google Home
You can use our services in a variety of ways to manage your privacy. For example, you
can sign up for a Google Account if you want to create and manage content like emails
and photos, or see more relevant search results. And you can use many Google services
when you’re signed out or without creating an account at all, like searching on Google or
watching YouTube videos. You can also choose to browse the web in a private mode, like
Chrome Incognito mode. And across our services, you can adjust your privacy settings to
control what we collect and how your information is used.
To help explain things as clearly as possible, we’ve added examples, explanatory videos,
and definitions for key terms. And if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you
can contact us.
We collect information to provide better services to all our users — from figuring out basic
stuff like which language you speak, to more complex things like which ads you’ll find
most useful, the people who matter most to you online, or which YouTube videos you
might like. The information Google collects, and how that information is used, depends on
how you use our services and how you manage your privacy controls.
When you’re not signed in to a Google Account, we store the information we collect with
unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device you’re using. This allows us to
do things like maintain your preferences across browsing sessions, such as your
preferred language or whether to show you more relevant search results or ads based on
your activity.
When you’re signed in, we also collect information that we store with your Google
Account, which we treat as personal information.
When you create a Google Account, you provide us with personal information that
includes your name and a password. You can also choose to add a phone number or
payment information to your account. Even if you aren’t signed in to a Google Account,
you might choose to provide us with information — like an email address to communicate
with Google or receive updates about our services.
We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our
services. This includes things like email you write and receive, photos and videos you save,
docs and spreadsheets you create, and comments you make on YouTube videos.
We collect information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access Google
services, which helps us provide features like automatic product updates and dimming
your screen if your battery runs low.
The information we collect includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device
type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name
and phone number, and application version number. We also collect information about
the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our services, including IP
address, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your
request.
We collect this information when a Google service on your device contacts our servers —
for example, when you install an app from the Play Store or when a service checks for
automatic updates. If you’re using an Android device with Google apps, your device
periodically contacts Google servers to provide information about your device and
connection to our services. This information includes things like your device type and
carrier name, crash reports, which apps you've installed, and, depending on your device
settings, other information about how you’re using your Android device.
Your activity
We collect information about your activity in our services, which we use to do things like
recommend a YouTube video you might like. The activity information we collect may
include:
Purchase activity
If you use our services to make and receive calls or send and receive messages, we may
collect call and message log information like your phone number, calling-party number,
receiving-party number, forwarding numbers, sender and recipient email address, time
and date of calls and messages, duration of calls, routing information, and types and
volumes of calls and messages.
You can visit your Google Account to find and manage activity information that’s saved in
your account.
Go to Google Account
IP address
Activity on Google services, such as your searches and places you label like home or
work
Information about things near your device, such as Wi-Fi access points, cell towers,
and Bluetooth-enabled devices
The types of location data we collect and how long we store it depend in part on your
device and account settings. For example, you can turn your Android device’s location on
or off using the device’s settings app. You can also turn on Location History if you want to
create a private map of where you go with your signed-in devices. And if your Web & App
Activity setting is enabled, your searches and other activity from Google services, which
may also include location information, is saved to your Google Account. Learn more
about how we use location information.
In some circumstances, Google also collects information about you from publicly
accessible sources. For example, if your name appears in your local newspaper, Google’s
Search engine may index that article and display it to other people if they search for your
name. We may also collect information about you from trusted partners, such as
directory services who provide us with business information to be displayed on Google’s
services, marketing partners who provide us with information about potential customers
of our business services, and security partners who provide us with information to
protect against abuse. We also receive information from advertising partners to provide
advertising and research services on their behalf.
We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags,
local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and
server logs.
W H Y GOOGL E COL L ECTS DATA
We use the information we collect from all our services for the following purposes:
We use your information to deliver our services, like processing the terms you search for in
order to return results or helping you share content by suggesting recipients from your
contacts.
We also use your information to ensure our services are working as intended, such as
tracking outages or troubleshooting issues that you report to us. And we use your
information to make improvements to our services — for example, understanding which
search terms are most frequently misspelled helps us improve spell-check features used
across our services.
We use the information we collect in existing services to help us develop new ones. For
example, understanding how people organized their photos in Picasa, Google’s first
photos app, helped us design and launch Google Photos.
We use the information we collect to customize our services for you, including providing
recommendations, personalized content, and customized search results. For example,
Security Checkup provides security tips adapted to how you use Google products. And
Google Play uses information like apps you’ve already installed and videos you’ve
watched on YouTube to suggest new apps you might like.
Depending on your settings, we may also show you personalized ads based on your
interests. For example, if you search for “mountain bikes,” you may see ads for sports
equipment on YouTube. You can control what information we use to show you ads by
visiting your ad settings in My Ad Center.
We don’t show you personalized ads based on sensitive categories, such as race,
religion, sexual orientation, or health.
We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or
Photos.
We don’t share information that personally identifies you with advertisers, such as
your name or email, unless you ask us to. For example, if you see an ad for a nearby
flower shop and select the “tap to call” button, we’ll connect your call and may share
your phone number with the flower shop.
Go to My Ad Center
Measure performance
We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used.
For example, we analyze data about your visits to our sites to do things like optimize
product design. And we also use data about the ads you interact with to help advertisers
understand the performance of their ad campaigns. We use a variety of tools to do this,
including Google Analytics. When you visit sites or use apps that use Google Analytics, a
Google Analytics customer may choose to enable Google to link information about your
activity from that site or app with activity from other sites or apps that use our ad
services.
We use information we collect, like your email address, to interact with you directly. For
example, we may send you a notification if we detect suspicious activity, like an attempt
to sign in to your Google Account from an unusual location. Or we may let you know
about upcoming changes or improvements to our services. And if you contact Google,
we’ll keep a record of your request in order to help solve any issues you might be facing.
We use information to help improve the safety and reliability of our services. This includes
detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues
that could harm Google, our users, or the public.
We use different technologies to process your information for these purposes. We use
automated systems that analyze your content to provide you with things like customized
search results, personalized ads, or other features tailored to how you use our services.
And we analyze your content to help us detect abuse such as spam, malware, and illegal
content. We also use algorithms to recognize patterns in data. For example, Google
Translate helps people communicate across languages by detecting common language
patterns in phrases you ask it to translate.
We may combine the information we collect among our services and across your devices
for the purposes described above. For example, if you watch videos of guitar players on
YouTube, you might see an ad for guitar lessons on a site that uses our ad products.
Depending on your account settings, your activity on other sites and apps may be
associated with your personal information in order to improve Google’s services and the
ads delivered by Google.
If other users already have your email address or other information that identifies you, we
may show them your publicly visible Google Account information, such as your name and
photo. This helps people identify an email coming from you, for example.
We’ll ask for your consent before using your information for a purpose that isn’t covered
in this Privacy Policy.
YOUR PRIVACY CON TROL S
This section describes key controls for managing your privacy across our services. You
can also visit the Privacy Checkup, which provides an opportunity to review and adjust
important privacy settings. In addition to these tools, we also offer specific privacy
settings in our products — you can learn more in our Product Privacy Guide.
Go to Privacy Checkup
We also built a place for you to review and control information saved in your Google
Account. Your Google Account includes:
Privacy controls
Activity Controls
Decide what types of activity you’d like saved in your account. For example,
if you have YouTube History turned on, the videos you watch and the things
you search for are saved in your account so you can get better
recommendations and remember where you left off. And if you have Web &
App Activity turned on, your searches and activity from other Google
services are saved in your account so you can get more personalized
experiences like faster searches and more helpful app and content
recommendations. Web & App Activity also has a subsetting that lets you
control whether information about your activity on other sites, apps, and
devices that use Google services, such as apps you install and use on
Android, is saved in your Google Account and used to improve Google
services.
Go to Activity Controls
Ad settings
Manage your preferences about the ads shown to you on Google and on
sites and apps that partner with Google to show ads. You can modify your
interests, choose whether your personal information is used to make ads
more relevant to you, and turn on or off certain advertising services.
Go to My Ad Center
About you
Manage personal info in your Google Account and control who can see it
across Google services.
Go to About You
Shared endorsements
Choose whether your name and photo appear next to your activity, like
reviews and recommendations, that appear in ads.
Go to Shared Endorsements
Manage information that websites and apps using Google services, like
Google Analytics, may share with Google when you visit or interact with their
services.
Go to How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our
services
My Activity allows you to review and control data that’s saved to your
Google Account when you’re signed in and using Google services, like
searches you’ve done or your visits to Google Play. You can browse by date
and by topic, and delete part or all of your activity.
Go to My Activity
Google Dashboard
Go to Dashboard
Manage your contact information, such as your name, email, and phone
number.
Go to Personal Info
When you’re signed out, you can manage information associated with your browser or
device, including:
YouTube settings: Pause and delete your YouTube Search History and your YouTube
Watch History.
Ad Settings: Manage your preferences about the ads shown to you on Google and
on sites and apps that partner with Google to show ads.
Search for and then delete specific items from your account using My Activity
Delete specific Google products, including your information associated with those
products
Inactive Account Manager allows you to give someone else access to parts of your
Google Account in case you’re unexpectedly unable to use your account.
And finally, you can also request to remove content from specific Google services based
on applicable law and our policies.
There are other ways to control the information Google collects whether or not you’re
signed in to a Google Account, including:
Browser settings: For example, you can configure your browser to indicate when
Google has set a cookie in your browser. You can also configure your browser to
block all cookies from a specific domain or all domains. But remember that our
services rely on cookies to function properly, for things like remembering your
language preferences.
Device-level settings: Your device may have controls that determine what
information we collect. For example, you can modify location settings on your
Android device.
SH ARIN G YOUR IN F ORM ATION
When you’re signed in and interact with some Google services, like leaving comments on a
YouTube video or reviewing an app in Play, your name and photo appear next to your
activity. We may also display this information in ads depending on your Shared
endorsements setting.
We’ll share personal information outside of Google when we have your consent. For
example, if you use Google Home to make a reservation through a booking service, we’ll
get your permission before sharing your name or phone number with the restaurant. We
also provide you with controls to review and manage third party apps and sites you have
given access to data in your Google Account. We’ll ask for your explicit consent to share
any sensitive personal information.
If you’re a student or work for an organization that uses Google services, your domain
administrator and resellers who manage your account will have access to your Google
Account. They may be able to:
Access and retain information stored in your account, like your email
View statistics regarding your account, like how many apps you install
Receive your account information in order to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal
process, or enforceable governmental request
Restrict your ability to delete or edit your information or your privacy settings
We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons
to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy
and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we use
service providers to help operate our data centers, deliver our products and services,
improve our internal business processes, and offer additional support to customers and
users. We also use service providers to help review YouTube video content for public
safety and analyze and listen to samples of saved user audio to help improve Google’s
audio recognition technologies.
We will share personal information outside of Google if we have a good-faith belief that
access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Google, our users, or the
public as required or permitted by law.
We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners —
like publishers, advertisers, developers, or rights holders. For example, we share
information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services. We also allow
specific partners to collect information from your browser or device for advertising and
measurement purposes using their own cookies or similar technologies.
If Google is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we’ll continue to ensure the
confidentiality of your personal information and give affected users notice before
personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
All Google products are built with strong security features that continuously protect your
information. The insights we gain from maintaining our services help us detect and
automatically block security threats from ever reaching you. And if we do detect
something risky that we think you should know about, we’ll notify you and help guide you
through steps to stay better protected.
We work hard to protect you and Google from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure,
or destruction of information we hold, including:
We offer a range of security features, like Safe Browsing, Security Checkup, and 2
Step Verification to help you protect your account
You can export a copy of content in your Google Account if you want to back it up or use
it with a service outside of Google.
Search for and then delete specific items from your account using My Activity
Delete specific Google products, including your information associated with those
products
We retain the data we collect for different periods of time depending on what it is, how we
use it, and how you configure your settings:
Some data you can delete whenever you like, such as your personal info or the
content you create or upload, like photos and documents. You can also delete
activity information saved in your account, or choose to have it deleted
automatically after a set period of time. We’ll keep this data in your Google Account
until you remove it or choose to have it removed.
Other data is deleted or anonymized automatically after a set period of time, such as
advertising data in server logs.
We keep some data until you delete your Google Account, such as information about
how often you use our services.
And some data we retain for longer periods of time when necessary for legitimate
business or legal purposes, such as security, fraud and abuse prevention, or
financial record-keeping.
When you delete data, we follow a deletion process to make sure that your data is safely
and completely removed from our servers or retained only in anonymized form. We try to
ensure that our services protect information from accidental or malicious deletion.
Because of this, there may be delays between when you delete something and when
copies are deleted from our active and backup systems.
You can read more about Google’s data retention periods, including how long it takes us
to delete your information.
We regularly review this Privacy Policy and make sure that we process your information in
ways that comply with it.
Data transfers
We maintain servers around the world and your information may be processed on servers
located outside of the country where you live. Data protection laws vary among countries,
with some providing more protection than others. Regardless of where your information
is processed, we apply the same protections described in this policy. We also comply with
certain legal frameworks relating to the transfer of data.
When we receive formal written complaints, we respond by contacting the person who
made the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local
data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of your data
that we cannot resolve with you directly.
European requirements
If European Union (EU) or United Kingdom (UK) data protection law applies to the
processing of your information, we provide the controls described in this policy so you
can exercise your rights to request access to, update, remove, and restrict the processing
of your information. You also have the right to object to the processing of your
information or export your information to another service.
If you have additional questions or requests related to your rights, you can contact
Google and our data protection office. And you can contact your local data protection
authority if you have concerns regarding your rights under local law.
Data controller
Google Ireland Limited for users of Google services based in the European Economic
Area or Switzerland, located at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google LLC for users of Google services based in the United Kingdom, located at
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA.
Google LLC is the data controller responsible for processing information indexed and
displayed in services like Google Search and Google Maps regardless of your location.
We process your information for the purposes described in this policy, based on the
following legal grounds:
We process your data in order to provide a service you’ve asked for under a contract.
We process your data for our legitimate interests and those of third parties while
applying appropriate safeguards that protect your privacy.
We process your data when necessary to protect the vital interests of you or another
person.
We ask for your consent to process your data for specific purposes and you have
the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
How you use Google services and your privacy settings will determine what data is
processed, the purposes for which this data is processed, and the legal bases for
processing data. The table below explains these processing purposes, the kinds of data
processed, and the legal grounds for processing this data, in more detail.
Information from
publicly
accessible
sources, such as
information
that’s publicly
available online
(like if your name
appears in a local
newspaper
article) or from
other public
sources.
Information from
our trusted
partners, such as
from directory
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data processed
services who
provide us with
business
information to be
displayed on
Google’s services,
or security
partners who
provide us with
information to
protect against
abuse.
Location
information,
such as may
be
determined
by GPS, IP
address, and
other data
from sensors
on or around
your device,
depending in
Why and how we process What data is Legal grounds
data processed
part on your
device and
account
settings.
Information from
publicly
accessible
sources, such as
information
that’s publicly
available online
(like if your name
appears in a local
newspaper
article) or from
other public
sources.
Information from
our trusted
partners, such as
from directory
services who
provide us with
business
information to be
displayed on
Google’s services,
or security
partners who
provide us with
information to
protect against
abuse.
photos in Picasa,
Things you When necessary for
Google’s first photos
create or provide our legitimate
app, helped us design
to us: interests and those
and launch Google
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create,
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upload, or Develop new
users view and
receive (like products and
creators generate
photos, features that
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helped Google develop
emails, docs our users. For
new YouTube services.
and example,
Depending on your spreadsheets understanding
settings, we can save ). Google how people
audio recordings of Dashboard used photos in
voice interactions with allows you to Picasa, Google’s
services like Google manage first photos app,
Search, Assistant, information helped us design
Maps, and Gboard to associated and launch
develop and improve with specific Google Photos.
Google audio products. Or using
technologies. information
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party sites
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that use our
services. You
can review
and control
activity data
stored in
your Google
Account in
My Activity.
Location
information,
such as may
be
determined
by GPS, IP
address, and
other data
from sensors
on or around
your device,
depending in
part on your
device and
account
settings.
Information from
publicly
accessible
sources, such as
information
that’s publicly
available online
(like if your name
appears in a local
newspaper
article) or from
other public
sources.
Information from
our trusted
Why and how we process What data is Legal grounds
data processed
partners, such as
from directory
services who
provide us with
business
information to be
displayed on
Google’s services,
or security
partners who
provide us with
information to
protect against
abuse.
Location
information,
such as may
be
determined
by GPS, IP
address, and
other data
from sensors
Why and how we process What data is Legal grounds
data processed
on or around
your device,
depending in
part on your
device and
account
settings.
Information from
publicly
accessible
sources, such as
information
that’s publicly
available online
(like if your name
appears in a local
newspaper
article) or from
other public
sources.
Information from
our trusted
partners, such as
from directory
services who
provide us with
business
information to be
displayed on
Google’s services,
or security
partners who
provide us with
information to
protect against
abuse.
bugs. availability of
Personal
Translate in
Google Search information
more
measures the number that you
languages.
of times a particular provide us
query has been made, when you Detect, prevent,
Location
information,
such as may
be
determined
by GPS, IP
address, and
other data
from sensors
on or around
your device,
depending in
part on your
device and
account
settings.
Information from
publicly
accessible
sources, such as
information
that’s publicly
available online
(like if your name
appears in a local
newspaper
article) or from
other public
sources.
Why and how we process What data is Legal grounds
data processed
Information from
our trusted
partners, such as
from directory
services who
provide us with
business
information to be
displayed on
Google’s services,
or security
partners who
provide us with
information to
protect against
abuse.
Information
about your
apps,
browsers &
devices, such
as unique
identifiers
tied to the
browser,
application,
or device
you’re using;
and
information
about the
interaction of
your apps,
browsers,
and devices
with our
services, (like
Why and how we process What data is Legal grounds
data processed
IP address,
crash
reports, and
system
activity).
Information
about your
activity in our
services,
such as your
search terms,
Chrome
browsing
history
you’ve
synced with
your Google
Account,
your views
and
interactions
with content
and ads, and
your activity
on third-
party sites
and apps
that use our
services. You
can review
and control
activity data
stored in
your Google
Account in
My Activity.
Location
information,
such as may
be
determined
by GPS, IP
address, and
Why and how we process What data is Legal grounds
data processed
other data
from sensors
on or around
your device,
depending in
part on your
device and
account
settings.
Information from
publicly
accessible
sources, such as
information
that’s publicly
available online
(like if your name
appears in a local
newspaper
article) or from
other public
sources.
Information from
our trusted
partners, such as
from directory
services who
provide us with
business
information to be
displayed on
Google’s services,
or security
partners who
provide us with
information to
protect against
abuse.
The information practices of other companies and organizations that advertise our
services
Services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites they
offer that may include Google services to which the policy applies, or products or
sites displayed to you in search results, or linked from our services
Payments
Fiber
Google Fi
Read Along
YouTube Kids
Google Accounts Managed with Family Link, for Children under 13 (or applicable age
in your country)
Your Google Account is home to many of the settings you can use to manage your
account
Privacy Checkup guides you through key privacy settings for your Google Account
Google’s safety center helps you learn more about our built-in security, privacy
controls, and tools to help set digital ground rules for your family online
Google’s Teen Privacy Guide provides answers to some of the top questions we get
asked about privacy
Privacy & Terms provides more context regarding this Privacy Policy and our Terms
of Service
How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services
Key terms
Affiliates
An affiliate is an entity that belongs to the Google group of companies, including the
following companies that provide consumer services in the EU: Google Ireland Limited,
Google Commerce Ltd, Google Payment Corp, and Google Dialer Inc. Learn more about
the companies providing business services in the EU.
Algorithm
An application data cache is a data repository on a device. It can, for example, enable a
web application to run without an internet connection and improve the performance of
the application by enabling faster loading of content.
Browser web storage enables websites to store data in a browser on a device. When used
in "local storage" mode, it enables data to be stored across sessions. This makes data
retrievable even after a browser has been closed and reopened. One technology that
facilitates web storage is HTML 5.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer
when you visit a website. When you visit the site again, the cookie allows that site to
recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information. You
can configure your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being
sent. However, some website features or services may not function properly without
cookies. Learn more about how Google uses cookies and how Google uses data,
including cookies, when you use our partners' sites or apps.
Device
A device is a computer that can be used to access Google services. For example, desktop
computers, tablets, smart speakers, and smartphones are all considered devices.
Google Account
You may access some of our services by signing up for a Google Account and providing
us with some personal information (typically your name, email address, and a password).
This account information is used to authenticate you when you access Google services
and protect your account from unauthorized access by others. You can edit or delete
your account at any time through your Google Account settings.
IP address
This is information that is recorded about users so that it no longer reflects or references
an individually-identifiable user.
Personal information
This is information that you provide to us which personally identifies you, such as your
name, email address, or billing information, or other data that can be reasonably linked to
such information by Google, such as information we associate with your Google Account.
Pixel tag
A pixel tag is a type of technology placed on a website or within the body of an email for
the purpose of tracking certain activity, such as views of a website or when an email is
opened. Pixel tags are often used in combination with cookies.
Referrer URL
Server logs
Like most websites, our servers automatically record the page requests made when you
visit our sites. These “server logs” typically include your web request, Internet Protocol
address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, and one or
more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
A typical log entry for a search for “cars” looks like this:
123.45.67.89 is the Internet Protocol address assigned to the user by the user’s
ISP. Depending on the user’s service, a different address may be assigned to the user
by their service provider each time they connect to the Internet.
Firefox 1.0.7; Windows NT 5.1 is the browser and operating system being
used.
Unique identifiers
Unique identifiers can be used for various purposes, including security and fraud
detection, syncing services such as your email inbox, remembering your preferences, and
providing personalized advertising. For example, unique identifiers stored in cookies help
sites display content in your browser in your preferred language. You can configure your
browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Learn more about
how Google uses cookies.
On other platforms besides browsers, unique identifiers are used to recognize a specific
device or app on that device. For example, a unique identifier such as the Advertising ID is
used to provide relevant advertising on Android devices, and can be managed in your
device’s settings. Unique identifiers may also be incorporated into a device by its
manufacturer (sometimes called a universally unique ID or UUID), such as the IMEI-
number of a mobile phone. For example, a device’s unique identifier can be used to
customize our service to your device or analyze device issues related to our services.
Additional Context
For example, if you watch videos about baking on YouTube, you may see more ads that
relate to baking as you browse the web. We also may use your IP address to determine
your approximate location, so that we can serve you ads for a nearby pizza delivery
service if you search for “pizza.” Learn more about Google ads and why you may see
particular ads.
For example, advertisers may upload data from their loyalty-card programs so that they
can better understand the performance of their ad campaigns. We only provide
aggregated reports to advertisers that don’t reveal information about individual people.
Android devices with Google apps include devices sold by Google or one of our partners
and include phones, cameras, vehicles, wearables, and televisions. These devices use
Google Play Services and other pre-installed apps that include services like Gmail, Maps,
your phone’s camera and phone dialer, text-to-speech conversion, keyboard input, and
security features. Learn more about Google Play Services.
appropriate safeguards
For example, we may anonymize data, or encrypt data to ensure it can’t be linked to other
information about you. Learn more
For example, we process information about requests to remove content from our services
to educate the public, facilitate research, and provide transparency about these requests.
When you’re signed in to your Google Account and search on Google, you can see
search results from the public web, along with relevant information from the content
you have in other Google products, like Gmail or Google Calendar. This can include
things like the status of your upcoming flights, restaurant, and hotel reservations, or
your photos. Learn more
If you have communicated with someone via Gmail and want to add them to a
Google Doc or an event in Google Calendar, Google makes it easy to do so by
autocompleting their email address when you start to type in their name. This
feature makes it easier to share things with people you know. Learn more
The Google app can use data that you have stored in other Google products to show
you personalized content, depending on your settings. For example, if you have
searches stored in your Web & App Activity, the Google app can show you news
articles and other information about your interests, like sports scores, based your
activity. Learn more
If you link your Google Account to your Google Home, you can manage your
information and get things done through the Google Assistant. For example, you
can add events to your Google Calendar or get your schedule for the day, ask for
status updates on your upcoming flight, or send information like driving directions to
your phone. Learn more
For example, when you’re signed in to your Google Account and have the Web & App
Activity control enabled, you can get more relevant search results that are based on your
previous searches and activity from other Google services. You can learn more here. You
may also get customized search results even when you’re signed out. If you don’t want
this level of search customization, you can search and browse privately or turn off signed-
out search personalization.
For example, we may display a Google Doodle on the Search homepage to celebrate an
event specific to your country.
This means the Google affiliate that is responsible for processing your information and
for complying with applicable privacy laws.
deliver our services
We use the IP address assigned to your device to send you the data you requested,
such as loading a YouTube video
Photos and videos you upload to Google Photos are used to help you create albums,
animations, and other creations that you can share. Learn more
A flight confirmation email you receive may be used to create a “check-in” button
that appears in your Gmail
When you purchase services or physical goods from us, you may provide us
information like your shipping address or delivery instructions. We use this
information for things like processing, fulfilling, and delivering your order, and to
provide support in connection with the product or service you purchase.
detect abuse
When we detect spam, malware, illegal content (including child sexual abuse and
exploitation material), and other forms of abuse on our systems in violation of our
policies, we may disable your account or take other appropriate action. In certain
circumstances, we may also report the violation to appropriate authorities.
devices
For example, we can use information from your devices to help you decide which device
you’d like to use to install an app or view a movie you buy from Google Play. We also use
this information to help protect your account.
For example, we analyze how people interact with advertising to improve the
performance of our ads.
ensure our services are working as intended
For example, we continuously monitor our systems to look for problems. And if we find
something wrong with a specific feature, reviewing activity information collected before
the problem started allows us to fix things more quickly.
If you use Google’s Location services on Android, we can improve the performance of
apps that rely on your location, like Google Maps. If you use Google’s Location services,
your device sends information to Google about its location, sensors (like accelerometer),
and nearby cell towers and Wi-Fi access points (like MAC address and signal strength). All
these things help to determine your location. You can use your device settings to enable
Google Location services. Learn more
make improvements
For example, we use cookies to analyze how people interact with our services. And that
analysis can help us build better products. For example, it may help us discover that it’s
taking people too long to complete a certain task or that they have trouble finishing steps
at all. We can then redesign that feature and improve the product for everyone.
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies, which means the cookies are set by the
Google Analytics customer. Using our systems, data generated through Google Analytics
can be linked by the Google Analytics customer and by Google to third-party cookies that
are related to visits to other websites. For example, an advertiser may want to use its
Google Analytics data to create more relevant ads, or to further analyze its traffic. Learn
more
our users
For example, to prevent abuse and increase transparency and accountability over our
online content moderation practices, Google shares data about requests for removal of
content from our services with Lumen, which collects and analyzes these requests to
facilitate research to help Internet users understand their rights. Learn more.
There are over 2 million non-Google websites and apps that partner with Google to show
ads. Learn more
payment information
For example, if you add a credit card or other payment method to your Google Account,
you can use it to buy things across our services, like apps in the Play Store. We may also
ask for other information, like a business tax ID, to help process your payment. In some
cases, we may also need to verify your identity and may ask you for information to do
this.
We may also use payment information to verify that you meet age requirements, if, for
example, you enter an incorrect birthday indicating you’re not old enough to have a
Google Account. Learn more
personalized ads
You may also see personalized ads based on information from the advertiser. If you
shopped on an advertiser's website, for example, they can use that visit information to
show you ads. Learn more
phone number
If you add your phone number to your account, it can be used for different purposes
across Google services, depending on your settings. For example, your phone number can
be used to help you access your account if you forget your password, help people find
and connect with you, and make the ads you see more relevant to you. Learn more
For example, information about security threats can help us notify you if we think your
account has been compromised (at which point we can help you take steps to protect
your account).
For example, we may collect information that’s publicly available online or from other
public sources to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features like
Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities. Or, if your business’s information
appears on a website, we may index and display it on Google services.
For example, we use a cookie called ‘lbcs’ that makes it possible for you to open many
Google Docs in one browser. Blocking this cookie would prevent Google Docs from
working as expected. Learn more
remove
For example, as described above, you can request to remove content, including content
that may contain your information, from specific Google services, based on applicable
law (including data protection law) and our policies.
The “last account activity” feature in Gmail can help you find out if and when
someone accessed your email without your knowledge. This feature shows you
information about recent activity in Gmail, such as the IP addresses that accessed
your mail, the associated location, and the date and time of access. Learn more
sensitive categories
When showing you personalized ads, we use topics that we think might be of interest to
you based on your activity. For example, you may see ads for things like "Cooking and
Recipes" or "Air Travel.” We don’t use topics or show personalized ads based on sensitive
categories like race, religion, sexual orientation, or health. And we require the same from
advertisers that use our services.
Your device may have sensors that can be used to better understand your location and
movement. For example, an accelerometer can be used to determine your speed and a
gyroscope to figure out your direction of travel.
For example, we operate data centers located around the world to help keep our products
continuously available for users.
Google Duo, for making and receiving video calls and sending and receiving
messages
show trends
When lots of people start searching for something, it can provide useful information
about particular trends at that time. Google Trends samples Google web searches to
estimate the popularity of searches over a certain period of time and shares those results
publicly in aggregated terms. Learn more
For example, you can delete your blog from Blogger or a Google Site you own from Google
Sites. You can also delete reviews you’ve left on apps, games, and other content in the
Play Store.
specific partners
For example, we allow YouTube creators and advertisers to work with measurement
companies to learn about the audience of their YouTube videos or ads, using cookies or
similar technologies. Another example is merchants on our shopping pages, who use
cookies to understand how many different people see their product listings. Learn more
about these partners and how they use your information.
For example, when you type an address in the To, Cc, or Bcc field of an email you're
composing, Gmail will suggest addresses based on the people you contact most
frequently.
the public
For example, we process information about requests to remove content from our services
under Google's content removal policies or applicable law to assess the request, and to
ensure transparency, improve accountability and prevent abuse and fraud in these
practices.
third parties
For example, we process your information to report use statistics to rights holders about
how their content was used in our services. We may also process your information if
people search for your name and we display search results for sites containing publicly
available information about you.
For example, we collect information about views and interactions with ads so we can
provide aggregated reports to advertisers, like telling them whether we served their ad on
a page and whether the ad was likely seen by a viewer. We may also measure other
interactions, such as how you move your mouse over an ad or if you interact with the
page on which the ad appears.
For example, you can choose whether you want Google to save an audio recording to
your Google Account when you interact with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps. When
your device detects an audio activation command, like “Hey Google,” Google records your
voice and audio plus a few seconds before the activation. Learn more
This activity might come from your use of Google services, like from syncing your account
with Chrome or your visits to sites and apps that partner with Google. Many websites and
apps partner with Google to improve their content and services. For example, a website
might use our advertising services (like AdSense) or analytics tools (like Google Analytics),
or it might embed other content (such as videos from YouTube). These services may
share information about your activity with Google and, depending on your account
settings and the products in use (for instance, when a partner uses Google Analytics in
conjunction with our advertising services), this data may be associated with your
personal information.
Learn more about how Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.