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Google Terms of Service en in
What you can expect from us, which describes how we provide and develop our
services
What we expect from you, which establishes certain rules for using our services
Content in Google services, which describes the intellectual property rights to the
content you find in our services — whether that content belongs to you, Google, or
others
In case of problems or disagreements, which describes other legal rights you have,
and what to expect in case someone violates these terms
Understanding these terms is important because, by using our services, you’re agreeing
to these terms.
Besides these terms, we also publish a Privacy Policy. Although it’s not part of these
terms, we encourage you to read it to better understand how you can update, manage,
export, and delete your information.
Terms
Service provider
Google services are provided by, and you’re contracting with:
Google LLC
organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, and operating under the laws of
the USA
Age requirements
If you’re under the age required to manage your own Google Account, you must have
your parent or legal guardian’s permission to use a Google Account. Please have your
parent or legal guardian read these terms with you.
If you’re a parent or legal guardian, and you allow your child to use the services, then
these terms apply to you and you’re responsible for your child’s activity on the services.
Some Google services have additional age requirements as described in their service-
specific additional terms and policies.
We provide a broad range of services that are subject to these terms, including:
Many of these services also include content that you can stream or interact with.
Our services are designed to work together, making it easier for you to move from one
activity to the next. For example, if your Calendar event includes an address, you can click
on that address and Maps can show you how to get there.
We’re constantly developing new technologies and features to improve our services. For
example, we use artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide you with
simultaneous translations, and to better detect and block spam and malware. As part of
this continual improvement, we sometimes add or remove features and functionalities,
increase or decrease limits to our services, and start offering new services or stop offering
old ones. When a service requires or includes downloadable or preloaded software, that
software sometimes updates automatically on your device once a new version or feature
is available. Some services let you adjust your automatic update settings.
If we make material changes that negatively impact your use of our services or if we stop
offering a service, we’ll provide you with reasonable advance notice, except in urgent
situations such as preventing abuse, responding to legal requirements, or addressing
security and operability issues. We’ll also provide you with an opportunity to export your
content from your Google Account using Google Takeout, subject to applicable law and
policies.
these terms
service-specific additional terms, which could, for example, include things like
additional age requirements
We also make various policies, help centers, and other resources available to you to
answer common questions and to set expectations about using our services. These
resources include our Privacy Policy, Copyright Help Center, Safety Center, Transparency
Center,and other pages accessible from our policies site. Finally, we may provide specific
instructions and warnings within our services – such as dialog boxes that alert you to
important information.
Although we give you permission to use our services, we retain any intellectual property
rights we have in the services.
Respect others
We want to maintain a respectful environment for everyone, which means you must
follow these basic rules of conduct:
comply with applicable laws, including export control, sanctions, money laundering,
and human trafficking laws
respect the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual property rights
don’t abuse or harm others or yourself (or threaten or encourage such abuse or
harm) including against children — for example, by misleading, defrauding, illegally
impersonating, defaming, bullying, harassing, or stalking others; hosting or
publishing any obscene content; or inciting the violation of applicable laws
Our service-specific additional terms and policies, such as our Generative AI Prohibited
Use Policy, provide additional details about appropriate conduct that everyone using
those services must follow. If you find that others aren’t following these rules, many of
our services allow you to report abuse. If we act on a report of abuse, we also provide the
process described in the Taking action in case of problems section.
Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the
internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules,
so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit:
You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, imitate, or disrupt our services or systems — for
example, by:
introducing malware
accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as:
phishing
providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when
they actually originate from us
using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal
rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights
reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine
learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as
allowed by applicable law
using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of
the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files
that disallow crawling, training, or other activities)
Some of our services are designed to let you upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share
your content. You have no obligation to provide any content to our services and you’re
free to choose the content that you want to provide. If you choose to upload or share
content, please make sure you have the necessary rights to do so and that the content is
lawful.
License
Your content remains yours, which means that you retain any
intellectual property rights that you have in your content. For
example, you have intellectual property rights in the creative content
you make, such as reviews you write. Or you may have the right to
share someone else’s creative content if they’ve given you their
permission.
What’s covered
This license covers your content if (a) that content is protected by
intellectual property rights, and (b) applicable law requires that we
have this license to use that content.
This license doesn’t affect your privacy rights — it’s only about
your intellectual property rights
Scope
This license is:
Rights
Purpose
Duration
If you remove from our services any content that’s covered by this
license, then our systems will stop making that content publicly
available in a reasonable amount of time. There are two exceptions:
You’re responsible for what you do with your Google Account, including taking
reasonable steps to keep your Google Account secure, and we encourage you to regularly
use the Security Checkup.
Service-related communications
To provide you with our services, we sometimes send you service announcements and
other information. To learn more about how we communicate with you, see Google’s
Privacy Policy.
If you choose to give us feedback, such as suggestions to improve our services, we may
act on your feedback without obligation to you.
Some of our services give you the opportunity to make your content publicly available —
for example, you might post a product or restaurant review that you wrote, or you might
upload a blog post that you created.
See the Permission to use your content section for more about your rights in your
content, and how your content is used in our services
See the Removing your content section to learn why and how we might remove user-
generated content from our services
If you think someone is infringing your intellectual property rights, you can send us notice
of the infringement and we’ll take appropriate action. For example, we suspend or close
the Google Accounts of repeat copyright infringers as described in our Copyright Help
Center.
Google content
Some of our services include content that belongs to Google — for example, many of the
visual illustrations you see in Google Maps. You may use Google’s content as allowed by
these terms and any service-specific additional terms, but we retain any intellectual
property rights that we have in our content. Don’t remove, obscure, or alter any of our
branding, logos, or legal notices. If you want to use our branding or logos, please see the
Google Brand Permissions page.
Other content
Finally, some of our services give you access to content that belongs to other people or
organizations — for example, a store owner’s description of their own business, or a
newspaper article displayed in Google News. You may not use this content without that
person or organization’s permission, or as otherwise allowed by law. The views expressed
in other people or organizations’ content are theirs, and don’t necessarily reflect Google’s
views.
royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license
non-assignable, which means you’re not allowed to assign the license to anyone else
Some of our services include software that’s offered under open source license terms that
we make available to you. Sometimes there are provisions in the open source license that
explicitly override parts of these terms, so please be sure to read those licenses.
You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of our services or software.
Warranty
We provide our services using reasonable skill and care. If we don’t meet the quality level
described in this warranty, you agree to tell us and we’ll work with you to try to resolve the
issue.
Disclaimers
The only commitments we make about our services (including the content in the services,
the specific functions of our services, or their reliability, availability, or ability to meet your
needs) are provided in (1) the Warranty section; (2) the service-specific additional terms;
and (3) laws that can’t be limited by these terms.
Don’t rely on the services for medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Any
content regarding those topics is provided for informational purposes only and is not a
substitute for advice from a qualified professional.
Liabilities
Both the law and these terms try to strike a balance as to what you or Google can claim
from the other in case of problems. That’s why the law requires everyone to be
responsible for certain liabilities — but not others — under these terms.
These terms only limit our responsibilities as allowed by applicable law. These terms don’t
limit liability for:
gross negligence
willful misconduct
Other than the liabilities described above, Google is liable only for its breaches of these
terms or applicable service-specific additional terms, subject to applicable law.
To the extent allowed by applicable law, you’ll indemnify Google and its directors,
officers, employees, and contractors for any third-party legal proceedings (including
actions by government authorities) arising out of or relating to your unlawful use of
the services or violation of these terms or service-specific additional terms. This
indemnity covers any liability or expense arising from claims, losses, damages,
judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees, except to the extent a liability or
expense is caused by Google's breach, negligence, or willful misconduct.
Except as stated in the For all users section above, Google’s total liability arising out
of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) US$500 or (2) 125% of the
fees that you paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months before the breach.
compromise an investigation
If we reasonably believe that any of your content (1) breaches these terms, service-
specific additional terms or policies, (2) violates applicable law, or (3) could harm our
users, third parties, or Google, then we reserve the right to take down some or all of that
content in accordance with applicable law. Examples include child pornography, content
that facilitates human trafficking or harassment, terrorist content, and content that
infringes someone else’s intellectual property rights.
Without limiting any of our other rights, Google may suspend or terminate your access to
the services or delete your Google Account if any of these things happen:
we reasonably believe that your conduct causes harm or liability to a user, third
party, or Google — for example, by hacking, phishing, harassing, spamming,
misleading others, or scraping content that doesn’t belong to you
For more information about why we disable accounts and what happens when we do,
see this Help Center page. If you believe your Google Account has been suspended or
terminated in error, you can appeal.
Of course, you’re always free to stop using our services at any time. If you do stop using a
service, we’d appreciate knowing why so that we can continue improving our services.
Settling disputes, governing law, and courts
For information about how to contact Google, please visit our contact page.
California law will govern all disputes arising out of or relating to these terms, service-
specific additional terms, or any related services, regardless of conflict of laws rules.
These disputes will be resolved exclusively in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara
County, California, USA, and you and Google consent to personal jurisdiction in those
courts.
To the extent that applicable local law prevents certain disputes from being resolved in a
California court, then you can file those disputes in your local courts. Likewise, if
applicable local law prevents your local court from applying California law to resolve
these disputes, then these disputes will be governed by the applicable local laws of your
country, state, or other place of residence.
These terms describe the relationship between you and Google. They don’t create any
legal rights for other people or organizations, even if others benefit from that relationship
under these terms.
We want to make these terms easy to understand, so we’ve used examples from our
services. But not all services mentioned may be available in your country.
If these terms conflict with the service-specific additional terms, the additional terms will
govern for that service.
If it turns out that a particular term is not valid or enforceable, this will not affect any
other terms.
If you don’t follow these terms or the service-specific additional terms, and we don’t take
action right away, that doesn’t mean we’re giving up any rights that we may have, such as
taking action in the future.
We may update these terms and service-specific additional terms (1) to reflect changes in
our services or how we do business — for example, when we add new services, features,
technologies, pricing, or benefits (or remove old ones), (2) for legal, regulatory, or security
reasons, or (3) to prevent abuse or harm.
If we materially change these terms or service-specific additional terms, we’ll provide you
with reasonable advance notice and the opportunity to review the changes, except (1)
when we launch a new service or feature, or (2) in urgent situations, such as preventing
ongoing abuse or responding to legal requirements. If you don’t agree to the new terms,
you should remove your content and stop using the services. You can also end your
relationship with us at any time by closing your Google Account.
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affiliate
An entity that belongs to the Google group of companies, which means Google LLC and
its subsidiaries, including the following companies that provide consumer services in the
EU: Google Ireland Limited, Google Commerce Limited, and Google Dialer Inc.
business user
An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of
their trade, business, craft, or profession. (See business user)
copyright
A legal right that allows the creator of an original work (such as a blog post, photo, or
video) to decide if and how that original work may be used by others, subject to certain
limitations and exceptions (such as “fair use” and “fair dealing”).
country version
If you have a Google Account, we associate your account with a country (or territory) so
that we can determine:
the Google affiliate that provides the services to you and that processes your
information as you use the services
When you’re signed out, your country version is determined by the location where you’re
using Google services. If you have an account, you can sign in and view these terms to
see the country associated with it.
disclaimer
indemnify or indemnity
Rights over the creations of a person’s mind, such as inventions (patent rights); literary
and artistic works (copyright); designs (design rights); and symbols, names, and images
used in commerce (trademarks). IP rights may belong to you, another individual, or an
organization.
liability
Losses from any type of legal claim, whether the claim is based on a contract, tort
(including negligence), or other reason, and whether or not those losses could have been
reasonably anticipated or foreseen.
organization
A legal entity (such as a corporation, non-profit, or school) and not an individual person.
services
The Google services that are subject to these terms are the products and services listed at
https://policies.google.com/terms/service-specific, including:
Many of these services also include content that you can stream or interact with.
trademark
Symbols, names, and images used in commerce that are capable of distinguishing the
goods or services of one individual or organization from those of another.
warranty
your content
Things that you create, upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share using our services,
such as: