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Effective May 22, 2024 | Archived versions
These Terms of Service re ect the way Google’s business works, the laws that apply to
our company, and certain things we’ve always believed to be true. As a result, these Terms
of Service help de ne Google’s relationship with you as you interact with our services. For
example, these terms include the following topic headings:
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 nd 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 accessing or using our services
(whether you’re signed in to a Google account or not), you’re agreeing to these terms.
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Besides these terms, we also publish a Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read it to
better understand how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.
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
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, California 94043
USA
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-
speci c additional terms and policies.
These terms help de ne the relationship between you and Google. When we speak of
“Google,” “we,” “us,” and “our,” we mean Google LLC and its a liates. Broadly speaking,
we give you permission to access and use our services if you agree to follow these terms,
which re ect how Google’s business works and how we earn money.
We provide a broad range of services that are subject to these terms, including:
apps and sites (like Search and Maps)
platforms (like Google Shopping)
integrated services (like Maps embedded in other companies’ apps or sites)
devices (like Google Nest and Pixel)
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 arti cial 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.
The permission we give you to access and use our services continues as long as you
comply with:
these terms
service-speci c additional terms, which could, for example, include things like
additional age requirements
You also agree that our Privacy Policy applies to your use of our services. We also provide
resources like the Copyright Help Center, Safety Center, Transparency Center, and
descriptions of our technologies from our policies site to answer common questions and
to set expectations about using our services. Finally, we may provide speci c 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.
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, and human
tra cking 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) — for example, by misleading, defrauding, illegally impersonating, defaming,
bullying, harassing, or stalking others
Our service-speci c 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 nd 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, or disrupt our services or systems — for
example, by:
introducing malware
spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures
jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety
and bug testing programs
accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as:
phishing
creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews
misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a
human
providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when
they actually originate from us
providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not
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 les
that disallow crawling, training, or other activities)
using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or
related AI technology
hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms
providing services that encourage others to violate these terms
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.
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.
We need your permission if your intellectual property rights restrict
our use of your content. You provide Google with that permission
through this license.
This license covers your content if that content is protected by
intellectual property rights.
This license doesn’t affect your privacy rights — it’s only about
your intellectual property rights
This license doesn’t cover these types of content:
publicly-available factual information that you provide,
such as corrections to the address of a local business.
That information doesn’t require a license because it’s
considered common knowledge that everyone’s free to
use.
feedback that you offer, such as suggestions to
improve our services. Feedback is covered in the
Service-related communications section below.
This license is:
worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world
non-exclusive, which means you can license your content to
others
royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this
license
This license allows Google to:
host, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and use your content
— for example, to save your content on our systems and make
it accessible from anywhere you go
publish, publicly perform, or publicly display your content, if
you’ve made it visible to others
modify and create derivative works based on your content,
such as reformatting or translating it
sublicense these rights to:
other users to allow the services to work as designed,
such as enabling you to share photos with people you
choose
our contractors who’ve signed agreements with us that
are consistent with these terms, only for the limited
purposes described in the Purpose section below
This license is for the limited purpose of:
operating and improving the services, which means allowing
the services to work as designed and creating new features
and functionalities. This includes using automated systems
and algorithms to analyze your content:
for spam, malware, and illegal content
to recognize patterns in data, such as determining
when to suggest a new album in Google Photos to keep
related photos together
to customize our services for you, such as providing
recommendations and personalized search results,
content, and ads (which you can change or turn off in
Ads Settings)
This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when
it is stored.
using content you’ve shared publicly to promote the services.
For example, to promote a Google app, we might quote a
review you wrote. Or to promote Google Play, we might show a
screenshot of the app you offer in the Play Store.
developing new technologies and services for Google
consistent with these terms
This license lasts for as long as your content is protected by
intellectual property rights.
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:
If you already shared your content with others before removing
it. For example, if you shared a photo with a friend who then
made a copy of it, or shared it again, then that photo may
continue to appear in your friend’s Google Account even after
you remove it from your Google Account.
If you make your content available through other companies’
services, it’s possible that search engines, including Google
Search, will continue to nd and display your content as part of
their search results.
If you meet these age requirements you can create a Google Account for your
convenience. Some services require that you have a Google Account in order to work —
for example, to use Gmail, you need a Google Account so that you have a place to send
and receive your email.
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.
Many organizations, such as businesses, non-pro ts, and schools, take advantage of our
services. To use our services on behalf of an organization:
an authorized representative of that organization must agree to these terms
your organization’s administrator may assign a Google Account to you. That
administrator might require you to follow additional rules and may be able to access
or disable your Google Account.
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 allow you to generate original content. Google won’t claim
ownership over that content.
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.
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-speci c 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.
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 re ect Google’s
views.
Some of our services include downloadable or preloaded software. We give you
permission to use that software as part of the services.
The license we give you is:
worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world
non-exclusive, which means that we can license the software to others
royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license
personal, which means it doesn’t extend to anyone else
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.
We built our reputation on providing useful, reliable services like Google Search and Maps,
and we’re continuously improving our services to meet your needs. However, for legal
purposes, we offer our services without warranties unless explicitly stated in our service-
speci c additional terms. The law requires that we explain this using speci c legal
language and that we use capital letters to help make sure you see it, as follows:
TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE PROVIDE OUR SERVICES “AS IS”
WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT THE
CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY,
AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS.
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.
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 or willful misconduct.
To the extent allowed by applicable law:
Google is liable only for its breaches of these terms or applicable service-speci c
additional terms
Google isn’t liable for:
loss of pro ts, revenues, business opportunities, goodwill, or anticipated
savings
indirect or consequential losses
punitive damages
Google’s total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater
of (1) $200 or (2) the fees paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months before
the dispute
If you’re a business user or organization:
To the extent allowed by applicable law, you’ll indemnify Google and its directors,
o cers, 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-speci c additional terms. This
indemnity covers any liability or expense arising from claims, losses, damages,
judgments, nes, litigation costs, and legal fees.
If you’re legally exempt from certain responsibilities, including indemni cation, then
those responsibilities don’t apply to you under these terms. For example, the United
Nations enjoys certain immunities from legal obligations and these terms don’t
override those immunities.
Before taking action as described below, we’ll provide you with advance notice when
reasonably possible, describe the reason for our action, and give you an opportunity to
clarify the issue and address it, unless doing so would:
cause harm or liability to a user, third party, or Google
violate the law or a legal enforcement authority’s order
compromise an investigation
compromise the operation, integrity, or security of our services
If any of your content (1) breaches these terms, service-speci c 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
tra cking 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:
you materially or repeatedly breach these terms, service-speci c additional terms or
policies
we’re required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or a court order
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.
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-
speci c additional terms, or any related services, regardless of con ict 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.
By law, you have certain rights that can’t be limited by a contract like these terms of
service. These terms are in no way intended to restrict those rights.
These terms describe the relationship between you and Google. They don’t create any
legal rights for other people or organizations, even if others bene t 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 con ict with the service-speci c 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-speci c 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-speci c additional terms (1) to re ect changes in
our services or how we do business — for example, when we add new services, features,
technologies, pricing, or bene ts (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-speci c 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. If you close your Google
Account and then access or use our services without an account, that access and use will
be subject to the most current version of these terms.
DEF IN ITION S
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.
An individual or entity who is not a consumer (see consumer).
An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of
their trade, business, craft, or profession. (See business user)
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”).
A statement that limits someone’s legal responsibilities.
An individual or organization’s contractual obligation to compensate the losses suffered
by another individual or organization from legal proceedings such as lawsuits.
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.
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.
A legal entity (such as a corporation, non-pro t, or school) and not an individual person.
The Google services that are subject to these terms are the products and services listed at
https://policies.google.com/terms/service-speci c, including:
apps and sites (like Search and Maps)
platforms (like Google Shopping)
integrated services (like Maps embedded in other companies’ apps or sites)
devices and other goods (like Google Nest)
Many of these services also include content that you can stream or interact with.
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.
An assurance that a product or service will perform to a certain standard.
Things that you create, upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share using our services,
such as:
Docs, Sheets, and Slides you create
blog posts you upload through Blogger