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Google Terms of Service

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What'southward covered in these terms

We know it'due south tempting to skip these Terms of Service, merely information technology's important to establish what you can wait from us as you use Google services, and what we expect from you.

These Terms of Service reflect the fashion Google's business organisation works, the laws that apply to our company, and sure things we've e'er believed to be true. As a result, these Terms of Service help define Google's relationship with yous equally you interact with our services. For example, these terms include the post-obit topic headings:

What you lot can expect from us, which describes how nosotros provide and develop our services
What nosotros expect from y'all, which establishes certain rules for using our services
Content in Google services, which describes the intellectual belongings rights to the content y'all discover in our services — whether that content belongs to yous, Google, or others
In case of problems or disagreements, which describes other legal rights you accept, and what to expect in instance someone violates these terms

Understanding these terms is important because, past using our services, yous're agreeing to these terms.

Also these terms, we also publish a Privacy Policy. Although it'southward not office of these terms, we encourage you lot to read it to better understand how yous can update, manage, export, and delete your information.

Terms

Service provider

Google services are provided by, and y'all're contracting with:

Google LLC
organized nether the laws of the Land of Delaware, The states, and operating under the laws of the United states

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, California 94043
USA

Historic period requirements

If yous're nether the age required to manage your own Google Business relationship, you must accept your parent or legal guardian'southward permission to utilise a Google Business relationship. Please have your parent or legal guardian read these terms with you.

If you're a parent or legal guardian, and y'all allow your child to use the services, so these terms utilise to you and you're responsible for your child's activity on the services.

Some Google services accept additional historic period requirements every bit described in their service-specific additional terms and policies.

Your relationship with Google

These terms help define the relationship between y'all and Google. Broadly speaking, nosotros give you permission to use our services if you agree to follow these terms, which reflect how Google's business works and how nosotros earn money. When we speak of "Google," "we," "u.s.," and "our," we mean Google LLC and its affiliates.

What yous can wait from us

Provide a broad range of useful services

We provide a broad range of services that are subject field to these terms, including:

apps and sites (similar Search and Maps)
platforms (like Google Shopping)
integrated services (similar Maps embedded in other companies' apps or sites)
devices (similar Google Nest)

Many of these services also include content that you can stream or interact with.

Our services are designed to piece of work together, making it easier for you to move from one activity to the next. For instance, if your Calendar consequence includes an address, you tin click on that address and Maps can show yous how to get at that place.

Develop, improve, and update Google services

We're constantly developing new technologies and features to improve our services. For example, we use artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide yous with simultaneous translations, and to better find and block spam and malware. As part of this continual improvement, nosotros sometimes add or remove features and functionalities, increase or decrease limits to our services, and start offering new services or finish offering old ones. When a service requires or includes downloadable software, that software sometimes updates automatically on your device one time a new version or feature is available. Some services allow you adjust your automatic update settings.

If we brand cloth changes that negatively touch your employ of our services or if we end offering a service, we'll provide you with reasonable accelerate find, except in urgent situations such equally preventing abuse, responding to legal requirements, or addressing security and operability problems. Nosotros'll also provide you with an opportunity to export your content from your Google Account using Google Takeout, subject to applicable law and policies.

What nosotros expect from you

Follow these terms and service-specific additional terms

Nosotros also make various policies, help centers, and other resources available to you lot to respond common questions and to fix expectations well-nigh using our services. These resources include our Privacy Policy, Copyright Aid Center, Condom Center, and other pages accessible from our policies site.

Although nosotros give you permission to employ our services, we retain any intellectual property rights we take in the services.

Respect others

Nosotros want to maintain a respectful environment for everyone, which means you must follow these basic rules of comport:

comply with applicable laws, including consign control, sanctions, and homo 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) — for example, by misleading, defrauding, illegally impersonating, defaming, bullying, harassing, or stalking others
don't abuse, damage, interfere with, or disrupt the services — for example, by accessing or using them in fraudulent or deceptive ways, introducing malware, or spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures. When we index the web to bring you search results, nosotros respect standard usage restrictions that website owners specify in their websites' code, so we crave the same when others use our services

Our service-specific boosted terms and policies provide boosted details about appropriate conduct that everyone using those services must follow. If yous observe that others aren't following these rules, many of our services allow you to report abuse. If we human activity on a report of corruption, nosotros also provide the process described in the Taking activity in case of issues section.

Permission to apply your content

Some of our services are designed to let you upload, submit, shop, send, receive, or share your content. Yous take no obligation to provide any content to our services and yous're free to choose the content that you want to provide. If yous cull to upload or share content, please brand sure you lot have the necessary rights to do then and that the content is lawful.

License

Your content remains yours, which means that y'all retain whatsoever intellectual property rights that you have in your content. For case, you take intellectual belongings rights in the creative content you lot make, such as reviews yous write. Or yous may have the correct to share someone else's artistic content if they've given you lot their permission.

We demand your permission if your intellectual property rights restrict our use of your content. You provide Google with that permission through this license.

What's covered

This license covers your content if that content is protected by intellectual property rights.

What'due south not covered

This license doesn't affect your privacy rights — it's only nigh your intellectual property rights
This license doesn't cover these types of content:
- publicly-available factual information that you lot provide, such equally corrections to the address of a local business. That information doesn't require a license because information technology'due south considered common knowledge that everyone's free to use.
- feedback that y'all offering, such as suggestions to improve our services. Feedback is covered in the Service-related communications section below.

Telescopic

This license is:

worldwide, which means it's valid anywhere in the globe
non-exclusive, which means yous can license your content to others
royalty-free, which ways there are no budgetary fees for this license

Rights

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 yous get
publish, publicly perform, or publicly brandish your content, if you've made it visible to others
alter 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 lot to share photos with people yous cull
- our contractors who've signed agreements with usa that are consistent with these terms, only for the limited purposes described in the Purpose section below

Purpose

This license is for the limited purpose of:

operating and improving the services, which means assuasive the services to piece of work every bit 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 information, such as determining when to propose a new album in Google Photos to proceed 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 plough 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 Shop.
developing new technologies and services for Google consequent with these terms

Duration

This license lasts for every bit 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 corporeality of fourth dimension. In that location are 2 exceptions:

If you lot already shared your content with others before removing it. For example, if y'all shared a photograph with a friend who then made a copy of it, or shared it again, then that photograph may continue to announced in your friend's Google Account even afterwards you remove information technology from your Google Business relationship.
If you make your content available through other companies' services, it's possible that search engines, including Google Search, will go on to discover and display your content as role of their search results.

Using Google services

Your Google Business relationship

If you lot encounter these historic period requirements you can create a Google Business relationship for your convenience. Some services require that you take a Google Business relationship in order to work — for example, to use Gmail, you need a Google Account so that y'all accept a place to send and receive your email.

Yous're responsible for what you do with your Google Account, including taking reasonable steps to proceed your Google Account secure, and we encourage you to regularly apply the Security Checkup.

Using Google services on behalf of an arrangement or business concern

Many organizations, such as businesses, not-profits, and schools, accept advantage of our services. To use our services on behalf of an organization:

an authorized representative of that organization must concur to these terms
your organisation's ambassador may assign a Google Account to you. That administrator might require you to follow additional rules and may exist able to access or disable your Google Account.

Service-related communications

To provide y'all with our services, we sometimes send you lot service announcements and other information. To learn more about how nosotros communicate with you lot, see Google's Privacy Policy.

If you lot choose to give the states feedback, such as suggestions to ameliorate our services, we may act on your feedback without obligation to you.

Content in Google services

Your content

Some of our services requite you the opportunity to brand your content publicly available — for example, you might post a product or restaurant review that you wrote, or yous might upload a blog post that yous created.

See the Permission to use your content department for more virtually 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, yous 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 every bit described in our Copyright Aid Eye.

Google content

Some of our services include content that belongs to Google — for example, many of the visual illustrations you meet in Google Maps. Yous may use Google'south content as allowed by these terms and any service-specific additional terms, simply we retain any intellectual property rights that nosotros 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 folio.

Software in Google services

Some of our services include downloadable software. Nosotros requite yous permission to use that software as part of the services.

The license we give yous is:

worldwide, which means it's valid anywhere in the globe
non-exclusive, which means that nosotros can license the software to others
royalty-free, which ways there are no monetary fees for this license
personal, which means information technology 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'due south offered nether open source license terms that nosotros make bachelor to you. Sometimes there are provisions in the open up source license that explicitly override parts of these terms, so please be sure to read those licenses.

You lot may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease whatsoever office of our services or software.

In case of problems or disagreements

Both the law and these terms requite yous the right to (i) a certain quality of service, and (2) ways to fix issues if things go wrong.

Warranty

Nosotros provide our services using reasonable skill and care. If we don't meet the quality level described in this warranty, you concur to tell us and we'll work with yous to endeavor to resolve the issue.

Disclaimers

The only commitments nosotros brand about our services (including the content in the services, the specific functions of our services, or their reliability, availability, or ability to run across your needs) are provided in (i) the Warranty section; (two) the service-specific additional terms; and (3) laws that can't be limited by these terms.

Liabilities

For all users

Both the constabulary and these terms effort to strike a balance as to what you lot or Google tin merits from the other in case of issues. That'southward why the constabulary allows us to limit certain liabilities — but not others — under these terms.

These terms only limit our responsibilities equally allowed by applicable police. These terms don't limit liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or death or personal injury caused by negligence or willful misconduct.

Other than the liabilities described higher up, Google is liable only for its breaches of these terms or applicable service-specific additional terms, subject to applicative police.

For business users and organizations only

If you're a business user or arrangement:

To the extent allowed by applicable law, you'll indemnify Google and its directors, officers, employees, and contractors for any tertiary-political party legal proceedings (including actions past 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 whatsoever liability or expense arising from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees.
If you're legally exempt from certain responsibilities, including indemnification, then those responsibilities don't use to you lot under these terms. For example, the United Nations enjoys sure immunities from legal obligations and these terms don't override those immunities.
Google won't be responsible for the following liabilities:
- loss of profits, revenues, business opportunities, goodwill, or anticipated savings
- indirect or consequential loss
- punitive damages
Google'due south total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) U.s.a.$500 or (2) 125% of the fees that you lot paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months earlier the breach

Taking activeness in case of problems

Earlier taking activeness as described below, we'll provide yous with advance notice when reasonably possible, describe the reason for our action, and give you an opportunity to prepare the problem, unless we reasonably believe that doing so would:

cause harm or liability to a user, third political party, or Google
violate the police force or a legal enforcement dominance's order
compromise an investigation
compromise the operation, integrity, or security of our services

Removing your content

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 downward some or all of that content in accordance with applicative law. Examples include kid pornography, content that facilitates human being trafficking or harassment, terrorist content, and content that infringes someone else's intellectual property rights.

Suspending or terminating your access to Google services

Google reserves the right to suspend or cease your admission to the services or delete your Google Account if whatever of these things happen:

you materially or repeatedly breach these terms, service-specific boosted terms or policies
we're required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or a court gild
nosotros reasonably believe that your bear causes damage or liability to a user, tertiary party, or Google — for instance, by hacking, phishing, harassing, spamming, misleading others, or scraping content that doesn't belong to you

For more information about why nosotros disable accounts and what happens when nosotros practise, meet this Help Center page. If you lot believe your Google Account has been suspended or terminated in mistake, you tin can entreatment.

Of grade, you're ever free to stop using our services at any time. If you practice stop using a service, we'd capeesh knowing why so that we can keep improving our services.

Settling disputes, governing police force, and courts

For information near how to contact Google, delight 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 volition exist resolved exclusively in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County, California, U.s., and you and Google consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

To the extent that applicative local law prevents sure disputes from being resolved in a California courtroom, then yous tin file those disputes in your local courts. Likewise, if applicative local constabulary prevents your local courtroom from applying California constabulary to resolve these disputes, then these disputes will exist governed by the applicable local laws of your country, state, or other place of residence.

Almost these terms

By constabulary, you take certain rights that tin't exist limited by a contract like these terms of service. These terms are in no way intended to restrict those rights.

These terms describe the human relationship betwixt you and Google. They don't create any legal rights for other people or organizations, fifty-fifty if others do good from that human relationship nether these terms.

We want to make these terms easy to understand, and then we've used examples from our services. But non all services mentioned may be bachelor in your country.

If these terms conflict with the service-specific additional terms, the boosted terms will govern for that service.

If information technology turns out that a particular term is not valid or enforceable, this will not bear on any other terms.

If y'all don't follow these terms or the service-specific additional terms, and we don't have action right abroad, that doesn't mean we're giving upwardly any rights that we may have, such as taking activeness in the time to come.

We may update these terms and service-specific additional terms (1) to reflect changes in our services or how we practice business concern — for example, when we add together new services, features, technologies, pricing, or benefits (or remove onetime ones), (2) for legal, regulatory, or security reasons, or (iii) to prevent abuse or harm.

If nosotros 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 nosotros launch a new service or characteristic, 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 lot should remove your content and cease using the services. You tin can also end your relationship with united states of america at any fourth dimension by closing your Google Account.

Definitions

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 or entity who is not a consumer (see consumer).

consumer

An private who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of their trade, business concern, craft, or profession. (See business user)

copyright

A legal correct 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, discipline to sure limitations and exceptions (such as "fair apply" and "off-white dealing").

country version

If you lot have a Google Account, we associate your account with a state (or territory) then that we can make up one's mind:

the Google affiliate that provides the services to y'all and that processes your data every bit you lot apply the services
the version of the terms that govern our relationship

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 run across the state associated with it.

disclaimer

A statement that limits someone's legal responsibilities.

indemnify or indemnity

An private or organisation's contractual obligation to recoup the losses suffered past some other private or organization from legal proceedings such every bit lawsuits.

intellectual property rights (IP rights)

Rights over the creations of a person's mind, such as inventions (patent rights); literary and artistic works (copyright); designs (blueprint rights); and symbols, names, and images used in commerce (trademarks). IP rights may vest to you, another private, or an organisation.

liability

Losses from whatsoever type of legal claim, whether the merits is based on a contract, tort (including negligence), or other reason, and whether or not those losses could have been reasonably predictable or foreseen.

arrangement

A legal entity (such every bit a corporation, non-turn a profit, or school) and non 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:

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 tin can stream or collaborate with.

trademark

Symbols, names, and images used in commerce that are capable of distinguishing the appurtenances or services of one private or organization from those of another.

warranty

An assurance that a product or service volition perform to a certain standard.

your content

Things that you create, upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share using our services, such as:

Docs, Sheets, and Slides you create
blog posts yous upload through Blogger
reviews yous submit through Maps
videos you store in Drive
emails you send and receive through Gmail
pictures you share with friends through Photos
travel itineraries that you share with Google

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Source: https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-US