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Google Terms of Service

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What's covered in these terms

We know information technology's tempting to skip these Terms of Service, but information technology'south important to found what you tin expect from usa as you use Google services, and what we await from yous.

These Terms of Service reflect the mode Google's business works, the laws that utilise to our visitor, and sure things we've always believed to be true. Equally a effect, these Terms of Service help define Google's relationship with you every bit yous interact with our services. For example, these terms include the following topic headings:

What you can expect from u.s.a., which describes how nosotros provide and develop our services
What we expect from yous, which establishes certain rules for using our services
Content in Google services, which describes the intellectual property rights to the content you lot discover in our services — whether that content belongs to yous, Google, or others
In instance of problems or disagreements, which describes other legal rights you take, and what to look in example someone violates these terms

Understanding these terms is important because, by using our services, you're agreeing to these terms.

As well these terms, we also publish a Privacy Policy. Although it'due south not part of these terms, we encourage you to read it to amend empathize how you tin update, manage, export, and delete your information.

Terms

Service provider

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

Google LLC
organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, Us, and operating under the laws of the United states

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, California 94043
USA

Age requirements

If you're nether the historic period required to manage your ain Google Business relationship, y'all must have your parent or legal guardian's permission to apply a Google Account. Please take your parent or legal guardian read these terms with you lot.

If yous're a parent or legal guardian, and you permit your kid to use the services, then these terms apply to you lot and you lot're responsible for your child's activeness on the services.

Some Google services accept additional age requirements as described in their service-specific additional terms and policies.

Your human relationship with Google

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

What y'all tin expect from us

Provide a broad range of useful services

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 (similar Maps embedded in other companies' apps or sites)
devices (similar Google Nest)

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

Our services are designed to work together, making it easier for y'all to move from one activity to the side by side. For example, if your Agenda event includes an accost, y'all can click on that address and Maps can prove you lot how to get there.

Develop, improve, and update Google services

We're constantly developing new technologies and features to improve our services. For example, we utilise artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide you lot with simultaneous translations, and to better detect and cake spam and malware. Every bit 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 cease offering old ones. When a service requires or includes downloadable software, that software sometimes updates automatically on your device in one case a new version or characteristic is available. Some services let you lot adjust your automatic update settings.

If we brand material changes that negatively touch on your use of our services or if we terminate offer 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 besides provide you with an opportunity to export your content from your Google Account using Google Takeout, field of study to applicable police force and policies.

What we expect from you

Follow these terms and service-specific boosted terms

We also make various policies, assist centers, and other resources available to you to answer common questions and to set up expectations about using our services. These resources include our Privacy Policy, Copyright Assistance Center, Rubber Eye, and other pages accessible from our policies site.

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

Respect others

We desire to maintain a respectful environs for anybody, which means you lot must follow these basic rules of conduct:

comply with applicable laws, including consign control, sanctions, and human trafficking laws
respect the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual property rights
don't corruption 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 spider web to bring you search results, nosotros respect standard usage restrictions that website owners specify in their websites' code, and then nosotros require the same when others use our services

Our service-specific additional terms and policies provide additional details nearly appropriate acquit that everyone using those services must follow. If you detect that others aren't following these rules, many of our services allow yous to report abuse. If we deed on a report of corruption, we also provide the process described in the Taking action in instance of problems section.

Permission to use your content

Some of our services are designed to let you upload, submit, shop, send, receive, or share your content. You have no obligation to provide whatever content to our services and you're gratis to choose the content that you want to provide. If you lot cull to upload or share content, please brand sure you have the necessary rights to exercise so and that the content is lawful.

License

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

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

What'due south covered

This license covers your content if that content is protected past intellectual holding rights.

What's not covered

This license doesn't impact your privacy rights — it's simply almost your intellectual property rights
This license doesn't encompass these types of content:
- publicly-available factual information that yous provide, such as corrections to the address of a local business organization. That information doesn't require a license considering it's considered common noesis that anybody'south free to apply.
- feedback that you offer, such every bit suggestions to meliorate our services. Feedback is covered in the Service-related communications section below.

Scope

This license is:

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

Rights

This license allows Google to:

host, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and utilize your content — for example, to save your content on our systems and make it attainable 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 information technology
sublicense these rights to:
- other users to allow the services to work as designed, such every bit enabling you lot to share photos with people you cull
- our contractors who've signed agreements with united states that are consequent with these terms, only for the limited purposes described in the Purpose department below

Purpose

This license is for the express purpose of:

operating and improving the services, which means allowing the services to piece of work every bit designed and creating new features and functionalities. This includes using automatic systems and algorithms to analyze your content:
- for spam, malware, and illegal content
- to recognize patterns in data, such as determining when to advise a new anthology 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 y'all can alter or plow off in Ads Settings)
This assay occurs as the content is sent, received, and when information technology is stored.
using content y'all'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, nosotros might show a screenshot of the app you offering in the Play Store.
developing new technologies and services for Google consistent with these terms

Elapsing

This license lasts for as long as your content is protected by intellectual property rights.

If you remove from our services any content that'south covered by this license, then our systems will stop making that content publicly bachelor in a reasonable amount of time. There are two exceptions:

If y'all already shared your content with others earlier removing it. For example, if you shared a photo with a friend who and so made a copy of it, or shared it again, then that photo may continue to appear in your friend'south Google Account fifty-fifty afterward yous 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, volition keep to observe and display your content every bit part of their search results.

Using Google services

Your Google Account

If you meet these age requirements you can create a Google Business relationship for your convenience. Some services crave that you have a Google Account in society to work — for example, to use Gmail, yous need a Google Account then that y'all have a place to send and receive your email.

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

Using Google services on behalf of an organization or business organization

Many organizations, such as businesses, non-profits, and schools, take advantage of our services. To utilize our services on behalf of an organization:

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

Service-related communications

To provide you with our services, nosotros sometimes transport you service announcements and other information. To learn more nigh how we communicate with y'all, see Google'due south Privacy Policy.

If you choose to requite u.s.a. feedback, such as suggestions to ameliorate our services, we may human activity on your feedback without obligation to you.

Content in Google services

Your content

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

See the Permission to use your content department for more about your rights in your content, and how your content is used in our services
See the Removing your content section to larn why and how nosotros might remove user-generated content from our services

If yous recollect someone is infringing your intellectual holding rights, you can send us notice of the infringement and we'll have advisable action. For example, we append or close the Google Accounts of repeat copyright infringers as described in our Copyright Assistance Center.

Google content

Some of our services include content that belongs to Google — for example, many of the visual illustrations y'all see in Google Maps. Yous may use Google'southward content as allowed by these terms and any service-specific additional terms, only we retain whatsoever intellectual belongings rights that we have in our content. Don't remove, obscure, or change any of our branding, logos, or legal notices. If you want to use our branding or logos, please encounter the Google Make Permissions page.

Software in Google services

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

The license nosotros give you is:

worldwide, which means it's valid anywhere in the world
not-sectional, which means that nosotros can license the software to others
royalty-free, which ways there are no monetary fees for this license
personal, which ways it doesn't extend to anyone else
not-assignable, which ways you're non allowed to assign the license to anyone else

Some of our services include software that'due south offered nether open source license terms that we brand bachelor to yous. 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.

In instance of problems or disagreements

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

Warranty

We provide our services using reasonable skill and care. If nosotros don't meet the quality level described in this warranty, you lot agree to tell usa and nosotros'll work with you to attempt to resolve the outcome.

Disclaimers

The only commitments nosotros make about our services (including the content in the services, the specific functions of our services, or their reliability, availability, or ability to come across your needs) are provided in (1) the Warranty section; (2) the service-specific additional terms; and (3) laws that can't exist limited past these terms.

Liabilities

For all users

Both the law and these terms try to strike a balance as to what you or Google tin can claim from the other in example of issues. That'due south why the law allows usa to limit certain liabilities — but not others — under these terms.

These terms but limit our responsibilities as allowed by applicable law. 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 above, Google is liable merely for its breaches of these terms or applicable service-specific additional terms, field of study to applicable law.

For concern users and organizations only

If you lot're a business user or organization:

To the extent immune by applicative police force, y'all'll indemnify Google and its directors, officers, employees, and contractors for any third-party legal proceedings (including deportment 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 any liability or expense arising from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees.
If you're legally exempt from sure responsibilities, including indemnification, then those responsibilities don't apply to you nether these terms. For instance, the United Nations enjoys certain 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, concern opportunities, goodwill, or anticipated savings
- indirect or consequential loss
- punitive amercement
Google's total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) Us$500 or (ii) 125% of the fees that you paid to apply the relevant services in the 12 months before the breach

Taking action in example of problems

Before taking action equally described below, we'll provide you with accelerate notice when reasonably possible, describe the reason for our action, and give you an opportunity to fix the trouble, unless we reasonably believe that doing so would:

cause impairment or liability to a user, 3rd 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

Removing your content

If we reasonably believe that any of your content (one) breaches these terms, service-specific additional terms or policies, (2) violates applicable police force, or (3) could damage our users, tertiary parties, or Google, then we reserve the right to take downwards some or all of that content in accord with applicative police force. Examples include child 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 admission to Google services

Google reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the services or delete your Google Account if any of these things happen:

you lot materially or repeatedly alienation these terms, service-specific additional terms or policies
we're required to do then to comply with a legal requirement or a courtroom social club
nosotros reasonably believe that your behave causes harm or liability to a user, third political party, or Google — for case, 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 we do, come across this Help Center folio. If you believe your Google Account has been suspended or terminated in fault, you can appeal.

Of course, you're always costless to finish using our services at any time. If you do stop using a service, nosotros'd appreciate knowing why and then that nosotros can proceed improving our services.

Settling disputes, governing law, and courts

For information about how to contact Google, please visit our contact folio.

California police force 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 exist 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 police prevents certain disputes from being resolved in a California court, then you can file those disputes in your local courts. As well, if applicable local law prevents your local court from applying California police to resolve these disputes, then these disputes will be governed by the applicable local laws of your land, state, or other identify of residence.

About these terms

By law, you have certain rights that tin't be limited past a contract similar these terms of service. These terms are in no mode intended to restrict those rights.

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

We want to brand these terms like shooting fish in a barrel to sympathize, and so we've used examples from our services. But not all services mentioned may exist bachelor in your country.

If these terms disharmonize with the service-specific additional terms, the additional terms volition govern for that service.

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

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

We may update these terms and service-specific boosted terms (1) to reflect changes in our services or how we practise concern — 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 foreclose corruption or impairment.

If we materially change these terms or service-specific additional terms, we'll provide yous with reasonable advance notice and the opportunity to review the changes, except (ane) when nosotros launch a new service or feature, or (2) in urgent situations, such every bit preventing ongoing corruption or responding to legal requirements. If you don't concord to the new terms, yous should remove your content and stop using the services. Y'all can also end your relationship with us at any time 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 post-obit companies that provide consumer services in the European union: Google Ireland Express, Google Commerce Express, and Google Dialer Inc.

concern user

An individual or entity who is non a consumer (see consumer).

consumer

An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of their merchandise, business, arts and crafts, or profession. (Come across business user)

copyright

A legal right that allows the creator of an original piece of work (such as a blog postal service, photo, or video) to decide if and how that original work may exist used past others, subject to certain limitations and exceptions (such as "off-white utilise" and "fair dealing").

country version

If you lot have a Google Account, we associate your business relationship with a state (or territory) so that we can determine:

the Google chapter that provides the services to you and that processes your information as you use the services
the version of the terms that govern our relationship

When you're signed out, your state version is adamant by the location where you're using Google services. If you lot have an account, you can sign in and view these terms to run across the country associated with it.

disclaimer

A argument that limits someone'due south legal responsibilities.

indemnify or indemnity

An individual or organisation's contractual obligation to compensate the losses suffered past another private or arrangement from legal proceedings such every bit lawsuits.

intellectual property rights (IP rights)

Rights over the creations of a person's heed, such equally 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 private, 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 non those losses could accept been reasonably predictable or foreseen.

organization

A legal entity (such every bit a corporation, not-profit, or schoolhouse) 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 appurtenances (like Google Nest)

Many of these services also include content that yous tin 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 some other.

warranty

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

your content

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

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