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Google Terms of Service
Last modified: April 14, 2014 ([9]view archived versions)
Welcome to Google!
Thanks for using our products and services (“Services”). The Services
are provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), located at 1600 Amphitheatre
Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.
By using our Services, you are agreeing to these terms. Please read
them carefully.
Our Services are very diverse, so sometimes additional terms or product
requirements (including age requirements) may apply. Additional terms
will be available with the relevant Services, and those additional
terms become part of your agreement with us if you use those Services.
Using our Services
You must follow any policies made available to you within the Services.
Dont misuse our Services. For example, dont interfere with our
Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface
and the instructions that we provide. You may use our Services only as
permitted by law, including applicable export and re-export control
laws and regulations. We may suspend or stop providing our Services to
you if you do not comply with our terms or policies or if we are
investigating suspected misconduct.
Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual
property rights in our Services or the content you access. You may not
use content from our Services unless you obtain permission from its
owner or are otherwise permitted by law. These terms do not grant you
the right to use any branding or logos used in our Services. Dont
remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with
our Services.
Our Services display some content that is not Googles. This content is
the sole responsibility of the entity that makes it available. We may
review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our
policies, and we may remove or refuse to display content that we
reasonably believe violates our policies or the law. But that does not
necessarily mean that we review content, so please dont assume that we
do.
In connection with your use of the Services, we may send you service
announcements, administrative messages, and other information. You may
opt out of some of those communications.
Some of our Services are available on mobile devices. Do not use such
Services in a way that distracts you and prevents you from obeying
traffic or safety laws.
Your Google Account
You may need a Google Account in order to use some of our Services. You
may create your own Google Account, or your Google Account may be
assigned to you by an administrator, such as your employer or
educational institution. If you are using a Google Account assigned to
you by an administrator, different or additional terms may apply and
your administrator may be able to access or disable your account.
To protect your Google Account, keep your password confidential. You
are responsible for the activity that happens on or through your Google
Account. Try not to reuse your Google Account password on third-party
applications. If you learn of any unauthorized use of your password or
Google Account, [10]follow these instructions.
Privacy and Copyright Protection
Googles [11]privacy policies explain how we treat your personal data
and protect your privacy when you use our Services. By using our
Services, you agree that Google can use such data in accordance with
our privacy policies.
We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate
accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the
U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
We provide information to help copyright holders manage their
intellectual property online. If you think somebody is violating your
copyrights and want to notify us, you can find information about
submitting notices and Googles policy about responding to notices
[12]in our Help Center.
Your Content in our Services
Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or
receive content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property
rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you
stays yours.
When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through
our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide
license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works
(such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other
changes we make so that your content works better with our Services),
communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute
such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited
purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to
develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our
Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google
Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content
that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services,
there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the
content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary
rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our
Services.
Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to
provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized
search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection.
This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is
stored.
If you have a Google Account, we may display your Profile name, Profile
photo, and actions you take on Google or on third-party applications
connected to your Google Account (such as +1s, reviews you write and
comments you post) in our Services, including displaying in ads and
other commercial contexts. We will respect the choices you make to
limit sharing or visibility settings in your Google Account. For
example, you can choose your settings so your name and photo do not
appear in an ad.
You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content
in the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Services. If
you submit feedback or suggestions about our Services, we may use your
feedback or suggestions without obligation to you.
About Software in our Services
When a Service requires or includes downloadable software, this
software may update automatically on your device once a new version or
feature is available. Some Services may let you adjust your automatic
update settings.
Google gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable
and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by Google
as part of the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of
enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided
by Google, in the manner permitted by these terms. You may not copy,
modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of our Services or included
software, nor may you reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source
code of that software, unless laws prohibit those restrictions or you
have our written permission.
Open source software is important to us. Some software used in our
Services may be offered under an open source license that we will make
available to you. There may be provisions in the open source license
that expressly override some of these terms.
Modifying and Terminating our Services
We are constantly changing and improving our Services. We may add or
remove functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a
Service altogether.
You can stop using our Services at any time, although well be sorry to
see you go. Google may also stop providing Services to you, or add or
create new limits to our Services at any time.
We believe that you own your data and preserving your access to such
data is important. If we discontinue a Service, where reasonably
possible, we will give you reasonable advance notice and a chance to
get information out of that Service.
Our Warranties and Disclaimers
We provide our Services using a commercially reasonable level of skill
and care and we hope that you will enjoy using them. But there are
certain things that we dont promise about our Services.
OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS OR ADDITIONAL TERMS,
NEITHER GOOGLE NOR ITS SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC
PROMISES ABOUT THE SERVICES. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DONT MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS
ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF THE
SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR
NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES AS IS”.
SOME JURISDICTIONS PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN WARRANTIES, LIKE THE IMPLIED
WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE EXCLUDE ALL
WARRANTIES.
Liability for our Services
WHEN PERMITTED BY LAW, GOOGLE, AND GOOGLES SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS,
WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, OR DATA, FINANCIAL
LOSSES OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE
DAMAGES.
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF GOOGLE, AND ITS
SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, FOR ANY CLAIMS UNDER THESE TERMS, INCLUDING
FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US TO USE
THE SERVICES (OR, IF WE CHOOSE, TO SUPPLYING YOU THE SERVICES AGAIN).
IN ALL CASES, GOOGLE, AND ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE
LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT IS NOT REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.
Business uses of our Services
If you are using our Services on behalf of a business, that business
accepts these terms. It will hold harmless and indemnify Google and its
affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from any claim, suit or
action arising from or related to the use of the Services or violation
of these terms, including any liability or expense arising from claims,
losses, damages, suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys
fees.
About these Terms
We may modify these terms or any additional terms that apply to a
Service to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to our
Services. You should look at the terms regularly. Well post notice of
modifications to these terms on this page. Well post notice of
modified additional terms in the applicable Service. Changes will not
apply retroactively and will become effective no sooner than fourteen
days after they are posted. However, changes addressing new functions
for a Service or changes made for legal reasons will be effective
immediately. If you do not agree to the modified terms for a Service,
you should discontinue your use of that Service.
If there is a conflict between these terms and the additional terms,
the additional terms will control for that conflict.
These terms control the relationship between Google and you. They do
not create any third party beneficiary rights.
If you do not comply with these terms, and we dont take action right
away, this doesnt mean that we are giving up any rights that we may
have (such as taking action in the future).
If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will
not affect any other terms.
The laws of California, U.S.A., excluding Californias conflict of laws
rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or relating to these
terms or the Services. All claims arising out of or relating to these
terms or the Services will be litigated exclusively in the federal or
state courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA, and you and Google
consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.
For information about how to contact Google, please visit our
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References
1. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
2. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/#content
3. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
4. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
5. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
6. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/
7. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/faq/
8. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/archive/
9. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/archive/
10. http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58585
11. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
12. http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs
13. http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/
14. http://www.google.com/safetycenter/families/start/
15. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
16. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/faq/
17. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/
18. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/ads/
19. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/cookies/
20. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/pattern-recognition/
21. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/location-data/
22. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/wallet/
23. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/voice/
24. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/
25. http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/
26. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/