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| Google Terms of Service |
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| Last modified: March 1, 2012 |
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| Welcome to Google! |
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| 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. |
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| By using our Services, you are agreeing to these terms. Please read |
| them carefully. |
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| 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. |
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| Using our Services |
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| You must follow any policies made available to you within the Services. |
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| Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t 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. |
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| 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. Don’t |
| remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with |
| our Services. |
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| Our Services display some content that is not Google’s. 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 don’t assume that we |
| do. |
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| 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. |
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| Your Google Account |
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| 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. |
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| If you learn of any unauthorized use of your password or account, |
| [6]follow these instructions. |
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| Privacy and Copyright Protection |
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| Google’s [7]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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 Google’s policy about responding to notices |
| [8]in our Help Center. |
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| Your Content in our Services |
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| Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership |
| of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In |
| short, what belongs to you stays yours. |
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| When you upload or otherwise submit content to 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. |
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| 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. |
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| About Software in our Services |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Modifying and Terminating our Services |
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| 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. |
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| You can stop using our Services at any time, although we’ll 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Our Warranties and Disclaimers |
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| 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 don’t promise about our Services. |
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| 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 DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS |
| ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF THE |
| SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR |
| NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES “AS IS”. |
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| 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. |
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| Liability for our Services |
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| WHEN PERMITTED BY LAW, GOOGLE, AND GOOGLE’S SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, |
| WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, OR DATA, FINANCIAL |
| LOSSES OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE |
| DAMAGES. |
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| TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF GOOGLE, AND ITS |
| SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, FOR ANY CLAIM 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). |
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| IN ALL CASES, GOOGLE, AND ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE |
| LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT IS NOT REASONABLY FORESEEABLE. |
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| Business uses of our Services |
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| 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. |
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| About these Terms |
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| 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. We’ll post notice of |
| modifications to these terms on this page. We’ll 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. |
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| If there is a conflict between these terms and the additional terms, |
| the additional terms will control for that conflict. |
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| These terms control the relationship between Google and you. They do |
| not create any third party beneficiary rights. |
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| If you do not comply with these terms, and we don’t take action right |
| away, this doesn’t mean that we are giving up any rights that we may |
| have (such as taking action in the future). |
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| If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will |
| not affect any other terms. |
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| The laws of California, U.S.A., excluding California’s 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. |
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| For information about how to contact Google, please visit our |
| [9]contact page. |
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| References |
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| 1. http://www.google.com/ |
| 2. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/ |
| 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/archive/ |
| 6. http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58585 |
| 7. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ |
| 8. http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs |
| 9. http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/ |
| 10. http://www.google.com/ |
| 11. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/ |