| Google Terms of Service |
| 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 LLC (“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, follow these |
| instructions. |
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| Privacy and Copyright Protection |
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| Google’s 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 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 contact page. |