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| [1]Google |
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| [2]Policies & Principles |
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| [3]Skip to content |
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| 1. [4]Overview |
| 2. Terms of Service |
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| * Terms of Service |
| * [5]Updates |
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| Google Terms of Service |
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| Last modified: November 11, 2013 ([6]view archived versions) |
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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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| 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. |
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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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| 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, [7]follow these instructions. |
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| Privacy and Copyright Protection |
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| Google’s [8]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 [9]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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| 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 +1’s, 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. |
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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 FUNCTIONS 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 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). |
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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 [10]contact |
| page. |
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| Good to Know |
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| * Our Good to Know site helps you stay safe and protect your family’s |
| information online. [11]Visit to learn more |
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| Our legal policies |
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| * [12]Privacy Policy |
| * Terms of Service |
| * [13]FAQ |
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| Some technical details |
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| * [14]Technologies and Principles |
| * [15]Advertising |
| * [16]How Google uses cookies |
| * [17]How Google uses pattern recognition |
| * [18]Types of location data used by Google |
| * [19]How Google Wallet uses credit card numbers |
| * [20]How Google Voice works |
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| * [22]Google |
| * [23]About Google |
| * [24]Privacy & Terms |
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| References |
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| 5. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/archive/ |
| 6. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/archive/ |
| 7. http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58585 |
| 8. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ |
| 9. http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs |
| 10. http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/ |
| 11. http://www.google.com/intl/en/goodtoknow/ |
| 12. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ |
| 13. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/faq/ |
| 14. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/ |
| 15. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/ads/ |
| 16. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/cookies/ |
| 17. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/pattern-recognition/ |
| 18. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/location-data/ |
| 19. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/wallet/ |
| 20. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/voice/ |
| 22. http://www.google.com/ |
| 23. http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ |
| 24. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/ |