The URL https://policies.google.com/terms hosts the official Google Terms of Service, which forms a binding legal contract between Google and its users. It sets the mutual expectations, rights, and responsibilities for using Google’s consumer ecosystem, including Search, Maps, Google Shopping, and Google Nest devices.
The core components outlined in this document are organized below. Key Rules of Conduct
Google requires users to maintain a respectful environment. Users must:
Comply with applicable laws, including export controls and sanctions.
Respect the rights of others, specifically focusing on privacy and intellectual property.
Avoid abusive behavior, which includes prohibiting harassment, fraud, phishing, misleading information, and scraping data illegally. Intellectual Property & Your Content
The terms clearly define who owns what when you upload data to Google:
Your content stays yours: You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights in the content you create or share through Google services.
License to Google: When you upload content, you grant Google a worldwide, royalty-free license. This allows Google to host, format, and review the content to operate, improve, and promote its services (such as training spam algorithms or providing search recommendations).
Google’s software: Google grants users a personal, non-exclusive, and non-assignable license to use its downloadable or preloaded apps. However, Google retains all of its own intellectual property rights. Account Termination & Disclaimers Google Terms of Service
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