The policy places sole responsibility on advertisers to identify and comply with all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations for every geography where their ads are served, in addition to Google's own policies.
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This provision requires advertisers to independently research and maintain compliance with the full scope of legal requirements in every jurisdiction where their ads appear, which is a materially significant obligation for advertisers running multinational campaigns across Google's global network.
This clause establishes that Google does not assume responsibility for ensuring that individual advertiser campaigns meet local legal requirements in each targeted geography, placing that compliance burden entirely on the advertiser.
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Compare across platforms →"Google requires that advertisers comply with all applicable laws and regulations and the Google policies described above. It's important that you familiarize yourself with and keep up to date on these requirements for the places where your business operates, as well as any other places your ads are showing.Excerpt from Google Ads's Advertising Policies Overview
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision is relevant across all advertising regulatory frameworks including the FTC Act, GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, CCPA, CAN-SPAM Act, local financial advertising disclosure laws, pharmaceutical advertising regulations, and political campaign finance laws.
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This provision requires advertisers to independently research and maintain compliance with the full scope of legal requirements in every jurisdiction where their ads appear, which is a materially significant obligation for advertisers running multinational campaigns across Google's global network.
This clause establishes that Google does not assume responsibility for ensuring that individual advertiser campaigns meet local legal requirements in each targeted geography, placing that compliance burden entirely on the advertiser.
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