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The clause prohibits not only direct health or safety claims but also ad content that encourages audience behaviour that is prejudicial to health or safety, covering indirect promotion.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a fragment beginning with '(iii)', indicating it is one item in a larger list of prohibitions. Other items in that list are not visible, so this analysis covers only the stated sub-clause. The scope of 'prejudicial to health or safety' is not further defined in the excerpt.
Readers are protected from ads served through Google Ads that encourage behaviour prejudicial to their health or safety.
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"(iii) encourage behaviour prejudicial to health or safetyExcerpt from Google Ads's Policy: Legal Requirements
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The clause prohibits not only direct health or safety claims but also ad content that encourages audience behaviour that is prejudicial to health or safety, covering indirect promotion.
Readers are protected from ads served through Google Ads that encourage behaviour prejudicial to their health or safety.
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