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This clause establishes a contractual obligation for customers to propagate Google's substantive terms downstream to their own end users, creating a chain of contractual compliance and ensuring that Google's intellectual property protections and usage restrictions extend through the customer's service layer to ultimate users.
The updated terms establish a broader definition of activities that are subject to heightened restrictions under the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service. Previously, the definition enumerated specific high-risk categories. The revised language now encompasses any use case where service failure could reasonably be expected to result in death, serious personal injury, or severe environmental or property damage, and explicitly identifies weaponry as a restricted application. Developers and organizations using Google Maps for restricted purposes should review their use cases against the new definition to ensure continued compliance.
View change record →End users of services built on Google Maps Platform will be subject to terms of service that incorporate provisions regarding prohibited conduct, Google's content ownership, and usage limitations, as dictated by this pass-through requirement. The mechanism requires customers to include these specific elements in their own terms rather than permitting independent variation.
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"Customer must ensure that its end users agree to terms of service that are consistent with these Terms and Google's Terms of Service, and that include, at a minimum, provisions regarding: (i) prohibited conduct, (ii) Google's ownership of Maps Platform Content, and (iii) limitations on use of the Maps Platform Content.— Excerpt from Google Maps's Google Maps Platform Terms of Service
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This clause establishes a contractual obligation for customers to propagate Google's substantive terms downstream to their own end users, creating a chain of contractual compliance and ensuring that Google's intellectual property protections and usage restrictions extend through the customer's service layer to ultimate users.
End users of services built on Google Maps Platform will be subject to terms of service that incorporate provisions regarding prohibited conduct, Google's content ownership, and usage limitations, as dictated by this pass-through requirement. The mechanism requires customers to include these specific elements in their own terms rather than permitting independent variation.
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