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The clause establishes Google's unilateral right to alter API functionality and service terms without requiring user consent in advance. The operational significance is that the service terms and API capabilities are not fixed contractual commitments but subject to modification at Google's discretion.
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 →Users who continue using the Maps API after notification of changes are bound by the modified terms and any API modifications, regardless of whether those changes affect their use case or business model. Users must actively cease service use to avoid acceptance of changes.
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We may modify these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes to these Terms, we will notify you by updating the date at the top of these Terms and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification). Your ...
"Content" means anything you or your Customers create or make available through the Service in connection with your Account, including your intellectual property (e.g. trademarks, trade names, service marks, and copyrighted works); the products or services you offer (e.g., courses, coaching, members...
By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Content you grant Kit, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Content in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, trans...
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"Changes to the Terms. Google may change these Terms at any time, and Google may add to, modify, or discontinue any aspect or feature of the Maps API(s) at any time. If you do not agree to any change to the Terms, you must discontinue use of the Maps API(s). Your continued use of any Maps API after notice of such changes shall constitute your agreement to such changes.— Excerpt from Google Maps's Google Maps Platform Terms of Service
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The clause establishes Google's unilateral right to alter API functionality and service terms without requiring user consent in advance. The operational significance is that the service terms and API capabilities are not fixed contractual commitments but subject to modification at Google's discretion.
Users who continue using the Maps API after notification of changes are bound by the modified terms and any API modifications, regardless of whether those changes affect their use case or business model. Users must actively cease service use to avoid acceptance of changes.
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