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The prohibition extends to hashed data and to third-party facilitation, meaning any indirect transmission of recognizable PII to Google through the user's platform is also prohibited.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is slightly truncated after 'policies' but the core prohibition and exception structure are unambiguously stated in the quoted language.
The reader is prohibited from transmitting, and from assisting or permitting any third party to transmit, any information Google could use or recognize as personally identifiable—hashed or otherwise—to Google, except as the applicable policies allow.
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The prohibition extends to hashed data and to third-party facilitation, meaning any indirect transmission of recognizable PII to Google through the user's platform is also prohibited.
The reader is prohibited from transmitting, and from assisting or permitting any third party to transmit, any information Google could use or recognize as personally identifiable—hashed or otherwise—to Google, except as the applicable policies allow.
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