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“to customize our services for you, such as providing recommendations and personalized search results, content, and ads (which you can change or turn off in Ads Settings)”
“you'll indemnify Google and its directors, officers, employees, and contractors for any third-party legal proceedings (including actions by government authorities) arising out of or relating to your unlawful use of the services...”
“Google isn't liable for: loss of profits, revenues, business opportunities, goodwill, or anticipated savings indirect or consequential losses punitive damages”
“Although we give you permission to use our services, we retain any intellectual property rights we have in the services.”
“Google's total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) $200 or (2) the fees paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months before the dispute”
“The permission we give you to access and use our services continues as long as you comply with: these terms service-specific additional terms”
These terms set the rules for using any Google service: you keep your access only as long as you follow the rules, and Google can suspend or delete your account for serious or repeated violations. Google caps what it will pay you in a dispute at $200 or your last 12 months of fees, whichever is more, and disclaims most warranties. Google personalizes the content, search results, and ads you see using your data, but you can change or turn off personalization in Ads Settings.
Google's Terms of Service establish the conditions under which users may access and use Google's services, conditioning continued permission on ongoing compliance with its terms and service-specific additional terms. Google retains all intellectual property rights in its services and grants users no ownership interests. The document limits Google's total liability to the greater of $200 or fees paid in the prior 12 months, disclaims all express and implied warranties to the extent permitted by applicable law, and excludes liability for lost profits, revenues, goodwill, and consequential or punitive damages. Users bear indemnification obligations for third-party or governmental proceedings arising from their unlawful use, and are subject to account suspension, termination, or deletion for material or repeated breaches. California law governs all disputes arising out of or relating to the terms.
As a user, your access to all Google services depends on continuous compliance with Google's terms, and Google may suspend or delete your account for material or repeated breaches. Google actively uses your data to personalize your recommendations, search results, content, and ads — you can change or turn off this personalization in Ads Settings. If you have a dispute with Google, your recovery is capped at the greater of $200 or fees you paid in the prior 12 months, and you are responsible for any third-party or government legal proceedings that arise from your unlawful use of the services. You may not present AI-generated content from Google's services as human-created, and you may not use that AI-generated content to build or train machine learning models.
Which mapped governance frameworks each document engages, tied to the specific provisions that engage them.
1 important change detected
12 versions captured · Latest change detected by ConductAtlas: July 2026
We withheld clauses we had published from this document. Each withholding is recorded in our correction log:
“to customize our services for you, such as providing recommendations and personalized search results, content, and ads (which you can change or turn off in Ads Settings)”
“you'll indemnify Google and its directors, officers, employees, and contractors for any third-party legal proceedings (including actions by government authorities) arising out of or relating to your unlawful use of the services...”
“Google isn't liable for: loss of profits, revenues, business opportunities, goodwill, or anticipated savings indirect or consequential losses punitive damages”
“Although we give you permission to use our services, we retain any intellectual property rights we have in the services.”
“Google's total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) $200 or (2) the fees paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months before the dispute”
“The permission we give you to access and use our services continues as long as you comply with: these terms service-specific additional terms”
“misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human”
“reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law”
“using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology”
“TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE PROVIDE OUR SERVICES "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.”
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