High, provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium, provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low, standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from YouTube Ads’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
The indemnification obligation means users may be required to bear the financial and legal cost of defending YouTube Ads against third-party claims connected to the user's conduct.
The liability cap limits the maximum financial recovery a user can obtain from YouTube Ads regardless of the nature or severity of the claim.
An as-is disclaimer means users cannot rely on YouTube Ads having made enforceable promises about the Service's quality, reliability, or content.
Suspension or termination of a user's Google account, not just Service access, means the consequences of a breach can extend beyond YouTube Ads to other Google services tied to that account.
This removal right means YouTube Ads can take down a user's Content without the Content having been proven to breach the Agreement, based only on a reasonable belief of breach or potential harm.
These terms set the rules for using YouTube: you own responsibility for what you upload, and by submitting content you give YouTube a broad, free license to use it worldwide. …
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ConductAtlas tracks 1 YouTube Ads documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
YouTube Ads has made 5 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 30 provisions across YouTube Ads's tracked documents. 8 are rated high severity, 20 medium, and 2 low.
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