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.
COPPA in the US and equivalent laws in other jurisdictions impose strict requirements on data collection from children, and the effectiveness of Google's age-gating and automatic protections is mater…
Precise geolocation is a sensitive data category under GDPR and CPRA, and its collection via multiple sensor types including background signals from nearby devices goes beyond what many users expect …
This means your activity on non-Google websites that display Google ads or use Google Analytics can be linked to your Google account and used to target advertising, significantly expanding the scope …
Parents and guardians who consent to their child's YouTube use accept the full indemnification and liability provisions of the Terms on behalf of their child, including potential financial obligation…
This indemnification clause creates a potentially significant and open-ended financial obligation for users, including legal defense costs, that persists indefinitely after account closure.
This is Google's main Privacy Policy, which covers all Google services including YouTube and the advertising system that shows you ads across the web and on YouTube. The most important …
This is YouTube's Terms of Service, the legal agreement that governs everything you do on the platform including watching, uploading, and interacting with content. The most important thing to know …
YouTube Ads updated its Google Privacy Policy on April 18, 2026, making several changes to how it describes data collection and linking across services. Key changes include clarifying that activity …
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ConductAtlas tracks 2 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 7 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 36 provisions across YouTube Ads's tracked documents. 10 are rated high severity, 22 medium, and 4 low.
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