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The provision's operational significance lies in establishing user access options (authenticated and unauthenticated) and clarifying that privacy configuration mechanisms exist across the Google service ecosystem. This defines the baseline privacy control infrastructure available to account holders.
The updated policy makes several material clarifications about how Google links your activity across websites and apps. It shifts from describing analytics tools in isolation to framing them as part of a broader 'ad and analytics services' ecosystem, and broadens the scope of data linking to explicitly include 'cookies and other technologies'. The policy also clarifies that data sharing occurs even in private browsing modes. Review your Google Account activity controls to understand what data is being collected and linked across services you use.
View change record →Users can access certain Google services without signing in, and the terms authorize users to modify privacy settings to exercise control over data collection and use practices where such settings are available. The specific mechanisms and scope of available privacy controls are not detailed in this clause language.
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We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined: Data from advertising technologies on and off our Services, like web beacons, pixels, ad ta...
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"You can use many Google services when you're signed out or without creating an account at all, like searching on Google or watching YouTube videos. And across our services, you can adjust your privacy settings to control whether we collect some types of data and how we use it.— Excerpt from YouTube Ads's Google Privacy Policy
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The provision's operational significance lies in establishing user access options (authenticated and unauthenticated) and clarifying that privacy configuration mechanisms exist across the Google service ecosystem. This defines the baseline privacy control infrastructure available to account holders.
Users can access certain Google services without signing in, and the terms authorize users to modify privacy settings to exercise control over data collection and use practices where such settings are available. The specific mechanisms and scope of available privacy controls are not detailed in this clause language.
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