Terms and Conditions

We provide a broad range of services that are subject to these terms, including:

• apps and sites (like Search and Maps)
• platforms (like Google Shopping)
• integrated services (like Maps embedded in other companies’ apps or sites)
• devices (like Google Nest and Pixel)

We are constantly developing new technologies and features to improve our services. For example, we use artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide you with simultaneous translations, and to better detect and block spam and malware. As part of this continual improvement, we sometimes add or remove features and functionalities, increase or decrease limits to our services, and start offering new services or stop offering old ones. When a service requires or includes downloadable or preloaded software, that software sometimes updates automatically on your device once a new version or feature is available. Some services let you adjust your automatic update settings.

If we make material changes that negatively impact your use of our services or if we stop offering a service, we will provide you with reasonable advance notice, except in urgent situations such as preventing abuse, responding to legal requirements, or addressing security and operability issues. We will also provide you with an opportunity to export your content from your Google Account using Google Takeout, subject to applicable law and policies.

We also make various policies, help centres, and other resources available to you to answer common questions and to set expectations about using our services. These resources include our Privacy Policy, Copyright Help Centre, Safety Centre, Transparency Centre, and other pages accessible from our policies site. Finally, we may provide specific instructions and warnings within our services—such as dialogue boxes that alert you to important information.

Although we give you permission to use our services, we retain any intellectual property rights we have in the services.

Our service-specific additional terms and policies, such as our Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy, provide additional details about appropriate conduct that everyone using those services must follow. If you find that others are not following these rules, many of our services allow you to report abuse. If we act on a report of abuse, we also provide the process described in the Taking action in case of problems section.

Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people do not respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit:

You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems—for example, by:

• introducing malware
• spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures
• jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programmes
• accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as:
  • phishing
  • creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews
  • misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human
  • providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us
• providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not
• using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights
• 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 automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities)
• using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology
• hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms
• providing services that encourage others to violate these terms