The URL https://policies.google.com/terms hosts the official Google Terms of Service, which establish the legal agreement and mutual expectations between you and Google as you interact with their ecosystem. Covered Products and Services
The agreement applies broadly across most consumer-facing Google products. This includes Google Search, Google Maps, Google Drive, and Google Nest devices. Specialized services like YouTube or fee-based enterprise systems maintain separate, service-specific terms. Core Commitments
Service Evolution: Google reserves the right to develop, modify, update, or entirely discontinue features or services. They pledge to provide reasonable advance notice if a service shutdown impacts your ability to retrieve your data.
Content Ownership: You retain any intellectual property rights over the text, files, or media you upload or share through their platforms. By uploading content, you grant Google a license solely to operate, host, and improve their services. Explicitly Prohibited Actions
The terms establish strict rules of conduct regarding what you cannot do within their system:
Malicious Behavior: Introducing malware, hacking, spamming, or bypassing protective systems.
System Interventions: Engaging in jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injections outside of authorized bug bounty environments.
Data and Code Mining: Reverse engineering underlying machine learning models to extract trade secrets, or scraping content in defiance of robots.txt instructions.
AI Training Restrictions: Utilizing AI-generated outputs from Google services to train competing machine learning or AI models. Consequences of Non-Compliance Google Terms of Service
22 May 2024 — You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by:introducing malware. * spamming, Google Terms of Service
22 May 2024 — services. The Google services that are subject to these terms are the products and services listed at https://policies.google.com/ Definitions – Privacy & Terms