The Google Terms of Service (last updated May 22, 2024) act as a contract between you and Google, governing how you use their services—including Search, Gmail, YouTube, and Maps. These terms outline user responsibilities, AI usage rules, content ownership, and policies regarding service suspension. 1. Usage Guidelines and Abuse
Prohibited Activities: You must not abuse Google’s services. Prohibited actions include introducing malware, spamming, hacking, bypassing security measures, or using automated systems to scrape content against robots.txt instructions.
AI Restrictions: You cannot use Google’s services for jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection. You are not allowed to use AI-generated content from Google to develop competing machine learning models.
Legal Compliance: You must use the services legally and not violate intellectual property or privacy rights. 2. Content and Intellectual Property
Your Content: You retain ownership of intellectual property rights (such as copyright) to content you upload or share on Google services.
License to Google: By uploading content, you grant Google a license to use, host, store, reproduce, and modify that content to operate and improve services, though this license is for hosting and providing the service.
Google’s Content: Using Google services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in those services or the content accessed. You cannot use, reproduce, or resell content without permission. 3. Account Security and Service Changes
Responsibility: You are responsible for your account security and any activity conducted through your account.
Service Termination: Google may suspend or stop providing services to you if you violate these terms or if they are investigating suspected misconduct.
Changes to Services: Google constantly updates and changes its services, which may include adding or removing features and functionalities. 4. Liability and Warranties
“As Is” Service: Google provides its services with reasonable skill and care, but does not make specific promises about the quality, reliability, or availability of its services.
Liability Limitations: To the extent permitted by law, Google is not responsible for lost profits, revenues, data, or indirect damages. Terms of Service – Privacy & Terms – Google
You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by:introducing malware. * spamming, Google Terms of Service – Privacy & Terms – Google
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