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# file generated using the following command (open the link in browser for up-to-date version with html links)
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# o=$(sed -n '1,3p' Google-TOS; lynx -dump http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/); echo "$o" > Google-TOS
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[1]Google
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[2]Policies & Principles
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[3]Skip to content
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1. [4]Overview
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2. Terms of Service
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* Terms of Service
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* [5]Updates
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Google Terms of Service
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Last modified: November 11, 2013 ([6]view archived versions)
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Welcome to Google!
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Thanks for using our products and services (“Services”). The Services are
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provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,
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Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.
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By using our Services, you are agreeing to these terms. Please read them
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carefully.
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Our Services are very diverse, so sometimes additional terms or product
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requirements (including age requirements) may apply. Additional terms will
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be available with the relevant Services, and those additional terms become
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part of your agreement with us if you use those Services.
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Using our Services
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You must follow any policies made available to you within the Services.
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Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services
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or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the
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instructions that we provide. You may use our Services only as permitted
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by law, including applicable export and re-export control laws and
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regulations. We may suspend or stop providing our Services to you if you
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do not comply with our terms or policies or if we are investigating
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suspected misconduct.
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Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual
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property rights in our Services or the content you access. You may not use
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content from our Services unless you obtain permission from its owner or
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are otherwise permitted by law. These terms do not grant you the right to
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use any branding or logos used in our Services. Don’t remove, obscure, or
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alter any legal notices displayed in or along with our Services.
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Our Services display some content that is not Google’s. This content is
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the sole responsibility of the entity that makes it available. We may
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review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our
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policies, and we may remove or refuse to display content that we
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reasonably believe violates our policies or the law. But that does not
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necessarily mean that we review content, so please don’t assume that we
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do.
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In connection with your use of the Services, we may send you service
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announcements, administrative messages, and other information. You may opt
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out of some of those communications.
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Some of our Services are available on mobile devices. Do not use such
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Services in a way that distracts you and prevents you from obeying traffic
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or safety laws.
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Your Google Account
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You may need a Google Account in order to use some of our Services. You
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may create your own Google Account, or your Google Account may be assigned
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to you by an administrator, such as your employer or educational
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institution. If you are using a Google Account assigned to you by an
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administrator, different or additional terms may apply and your
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administrator may be able to access or disable your account.
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To protect your Google Account, keep your password confidential. You are
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responsible for the activity that happens on or through your Google
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Account. Try not to reuse your Google Account password on third-party
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applications. If you learn of any unauthorized use of your password or
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Google Account, [7]follow these instructions.
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Privacy and Copyright Protection
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Google’s [8]privacy policies explain how we treat your personal data and
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protect your privacy when you use our Services. By using our Services, you
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agree that Google can use such data in accordance with our privacy
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policies.
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We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate
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accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S.
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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We provide information to help copyright holders manage their intellectual
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property online. If you think somebody is violating your copyrights and
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want to notify us, you can find information about submitting notices and
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Google’s policy about responding to notices [9]in our Help Center.
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Your Content in our Services
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Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of
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any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short,
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what belongs to you stays yours.
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When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give
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Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store,
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reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from
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translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content
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works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform,
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publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this
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license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving
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our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you
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stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have
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added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and
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remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of
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our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use
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of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the
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necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit
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to our Services.
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If you have a Google Account, we may display your Profile name, Profile
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photo, and actions you take on Google or on third-party applications
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connected to your Google Account (such as +1’s, reviews you write and
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comments you post) in our Services, including displaying in ads and other
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commercial contexts. We will respect the choices you make to limit sharing
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or visibility settings in your Google Account. For example, you can choose
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your settings so your name and photo do not appear in an ad.
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You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content in
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the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Services. If you
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submit feedback or suggestions about our Services, we may use your
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feedback or suggestions without obligation to you.
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About Software in our Services
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When a Service requires or includes downloadable software, this software
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may update automatically on your device once a new version or feature is
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available. Some Services may let you adjust your automatic update
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settings.
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Google gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and
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non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by Google as
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part of the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you
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to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Google, in the
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manner permitted by these terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute,
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sell, or lease any part of our Services or included software, nor may you
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reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code of that software,
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unless laws prohibit those restrictions or you have our written
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permission.
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Open source software is important to us. Some software used in our
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Services may be offered under an open source license that we will make
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available to you. There may be provisions in the open source license that
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expressly override some of these terms.
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Modifying and Terminating our Services
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We are constantly changing and improving our Services. We may add or
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remove functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a Service
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altogether.
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You can stop using our Services at any time, although we’ll be sorry to
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see you go. Google may also stop providing Services to you, or add or
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create new limits to our Services at any time.
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We believe that you own your data and preserving your access to such data
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is important. If we discontinue a Service, where reasonably possible, we
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will give you reasonable advance notice and a chance to get information
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out of that Service.
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Our Warranties and Disclaimers
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We provide our Services using a commercially reasonable level of skill and
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care and we hope that you will enjoy using them. But there are certain
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things that we don’t promise about our Services.
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OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS OR ADDITIONAL TERMS,
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NEITHER GOOGLE NOR ITS SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC
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PROMISES ABOUT THE SERVICES. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS
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ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF THE
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SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR
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NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES “AS IS”.
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SOME JURISDICTIONS PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN WARRANTIES, LIKE THE IMPLIED
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WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
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NON-INFRINGEMENT. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE EXCLUDE ALL
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WARRANTIES.
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Liability for our Services
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WHEN PERMITTED BY LAW, GOOGLE, AND GOOGLE’S SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS,
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WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, OR DATA, FINANCIAL
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LOSSES OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE
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DAMAGES.
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TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF GOOGLE, AND ITS
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SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, FOR ANY CLAIMS UNDER THESE TERMS, INCLUDING
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FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US TO USE
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THE SERVICES (OR, IF WE CHOOSE, TO SUPPLYING YOU THE SERVICES AGAIN).
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IN ALL CASES, GOOGLE, AND ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE
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LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT IS NOT REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.
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Business uses of our Services
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If you are using our Services on behalf of a business, that business
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accepts these terms. It will hold harmless and indemnify Google and its
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affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from any claim, suit or action
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arising from or related to the use of the Services or violation of these
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terms, including any liability or expense arising from claims, losses,
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damages, suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys’ fees.
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About these Terms
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We may modify these terms or any additional terms that apply to a Service
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to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to our Services.
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You should look at the terms regularly. We’ll post notice of modifications
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to these terms on this page. We’ll post notice of modified additional
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terms in the applicable Service. Changes will not apply retroactively and
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will become effective no sooner than fourteen days after they are posted.
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However, changes addressing new functions for a Service or changes made
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for legal reasons will be effective immediately. If you do not agree to
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the modified terms for a Service, you should discontinue your use of that
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Service.
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If there is a conflict between these terms and the additional terms, the
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additional terms will control for that conflict.
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These terms control the relationship between Google and you. They do not
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create any third party beneficiary rights.
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If you do not comply with these terms, and we don’t take action right
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away, this doesn’t mean that we are giving up any rights that we may have
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(such as taking action in the future).
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If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will not
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affect any other terms.
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The laws of California, U.S.A., excluding California’s conflict of laws
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rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or relating to these
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terms or the Services. All claims arising out of or relating to these
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terms or the Services will be litigated exclusively in the federal or
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state courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA, and you and Google
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consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.
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For information about how to contact Google, please visit our [10]contact
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page.
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Good to Know
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* Our Good to Know site helps you stay safe and protect your family’s
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information online. [11]Visit to learn more
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Our legal policies
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* [12]Privacy Policy
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* Terms of Service
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* [13]FAQ
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Some technical details
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* [14]Technologies and Principles
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* [15]Advertising
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* [16]How Google uses cookies
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* [17]How Google uses pattern recognition
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* [18]Types of location data used by Google
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* [19]How Google Wallet uses credit card numbers
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* [20]How Google Voice works
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Change language: [[21]________________________]
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* [22]Google
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* [23]About Google
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* [24]Privacy & Terms
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References
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Visible links
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1. http://www.google.com/
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2. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
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3. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/#content
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4. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
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5. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/archive/
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6. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/archive/
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7. http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58585
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8. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
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9. http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs
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10. http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/
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11. http://www.google.com/intl/en/goodtoknow/
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12. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
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13. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/faq/
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14. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/
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15. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/ads/
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16. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/cookies/
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17. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/pattern-recognition/
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18. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/location-data/
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19. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/wallet/
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20. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/voice/
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22. http://www.google.com/
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23. http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/
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24. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
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