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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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# lynx -dump http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
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Google Terms of Service
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Last modified: March 1, 2012
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Welcome to Google!
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Thanks for using our products and services (“Services”). The Services
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are provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), located at 1600 Amphitheatre
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Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.
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By using our Services, you are agreeing to these terms. Please read
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them 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
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will be available with the relevant Services, and those additional
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terms become 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
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Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface
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and the instructions that we provide. You may use our Services only as
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permitted by law, including applicable export and re-export control
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laws and regulations. We may suspend or stop providing our Services to
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you if you do not comply with our terms or policies or if we are
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investigating 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
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use content from our Services unless you obtain permission from its
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owner or are otherwise permitted by law. These terms do not grant you
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the right to use any branding or logos used in our Services. Don’t
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remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with
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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
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opt out of some of those communications.
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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
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assigned to you by an administrator, such as your employer or
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educational institution. If you are using a Google Account assigned to
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you by an administrator, different or additional terms may apply and
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your administrator may be able to access or disable your account.
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If you learn of any unauthorized use of your password or account,
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[6]follow these instructions.
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Privacy and Copyright Protection
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Google’s [7]privacy policies explain how we treat your personal data
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and protect your privacy when you use our Services. By using our
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Services, you agree that Google can use such data in accordance with
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our privacy 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
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U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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We provide information to help copyright holders manage their
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intellectual property online. If you think somebody is violating your
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copyrights and want to notify us, you can find information about
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submitting notices and Google’s policy about responding to notices
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[8]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
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of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In
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short, 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,
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store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those
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resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so
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that your content works better with our Services), communicate,
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publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such
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content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited
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purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to
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develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our
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Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google
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Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content
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that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services,
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there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the
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content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary
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rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our
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Services.
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You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content
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in the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Services. If
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you 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
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software may update automatically on your device once a new version or
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feature is available. Some Services may let you adjust your automatic
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update settings.
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Google gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable
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and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by Google
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as part of the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of
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enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided
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by Google, in the manner permitted by these terms. You may not copy,
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modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of our Services or included
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software, nor may you reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source
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code of that software, unless laws prohibit those restrictions or you
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have our written 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
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that 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
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Service 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
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data is important. If we discontinue a Service, where reasonably
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possible, we will give you reasonable advance notice and a chance to
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get information 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
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and care and we hope that you will enjoy using them. But there are
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certain 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 FUNCTION 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 CLAIM 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
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action arising from or related to the use of the Services or violation
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of these terms, including any liability or expense arising from claims,
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losses, damages, suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys’
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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
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Service to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to our
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Services. You should look at the terms regularly. We’ll post notice of
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modifications to these terms on this page. We’ll post notice of
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modified additional terms in the applicable Service. Changes will not
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apply retroactively and will become effective no sooner than fourteen
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days after they are posted. However, changes addressing new functions
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for a Service or changes made for legal reasons will be effective
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immediately. If you do not agree to the modified terms for a Service,
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you should discontinue your use of that Service.
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If there is a conflict between these terms and the additional terms,
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the additional terms will control for that conflict.
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These terms control the relationship between Google and you. They do
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not 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
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have (such as taking action in the future).
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If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will
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not 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
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[9]contact page.
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[English__________________]
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* [10]Google
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* [11]Privacy & Terms
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References
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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/
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4. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
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5. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/archive/
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6. http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58585
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7. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
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8. http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs
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9. http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/
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10. http://www.google.com/
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11. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
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