The URL https://policies.google.com/terms hosts the official Google Terms of Service. It is a legally binding agreement that establishes the relationship, mutual expectations, and rules between you and Google when you use its apps, websites, and devices. Core Components of the Terms
What You Can Expect From Google: This outlines how Google provides, updates, and maintains a broad range of services, including apps like Google Search and Google Maps, platforms like Google Shopping, and physical devices like Google Nest.
What Google Expects From You: It establishes basic rules of conduct. You must comply with local laws, respect intellectual property and privacy rights, and avoid harming or disrupting the ecosystem.
Content Permissions: If you upload or store content (like photos on Google Drive), you retain full ownership of your intellectual property. However, you grant Google a license to host, reproduce, and modify that content solely to make the services operate as intended.
Software Licensing: Google grants you a worldwide, personal, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use any downloadable or preloaded software integrated into its services. Strictly Prohibited Actions
The terms explicitly ban abusive and destructive behavior, including:
Distributing malware, hacking, or bypassing system protections.
Reverse engineering Google’s machine learning models to extract trade secrets.
Engaging in adversarial prompting, prompt injection, or jailbreaking outside of approved safety testing.
Scraping content using automated means in defiance of standard robots.txt instructions.
Using AI-generated outputs from Google services to train competing machine learning or AI models. Consequences of Violations 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