Google Privacy Policy

Every website in the world has some important policies. Which everyone must comply with in order to visit or use their site. So Google has also some privacy policies. In order to obtain Google products or services, we must comply with Google Privacy policy.

Google Privacy Policy

Why Google collects Your information?

 Google primarily collects information necessary to help visitors or us. Google collects our information to help us update, manage, export, and delete our information.

Google creates a range of services that help millions of people discover and interact with the world in new ways every day.

Google services include:

Google Apps, Sites and Devices, Docs, Spreadsheets, Google Ads, Google Adsense, Platforms like Search, YouTube, Google Home, Chrome, and the Android operating system.

Third-party applications and services are integrated on the site, such as advertising, analytics, and embedded Google Maps.

You can use Google services to manage your privacy in several ways. For example, you can sign up for a Google Account to create and manage content such as emails and photos, or to see more relevant search results. And you can use many Google services without signing out or creating an account, such as searching on Google or watching videos on YouTube. You can also choose to browse the web in private modes, such as Chrome’s incognito mode.

Google collects the data it needs to better serve all Google users—from basic things like finding out what language you speak to more complex things like the ads you find most useful.

 Who is most important to you online or which YouTube videos do you like? The data that Google collects and how that data is used depends on how you use Google services and how you manage your privacy controls.

When you are not signed in to your Google Account, Google stores the information collected by Google with a unique identifier associated with the browser, application, or device you are using. This allows us to do things like maintaining your preferences during your browsing sessions, such as showing you more relevant search results or advertising based on your preferred language or activity.

When you sign in, Google also collects information that Google stores with your Google Account, which Google considers personal data.

When you create a Google Account, you provide your personal information, which includes your name and password. You can also choose to add a phone number or payment information to your account. Even if you’re not signed in to a Google Account, you can choose to provide us with information, such as an email address to send you updates about Google services.

Google also collects content that you create, upload, or receive from others while using Google services. This includes things like the emails you write and receive, the photos and videos you save, the documents and spreadsheets you create, and the comments you add to YouTube videos.

Google collects information about the applications, browsers, and devices you use to access Google services, which helps us provide features such as automatic product updates and screen dimming when the battery is low.

The information Google collects includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including the carrier name and phone number, and app version number. Google collects information about your applications, browsers, and device interactions with Google services, including IP addresses, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referring URL of your request.

Google collects this information when a Google service on your device communicates with a Google server – for example, when you install an app from the Play Store or when the service checks for automatic updates. If you use an Android device with the Google app, your device regularly communicates with Google servers to provide information about your device and connection to Google services. This information includes your device type and carrier name, crash reports, what apps you have installed, and depending on your device settings, other information about how you use your Android device.

Your Activity

Google collects information about your activity on Google services, which Google uses to, for example, recommend a YouTube video that you might like. Activity information that Google collects may include:

• The terms you are looking for
• The videos you watch
• Viewing and interacting with content and advertising
• Voice and audio information
• Shopping activity
• People you communicate with or share content with
• Activity on third-party websites and applications that use our services
• Chrome browsing history that you have synced with your Google Account

If you use Google services to make and receive calls or send and receive messages, Google may collect your phone number, caller number, recipient number, forwarding number, sender and recipient email addresses, call time, and the like. news. Log information may collect call and message data, call duration, routing information, and the type and amount of calls and messages.

To find and manage the activity information stored in your account, you can go to your Google Account.

Location Information Collect

Google collects information about your location when you use Google services, which helps us offer features like driving directions, search results for things near you, and ads based on your general location.

Your location can be determined with varying degrees of accuracy:

• GPS and other sensor data from your device
• IP address
• Activity on Google services, such as your searches and places you mark as home or work
• Information about things near your device, such as Wi-Fi hotspots, Cell to Web, and Bluetooth-enabled devices

The type of location data Google collects and how long it keeps depends on your device and account settings. For example, you can use the Device Settings app to turn your Android device’s location on or off. You can turn on Location History and create a personal map of the places you visit with your signed-in devices. And if you have web and app activity settings enabled, your searches and other activity from Google services, which may include location information, are saved to your Google Account. Read more about how Google uses location information.

In certain circumstances, Google also collects information about you from publicly available sources. For example, if your name appears in your local newspaper, the Google search engine can index that article and show it to other people when they search for your name. Google may also collect information about you from trusted partners, such as directory services that provide us with business information displayed on Google services, marketing partners that provide us with information about potential customers of Google Business Services, and security partners that provide us with protection against abuse. Information about it. Google also receives information from advertising partners to provide advertising and research services on their behalf

Google uses various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, and local storage such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs.

Google uses data to create better services

Google uses the information collected by Google from all Google services for the following purposes:

Provide Google services

Google uses your information to provide Google services, such as processing your search queries to return results or helping you share content by suggesting recipients from your contacts.

Maintain and improve Google services

Google also uses your information to ensure that Google services work as they should, such as monitoring outages or fixing problems you report to us. And Google uses your information to improve Google services – for example, understanding which search terms are misspelled most often helps us improve the spell-checking features used in all Google services.

Develop new services

Using the information Google collects about existing services helps us develop new ones. For example, understanding how people organize their photos in Picasa, Google’s first photo app, helped us design and launch Google Photos.

Provide personalized services, including content and advertising

Google uses the information Google collects to customize Google services for you, including providing recommendations, personalized content, and customized search results. For example, Security Check provides security tips tailored to how you use Google products. And Google Play uses information like the apps you’ve already installed and the videos you’ve watched on YouTube to suggest new apps you might like.

Depending on your settings, Google may also show you personalized ads based on your interests. For example, if you search for “mountain bike,” you may see an ad for sports equipment while browsing a site that displays ads from Google. You can control what information Google uses to display ads in your ad settings.

• Google doesn’t show you personalized ads based on sensitive categories like race, religion, sexual orientation, or health.
• Google doesn’t show you personalized ads based on your Drive, Gmail, or Photos content.
• Google does not share information that personally identifies you, such as your name or email, with advertisers unless you ask us to do so. For example, if you see an ad for a nearby florist and select the tap-to-call button, Google will connect your call and may share your phone number with the florist.

Measure performance

Google uses data for analysis and measurement to understand how Google services are used. For example, Google analyzes data about your visits to Google Sites to do things like optimize product design. Google also uses data about the ads you interact with to help advertisers understand the performance of their ad campaigns. Google uses various tools to do this, including Google Analytics. When you visit websites or use apps that use Google Analytics, a Google Analytics subscriber can enable Google to link information about your activity from that website or app with activity on other websites or apps that use Google advertising services.

Communicate with you

Google uses information collected from Google, such as your email address, to contact you directly. For example, Google may send you a notification if it detects suspicious activity, such as an attempt to sign in to your Google Account from an unusual location. Or, Google may inform you about upcoming changes or improvements to Google services. And if you contact Google, Google will keep a record of your request to help you resolve any issues you may encounter.

Protect Google, Google users, and the public

Google uses the information to improve the security and reliability of Google services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that could harm Google, its users, or the public.

Google uses various technologies to process your information for this purpose. Google uses automatic systems that analyze your content to provide you with customized search results, personalized advertising, or other features tailored to how you use Google services. And Google analyzes your content to help us detect abuse such as spam, malware, and illegal content. Google also uses algorithms to recognize patterns in data. For example, Google Translate helps people communicate in different languages ​​by identifying common language patterns in the phrases you ask them to translate.

Google may collect information collected by Google within Google services and on your device for the purposes described above. For example, if you watch videos of guitar players on YouTube, you may see ads for guitar lessons on a site that uses Google advertising products. Depending on your account settings, your activity on other websites and applications may be linked to your personal data in order to improve Google services and the advertisements displayed by Google.

If other users already have your email address or other information that identifies you, Google may show them publicly visible Google Account information, such as your name and photo. This helps people identify your email, for example.

Before using your data for purposes not covered by this Privacy Policy, Google will ask for your consent.

Control your privacy

You have a choice about what information Google collects and how it uses it

This section describes the key controls for managing your privacy in Google services. You can also visit the privacy control, which offers the opportunity to review and adjust important privacy settings. In addition to these tools, Google also offers specific privacy settings in Google services – you can learn more in the Google Privacy Guide

Manage, review and update your information

When you log in, you can review and update your information at any time by viewing the services you use. For example, both Photos and Drive are designed to help you manage certain types of content stored on Google

Google has also created a place to review and review the information stored in your Google Account. Your Google Account includes:

Privacy Protection

Activity control

Decide what kind of activity you want to save to your account. For example, if you have YouTube history turned on, the videos you watch and things you search for are saved to your account so you can get better recommendations and remember where you left off. And if you have web and app activity turned on, your searches and activity from other Google services are saved to your account, so you can get a more personalized experience, like faster searches and more useful app and content recommendations. Web and app activity also has a subset that lets you control whether information about your activity on other websites, apps, and devices that use Google services, such as apps you install and use on Android, is stored and used in your account Google. whether to improve Google services.

Ad settings

Manage your preferences for the ads you see on Google and on websites and apps that partner with Google to serve ads. You can adjust your interests, choose whether your personal information is used to make advertisements more relevant to you, and turn certain advertising services on or off.

About you

Manage personal data in your Google Account and control who can see it in Google services.

Shared authorization

Choose whether your name and photo appear next to your activity, such as reviews and recommendations that appear in ads

Websites and applications that use Google services

Manage the information that websites and apps may share with Google when you visit or interact with their services using Google services such as Google Analytics.

Ways to review and update your information

My Activity

My Activity allows you to review and control the data stored in your Google Account when you are signed in and using Google services, such as your searches or visits to Google Play. You can browse by date and topic and delete part or all of your activity.

Google Dashboard

Google Dashboard allows you to manage information related to specific products.

Your personal information

Manage your contact information such as your name, email, and phone number.

Once you’ve signed out, you can manage information related to your browser or device, including:

• Logout Search Personalization: Choose whether your search activity should offer more relevant results and recommendations
• YouTube settings: Stop and delete YouTube search history and YouTube watch history.
• Ad Settings: Manage your preferences for the ads you see on Google and on websites and apps that are Google’s ad-serving partners.

Export, delete, and delete your data

You can export a copy of the content to your Google Account if you want to back it up or use it with a non-Google service.

You may also request the removal of content from certain Google services based on applicable laws

To delete your data, you can:

• Delete your content from certain Google services
• Find and then remove specific items from your account using our actions
• Delete specific Google services, including your information associated with those services
• Finally, Inactive Account Manager lets you give someone else access to parts of your Google Account if you’re unexpectedly unable to use your account.

Whether you’re signed in to a Google Account or not, there are other ways to control the information Google collects, including:

• Browser settings: For example, you can configure your browser to indicate that Google has set a cookie in your browser. You can configure your browser to block all cookies from a specific domain or from all domains. However, remember that Google services rely on cookies to function properly, such as remembering your language preferences.
• Device-level settings: Your device may have controls that determine what information Google collects. For example, you can change the location settings on your Android device.

When Google Shares Your Information

Many Google services allow you to share information with other people, and you have control over how you share it. For example, you can share videos publicly on YouTube, or you can choose to keep your videos private. Remember that when you share information publicly, your content may be accessible through search engines, including Google Search.

When you sign in and use certain Google services, such as commenting on a YouTube video or reviewing an app on Play, your name and photo will appear next to your activity. Google may also display this information in ads depending on your shared recommendation settings.

When Google shares your information

Google does not share your personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google except in the following cases:

With your consent

Google will share personal data outside of Google with your consent. For example, if you use Google Home to make a reservation through a reservation service, Google will ask for your permission before sharing your name or phone number with a restaurant. Google will ask for your express consent to share any sensitive personal data.

With domain administrators

If you are a student or work for an organization that uses Google services, your domain administrator who manages your account will have access to your Google Account. They may be able to:

• Retrieve and retain information stored in your account, such as your email
• View statistics about your account, such as how many apps you’ve installed
• Change your account password
• Suspend or terminate access to your account
• Obtain information about your account to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable government requests
• Limit your ability to delete or modify your information or privacy settings

For external processing

Google provides personal data to Google affiliates and other trusted companies or individuals to process it for us based on Google’s instructions and in accordance with Google’s privacy policy and other appropriate privacy and security measures. For example, Google uses service providers to operate data centers, provide Google products and services, improve Google’s internal business processes, and provide additional support to customers and users. Google uses service providers to analyze and listen to stored user audio samples to help review YouTube video content for public safety and to improve Google’s audio recognition technology.

For legal reasons

Google will share personal information outside of Google if Google believes that access, use, storage, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary:

• Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requirements. Google shares information about the numbers and requests it receives from the government in the Google Transparency Report.
• Apply applicable terms and conditions, including investigating potential violations.
• Detect, prevent or otherwise resolve fraud, security or technical issues.
• Protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of Google, Google users, or the public as required or permitted by law.

Google may share non-identifying information publicly and with Google’s partners – such as publishers, advertisers, developers, or rights holders. For example, Google shares information publicly to show trends in general usage of Google services. Google allows certain partners to collect information from your browser or device for advertising and measurement purposes using their own cookies or similar technologies.

If Google is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, Google will continue to ensure the privacy of your personal information and will notify affected users before personal information is transferred or subject to other privacy policies.

Google builds security into Google services to keep your information safe

All Google products are built with strong security features to keep your information safe at all times. Statistics that Google obtains when maintaining Google services help us identify and automatically block security threats from reaching you. And if Google detects any risks that Google thinks you should know about, Google will notify you and help you take steps to better protect yourself.

Google works hard to protect you and Google from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information stored by Google, including:

• Google uses encryption to keep your data private during transit
• Google offers a number of security features such as Safe Browsing, Security Checks, and Two-Step Verification to help keep your account secure.
• Google controls data collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized access to Google systems.
• Google restricts access to personal data to employees, contractors, and agents who need this information for processing. Anyone with this access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to comply.

Export and delete Our data

You can export a copy of your information or delete it from your Google Account at any time

You can export a copy of the content to your Google Account if you want to back it up or use it with a non-Google service.

To delete your data, you can:

• Delete your content from certain Google services
• Find and then remove specific items from your account using the My Actions feature
• Delete specific Google services, including your information associated with those services
• Google keeps the data it collects for different periods of time depending on how Google uses it and how you configure your settings:

You can delete some data at any time, such as content you’ve created or uploaded. You can also delete the activity information stored in your account or choose to have it automatically deleted after a certain period of time

Other data are automatically deleted or anonymized after a certain period of time, such as advertising data in server logs.

Until you delete your Google Account, Google keeps some data, such as information about how often you use Google services.

And some data is retained by Google longer when necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes, such as security, fraud and abuse prevention, or financial record keeping.

When you delete data, Google follows a deletion process to ensure that your data is securely and completely removed from Google’s servers or kept only in anonymized form. Google strives to ensure that Google services protect information from accidental or intentional deletion. Because of this, there may be a delay between when you delete something and when Google removes the copies from the active and backup systems.

You can read more about Google’s data retention period, including how long it takes us to delete your information.

Compliance and cooperation with regulators

Google regularly reviews this privacy policy and ensures that Google processes your information in a manner consistent with it.

Our Data transfer

Google maintains servers around the world and your information may be processed on servers located outside the country where you live. Data protection laws vary from country to country, with some providing more protection than others. Regardless of where your information is processed, Google applies the same protections described in this policy. Google also complies with certain legal frameworks regarding data transfers.

When Google receives a formal written complaint, it will respond by contacting the person who filed the complaint. Google cooperates with relevant regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of your data that Google cannot resolve directly with you.

About this policy

When this Google policy applies

This Privacy Policy applies to all services offered by Google LLC and its affiliates, including services offered on third-party websites such as YouTube, Android, and advertising services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to services that have separate privacy policies that are not covered by this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy does not apply to:

• Information practices of other companies and organizations that advertise Google services
• Services provided by other companies or individuals, including products or websites they offer, which may include Google services to which the policy applies or products or pages that appear to you in search results or link to Google services.

Changes to this policy

Google changes this privacy policy from time to time. Google will not waive your rights under this Privacy Policy without your express consent. Google always lists the date when the last changes were published and offers access to archived versions for your review. If the changes are material, Google will provide more specific notice (for some services, including email notification of privacy policy changes).

Some Google services

The following privacy notices provide additional information about certain Google services:

• Chrome and the Chrome OS
• Method of payment
• fiber
• Google Fi
• Google Workspace for Education
• reading together
• YouTube Kids
• Google Accounts managed through Family Link for children under 13 (or the applicable age in your country).
• Family Link Privacy Policy for Children and Teens
• Features of collecting voice and audio from children in Google Assistant

If you are a member of an organization that uses Google Workspace or Google Cloud Platform, read how these services collect and use your personal information in the Google Cloud Privacy Notice.

Other useful resources

The following links highlight useful resources where you can learn more about Google’s practices and privacy settings

Your Google Account is home to many settings you can use to manage your account

The Privacy Checker guides you through the basic privacy settings of your Google Account

The Google Safety Center helps you learn more about built-in security, privacy controls, and Google tools to help you set basic digital rules for your family online.

Google’s Teen Privacy Guide answers some of the most common privacy questions Google asks

Privacy and Terms provide additional context regarding this Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service

Additional technology information includes:

• How Google uses cookies
• Technologies used for advertising
• How Google uses pattern recognition to recognize things like faces in photos
• How Google uses information from websites or applications that use Google services.

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