The Google Terms of Service is the legal agreement that defines the relationship, mutual expectations, and rules between you and Google when you use its services. It establishes what you can expect from Google as a provider, and what Google expects from you as a user. Core Expectations and Content Rights
Service Evolution: Google constantly develops and updates its features—such as using artificial intelligence—to improve systems, block malware, and provide translations.
Content Ownership: You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights you hold in the content you upload, submit, or share through Google services.
Usage License: By uploading content, you grant Google a worldwide license to host, reproduce, distribute, and modify your content solely to operate and improve its services. Prohibited Conduct and Abuse
System Disruption: You are strictly forbidden from introducing malware, spamming, hacking, or bypassing any of Google’s protective security measures.
AI Restrictions: You cannot use adversarial prompting, prompt injection, or use AI-generated outputs from Google services to develop competing machine learning models.
Automation Boundaries: Scraping data or using automated scripts and web crawlers to access content is prohibited if it violates robots.txt instructions. Enforcement and Account Actions 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
services. The Google services that are subject to these terms are the products and services listed at https://policies.google.com/
List of services & service-specific additional terms – Privacy & Terms