The URL https://policies.google.com/terms hosts the official Google Terms of Service, which forms a binding legal contract between you and Google. It defines your rights, responsibilities, and rules of conduct when utilizing core Google products like Search, Maps, and Shopping. Core Components
User Content Rights: You retain ownership of any intellectual property you upload or share (like photos or documents). However, you grant Google a license to host, distribute, and reproduce that content to run and improve its services.
Rules of Conduct: You are strictly prohibited from abusing, disrupting, or hacking Google systems. The terms explicitly forbid using automated tools like scripts or scrapers to crawl content in violation of a site’s parameters, as well as using AI-generated output to train rival machine learning models.
Service Termination: Google reserves the right to suspend or close your account if you repeatedly breach these terms, violate applicable laws, or pose a security risk to other users. Scope and Exceptions 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