Google Cloud Terms Change Summary
Below are summaries of changes recently made to the terms and policies for the products offered by Google Cloud.
The following summaries cover the most recent changes. For prior changes, see available previous versions of the terms and policies for product-specific terms.
Google Cloud Platform
- Terms to enforce Acceptable Use Policy compliance were added to Section 3.6.
- Updates for Google's protection of Customer Data were made to Section 5.2.
- Updates for Affiliate's billing accounts in Brazil were made to Section 14.3.
- Updates for India and Brazil region-specific terms were made to Section 15.
- References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the Agreement.
- Update for billing frequency was made to Section 2.1.
- Update for copyright infringement was made to Section 3.5.
- Updates for India and select EMEA countries region-specific terms were made to Section 15.
- Service Terms for Assured Workloads were updated in Section 30.
- General Service Terms for Benchmarking were updated in Section 7.
- Service Terms for Google Cloud Armor - Managed Protection Plus were updated in Section 11.
- Service Terms for Google Earth Engine were updated in Section 7.
- Service Terms for Analytics Hub were updated in Section 5.
- Service Terms for Data Studio were updated to rename to Looker Studio in Section 6.
- Service Terms for Spectrum Access System were updated in Section 13.
- Service Terms for Speech on Device were added to Section 23.
- Service Terms for Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners were updated to rename to Sovereign Controls by Partners in Section 41.
- Service Terms for Cloud Identity Services were updated in Section 27.
- References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the terms.
- Service Terms for CCAI Platform were added to Section 42.
- Service Terms for Google Distributed Cloud Edge were added to Section 37.
- Summary for Vertex AI Vision was added.
- Summary for AI Platform Deep Learning Container was updated to clarify that AI Workbench is also known as Notebooks.
- Summary for Notebooks was moved to Summary for Vertex AI.
- Summaries for Human-in-the-Loop AI, Speaker ID, Talent Solution, Recommendations AI, Recommendations API, and Retail Search were updated to indicate that they are not available for resale under the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program, unless authorized by Google.
- References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the summary.
- Summary for Data Studio was updated to rename to Looker Studio and to add summary for Looker Studio Pro.
- Summary for Document AI Warehouse was added.
- Summary for Speech in Device was added.
- Summary for Apigee and Apigee Edge was updated.
- Summary for Migration Center was added.
- Summary for Sovereign Controls by Partners was updated.
- Summary for Media CDN was added.
- Summary for IoT Core was updated.
- Summary for CCAI Platform was added.
- Summary for Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliance Service was added.
- Summary for Timeseries Insights API was added.
- Update to include certain Apigee services.
- Updates for support request terms were made to Sections 3.3 and 3.4 of the General Support Services Terms.
- References to Data Studio were updated to rename to Looker Studio throughout the Guidelines.
- Update to add Looker Studio Pro as a supported Service under the Guidelines.
- Enhanced Support for Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners Support for Enhanced Support was updated to rename to Sovereign Controls by Partners Support for Enhanced Support in Section 1.2.4.
- Premium Support for Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners Support for Premium Support was updated to rename to Sovereign Controls by Partners Support for Premium Support in Section 1.3.3.
- Enhanced Support for Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners for Enhanced Support was updated in Section 1.2.4.
- Premium Support for Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners for Premium Support was updated in Section 1.3.3.
- Update to add Looker Support Service Guidelines for Looker sevices.
- Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.
Google Workspace
- Updates for Google's protection of Customer Data were made to Section 5.2.
- Updates for India region-specific terms were made to Section 16.
- References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the Agreement.
- Update for additional product terms was made to Section 3.4.
- Terms for copyright infringement were added to Section 3.8.
- Updates for India and select EMEA countries region-specific terms were made to Section 16.
- References to Google Hangouts were updated to Google Chat in Section 1.3.
- Service Terms for Customers in France were added to Section 13.2
- Service Terms for Google SIP Link were added to Section 9.
- References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the terms.
- Service Terms for Cloud Identity Services were updated in Section 5.
- Service Terms for Customers with a billing address in France were added to Section 8.1(d)
Google Workspace Services Summary
- Minimum End User license requirements were added to Google Workspace for Education Standard and Google Workspace for Education Plus.
- References to Google Hangouts were updated to Google Chat, accordingly.
- Google SIP Link was added as a Core Service and to Google Workspace Editions / SKUs.
- Updates for support request terms were made to Sections 1.2 and 1.3.
- References to Google Hangouts were updated to Google Chat.
- Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.
Google Workspace for Education
- Updates for Google's protection of Customer Data were made to Section 5.2.
- Updates for India region-specific terms were made to Section 16.
- References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the Agreement.
- Update for additional product terms was made to Section 3.5.
- Terms for copyright infringement were added to Section 3.9.
- Updates for India and select EMEA countries region-specific terms were made to Section 16.
- Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.
Cloud Identity
- References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the Agreement.
- Update for additional product terms was made to Section 3.5.
- Updates for select EMEA countries region-specific terms were made to Section 15.
- Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.
Apigee
- Use of Apigee is now governed by Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service.
Looker
- Updates for India region-specific terms were made to Section 13.
- The Looker Data Processing and Security Terms were renamed to the Looker Data Processing Addendum. Updates were made to make the Addendum easier to read.
Cloud Data Processing Addendum
- Introduced new Cloud Data Processing Addendum for Google Cloud Platform, Google Workspace, and Cloud Identity. The Cloud Data Processing Addendum replaces the Data Processing and Security Terms (Customers) for Google Cloud Platform and the Data Processing Amendment for Google Workspace.
- Introduced new Cloud Data Processing Addendum (Partners) for Google Cloud Platform. The Cloud Data Processing Addendum replaces the Data Processing and Security Terms (Partners) for Google Cloud Platform.
Google Cloud Privacy Notice
- Replaced California Requirements section with U.S. State Privacy Law Requirements and introduced commitments to VCDPA.
- Updated Cloud Services to include Cloud Identity and Implementation Services. Clarified our commitments and obligations for processing Service Data. References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the Privacy Notice.