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
- Updates to Google's ability to protect the Services, infrastructure, or other customers were made Section 4.2.
- Updates to retention of respective intellectual property were made to Section 5.1.
- Updates for derivative data in the definition of "Customer Data" were made to Section 14.19.
- 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 Generative AI Services were updated in Section 17.
- Service Terms for AlloyDB Omni were added to Section 40.
- General Service Terms for Google Maps Content were added to Section 13.
- Service Terms for AI/ML Services Data Location was renamed to AI/ML Data Location in Section 14.
- Service Terms for Generative AI App Builder was renamed to Vertex AI Search in Section 18.
- Service Terms for Future Reservations were added to Section 6.
- Service Terms for Cloud Interconnect - Partner Interconnect were updated in Section 7.
- Service Terms for Intellectual Property Terms for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 13.
- Service Terms for Training Restriction were added to Section 16.
- Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 17.
- Service Terms for Assured Workloads were updated in Section 29.
- General Service Terms for Data Location were updated in Section 1.
- General Service Terms for Operations of Communication Services were updated in Section 2.
- General Service Terms for General Software Terms were updated in Section 3.
- General Service Terms for Premium Software Terms were updated in Section 4.
- General Service Terms for Pre-GA Offerings Terms were updated in Section 5.
- General Service Terms for Google-Managed Multi-Cloud were updated in Section 6.
- General Service Terms for Benchmarking were updated in Section 7.
- General Service Terms for Trials were updated in Section 8.
- General Service Terms for APIs and non-Google cloud services were added to Section 11.
- General Service Terms for Resource Fields Data were added to Section 12.
- General Service Terms for Survival were added to Section 13.
- General Service Terms for Additional Definitions were updated in Section 11.
- Service Terms for Google VMware Engine (GCVE) were updated in Section 2.
- Service Terms for BigQuery were updated in Section 3.
- Service Terms for Google VMware Engine (GCVE) were updated in Section 2.
- Service Terms for Looker Studio were updated in Section 4.
- Service Terms for Cloud Interconnect - Partner Interconnect were updated in Section 6.
- Service Terms for Network Connectivity Center (NCC) were updated in Section 8.
- Service Terms for Spectrum Access System were updated in Section 9.
- Service Terms for Assured Open Source Software (AOSS) were updated in Section 10.
- Service Terms for Looker (Google Cloud core) were updated in Section 11.
- Service Terms for Bare Metal Solution were updated in Section 25.
- Service Terms for Transfer Appliance Service were updated in Section 26.
- Service Terms for Assured Workloads were updated in Section 27.
- Service Terms for Access Approval were updated in Section 28.
- Service Terms for Security Command Center were updated in Section 29.
- Service Terms for Cloud Identity Services were updated in Section 30.
- Service Terms for Firebase Authentication and Identity Platform were updated in Section 31.
- Service Terms for Web Risk were updated in Section 33.
- Service Terms for Beyond Corp Enterprise were updated in Section 34.
- Service Terms for Google Distributed Cloud Edge were updated in Section 36.
- Service Terms for Sovereign Controls for Partners were updated in Section 37.
- Service Terms for Compute Engine, Cloud Storage - Bucket Lock, Cloud Armor - Managed Protection Plus, Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliance Service, Database Migration Service (DMS), Web Security Scanner, Healthcare Data Engine (HDE), and Transcoder API were removed.
- Third Party Terms Disclaimer was removed from Section 1.
- Pricing and Billing Terms for Committed Units was updated in Section 1.
- Pricing and Billing Terms for Currency Conversion was updated in Section 2.
- Pricing and Billing Terms for Additional Definitions was updated in Section 3.
- Service Terms for Anti Money Laundering AI were added to Section 28.
- Service Terms for Intellectual Property Terms for AI/ML Services were added to Section 16.
- Service Terms for AI/ML Services Data Location were added to Section 17.
- Service Terms for Use Restrictions for AI/ML Services were added to Section 18.
- Service Terms for Generative AI Services were added to Section 19.
- Service Terms for Generative AI App Builder were added to Section 20.
- Service Terms for Celebrity Recognition were updated in Section 21.
- Service Terms for CCAI Platform were updated in Section 22.
- Service Terms for Cloud Translation API were updated in Section 23.
- Service Terms for Speech on Device were updated in Section 24.
- Service Terms for Visual Inspection AI were updated in Section 25.
- Service Terms for Retail Search were updated in Section 26.
- Service Terms for AI Building Blocks, AI Platform Training and Prediction (AITP), AutoML Tables, AutoML Video Edge, AutoML Vision Edge, AI/ML Data Location, and Media Translation API were removed.
- Service Terms for Looker (Google Cloud core) were added to Section 15.
- Third-Party Terms for Oracle JDBC Driver in Looker (Google Cloud core) were added to Section 5.
- General Service Terms for Pre-GA Offering Terms were updated in Section 5.
- Service Terms for reCAPTCHA Enterprise were updated in Section 38.
- Service Terms for BeyondCorp Enterprise were updated in Section 40.
- General Service Terms for Pre-GA Offerings Terms were updated in Section 5.
- General Service Terms for Google-Managed Multi-Cloud were updated in Section 6.
- General Service Terms for Additional Definitions were updated in Section 11.
- Service Terms for Telecom Subscriber Insights were added to Section 22.
- Additional Definitions of Service Terms section were updated.
- Pricing and Billing Terms for Committed Units were updated in Section 1.
- Service Terms for Assured Open Source Software (AOSS) were added in Section 14.
- Service Terms for Sovereign Controls by Partners were updated in Section 43.
- Third Party Terms for NVIDIA Drivers were updated in Section 4.
- 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 Verex AI Platform was updated.
- Summary for Generative AI Support on Vertex AI was updated to rename to Generative AI on Vertex AI.
- Summary for Backup for GKE was added.
- Summary for Secure Source Manager was added.
- Summary for AlloyDB Omni was added.
- Summary for Vertex AI Platform was updated.
- Summary for Vertex AI Search was added.
- Summary for Vertex AI Agents was added.
- Summary for Firebase App Check was added.
- Summary for Generative AI App Builder was removed.
- Summary for Sensitive Data Protection (formerly Cloud Data Loss Prevention or DLP) was added.
- Summary for Duet AI in Google Cloud (PREVIEW) was added.
- Summary for Agent Assist was added.
- Summary for Deep Learning VM and Container was moved to Google Cloud Platform Software section.
- Summary for Datalab was removed.
- Summary for Looker Studio was updated.
- Summary for IoT Core was updated.
- Summary for Google Cloud Deploy was updated to rename to Cloud Deploy.
- Summary for Cloud Firewall was added.
- Summary for Anti Money Laundering AI (AML AI) was added.
- Summary for Game Servers was removed.
- Summary for Migration Center was added.
- Summary for Generative AI Support on Vertex AI was updated.
- Summary for Application Integration was added.
- Summary for Integration Connectors was added.
- Summary for Generative AI Support on Vertex AI was added.
- Summary for Contact Center AI (CCAI) was updated.
- Summary for Contact Center AI Insights was updated.
- Summary for Contact Center AI (CCAI) Platform was updated.
- Summary for Dialogflow Essentials (ES) was updated.
- Summary for Dialogflow Customer Experience Edition (CX) was updated.
- Summary for Discovery Solutions was updated.
- Summary for Document AI was updated.
- Summary for Cloud Natural Language API was updated.
- Summary for Cloud Translation API was updated.
- Summary for Cloud Vision was updated.
- Summary for Media Translation API was updated.
- Summary for Speaker ID was updated.
- Summary for Speech On Device was updated.
- Summary for Speech-to-Text was updated.
- Summary for Timeseries Insights API was updated.
- Summary for Video Intelligence API was updated.
- Summary for Visual Inspection AI was updated.
- Summary for AI Platform Data Labeling was updated.
- Summary for AutoML was updated.
- Summary for Deep Learning VM Container was updated.
- Summary for Vertex AI Platform was updated.
- Summary for Vertex AI Neural Architecture Search (NAS) was updated.
- Summary for Generative AI Services was added.
- Summary for Generative AI App Builder was added.
- Summary for ABAP SDK for Google Cloud was added to the Google Cloud Platform Software section.
- Summary for Cloud Workstations was added.
- Summary for Looker (Google Cloud core) was added.
- Summary for Cloud Logging was updated.
- Summary for Dataform was added.
- Summary for BCE client connector was removed.
- Summary for Telecom Subscriber Insights was added to the Google Cloud Platform Premium Software section.
- Summary for Assured Open Source Software (AOSS) was added.
- Summary for Contact Center AI (CCAI) was updated.
- Summary for Google Cloud Backup DR was added.
- Summary for Speech on Device was moved to the Google Cloud Platform Premium Software section.
- 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.
- General Support Services Terms for Pre-General Availability Offerings was updated in Section 3.8.
- General Support Services Terms for Exceptions was updated in Section 12.
- General Support Services Terms for Exceptions was updated in Section 12.
- Update to remove references to Support Data including Sections 7 and 13.21.
- Enhanced Support for Sovereign Controls by Partners Support for Enhanced Support was updated in Section 1.2.4.
- Premium Support for Sovereign Controls by Partners Support for Premium Support was updated in Section 1.3.3.
- Update to add Exceptions Section 13.
- 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 services.
- Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.
- Looker (original) relevant services were added.
- Registered Address information was updated.
Google Workspace
- Updates to Google's ability to protect the Services, infrastructure, or other customers were made Section 4.2.
- Updates to retention of respective intellectual property were made to Section 5.1.
- Updates to Additional Products and Third-Party Offerings were made to Section 3.5.
- Google's scope of processing Customer Data was clarified to exclude Advertising purposes in Section 5.2.
- Updates to the definition of "Additional Products" were made in Section 15.19.
- Updates to consent terms were made to Section 3.10 for North America - United States and Latin America (all regions except Brazil).
- 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.
- Service Terms for Workspace Generative AI Services were updated in Section 12.
- Service Terms for Data Regions were updated in Section 1.
- Service Terms for Google Vault were updated in Section 2.
- Service Terms for Google Workspace Essentials were updated in Section 3.
- Service Terms for Cloud Search were updated in Section 4.
- Service Terms for Cloud Identity Services were updated in Section 5.
- Service Terms for Pre-General Availability Offerings Terms were updated in Section 6.
- Service Terms for Verification Using Domain Email Address were updated in Section 7.
- Service Terms for Google Telephony Services were updated in Section 8.
- Service Terms for Google SIP Link were updated in Section 9.
- Service Terms for AppSheet were updated in Section 11.
- Service Terms for Workspace Generative AI Services were updated in Section 12.
- Service Terms for Client-Side Encryption were updated in Section 14.
- Service Terms for AppSheet were added to Section 11.
- Section numbers 12 - 14 were updated.
- Service Terms for Pre-General Availability Offerings Terms were updated in Section 6.2.
- Service Terms for Emergency Services were updated in Section 8.9(a).
- 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
- Email verifications were added for certain Google Workspace Business editions.
- AppSheet was added as an Other Service and AppSheet Core was added as an available SKU.
- Enterprise Data Regions was added as a Core Service and SKU, available for certain Google Workspace Editions.
- Storage amounts for all Editions / SKUs was made available at https://support.google.com/a?p=storage_by_edition.
- New Editions / SKUs for Google Workspace Frontline Starter, Google Workspace Frontline Standard, and Google Workspace for Nonprofits were introduced.
- Storage terms were updated for the Archived User offering.
- 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.
- Update for AppSheet support services was made to Section 5.
- Update to remove references to Support Data including Sections 6.4 and 7.13.
- Updates for support request terms were made to Sections 1.2 and 1.3.
- Reference to Currents was removed.
- Existing Service Credit and Exclusions terms for Google Workspace Essentials editions were moved from the Service Specific Terms to the Service Level Agreement.
- References to Google Hangouts were updated to Google Chat.
- Updates for Third-Party Offerings were made for Google Workspace for Education.
- 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 to Google's ability to protect the Services, infrastructure, or other customers were made Section 4.2.
- Updates to retention of respective intellectual property were made to Section 5.1.
- Updates to Additional Products and Third-Party Offerings were made to Section 3.5.
- Google's scope of processing Customer Data was clarified to exclude Advertising purposes in Section 5.2.
- Updates to the definition of "Additional Products" were made in Section 15.19.
- Updates to consent terms were made to Section 3.10 for North America - United States and Latin America (all regions except Brazil).
- 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 Third-Party Offerings were made for Google Workspace for Education.
- Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.
Marketplace
- Updated terms throughout and added Appendix A for Marketplace transactions.
- Streamlined definitions for easier readability.
- Introduced new Vendor Agreement to enable agency in the Marketplace.
Cloud Identity
- Updates to Google's ability to protect the Services, infrastructure, or other customers were made Section 4.2.
- Updates to retention of respective intellectual property were made to Section 5.1.
- 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 Third-Party Offerings were made for Google Workspace for Education.
- 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.
- Update to add Comprehensive Support to Section 6.
- Update to remove references to Support Data including Sections 3.3 and 8.17.
Looker
- Updates to modifications of the Services, Agreement, and URL Terms were made to Section 1.6.
- Updates to applicable support services were made to Section 6.
- Updates to the effective version of the Agreement were made to Section 14.15.
- References to the Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the Agreement as the now applicable data processing and security obligations with respect to Customer Data.
- Updates for India region-specific terms were made to Section 13.
- Data processing terms for Looker (original) Services are outlined in the Cloud Data Processing Addendum.
- Updated references from Partner to Customer in Section 11.
- 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.
SecOps Services
- Miscellaneous was updated to update Section 17.21 (Mandiant Resold Customers).
- Definitions were updated in Section 18.
- Regional Terms were updated in Section 19.
- Term and Termination was updated to add Section 16.5 (Survival).
- Miscellaneous was updated to add Section 17.21 (Resold Customers).
- Definitions were updated in Section 18.
- General Service Terms for Additional Definitions were updated in Section 7.
- Service Terms for Mandiant were updated in Section 3.
- Service Terms for Chronicle SIEM were updated in Section 1.
- Service Terms for Chronicle SOAR were updated in Section 2.
- Service Terms for VirusTotal were added to Section 4.
- General Service Terms for Unpaid Trials were updated in Section 6.
- Service Terms were for Chronicle SIEM were updated in Section 1.
- Service Terms for Chronicle SOAR were updated in Section 2.
- Service Terms for Mandiant were updated in Section 3.
- Added supplemental Comprehensive Support Guide terms for Chronicle SIEM and Chronicle SOAR.
- Added specific support terms for Mandiant.
- Update to redirect to the Google Cloud Platform Services: Technical Support Services Guidelines.
- Updates to comply with changes to Swiss law were made to Sections 2, 8, 9, 10, and 12.
- Updates to comply with changes to Swiss law were made to Sections 2, 8, 9, 10, and 12.
- Updates to comply with changes to Swiss law were made to Sections 2, 8, 9, 10, and 12.
- Introduced commitments to CPA, CTDPA, and UCPA.
- Introduced terms for the Data Privacy Framework.
- Added information in the ‘European Privacy Standards and GDPR’ section, required under Swiss data protection law.
- Made non-material changes throughout to read more easily.
Cloud Data Processing Addendum
- Introduced two new appendices: Appendix 3: Specific Privacy Laws and Appendix 4: Specific Products.
- Expand the application of certain commitments under the CDPA to a wider customer base, without reducing Google’s previous CDPA commitments.
- 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 two new appendices: Appendix 3: Specific Privacy Laws and Appendix 4: Specific Products.
- Expand the application of certain commitments under the CDPA to a wider customer base, without reducing Google’s previous CDPA commitments.
- 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
- Added explanations and references to the Supplemental Google Cloud Privacy Notice and Google Workspace for Education Service Data Addendum.
- Added information in the ‘European Privacy Standards and GDPR’ section, required under Swiss data protection law.
- Introduced commitments to CPA, CTDPA, and UCPA.
- Updated information and contact information in the 'Korea Requirements' section.
- 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.