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

October 17, 2024

  • Use of SecOps Services is now subject to the unified Google Cloud Platform / SecOps Terms of Service.
  • Updates to Provision of the Services were made to Section 1.
  • Updates to Payment Terms were made to Section 2.
  • Update to Suspension was made to add Section 4.3 (Generative AI Safety and Abuse).
  • Updates to Confidential Information were made to Section 7.1 (Obligations).
  • Updates to Term and Termination were made to Section 8.
  • Updates to Publicity were made to Section 9.
  • Updates to Limitation of Liability were made to Section 12.
  • Updates to Indemnification were made to Sections 13.5 (Remedies).
  • Terms for Resold Customers were added to Section 14.
  • Updates to Miscellaneous were made to Sections 15.13 (Amendments), 15.14 (Survival), 15.18 (Conflicting Languages), and 15.19 (Definitions).
  • Region-specific terms were made to Section 16 for (a) Asia Pacific - Australia, (b) Europe, Middle East, Africa - Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon, and (c) Latin America - Brazil.

September 30, 2024

  • Updates to Online Billing were made to Section 2.1

November 16, 2023

  • Updates to comply with Australian Unfair Contract Terms (UCT) law were made to Sections 1.5, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, and 13.6.
  • New Asia Pacific - Australia section was added to Section 15.

July 12, 2023

  • Updates to Google's ability to protect the Services, infrastructure, or other customers were made to Section 4.2.

April 19, 2023

  • 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.

February 6, 2023

  • 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. 

November 7, 2022

  • 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.

September 20, 2022

  • 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.

October 24, 2024

  • Service Terms for Contact Center AI (CCAI) Platform were renamed to Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) in Section 23.
  • Partner-Specific Terms for Modification of Terms were added to Section 2.

October 22, 2024

  • Service Terms for Audit Manager were added to Section 42.

September 30, 2024

  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 19.
  • Service Terms for Speech on Device (SOD) were updated and Automotive AI Agent (AAA) Premium Software were added to Section 25.
  • Service Terms for Automotive AI Agent were added to Section 26.
  • Service Terms for Apigee were added to Section 30.

September 9, 2024

  • Service Terms for Definitions were updated in Section 13.
  • Service Terms for Intellectual Property Terms for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 14.
  • Service Terms for Use Restrictions for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 16.
  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 19.
  • Service Terms for Telecom Subscriber Insights were moved to Premium Software Section 43.

July 18, 2024

  • Service Terms for Google Cloud VMWare Engine (GCVE) were updated in Section 2.

July 15, 2024

  • Service Terms for Google Earth Engine were updated in Section 5.
  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 19.
  • Service Terms for Sovereign Controls by Partners were updated in Section 42.

June 27, 2024

  • Service Terms for Intellectual Property Terms for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 14.
  • Service Terms for Use Restrictions for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 16.
  • Service Terms for Vertex AI Studio were added to Section 21.
  • Service Terms for Transfer Appliance Service were updated in Section 31.
  • Service Terms for Google Distributed Cloud Edge was renamed to Google Distributed Cloud connected in Section 41.

June 6, 2024

  • Third-Party Terms were updated to add Ubuntu Pro (Canonical) to Section 5.
  • Third-Party Terms were updated to add Squarespace Domains to Section 6.
  • Partner-Specific Terms were added.

May 29, 2024

  • Service Terms for Chrome Enterprise Premium were updated in Section 38.

May 14, 2024

  • Service Terms for Definitions were updated in Section 13.
  • Service Terms for Intellectual Property Terms for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 14.
  • Service Terms for Use Restrictions for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 16.
  • Service Terms for Separate Offerings and Customer Models were updated in Section 18.
  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 19.

April 24, 2024

  • Service Terms for Transfer Appliance Service was updated in Section 30.

April 9, 2024

  • General Service Terms for Data Location were updated in Section 1.
  • Service Terms for Cloud NGFW and Cloud Intrusion Detection System (Cloud IDS) were updated in Section 8.
  • Service Terms for Assured Workloads were updated in Section 31.
  • Service Terms for BeyondCorp Enterprise was renamed to Chrome Enterprise Premium in Section 38.
  • Pricing and Billing Terms were updated to add SAP S/4HANA to Section 3.

March 12, 2024

  • Service Terms for Security Command Center were updated in Section 33.

March 7, 2024

  • Service Terms for Definitions were updated in Section 13.
  • Service Terms for Intellectual Property Terms for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 14.
  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 19.

February 29, 2024

  • Service Terms for Network Connectivity Center (NCC) were updated in Section 9.

February 21, 2024

  • General Service Terms for Pre-GA Offerings Terms were updated in Section 5.
  • Service Terms for AI/ML Services were updated to add Definitions in Section 13.
  • Service Terms for Intellectual Property Terms for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 14.
  • Service Terms for Third Party-Models and Customer Models were added in Section 18. 

January 15, 2024

  • Service Terms for Intellectual Property for AI/ML Services were updated in Section 13.

December 20, 2023

  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 17.

December 5, 2023

  • Pricing and Billing Terms for Committed Units were updated in Section 1.
  • Pricing and Billing Terms for Additional Definitions were updated in Section 3.

November 20, 2023

  • Service Terms for Network Connectivity Center were updated in Section 9.
  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 17.

October 24, 2023

  • Service Terms for Intellectual Property Terms for AI/M Services were updated in Section 13.
  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 17.

October 12, 2023

  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 17.

October 11, 2023

  • Service Terms for AlloyDB Omni were added to Section 40.

September 25, 2023

  • 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.

August 28, 2023

  • 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.

August 14, 2023

  • 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.

June 29, 2023

  • Service Terms for Anti Money Laundering AI were added to Section 28.

June 5, 2023

  • 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.   

May 8, 2023

  • 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.

May 2, 2023

  • General Service Terms for Pre-GA Offering Terms were updated in Section 5.
  • Service Terms for reCAPTCHA Enterprise were updated in Section 38.

April 27, 2023

  • Service Terms for BeyondCorp Enterprise were updated in Section 40.

April 11, 2023

  • 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. 

April 3, 2023

  • Pricing and Billing Terms for Committed Units were updated in Section 1.

March 30, 2023

  • Service Terms for Assured Open Source Software (AOSS) were added in Section 14.

March 27, 2023

  • Service Terms for Sovereign Controls by Partners were updated in Section 43.

February 9, 2023

  • Third Party Terms for NVIDIA Drivers were updated in Section 4.

December 19, 2022

  • Service Terms for Assured Workloads were updated in Section 30.

November 7, 2022

  • General Service Terms for Benchmarking were updated in Section 7.
  • Service Terms for Google Cloud Armor - Managed Protection Plus were updated in Section 11.

October 27, 2022

  • Service Terms for Google Earth Engine were updated in Section 7.

October 11, 2022

  • 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.  

October 3, 2022

  • Service Terms for Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners were updated to rename to Sovereign Controls by Partners in Section 41.

September 20, 2022

  • Service Terms for Cloud Identity Services were updated in Section 27.
  • References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the terms.  

August 31, 2022

  • Service Terms for CCAI Platform were added to Section 42.

August 22, 2022

  • Service Terms for Google Distributed Cloud Edge were added to Section 37. 

October 24, 2024

  • Summary for Contact Center AI (CCAI) was updated to rename to Conversational AI.
  • Summary for Contact Center AI Insights was updated to rename to Conversational Insights.
  • Summary for Contact Center AI (CCAI) Platform was updated to rename to Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS).

October 22, 2024

  • Summary for Audit Manager was added.

October 7, 2024

  • Summary for Vertex AI in Firebase was added.

September 30, 2024

  • Summary for Automotive AI Agent was added.
  • Summary for Gemini in Firebase was added.
  • Summary for Automotive AI Agent Premium Software was added.

September 24, 2024

  • Summary for Developer Connect for Developer Tools was added.

September 5, 2024

  • Summary for Food Ordering AI Agent was added.

August 28, 2024

  • Summary for Gemini in BigQuery was added.

August 21, 2024

  • Summary for Blockchain Node Engine was added.
  • Summary for Event Threat Detection was removed.
  • Summary for Cloud Function was updated to rename to Cloud Run functions.

June 27, 2024

  • Summary for Gemini Code Assist (formerly known as Duet AI for Developers) was updated.
  • Summary for Config Sync was updated.
  • Summary for Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliance Service was updated to rename to Google Distributed Cloud connected Appliance Service.
  • Summary for Google Distributed Cloud Edge was updated and renamed to Google Distributed Cloud connected.
  • Summary for Internet of Things (IoT) was removed.

May 6, 2024

  • Summary for VM Manager was added.
  • Summary for Managed Protection Plus was updated and renamed to Google Cloud Armor Enterprise.

April 9, 2024

  • Summary for Cloud Firewall was updated and renamed to Cloud NGFW.
  • Summary for Cloud NGFW Enterprise was added.
  • Summary for BeyondCorp Enterprise was updated to rename to Chrome Enterprise Premium.
  • Summary for BCE app connector was updated to rename to App Connector. 
  • Summary for Organization Policy was added.

March 27, 2024

  • Summary for Duet AI for Google Cloud was updated and renamed to Gemini for Google Cloud.

March 18, 2024

  • Summary for CCAI Connector was added.

March 12, 2024

  • Summary for AlloyDB Omni was updated and moved to Google Cloud Platform Premium Software section.

March 7, 2024

  • Summaries for Vertex AI Search and Vertex AI Conversation were moved to Generative AI on Vertex AI section.
  • Summary for Generative AI on Vertex AI was updated. 

February 26, 2024

  • Summary for Secure Web Proxy (SWP) was added.

February 15, 2024

  • Summary for Generative AI on Vertex AI was updated.

February 12, 2024

  • Summary for Discovery Solution was updated to rename to Vertex AI Search for Industry. 

January 15, 2024

  • Summaries for Payment Gateway and Issuer Switch were removed.
  • Summary for Sensitive Data Protection was updated.

December 20, 2023

  • Summary for Translation Hub was added.

December 12, 2023

  • Summary for Telecom Network Automation was added.

November 15, 2023

  • Summary for Network Service Tiers was updated.
  • Hybrid and Multi-Cloud section was renamed to Container Services.
  • Summary for Google Kubernetes Engine was updated and Anthos was renamed to GKE or GKE Enterprise.
  • Summary for GKE Autopilot was added.
  • Summary for Cloud Run for Anthos was removed.
  • Summary for GKE Enterprise was updated in Google Cloud Platform Premium Software section.
  • Summary for Cloud Run for Anthos and references to Anthos were deleted from Google Cloud Platform Software section.

November 1, 2023

  • Summary for Duet AI in Google Cloud was moved to Generative AI Services section.

October 26, 2023

  • Summary for Duet AI in Google Cloud was updated.

October 12, 2023

  • Summary for Vertex AI Platform was updated.
  • Summary for Generative AI Support on Vertex AI was updated to rename to Generative AI on Vertex AI.

October 11, 2023

  • Summary for Backup for GKE was added.
  • Summary for Secure Source Manager was added.
  • Summary for AlloyDB Omni was added.

September 25, 2023

  • 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.

August 28, 2023

  • Summary for Sensitive Data Protection (formerly Cloud Data Loss Prevention or DLP) was added.

August 24, 2023

  • 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.

August 14, 2023

  • Summary for Looker Studio was updated.
  • Summary for IoT Core was updated.

July 27, 2023

  • Summary for Google Cloud Deploy was updated to rename to Cloud Deploy.

July 12, 2023

  • Summary for Cloud Firewall was added.

June 29, 2023

  • Summary for Anti Money Laundering AI (AML AI) was added.
  • Summary for Game Servers was removed.

June 22, 2023

  • Summary for Migration Center was added.

June 13, 2023

  • Summary for Generative AI Support on Vertex AI was updated.
  • Summary for Application Integration was added.
  • Summary for Integration Connectors was added.

June 7, 2023

  • Summary for Generative AI Support on Vertex AI was added.

June 5, 2023

  • 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.

May 16, 2023

  • Summary for ABAP SDK for Google Cloud was added to the Google Cloud Platform Software section.

May 10, 2023

  • Summary for Cloud Workstations was added.

May 8, 2023

  • Summary for Looker (Google Cloud core) was added.

May 2, 2023

  • Summary for Cloud Logging was updated.

April 27, 2023

  • Summary for Dataform was added.
  • Summary for BCE client connector was removed.

April 11, 2023

  • Summary for Telecom Subscriber Insights was added to the Google Cloud Platform Premium Software section.

March 30, 2023

  • Summary for Assured Open Source Software (AOSS) was added.
  • Summary for Contact Center AI (CCAI) was updated.

February 16, 2023 

  • Summary for Google Cloud Backup DR was added.
  • Summary for Speech on Device was moved to the Google Cloud Platform Premium Software section.

December 13, 2022

  • 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.

November 3, 2022

  • 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. 

October 11, 2022

  • 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. 

October 3, 2022

  • Summary for Sovereign Controls by Partners was updated.

September 29, 2022

  • Summary for Media CDN was added.
  • Summary for IoT Core was updated.

August 31, 2022

  • Summary for CCAI Platform was added.

August 22, 2022

  • Summary for Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliance Service was added.

August 16, 2022

  • Summary for Timeseries Insights API was added.

October 30, 2024

  • General Support Services Terms for Technical Account Management (TAM) were updated in Section 7.

July 8, 2024

  • Enhanced Support was updated to add Parter-led Enhanced Support in Section 2.
  • Partner-led Premium Support and Tech Partner Premium Support was updated in Section 2.

March 28, 2024

  • General Support Services Terms for Collaborative Support were updated in Section 9.

January 25, 2024

  • Enhanced Support for Live Event Support for CDN for Enhanced Support was added in Section 1.2.5.
  • Enhance Support for Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) for Enhanced Support was added in Section 1.2.6.
  • Premium Support for Live Event Support for CDN for Premium Support was added in Section 1.3.4.
  • Premium Support for Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) for Premium Support was added in Section 1.3.5.

December 14, 2023

  • General Support Services Terms for Technical Account Management (TAM) was updated in Section 7.
  • Enhanced Support for Value Add Services was updated in Section 1.2.
  • Premium Support for Value Add Services was updated in Section 1.3.
  • Premium Support for Partner-Led Premium Support and Tech Partner Premium Support was updated in Section 2.2.

October 26, 2023

  • General Support Services Terms for Exceptions was updated in Section 12.
  • Enhanced Support for Assured Support for Enhanced Support was updated in Section 1.2.2.
  • Premium Support for Assured Support for Premium Support was updated in Section 1.3.1.

September 13, 2023

  • 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.

May 8, 2023

  • General Support Services Terms for Exceptions was updated in Section 12.

March 30, 2023

  • Update to remove references to Support Data including Sections 7 and 13.21.

March 27, 2023

  • 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.  

February 16, 2023

  • Update to add Exceptions Section 13.

November 14, 2022

  • 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.  

October 11, 2022

  • 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. 

October 3, 2022

  • 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.  

September 20, 2022

  • Enhanced Support for Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners for Enhanced Support was updated in Section 1.2.4.

September 15, 2022

  • Premium Support for Sovereign Controls by Sovereign Partners for Premium Support was updated in Section 1.3.3. 

August 1, 2022

  • Update to add Looker Support Service Guidelines for Looker services. 

February 6, 2023

  • Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.

August 17, 2023

  • Looker (original) relevant services were added.
  • Registered Address information was updated.

Google Workspace

October 16, 2024

  • Updates to Provision of the Services were made to Section 1.4 (Updates).
  • Updates to Payment Terms were made to Sections 2.1 (Usage Measurement and Billing Options) and 2.7 (Pricing Revisions).
  • Updates to Confidential Information were made to Section 7.1 (Obligations).
  • Updates to Term and Termination were made to Section 8.7 (No Refunds).
  • Updates to Publicity were made to Section 9.
  • Updates to Limitation of Liability were made to Section 12.2 (Limitation on Amount of Liability).
  • Updates to Indemnification were made to Sections 13.3 (Exclusions) and 13.5 (Remedies).
  • Updates to Resold Customers were made to Sections 14.1 (Applicable Terms), 14.2 (Liability Cap), and 14.4 (Reseller-Customer Relationship).
  • Updates to Miscellaneous were made to Sections 15.3 (Assignment).15.13 (Amendments), 15.14 (Survival), and Section 15.18 (Conflicting Languages), and 15.19 (Definitions).
  • Region-specific terms were updated in Section 16 for (a) Latin America - Brazil, (b) Asia Pacific - India, (c) Asia Pacific - Australia, (d) Europe, Middle East, and Africa - All Regions, and (e) Europe, Middle East, Africa - Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.

November 16, 2023

  • Updates to comply with Australian Unfair Contract Terms (UCT) law were made to Sections 2.4, 2.5, 8.3, 13.6.
  • New Asia Pacific - Australia section was added to Section 16.

July 12, 2023

  • Updates to Google's ability to protect the Services, infrastructure, or other customers were made Section 4.2.

April 19, 2023

  • Updates to retention of respective intellectual property were made to Section 5.1.

March 14, 2023

  • 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).

February 6, 2023

  • Updates for Google's protection of Customer Data were made to Section 5.2.

November 7, 2022

  • Updates for India region-specific terms were made to Section 16.

September 20, 2022

  • 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.

October 15, 2024

  • Service Terms for Workspace Generative AI Services were updated in Section 12.6.

June 3, 2024

  • New Service Terms for eSignature were added in Section 15.

February 21, 2024

  • Service Terms for Workspace Generative AI Services were updated, specifically a new Section 12.11 Training Restriction.

November 20, 2023

  • Service Terms for Google Telephony Services were updated in Section 8.1 and 8.11.
  • Service Terms for Workspace Generative AI Services were updated, specifically Section 12.10 Additional Google Indemnification Obligations.

October 12, 2023

  • Service Terms for Workspace Generative AI Services were updated in Section 12.

August 14, 2023

  • 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.

May 31, 2023

  • Service Terms for AppSheet were added to Section 11.
  • Section numbers 12 - 14 were updated.

May 3, 2023

  • 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).

January 11, 2023

  • References to Google Hangouts were updated to Google Chat in Section 1.3.

October 31, 2022

  • Service Terms for Customers in France were added to Section 13.2

October 11, 2022

  • Service Terms for Google SIP Link were added to Section 9.

September 22, 2022

  • References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the terms.
  • Service Terms for Cloud Identity Services were updated in Section 5.

September 19, 2022

  • Service Terms for Customers with a billing address in France were added to Section 8.1(d).

October 31, 2024

  • Summary for Gemini for Google Workspace Add-Ons was updated.

October 22, 2024

  • Summary for Gemini for Google Workspace Add-Ons was updated.
  • Summary and table for Google Workspace Editions / SKUs was updated.

October 15, 2024

  • Summary for Core Services was updated.
  • Summary for Gemini for Google Workspace Add-Ons was updated.
  • Summary and table for Google Workspace Editions / SKUs was updated.

Google Workspace Services Summary

  • Google Workspace LTI was introduced as a new suite of add-on applications for Google Workspace for Education.
  • Chat Interoperability was introduced as a new Additional Google Workspace SKU.
  • Additional versions of AppSheet were introduced at an additional cost to any edition of Google Workspace.
  • Google Workspace Assured Controls Plus was added as a new Google Workspace Add-On.
  • Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium were introduced as new Google Workspace Add-Ons.
  • Read Along was introduced as a new Other Service for Google Workspace for Education Standard and Google Workspace for Education Plus.
  • Duet AI for Google Workspace is now Gemini for Google Workspace; Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise were introduced as new Google Workspace Add-Ons. 
  • Endpoint Education was added as an upgrade to Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals.
  • 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. 

November 8, 2023

  • Update for Pre-GA Support Offerings was made to Section 2.4.

May 31, 2023

  • Update for AppSheet support services was made to Section 5.

March 30, 2023

  • Update to remove references to Support Data including Sections 6.4 and 7.13.

November 14, 2022

  • Updates for support request terms were made to Sections 1.2 and 1.3.


June 17, 2024

  • Added versions of AppSheet Enterprise as new AppSheet Covered Services. 

November 15, 2023

  • Non-material edits were made throughout the terms to better align with current Service functionality and to read more clearly. 

August 14, 2023

  • 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. 

January 11, 2023

  • References to Google Hangouts were updated to Google Chat.

March 14, 2023

  • Updates for Third-Party Offerings were made for Google Workspace for Education. 

February 6, 2023

  • Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.

Google Workspace for Education

October 16, 2024

  • Updates to Provision of the Services were made to Section 1.4 (Updates).
  • Updates to Payment Terms were made to Sections 2.1 (Usage Measurement and Billing Options) and 2.7 (Pricing Revisions).
  • Updates to Confidential Information were made to Section 7.1 (Obligations).
  • Updates to Term and Termination were made to Section 8.7 (No Refunds).
  • Updates to Publicity were made to Section 9.
  • Updates to Limitation of Liability were made to Section 12.2 (Limitation on Amount of Liability).
  • Updates to Indemnification were made to Sections 13.3 (Exclusions) and 13.5 (Remedies).
  • Updates to Resold Customers were made to Sections 14.1 (Applicable Terms), 14.2 (Liability Cap), and 14.4 (Reseller-Customer Relationship).
  • Updates to Miscellaneous were made to Sections 15.3 (Assignment).15.13 (Amendments), 15.14 (Survival), and Section 15.18 (Conflicting Languages), and 15.19 (Definitions).
  • Region-specific terms were updated in Section 16 for (a) Latin America - Brazil, (b) Asia Pacific - India, (c) Asia Pacific - Australia, (d) Europe, Middle East, and Africa - All Regions, and (e) Europe, Middle East, Africa - Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.

November 16, 2023

  • Updates to comply with Australian Unfair Contract Terms (UCT) law were made to Sections 2.4, 2.5, 13.6.
  • New Asia Pacific - Australia section was added to Section 16.

July 12, 2023

  • Updates to Google's ability to protect the Services, infrastructure, or other customers were made Section 4.2.

April 19, 2023

  • Updates to retention of respective intellectual property were made to Section 5.1.

March 14, 2023

  • 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).

February 6, 2023

  • Updates for Google's protection of Customer Data were made to Section 5.2.

November 7, 2022

  • Updates for India region-specific terms were made to Section 16.

September 20, 2022

  • 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.

March 14, 2023

  • Updates for Third-Party Offerings were made for Google Workspace for Education. 

February 6, 2023

  • Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.

Marketplace

June 20, 2024

  • Updates to Customer Obligations were made to Section 3.1.
  • Updates to General Terms were made to Section 13.19.

December 13, 2023

  • New Asia Pacific - Australia section was added to Section 14.

August 4, 2023

  • Updated terms throughout and added Appendix A for Marketplace transactions.
  • Streamlined definitions for easier readability.

August 1, 2023

  • Introduced new Vendor Agreement to enable agency in the Marketplace.

Implementation Services

October 16, 2024

  • Updates to Services were made to Section 1.5 (Compliance with Customer's Onsite Policies and Procedures).
  • Updates to Payment Terms were made to Section 3.4 (Overdue Payments).
  • Updates to Definitions were made to Sections 12.

Cloud Identity

December 13, 2023

  • Updates to comply with Australian Unfair Contract Terms (UCT) law were made to Sections 2.4, 2.5, and 13.6.
  • New Asia Pacific - Australia section was added to Section 16.

July 12, 2023

  • Updates to Google's ability to protect the Services, infrastructure, or other customers were made Section 4.2.

April 19, 2023

  • Updates to retention of respective intellectual property were made to Section 5.1.

September 20, 2022

  • 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.

March 14, 2023

  • Updates for Third-Party Offerings were made for Google Workspace for Education. 

February 6, 2023

  • Updates for prohibitions on certain actions, including activity that promotes terrorism or child sexual exploitation, were made throughout the Policy.

Apigee

November 14, 2022

  • Use of Apigee is now governed by Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service.


September 13, 2023

  • Update to add Comprehensive Support to Section 6.

March 30, 2023

  • Update to remove references to Support Data including Sections 3.3 and 8.17.

Looker

October 16, 2024

  • Updates to Provision of the Services were made to Section 1.6 (Updates).
  • Updates to Payment Terms were made to Section 2.8 (Marketplace Purchases).
  • Updates to Confidential Information were made to Section 7.1 (Obligations).
  • Updates to Publicity were made to Section 9.
  • Updates to Indemnification were made to Section 13.5 (Remedies).
  • Updates to Miscellaneous were made to Sections 14.13 (Amendments), 14.18 (Conflicting Languages), and 14.21 (Definitions).
  • Region-specific terms were made to Section 15 for Asia Pacific - Australia and Latin America - Brazil.

December 13, 2023

  • Updates to comply with Australian Unfair Contract Terms (UCT) law were made to Sections 2.5, 2.6, and 13.6.
  • New Asia Pacific - Australia section was added to Section 15.

October 4, 2023

  • 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.

December 7, 2022

  • Updates for India region-specific terms were made to Section 13.

August 14, 2023

  • Data processing terms for Looker (original) Services are outlined in the Cloud Data Processing Addendum.

February 14, 2023

  • Updated references from Partner to Customer in Section 11.

January 4, 2023

  • 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

October 17, 2024

  • Use of SecOps Services is now subject to the unified Google Cloud Platform / SecOps Terms of Service.

May 23, 2024

  • Services and Terms were updated in Section 6.
  • Marketing and Publicity was updated in Section 11.
  • Resold Customers was updated in Section 17.1.
  • Definitions were updated Section 19.

April 4, 2024

  • Links to previous versions of the VirusTotal Terms of Service were added. 

February 14, 2024

  • References to Data Processing Terms were updated to Cloud Data Processing Addendum throughout the agreement.
  • Mandiant Resold Customers section was updated and moved to Section 17.
  • Definitions were updated in Section 19
  • Regional Terms were updated in Section 20.

December 13, 2023

  • Updates to comply with Australian Unfair Contract Terms (UCT) law were made to Sections 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, 9, 14.6, 16.3(b).
  • New Asia Pacific - Australia section was added to Section 19.

June 15, 2023

  • Miscellaneous was updated to update Section 17.21 (Mandiant Resold Customers). 
  • Definitions were updated in Section 18.
  • Regional Terms were updated in Section 19.

April 3, 2023

  • 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. 

September 5, 2024

  • Service Terms for Google Threat Intelligence (“GTI”) and VirusTotal were updated in Section 3.

July 15, 2024

  • Service Terms for Chronicle Security Operations (Chronicle SIEM Chronicle SOAR) ("Chronicle") were updated in Section 1.

May 23, 2024

  • General Service Terms for Additional Definitions were updated in Section 9.
  • Service Terms for Chronicle Security Operations (Chronicle SIEM Chronicle SOAR) ("Chronicle") were updated in Section 1.
  • Service Terms for Mandiant were updated in Section 2.

April 4, 2024

  • General Service Terms for Generative AI Features were updated in Section 7.
  • Service Terms for Google Threat Intelligence ("GTI") and VirusTotal were updated in Section 3.

February 14, 2024

  • General Service Terms for Generative AI Features were added in Section 7.
  • General Service Terms for Additional Definition were updated in Section 9.
  • Service Terms for Chronicle SIEM and Chronicle SOAR were updated in Section 1.
  • Service Terms for Chronicle SOAR were removed in Section 2.
  • Service Terms for Mandiant were updated in Section 2.

September 19, 2023

  • General Service Terms for Additional Definitions were updated in Section 7.
  • Service Terms for Mandiant were updated in Section 3.

August 10, 2023

  • 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.

June 15, 2023

  • 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.

August 28, 2024

  • Chronicle Security Operations was renamed to Google Security Operations.
  • Chronicle SIEM was renamed to Google SecOps SIEM.
  • Chronicle SOAR was renamed to Google SecOps SOAR.

July 15, 2024

  • References to Software and Premium Software throughout the SecOps Services Summary.

May 23, 2024

  • Summary for Chronicle Security Operations was updated.
  • Summary for Expertise on Demand was added.
  • Summary for Training Services was added.
  • Summary for VirusTotal was removed.

April 4, 2024

  • Summary for Google Threat Intelligence was added.
  • Summary for VirusTotal was added.

February 14, 2024

  • Summary for Mandiant Managed Services was updated.

May 23, 2024

  • Update specific support terms for Mandiant Solutions.

April 4, 2024

  • Added specific support for Google Threat Intelligence and VirusTotal.

February 14, 2024

  • References to Chronicle SIEM and Chronicle SOAR were removed and replaced with SecOps Services. 
  • Updated specific support terms for Mandiant.

September 13, 2023

  • Added supplemental Comprehensive Support Guide terms for Chronicle SIEM and Chronicle SOAR.

June 15, 2023

  • Added specific support terms for Mandiant.

March 30, 2023

  • Update to redirect to the Google Cloud Platform Services: Technical Support Services Guidelines.

October 5, 2023

  • Updates to comply with changes to Swiss law were made to Sections 2, 8, 9, 10, and 12.

October 5, 2023

  • Updates to comply with changes to Swiss law were made to Sections 2, 8, 9, 10, and 12.

October 5, 2023

  • Updates to comply with changes to Swiss law were made to Sections 2, 8, 9, 10, and 12.

April 18, 2024

  • Updated Personal Information We Collect section.
  • Updated Retention and Deletion of Personal Information section.
  • Updated SecOps Information section. 

September 7, 2023

  • 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

October 15, 2024

  • General Terms were updated in Sections 5.2, 6, and 13.
  • Updated Notification to the Competent Authority Section 2.2 under Turkey section of Appendix 3: Specific Privacy Laws.
  • Added No Certification by Non-EMEA Customers Section 7 under Implementation Services section of Appendix 3: Specific Privacy Laws.
  • Added Google Cloud Skills Boost for Organizations section in Appendix 4: Specific Products.

September 26, 2024

  • Updated Turkey section of Appendix 3: Specific Privacy Laws.

September 9, 2024

  • Updated Turkey section of Appendix 3: Specific Privacy Laws.

August 5, 2024

  • Updated product specific terms for Google Distributed Cloud Edge to rename to Google Distributed Cloud connected in Appendix 4: Specific Products.  
  • Incorporated new product specific terms for Implementation Services to Appendix 4: Specific Products. 

May 23, 2024

  • Updated product specific terms for Secops Services of Appendix 4: Specific Products and added Service Specific Terms for Mandiant Consulting Services and Managed Services in Section 8.

April 9, 2024

  • Incorporated product specific terms for Cloud NGFW to Appendix 4: Specific Products.

November 8, 2023

  • Incorporated product specific terms for SecOps Services to Appendix 4: Specific Products, as previously provided under separate SecOps Services DPST (Customers) and Data Processing Addendum for SecOps Consulting Services and Managed Services.

August 15, 2023

  • 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.

September 20, 2022

  • 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.

October 15, 2024

  • General Terms were updated in Sections 5.2, 6, and 13.
  • Updated Notification to the Competent Authority Section 2.2 under Turkey section of Appendix 3: Specific Privacy Laws.

September 26, 2024

  • Updated Turkey section of Appendix 3: Specific Privacy Laws.

September 9, 2024

  • Updated Turkey section of Appendix 3: Specific Privacy Laws.

April 9, 2024

  • Incorporated product specific terms for Cloud NGFW to Appendix 4: Specific Products.

November 8, 2023

  • Incorporated product specific terms for SecOps Services to Appendix 4: Specific Products, as previously provided under separate SecOps Services DPST (Partners).  

August 15, 2023

  • 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.

September 20, 2022

  • 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

August 21, 2023

  • 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.

June 30, 2023

  • Introduced commitments to CPA, CTDPA, and UCPA.

January 25, 2023

  • Updated information and contact information in the 'Korea Requirements' section.

December 14, 2022

  • Replaced California Requirements section with U.S. State Privacy Law Requirements and introduced commitments to VCDPA.

November 15, 2022

  • 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.
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