Enterprise Search / Productivity · notebooklm.google.comNotebookLM (Google)
Graded against 804 verified platforms, from its own policy text. Automated assessment against a published rubric — not legal advice.
“This license is: worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world non-exclusive, which means you can license your content to others royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license”
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Start here. These are the highest-risk verified clauses AIRIN found in the platform's own policy text.
Restricts users from copying, modifying, distributing, selling, or leasing any part of Google's services or software, and notes that open source license terms may override these terms where applicable.
Establishes a specific monetary cap on Google's total liability — the greater of $200 or fees paid in the preceding 12 months — arising out of or relating to the terms or use of services.
Google can suspend or terminate accounts and delete them based on material/repeated breach, legal requirements, or conduct causing harm or liability. The 'harm or liability' standard is broad and may be applied at Google's discretion. Prior notice is provided where reasonably possible but has enumerated exceptions.
Scores derived from 16 enriched findings — same verbatim citations as below. AI-generated, not legal advice.
- Your outputs and prompts are explicitly yours — NotebookLM (Google)'s terms include affirmatively protective IP language.
Derived from AI-enriched analysis of the verified findings below — informational only, not legal advice.
How to read this page: Overall risk rates what NotebookLM (Google)'s own policy terms mean for your prompts, outputs, and data. The benchmark bands below grade those same verified terms relative to peers — a platform in a risky-by-default category can rate HIGH risk and still grade STRONG against its peer set. Both trace to the cited findings.
Policy benchmark
rubric v1.0 — how this is scoredBased on 166 verified, verbatim-cited findings below — read the citations.
Based on 157 verified, verbatim-cited findings below — read the citations.
Automated assessment against a published rubric — not legal advice.
Fully verified — complete core corpus captured and read in full.
- Terms of ServiceVerified - read in full - 36 citationsstaticLast captured 2026-08-07
- Privacy PolicyVerified - read in full - 0 citationsstaticLast captured 2026-08-07
Only citation-backed plan differences are shown here; absent cells mean AIRIN has not verified a tier-specific claim.
Section heading 'Rights' incorporates the enumeration of specific rights granted to Google under the content license.
" This license is: worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world non-exclusive, which means you can license your content to others royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license"
Section heading 'License' incorporates the subsequent provisions defining the scope, rights, and conditions of the content license granted by users to Google.
" Some of our services are designed to let you upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share your content . You have no obligation to provide any content to our services and you’re free to choose the content that you want to provide. If you..."
Restricts users from copying, modifying, distributing, selling, or leasing any part of Google's services or software, and notes that open source license terms may override these terms where applicable.
" Some of our services include downloadable or preloaded software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the services. The license we give you is: worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world non-exclusive, whic..."
Establishes the procedure for users who do not agree to updated terms — they must remove their content and stop using the services or close their account — and states that access without an account is subject to the current terms, which has implications for content retention and ongoing service obligations.
" By law, you have certain rights that can’t be limited by a contract like these terms of service. These terms are in no way intended to restrict those rights. These terms describe the relationship between you and Google. They don’t create ..."
Establishes a specific monetary cap on Google's total liability — the greater of $200 or fees paid in the preceding 12 months — arising out of or relating to the terms or use of services.
" Both the law and these terms try to strike a balance as to what you or Google can claim from the other in case of problems. That’s why the law requires everyone to be responsible for certain liabilities — but not others — under these terms..."
Section heading 'Scope' incorporates the subsequent provisions defining the geographic, exclusivity, and financial terms of the content license.
" This license doesn’t affect your privacy rights — it’s only about your intellectual property rights This license doesn’t cover these types of content: publicly-available factual information that you provide, such as corrections to the add..."
This segment defines the parties ('Google,' 'we,' 'us,' 'our' meaning Google LLC and its affiliates), grants conditional permission to access and use services contingent on compliance with the terms, and explains the commercial basis of the relationship — establishing the foundational legal permission and its conditions.
" These terms help define the relationship between you and Google. When we speak of “Google,” “we,” “us,” and “our,” we mean Google LLC and its affiliates . Broadly speaking, we give you permission to access and use our services if you agree..."
Evidence appendix
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"This license lasts for as long as your content is protected by intellectual property rights. If you remove from our services any content that’s covered by this license, then our systems will stop making that content publicly available in a reasonable amount of time. There are two exceptions: If you already shared your content with others before removing it. For example, if you shared a photo with a friend who then made a copy of it, or shared it again, then that photo may continue to appear in your friend’s Google Account even after you remove it from your Google Account. If you make your content available through other companies’ services, it’s possible that search engines, including Google Search, will continue to find and display your content as part of their search results."
The license persists for the full duration of IP rights (potentially life plus 70 years for copyrighted content). Deletion does not guarantee immediate or complete removal, especially for previously shared or indexed content.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Some of our services include downloadable or preloaded software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the services. The license we give you is: worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world non-exclusive, which means that we can license the software to others royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license personal, which means it doesn’t extend to anyone else non-assignable, which means you’re not allowed to assign the license to anyone else"
Restricts users from copying, modifying, distributing, selling, or leasing any part of Google's services or software, and notes that open source license terms may override these terms where applicable.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"Without limiting any of our other rights, Google may suspend or terminate your access to the services or delete your Google Account if any of these things happen: you materially or repeatedly breach these terms, service-specific additional terms or policies we’re required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or a court order your conduct causes harm or liability to a user, third party, or Google — for example, by hacking, phishing, harassing, spamming, misleading others, or scraping content that doesn’t belong to you"
Google can suspend or terminate accounts and delete them based on material/repeated breach, legal requirements, or conduct causing harm or liability. The 'harm or liability' standard is broad and may be applied at Google's discretion. Prior notice is provided where reasonably possible but has enumerated exceptions.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"If any of your content (1) breaches these terms, service-specific additional terms or policies , (2) violates applicable law, or (3) could harm our users, third parties, or Google, then we reserve the right to take down some or all of that content in accordance with applicable law."
The content removal right is triggered not only by policy/legal violations but also by content that 'could harm' Google—a broad, subjective standard that gives Google wide discretion over content moderation decisions.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Both the law and these terms try to strike a balance as to what you or Google can claim from the other in case of problems. That’s why the law requires everyone to be responsible for certain liabilities — but not others — under these terms. These terms only limit our responsibilities as allowed by applicable law. These terms don’t limit liability for gross negligence or willful misconduct. To the extent allowed by applicable law: Google is liable only for its breaches of these terms or applicable service-specific additional terms Google isn’t liable for: loss of profits, revenues, business opportunities, goodwill, or anticipated savings indirect or consequential losses punitive damages"
Establishes a specific monetary cap on Google's total liability — the greater of $200 or fees paid in the preceding 12 months — arising out of or relating to the terms or use of services.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" This license is: worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world non-exclusive, which means you can license your content to others royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license"
Section heading 'Rights' incorporates the enumeration of specific rights granted to Google under the content license.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" This license is for the limited purpose of: operating and improving the services , which means allowing the services to work as designed and creating new features and functionalities. This includes using automated systems and algorithms to analyze your content: for spam, malware, and illegal content to recognize patterns in data, such as determining when to suggest a new album in Google Photos to keep related photos together to customize our services for you, such as providing recommendations and personalized search results, content, and ads (which you can change or turn off in Ads Settings ) This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored. using content you’ve shared publicly to promote the services . For example, to promote a Google app, we might quote a review you wrote. Or to promote Google Play, we might show a screenshot of the app you offer in the Play Store. developing new technologies and services for Google consistent with these terms"
Section heading 'Duration' incorporates the provisions governing the temporal scope of the content license and data retention obligations.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Your content remains yours, which means that you retain any intellectual property rights that you have in your content. For example, you have intellectual property rights in the creative content you make, such as reviews you write. Or you may have the right to share someone else’s creative content if they’ve given you their permission. We need your permission if your intellectual property rights restrict our use of your content. You provide Google with that permission through this license."
Section heading 'What's covered' introduces the scope definition of the content license, incorporating the limitation that the license applies only to IP-protected content.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" We’re constantly developing new technologies and features to improve our services. For example, we use artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide you with simultaneous translations, and to better detect and block spam and malware. As part of this continual improvement, we sometimes add or remove features and functionalities, increase or decrease limits to our services, and start offering new services or stop offering old ones. When a service requires or includes downloadable or preloaded software, that software sometimes updates automatically on your device once a new version or feature is available. Some services let you adjust your automatic update settings. If we make material changes that negatively impact your use of our services or if we stop offering a service, we’ll provide you with reasonable advance notice, except in urgent situations such as preventing abuse, responding to legal requirements, or addressing security and operability issues. We’ll also provide you with an opportunity to export your content from your Google Account using Google Takeout, subject to applicable law and policies."
This segment grants Google permission to use artificial intelligence and machine learning as part of continual service improvement, and permits automatic software updates, establishing Google's right to develop and modify services using user-related data and installed software.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" By law, you have certain rights that can’t be limited by a contract like these terms of service. These terms are in no way intended to restrict those rights. These terms describe the relationship between you and Google. They don’t create any legal rights for other people or organizations , even if others benefit from that relationship under these terms. We want to make these terms easy to understand, so we’ve used examples from our services . But not all services mentioned may be available in your country. If these terms conflict with the service-specific additional terms , the additional terms will govern for that service. If it turns out that a particular term is not valid or enforceable, this will not affect any other terms. If you don’t follow these terms or the service-specific additional terms , and we don’t take action right away, that doesn’t mean we’re giving up any rights that we may have, such as taking action in the future. We may update these terms and service-specific additional terms (1) to reflect changes in our services or how we do business — for example, when we add new services, features, technologies, pricing, or benefits (or remove old ones), (2) for legal, regulatory, or security reasons, or (3) to prevent abuse or harm. If we materially change these terms or service-specific additional terms , we’ll provide you with reasonable advance notice and the opportunity to review the changes, except (1) when we launch a new service or feature, or (2) in urgent situations, such as preventing ongoing abuse or responding to legal requirements. "
Establishes the procedure for users who do not agree to updated terms — they must remove their content and stop using the services or close their account — and states that access without an account is subject to the current terms, which has implications for content retention and ongoing service obligations.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Losses from any type of legal claim, whether the claim is based on a contract, tort (including negligence), or other reason, and whether or not those losses could have been reasonably anticipated or foreseen."
Defines 'liability' broadly to encompass all losses from any legal claim regardless of basis or foreseeability, establishing the scope of the liability limitations and indemnity obligations found elsewhere in the terms.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" You also agree that our Privacy Policy applies to your use of our services. We also provide resources like the Copyright Help Center , Safety Center , Transparency Center , and descriptions of our technologies from our policies site to answer common questions and to set expectations about using our services. Finally, we may provide specific instructions and warnings within our services – such as dialog boxes that alert you to important information. Although we give you permission to use our services, we retain any intellectual property rights we have in the services."
This segment incorporates the Privacy Policy by reference, restricts user content use to lawful purposes, and expressly reserves Google's intellectual property rights in the services — establishing that the permission to use services does not transfer any IP rights from Google to the user.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms"
This segment explicitly prohibits users from abusing, harming, interfering with, or disrupting Google's services or systems, with specific enumerated examples including introducing malware, spamming, hacking, bypassing protective measures, jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, and prompt injection — establishing enforceable use restrictions.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" A legal right that allows the creator of an original work (such as a blog post, photo, or video) to decide if and how that original work may be used by others, subject to certain limitations and exceptions (such as “fair use” and “fair dealing”)."
Defines 'copyright' as a legal right allowing creators to control use of original works, subject to fair use/fair dealing exceptions; directly relevant to IP ownership of content created and shared on the platform.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" blog posts you upload through Blogger reviews you submit through Maps videos you store in Drive emails you send and receive through Gmail pictures you share with friends through Photos travel itineraries that you share with Google"
Continues the definition of 'your content' with further examples including blog posts, reviews, videos, emails, pictures, and travel itineraries, establishing the full scope of user content subject to licensing, training, and data-use provisions.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" This license covers your content if that content is protected by intellectual property rights."
Section heading 'What's not covered' introduces the exceptions to the content license, incorporating the carve-outs from the license grant.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Some of our services are designed to let you upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share your content . You have no obligation to provide any content to our services and you’re free to choose the content that you want to provide. If you choose to upload or share content, please make sure you have the necessary rights to do so and that the content is lawful."
Section heading 'License' incorporates the subsequent provisions defining the scope, rights, and conditions of the content license granted by users to Google.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Things that you create, upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share using our services, such as:"
Begins the definition of 'your content' by enumerating the types of user-created, uploaded, stored, or shared material covered, which determines the scope of content over which licensing, ownership, and training-use provisions apply.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
Common questions about NotebookLM (Google)'s policies
- Who owns the content you create with NotebookLM (Google)?
- You own your outputs — based on 1 verified finding from NotebookLM (Google)'s published policy. Informational only, not legal advice.
- Can you use NotebookLM (Google)'s output commercially?
- Commercial use allowed — with conditions — based on 1 verified finding from NotebookLM (Google)'s published policy. Informational only, not legal advice.
Clause detail — protections, your obligations, and coverage
Every clause below is a verbatim quote from NotebookLM (Google)'s own published policy, read in full and linked to its exact location. Protections and user obligations are reported separately from risk because they are different kinds of clause — an obligation on you is not a risk to your data. Informational only, not legal advice.
✅ Protections found
4 verified clausesClauses in NotebookLM (Google)'s policies that work in your favour — commitments the platform made to you.
- Moderation & enforcementterms can change anytime
“By law, you have certain rights that can’t be limited by a contract like these terms of service. These terms are in no way intended to restrict those rights. These terms describe the relationship between you and Google. They don’t create any legal rights for…”
Establishes the procedure for users who do not agree to updated terms — they must remove their content and stop using the services or close their account — and states that access without an account is subject to the curr…
- Terms changes: advance notice promised
📍 Terms of Service › “About these terms”Jump to exact text → - Moderation & enforcementterms can change anytime
“We’re constantly developing new technologies and features to improve our services. For example, we use artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide you with simultaneous translations, and to better detect and block spam and malware. As part of this…”
This segment grants Google permission to use artificial intelligence and machine learning as part of continual service improvement, and permits automatic software updates, establishing Google's right to develop and modif…
- Terms changes: advance notice promised
📍 Terms of Service › “Develop, improve, and update Google services”Jump to exact text → - Confidentialityfeedback ownership
“This license doesn’t affect your privacy rights — it’s only about your intellectual property rights This license doesn’t cover these types of content: publicly-available factual information that you provide, such as corrections to the address of a local busin…”
Section heading 'Scope' incorporates the subsequent provisions defining the geographic, exclusivity, and financial terms of the content license.
📍 Terms of Service › “What’s not covered”Jump to exact text → - Output ownership
“Some of our services allow you to generate original content. Google won’t claim ownership over that content.”
Google expressly states it will not claim ownership over user-generated original content, which is a user-favorable provision. The clause does not, however, address whether Google takes a license to use outputs, which is…
📍 Terms of Service › “Your content”Jump to exact text →
📋 Rules you must follow
2 verified clausesWhat NotebookLM (Google) requires of YOU. These are your obligations, not risks to your data or IP, so they are cited here and excluded from this platform's risk rating.
- Moderation & enforcementconduct restrictions
“Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that…”
This segment explicitly prohibits users from abusing, harming, interfering with, or disrupting Google's services or systems, with specific enumerated examples including introducing malware, spamming, hacking, bypassing p…
📍 Terms of Service › “Don’t abuse our services”Jump to exact text → - Moderation & enforcement
“We want to maintain a respectful environment for everyone, which means you must follow these basic rules of conduct: comply with applicable laws, including export control, sanctions, and human trafficking laws respect the rights of others, including privacy a…”
This segment imposes affirmative obligations on users to comply with applicable laws and respect others' rights, and prohibits specific harmful behaviors including misleading, defrauding, impersonating, defaming, bullyin…
📍 Terms of Service › “Respect others”Jump to exact text →
What the policies actually cover
6 topics- Children's data1 clause
- Damages & liability cap3 clauses
- Terms can change at any time2 protective2 clauses
- License survival after account deletion1 clause
- Feedback ownership1 protective1 clause
- Conduct restrictions1 obligation1 clause
27 further verified clauses are cited on this page but not yet assigned a topic.
Clause intelligence
Canonical clauses and stance patterns extracted from the same gate-verified citations shown on this page.
The clause restricts commercial use.
“An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of their trade, business, craft, or profession. (See business user)”Open source citation
The clause restricts commercial use.
“An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of their trade, business, craft, or profession. (See business user)”Open source citation
The clause restricts commercial use.
“An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of their trade, business, craft, or profession. (See business user)”Open source citation
The clause includes sublicensable, transferable, or assignable rights.
“Some of our services include downloadable or preloaded software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the services. The license we give you is: worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world non-exclusive, which means that we can license the software to others royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license personal, which means it doesn’t extend to anyone else non-...”Open source citation
The clause includes sublicensable, transferable, or assignable rights.
“This license allows Google to: host, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and use your content — for example, to save your content on our systems and make it accessible from anywhere you go publish, publicly perform, or publicly display your content, if you’ve made it visible to others modify and create derivative works based on your content, such as reformatting or translating it sublicense these rights to: other ...”Open source citation
Tier matrix
Plan-level conditions detected from citation-backed clauses. Empty tiers mean AIRIN has not captured decisive tier language yet.
| Tier | Surface | Verdict | Risk | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All applicable tiers | data retention | worsens | HIGH | 9 |
| All applicable tiers | governing law disputes | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| All applicable tiers | indemnity liability | conditional | MEDIUM | 5 |
| All applicable tiers | moderation enforcement | worsens | HIGH | 3 |
| All applicable tiers | output ownership | worsens | HIGH | 3 |
| All applicable tiers | privacy data use | conditional | MEDIUM | 3 |
| All applicable tiers | prompt ownership | worsens | HIGH | 3 |
| All applicable tiers | subprocessors data sharing | worsens | HIGH | 10 |
| All applicable tiers | training use | worsens | HIGH | 2 |
| Enterprise | tier differences | conditional | MEDIUM | 2 |
| Free | commercial use | worsens | HIGH | 2 |
| Free | prompt ownership | conditional | MEDIUM | 4 |
Policy evolution
Open full timelineBefore/after stance changes across captured policy versions. When no material delta exists yet, AIRIN shows the latest citation-backed stance events instead.
model training worsened from low/no training claim to high/training permitted.
“Gemini Notebook prioritizes privacy and security. The sources you upload stay private unless you choose to share a Notebook. Gemini Notebook never trains models on your uploaded data.”Before citation
“Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms”After citation
model training improved from high/training permitted to low/no training claim.
“Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms”Before citation
“Gemini Notebook prioritizes privacy and security. The sources you upload stay private unless you choose to share a Notebook. Gemini Notebook never trains models on your uploaded data.”After citation
model training worsened from low/no training claim to high/training permitted.
“Gemini Notebook prioritizes privacy and security. The sources you upload stay private unless you choose to share a Notebook. Gemini Notebook never trains models on your uploaded data.”Before citation
“Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms”After citation
model training improved from high/training permitted to low/no training claim.
“Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms”Before citation
“Gemini Notebook prioritizes privacy and security. The sources you upload stay private unless you choose to share a Notebook. Gemini Notebook never trains models on your uploaded data.”After citation
content license improved from high/sublicensable or transferable to medium/broad license.
“This license allows Google to: host, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and use your content — for example, to save your content on our systems and make it accessible from anywhere you go publish, publicly perform, or publicly display your content, if you’ve made it visible to others modify and create derivative works based on your content, such as reformatting or translating it sublicense these rights to: other users to allow the services to work as designed, such as enabling you to share photos with people you choose our contractors who’ve signed agreements with us that are consistent with these terms, only for the limited purposes described in the Purpose section below”Before citation
“This license is: worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world non-exclusive, which means you can license your content to others royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license”After citation
model training worsened from low/no training claim to high/training permitted.
“NotebookLM is part of Workspace which means it is backed by best-in-class security . As part of Google’s commitment to data privacy, NotebookLM does not train models on uploaded Workspace user data. Sources stay private unless you choose to share a notebook.”Before citation
“Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by: introducing malware spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection, except as part of our safety and bug testing programs accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as: phishing creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights reverse engineering our services or underlying technology, such as our machine learning models, to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities) using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms providing services that encourage others to violate these terms”After citation
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing on subprocessors data sharing
“Before taking action as described below, we’ll provide you with advance notice when reasonably possible, describe the reason for our action, and give you an opportunity to clarify the issue and address it, unless doing so would: cause harm or liability to a user, third party, or Google violate the law or a legal enforcement authority’s order compromise an investigation compromise the operation, integrity, or security of our services”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: platform claims or reserves rights on data retention
“Some of our services include content that belongs to Google — for example, many of the visual illustrations you see in Google Maps. You may use Google’s content as allowed by these terms and any service-specific additional terms , but we retain any intellectual property rights that we have in our content. Don’t remove, obscure, or alter any of our branding, logos, or legal notices. If you want to use our branding or logos, please see the Google Brand Permissions page.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: platform claims or reserves rights on data retention
“You also agree that our Privacy Policy applies to your use of our services. We provide resources like the Copyright Help Center , Safety Center , Transparency Center , and descriptions of our technologies from our policies site to answer common questions and to set expectations about using our services. Finally, we may provide specific instructions and warnings within our services – such as dialog boxes that alert you to important information. Although we give you permission to use our services, we retain any intellectual property rights we have in the services.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: user retains rights on data retention
“Your content remains yours, which means that you retain any intellectual property rights that you have in your content. For example, you have intellectual property rights in the creative content you make, such as reviews you write. Or you may have the right to share someone else’s creative content if they’ve given you their permission. We need your permission if your intellectual property rights restrict our use of your content. You provide Google with that permission through this license.”Open timeline citation
Capture recency
- Terms of Service:Last captured 2026-08-07· verified 2026-08-07
- Privacy Policy:Last captured 2026-08-07· verified 2026-08-07
Dates state when our pipeline captured and verified each document — not when the vendor last changed it. Documents are re-scanned on a recurring cadence; a document verified once says so until a re-scan confirms it again.
↓ 115 fewer findings this quarter vs last (162 vs 277). First scan: June 2026.
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