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Google Veo

Graded against 804 verified platforms, from its own policy text. Automated assessment against a published rubric — not legal advice.

Overall riskHIGHReviewed 2026-08-07
Creator: low · GRC: low · Counsel: low
creator band
Severe
enterprise · pending
Dealbreaker · Third-party sublicensing
Exhibit A · Terms of Service · verbatim

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

highest-risk verified finding on prompt ownership — tap for the citation
32 verified findings6 policy surfaces1/2 core docs verified

Partially verified: Terms of Service assessed · Privacy Policy pending. Everything below comes only from what was read in full.

Risk triage

Watch: indemnity liability

Start here. These are the highest-risk verified clauses AIRIN found in the platform's own policy text.

0
high
9
medium
23
low
1/2
docs
Trains on your data?
Not yet assessed
no verified finding covers this surface yet
Who owns outputs?
Not yet assessed
no verified finding covers this surface yet
Commercial use?
Commercial use allowed
from 2 cited findings
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Scores derived from 17 enriched findings — same verbatim citations as below. AI-generated, not legal advice.

What this means for you
  • Output and prompt ownership face material restrictions — 1 clause significantly limit your IP rights.

Derived from AI-enriched analysis of the verified findings below — informational only, not legal advice.

How to read this page: Overall risk rates what Google Veo'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.

Creator lens
Your prompts, your outputs, your IP
SEVERE
Dealbreaker — Third-party sublicensing. Rights in your content can be passed on to third parties beyond service operation. see the clause · and another

Based on 63 verified, verbatim-cited findings below — read the citations.

Enterprise lens
NOT YET ASSESSED

privacy assessment pending — privacy policy not yet verified This lens receives a band only once its source document has been captured and read in full.

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Partially verifiedImage / Video / Audio Generation

Partially verified — Terms of Service — Verified (read in full, 32 findings); Privacy Policy — Capture pending. Findings below are from fully-read, verified documents only; remaining core documents are pending capture.

Why partial?

Capture blocked

A known core policy document could not be publicly captured after the available capture strategies were tried.

Blocked core document: Privacy Policy

Document status
  • Terms of Service
    Verified - read in full - 32 citationsLast captured 2026-08-07
  • Privacy Policy
    Capture blocked - document not publicly capturable
Tier conditions

Only citation-backed plan differences are shown here; absent cells mean AIRIN has not verified a tier-specific claim.

plan language
Commercial use

Defines 'consumer' as a person using Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes, distinguishing this class of user from business users, which affects which legal protections and tier-specific obligations apply.

" An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of their trade, business, craft, or profession. (See business user)"
📍 Terms of Service › “consumer”Jump to exact text →
plan language
Moderation & enforcement

This segment establishes the procedure for users who disagree with new terms, requiring them to remove their content and stop using services or close their Google Account, and specifies that continued access without an account is governed by the most current terms.

" 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 ..."
📍 Terms of Service › “About these terms”Jump to exact text →
plan language
Indemnity & liability

This segment caps Google's total aggregate liability arising from or relating to these terms at the greater of $200 or fees paid in the 12 months before the dispute, constituting a financial limitation of liability.

" 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..."
📍 Terms of Service › “For all users”Jump to exact text →
plan language
Governing law & disputes

This segment defines the parties ('Google,' 'we,' 'us,' 'our' meaning Google LLC and its affiliates) and grants conditional permission to access and use Google's services, establishing the fundamental commercial use right contingent on compliance with the terms and contextualizing how Google earns money through these services.

" 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..."
📍 Terms of Service › “Your relationship with Google”Jump to exact text →

Evidence appendix

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High - 0
Medium - 9
Tier-specific - 0
Total citations - 32
Severity
Surface
Document
Tier
Moderation & enforcement
High
"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."
Terms of Service › “Develop, improve, and update Google services”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

The 'urgent situations' carve-out is broadly worded and gives Google significant discretion to act without notice. Users relying on Google services for critical workflows face potential sudden disruption.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Moderation & enforcement
High
"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"
Terms of Service › “Suspending or terminating your access to Google services”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Google can unilaterally suspend or terminate access and delete accounts based on broadly worded criteria including 'harm or liability.' While advance notice is promised where reasonably possible, multiple exceptions apply. Account deletion could have significant downstream consequences for users relying on Google services.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Indemnity & liability
High
"TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE PROVIDE OUR SERVICES “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT THE CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS."
Terms of Service › “Warranty disclaimer”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Google disclaims all implied warranties to the maximum extent permitted by law. This eliminates standard legal protections around fitness for purpose and non-infringement, placing substantial risk on users who rely on the service's outputs or availability.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Indemnity & liability
High
" 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"
Terms of Service › “For all users”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

This segment caps Google's total aggregate liability arising from or relating to these terms at the greater of $200 or fees paid in the 12 months before the dispute, constituting a financial limitation of liability.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Commercial use
DealbreakerHigh
"using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology"
Terms of Service › “Don’t abuse our services”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

This restriction under 'Don't abuse our services' prohibits a common and commercially valuable use case—using AI-generated content to build or fine-tune ML models. This is a significant restriction on output commercialization for AI developers.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Prompt / input ownership
FavorableHigh
" 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."
Terms of Service › “License”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

This segment is a sub-heading 'What's covered' that defines the scope of content subject to the license, specifically content protected by intellectual property rights, serving as a definitional scope provision.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Moderation & enforcement
High
" 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. "
Terms of Service › “About these terms”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

This segment establishes the procedure for users who disagree with new terms, requiring them to remove their content and stop using services or close their Google Account, and specifies that continued access without an account is governed by the most current terms.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Moderation & enforcement
NeutralHigh
" Many organizations , such as businesses, non-profits, and schools, take advantage of our services . To use our services on behalf of an organization: an authorized representative of that organization must agree to these terms your organization’s administrator may assign a Google Account to you. That administrator might require you to follow additional rules and may be able to access or disable your Google Account."
Terms of Service › “Using Google services on behalf of an organization or business”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

This segment establishes conditions and obligations for organizational use of services, including requiring an authorized representative to agree to terms and subjecting users to additional rules and administrator controls, creating a distinct tier of obligations for organizational users.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Moderation & enforcement
NeutralHigh
" 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."
Terms of Service › “Develop, improve, and update Google services”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

This segment grants Google the right to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve services, to add or remove features, and to automatically update software on user devices, establishing Google's permission to use automated systems including AI/ML as part of service development and improvement.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Indemnity & liability
High
" 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."
Terms of Service › “liability”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Defines 'liability' broadly to encompass losses from any legal claim (contract, tort, or otherwise), whether or not foreseeable; operative because this definition determines the scope of liability caps and disclaimers elsewhere in the agreement.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Prompt / input ownership
NeutralHigh
" 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."
Terms of Service › “Follow these terms and service-specific additional terms”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

This segment confirms that Google retains all intellectual property rights in its services notwithstanding the permission granted to users, incorporates the Privacy Policy by reference, and restricts users from acquiring any IP rights in Google's services through their use, while also referencing additional policy resources.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Moderation & enforcement
High
" 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"
Terms of Service › “Don’t abuse our services”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

This segment restricts users from abusing, harming, interfering with, or disrupting Google's services and systems, specifically prohibiting malware introduction, spamming, hacking, bypassing protective measures, jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, and prompt injection (except in authorized testing programs), establishing enforceable restrictions on service misuse.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Prompt / input ownership
NeutralHigh
" Symbols, names, and images used in commerce that are capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one individual or organization from those of another."
Terms of Service › “trademark”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Defines 'trademark' as symbols, names, and images used in commerce that distinguish one party's goods or services from another's; operative because it clarifies the scope of IP rights referenced in ownership and use-restriction provisions throughout the agreement.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Prompt / input ownership
NeutralHigh
" Rights over the creations of a person’s mind, such as inventions (patent rights); literary and artistic works (copyright); designs (design rights); and symbols, names, and images used in commerce (trademarks). IP rights may belong to you, another individual, or an organization."
Terms of Service › “intellectual property rights (IP rights)”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Defines 'intellectual property rights' broadly to include patents, copyrights, design rights, and trademarks, and clarifies they may belong to the user, another individual, or an organization; operative because this definition underpins ownership and licensing provisions for user content and Google's IP throughout the terms.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Prompt / input ownership
NeutralHigh
" 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”)."
Terms of Service › “copyright”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Defines 'copyright' as the legal right of a creator of an original work to control use by others, subject to limitations such as fair use; this definition is operative because it establishes the legal basis for ownership and use restrictions applicable to user-created content throughout the terms.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Prompt / input ownership
NeutralHigh
" Things that you create, upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share using our services, such as:"
Terms of Service › “your content”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Defines 'your content' as things that users create, upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share using Google's services; operative because this definition determines the scope of user content subject to licensing, ownership, and data-use provisions throughout the agreement.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Commercial use
NeutralHigh
" An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of their trade, business, craft, or profession. (See business user)"
Terms of Service › “consumer”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Defines 'consumer' as a person using Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes, distinguishing this class of user from business users, which affects which legal protections and tier-specific obligations apply.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Privacy & data use
NeutralHigh
" 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"
Terms of Service › “Docs, Sheets, and Slides you create”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Continues enumerating examples of 'your content' including blog posts, reviews, videos, emails, pictures, and travel itineraries shared with Google; operative because these examples define the full scope of content subject to licensing, training-use, and data-handling provisions.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Common questions about Google Veo's policies

Can you use Google Veo's output commercially?
Commercial use allowed — based on 2 verified findings from Google Veo's published policy. Informational only, not legal advice.

Clause detail — protections, your obligations, and coverage

Every clause below is a verbatim quote from Google Veo'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

3 verified clauses

Clauses in Google Veo'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…

    This segment establishes the procedure for users who disagree with new terms, requiring them to remove their content and stop using services or close their Google Account, and specifies that continued access without an a…

    • 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 the right to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve services, to add or remove features, and to automatically update software on user devices, establishing Google's permiss…

    • Terms changes: advance notice promised
    📍 Terms of Service › “Develop, improve, and update Google services”Jump to exact text →
  • Moderation & enforcementterms can change anytime
    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 addressin…

    The 'urgent situations' carve-out is broadly worded and gives Google significant discretion to act without notice. Users relying on Google services for critical workflows face potential sudden disruption.

    • Terms changes: advance notice promised
    📍 Terms of Service › “Develop, improve, and update Google services”Jump to exact text →

📋 Rules you must follow

4 verified clauses

What Google Veo 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 restricts users from abusing, harming, interfering with, or disrupting Google's services and systems, specifically prohibiting malware introduction, spamming, hacking, bypassing protective measures, jailbrea…

    📍 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 obligations on users to comply with applicable laws and respect others' rights, and restricts abusive, harmful, fraudulent, and harassing conduct, establishing enforceable conduct standards as a cond…

    📍 Terms of Service › “Respect others”Jump to exact text →
  • Moderation & enforcement
    If you meet these age requirements you can create a Google Account for your convenience. Some services require that you have a Google Account in order to work — for example, to use Gmail, you need a Google Account so that you have a place to send and receive y…

    This segment establishes age-based requirements for account creation and places an obligation on the user to take reasonable steps to keep their Google Account secure and take responsibility for actions taken with the ac…

    📍 Terms of Service › “Your Google Account”Jump to exact text →
  • Commercial useconduct restrictions
    using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology

    This restriction under 'Don't abuse our services' prohibits a common and commercially valuable use case—using AI-generated content to build or fine-tune ML models. This is a significant restriction on output commercializ…

    📍 Terms of Service › “Don’t abuse our services”Jump to exact text →

What the policies actually cover

3 topics
  • Damages & liability cap4 clauses
  • Terms can change at any time3 protective3 clauses
  • Conduct restrictions2 obligations2 clauses

23 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.

147
clauses
46
patterns
46
stances
ip ownership · 17ip license · 11privacy sharing · 7legal burden · 4commercial use · 3training use · 3
commercial useMEDIUMTerms of Service › “consumer”

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
commercial useMEDIUMTerms of Service › “consumer”

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
commercial useMEDIUMTerms of Service › “consumer”

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
ip licenseHIGHTerms of Service › “Rights”

The clause includes sublicensable, transferable, or assignable rights.

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
Open source citation
ip licenseHIGHTerms of Service › “Software in Google services”

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

Tier matrix

Plan-level conditions detected from citation-backed clauses. Empty tiers mean AIRIN has not captured decisive tier language yet.

TierSurfaceVerdictRiskCitations
All applicable tiersdata retentionworsensHIGH9
All applicable tiersgoverning law disputesconditionalMEDIUM1
All applicable tiersindemnity liabilityconditionalMEDIUM4
All applicable tiersmoderation enforcementworsensHIGH1
All applicable tiersoutput ownershipimprovesLOW2
All applicable tiersprivacy data useconditionalMEDIUM3
All applicable tiersprompt ownershipworsensHIGH3
All applicable tierssubprocessors data sharingworsensHIGH10
All applicable tierstraining useworsensHIGH4
Freecommercial useworsensHIGH2
Freeprompt ownershipconditionalMEDIUM3
Team / Businesscommercial useconditionalMEDIUM3

Policy evolution

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Before/after stance changes across captured policy versions. When no material delta exists yet, AIRIN shows the latest citation-backed stance events instead.

improvedhigh materialityJun 17Jul 8, 2026

content license improved from high/sublicensable or transferable to medium/broad license.

Before · high
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
After · medium
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
Aug 7, 2026data sharingMEDIUM

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
Aug 7, 2026legal burdenMEDIUM

Latest stance: liability limited on indemnity liability

We built our reputation on providing useful, reliable services like Google Search and Maps, and we’re continuously improving our services to meet your needs. However, for legal purposes, we offer our services without warranties unless explicitly stated in our service-specific additional terms . The law requires that we explain this using specific legal language and that we use capital letters to help make sure you see it, as follows: TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE PROVIDE OUR SERVICES “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT THE CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. UNLESS EXPLICITLY PERMITTED BY SERVICE-SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL TERMS , DON’T RELY ON THE SERVICES FOR MEDICAL, LEGAL, FINANCIAL, OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. ANY CONTENT REGARDING THOSE TOPICS IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, DOES NOT CONSTITUTE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT, AND IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ADVICE FROM A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL.
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Aug 7, 2026commercial useMEDIUM

Latest stance: restricted on commercial use

An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of their trade, business, craft, or profession. (See business user)
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Aug 7, 2026content ownershipHIGH

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.
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  • Terms of Service:Last captured 2026-08-07· verified 2026-08-07
  • Privacy Policy:Last captured 2026-07-20

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.

↓ 4 fewer findings this quarter vs last (99 vs 103). First scan: June 2026.

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