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Socratic (Google)

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: medium
creator band
Severe
enterprise · pending
Dealbreaker · Third-party sublicensing
Exhibit A · Terms of Service · verbatim

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

cited by the third-party sublicensing dealbreaker — tap for the citation
42 verified findings8 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
12
medium
30
low
1/2
docs
Trains on your data?
Not yet assessed
no verified finding covers this surface yet
Who owns outputs?
You own your outputs
from 2 cited findings
Commercial use?
Commercial use allowed
from 2 cited findings
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Risk by role
Select a role to tailor the summary and reorder the findings below.

Scores derived from 23 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 Socratic (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.

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 80 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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Automated assessment against a published rubric — not legal advice.

Partially verifiedEnterprise Search / Productivity

Partially verified — Terms of Service — Verified (read in full, 42 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 - 42 citationsstaticLast 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
Prompt / input ownership

Section heading 'License' introduces the licensing provisions that govern what rights Google obtains in user content, incorporating the operative license terms that follow.

" 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..."
📍 Terms of Service › “Permission to use your content”Jump to exact text →
plan language
Prompt / input ownership

Sub-heading 'Rights' introduces the enumeration of specific rights granted to Google under the license over user content.

" 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"
📍 Terms of Service › “Scope”Jump to exact text →
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 has legal significance for applicable rights and obligations under the terms.

" 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

Defines the parties ('Google,' 'we,' 'us,' 'our' meaning Google LLC and its affiliates) and establishes the foundational permission for users to access and use services conditioned on compliance with the terms, reflecting how Google earns money and structures its commercial relationship with users.

" 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 →
plan language
Moderation & enforcement

Designates California law as the governing law for all disputes and requires exclusive jurisdiction in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County, California, with both parties consenting to personal jurisdiction, establishing binding dispute resolution terms.

" 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 additiona..."
📍 Terms of Service › “Suspending or terminating your access to Google services”Jump to exact text →
plan language
Indemnity & liability

Imposes an indemnification obligation on business users and organizations to defend and hold harmless Google and its personnel against third-party legal proceedings arising from unlawful use or violation of the terms, covering all associated costs and liabilities.

" Google’s total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) $200 or (2) the fees paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months before the dispute"
📍 Terms of Service › “For all users”Jump to exact text →
plan language
Indemnity & liability

Establishes a procedural obligation for Google to provide advance notice and an opportunity to address issues before taking enforcement action, while enumerating specific exceptions where notice may be bypassed (harm, legal order, investigation, service integrity).

" If you’re a business user or organization : To the extent allowed by applicable law, you’ll indemnify Google and its directors, officers, employees, and contractors for any third-party legal proceedings (including actions by government au..."
📍 Terms of Service › “For business users and organizations only”Jump to exact text →
plan language
Confidentiality

Sub-heading 'Scope' introduces the provisions defining the geographic and exclusivity parameters of the license granted to Google over user content.

" 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..."
📍 Terms of Service › “What’s not covered”Jump to exact text →

Evidence appendix

Showing priority citations first. The full appendix is available for audit trails; not every citation is a severe risk.

High - 0
Medium - 12
Tier-specific - 0
Total citations - 42
Severity
Surface
Document
Tier
Prompt / input ownership
High
"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"
Terms of Service › “Rights”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

The license grant expressly permits sublicensing user content to Google's contractors under agreements 'consistent with these terms.' This means third-party subprocessors may access and process user content. The breadth of the contractor network is not disclosed here.

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 reserves the right to terminate or suspend access and delete accounts for conduct causing harm or liability to Google. The breadth of 'harm or liability to Google' is not specifically defined and could encompass competitive or reputational concerns beyond user misconduct.

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 warranties to the maximum extent permitted by law. For AI or informational services, this means users have no recourse if outputs are inaccurate, unavailable, or unfit for purpose. The carve-out for service-specific additional terms may provide some relief for paid tiers.

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

Listed under 'Don't abuse our services,' this clause bars users from using Google-generated AI content to build ML/AI products. This restricts a common commercial use case — leveraging generated outputs to train downstream models — and could affect developers, researchers, and businesses.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

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

Sub-heading 'Rights' introduces the enumeration of specific rights granted to Google under the license over user content.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Privacy & data use
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

Establishes procedural requirements and obligations for using Google services on behalf of an organization, including authorization requirements, administrator control rights, and the ability to impose additional rules or disable accounts, creating a distinct tier for organizational users.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Moderation & enforcement
High
" 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. Examples include child pornography, content that facilitates human trafficking or harassment, terrorist content, and content that infringes someone else’s intellectual property rights ."
Terms of Service › “Removing your content”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Grants Google the right to suspend or terminate user access to services or delete a Google Account upon material breach, legal requirement, court order, or harmful conduct, establishing triggering conditions for enforcement action.

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 For more information about why we disable accounts and what happens when we do, see this Help Center page . If you believe your Google Account has been suspended or terminated in error, you can appeal . Of course, you’re always free to stop using our services at any time. If you do stop using a service, we’d appreciate knowing why so that we can continue improving our services."
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

Designates California law as the governing law for all disputes and requires exclusive jurisdiction in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County, California, with both parties consenting to personal jurisdiction, establishing binding dispute resolution terms.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Moderation & enforcement
NeutralHigh
"If you don’t agree to the new terms, you should remove your content and stop using the services. You can also end your relationship with us at any time by closing your Google Account . If you close your Google Account and then access or use our services without an account, that access and use will be subject to the most current version of these terms."
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

Defines 'affiliate' as entities belonging to the Google group of companies including specified EU subsidiaries, establishing the corporate scope of the term used in liability, indemnity, and other operative provisions.

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

States Google's right to use AI and machine learning to improve services, and reserves the right to add/remove features, adjust service limits, and update software automatically, establishing Google's broad right to develop and modify services using user-generated data and interactions.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Indemnity & liability
High
" Google’s total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) $200 or (2) the fees paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months before the dispute"
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

Imposes an indemnification obligation on business users and organizations to defend and hold harmless Google and its personnel against third-party legal proceedings arising from unlawful use or violation of the terms, covering all associated costs and liabilities.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Indemnity & liability
High
" If you’re a business user or organization : To the extent allowed by applicable law, you’ll indemnify Google and its directors, officers, employees, and contractors for any third-party legal proceedings (including actions by government authorities) arising out of or relating to your unlawful use of the services or violation of these terms or service-specific additional terms . This indemnity covers any liability or expense arising from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees. If you’re legally exempt from certain responsibilities, including indemnification , then those responsibilities don’t apply to you under these terms. For example, the United Nations enjoys certain immunities from legal obligations and these terms don’t override those immunities."
Terms of Service › “For business users and organizations only”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Establishes a procedural obligation for Google to provide advance notice and an opportunity to address issues before taking enforcement action, while enumerating specific exceptions where notice may be bypassed (harm, legal order, investigation, service integrity).

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' expansively to include losses from any type of legal claim — contract, tort, negligence, or otherwise — whether or not foreseeable, directly informing the scope of liability limitation and indemnification clauses in the terms.

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

Enumerates specific prohibited behaviors including introducing malware, spamming, hacking, bypassing protective measures, jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, and prompt injection (except in approved safety programs), imposing explicit restrictions on how users may access and interact with Google's systems.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

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

Section heading 'License' introduces the licensing provisions that govern what rights Google obtains in user content, incorporating the operative license terms that follow.

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

Begins the definition of 'your content' by enumerating the types of material users create, upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share using Google services, establishing the scope of content subject to ownership, licensing, and training-use provisions.

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

Sub-heading 'What's covered' introduces the definition of the scope of content covered by the license, incorporating the following clause that defines coverage based on intellectual property right protection.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Prompt / input ownership
NeutralHigh
" This license covers your content if that content is protected by intellectual property rights."
Terms of Service › “What’s covered”Jump to exact text →
Source: Terms of Service- Snapshot 2026-06-07- View source
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Automated analysis

Sub-heading 'What's not covered' introduces exceptions to the license's scope, incorporating the exclusions from coverage defined in the segment that follows.

AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.

Common questions about Socratic (Google)'s policies

Who owns the content you create with Socratic (Google)?
You own your outputs — based on 2 verified findings from Socratic (Google)'s published policy. Informational only, not legal advice.
Can you use Socratic (Google)'s output commercially?
Commercial use allowed — based on 2 verified findings from Socratic (Google)'s published policy. Informational only, not legal advice.

Clause detail — protections, your obligations, and coverage

Every clause below is a verbatim quote from Socratic (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

6 verified clauses

Clauses in Socratic (Google)'s policies that work in your favour — commitments the platform made to you.

  • 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…

    States Google's right to use AI and machine learning to improve services, and reserves the right to add/remove features, adjust service limits, and update software automatically, establishing Google's broad right to deve…

    • 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…

    Sub-heading 'Scope' introduces the provisions defining the geographic and exclusivity parameters of the license granted to Google over user content.

    📍 Terms of Service › “What’s not covered”Jump to exact text →
  • Prompt ownership
    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…

    Sub-heading 'What's covered' introduces the definition of the scope of content covered by the license, incorporating the following clause that defines coverage based on intellectual property right protection.

    📍 Terms of Service › “License”Jump to exact text →
  • Moderation & enforcement
    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 u…

    Reserves Google's right to remove user content that breaches terms, violates law, or could cause harm, providing specific examples of prohibited content categories and anchoring the right in applicable law.

    📍 Terms of Service › “Taking action in case of problems”Jump to exact text →
  • Prompt ownership
    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…

    Section heading 'License' introduces the licensing provisions that govern what rights Google obtains in user content, incorporating the operative license terms that follow.

    📍 Terms of Service › “Permission to use your content”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 explicitly states it will not claim ownership of content users generate using its services. This is a user-favorable provision, though the scope of the license Google may take (referenced but not fully quoted here…

    📍 Terms of Service › “Your content”Jump to exact text →

📋 Rules you must follow

4 verified clauses

What Socratic (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…

    Enumerates specific prohibited behaviors including introducing malware, spamming, hacking, bypassing protective measures, jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, and prompt injection (except in approved safety programs), im…

    📍 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…

    Extends user conduct obligations by referencing service-specific additional terms and the Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy, and describes the process for reporting abuse, creating obligations of appropriate conduct en…

    📍 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…

    Imposes an obligation on the user to take reasonable steps to keep their Google Account secure and be responsible for all actions taken with it, establishing account-holder duties tied to age-gated access.

    📍 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

    Listed under 'Don't abuse our services,' this clause bars users from using Google-generated AI content to build ML/AI products. This restricts a common commercial use case — leveraging generated outputs to train downstre…

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

What the policies actually cover

5 topics
  • Damages & liability cap4 clauses
  • Indemnity direction1 clause
  • Terms can change at any time1 protective2 clauses
  • Feedback ownership1 protective1 clause
  • Conduct restrictions2 obligations2 clauses

32 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.

166
clauses
51
patterns
51
stances
ip ownership · 18ip license · 12privacy sharing · 9legal burden · 5commercial 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.

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
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

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 liabilityconditionalMEDIUM5
All applicable tiersmoderation enforcementworsensHIGH4
All applicable tiersprivacy data useconditionalMEDIUM3
All applicable tiersprompt ownershipworsensHIGH5
All applicable tierssubprocessors data sharingworsensHIGH10
All applicable tierstraining useworsensHIGH3
Freecommercial useworsensHIGH2
Freeprompt ownershipconditionalMEDIUM4
Team / Businesscommercial useconditionalMEDIUM3
Team / Businesstier differencesconditionalMEDIUM1

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 10, 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 privacy data use

If you have a Google Account, we associate your account with a country (or territory) so that we can determine: the Google affiliate that provides the services to you and that processes your information as you use the services the version of the terms that govern our relationship When you’re signed out, your country version is determined by the location where you’re using Google services. If you have an account, you can sign in and view these terms to see the country associated with it.
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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.
Open timeline citation
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)
Open timeline 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
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Capture recency

  • Terms of Service:Last captured 2026-08-07· verified 2026-08-07
  • Privacy Policy:Last captured 2026-06-07

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.

↓ 11 fewer findings this quarter vs last (99 vs 110). First scan: June 2026.

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