Summary of changes to Google’s Terms of Service
for users in the European Economic Area
We’re making changes to our Terms of Service on July 30, 2026 to make it easier for you to understand what we can expect from each other as you use Google services.
This page will help you understand the key updates we made to our terms for users based in the European Economic Area. We hope this summary is helpful, but we urge you to read the new terms in full.
Terms
Develop, improve, and update Google services
This section provides a general overview of how and why Google updates, adds, deletes, or otherwise changes its digital content, services, and goods.
- We clarified a sentence to help users better understand Google’s obligation to make legally-required updates to our digital content, services, and goods, as required by the EU Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive, a law that aims to strengthen consumer protection against greenwashing and premature product obsolescence.
Cellular, Wi-Fi, and other Network Connection Costs
This new section describes why Google services frequently use the Internet when you're not actively engaged with the services or your device, and clarifies your responsibility for the costs of that Internet usage.
We added this new section to help you better understand how our services work, to avoid any misunderstandings regarding the costs, and to encourage you to check your Internet service plan and your device and network settings, as each of those may affect your costs.
For business users and organizations only
This section applies only to business users or organizations, and limits Google’s liability to these users.
- We clarified that the limits on Google’s liability in this business users section don’t affect the protections that all users enjoy in the For all users section.
- This clarification applies to all EEA variants of Google’s terms of service, except the German version, which is worded differently and therefore doesn’t need to be clarified.
Handling requests for your data
This section describes how Google Ireland Limited handles user data disclosure requests.
- We’re deleting this section because we’re centralizing our data disclosure language on our main data disclosure policy page to provide users with a single, clear place to understand our data disclosure policies.
Settling disputes, governing law, and courts
This section describes the processes and laws that apply if we have a dispute.
- We’re removing a link to the EU Online Dispute Resolution platform because it no longer exists.
- We're also adding a disclosure for our German users – as required by law – to clarify that we don't use consumer arbitration boards.
About these terms
This section describes how we notify you if we update our terms.
- In the version of our terms that apply to French users only, we updated the language to be consistent with the most recent French laws and court decisions.
EEA instructions on withdrawal
This section describes how you can withdraw from this contract as described in the EU’s Model Instructions on Withdrawal.
- We updated this section with instructions on how to withdraw using a new, online “withdrawal button”, as required by the EU Financial Services Directive.
Definitions
affiliate
An entity that belongs to the Google group of companies, which means Google LLC and its subsidiaries, including the following companies that provide consumer services in the EU: Google Ireland Limited, Google Commerce Limited, and Google Dialer Inc.
business user
An individual or entity who is not a consumer (see consumer).
commercial guarantee
A commercial guarantee is a voluntary commitment that certain quality standards will be met and that if those standards aren’t met, the company offering the guarantee is responsible for repairing, replacing, or refunding the consumer for defective items.
consumer
An individual who uses Google services for personal, non-commercial purposes outside of their trade, business, craft, or profession. This includes “consumers” as defined in Article 2.1 of the EU Consumer Rights Directive. (See business user)
copyright
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.
country version
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.
disclaimer
A statement that limits someone’s legal responsibilities.
EU Platform-to-Business Regulation
The Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services.
indemnify or indemnity
An individual or organization’s contractual obligation to compensate the losses suffered by another individual or organization from legal proceedings such as lawsuits.
intellectual property rights (IP rights)
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.
lack of conformity
A legal concept that defines the difference between how something should work and how it actually works. Under the law, how something should work is based on how the seller or trader describes it, whether its quality and performance are satisfactory, and its fitness for the usual purpose of such items.
legal guarantee
A legal guarantee is a requirement under the law that a seller or trader is liable if their digital content, services, or goods are defective (that is, that they lack conformity).
organization
A legal entity (such as a corporation, non-profit, or school) and not an individual person.
services
The Google services that are subject to these terms are the products and services listed at https://policies.google.com/terms/service-specific, including:
- apps and sites (like Search and Maps)
- platforms (like Google Shopping)
- integrated services (like Maps embedded in other companies’ apps or sites)
- devices and other goods (like Google Nest)
Many of these services also include content that you can stream or interact with.
trademark
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.
your content
Things that you create, upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share using our services, such as:
- Docs, Sheets, and Slides you create
- 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
