Privacy and Terms of To create a Google Account

Privacy and Terms

To create a Google Account, you’ll need to agree to the Terms of Service below.

In addition, when you create an account, we process your information as described in our Privacy Policy, including these key points:

Data that we process when you use Google

• When you set up a Google Account, we store information you give us like your name, email address and telephone number.
• When you use Google services to do things such as write a message in Gmail or comment on a YouTube video, we store the information that you create.
• When you search for a restaurant on Google Maps or watch a video on YouTube; for example, we process information about that activity – including information such as the video that you watched, device IDs, IP addresses, cookie data and location.
• We also process the kind of information described above when you use apps or sites that use Google services such as ads, Analytics and the YouTube video player.

Why we process it

We process this data for the purposes described in our policy, including to:

• Help our services deliver more useful, customised content such as more relevant search results;
• Improve the quality of our services and develop new ones;
• Deliver personalised ads, depending on your account settings, both on Google services and on sites and apps that partner with Google;
• Improve security by protecting against fraud and abuse; and
• Conduct analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used. We also have partners that measure how our services are used. Learn more about these specific advertising and measurement partners.

Combining data

We also combine this data among our services and across your devices for these purposes. For example, depending on your account settings, we show you ads based on information about your interests, which we can derive from your use of Search and YouTube, and we use data from trillions of search queries to build spell-correction models that we use across all of our services.

You’re in control

Depending on your account settings, some of this data may be associated with your Google Account and we treat this data as personal information. You can control how we collect and use this data now by clicking 'More Options' below. You can always adjust your controls later or withdraw your consent for the future by visiting My Account (myaccount.google.com).

MORE OPTIONS

Customise your Google experience by confirming your personalisation settings and the data stored with your account. 

You can always learn more about these options, adjust them, and review your activity in your Google Account (account.google.com).

• Web & App Activity

  Saves your activity on Google sites and apps, including searches and associated info like location. Also saves activity from sites, apps and devices that use Google services, including Chrome history. This helps Google provide better search results, suggestions and personalisation across Google services.

  Save my Web & app activity in my Google Account

  Don’t save my Web & app activity in my Google Account
• Ads Personalisation

  Google can show you ads based on your activity on Google services (such as Search or YouTube), and on websites and apps that partner with Google.

  Show me personalised ads

  Show me ads that aren’t personalised
• YouTube history

  Saves the YouTube videos that you watch and the things that you search for on YouTube. This helps Google give you better recommendations, remember where you left off and more.

  Save my YouTube history in my Google Account

  Don’t save my YouTube history in my Google Account
• Location History

  Saves a private map of where you go with your signed-in devices (even when you’re not actively using a Google product) to give you better map searches, commute routes and more. 

  Save my Location History in my Google Account

  Don’t save my Location History in my Google Account

Send me occasional reminders about these settings

These settings apply wherever you are signed in to your new Google Account.

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