Google Terms of Service for Your Personal Use
Welcome! By using Google's search engine or other Google services ("Google Services"), you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions
(the "Terms of Service"). As used in this agreement, "Google Services" does not include the Adwords or Adsense programs.
Content Linked to by Google
The sites displayed as search results or linked to by Google Services are developed by people over whom Google exercises no control.
The search results that appear from Google's indices are indexed by
Google's automated machinery and computers, and Google cannot and does
not screen the sites before including them in the indices from which
such automated search results are gathered. A search using Google Services may produce search results and links to sites that some people
find objectionable, inappropriate, or offensive. We cannot guarantee
that a Google search will not locate unintended or objectionable content
and assume no responsibility for the content of any site included in
any search results or otherwise linked to by the Google Services.
Personal Use Only
The Google Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial
use only. You may not use the Google Services to sell a product
or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons,
such as advertising sales. You may not take the results from a Google
search and reformat and display them, or mirror the Google home page
or results pages on your Web site. You may not "meta-search" Google.
If you want to make commercial use of the Google Services, you
must enter into an agreement with Google to do so in advance. Please
contact us
for more information.
If you are interested in adding a Google search box to
your web site or your company's web site,
we encourage you to do so.
No Automated Querying
You may not send automated
queries of any sort to Google's system without express
permission in advance from Google. Note that "sending
automated queries" includes, among other things:
using any software which sends queries to Google to determine how a website or webpage "ranks" on Google for various queries;"meta-searching" Google; andperforming "offline" searches on Google.
Please do not write to Google to request
permission to "meta-search" Google for a research project, as
such requests will not be granted.
Privacy Policy
Click here to review the Google Privacy Policy.
Changes In Terms and Conditions and Google Search Service
We may modify or terminate our services from time to time, for any
reason, and without notice, including the right to terminate with or
without notice, without liability to you, any other user or any third
party. We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Service from time
to time without notice. Please review these Terms of Service from time
to time so that you will be apprised of any changes.
Intellectual Property Policy
It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that
comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. For directions and
more information, please click here.
For information regarding our trademark complaint procedure, please
click here.
Disclaimer of Warranties
Google disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy,
content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or availability
of information or material displayed in the GOOGLE SERVICES results.
Google disclaims any responsibility for the deletion, failure to store,
misdelivery, or untimely delivery of any information or material. Google
disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from downloading
or accessing any information or material on the Internet through the
GOOGLE SERVICES.
THE GOOGLE SERVICES, AND ALL MATERIALS, INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN THE GOOGLE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WITH NO WARRANTIES
WHATSOEVER. GOOGLE AND ITS LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. GOOGLE AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM
ANY WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE GOOGLE SERVICES. GOOGLE AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM, ANY WARRANTIES
FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE OBTAINED THROUGH THE GOOGLE SERVICES.
GOOGLE AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES FOR SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH
OR ADVERTISED ON THE GOOGLE SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY
LINKS PROVIDED BY THE GOOGLE SERVICES, AS WELL AS FOR ANY INFORMATION
OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE GOOGLE SERVICES.
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU DOWNLOAD OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN MATERIAL
OR DATA THROUGH THE USE OF THE GOOGLE SERVICES AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION
AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO
YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD
OF SUCH MATERIAL OR DATA.
SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO
HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE AND JURISDICTION TO
JURISDICTION.
Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL GOOGLE OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO ANY USER ON ACCOUNT
OF THAT USER'S USE OR MISUSE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE GOOGLE SERVICES.
ARISING FROM ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SUBJECT MATTER
HEREOF SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO PREVENT RECOVERY
OF DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHETHER SUCH CLAIM IS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT,
TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, (EVEN IF GOOGLE OR ITS LICENSORS HAVE BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
SHALL APPLY WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF AND RELIANCE
ON THE GOOGLE SERVICES, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE GOOGLE SERVICES, OR FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF THE
GOOGLE SERVICES (INCLUDING SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES).
THIS LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY
REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON
THE GOOGLE SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN
THE GOOGLE SERVICES, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION
OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE GOOGLE SERVICES
OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE GOOGLE SERVICES.
THIS LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE COSTS OF
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA.
SUCH LIMITATION SHALL FURTHER APPLY WITH RESPECT TO THE PERFORMANCE
OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE GOOGLE SERVICES OR ANY INFORMATION
OR MERCHANDISE THAT APPEARS ON, OR IS LINKED OR RELATED IN ANY WAY TO,
THE GOOGLE SERVICES. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING
ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY AND TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS
AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall Google
or its licensors be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly
or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable
control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer
equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment
failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labor disputes, riots,
insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labor or materials,
fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions,
orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of
third parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning.
Requests for Removal of Links or Cached Materials
Google occasionally receives requests from people to remove links
from its indices. Although Google reserves the right to address such
requests individually, the general approach that Google takes reflects
the following principles:
Google's indices consist of information that has been identified,
indexed and compiled through an automated process with no advance review
by human beings. Given the enormous volume of web site information added,
deleted, and changed on a frequent basis, Google cannot and does not
screen anything made available through its indices. For each web site
reflected in Google's indices, if either (i) a site owner restricts
access to his or her web site or (ii) a site is taken down from the
web, then, upon receipt of a request by the site owner or a third party
in the second instance, Google would consider on a case-by-case basis
requests to remove the link to that site from its indices. However,
if the operator of the site does not take steps to prevent it, the automatic
facilities used to create the indices are likely to find that site and
index it again in a relatively short amount of time.
Google stores many web pages in its cache to retrieve for users as
a back-up in case the page's server temporarily fails. Site owners may
block Google from returning cached versions of their pages by using
the NOARCHIVE meta-tag. Site owners may also request immediate removal
of cached page from the Google Search Service. Google evaluates such
requests for the immediate removal of cached content on a case-by-case
basis and does not guarantee that every request will be granted. The
steps necessary to remove cached pages, and to prevent a site from being
cached and/or included in the indices are described in the
Google FAQ,
accessible from the home page of this site.
Miscellaneous Provisions
These Terms of Service will be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to its
conflict of laws provisions or your actual state or country of residence.
If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision
or portion of the Terms of Service to be unenforceable, the remainder
of the Terms of Service will continue in full force and effect.
These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between the
parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and
replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements,
written or oral, regarding such subject matter. Any waiver of any provision
of the Terms of Service will be effective only if in writing and signed
by Google.
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