Our privacy and security tools let you control and protect your data. Your activity from the following may be saved in your Google Account:
- Google Sites
- Apps
- Services
Your Google account saves data based on your Activity controls.
You can use My Activity to find and delete:
- Topics you search
- Articles you read
- Videos you watch
Saved Activity gives you a personalized experience including:
- Faster searches
- Recommendations
- A better YouTube homepage
If you delete activity, it won’t be used to personalize your Google experience.
How My Activity works
- Choose what activity to save in your account.
- Customize privacy settings to best meet your needs.
Activity comes from your use of:
- Google products
- Sites
- Apps
- Devices that use Google’s services when you're signed in to a Google Account
My Activity lets you use saved data to:
- Access and manage your search history and activity in one central place from any device.
- View and filter activity by date, product, and keyword.
- Manually or automatically delete some or all activity.
- You can delete individual items, activity from a certain time frame, or all activity. You can also choose to automatically delete activity older than 3 months, 18 months, or 36 months.
How Google saves activity & content in other places
- Some Google products store activity in places other than My Activity.
- If Location History is turned on, your precise location is regularly saved to your Maps Timeline.
- At any time, you can delete Location History from your Timeline.
- Your browser may save browsing history and other data.
- In Chrome, you can delete:
- You can browse in private to stop Chrome from saving:
- Browsing history
- Cookies
- Site data
- Info that you enter in forms
- If Location History is turned on, your precise location is regularly saved to your Maps Timeline.
- You can find activity that may be saved elsewhere at other Google activity.
- My Activity doesn’t store content or files like:
- Documents
- Emails
- Photos
- You can manage content or files directly in products like:
- Drive
- Gmail
- Photos
How Google keeps your activity private
- Google Account comes with built-in security designed to detect and block threats like:
- Spam
- Malware
- Viruses
- Hackers
- Google stores activity securely with industry-leading encryption.
- You can require an extra verification step to view your full history on My Activity.
- If you have more than one Google Account, each account keeps its activity separate.
- We never sell your personal information.
Control your activity
Google Activity controls help you:
- Choose what data your Google Account stores.
- Customize privacy settings to best meet your needs.
At any time, you can delete:
- Data from My Activity.
- Location History from your Timeline.
For limited purposes, like business or legal requirements, Google may keep certain data for a period of time.
You can always download your activity.
