Keeping users in control of their data is a core priority of our work. We provide users with robust controls to access, review, export, and delete their personal data through their account settings across our products and platforms. Generative AI is no different, requiring a signed-in experience and giving users the ability to turn off their Gemini Apps activity and conversations. And for emerging AI agents, we are building permission controls that allow users to specify exactly the data an agent can access.

Our privacy policies
Our foundational commitment to data transparency, outlining how user information is collected, used, and protected.

Privacy check-up
Our comprehensive tool that allows individuals to review and customize their privacy settings across our products and services.

Government agencies from around the world ask Google to disclose user information. We carefully review each request to make sure it satisfies applicable laws. If a request asks for too much information, we try to narrow it, and in some cases we object to producing any information at all. We share the number and types of requests we receive in our Transparency Report.

Transparency report
Our annual data-driven report that provides visibility into how government requests and modern security threats influence online information flows.

Privacy and terms: Government requests for user information
An overview of our legal standards and procedural safeguards that we employ when responding to government requests for user data.

We are committed to ensuring children have age-appropriate, privacy-preserving experiences across our platforms. Our tailored privacy protections and safeguards, including age assurance technology, parent-managed tools, and strict data policies that limit the collection of additional data help balance online protection with a young person’s growing autonomy online. Additionally, we implement strict advertising rules and support a complete ban on personalized advertising for anyone under 18, including the sale of children and teens’ personal information to third parties and data brokers.

Our Youth Legislative Framework
Our proactive policy proposal advocating for standardized, industry-wide protections to ensure a safe and age-appropriate digital environment for younger users.

Ensuring a safer online experience for U.S. kids and teens
Our latest age-assurance technologies and product safety measures designed to protect minors in the United States.

Parental Controls
A comprehensive guide to the suite of tools and settings families can use to manage content exposure and digital habits across Google’s platforms.

Our AI models are primarily trained on publicly available information from the open internet. We don't access data from private databases or pages that require a login, unless the website owner allows it.

We have built-in privacy protections into our AI processes, including cleaning data and deleting duplicate information before training. This helps prevent the model from outputting near-copies of content from its training data and reduces the chance of it showing personal data in its outputs.

Gemini 2.5 Family Model Report
Our Gemini 2.X model family report, with section 5.6 on Privacy & Memorization.

Overview of Google crawlers and fetchers
A guide on how our automated systems interact with web content to power our Search and AI tools.

How Google retains data we collect
An overview of our data lifecycle management, including specific timeframes and logic used for information retention and deletion.

It’s not enough for some organizations to operate responsibly — we need a law that establishes consistent rules and reins in bad actors. We support the passage of a federal privacy law in the U.S. to ensure all Americans have the same strong protections, rather than a confusing patchwork of different state rules.

The urgent necessity of enacting a national privacy law
We advocate for a clear, preemptive federal privacy standard to provide consistent protections for all American consumers.