A new license agreement for the Google Maps Core Services is available at https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms, which took effect July 16, 2018. Your use of Google Maps Core Services, as of July 16, 2018, is governed by this new license agreement.
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Last Updated: February 7, 2018
This page contains the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service. If you have questions about these terms, please consult the FAQ’s Terms of Service section. These terms do not apply if you have entered into a separate written agreement with Google (such as a Google Maps Platform Premium Plan or Google Maps APIs for Work agreement) related to the Google Maps APIs.
1.1 Use of the Service is Subject to these Terms . Your use of any of the Google Maps APIs (referred to in this document as the "Maps API(s)" or the "Service") is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Google (the "Terms"). "Google" means either (a) Google Ireland Limited, with offices at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, if your billing address is in any country within Europe, the Middle East, or Africa ("EMEA"); (b) Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., with offices at 70 Pasir Panjang Road, #03-71, Mapletree Business City, Singapore 117371, if your billing address is in any country within the Asia Pacific region excluding Australia ("APAC"); (c) Google Australia Pty Ltd. with offices at Level 5, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont 2009, NSW, Australia, if your billing address is in Australia; or (d) Google Inc., with offices at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA, if your billing address is in any country in the world other than those in EMEA, APAC or Australia.
1.3 Use of Other Google Services and Additional Terms . If you use the Maps API(s) in conjunction with any other Google products, including any other Google API(s), (collectively, the Service and all other Google products and services are referred to as the "Google Services"), your agreement with Google will also include the terms applicable to those Google Services. All of these are referred to as the "Additional Terms." If Additional Terms apply, they will be accessible to you either within or through your use of the applicable Google Services. If there is any contradiction between the Additional Terms and the Maps APIs Terms, then the Maps APIs Terms will take precedence only as they relate to the Maps API(s), and not to any other Google Services.
1.4 Precedence of Maps APIs Terms . If there is any contradiction between the Maps APIs Terms and other Maps API(s)-related documents (including the Maps APIs Documentation), then the Maps APIs Terms will take precedence.
1.5 Changes to the Terms . Google reserves the right to make changes to the Terms from time to time. When these changes are made, Google will make a new copy of the Terms available at http://developers.google.com/maps/terms (or such other URL as Google may provide). You understand and agree that if you use the Service after the date on which the Terms have changed, Google will treat your use as acceptance of the updated Terms. If a modification is unacceptable to you, you may terminate this agreement by ceasing use of the Maps API(s).
2.2 U.S. Law Restrictions . You may not use the Maps API(s) and may not accept the Terms if you are a person barred from using the Service under United States law.
2.3 Authority to Accept the Terms . You represent that you have full power, capacity, and authority to accept these Terms. If you are accepting on behalf of your employer or another entity, you represent that you have full legal authority to bind your employer or such entity to these Terms. If you don't have the legal authority to bind, please ensure that an authorized person from your entity consents to and accepts these Terms.
3.1 Google’s Privacy Policy . For information about Google's data protection practices, please read Google's Privacy Policy. This policy explains how Google treats your personal information and protects your privacy when you use the Service.
3.2 Use of Your Data under Google’s Privacy Policy . You agree to the use of your data in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy.
3.3 Your Privacy Policy . You must post and abide by an appropriate privacy policy in your Maps API Implementation in accordance with Section 9.3 (End User Terms and Privacy Policy).
3.4 Applicable Privacy Laws . You will comply with all applicable laws relating to the collection of information from visitors to your Maps API Implementation.
3.5 European Data Protection Terms . You and Google agree to the Google Maps Controller-Controller Data Protection Terms.
3.6 No Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Data . You must not provide to Google: (a) any personally identifiable information or device identifiers; or (b) any European person’s Personal Data (where “European” means “European Economic Area or Switzerland” and “Personal Data” has the meaning provided in the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016). Users of your Maps API Implementation may provide information directly to Google through your Maps API Implementation, as needed.
4.1 Google’s Subsidiaries and Affiliates . Google has subsidiaries and affiliated legal entities around the world ("Subsidiaries and Affiliates"). Sometimes, these companies will be providing the Service to you on behalf of Google itself. You understand and agree that Subsidiaries and Affiliates will be entitled to provide the Service to you.
4.2 Limits on Your Use of the Service . You understand and agree that Google may limit the number of transactions you may send or receive through the Service; such fixed upper limits may be set by Google at any time, at Google’s discretion. For further information, see Section 10.4(b) below.
5.1 Signing Up for a Google Account . In order to access the Service, you must have and maintain a Google Account in good standing. You must ensure that any information you give to Google in connection with your Google Account or the Service will always be accurate, correct, and up to date.
5.2 Your Passwords and Account Security . You will be solely responsible to Google for your use of the Service. You must notify Google immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password; your Google Account; or any unique identifier that Google requires you to use, such as an API Key or client ID (a "Developer Identifier").
You understand and agree that Google and its licensors and their suppliers (as applicable) own all legal right, title, and interest in and to the Service and Content, including any intellectual property rights in the Service and Content (whether those rights are registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist).
8.2 Service License . Subject to these Terms (including Section 9 (License Requirements) and Section 10 (License Restrictions)), during the term of this agreement, Google gives you a non-exclusive, worldwide, personal, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, royalty-free license to use the Service as provided by Google, in the manner permitted by the Terms.
8.5 Proprietary Rights Notices . You will not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trademark notices, Terms of Use links, or Brand Features) displayed or provided through the Service. Where such notices are not displayed or provided within the Service, you must display such notices according to the Maps APIs Documentation.
8.6 U.S. Government Restricted Rights . If the Service or Content is being used or accessed by or on behalf of the United States government, such use is subject to additional terms located in our Legal Notices page’s "Government End Users" section.
8.7 Determination of Compliance . Google reserves the sole right and discretion to determine whether your use of the Service, Content, and Brand Features complies with these Terms.
Google’s licenses above are subject to your compliance with the following requirements:
9.1 Free, Public Accessibility to Your Maps API Implementation .
9.2 Reporting . You must implement those reporting mechanisms that Google requires (as updated from time to time in these Terms and in the Maps APIs Documentation).
9.5 Preventing Unauthorized Use . You will use all reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized use of the Service and to terminate any such unauthorized use.
9.6 Responsibility for Breaches . You are solely responsible for (and Google has no responsibility to you or any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the consequences of any such breach (including any loss or damage that Google may suffer).
Except as expressly permitted under the Terms, or unless you have received prior written authorization from Google (or, as applicable, from the particular Content provider), Google’s licenses above are conditioned on your adherence to all of the restrictions below. In this Section 10, the phrase "you will not" means "when using the Service, you will not, and will not permit a third party to."
10.6 Restrictions on Trying to Shut Down the Service . We want to make sure that the Services remain online and available for all users. To help ensure this, during the agreement term, you will not try to shut down the Services that you have been using by seeking an injunction or exclusion order.
11.2 Marketing License . During the term of this agreement, you give Google a non-exclusive, worldwide, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use Your Brand Features and Your Content to publicize or advertise that you are using the Service (for example, by using your marks in presentations, marketing materials, customer lists, financial reports, and website listings (including links to your website), or by creating marketing or advertising materials that show screenshots of the Service in which Your Content is featured).
11.3 Authority to Grant Licenses . You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the above licenses.
This Section 12 applies if you purchase usage capacity (beyond the Service’s transaction limits) through the Maps API Standard pricing plan:
12.1 Free Quota . Certain parts of the Service are provided to you without charge up to the transaction limits described in the Maps APIs Documentation here.
12.2 Online Billing . Google will issue an electronic bill to you for all charges accrued above the transaction limits based on your use of the Service during the previous month. You will pay all fees specified in the invoice, including the invoice’s specified currency and payment terms. Google’s measurement of your use of the Service is final.
12.3 Taxes . In association with your purchase of Maps API usage, you are responsible for all applicable government-imposed taxes, except for taxes based on Google’s net income, net worth, employment, and assets (including personal and real property) ("Taxes"), and you will pay Google for the Service without any reduction for Taxes. If Google is obligated to collect or pay Taxes, the Taxes will be invoiced to you, unless you provide Google with a timely and valid tax exemption certificate authorized by the appropriate taxing authority. In some states the sales tax is due on the total purchase price at the time of sale and must be invoiced and collected at the time of the sale.
12.4 Invoice Disputes & Refunds . To the fullest extent permitted by law, you waive all claims relating to fees unless claimed within sixty days after charged (this does not affect any of your rights with your credit card issuer). Refunds (if any) are at Google’s discretion and will only be in the form of credit for the Service. Nothing in these Terms obligates Google to extend credit to any party.
12.5 Delinquent Payments . Late payments may bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (or the highest rate permitted by law, if less). Google reserves the right to suspend your access to the Service for any late payments.
13.1 The Terms will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Google as described below.
13.2 You may terminate your legal agreement with Google by removing the Maps API(s) code from your Maps API Implementation and discontinuing your use of the Service at any time. You do not need to specifically inform Google when you stop using the Service.
13.3 Google reserves the right to terminate these Terms or discontinue the Service, or any portion or feature of the Service, for any reason and at any time without liability or other obligation to you, except as described under Section 4.4 (Changes to the Service; Deprecation Policy).
13.4 Nothing in this Section 13 will affect Google’s rights under Section 4 (Provision of Service by Google).
14.1 NOTHING IN THESE TERMS, INCLUDING SECTIONS 14 AND 15, WILL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT GOOGLE’S WARRANTY OR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES THAT MAY NOT BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF LOSS OR DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, ONLY THE LIMITATIONS THAT ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL APPLY TO YOU, AND GOOGLE’S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
14.3 ANY CONTENT OBTAINED THROUGH THE GOOGLE SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE, LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE OR INJURY THAT RESULTS FROM DOWNLOADING OR USING ANY SUCH CONTENT.
14.4 NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM GOOGLE, OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE OR CONTENT, WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS.
14.5 GOOGLE, ITS LICENSORS, AND THEIR SUPPLIERS FURTHER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
15.2 THE LIMITATIONS ON GOOGLE’S LIABILITY IN SECTION 15.1 ABOVE WILL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT GOOGLE, ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS OR THEIR SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES OR DAMAGES.
16.2 You will cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any allegation or third-party legal proceeding. Google reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive control and defense of any indemnified matter under this Section 16.
It is Google’s policy to respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable international intellectual property law (including, in the United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and to terminate the accounts of repeat offenders. Details of Google’s policy can be found here.
18.1 The Service may include hyperlinks to other websites or content or resources. Google has no control over any websites or resources that are provided by companies or persons other than Google. You understand and agree that Google is not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products, or other materials on, or available from, such websites or resources.
18.2 You understand and agree that Google is not liable for any loss or damage that you may incur as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance by you on the completeness, accuracy, or existence of any advertising, products, or other materials on, or available from, such websites or resources.
19.1 Notices . Google may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Service.
19.2 Assignment . Google may assign any part of this agreement without written consent.
19.3 No Waiver . Google will not be treated as having waived any rights by not exercising (or delaying the exercise of) any rights under these Terms. A waiver will be effective only if Google expressly states in a writing signed by an authorized representative that Google is waiving a specified Term.
19.4 Third-Party Beneficiaries . Google’s affiliates and the Indemnified Parties are third-party beneficiaries to the Terms and are entitled to directly enforce, and rely on, any Terms that confer a right or benefit to them. There are no other third-party beneficiaries to the Terms.
19.5 Entire Agreement . These Terms set out all terms agreed between the parties and supersede all other agreements between the parties relating to its subject matter.
19.6 Severability . If any term (or part of a term) of these Terms is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the rest of the Terms will remain in effect.
19.7 Equitable Relief . You understand and agree that damages for improper use of the Maps API(s) may be irreparable; therefore, Google is entitled to seek equitable relief, including injunctions in any jurisdiction, in addition to all other remedies it may have.
19.8 Conflicting Languages . If these Terms are translated into any other language, and there is a discrepancy between the English text and the translated text, the English text will govern.
19.9 Governing Law . ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR ANY RELATED GOOGLE SERVICES WILL BE GOVERNED BY CALIFORNIA LAW, EXCLUDING CALIFORNIA'S CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES, AND WILL BE LITIGATED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, USA; THE PARTIES CONSENT TO PERSONAL JURISDICTION IN THOSE COURTS.
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