You can use many Google services without an account and adjust history and personalization settings
Google says you can sign up for a Google Account to create and manage content such as emails and photos or to see more relevant search results, but you can also use many Google services signed out or without creating an account at all, such as searching on Google or watching YouTube videos. Across its services you can adjust privacy settings, like history and personalization controls, to choose whether Google saves some types of data to your Google Account and how it uses it. A private browsing mode such as Chrome Incognito is described as helping keep your browsing private from other people who use your device, and says nothing here about Google’s own collection.
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you can use many Google services when you’re signed out or without creating an account at all, like searching on Google or watching YouTube videos
which helps keep your browsing private from other people who use your device
you can adjust your privacy settings (like history and personalization controls) to make choices about whether we save some types of data to your Google account and how we use it
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Applies to "many" services, not all of them.
Incognito is described as keeping browsing private from other people who use your device.
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The passage does not say what Google collects while you are signed out; later sections describe that.
Account & Service Control · Company practice
When you are signed in, information is stored with your Google Account and treated as personal information
Google says that when you are signed in it also collects information that it stores with your Google Account, and it treats that information as personal information.
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When you’re signed in, we also collect information that we store with your Google Account, which we treat as
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Applies when you are signed in.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
You can visit your Google Account to find and manage activity saved in your history
Google says you can visit your Google Account to find and manage activity information that is saved in your history.
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You can visit your Google Account to find and manage activity information that’s saved in your history.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
Google offers key privacy controls across its services, the Privacy Checkup, and product-specific privacy settings
Google says this section describes key controls for managing your privacy across its services. It points to the Privacy Checkup, which gives you an opportunity to review and adjust important privacy settings, and says it also offers specific privacy settings in its products, which you can learn more about in the Product Privacy Guide.
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This section describes key controls for managing your privacy across our services.
which provides an opportunity to review and adjust important privacy settings.
In addition to these tools, we also offer specific privacy settings in our products
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Account & Service Control · User right or choice
When signed in, you can review and update information by visiting the services you use, and in your Google Account
Google says that when you are signed in, you can always review and update information by visiting the services you use; for example, Google Photos and Drive are both designed to help you manage specific types of content you have saved with Google. It also says it built a place, your Google Account, to review and control information saved in that account.
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When you’re signed in, you can always review and update information by visiting the services you use.
Google Photos and Drive are both designed to help you manage specific types of content you’ve saved with Google.
We also built a place for you to review and control information saved in your Google Account.
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The first statement applies when you are signed in.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
About You lets you manage personal info in your Google Account and control who can see it across Google services
Google says the About You setting lets you manage personal information in your Google Account and control who can see it across Google services.
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Manage personal info in your Google Account and control who can see it across Google services.
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The linked pages for these tools and settings are not supplied here, so the card cannot say what they offer beyond this description.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
Google Dashboard lets you manage information associated with specific products
Google says Google Dashboard allows you to manage information associated with specific products.
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Google Dashboard allows you to manage information associated with specific products.
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Account & Service Control · User right or choice
You can manage your contact information, such as name, email and phone number, in your account
Google says you can manage your contact information, such as your name, email, and phone number.
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Manage your contact information, such as your name, email, and phone number.
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The linked pages for these tools and settings are not supplied here, so the card cannot say what they offer beyond this description.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
When signed out, you can manage browser or device information, including search customization and YouTube history
Google says that when you are signed out you can manage information associated with your browser or device, including signed-out search customization, where you choose whether your search activity is used to offer you more relevant results and recommendations, and YouTube settings, where you can pause and delete your YouTube Search History and YouTube Watch History.
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When you’re signed out, you can manage information associated with your browser or device, including:
: Choose whether your search activity is used to offer you more relevant results and recommendations.
YouTube settings: Pause and delete your
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Applies when you are signed out and relates to information associated with your browser or device.
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The linked pages for these tools and settings are not supplied here, so the card cannot say what they offer beyond this description.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
Inactive Account Manager lets you give someone else access to parts of your Google Account if you cannot use it
Google says Inactive Account Manager allows you to give someone else access to parts of your Google Account in case you are unexpectedly unable to use your account.
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allows you to give someone else access to parts of your Google Account in case you’re unexpectedly unable to use your account.
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Described for the case where you are unexpectedly unable to use your account; access is to parts of the account.
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The linked pages for these tools are not supplied here, so the card cannot say what they offer beyond this description.
Account & Service Control · Company practice
If an organization or school manages your account, its administrator can access and control it
Google says that if you are a student or work for an organization that uses Google services, your domain administrator and resellers who manage your account will have access to your Google Account. They may be able to access and retain information stored in your account, like your email; view statistics regarding your account, like how many apps you install; change your account password; suspend or terminate your account access; receive your account information in order to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request; and restrict your ability to delete or edit your information or your privacy settings.
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If you’re a student or work for an organization that uses Google services, your
and resellers who manage your account will have access to your Google Account. They may be able to:
Access and retain information stored in your account, like your email
View statistics regarding your account, like how many apps you install
Change your account password
Suspend or terminate your account access
Receive your account information in order to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request
Restrict your ability to delete or edit your information or your privacy settings
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Applies to students and people who work for an organization that uses Google services, where an administrator or reseller manages the account.
Stated as what administrators "may be able to" do.
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The linked domain administrator page is not supplied here.
Account information, typically name, email and password, authenticates you; you can edit or delete the account
In its key terms, Google says you may access some services by signing up for a Google Account and providing some personal information, typically your name, email address, and a password. It says this account information is used to authenticate you when you access Google services and protect your account from unauthorized access by others, and that you can edit or delete your account at any time through your Google Account settings.
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You may access some of our services by signing up for a
and providing us with some personal information (typically your name, email address, and a password). This account information is used to authenticate you when you access Google services and protect your account from unauthorized access by others. You can edit or delete your account at any time through your Google Account settings.
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"Typically" is the policy’s wording for the information provided.
Account & Service Control · Company practice
If Google detects abuse in violation of its policies, it may disable your account, and may report to authorities
Google says that when it detects spam, malware, illegal content (including child sexual abuse and exploitation material), and other forms of abuse on its systems in violation of its policies, it may disable your account or take other appropriate action. In certain circumstances, it may also report the violation to appropriate authorities.
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When we detect spam, malware, illegal content (including
), and other forms of abuse on our systems in violation of our policies, we may disable your account or take other appropriate action. In certain circumstances, we may also report the violation to appropriate authorities.
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Applies to abuse on Google’s systems in violation of its policies; "may" action, and reports only "in certain circumstances".
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