Friday, March 9, 2012

Google Privacy Policy - Made Easy

Information Google Collects:

Name, email address, telephone number or credit card, photo, your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information including phone number, your search queries, your phone number, calling-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls, duration of calls, SMS routing information and types of calls, Internet protocol address, crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, your actual location, like GPS signals sent by a mobile device, use various technologies to determine location, such as sensor data from your device that may, for example, provide information on nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers, browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches.

  • When showing you tailored ads, we will not associate a cookie or anonymous identifier with sensitive categories, such as those based on race, religion, sexual orientation or health. 
  • We will ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy. 
  • We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort (for example, developing a new system or fundamentally changing an existing practice), risk the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes). 
  • After you delete information from our services, we may not immediately delete residual copies from our active servers and may not remove information from our backup systems. 
  • We provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. 
  • For legal reasons, your personal data will be disclosed 
  • If Google is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy. 
  • We restrict access to personal information to Google employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations. 

NOTE: You can opt out from most of the above things, like personalized ads; removing your public profile, etc.

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