At Google we are keenly aware of the trust that you place in us, and of our responsibility to protect your privacy. We make privacy a priority because it’s a core part of Google's culture and because our business depends on it.
We have five privacy principles that describe how we approach privacy and user information across all of our products:
- Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services.
- Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards and practices.
- Make the collection of personal information transparent.
- Give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy.
- Be a responsible steward of the information we hold.
The Google Privacy Centre has information and videos that explain in plain English what data Google stores and how we use it to provide you with services like Gmail, Search and more.
The Privacy Centre also contains information about privacy settings you can choose when you use our products. For example in our Chrome browser, you can choose to browse privately by selecting "incognito" mode, and since January we encrypt Gmail by default, becoming the first major email provider to do so.
From the Privacy Centre or from your account, you can link to the Google Dashboard (google.com/dashboard) which lets you take a look at your privacy settings and control the data associated with your Google Account.
And, if at any time you want to stop using a Google product, we do our best to make it easy for you to leave. Through the Data Liberation project (dataliberation.org) we work hard to make sure you can export any data that you create in (or import into) a Google product.
Why not take a moment to review your privacy settings?
