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Gemini

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General contract terms

Capacity & reservation terms No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Data use & AI training ✓ Quote verified against source

Unpaid: trains by default (used to improve products); Paid: not used to improve products. ZDR not offered.

“When you use Paid Services... Google doesn't use your prompts... or responses to improve…”
Source: Gemini API Additional Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-18

Suspension rights No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Termination ✓ Quote verified against source

Customer may terminate for convenience (SCC/subprocessor objection); post-term data deletion after up to 30-day recovery period

“After a recovery period of up to 30 days from that date, Google will…”
Source: Google Cloud Data Processing Addendum (Gemini) · fetched 2026-07-30

Unilateral modification ✓ Quote verified against source

Google may change pricing effective 30 days after posting; continued use = consent

“effective 30 days after they are posted unless otherwise specified”
Source: Gemini API Additional Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-18

Governing law & disputes ✓ Quote verified against source

Payment/dispute terms governed by Google Cloud Terms of Service, Section 15 Governing Law and Dispute Resolution; specifics not in these documents

“Governing Law and Dispute Resolution”
Source: Gemini API Additional Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-18

Liability caps & carveouts No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Output IP indemnification No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Model deprecation & version pinning No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Benchmarking & eval restrictions No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

No-compete-training clauses ✓ Quote verified against source

competing-models-only (may not develop models that compete with the Services)

“You may not use the Services to develop models that compete with the Services”
Source: Gemini API Additional Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-18

Capacity delivery remedies No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Assignment & financing clauses No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Service level (SLA) terms

Availability definition Quote not verified against source

no SLA / uptime not committed

Credit regime No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Claim mechanics No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

SLA exclusions No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Data protection & privacy

International data transfer mechanism ✓ Quote verified against source

SCCs (EU C2P/P2P/P2C modules), UK Addendum, Swiss FDPA terms, Turkish SCCs, Brazil SCCs; Alternative Transfer Solution referenced

“the SCCs (Controller-to-Processor) or SCCs (Processor-to-Processor) will apply”
Source: Google Cloud Data Processing Addendum (Gemini) · fetched 2026-07-30

Data residency commitments ✓ Quote verified against source

Reserves global processing; data may be processed in any country, subject to data location commitments in Service Specific Terms

“Customer Data may be processed in any country where Google or its Subprocessors maintain…”
Source: Google Cloud Data Processing Addendum (Gemini) · fetched 2026-07-30

Sub-processor transparency ✓ Quote verified against source

Published list; 30 days advance notice of new subprocessors; objection right within 90 days by terminating for convenience

“at least 30 days before the New Subprocessor starts processing any Customer Data, notify…”
Source: Google Cloud Data Processing Addendum (Gemini) · fetched 2026-07-30

Government access commitments ✓ Quote verified against source

Under SCCs: notify data subject/exporter of public authority requests, review legality and challenge unlawful requests; enterprise transparency report published

“agrees to review the legality of the request for disclosure... and to challenge the…”
Source: Google Cloud Third Party Subprocessors (Gemini) · fetched 2026-07-18

Retention & human review of content ✓ Quote verified against source

Unpaid: human reviewers may read/annotate API input/output (disconnected from account); Paid: logs limited period for abuse/security only

“human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your API input and output”
Source: Gemini API Additional Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-18

Accountability & transparency

Prohibited high-risk uses ✓ Quote verified against source

Prohibits tracking/monitoring without consent, biometrics without consent, and high-risk automated decisions without human supervision; weapons not explicitly listed

“Tracks or monitors people without their consent.”
Source: Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy · fetched 2026-07-18

Model documentation commitments No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Training data provenance statements No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Appeal & redress mechanisms No provision found

Reviewed Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and 6 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

EU AI Act role allocation Quote not verified against source

not specified (DPA allocates GDPR processor/controller roles, not AI Act roles)

Change history

No changes detected yet. The current snapshots are the baseline.

Extracted 2026-07-30 15:17 UTC with claude-opus-4-8.