Termsby GlyphGoogle data terms: training, retention, opt-out
Gemini API, Vertex AI · 4 pages watched · last change Nov 9, 2026
What the terms say
Does it train on API and business data?
No on paid services(Protective)
“When you use Paid Services, including, for example, the paid quota of the Gemini API, Google doesn't use your prompts (including associated system instructions, cached content, and files such as images, videos, or documents) or responses to improve our products...”
Gemini API Additional Terms of Service On the page Sep 24, 2026
Does it train on consumer app data?
Yes on unpaid services(Uses your data)
“When you use Unpaid Services, including, for example, Google AI Studio and the unpaid quota on Gemini API, Google uses the content you submit to the Services and any generated responses to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine learning technologies...”
Gemini API Additional Terms of Service On the page Sep 24, 2026
How long are API inputs kept?
Logged for a limited period(Depends)
“for Paid Services, Google logs prompts and responses for a limited period of time solely for detecting violations of the Prohibited Use Policy .”
Zero data retention in the Gemini Developer API On the page Sep 24, 2026
How do you opt out of training?
Not stated on the watched pages.
Is zero data retention available?
Through Vertex AI(Depends)
“If your workload requires guaranteed zero data retention or enterprise data processing agreements, use Vertex AI.”
Zero data retention in the Gemini Developer API On the page Sep 24, 2026
Is there a public subprocessor list?
Published list(Protective)
“Google and its affiliates engage the third-party entities in the table below to perform limited activities in connection with the Google Cloud Platform Services.”
Google Cloud Platform Subprocessors On the page Sep 24, 2026
Where is data processed and stored?
Not stated on the watched pages.
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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and zero data retention
Added 14 paragraphs and removed 4.New text: “Run the following curl command to turn off all caching for a Google Cloud project. This disables both in-memory caching and durable caching, and no cached data is retained. To run this command, a user must be granted the Agent Platform Admi”
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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and zero data retentionRewrote 1 paragraph.New text: “Prompt logging for abuse monitoring for Google models : As outlined in Section 4.3 "Generative AI Safety and Abuse" of Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service , Google may log prompts to detect potential abuse and violations of its Acceptabl”
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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and zero data retentionAdded 21 paragraphs and removed 4.New text: “By default, Google's published Gemini models cache Customer Data to reduce latency and accelerate responses. Implicit caching uses two storage tiers:”
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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and zero data retentionAdded 1 paragraph.New text: “Deep Research agent session data - Google stores prompts and session data - including search results and generated images - via the Interactions API for a period of seven (7) days. This session data is encrypted at rest, and is deleted auto”
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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and zero data retentionAdded 1 paragraph.New text: “Agent Platform Sandbox Snapshots : If you use the Snapshot API to persist Sandbox state, these snapshots are stored only for the duration of the Sandbox TTL. To achieve zero-data-retention, don't use the Sandbox API.”
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Zero data retention in the Gemini Developer APIRewrote 3 paragraphs.New text: “Prompt logging for abuse monitoring : As outlined in the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service , for Paid Services, Google logs prompts and responses for a limited period of time solely for detecting violations of the Prohibited Use Policy”
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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and zero data retentionAdded 4 paragraphs and removed 1.New text: “As outlined in "Training Restriction" in the Service Terms section of the Service Specific Terms , Google won't use your data to train or fine-tune any AI/ML models without your prior permission or instruction. This applies to all managed m”
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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and zero data retentionRewrote 2 paragraphs.New text: “Grounding with Google Search : As outlined in Section 20 "Generative AI Services: Grounding with Google Search" of the Service Specific Terms , Google collects and stores logs, which contains the following Customer Data: queries derived fro”
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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and zero data retentionAdded 6 paragraphs and removed 3.New text: “Customer data is retained in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for Models as a Service (MaaS) for limited periods of time in the following scenarios and conditions. To achieve zero data retention, customers must take specific actions within ”
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Cloud Platform SubprocessorsRemoved 2 paragraphs.New text: “#3 Toranomon Denki Bldg. 6F 1-2-20 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 1050001”
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Zero data retention in the Gemini Developer APIRewrote 3 paragraphs.New text: “Prompt logging for abuse monitoring : As outlined in the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service , for Paid Services, Google logs prompts and responses for a limited period of time solely for detecting violations of the Prohibited Use Policy”
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Gemini API Additional Terms of ServiceAdded 8 paragraphs and removed 4.New text: “When you use Paid Services, including, for example, the paid quota of the Gemini API, Google doesn't use your prompts (including associated system instructions, cached content, and files such as images, videos, or documents) or responses to”
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Cloud Platform SubprocessorsRemoved 40 paragraphs and added 26.New text: “in the case of all other Google Cloud Platform Services as described in the Google Cloud Platform Technical Support Service Guidelines . The Subprocessor does not have access to Customer Data stored or processed by the Services. The Subproc”
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Gemini API Additional Terms of ServiceAdded 10 paragraphs and removed 7.New text: “Use of Google AI Studio and Gemini API is for developers building with Google AI models for professional or business purposes, not for consumer use.”
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Cloud Platform SubprocessorsRewrote 1 paragraph.New text: “Data Labeling: Human labelers apply labels to datasets submitted by Customer based on instructions provided by Customer. See the Data Labeling Use Cases page for more information.”
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Gemini API Additional Terms of ServiceAdded 16 paragraphs.New text: “When using agentic services, including the Computer Use API, you are solely responsible for the actions and tasks performed by the service, such as determining whether the service is appropriate for your use case, authorizing the service's ”
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Cloud Platform SubprocessorsRemoved 5 paragraphs and added 3.New text: “No. 34 IT Highway, Navallur, Chennai - 600130”
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Gemini API Additional Terms of ServiceRewrote 4 paragraphs.New text: “"Grounding with Google Search" is a Service that provides Grounded Results and Search Suggestions and can be used through Google AI Studio (as an Unpaid Service), and via Gemini API as a (Paid Service). "Grounded Results" mean responses tha”
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Cloud Platform SubprocessorsRewrote 2 paragraphs.New text: “510 W. Georgia Street, Vancouver BC, V6B 0M3”
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Gemini API Additional Terms of ServiceRewrote 1 paragraph.New text: “Note: We updated our Gemini API Additional Terms of Service on April 3rd, 2025.”
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Cloud Platform SubprocessorsAdded 15 paragraphs and removed 9.New text: “Data Labeling: Human labelers apply labels to datasets submitted by Customer based on instructions provided by Customer. See the AI Platform Data Labeling Service page , Document AI Service page , Human-in-the-Loop AI Service page , Vertex ”
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Gemini API Additional Terms of ServiceRemoved 3 paragraphs and added 2.New text: “When a Service is being offered for a fee, it is considered to be a paid Service (the " Paid Services "). When you activate a Cloud Billing account , all use of Gemini API and Google AI Studio is a "Paid Service" with respect to how Google ”
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Cloud Platform SubprocessorsRewrote 9 paragraphs.New text: “Eviden USA, Inc. (formerly listed as Atos IT Solutions and Services Inc.)”
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Gemini API Additional Terms of ServiceAdded 21 paragraphs and removed 9.New text: “You may not use the Services to develop models that compete with the Services (e.g., Gemini API or Google AI Studio). You also may not attempt to reverse engineer, extract or replicate any component of the Services, including the underlying”
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Gemini API Additional Terms of ServiceRemoved 8 paragraphs and added 6.New text: “You may only access the Services (or make API Clients available to users) within an available region . You may use only Paid Services when making API Clients available to users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingd”
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Cloud Platform SubprocessorsAdded 4 paragraphs and removed 1.New text: “Data Labeling: Human labelers apply labels to datasets submitted by Customer based on instructions provided by Customer. See the AI Platform Data Labeling Service page , Document AI Service page , Human-in-the-Loop AI Service page , Vertex ”
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Watched pages
Gemini API Additional Terms of Service
Google's terms of service, read from the Internet Archive's copy of Nov 2, 2026, as the live page renders only in a browser; 2 answers quote it.
Changed Sep 2, 20268 recordedChecked Nov 9, 2026
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and zero data retentionGoogle's documentation on data handling, read live every Monday.
Changed Nov 9, 20268 recordedChecked Nov 9, 2026
Cloud Platform SubprocessorsGoogle's subprocessor list, read live every Monday; 1 answer quotes it.
Changed Jun 1, 20268 recordedChecked Nov 9, 2026
Zero data retention in the Gemini Developer APIGoogle's documentation on data handling, read from the Internet Archive's copy of Nov 2, 2026, as the live page renders only in a browser; 2 answers quote it.
Changed Sep 24, 20262 recordedChecked Nov 9, 2026
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