Gemini API Additional Terms of Service

Effective May 20, 2025

To use Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and the other Google developer services
that reference these terms (collectively, the "APIs" or "Services"), you must
accept (1) the Google APIs Terms of Service (the "API Terms"), and (2) these
Gemini API Additional Terms of Service (the "Additional Terms"). Terms that
are not defined in these Additional Terms have the meanings given in the API
Terms.

Age Requirements

You must be 18 years of age or older to use the APIs. You also will not use
the Services as part of a website, application, or other service (collectively,
"API Clients") that is directed towards or is likely to be accessed by individuals
under the age of 18.

Use Restrictions

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
Kingdom.

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 data or models (e.g., parameter weights).

In addition to the "API Prohibitions" section in the API Terms, you must comply
with our Prohibited Use Policy, which provides additional details about appropriate
conduct when using the Services.

The Services include safety features to block harmful content, such as content
that violates our Prohibited Use Policy. You may not attempt to bypass these
protective measures or use content that violates the API Terms or these Additional
Terms. You should only lower safety settings if necessary and appropriate for
your use case. Applications with less restrictive safety settings may be subject
to Google's review and approval.

You may not use the Services in clinical practice, to provide medical advice,
or in any manner that is overseen by or requires clearance or approval from
a medical device regulatory agency.

Use of Generated Content

Some of our Services allow you to generate original content. Google won't claim
ownership over that content. You acknowledge that Google may generate the same
or similar content for others and that we reserve all rights to do so.

As required by the API Terms, you'll comply with applicable law in using generated
content, which may require the provision of attribution to your users when returned
as part of an API call. Use discretion before relying on generated content,
including code. You're responsible for your use of generated content, and for
the use of that content by anyone you share it with.

Unpaid Services

Any Services that are offered free of charge like direct interactions with Google
AI Studio or unpaid quota in Gemini API are unpaid Services (the "Unpaid Services").

How Google 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, including Google's enterprise
features, products, and services, consistent with our Privacy Policy.

To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers may read, annotate,
and process your API input and output. Google takes steps to protect your privacy
as part of this process. This includes disconnecting this data from your Google
Account, API key, and Cloud project before reviewers see or annotate it. Do
not submit sensitive, confidential, or personal information to the Unpaid Services.

The license you grant to Google under the "Submission of Content" section in
the API Terms also extends, to the extent required under applicable law for
our use, to any content (e.g., prompts, including associated system instructions,
cached content, and files such as images, videos, or documents) you submit to
the Services and to any generated responses.

Google only uses content that you import or upload to our model tuning feature
for that express purpose. Tuning content may be retained in connection with
your tuned models for purposes of re-tuning when supported models change. When
you delete a tuned model, the related tuning content is also deleted.

If you're in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom,
the terms under "How Google uses Your Data" in "Paid Services" apply to all
Services, including Google AI Studio and unpaid quota in the Gemini API, even
though they are offered free of charge.

Paid Services

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
Uses Your Data, even when using Services that are offered free of charge, such
as Google AI Studio and unpaid quota of Gemini API.

For Paid Services, "Google" as used in these Terms has the meaning given here.

How Google Uses Your Data

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, and will process your prompts and responses in accordance
with the Data Processing Addendum for Products Where Google is a Data Processor.
For Paid Services, Google logs prompts and responses for a limited period of
time, solely for the purpose of detecting violations of the Prohibited Use Policy
and any required legal or regulatory disclosures. This data may be stored transiently
or cached in any country in which Google or its agents maintain facilities.

Other data we collect while providing the Paid Services to you, such as account
information and settings, billing history, direct communications and feedback,
and usage details (e.g., information about usage including token count per prompt
and response, operational status, safety filter triggers, software errors and
crash reports, authentication details, quality and performance metrics, and
other technical details necessary for Google to operate and maintain Services,
which may include device identifiers, identifiers from cookies or tokens, and
IP addresses) remains subject to the Google Controller-Controller Data Protection
Terms and Google Privacy Policy referenced in the API Terms.

When using Grounding with Google Search, additional data is collected and used,
as detailed in the "Grounding with Google Search" section below.

Payment Terms

Billing and payments for Paid Services are handled by Cloud Billing in the Google
Cloud Platform.

As such, Section 2 (Payment Terms) and Section 14 (Miscellaneous) of the Google
Cloud Platform Terms of Service govern payments, invoicing, billing, payment
disputes, and related issues, while these Terms govern your use of the Paid
Services. These Terms do not govern your direct use of any Google Cloud Platform
service (including those listed on the Google Cloud Platform Services Summary).

"Fees" (as used in the Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service) for Paid Services
are as specified on our pricing page. Google may make changes to this pricing
from time to time, effective 30 days after they are posted unless otherwise
specified (or in the case of new Paid Services, where pricing takes effect immediately
unless otherwise specified). Your continued use of the Paid Services constitutes
your consent to those changes.

Grounding with Google Search​​

"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 that
Google generates using the prompt from the end user, (or from you, when using
function calling), contextual information that you may provide (as applicable),
and results from Google's search engine. "Search Suggestions" (also known as
Search Entry Points) mean search suggestions that Google provides with the Grounded
Results. If a Grounded Result is clicked on, separate terms (not these terms)
govern the destination page. If a Search Suggestion is clicked on the Google
Terms of Service govern the google.com destination page. "Links" are any other
means to fetch web pages (including hyperlinks and URLs), which may be contained
in a Grounded Result or Search Suggestion. Links also include titles or labels
provided with those means to fetch web pages. Excluding your web domain(s),
you will not assert ownership rights in any intellectual property in Search
Suggestions or Links in Grounded Results.

Use Restrictions

You will only use Grounding with Google Search in an application that is owned
and operated by you and will only display the Grounded Results with the associated
Search Suggestion(s) to the end user who submitted the prompt.
You will not, and will not allow your end user or any third party to, cache,
copy, frame, syndicate, resell, analyze, train on, or otherwise learn from Grounded
Results or Search Suggestions. For clarity, Grounded Results, Search Suggestions,
and Links are intended to be used in combination to respond to a given End User
prompt and it is a violation of these terms to use Grounding with Google Search
to extract or collect one or more of these components for another purpose (for
example, using programmatic or automated means to collect Links, using Links
to build an index, or using Links to identify destination pages for crawling
or scraping).
You will not, and will not allow your end user or any third party to, store,
or implement any click tracking, Link-tracking or other monitoring of Grounded
Results or Search Suggestions, except that:
You may store the text of the Grounded Result(s) (excluding Links): (1) that
were displayed by you for up to thirty (30) days only to evaluate and optimize
the display of the Grounded Results in your application; (2) in chat history
of an end user of your application for up to six (6) months only for the purpose
of allowing that end user to view their chat history; and (3) temporarily for
the purpose of resubmitting the text of the Grounded Result in a subsequent
prompt that you submit to Google via a function call to obtain a refined or
improved Grounded Result to display to the End User, as long as the developer:
(i) does not use the interim Grounded Results for any other purpose; (ii) deletes
any Grounded Result that is not displayed to the End User once the final Grounded
Result is generated; and (iii) displays any associated Search Suggestions or
other Links (as applicable) with the final Grounded Result (up to a maximum
of 5 Search Suggestions) to the End User.
You may monitor end user interactions with your application interface; however,
you will not track whether those interactions were specifically with a given
Search Suggestion or Grounded Result (in each case, in whole or in part, including
any specific Link).
Unless permitted by Google in writing, you: (1) will not modify, or intersperse
any other content with, the Grounded Results or Search Suggestions; and (2)
will not place any interstitial content between any Link or Search Suggestions
and the associated destination page, redirect end users away from the destination
pages, or minimize, remove, or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display
of any destination page.

Data Collection and How Google Uses Your Data

In addition to the general terms above ("How Google Uses Your Data" under "Unpaid
Services" and "Paid Services"), when using Grounding with Google Search, Google
will store prompts, contextual information that you may provide, and output
for thirty (30) days for the purposes of creating Grounded Results and Search
Suggestions and the stored information can be used for debugging and testing
of systems that support Grounding with Google Search. When using Grounding with
Google Search via paid quota of Gemini API, this processing for debugging and
testing of systems is in accordance with the Data Processing Addendum for Products
Where Google is a Data Processor.

This subsection "Grounding with Google Search" will survive termination of the
Agreement, as applicable.

The Client Application Guidelines apply to your use of Grounding with Google
Search. For purposes of the Client Application Guidelines, your applications
that are using Grounding with Google Search are considered Approved Applications.
Disclaimers

The Services include experimental technology and may sometimes provide inaccurate
or offensive content that doesn't represent Google's views.

Use discretion before relying on, publishing, or otherwise using content provided
by the Services.

Don't rely on the Services for medical, legal, financial, or other professional
advice. Any content regarding those topics is provided for informational purposes
only and is not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional. Content
does not constitute medical treatment or diagnosis.