This Privacy Notice describes how Google collects and uses information from Google Apps for Education accounts specifically. It supplements the general Google Privacy Policy, which otherwise also applies to these accounts.
- Account creation by administrator. A student’s Google Apps for Education account is a Google Account created by the domain administrator for the student’s institution. When creating this account, the administrator may provide certain personal information, including, for example, a user’s first and last name and email address. Google associates this information with the account.
- Google Apps for Education Core Services. The Google Apps for Education Core Services are Gmail, Calendar, Classroom, Contacts, Drive, Docs, Forms, Groups, Sheets, Sites, Slides, Talk/Hangouts and Vault. These services are provided to your educational institution under its Google Apps for Education agreement and Data Processing Amendment. (You can ask your institution if it has accepted the Data Processing Amendment.) The agreement describes how the Customer Data under that agreement is used and shared, and applies to the Core Services only. Google does not serve ads in the Core Services, and the confidentiality provisions of the agreement limit how Customer Data in the Core Services can be shared with third parties.
- Limitations on advertising. Outside of the Google Apps for Education Core Services, Google products and services may show ads, as described in the Google Privacy Policy. For Apps for Education users in Primary/Secondary (K-12) schools, Google does not use any user personal information (or any information associated with a Google Account) to target ads.
- Interpretation of conflicting terms. If there is any conflict, terms apply in the following order of precedence: the Google Apps for Education agreement (as amended), this Privacy Notice, and the Google Privacy Policy.