Gemini Apps Privacy Hub

The Gemini Apps referred to in the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice and the Gemini Apps Privacy Hub include:

• The Gemini web app available through gemini.google.com and browser sidebars
• The Gemini mobile apps, which include:
  • The Gemini app, including as your mobile assistant, on Android. Note that Gemini is hosted by the Google app, even if you download the Gemini app . 
  • The Gemini app on iOS
• Gemini in the Google Messages app in specific locations
• The Gemini in Chrome feature. Learn more about availability.

“Gemini Apps” are also sometimes referred to as the “Gemini app” or “Gemini.” If you have a work or school Google Account, your use of Gemini Apps may be subject to different data handling terms. Learn more in the Generative AI in Google Workspace Privacy Hub.

LLM experiences (Gemini Apps included) can hallucinate and present inaccurate information as factual.

Under certain privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU, you may have the right to:

1. Object to the processing of your personal data, or
2. Ask for inaccurate personal data in Gemini Apps’ responses to be corrected.

To exercise these rights, you can create a request in our Help Center.

You can also create a request directly in Gemini Apps. Below the Gemini app’s response, select More Report legal issue.

Create a request

Additional resources

To learn more about how to exercise your rights related to data we’ve collected, read the Google Privacy Policy and the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice.

If European Union (EU) or United Kingdom (UK) data protection law applies to the processing of your information, please read the below carefully.

When you are signed in and use Gemini Apps, Google processes your information for the purposes, and on the legal grounds, described below.

When we refer to “your Gemini Apps information” below we mean data categories listed in the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice, consisting of: (i) information you provide Gemini Apps (such as your prompts and uploaded content, recordings and transcripts of your Gemini Live interactions, your feedback, and saved info and instructions); (ii) Information we collect as you use Gemini Apps (such as content that Gemini Apps generates, info from your apps, browsers, devices, and connected apps, and device data collected when Gemini is your mobile assistant); (iii) information collected through supplemental Gemini Apps features you opt into; (iv) location information; and (v) subscription information.

Google’s legal bases are:

• Performance of a contract. We process your Gemini Apps information, and any of your other information you give Gemini Apps permission to process when you integrate Gemini Apps with another service, so that we can provide and maintain the Gemini Apps service you have requested under the Google Terms of Service. For example, we process your Gemini Apps information to respond to your queries, and to provide various Gemini Apps features and functionalities such as code, image, and video generation.
• Google and third parties' legitimate interests with appropriate safeguards to protect your privacy.
  • We process information from publicly accessible sources and your Gemini Apps information so that we can provide, maintain, improve, and develop Google products, services, and machine learning technologies.
    • Processing this information for this purpose is necessary for the legitimate interests of Google and our users in:
      • Providing, maintaining, and improving our services to meet the needs of our users (such as using chats to fine-tune models and improve Gemini Apps' responses for safety and accuracy).
      • Developing new products and features that are useful for our users (such as learning how to route requests to new large language models best suited to answer a particular question or training new models to handle these requests).
      • Understanding how people use our services to ensure and improve the performance of our services (such as generating metrics to understand how users are using Gemini Apps to better tailor user experience).
      • Customizing our services to provide users with a better experience (such as using your location information and your past conversations so Gemini Apps provide a more relevant answer).
  • We also process your Gemini Apps information so that we can maintain the functionality, safety and reliability of Gemini Apps, including by detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that could affect Google, our users, or the public.
    • Processing this information for this purpose is necessary for the legitimate interests of Google, our users, and the public in:
      • Detecting, preventing, or otherwise addressing fraud, abuse, security, or technical issues with our services (such as fixing bugs and troubleshooting failures).
      • Protecting against harm to the rights, property, or safety of Google, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law (such as updating safety classifiers and model filters).
      • Performing research that improves our services for our users and benefits the public.
      • Enforcing legal claims, including investigation of potential violations of applicable terms of service (such as reviewing suspicious activity and interactions flagged as problematic).
    • Processing this information for this purpose is also necessary for the legitimate interests of Google and our commercial partners in fulfilling obligations to our partners like developers and rights holders (such as honoring removal requests from intellectual property rights holders).
  • To respond to your request, for example to summarize an email from a named contact, we process personal data about others that you've given Gemini Apps (such as when you integrate Gemini Apps with another service like Google Workspace).
• Legal obligations. We’ll also process your Gemini Apps information to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request (such as if we get a legal request for information from a governmental authority).
• Your consent. We rely on your consent when you use certain features such as Voice Match and when you allow Google to use your audio & Live recordings to improve Google services for everyone. Where we rely on your consent to process information, you will have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Your Gemini Apps chats are not being used to show you ads. If this changes, we will clearly communicate it to you.

To learn about how we keep our users’ data private, safe, and secure, read our Privacy and Security Principles.

How human review helps improve Google services

A subset of chats are reviewed by human reviewers (including Google’s trained service providers) to help improve Google services. These include Gemini models, other generative AI models that power Gemini Apps, and technologies that help reduce unintended activations.

Reviewers assess if Gemini Apps’ responses were low-quality, inaccurate, or harmful. They also suggest better responses. We use their suggestions to help our models respond better in the future.

How we protect your privacy in this process

We take your privacy seriously, and we do not sell your personal information to anyone. Chats are disconnected from your account before being sent to service providers. Reviewed chats are retained for up to three years.

How you can control what’s shared with reviewers

To stop your future chats from being reviewed to improve Google services, turn off your Keep Activity setting. If that setting is on, don’t enter data that’s confidential or that you wouldn’t want a reviewer to see or Google to use to improve its services.

Google needs to retain these chats to respond to you, to help keep Gemini safe and secure, and to process any feedback you choose to provide.

Here are more details:

Temporary chats and chats you have when Keep Activity is off are retained with your account for 72 hours and used to:

• respond to you, using the last 24 hours of your chat as context, and
• maintain the safety and security of Gemini Apps. For example, Google stores your chats with your account for 72 hours so it is available in case of a potential system failure.

Temporary chats are not used to train Google’s AI models. If Keep Activity is off and you don’t submit feedback, Google also does not use your future chats to improve its AI models.

If Keep Activity is off and you choose to submit feedback, Google collects and uses the following data to help maintain and improve Gemini Apps:

• your feedback,
• context that can help us better understand your feedback, including the last 24 hours of your chats, and
• any content included in those chats (like uploads and data from connected apps).

Learn more about how Google uses feedback.

Your feedback, any included content (like files or your personal content from connected apps), associated conversations (like your prompts and Gemini Apps’ responses), and related data are:

• Reviewed by specially trained teams. Human review is necessary to help identify, address, and report potential problems raised in feedback. In some cases, this is required by law.
• Used consistent with the Google Privacy Policy. Google uses this data to provide, improve, and develop Google products, services, and machine-learning technologies. This is explained in more detail in our Privacy Policy.
  • For example, we use this data to make Gemini Apps safer. It helps us detect and avoid unsafe requests or responses in the future.
• Retained for up to 3 years. Reviewed feedback, associated conversations, and related data are retained for up to 3 years, disconnected from your Google Account.

Learn how to send feedback or report a problem with Gemini Apps.

If the Keep Activity setting is on:

Your chats and what you share with Gemini (like files, videos, screens, and photos) will be saved in your Activity.

Your saved activity also includes audio, recordings and transcripts of your Gemini Live interactions, your feedback, info from websites you visit with Gemini, product usage, and location info (including your device’s general location, IP address, or Home or Work addresses in your Google Account).

How your activity is used

Google uses your activity to provide, develop, and improve its services (including training generative AI models), as well as to protect Google, its users, and the public with the help of human reviewers. Data reviewed by service providers is disconnected from your account and saved for 3 years. Your audio and Gemini Live recordings aren’t used to improve Google services by default. Depending on your settings and region, Google also uses your activity to personalize your experience.

You’re in control

Your activity is auto-deleted after 18 months. You can change this to 3 or 36 months, or choose not to auto-delete. You can turn this setting off or review and delete your activity anytime in Gemini Apps Activity.

Keep in mind

• Gemini Apps are designed to wait in standby mode until they’re activated, for example when they detect “Hey Google.” Recordings may begin a few seconds before activation.
• Gemini can activate accidentally, like if it detects a noise like “Hey Google.” Transcripts of these recordings are also used to help reduce unintended activations for everyone.
• Turning this setting on restores Gemini's access to apps that were previously connected.

If the Keep Activity setting is off:

Your future chats won’t appear in your Activity, and won’t be used to train our AI models, unless you choose to send Google feedback. Future chats are still saved for 72 hours so Gemini can respond to you, process your feedback, and protect Google, its users, and the public.

Keep in mind

• If you delete your activity, past chats already reviewed by service providers aren’t deleted because they aren’t connected to your Google Account. Instead, they’re retained for up to 3 years.
• Some connected apps are unavailable when this setting is off.
• Other settings like Web & App Activity or Location History may continue to save location and other data as part of your use of other Google services.
• Connected apps retain data shared with them, subject to their own policies. When you delete the relevant chats from your Gemini Apps Activity, it doesn’t delete the information shared with connected apps.

You can manage this setting anytime.

Gemini Apps use your info and instructions to provide more customized responses. This data remains saved until you choose to delete it. You can stop saving info and instructions anytime. Learn more.

Outside of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK, Gemini personalizes your experience by referencing your chats in Gemini Apps Activity and using them to generate personalized insights. You can stop this by turning off the setting called “Your past chats with Gemini.” Keep Activity must be on to use this feature.

If this feature is on:

• Gemini may use sensitive info you provided in your chats to personalize your experience.
• You can start a Temporary Chat to discuss info that you don’t want Gemini to remember or use to personalize your experience.
• To stop Gemini from personalizing your experience using info from a past chat, delete that chat.

Location data is always collected if you use Gemini Apps so that they can provide you with a response that is relevant to your query. For example, to respond to prompts like "What's the weather?", Gemini Apps need to know your location.

Where Gemini Apps get location data & how its used

The source of the location data Gemini Apps collect varies. By default, Gemini Apps use the general area from your IP address or the Home or Work addresses in your Google Account to give relevant responses to prompts like “What’s the weather?”

With your permission, Gemini Apps also process precise location data from your device to provide more relevant responses. For example, Gemini Apps can use your precise location to more accurately respond to prompts like “where is the closest coffee shop to me?”

Google also uses your location data, including your precise location data, for the purposes and based on the legal grounds described in the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice. Learn more about location data at g.co/privacypolicy/location.

How precise location data is shared

If available, Gemini Apps may share your precise location data with another Google service, like Google Maps, to fulfill your request. The Google service that gets your location data uses it consistent with the Google Privacy Policy.

How location data is stored

• Precise location is not stored in your Gemini Apps Activity.
• Location data that Gemini Apps process is coarsened to a general area before it’s stored with your Gemini Apps Activity. A general area is larger than 3 sq kilometers, and has at least 1000 users so that the general area of your prompt does not identify you, helping to protect your privacy. This means that a general area is typically much larger than 3 sq kilometers outside of cities.

How to control & manage your data

At any time, you can:

• Change your location settings. Learn how to manage your location.
• Manage location permissions for your Gemini mobile app by changing device location settings for the Google app (which hosts Gemini). Learn how to manage device location settings and manage mobile permissions when Gemini is your device assistant.
• Review and delete your Gemini Apps activity. Learn how to manage your Gemini Apps activity.

Gemini web app

The Gemini web app shows user-interface elements at the bottom of the Menu that offer continuous transparency about location data processed by the app.

To check if gemini.google.com is accessing and using your precise location:

1. Go to gemini.google.com.
2. At the top left, tap Menu .
3. At the bottom of the menu, check the dot next to the location.
   • If the dot is blue, gemini.google.com has access to and is using your precise location.
   • If the dot is gray, gemini.google.com isn’t using your precise location.

Gemini mobile app (on Android)

Gemini is hosted by the Google app, even if you download the Gemini app . To check if Gemini is accessing and using your precise location:

1. On your Android device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Location App location permissions.
3. Tap Google .
4. Check whether “Use precise location” is on .
   • If it’s on , Gemini and other services in the Google app (like Search) can access and use your precise location.
   • If it’s off , Gemini and other services in the Google app (like Search) cannot access and use your precise location.
5. Choose location access for the app: Allow all the time, Allow only while using the app, Ask every time, or Don’t allow.

Gemini mobile app (on iOS)

To check if Gemini in the Google app is accessing and using your precise location:

1. On your iPhone, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Privacy & Security Location Services.
3. Tap Google .
4. Check whether “Precise Location” is on .
   • If it’s on , Gemini and other services in the Google app (like Search) can access and use your precise location.
   • If it’s off , Gemini and other services in the Google app (like Search) are not using your precise location.
5. Choose location access for the app: Always, While Using the App, Ask Next Time Or When I Share, or Never.

Gemini on Watch (WearOS)

To check if Gemini is accessing and using your precise location on your smart watch:

1. On your Wear OS device, open Settings . 
2. Tap Location  App location permissions Google Digital Assistant .
3. Check whether “Use precise location” is on .
4. If it’s on , Gemini can access your precise location.
5. If it’s off , Gemini cannot access and use your precise location.
6. Choose location access for the app: Allow all the time, Allow only while using the app, Ask every time, or Don’t allow.

Learn more about your location and how to manage it.

Gemini in Chrome

To check if the Gemini in Chrome feature is accessing and using your precise location:

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More   Settings.
3. Under AI Innovations click Gemini in Chrome   Permissions.
4. Check whether “Precise Location” is on .
   • If it’s on , Gemini can access and use your precise location.
   • If it’s off , Gemini cannot access and use your precise location, and will only be able to derive an estimated location from your IP address.

Gemini mobile app (on Android)

Gemini is hosted by the Google app, even if you download the Gemini app . Gemini and the Google app can use various features and capabilities on your device (such as your camera, microphone, contacts, or location) based on your Google app permissions. To review and manage these permissions:

1. Touch and hold the Google app .
2. Tap App Info Permissions.
3. To change a permission setting, tap it, then choose Allow or Don’t allow.

How images in prompts work

You can include an image with your prompt to ask Gemini questions about it, edit it, or use it to generate other content (such as a video). When you add an image to your prompt, or a screenshot through a screen action, such as "Ask about this screen," Gemini Apps also use Google Lens technology to understand what's in the image and to read the text. Google uses this information just like any other prompt, as explained in the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice.

If you share a photo or video from Google Photos with Gemini Apps, your photo or video is processed according to the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice. This means, for example, that if you use screen actions or the Gemini upload feature to share a photo or video from Google Photos with Gemini Apps, and if your Keep Activity setting is on, your photo or video is used to improve Google services with the help of human reviewers. Learn more about the Keep Activity setting.

Gemini can connect with services called apps to better help you get things done, like:

• Find relevant information to respond to you
• Perform actions for you

Learn more about apps that Gemini can connect with.

What data is shared

To fulfill your requests, Gemini may share the following data with apps that are connected:

• Information from your conversation and your device
• Preferences such as language
• Location information

Also, with your permission, Gemini shares your account info with some connected apps to access and manage your data in those apps to fulfill your request. Learn how to manage apps in Gemini.

Important: If you ask Gemini Apps to change shared content or control shared devices in other services, those actions may be visible to anyone with access to that shared content or device.

How shared data is used by other Google services

Information that’s shared with other Google services is used consistent with the Google Privacy Policy to:

• Fulfill your request and provide services to you
• Maintain Google’s technologies that power Gemini's integrations with apps, such as APIs
• Improve those services to better respond to you and other Google users

How shared data is deleted by other Google services

When data is shared with Google services, they automatically delete this shared information when it’s no longer necessary for the purposes listed above, as explained in How Google retains data it collects. If you delete the relevant conversation from your Gemini Apps Activity, it doesn’t delete the shared information from the other services.

How shared data is used & deleted by third–party apps & services

Third-party apps and services use the shared data consistent with their own privacy policies. Please review those carefully before you use a third-party app or service.

How to control & manage your data

• You can manage what apps Gemini connects to at any time on the Apps page in Gemini settings.
• Some connected apps such as Phone, Messages, WhatsApp and Utilities are available whether Keep Activity is on or off. At this time, other connected apps such as Google Workspace are unavailable if you turn off Keep Activity. Turning it back on restores Gemini's access to apps that were previously connected.

You can use apps to help connect Gemini Apps with:

• Your personal information and content on your device and in other tools, apps, and services so that Gemini Apps can respond to you better.
• Other Google services so that Gemini Apps can perform your requested actions for you in those services.

Learn more about apps that Gemini can connect with.

How data is used

Gemini processes your personal data that it gets from connected apps, such as your name and email address, and your private content, and use it to:

• Provide features of Gemini Apps to you when you ask. For example:
  • With Google Workspace, summarize your emails and share content
  • Learn about other apps that Gemini can connect with
• Maintain Gemini Apps services. For example:
  • Recover from service crashes
  • Measure overall user experience

Your personal content that Gemini Apps get from Google services is:

• Not allowed to be accessed or reviewed by human reviewers
• Not used to improve generative machine learning technologies that power Gemini Apps
• Not used by Gemini Apps to show you ads
• Not stored past the time period needed to provide and maintain Gemini Apps services

How to control & manage your data

• You can manage what apps Gemini connects to at any time on the Apps page in Gemini settings.
• Some connected apps such as Phone, Messages, WhatsApp and Utilities are available whether Keep Activity is on or off. At this time, other connected apps such as Google Workspace are unavailable if you turn off Keep Activity. If you turn Keep Activity back on, any connected apps that you had on previously will be available again.

What data is collected & processed

When you use connected apps in Gemini to help you make calls or send messages, Gemini mobile apps collect and process your:

• Gemini Apps activity (if available)
• Device calling and messaging logs
• Contact info
• Device info and settings

If you previously used the Gemini mobile app to make calls or send messages with the help of Google Assistant, up to 90 days of your saved Google Assistant communications request history (for example, “Send a message to Sasha”) may be imported from your Web & App Activity to your Gemini Apps Activity. Learn more about how Gemini Apps get help from Google services.

How data is used

To make calls or send messages with connected apps, Gemini mobile apps use your data to:

1. Choose the most helpful calling or messaging app to use, and
2. Help you connect with the right person.

How to control & manage your data

• If you don’t want Gemini mobile apps to use your activity to make calls or send messages, you can delete your activity any time in your Gemini Apps Activity.
• You can disable calling and messaging apps at any time on your Apps page in Gemini settings. Learn how to manage apps in Gemini.
• You can use calling and messaging apps with Keep Activity off.

Important: Google Assistant settings, like Assistant on lock screen settings, do not apply to apps connected to Gemini.

Recordings and transcripts of your interactions with Gemini Live, as well as other content you share with Gemini Live, are processed per the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice and stored in Gemini Apps Activity if your Keep Activity setting is on. You can manage and delete your Gemini Apps activity anytime.

If Keep Activity is off, your Gemini Live chats are stored in your Google Account for up to 72 hours so Google can provide the service and process any feedback. Learn more.

Gemini Live transcripts

If Keep Activity is on, transcripts of your Live chats are used to improve Google services, including AI models. Learn more about your Keep Activity setting.

Gemini Live recordings

Gemini Live recordings (including audio, video and screenshares) are not used to improve Google services by default. Learn more about how to change this anytime.

Please respect others’ privacy and ask permission before you record or include them in a Live chat.

Learn how to use Gemini Live.

When you use the Gemini in Chrome feature, Gemini collects and processes page content and the URL from the browser tab you’re viewing by default. Some of the page content Gemini uses might not be visible to you.

How data is stored

Info from websites you visit with the Gemini in Chrome feature, and audio and files you share with it, are stored in Gemini Apps Activity if your Keep Activity setting is on. Page content will be logged to your Google Account temporarily and will not appear in your Gemini Apps Activity.

How to control & manage your data

You can choose to stop sharing browser tab info with Gemini. Learn more.

When you interact with user-generated Canvas apps, anyone with the public link can see any data you share.

How data is stored

Google provides the option for Canvas apps to store user data persistently in Firebase. App creators could choose to use this option, but they could also store any interaction data from you in other locations (or not to store such data at all).

How to control & manage your data

Be cautious and only interact with apps you trust. Once you share any data with a Canvas app, you do not have the option to delete it, but the app creator does.

The Google Terms of Service and the Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy apply to Gemini Apps.

If you’re a Korea-based consumer, you also agree that your use of Gemini Apps is subject to the Korean Location Terms of Service.