Web History Privacy Notice

22 February 2007

The Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Google’s products and services, including information provided when you use Web History. In addition, the following describes our privacy practices that are specific to Web History.

Personal information

You need a Google Account to use Web History. Google asks for some personal information when you create a Google Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorised access. A Google Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.
Web History records information about the web pages you visit and your activity on Google, including your search queries, the results you click and the date and time of your searches in order to improve your search experience and display your web activity. Over time, the service may also use additional information about your activity on Google or other information that you provide us with in order to deliver a more personalised experience.

Uses

Web History uses the information described above to give you a more personalised search experience. This information will be securely transmitted to Google’s servers and stored in association with your Google Account information in order to provide the service.

Your choices

You can terminate your Google Account at any time as described here.
You can choose to stop storing your web activity in Web History either temporarily or permanently or remove items, as described in Web History Help.
You can delete information from Web History using the remove feature, and it will be removed from the service. However, as is common practice in the industry, and as outlined in the Google Privacy Policy, Google maintains a separate log system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users.

More information

Google adheres to the US Safe Harbour privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbour framework or our registration, see the US Department of Commerce’s website.

Further information about Web History is available here.

For more information about our privacy practices, go to the full privacy policy. For questions concerning the product or your account, please check out the Google Help page.