Alma Whitten (Alma Whitten), Director of Data Protection, a division of product development and.
A month later, in the privacy policy and user agreement Google will be made. changes. This is a very important point, so we would like to talk about what will change and why, and explain what these amendments mean for our customers.
Let's start with the privacy policy. In 2010, we have. simplified. its. Nevertheless, it remained for more than 70 documents ( yes, you read correctly, 70) on the use of personal information relating to the Google products. Such an approach can not be called simple, and the number 70 itself is contrary to our efforts to link our services and products to each other and make it intuitive.
We have prepared a new, affordable formulated, the privacy policy. It is easier to read, it covers most of our products, and explains what information we collect and how it is used. It's still not a single form: due to legal and other aspects we have retained a number of separate documents. Nevertheless, the new privacy policy combined for more than 60 existing policy.
Regulators around the world have long urged Internet companies to reduce and simplify the privacy policy. The practice of creating uniform rules for the use of various products are already widely distributed on the Web. Updated Google's Privacy Policy shall come into force on March 1. From today, users will receive an email notification of changes. In addition, we placed an ad on our home page.