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"Depending on the products you're using and settings you choose, Google may use different types of location information to help make some services and products you use more helpful. These include: GPS and other sensor data from your device, IP address, Activity on Google services, such as from your searches or places you label like home or work, Information about things near your device, such as Wi-Fi access points, cell towers, and Bluetooth-enabled devices."

Google collects location data through multiple methods including GPS, IP address, WiFi access points, cell towers, Bluetooth devices, and sensor data — a comprehensive location tracking apparatus that extends well beyond what many individual services require.

"This information includes things like your device type and carrier name, crash reports, which apps you've installed, and, depending on your device settings, other information about how you're using your Android device. If you use our services to make and receive calls or send and receive messages, we may collect call and message log information like your phone number, calling-party number, receiving-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls and messages, duration of calls, routing information, and types and volumes of calls and messages."

Google collects a wide range of device data including installed apps, call and message logs with full metadata (numbers, times, durations, routing), carrier information, and usage patterns — much of which goes beyond core service functionality.

"We may use the information we collect across our services and across your devices for the purposes described above. For example, depending on your available settings, if you watch videos of guitar players on YouTube, you might see an ad for guitar lessons on a site that uses our ad products. Depending on your account settings, your activity on other sites and apps may be associated with your personal information in order to improve Google's services and the ads delivered by Google."

Google explicitly links user activity across all its services, across devices, and across third-party sites and apps to build unified profiles for ad targeting and personalization.

"We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. We also allow specific partners to collect information from your browser or device for advertising and measurement purposes using their own cookies or similar technologies."

Google shares personal information with affiliates and service providers, and allows advertising and measurement partners to collect data directly from users' browsers and devices via their own tracking technologies.

"We keep some data until you delete your Google Account, such as information about how often you use our services. And some data we retain for longer periods of time when necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes, such as security, fraud and abuse prevention, or financial record-keeping. When you delete data, we follow a deletion process to make sure that your data is safely and completely removed from our servers or retained only in anonymized form. Because of this, there may be delays between when you delete something and when copies are deleted from our active and backup systems."

Some data is retained indefinitely until account deletion, other data is kept even longer for broad 'legitimate business' reasons, and actual deletion from backup systems is delayed with no specific timeline given.

"We change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We always indicate the date the last changes were published and we offer access to archived versions for your review. If changes are significant, we'll provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes)."

While Google promises not to reduce rights without consent, it can still add new data collection practices or expand how data is used without explicit user consent — only providing notice, not requiring agreement.