Legacy Deprecation Policy for Certain Services
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If Google in its discretion chooses to cease providing the current
version of the Services whether through discontinuation of the Services
or by upgrading the Services to a newer version, the current version of
the Services will be deprecated and become the Deprecated
Versionof the Services. Google will issue an announcement if
the current version of the Services will be deprecated. While this
policy is applicable to the Services, Google will use commercially
reasonable efforts to continue to operate the Deprecated Version of the
Services and to respond to problems with the Deprecated Version of the
Services deemed by Google in its discretion to be critical.
Google reserves the right in its discretion to cease providing all or
any part of the Deprecated Version of the Services immediately without
any notice if:
- you have breached any provision of the Terms (or have acted in
manner that clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are unable
to comply with, the provisions of the Terms); or
- Google is required to do so by law (for example, due to a change to
the law governing the provision of the Deprecated Version of the
Services); or
- the Deprecated Version of the Services relies on data or services
provided by a third party partner and the relationship with such
partner (i) has expired or been terminated or (ii) requires Google
to change the way Google provides the data or services through the
Deprecated Version of the Services; or
- providing the Deprecated Version of the Services could create a
substantial economic burden as determined by Google in its
reasonable good faith judgment; or
- providing the Deprecated Version of the Services could create a
security risk or material technical burden as determined by Google
in its reasonable good faith judgment.
Google is constantly innovating in order to provide the best possible
experience for its users. At any time prior to discontinuing the
current version of the Services or upgrading to a new version of the
Services, Google may, in its discretion as part of this continuing
innovation, label certain features or functionality of the Services
as "experimental". This deprecation policy will not apply to any
features or functionality labeled as "experimental".
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Last updated 2025-08-06 UTC.
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