Google Play Music

Google Play allows you to browse, preview, stream, purchase, download, recommend and use a variety of digital music and music-related content such as music files, music video files, previews, clips, artist information, user reviews, professional third-party music reviews and other digital content ('Music Products').

Stored Content. You can use Google Play to store digital content (such as music files, related metadata and album art) in Music Storage through the Music Software, as each is defined below ('Stored Content'). For the avoidance of doubt, 'Music Products' do not include Stored Content. Stored Content may include both files that you upload directly to Music Storage or files that Google 'scans and matches' to files stored locally on your Device.

Music Locker Services. Google Play may provide you with access to (a) server space that you can use to store music and associated data files, including Music Products and Stored Content ('Music Storage') or (b) software applications (including web, desktop and mobile applications) and related services that allow you to upload, manage, access and play music through Music Storage ('Music Software'). Music Storage and Music Software are collectively referred to in these Terms as the 'Music Locker Service'.

Use of Music Locker Services. By storing Music Products and Stored Content in Music Storage, you are storing a unique copy of such Content and requesting Google to retain it on your behalf and to make it accessible to you through your account on Google Play. By using the Music Locker Services, you are requesting that Google make all of the necessary functions and features of the Music Locker Services available to you in order to facilitate your use of Music Products and Stored Content. You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps at your direction to provide you with the Music Locker Services, may (a) transmit Music Products and Stored Content over various networks and in various media and (b) make such changes to Music Products and Stored Content as necessary to conform and adapt it to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You confirm and warrant to Google that you have the necessary rights to store in Music Storage any Stored Content that you direct Google to upload or store in Music Storage, and to instruct Google to perform the actions described in this section.

Other Google Subscription Services. Your use of Google Play and any Google Play music subscription product is governed solely by these Terms, and not the terms of any other Google product, including any other Google product through which you receive access to a Google Play music subscription.

Google Play Books. The Google Play Privacy Policy for Books describes how we treat personal and certain other information generated by your use of Content that is books.

Google Play Newsstand.

Information Google Shares with Periodical Publishers. If you purchase a periodical subscription of any length on Google Play, Google may share your name, email address, mailing address and a unique identifier with the periodical's publisher. As a subscriber to the periodical, Google may also share your reading history within the periodical with the publisher of that periodical. Google has agreed with the periodical publisher that the periodical publisher will use this information in accordance with the publisher's privacy policy. You will be provided the opportunity to opt out of any communications from the publisher that do not relate to the subscription that you are purchasing, and to opt out of marketing communications from third parties, at the time you purchase your subscription. If you purchase a single issue of a magazine on Google Play, Google may provide your postcode to the magazine's publisher. We also provide periodical publishers with sales information on periodical purchases.

Verifying Print Subscriptions. If you are accessing a subscription on Google Play Newsstand through an existing print subscription from that periodical's publisher, we may ask a third-party service provider to verify your print subscription with the periodical publisher, and we may ask you for certain information relating to your print subscription in order to do so. Google will use this information in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy.