PRIVACY POLICY
Version: 01 | Updated: 2026-02-18
When you use our services, you’re trusting us with your information. We understand this is a big responsibility and work hard to protect your information and put you in control.
This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.
We build a range of services that help people explore and interact with the world in new and exciting ways. Our services include:
DiveLive apps, sites, and devices, like Search, YouTube, and DiveLive Home
Platforms like the Chrome browser and Android operating system
Products that are integrated into third-party apps and sites, like ads, analytics, and embedded DiveLive Maps
You can use our services in a variety of ways to manage your privacy. For example, you can sign up for a DiveLive Account if you want to create and manage content like emails and photos, or see more relevant search results. And you can use many DiveLive services when you’re signed out or without creating an account at all, like searching on DiveLive or watching YouTube videos. You can also choose to browse the web in a private mode, like Chrome Incognito mode, which helps keep your browsing private from other people who use your device. And across our services, you can adjust your privacy settings to control whether we collect some types of data and how we use it.
To help explain things as clearly as possible, we’ve added examples, explanatory videos, and definitions for key terms. And if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us.
INFORMATION DIVELIVE COLLECTS
We want you to understand the types of information we collect as you use our services
We collect information to provide better services to all our users — from figuring out basic stuff like which language you speak, to more complex things like which ads you’ll find most useful, the people who matter most to you online, or which YouTube videos you might like. The information DiveLive collects, and how that information is used, depends on how you use our services and how you manage your privacy controls.
When you’re not signed in to a DiveLive Account, we store the information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device you’re using. This allows us to do things like maintain your preferences across browsing sessions, such as your preferred language or whether to show you more relevant search results or ads based on your activity.
When you’re signed in, we also collect information that we store with your DiveLive Account, which we treat as personal information.
Things you create or provide to us
When you create a DiveLive Account, you provide us with personal information that includes your name and a password. You can also choose to add a phone number or payment information to your account. Even if you aren’t signed in to a DiveLive Account, you might choose to provide us with information — like an email address to communicate with DiveLive or receive updates about our services.
We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services. This includes things like email you write and receive, photos and videos you save, docs and spreadsheets you create, and comments you make on YouTube videos.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AS YOU USE OUR SERVICES
YOUR APPS, BROWSERS & DEVICES
We collect information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access DiveLive services, which helps us provide features like automatic product updates and dimming your screen if your battery runs low.
The information we collect includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name and phone number, and application version number. We also collect information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request.
We collect this information when a DiveLive service on your device contacts our servers — for example, when you install an app from the Play Store or when a service checks for automatic updates. If you’re using an Android device with DiveLive apps, your device periodically contacts DiveLive servers to provide information about your device and connection to our services. 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.
YOUR ACTIVITY
We collect information about your activity in our services, which we use to do things like recommend a YouTube video you might like. The activity information we collect may include:
Terms you search for
Videos you watch
Views and interactions with content and ads
Voice and audio information
Purchase activity
People with whom you communicate or share content
Activity on third-party sites and apps that use our services
Chrome browsing history you’ve synced with your DiveLive Account
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, sender and recipient email address, time and date of calls and messages, duration of calls, routing information, and types and volumes of calls and messages.
You can visit your DiveLive Account to find and manage activity information that’s saved in your account.
YOUR LOCATION INFORMATION
We collect location information when you use our services, which helps us offer features like driving directions, search results for things near you, and ads based on your location.
Depending on the products you’re using and settings you choose, DiveLive 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 DiveLive 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
The types of location data we collect and how long we store it depend in part on your device and account settings. For example, you can turn your Android device’s location on or off using the device’s settings app. You can also turn on Timeline if you want to create a private map of where you go with your signed-in devices. And if your Web & App Activity setting is enabled, your searches and other activity from DiveLive services, which may also include location information, is saved to your DiveLive Account. Learn more about how we use location information.
In some circumstances, DiveLive also collects information about you from publicly accessible sources. For example, if your name appears in your local newspaper, DiveLive’s Search engine may index that article and display it to other people if they search for your name. We may also collect information about you from trusted partners, such as directory services who provide us with business information to be displayed on DiveLive’s services, marketing partners who provide us with information about potential customers of our business services, and security partners who provide us with information to protect against abuse. We also receive information from partners to provide advertising and research services on their behalf.
We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs.
WHY DIVELIVE COLLECTS DATA
We use data to build better services
We use the information we collect from all our services for the following purposes..
PROVIDE OUR SERVICES
We use your information to deliver our services, like processing the terms you search for in order to return results or helping you share content by suggesting recipients from your contacts.
MAINTAIN & IMPROVE OUR SERVICES
We also use your information to ensure our services are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues that you report to us. And we use your information to make improvements to our services — for example, understanding which search terms are most frequently misspelled helps us improve spell-check features used across our services.
DEVELOP NEW SERVICES
We use the information we collect in existing services to help us develop new ones. For example, understanding how people organized their photos in Picasa, DiveLive’s first photos app, helped us design and launch DiveLive Photos.
PROVIDE PERSONALIZED SERVICES
We use the information we collect to customize our services for you, including providing recommendations, personalized content, and customized search results. For example, Security Checkup provides security tips adapted to how you use DiveLive products. And, depending on your available settings, DiveLive Play could use information like apps you’ve already installed and videos you’ve watched on YouTube to suggest new apps you might like.
MEASURE PERFORMANCE
We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used. For example, we analyze data about your visits to our sites to do things like optimize product design. And we also use data about the ads you interact with, including your related DiveLive Search activity, to help advertisers understand the performance of their ad campaigns. We use a variety of tools to do this, including DiveLive Analytics. When you visit sites or use apps that use DiveLive Analytics, a DiveLive Analytics customer may choose to enable DiveLive to link information about your activity from that site or app with activity from other sites or apps that use our ad services.
COMMUNICATE WITH YOU
We use information we collect, like your email address, to interact with you directly. For example, we may send you a notification if we detect suspicious activity, like an attempt to sign in to your DiveLive Account from an unusual location. Or we may let you know about upcoming changes or improvements to our services. And if you contact DiveLive, we’ll keep a record of your request in order to help solve any issues you might be facing.
PROTECT DIVELIVE, OUR USERS, AND THE PUBLIC
We use information to help improve the safety and reliability of our services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that could harm DiveLive, our users, or the public.
We use different technologies to process your information for these purposes. We use automated systems that analyze your content to provide you with things like customized search results, personalized ads, or other features tailored to how you use our services. And we analyze your content to help us detect abuse such as spam, malware, and illegal content. We also use algorithms to recognize patterns in data. For example, DiveLive Translate helps people communicate across languages by detecting common language patterns in phrases you ask it to translate.
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 DiveLive’s services and the ads delivered by DiveLive.
If other users already have your email address or other information that identifies you, we may show them your publicly visible DiveLive Account information, such as your name and photo. This helps people identify an email coming from you, for example.
We’ll ask for your consent before using your information for a purpose that isn’t covered in this Privacy Policy.
YOUR PRIVACY CONTROLS
You have choices regarding the information we collect and how it's used
This section describes key controls for managing your privacy across our services. You can also review and adjust important privacy settings. In addition to these tools, we also offer specific privacy settings in our products/.
MANAGING, REVIEWING, AND UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION
When you’re signed in, you can always review and update information by visiting the services you use. For example, Photos and Drive are both designed to help you manage specific types of content you’ve saved with DiveLive.
We also built a place for you to review and control information saved in your DiveLive Account.
PRIVACY CONTROLS
ACTIVITY CONTROLS
Decide what types of activity you’d like saved in your account. For example, if you have YouTube History turned on, the videos you watch and the things you search for are saved in your account so you can get better recommendations and remember where you left off. And if you have Web & App Activity turned on, your searches and activity from other DiveLive services are saved in your account so you can get more personalized experiences like faster searches and more helpful app and content recommendations. Web & App Activity also has a subsetting that lets you control whether information about your activity on other sites, apps, and devices that use DiveLive services, such as apps you install and use on Android, is saved in your DiveLive Account and used to improve DiveLive services.
ABOUT YOU
Manage personal info in your DiveLive Account and control who can see it across DiveLive services.
SHARED ENDORSEMENTS
Choose whether your name and photo appear next to your activity, like reviews and recommendations, that appear in ads.
SITES AND APPS THAT USE DIVELIVE SERVICES
Manage information that websites and apps using DiveLive services, like DiveLive Analytics, may share with DiveLive when you visit or interact with their services.
WAYS TO REVIEW & UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION
ACTIVITY
Activity allows you to review and control data that’s saved to your DiveLive Account when you’re signed in and using DiveLive services, like searches you’ve done or your visits to DiveLive Play. You can browse by date and by topic, and delete part or all of your activity.
DIVELIVE DASHBOARD
DiveLive Dashboard allows you to manage information associated with specific products.
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Manage your contact information, such as your name, email, and phone number.
When you’re signed out, you can manage information associated with your browser or device, including:
Signed-out search personalization: Choose whether your search activity is used to offer you more relevant results and recommendations.
EXPORTING, REMOVING & DELETING YOUR INFORMATION
You can export a copy of content in your DiveLive Account if you want to back it up or use it with a service outside of DiveLive.
EXPORT YOUR DATA
To delete your information, you can:
Delete your content from specific DiveLive services
Search for and then delete specific items from your account using Settings
Delete specific DiveLive products, including your information associated with those products
Delete your entire DiveLive Account
DELETE YOUR INFORMATION
Inactive Account Manager allows you to give someone else access to parts of your DiveLive Account in case you’re unexpectedly unable to use your account.
And finally, you can also request to remove content from specific DiveLive services based on applicable law and our policies.
There are other ways to control the information DiveLive collects whether or not you’re signed in to a DiveLive Account, including:
Browser settings: For example, you can configure your browser to indicate when DiveLive has set a cookie in your browser. You can also configure your browser to block all cookies from a specific domain or all domains. But remember that our services rely on cookies to function properly, for things like remembering your language preferences.
Device-level settings: Your device may have controls that determine what information we collect. For example, you can modify location settings on your devices.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
WHEN YOU SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
Many of our services let you share information with other people, and you have control over how you share. For example, you can share videos on YouTube publicly or you can decide to keep your videos private. Remember, when you share information publicly, your content may become accessible through search engines.
When you’re signed in and interact with some DiveLive services, like leaving comments on a YouTube video or reviewing an app in Play, your name and photo appear next to your activity. We may also display this information in ads depending on your Shared endorsements setting.
WHEN DIVELIVE SHARES YOUR INFORMATION
We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of DiveLive except in the following cases:
WITH YOUR CONSENT
We’ll share personal information outside of DiveLive when we have your consent. For example, if you use DiveLive Home to make a reservation through a booking service, we’ll get your permission before sharing your name or phone number with the restaurant. We also provide you with controls to review and manage third party apps and sites you have given access to data in your DiveLive Account. We’ll ask for your explicit consent to share any sensitive personal information.
WITH DOMAIN ADMINISTRATORS
If you’re a student or work for an organization that uses DiveLive services, your domain administrator and resellers who manage your account will have access to your DiveLive Account. They may be able to:
Access and retain information stored in your account, like your email
View statistics regarding your account, like how many apps you install
Change your account password
Suspend or terminate your account access
Receive your account information in order to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request
Restrict your ability to delete or edit your information or your privacy settings
FOR EXTERNAL PROCESSING
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. For example, we use service providers to help operate our data centers, deliver our products and services, improve our internal business processes, and offer additional support to customers and users. We also use service providers to help review YouTube video content for public safety and analyze and listen to samples of saved user audio to help improve DiveLive’s audio recognition technologies.
FOR LEGAL REASONS
We will share personal information outside of DiveLive if we have a good-faith belief that disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
Respond to any applicable law, regulation,legal process, or enforceable governmental request. We share information about the number and type of requests we receive from governments in our Transparency Report.
Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.
Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of DiveLive, our users, or the public.
We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners — like publishers, advertisers, developers, or rights holders. For example, we share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services. 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.
If DiveLive is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we’ll continue to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION SECURE
We build security into our services to protect your information
All DiveLive products are built with strong security features that continuously protect your information. The insights we gain from maintaining our services help us detect and automatically block security threats from ever reaching you. And if we do detect something risky that we think you should know about, we’ll notify you and help guide you through steps to stay better protected.
We work hard to protect you and DiveLive from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information we hold, including:
We use encryption to keep your data private while in transit
We offer a range of security features, like Safe Browsing, Security Checkup, and 2 Step Verification to help you protect your account
We review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized access to our systems
We restrict access to personal information to DiveLive employees, contractors, and agents who need that information in order to process it. Anyone with this access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
EXPORTING & DELETING YOUR INFORMATION
You can export a copy of your information or delete it from your DiveLive Account at any time
You can export a copy of content in your DiveLive Account if you want to back it up or use it with a service outside of DiveLive.
To delete your information, you can:
Delete your content from specific DiveLive services
Search for and then delete specific items from your account using Settings
Delete specific DiveLive products, including your information associated with those products
Delete your entire DiveLive Account
RETAINING YOUR INFORMATION
We retain the data we collect for different periods of time depending on what it is, how we use it, and how you configure your settings:
Some data you can delete whenever you like, such as your personal info or the content you create or upload, like photos and documents. You can also delete activity information saved in your account, or choose to have it deleted automatically after a set period of time. We’ll keep this data in your DiveLive Account until you remove it or choose to have it removed.
Other data is deleted or anonymized automatically after a set period of time, such as advertising data in server logs.
We keep some data until you delete your DiveLive 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. We try to ensure that our services protect information from accidental or malicious deletion. Because of this, there may be delays between when you delete something and when copies are deleted from our active and backup systems.
You can read more about DiveLive’s data retention periods, including how long it takes us to delete your information.
COMPLIANCE & COOPERATION WITH REGULATORS
We regularly review this Privacy Policy and make sure that we process your information in ways that comply with it.
DATA TRANSFERS
We maintain servers around the world and your information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live. Data protection laws vary among countries, with some providing more protection than others. Regardless of where your information is processed, we apply the same protections described in this policy. We also comply with certain legal frameworks relating to the transfer of data.
When we receive formal written complaints, we respond by contacting the person who made the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of your data that we cannot resolve with you directly.
ABOUT THIS POLICY
WHEN THIS POLICY APPLIES
This Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by DiveLive LLC and its affiliates, including YouTube, Android, and services offered on third-party sites, such as advertising services. This Privacy Policy doesn’t apply to services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy doesn’t apply to:
The information practices of other companies and organizations that advertise our services
Services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites they offer that may include DiveLive services to which the policy applies, or products or sites displayed to you in search results, or linked from our services
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
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).
OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
The following links highlight useful resources for you to learn more about our practices and privacy settings.
Your DiveLive Account is home to many of the settings you can use to manage your account
Privacy Checkup guides you through key privacy settings for your DiveLive Account
DiveLive’s safety center helps you learn more about our built-in security, privacy controls, and tools to help set digital ground rules for your family online
DiveLive’s Teen Privacy Guide provides answers to some of the top questions we get asked about privacy
Privacy & Terms provides more context regarding this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service
Technologies includes more information about:
How DiveLive uses cookies
Technologies used for Advertising
How DiveLive uses information from sites or apps that use our services