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title: "Google: what refusing costs you"
url: "https://isitsellingme.com/entity/google/"
grade: "C"
category: "Search"
last_checked: "2026-09-21"
---

# Google

**Grade C.** What refusing costs you: A setting, depth unverified.

Search · UK

## The clause

> You can also control what information we use to show you ads, or turn off personalized ads, by visiting My Ad Center.

Source: https://policies.google.com/privacy, checked 21 September 2026. Archived copy: https://github.com/jgarpotter/isitsellingme-archive/blob/main/captures/platforms/google/policy/2026-09-21T124206Z.html

Google serves this page in regional editions chosen by your address. The sentence quoted here sits in the edition served to US addresses, which is where our archiver reads from; the edition served to UK addresses carries a "European requirements" section instead and does not contain it. This verdict reads the US-served document at the URL a UK reader is sent to.

## How this grade was reached

- Base grade B, from what refusing costs you.
- −1: Recipients are sold to, or described only by category rather than named.
- Final grade C.

## The three axes

### What refusing costs you

Finding: A setting, depth unverified.

> You can also control what information we use to show you ads, or turn off personalized ads, by visiting My Ad Center.

Source: https://policies.google.com/privacy, checked 21 September 2026. Archived copy: https://github.com/jgarpotter/isitsellingme-archive/blob/main/captures/platforms/google/policy/2026-09-21T124206Z.html

### Who receives you

Finding: Categories only.
Categories: Affiliates and other trusted businesses, Service providers, Advertisers (non-identifying).

> We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Google except in the following cases:

Source: https://policies.google.com/privacy, checked 21 September 2026. Archived copy: https://github.com/jgarpotter/isitsellingme-archive/blob/main/captures/platforms/google/policy/2026-09-21T124206Z.html

### Whether the refusal covers everything

Finding: The document does not address 6 points about what the refusal covers.
- Not stated: Whether it applies to data already collected
- Not stated: Whether it covers in-store purchases
- Not stated: Whether it covers data bought about you
- Not stated: Whether it covers profiles inferred about you
- Not stated: Whether it binds a device or your account
- Not stated: Whether it expires

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Last checked: 21 September 2026