Google Search AI Overviews and AI Mode

AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google Search fall under the general Google privacy policy; the Web and App Activity setting governs whether search activity is saved to the account.

“We use your interactions with AI models and technologies like Gemini Apps to develop, train, fine-tune, and improve these models to better handle your requests, and update their classifiers and filters including for safety, language understanding, and factuality.”

“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. / 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.”

“Data transfers We maintain servers around the world and your information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live.”