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h2. Terms of use in the cloud
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h3. Google Terms Of Service
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1 March 2012 Google Terms of Service : http://tinyurl.com/89dc9fa
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<pre>
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When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give
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Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store,
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reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from
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translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your
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content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly
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perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you
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grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting,
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and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license
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continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a
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business listing you have added to Google Maps).
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24 April 2013 "Google Terms Of Service":http://www.google.com/policies/terms/
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Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or receive
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content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that
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you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
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When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our
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Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to
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use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those
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resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that
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your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly
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perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant
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in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and
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improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues
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even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing
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you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access
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and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some
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of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our 
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use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary
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rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.
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Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you 
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personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, 
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tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs 
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as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored. 
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In short, you retain IP over the content, but grant Google and those they work with the rights to use your content to develop and promote Google services.
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h3. Microsoft Services Agreement
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19 October 2012 Microsoft services agreement : http://tinyurl.com/8e4kucy
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When you upload your content to the services, you agree that it may
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be used, modifed, adapted, saved, reproduced, distributed, and
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displayed to the extent necessary to protect you and to provide, protect
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and improve Microsoft products and services. For example, we may
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occasionally use automated means to isolate information from email,
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chats, or photos in order to help detect and protect against spam and
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malware, or to improve the services with new features that makes them
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easier to use. When processing your content, Microsoft takes steps to
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help preserve your privacy.
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24 April 2014 "Microsoft services agreement":http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/microsoft-services-agreement
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Except for material that we license to you that may be incorporated
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into your own content (such as clip art), we do not claim ownership
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of the content you provide on the services. Your content remains your
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content, and you are responsible for it. We do not control, verify, 
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pay for, or endorse the content that you and others make available 
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on the services.
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You have initial control over who may access your content. If you
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share content in public areas of the services or in shared areas available
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to others you’ve chosen, you agree that anyone you have shared content with
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may, for free, use, save, reproduce, distribute, display, and transmit that
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content in connection with their use of the services and other Microsoft,
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or its licensees’, products and services. If you don't want others to have
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that ability, don't use the services to share your content.</pre>
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In short, once you share data you give the people you shared it with the right to treat it as free for reuse.