Your privacy choices
One switch, and what it does. This page also shows whether your browser is sending an opt-out signal that we have already acted on.
1. Your choice
No advertising is running on this site yet. This section describes what happens once it is. Until then no ad script loads, no advertising cookies are set, and nothing about your visit reaches Google through advertising at all. This notice disappears by itself on the deploy that switches advertising on, and the "Last updated" date above moves with it.
2. What "sharing" means here
We do not sell personal information. We have never taken money for anyone's data and the site has no mechanism to do it.
The site is funded by advertising: we show ads from Google, and the notice in section 1 says whether that has started here yet. When those ads are personalised, Google may use information about your visit to choose them. Several US state privacy laws call that "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising, or "targeted advertising", and give you the right to stop it, whether or not money changed hands. The switch above is how you exercise that right here. It is available to everyone, not only to residents of those states.
Turning it off does not remove ads and does not change anything else about your account or your charts. Ads that are running still appear; they are simply chosen without using information about you, which typically means they are worth less to us and less relevant to you. That tradeoff is yours to make.
We honor Global Privacy Control automatically, in every region, and we do not respond to the older Do Not Track header, which was never given an agreed meaning. Both are covered in the Cookie Policy.
3. Your other rights
The opt-out above is the one thing you can do without contacting anybody. The rest of your rights are exercised by writing to [email protected], and we answer within 30 days:
- know what we hold about you, get a copy, correct it, or have it deleted (Privacy Policy section 10);
- appeal a decision we make about one of those requests (section 13), which several states require us to offer and we offer to everyone;
- use an authorised agent to make a request for you, if you send us enough to show they act for you;
- do all of this without being treated differently afterwards. Exercising a privacy right never costs you a feature here.
If you never signed in, read Privacy Policy section 11 first: it explains, honestly, what we can and cannot do for a visitor we hold no name for.
You can also change your Google-wide advertising settings at myadcenter.google.com, which affects Google's ads everywhere, not just here.