{"object":"determination","schema_version":"1","vendor":"Looker","state":"conditional","sentence":"Contracting entity depends on your region or order form — read the clause.","qualifier":"","contracting_entity":"Google LLC for the United States and any location not otherwise listed; Google Cloud EMEA Limited for EMEA except France, Italy and Poland; and a separate named Google entity for each other listed region, set by the customer's billing address","jurisdiction":"United States (Google LLC); Ireland (Google Cloud EMEA Limited) for EMEA; a separate country per listed region elsewhere","governing_law":"The Google Contracting Entity page itself carries no governing-law clause. The agreement it serves, the Google Cloud Terms of Service at https://cloud.google.com/terms/, states at 14.12 (U.S. Governing Law) that for any customer other than a US government entity all claims arising out of or relating to the Agreement or the Services are governed by California law excluding its conflict of laws rules and are litigated exclusively in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County, California, with the parties consenting to personal jurisdiction there. For US federal government customers, US law governs with California law applying in the absence of applicable federal law; for US city, county and state government customers the Agreement is silent as to governing law and venue.","conditions":["The contracting entity depends on your region or order form: read the clause for your position."],"us_control":{"status":"region_dependent","finding":"Region-dependent — a US entity contracts in some regions; elsewhere a non-US entity does, and whether a US company controls it is not established","parent":null,"legal_reach":"More than one contracting entity is on record, and which one a buyer signs with depends on facts about the buyer, such as where it is. The record does not establish US corporate control on every track, so it makes no single finding on US legal reach.","caveat":null,"rule":"A provider subject to US jurisdiction can be required by valid US legal process to produce data in its possession, custody or control wherever it is located (CLOUD Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2713). A US-incorporated contracting entity is subject to US jurisdiction. A non-US contracting entity under US corporate control may be within reach through that control, depending on whether the parent controls the data and on the circumstances; where that control has not been established, the entity is not thereby beyond reach.","rule_url":"/static/manifesto.html#us-reach-rule"},"evidence":{"source_url":"https://cloud.google.com/terms/google-entity","document_title":"Google Contracting Entity | Google Cloud","date_read":"2026-09-20","last_rechecked":{"last_check":"unreadable","gate":"held","date":null,"words":"clause read 20 Sep 2026; the house has paused automated re-reading of its host until it reads its terms or rules, so it is not re-checked"},"quote":null,"quote_carried_by":"the AI Subprocessor Jurisdiction Report ($299), which quotes the clause each finding rests on"},"not_established":["us_control"]}