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Google Gemini

Vannus has not established which model this vendor runs, and does not infer one. Every finding below is quoted to the vendor’s own document, or marked not disclosed where the vendor publishes nothing.

Determination
Contracting entity depends on your region or order form — read the clause.
workspace.google.com · read 2026-08-08
read from terms of service

Google's multimodal AI model with text, image, and code capabilities

writing, research, coding
What the vendor's own documentation says
Our most intelligent Flash model, engineered for long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and complex enterprise workflows.
ai.google.dev ↗ Vendor-sourcedQuote re-checked 14 Sep 2026
Who controls it
US corporate controlRegion-dependent — a US entity contracts in some regions, another elsewhere · clause re-checked 17 Sep 2026
Contracting entityRegion-dependent, set by billing address via Google's Contracting Entity page. For agreements covering Google Workspace: United States and any other location not otherwise listed -> Google LLC (US); Canada -> Google LLC (US) for all Workspace agreements (only Google Voice uses Google Voice Canada Corporation); EMEA except France, Italy and Poland -> Google Cloud EMEA Limited (Ireland); France -> Google Cloud France; Italy -> Google Cloud Italy S.r.l.; Poland -> Google Cloud Poland Sp. z o.o; APAC except Australia, India and New Zealand -> Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore); Australia -> Google Australia Pty Ltd.; India -> Google India Private Limited; New Zealand -> Google New Zealand Limited; Brazil -> Google Cloud Brasil Computacao e Servicos de Dados Ltda.; Mexico -> Google Cloud Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V.
Governing lawCalifornia law, litigated exclusively in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA (Google Cloud Terms of Service s14.12(c)). CRITICAL FINDING: this default is NOT displaced for EU/EEA/UK customers. Google's Regional Modifications page — the sole mechanism that substitutes the governing-law clause by region — contains no Ireland, Dublin or Irish-law provision at all; the strings "Ireland", "Irish" and "Dublin" do not appear anywhere on it. So an EEA business that contracts with Google Cloud EMEA Limited (an Irish company) is nonetheless bound to California law and to exclusive venue in California courts. Regional Modifications replace the clause only for: APAC excluding Australia/Japan/India/New Zealand/Singapore (California law + ICDR expedited arbitration seated in Santa Clara County); India (laws of India, courts of New Delhi, claims brought against Google Cloud India Private Limited); a named MENA list incl. UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi-adjacent states (California law + LCIA arbitration seated at the Dubai International Financial Centre); Latin America generally (California law + ICDR arbitration seated in Santa Clara County); Brazil (Brazilian law, arbitration in Sao Paulo); Mexico (laws of the United Mexican States, arbitration in Mexico City). Separate carve-outs apply to US state/local government entities (agreement silent on governing law) and US federal government entities (US federal law, California law in the absence of federal law).
Trains on your dataYes, unless you opt out — on the vendor's default plan
On a paid or enterprise planDoes not train on your data — retention configurable, not zero by default

Applies to: Google Workspace business, education and public sector editions (Gemini in Workspace, Gemini app, Gemini Notebook); separately Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI)

From the Workspace admin privacy hub + Google Cloud data-governance doc: “Workspace does not use customer data for training models without customer's prior permission or instruction.” support.google.com ↗

Training and retention posture varies by plan. The default-plan row above describes the vendor’s free or standard tier; the paid-plan row is quoted from the document linked beside it. A negotiated contract can override either. Check your own agreement before relying on this.

This is a separate question from the grade above. The grade measures resilience — whether the tool endures and whether you could leave it. This describes who controls the vendor. A tool can score modestly on one and strongly on the other, and many do.

On U.S. CLOUD Act reach specifically: the statute reaches a provider subject to U.S. jurisdiction over data in its possession, custody or control. Corporate control is a strong indicator of that and it is what we can evidence from published documents — but it is not the whole test. A company founded outside the U.S. can still contract through a U.S. entity or run substantial U.S. operations. Treat this as a starting point for your own review, not a legal determination, and take advice on anything that matters.

Signals on file
Origin
United States

The vendor's published or catalog-recorded posture — the concrete facts this grade is built from. A full audit verifies each against the vendor's current documentation.

Compliance the vendor states
SOC2GDPRHIPAAFedRAMP

Taken from the vendor’s own published material. Vannus does not hold these reports and has not reviewed their scope or dates — ask the vendor for the current report before relying on any of them.

How this grade is set

Vannus publishes a nine-dimension trust framework — data sovereignty, training privacy, compliance posture, operational resilience, exit portability, and more. The heaviest criterion asks whether the tool builds its own AI or resells someone else's model; where the vendor discloses it, the grade cites the vendor's own documentation. No paid placements — scoring is walled off from affiliate revenue. See the methodology →

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