Updating our Google Account inactivity policy

Every day Google works hard to keep you and your private information safe and secure by preventing unauthorized access to your Google Account with our built-in security protections. And keeping you safe means having strong privacy practices across our products that minimize how long we store your personal files and any data associated with them. We want to protect your private information and prevent any unauthorized access to your account even if you're no longer using our services. Therefore, we are updating the inactivity period for a Google Account to two years across all our products and services. This change starts rolling out today and will apply to any Google Account that's been inactive, meaning it has not been signed into or used within a two-year period. An inactive account and any content in it will be eligible for deletion from December 1, 2023. What this means for you: These changes do not impact you unless you have been inactive in your Google Account for two years or have not used your account to sign in to any Google service for over two years. While the changes go into effect today, the earliest we would enforce any account deletion would be December 2023. If your account is considered inactive, we will send several reminder emails to both you and your recovery emails (if any have been provided) before we take any action or delete any account content. These reminder emails will go out at least 8 months before any action is taken on your account. After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when creating a new Google Account. How to keep your account active? The simplest way to keep a Google Account active is to sign in to the account at least once every two years. If you have signed in to your Google Account recently in the past two years, your account is considered active and will not be deleted. Other ways to keep your account active include: Reading or sending an email Using Google Drive Watching a YouTube video Sharing a photo Downloading an app Using Google Search Using Sign in with Google to sign in to a third-party app or service There are some exceptions to this policy. Examples include: a Google Account with YouTube channels, videos or comments; an account that has a gift card with a monetary balance; or an account that has a published application, for example, one that hosts an app on the Google Play store. Other exceptions to this policy are available here. Google also offers tools to help manage your Google Account and provide options to back up your data, including the ability to download your data using Google Takeout, and allowing you to plan for what happens to your data if you're inactive for a specific period of time with the Inactive Account Manager. Our priority is to make it as easy as possible for you to keep your account active, if you want to, and we'll ensure you have adequate notice before any account is impacted by this change. So before an account is deleted, Google will send email notifications to the Google Account and its recovery email (if one has been provided). You should verify that your recovery email is up to date. Learn more Inactive Google Account Policy How Google retains data we collect Updating our inactive account policies (only available in English) Thank you, The Google Account team You have received this email to update you about important changes to your Google Account and services. © 2023 Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

Site management in AdSense is changing

We are removing subdomains as a feature set within the Sites tab

Site management is changing in AdSense Starting 20.03.2023, we're making the Sites tab in AdSense more user friendly and removing the subdomains feature Site management is changing in AdSense Starting 20.03.2023, we're making the Sites tab in AdSense more user friendly and removing the subdomains feature What is the Sites tab? The Sites tab is the starting point for anyone who wants to monetize a new site in AdSense. To make AdSense more user friendly, we're redesigning the Sites tab and making some important changes alongside the new look and feel. What's changing? The look and feel The most noticeable change is the new look and feel. The new Sites tab will show your list of sites in a table with search functionality, similar to how sites are shown elsewhere in AdSense. What can be added as a Site to AdSense Going forward you can only add the following as "Sites" to AdSense: • Domains (e.g. website.com, website.net) • Subdomains whose domain is listed on the public suffix list (e.g. site.appspot.com) • Sites that are managed by AdSense platform partners (e.g. site.blogspot.com) Subdomains You'll no longer be able to add or manage subdomains that are part of an existing Site in the Sites tab. Any existing subdomains in your account that belong to a Site will be removed. This will not impact ad serving or your earnings. To review which sites have subdomains, visit the Sites tab and look for the "subdomains" annotation in the table. It will look like the screenshot above for example.com. Blocking controls for subdomains Any existing blocking controls for a subdomain (as defined above) will be promoted to the domain level. For example, if you have blocking controls configured for example.com and subdomain.example.com, the combination of those settings will be applied to example.com. Blocking controls for subdomains shown at the top level view of the Sites table will remain in place (for example website.blogspot.com from the screenshot above). Important: We will make this change for you automatically after 20.03.2023. To opt out, please click here by 13.03.2023. If you opt out, your subdomain blocks will be deleted. Ads.txt We're introducing a new ads.txt column to the Sites table to quickly show you the ads.txt status for your sites. Site review times You will start getting faster feedback for certain types of issues we find with your sites during the initial review process. Some of these improvements may not be immediate for your account. We're always looking for ways to improve the performance and usability of AdSense. Your feedback has helped shape the changes listed above, and we appreciate your continued feedback to help improve AdSense. To help you adjust your settings please see more information here. Was this email useful? Yes No Need help? AdSense forum My AdSense help page AdSense forum My AdSense help page Follow us Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

Site management in AdSense is changing

We are removing subdomains as a feature set within the Sites tab

Your Publisher ID: pub-9441948657456986 Sign in Site management is changing in AdSense Starting 20.03.2023, we're making the Sites tab in AdSense more user friendly and removing the subdomains feature Site management is changing in AdSense Starting 20.03.2023, we're making the Sites tab in AdSense more user friendly and removing the subdomains feature What is the Sites tab? The Sites tab is the starting point for anyone who wants to monetize a new site in AdSense. To make AdSense more user friendly, we're redesigning the Sites tab and making some important changes alongside the new look and feel. What's changing? The look and feel The most noticeable change is the new look and feel. The new Sites tab will show your list of sites in a table with search functionality, similar to how sites are shown elsewhere in AdSense. What can be added as a Site to AdSense Going forward you can only add the following as "Sites" to AdSense: • Domains (e.g. website.com, website.net) • Subdomains whose domain is listed on the public suffix list (e.g. site.appspot.com) • Sites that are managed by AdSense platform partners (e.g. site.blogspot.com) Subdomains You'll no longer be able to add or manage subdomains that are part of an existing Site in the Sites tab. Any existing subdomains in your account that belong to a Site will be removed. This will not impact ad serving or your earnings. To review which sites have subdomains, visit the Sites tab and look for the "subdomains" annotation in the table. It will look like the screenshot above for example.com. Blocking controls for subdomains Any existing blocking controls for a subdomain (as defined above) will be promoted to the domain level. For example, if you have blocking controls configured for example.com and subdomain.example.com, the combination of those settings will be applied to example.com. Blocking controls for subdomains shown at the top level view of the Sites table will remain in place (for example website.blogspot.com from the screenshot above). Important: We will make this change for you automatically after 20.03.2023. To opt out, please click here by 13.03.2023. If you opt out, your subdomain blocks will be deleted. Ads.txt We're introducing a new ads.txt column to the Sites table to quickly show you the ads.txt status for your sites. Site review times You will start getting faster feedback for certain types of issues we find with your sites during the initial review process. Some of these improvements may not be immediate for your account. We're always looking for ways to improve the performance and usability of AdSense. Your feedback has helped shape the changes listed above, and we appreciate your continued feedback to help improve AdSense. To help you adjust your settings please see more information here. Was this email useful? Yes No Need help? AdSense forum My AdSense help page AdSense forum My AdSense help page Follow us Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your AdSense product or account.