We don’t permit users to share dangerous content on My Maps.
- We don’t allow content that facilitates or encourages serious physical harm to health, safety, property, animals, or the environment.
- We don’t allow content that promotes dangerous activities intentionally done in a manner likely to result in serious physical harm to the person that commits the act, those around them, or animals.
- We don’t allow content that encourages minors to participate in dangerous activities or use dangerous items.
- We don’t allow content that facilitates or encourages the misuse of inherently dangerous items.
- We don’t allow instructional content for creation or preparation of dangerous items.
- We do allow general content about activities that could be harmful or dangerous as long as the content doesn’t directly facilitate harm, or include promotion of or directions for its harmful use.
- We might allow content that is otherwise considered dangerous for an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purpose.
We have a team that answers requests to remove content on legal grounds. If you see content that you believe violates the law, Report Content for Legal Reasons.
Do not infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, including patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary rights. This includes sharing content that someone else owns the copyright to without the necessary authorizations.
We’ll respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement and take appropriate action. For more information or to file a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) request, visit Report Content on Google.
If you’re a trademark owner and you believe there’s content on My Maps that infringes on your trademark rights, submit a Google Trademark complaint form.
Don’t create, post or distribute content that exploits or abuses children or use Google products or services to endanger children.
This includes:
- Content that sexually exploits or presents children in a sexual manner.
- Content that contains predatory behavior, condones, glorifies, or presents predatory behavior in a positive light.
- Content that contains depictions of abuse of minors or condones, glorifies, or presents abuse of minors in a positive light.
- Content that depicts nudity of apparent minors, even if it doesn’t fall within the above categories.
We’ll remove content that violates and take appropriate action, which might include reporting to relevant authorities or law enforcement, limit access to product features, and disable accounts.
How can users report violations?
To report content on a Google product that might exploit children, go to Report abuse. If you find content elsewhere on the internet, please contact the appropriate agency in your country.
If you believe a child is in danger or is a subject of abuse, exploitation, or trafficking, contact the police immediately. If you’ve already made a report to the police and still need help, or have concerns like a child is endangered on our products or services, you can Report Child Endangerment on Google Products.
We don’t allow users to share content or use My Maps to harass other people or businesses, or encourage others to participate in harassment.
This includes:
- Content that contains a specific threat of harm against individuals or defined groups of people that would make a reasonable person fear for their mental or physical safety or well being.
- Doxxing.
- Content that results in unwanted sexualization or objectification of a person that includes claims about a person’s sexual activities, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Do not post or share content that includes any form of hate speech.
This includes:
- Direct calls to action to commit violence against protected individuals or groups.
- Content that’s dehumanizing, belittling, or vilifies individuals or groups based on a protected characteristic.
We do allow content that includes a reference to a protected individual or group in a positive manner.
We don't allow users to use My Maps to impersonate any person, group, or organization.
This includes:
- Content posted or shared that seeks to impersonate any person, group, or organization.
- Content that's pretending to be a verified authoritative source.
We do allow content that contains alternative names for a person or organization where the content doesn't mislead others.
We don’t allow users to share content that contains misinformation or to create content with the purpose of spreading misinformation.
This includes:
- Harmful content that contains deceptive or misleading health or medical information.
- Harmful content that contains deceptive or misleading information about civic processes.
- Harmful content of newsworthy events or civil discourse that has been manipulated to deceive or mislead users.
We do allow content from verifiable authoritative sources.
We don't allow individuals to use My Maps to mislead or deceive others, or make misrepresentations.
This includes:
- False or misleading accounts of the description or quality of a good or service.
- Distorting or omitting facts to scam other users.
- Distorting or omitting information that could have an undue impact on user decision making.
- Posting content that tricks users into revealing confidential information, downloading unwanted or malicious software, or subjects them to phishing or baiting.
Do not distribute or post personal information without consent. Personal information is defined as information that applies to a living identifiable person and disclosure could result in risk of harm if compromised or misused.
This includes:
- Content which contains personal information of another posted without their consent such as: full/last name, their face in a photograph or a video, or other information which has been reported as having been posted without consent.
- Personally identifiable information (PII) and other personal information about yourself or others including financial information, medical information or personal identification information.
We do allow an individual’s full name if it’s part of the commonly known or advertised business entity or if they’re a public-facing professional that conducts business under their name.
We do not allow sexually explicit content to be shared on My Maps.
This includes:
- Pornography or the depiction of sexual acts, genitals, or fetishes intended to be sexually gratifying.
- Content that includes nude genitalia.
- Content that glorifies or promotes bestiality.
- Content that glorifies or promotes sexually explicit content or behavior.
We might allow content that’s otherwise considered sexually explicit for an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purpose if the content is related to the point of interest and sufficient information is provided for users to understand the context.
We don't allow terrorist content or the use of My Maps by terrorist organizations for any purpose, including recruitment.
This includes:
- Content that incites violence, promotes terrorist acts or celebrates terrorist attacks.
- Content produced by or on behalf of terrorist groups.
We may allow content related to terrorism for an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purpose if sufficient information is provided for users to understand the context.
We don't allow violent or gory content that involves people or animals in My Maps.
This includes:
- Violent or gory content that involves people or animals intended to be shocking, sensational, or gratuitous.
- Graphic violence that includes material amounts of blood, serious injuries, or death to animals or people.
- Content that contains animal cruelty.