This Help Centre article provides details on privacy and security for Google’s connected home devices and services working with Google Assistant. To better understand how we collect and use data when you use our connected home devices and services, read the Frequently asked questions on privacy: Google Nest. Please also read Google’s commitment to privacy in the home.
Data collection
What information does Google collect when I interact with Google Assistant?
What does Google know about me when I use its home devices and services with Google Assistant?
Can Google Assistant unintentionally collect my voice data? What happens if it does and what are my choices?
What are some types of activation methods?
Data use
Data storage
Can I look at what I've asked my device with Google Assistant/what my Google Nest device has heard?
How do I change what Google knows about me?
Data security
Data deletion
Google Assistant and my privacy
Do my Assistant interactions influence the ads that I see on Google?
Can Assistant activate when I didn’t intend it to?
Who can hear my location/search/conversation history?
Google Account and settings
How can I configure my Google Account settings when I use it to manage my home devices?
How do I delete my Google Account?
Services
Note: The services referred to below don't include music, home control, news and video services that work with your Google connected home device.