What privacy policies cover the Harvard-Google Project?
While Harvard and Google both treat their records of book use as confidential, the two organizations collect and retain different kinds of information and have different privacy policies. The Harvard University Library is committed to protecting the privacy of Harvard library patrons. Our policies conform to the Code of Ethics of the American Library Association, and can be found at http://lib.harvard.edu/comments/privacy.html. Google collects and stores various kinds of information about use of its services, including Google Book Search. Google’s privacy policies can be found at http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html. When anyone uses Google Book Search or other Google services, whether or not accessed via the Harvard system, Google will be collecting information about the use, which may be more extensive than the information collected by Harvard about library patrons and their use of the Harvard libraries, and Google’s privacy policies will apply.
