Google is tracking a list of your purchases

You can delete history of purchases, but it's not easy

If you give a Gmail account when you buy something, whether online or in a store, and confirmation emails are sent on it, chances are that Google is storing a list of your purchases.

As reported by CNBC, Gmail users can see a list of their transactions from at least five years back on a page called 'purchases'. Google has said that the purchases can be only seen by the user and that “Google protects your privacy and security”.



"We don't use any information from your Gmail messages to serve you ads, and that includes the email receipts and confirmations shown on the Purchase page," the spokesperson added in a statement.

Google outlines how you can delete the history of transactions, but when tested it takes a long time to delete them.



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You can delete the purchases in the list of transactions by clicking on the purchase and then tapping on the “i” button and then on to “where’s this from?” after which you can see whether it was through email or not from where you can delete it completely.

Google tracks purchases via orders placed using Google services such as Google Express and the Google Play Store and through Google Assistant.

This story originally appeared on Cnet.