Jul 30, 2020

How do I transfer full ownership of my Google account? Not a G Suite account.

QUESTIONS:

1. How to I transfer ownership of my Google account, its Email address access and ownership, Drive, Calendar, Contracts, Books, YouTube, Pictures, Blogger, the whole account --- every Google app associated with the account?

I don't want to only give access, I want another person to become the full, complete, and responsible owner of the account. It is not a G Suite account.

2. Does transferring full ownership of my Google account to another person, without me having any control, access, or responsibility for the account violate the Google Terms of Service?

BACKGROUND:

About ten years ago I began volunteering at an organization. I created a Google account to help in that work. As I continued to volunteer, my Google account email address came to be used as the recognized email address for the activity I coordinated for that organization.

Everyone sent emails to my email address if they had a question. My email address was included in official organization communications as the email address to contact for the work I coordinated.

I stopped volunteering at the organization (time for another to step in my place). I have successfully transferred non-Google social media projects I developed.

And now as I continue to transfer my previous Internet activities to the organization, both the organization and I want them to have full ownership and responsibility for my entire Google account.

Thank you for any help!!

John

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Jul 31, 2020

Google does not support the sale or transfer of account. That said...

Give them the password to the account.
Have them update the recover options (e-mail, phone) to ones they own.
Done.

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Saint Leo Abbey Oblate Office

Original Poster

Aug 1, 2020

Thank you!!

Britiney

Aug 26, 2020

Is there really no other way to do this? I have the same issue. I created a email account for a PTO I was involved with but my kids are no longer at that school. I've given them the password and had them update recovery options to their own, but if they set up 2-factor authentication the codes still always come to me. Even to change the password, the authentication code came to me. If I delete the account from my profile can they create the same email account connected to a different gmail account? I've been gone from the school for years and every fall I have to go through this all over again.

bkc56

Diamond Product Expert

Aug 26, 2020

...but if they set up 2-factor authentication the codes still always come to me.

It seems that sometimes Google will hold on to the old phone number for a while, perhaps as a form of anti-hijacking protection. Waiting a week or so will cause it to start using the new number for verification. See the “Important” note near the top of: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3463280

jeff cobb

Sep 4, 2020

My situation is similar but not exact and since I won't have a chance to fix it later (due to being dead and all) I need to be CFB on this...I run a free blog thru Google for Lewy Body Dementia. Over the time I have had it a great deal of unique content was created. Now my LBD is making running that site too hard (clue: dementia makes planning things SO HARD) yet because of folks telling me to preserve the info and stuff I have been looking around for someone serious to take it over....and finally I may have found that "person" but its in the form of a Dementia organization or charity or something. IOW not a single individual and I needed to be clear Google will have no problem with this ahead of time.

bkc56

Diamond Product Expert

Sep 4, 2020

Google will have no problem with this ahead of time.

Google accounts are owned by individuals, not organizations. So while you may give the account to the organization to preserve the content, a specific person would need to be the owner (with their recovery options configured). That of course means they will need a procedure in-place to pass the responsibility for the account on as people come-and-go in the organization.

User 406489942891940595

Sep 4, 2020

Thx for your help

jeff cobb

Sep 4, 2020

Cheers for the swift reply sir, madam or otherwise. For me, time is of the essence and thus it was greatly appreciated. I can find a single person in that organization (lady in charge actually I think) to assign it to and this is absolutely a non-profit, not that my blog had anything turned on for money or earnings. It was and remains more of a public document repository about dementia.

As for who she transfers things to when she leaves the organization, I am pretty sure I will both be room temperature and not in a position to give a flying....well you know.

The upshot I take away from this is as long as there is a single person to transfer to, I am set and I can trust that Google will not shut it down or anything (its not porn or anything) when things have progressed to a point where I can't do anything about it.

Cheers again and I will take this as gospel, so to speak.

bkc56

Diamond Product Expert

Sep 4, 2020

I am set and I can trust that Google will not shut it down or anything...

I believe so. But you should encourage them to make SURE the recovery options are configured and kept up-to-date so if Google ever sees something unusual/suspicious they will be able to do the verification. I can't tell you how many time people post here about account recovery, except the recover e-mail was closed years ago, and they've changed their phone 3 times since the account was made. And then they get offended when they can't prove ownership.

jeff cobb

Sep 4, 2020

Oh, that much (making sure the recovery stuff, passwords, etc etc etc) are all things I have *just* enough brain cells left to manage; its the legal crap I worry about when I all want or need is to make sure this information remains available for patients and caregivers. As long as there are no obvious land mines waiting for me in that direction, I think I am good.

Working on the bucket-list, the last thing you want, need or expect are legal complications.