I'm using Google Places API to display POIs on a website. According to Google's policy, I'm showing the "powered by Google" logo on the page. But it's not clear whether I'm allowed to load the logo directly from Google's server or I must serve it from my own server!
On https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/policies they are providing the zip containing the logo. But I'm loading the logo directly from developers.google.com:
<img src="https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/images/powered-by-google-on-white.png">
Is it (legally) allowed to do so?
Never experienced such thing, just sharing my idea on that. I can't see any such thing in policy regarding weather you need to load from own server or using public google URI. But there might be one potential risk when using direct google public url, in case of google change that resource path, your site gonna be broken and it wont show the image any more. so for better control, you should use your own server I guess.