PayPal privacy principles

In our Privacy Statement, we tell you which personal information we collect, process, and share. We also tell you why we do it, who we share it with, how long we will store it, and how we dispose of it. This helps you to make informed decisions about the permissions you give us to use your data.

You can change the permissions you give us and manage your preferences. Read more about your data privacy choices.

We collect your data to process your transactions, communicate with you, provide you with relevant offers, help protect your account, and provide our services. Some of the reasons we may need to collect your personal data are to allow you to pay and get paid, personalize your experience, manage and improve our services, comply with laws, and help protect you from fraud.

Refer to our Privacy Statement to learn how we share personal information with third parties such as PayPal affiliates, merchants, partners, credit reporting agencies, and service providers.

We help keep your personal data safe by maintaining technical, physical, and administrative security measures designed to provide protection for your personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration. Learn more in our Security Center.

We’ve set up a Privacy Program that maintains the Program framework, strategy, and policies to drive accountability and controls that ensure your personal data is handled in a responsible way.

We communicate how we use your data in our Privacy Statement. We may also explain how we use your data in the different settings options we provide through our services to help you understand how to use them. We keep your personal information for as long as you are using our services or for as long as we have another business purpose to do so (such as, but not limited to, for business, tax, or legal purposes) and, after that, for no longer than is required or permitted by law. You can request we delete your personal data by going to your account settings. Or you can contact us by phone or email and we’ll fulfill your request as long as the law says we don’t need to hold onto the data longer.

You have access to the data we've collected about you. You can access, correct, get a copy, or request that we delete the data we’ve collected.