PayPal Privacy Center

Privacy is built into PayPal.

Your trust is important to us, so we want you to know how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.

Read our privacy statement

Manage your marketing preferences and learn how you can change your privacy settings in your PayPal account.

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Our commitment to you

Our privacy principles are at work every time you use PayPal.

Notice and transparency

We openly communicate about how we collect, process, and share personal information.

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How we use your data

For examples of when, how, and why your personal information is used, learn more about our privacy practices.

Help you pay and get paid

We use your name, email, and shipping address to help you make payments and purchases easily, and we don’t share your full financial information.

Personalize your experience

We use your online shopping activity and purchase history to tell you about products we think you’ll like.

Communicate with you

We use your data to update you on your PayPal activity and, if you’re subscribed to news and promotions, we’ll send info about other offers and services.

Help protect your account

We use your data to help prevent fraudulent use of your account, meet anti-money laundering requirements, and help keep you and the PayPal community safe.

Your privacy choices

If you have an account with PayPal

You can change settings and exercise your data rights directly in your account.

Data and privacy settings

Keep track of your privacy settings and permissions, update your personal and financial information, download a copy of your data from the app or online, and more in your data and privacy settings.

Notifications settings

Subscribe to or opt out of our marketing emails, choose how you want to get updates about your payments, and more in your notifications settings.

Have a business account? Log in to manage your settings.

If you used our other services like Fastlane or Xoom

You can access, correct, delete, or restrict our use of certain information we’ve collected while you used our services.

Fastlane

If you used Fastlane by PayPal to check out on a merchant’s site, you can log in to Fastlane to access, change, or request deletion of your data.

Xoom

If you have an account with Xoom, you can manage your communication preferences in your account settings. You can request a copy, change, or deletion of your data by contacting Xoom customer service.

Other choices

If you closed your account, checked out as a guest, or paid a merchant who uses PayPal to process payments, you can use the privacy portal to request a copy of your data.