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The updated policy discloses that Acorns collects and processes personal information from users of its Invest My Tips feature, including public profile data, payment information, and QR code details. This information is shared with payment processors and fraud detection providers to enable the feature. The policy also establishes that Acorns does not sell or share text messaging opt-in data to third parties outside of carriers and service providers, which provides a specific protection for SMS communications.
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We will endeavor to ensure that, by default, we only collect and process your Data needed to provide you access to the Platform and our Services...This means that we will neither publish nor share your Data by default.
We use industry standard technical and organizational measures to secure the information we store.
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your personal information. When we collect or transmit sensitive information such as a credit or debit card number, we use Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards to protect that information.
"We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" or similar signals except where we expressly indicate otherwise.Excerpt from Acorns's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" or similar signals except where we expressly indicate otherwise.”
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