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1 Low severity
Summary

This is Adyen's privacy policy explaining how the company collects and uses your personal data when you interact with Adyen's payment services, either directly or through a merchant that uses Adyen to process payments. The most important thing to know is that Adyen may process your financial transaction data, device identifiers, and behavioral information for fraud prevention and business purposes even when you never directly signed up with Adyen, because Adyen operates behind many online and in-store payment checkouts. If you are in the EU, UK, or California, you have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data by contacting Adyen's privacy team at privacy@adyen.com.

Technical / Legal Breakdown

This document is Adyen's privacy statement governing the collection, processing, and sharing of personal data for individuals who interact with Adyen's payment processing platform, website, and related services, with legal bases including contractual necessity, legitimate interests, legal obligations, and consent as applicable under GDPR and equivalent frameworks. The statement asserts that Adyen processes a broad range of personal data categories including identification data, financial and transaction data, device and behavioral data, and in limited contexts special categories of data such as biometric data for KYC purposes, with the terms authorizing sharing with financial institution partners, fraud prevention networks, government authorities, and third-party service providers globally. Notably, the policy discloses that Adyen processes data as both a data controller and a data processor depending on the service context, a distinction that materially affects which rights individuals may exercise directly against Adyen versus the merchant using Adyen's infrastructure. The document engages GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA and California Privacy Rights Act, and regional frameworks across APAC and LATAM markets, with explicit acknowledgment of cross-border data transfer mechanisms including Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers outside the EEA. Material compliance considerations include the dual controller-processor role, the breadth of legitimate interests asserted as a processing basis, and the adequacy of consent mechanisms for cookie-based and behavioral data collection.

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Mapped Governance Frameworks

CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
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Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amendments
US-CT
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ePrivacy Directive
European Union
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FCRA
United States Federal
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FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
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GDPR
European Union
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GLBA
United States Federal
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Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
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Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
US-KY
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Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Expansion 2026
US
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