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The provision establishes a certification mechanism by which users represent they hold the legal authority to share contact data with PayPal. This structure places responsibility for third-party consent on the user rather than requiring PayPal to independently verify contact permissions.
Users who import contacts authorize PayPal to process that contact data for specified operational purposes and attest they have obtained necessary permissions from those contacts. The user assumes the obligation to ensure contact-level consent compliance before initiating the import.
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"Process information about your contacts. We may use Personal Information in order to make it easy for you to find and connect your contacts, improve payment accuracy and suggest connections with people you may know. By providing us with information about your contacts you certify that you have permission to provide that information to PayPal for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement.— Excerpt from PayPal's PayPal Privacy Statement
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The provision establishes a certification mechanism by which users represent they hold the legal authority to share contact data with PayPal. This structure places responsibility for third-party consent on the user rather than requiring PayPal to independently verify contact permissions.
Users who import contacts authorize PayPal to process that contact data for specified operational purposes and attest they have obtained necessary permissions from those contacts. The user assumes the obligation to ensure contact-level consent compliance before initiating the import.
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