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The clause establishes PayPal's operational authority to construct user profiles using inferential analytics beyond explicitly provided information, enabling the service to generate risk assessments and behavioral models for operational and commercial purposes.
Users' transaction and interaction data with PayPal, merchants, and partners becomes a source for deriving sensitive attributes such as creditworthiness and income estimates, which PayPal retains and may use for service delivery, risk management, and commercial purposes as permitted under the privacy statement.
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The clause establishes PayPal's operational authority to construct user profiles using inferential analytics beyond explicitly provided information, enabling the service to generate risk assessments and behavioral models for operational and commercial purposes.
Users' transaction and interaction data with PayPal, merchants, and partners becomes a source for deriving sensitive attributes such as creditworthiness and income estimates, which PayPal retains and may use for service delivery, risk management, and commercial purposes as permitted under the privacy statement.
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