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We implement reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect the information we hold, and we require our service providers to do the same.
These choices do not apply to certain informational communications including important information and documentation relating to your account.
We use encryption to keep your data private while in transit
"due to operational or technical constraints inherent to certain services, it may be necessary to create a new account or user profile in order to implement such changes.Excerpt from PayPal's Privacy Statement
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The clause states: “due to operational or technical constraints inherent to certain services, it may be necessary to create a new account or user profile in order to implement such changes.”
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