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This provision establishes PayPal's operational practice of consolidating transaction history across guest and account-based interactions. The retroactive linking affects the scope of data associated with an account and the transaction record PayPal maintains under the account relationship.
Users who make guest transactions will have those transactions automatically linked to any PayPal account they subsequently create, resulting in consolidated transaction history and associated data records under the account. This occurs as a default practice rather than requiring affirmative action by the user at account creation.
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This provision establishes PayPal's operational practice of consolidating transaction history across guest and account-based interactions. The retroactive linking affects the scope of data associated with an account and the transaction record PayPal maintains under the account relationship.
Users who make guest transactions will have those transactions automatically linked to any PayPal account they subsequently create, resulting in consolidated transaction history and associated data records under the account. This occurs as a default practice rather than requiring affirmative action by the user at account creation.
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