The agreement requires users to report unauthorized transactions or account access immediately and states that errors on personal account statements must be reported within 60 days, after which the agreement states that the ability to recover lost funds may be limited.
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This provision establishes a 60-day reporting window for personal account statement errors and unauthorized transactions, after which the agreement states that fund recovery may not be available if PayPal can demonstrate that timely reporting would have prevented the loss. This timeline interacts with Regulation E error resolution rights for consumer accounts.
Interpretive note: The interaction between the agreement's 60-day error reporting consequence and the non-waivable consumer protections under Regulation E requires jurisdiction-specific evaluation; applicable Regulation E rules may supersede contractual limitations on fund recovery for certain unauthorized transfer claim types.
Current version refocuses this provision specifically on business account fee error notification (60-day window) rather than general unauthorized transaction reporting for personal accounts, narrowing scope significantly.
View full change record →This new provision establishes strict 60-day reporting deadlines for unauthorized transactions, creating a mechanism for PayPal to deny liability claims made after this window.
View full change record →Under this clause, personal account holders must report unauthorized transactions or errors within 60 days of the statement on which they appear. The agreement states that failure to report within this window may limit the ability to recover lost funds if PayPal can demonstrate that earlier notice would have allowed it to prevent the loss.
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"Tell us IMMEDIATELY if you believe: Your PayPal account login information has been lost or stolen; or Someone has transferred or may transfer money from your account without your permission; or Someone has accessed or may have accessed your account without your permission. You must tell us within 60 days after the error appeared on your PayPal account statement for personal account errors. If you do not report unauthorized transactions or errors affecting your personal account within 60 days of when we make the statement available, you may not get back the money you lost after the 60 days if we can demonstrate that we could have stopped someone from taking the money if you had told us in time.Excerpt from PayPal's User Agreement
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This provision establishes a 60-day reporting window for personal account statement errors and unauthorized transactions, after which the agreement states that fund recovery may not be available if PayPal can demonstrate that timely reporting would have prevented the loss. This timeline interacts with Regulation E error resolution rights for consumer accounts.
Under this clause, personal account holders must report unauthorized transactions or errors within 60 days of the statement on which they appear. The agreement states that failure to report within this window may limit the ability to recover lost funds if PayPal can demonstrate that earlier notice would have allowed it to prevent the loss.
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