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Square's Privacy Notice explains what personal information Square collects about you—including biometrics, location, and business data—how Square uses and shares it, and how long Square keeps it. Square has shared your usage data for targeted advertising, but you can opt out using the 'Your Privacy Choices' link on Square's website or by enabling the Global Privacy Control in your browser. If you are a seller using Square, you are responsible for making sure your customers have given any necessary permission for Square to use their data.
The Square Privacy Notice establishes how Square collects, uses, retains, and shares personal information across three collection channels: direct submission, passive collection during Service use, and acquisition from third-party sources. The notice covers sensitive data categories including biometrics extracted from facial scans and photo identification, precise geolocation, and commercial information, and discloses that Square has sold or shared Usage Data for interest-based advertising over the preceding 12 months. Square retains information for as long as necessary for the purposes identified in the notice, including after account closure for legal compliance, Terms enforcement, and fraud protection, without a fixed outer limit. Users may opt out of targeted advertising via the 'Your Privacy Choices' footer link or by enabling the Global Privacy Control, and sellers bear responsibility for obtaining any necessary customer permissions for Square's use of their customers' data.
Square collects sensitive information including biometric data extracted from facial scans and photo IDs, precise geolocation data, and commercial information, and may feed that information into AI technologies to generate personalized features. Square has already sold or shared your Usage Data for targeted advertising. You can stop targeted advertising by clicking the 'Your Privacy Choices' link in the footer of any page on Square's browser site, or by enabling the Global Privacy Control or a similar opt-out setting in your browser. Your information may be retained after you close your account for purposes including legal compliance, enforcement, and fraud protection, for an indeterminate period. Square takes reasonable security measures but does not guarantee a fully secure environment.
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18 important changes detected
20 versions captured · Last updated: September 2026
Square reorganized the order of linked documents in its Privacy Notice, detected on August 22, 2026. Eleven items in the footer document list were reordered, with no content changes to …
View change record →Square reorganized the list of linked documents and policies in its Privacy Notice in an update detected on August 18, 2026. The change reordered 13 document references without modifying their …
View change record →Square's Privacy Notice was updated on August 15, 2026 to add a reference to the 'Square Multi-Account Suite Terms of Service' in its list of related governing documents. The previous …
View change record →Square reordered the list of linked documents and policies in the Australian section of its Privacy Notice. The BEFORE version listed 'Square Payment Terms' before 'Government Licenses', while the AFTER …
View change record →Square updated its Privacy Notice to add detailed disclosure about Trust Center data collection and use. The company now explicitly discloses that when visitors submit an NDA form to access …
View change record →Square reorganized the footer section of its Privacy Notice by reordering the listed legal documents and policies. The BEFORE version listed policies in one sequence; the AFTER version reordered them …
View change record →Square reordered a list of linked documents and service agreements in the footer section of their Privacy Notice, detected on July 18, 2026. The Afterpay Merchant Terms of Service and …
View change record →Square's Privacy Notice underwent a detected change on July 17, 2026 that reorganized the order of linked documents and related terms within the policy. Specifically, the sequence of policy links …
View change record →Square reorganized the footer section of their Square Privacy Notice on July 11, 2026 by reordering a list of linked documents and terms. The document previously listed 'Licenses' immediately after …
View change record →Square reorganized the reference list of related legal documents in their Privacy Notice on June 9, 2026. The document previously listed 'Square Payment Terms' before 'Licenses', and also grouped several …
View change record →Square reorganized the list of linked legal documents in their Australian privacy notice on June 2, 2026. The document previously listed terms in one order; the updated version reorders the …
View change record →Square updated its Privacy Notice on May 30, 2026, substantially expanding the document with 217 new sentences and modifying 2 existing sentences. The updated notice now includes effective dates (Last …
View change record →Square reorganized the list of links to its various legal documents and service terms in the footer of its Privacy Notice. The order and grouping of these links changed, but …
View change record →Square removed a reference to the Square Payment Terms from its list of related policy documents in its privacy notice on April 19, 2026. This appears to be an organizational …
View change record →Square removed two linked documents from its Privacy Notice reference list on March 29, 2026: Square Payment Terms and Square AI Terms of Service. These documents are no longer listed …
View change record →Square reordered a list of linked policy documents in their Australian privacy notice footer. The 'Government Licenses' link moved from appearing after 'Square Payment Terms' to appearing before 'Square Additional …
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