Square shares your personal data with its related companies and outside vendors who help it run its business, including for payment processing, marketing, and fraud detection.
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Data sharing with affiliates and a broad range of service providers means your personal information moves beyond Square to a potentially large ecosystem of companies, each with their own data handling practices.
Previous version 'Third-Party Data Sharing' had empty excerpt; current version provides detailed excerpt specifying affiliates and service providers with enumerated service categories.
View full change record →Your personal data is shared with Square's affiliated companies and various third-party vendors involved in marketing, analytics, fraud prevention, and payment processing, meaning multiple organizations may hold copies of your information under different contractual terms.
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We share Personal Data with vendors, service providers, and agents who work on our behalf and provide us with services related to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.
We will disclose personal information to companies that help us run our business to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, deception, illegal activity, misuse of Adobe Services and Software, and security or technical issues.
We also require these service providers to protect your personal information to at least the same standards that we do.
"We may share your personal information with our affiliates, subsidiaries, and related companies for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We also share personal information with third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, marketing, customer service, and fraud prevention.Excerpt from Square's Privacy Notice
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Under GDPR Article 28, sharing personal data with service providers acting as processors requires written data processing agreements specifying the scope and nature of processing.
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Data sharing with affiliates and a broad range of service providers means your personal information moves beyond Square to a potentially large ecosystem of companies, each with their own data handling practices.
Your personal data is shared with Square's affiliated companies and various third-party vendors involved in marketing, analytics, fraud prevention, and payment processing, meaning multiple organizations may hold copies of your information under different contractual terms.
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