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This document explains how Squarespace collects, uses, and shares your personal information, and what rights you may have over it. A few things matter most for ordinary users: Squarespace may share your account and usage data with social media platforms to suppress ads to existing paying customers; your 2FA phone number will not be sold or shared for third-party SMS marketing; and by simply using Squarespace's services, you are bound by its Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy together.

Analysis

This Privacy Policy establishes the substantive obligations, rights, and limitations governing Squarespace's collection, use, sharing, and retention of user data. It allocates legal compliance responsibility for Customer Controlled Information to Squarespace's Customers rather than to Squarespace itself, and removes all Policy-based restrictions on Squarespace's use and disclosure of de-identified information for any purpose. The Policy conditions data subject rights—including access, portability, correction, and deletion—on applicable law and relevant legal exceptions, rather than guaranteeing them independently. Squarespace retains liability for DPF-related violations by its third-party agents unless it proves it was not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage, and provides for binding arbitration through the International Centre for Dispute Resolution for DPF-related disputes.

What this means for you

As an individual user, this document means that Squarespace may use your account history and subscription plan to decide which ads you see, and may share your account and usage data with social media platforms for ad-suppression purposes. Your 2FA phone number is specifically protected from being shared in a way that enables third-party SMS marketing. Squarespace does not create, store, or access any biometric data from identity verification—that data stays with its vendor—but your explicit consent is required before any biometric verification proceeds. Where applicable law grants it, you may have the right to access, port, update, change, or delete your personal information by contacting Squarespace.

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5 versions captured · Latest change detected by ConductAtlas: July 2026

July 16, 2026

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What changed Squarespace updated its privacy policy effective July 15, 2026, restructuring how it describes personal information collection and use. The policy removed specific language about domain registration contact information being subject to ICANN compliance rules, replaced its 2FA SMS framework with separate optional SMS and marketing SMS categories, expanded Financial Solutions Services to include Balance Services and Capital Services beyond Payments Services, added new collection categories for SMS marketing and product enablement information, and clarified identity verification procedures to include bank statements and specific triggering scenarios. The operational effect is that SMS phone numbers are now collected under two distinct opt-in categories (transactional and marketing) rather than one, financial services scope is explicitly broadened, and identity verification triggers are more clearly defined.
Why this matters The updated policy establishes two separate opt-in categories for SMS communications: optional transactional SMS (for account notifications and two-factor authentication) and optional marketing SMS (for promotional messages). The policy explicitly states it will not sell, share, or disclose phone numbers to third parties for their marketing purposes. For users with financial accounts, the policy now explicitly covers Balance Services and Capital Services in addition to Payments Services, and identity verification procedures are clarified to include bank statements and specific triggering scenarios such as account recovery, ownership disputes, or suspicious activity detection. You can opt in or out of each SMS category independently, and two-factor authentication can be used without providing a phone number.
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Archival ProvenanceSource & Archival Record
This version captured October 17, 2026 00:47 UTC
Last successful capture October 21, 2026 00:53 UTC
Date stated by the document July 15, 2026 (as printed in this version)
Capture Method Automated scheduled archival capture
Document ID CA-D-000569
Version ID CA-V-007671
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