Squarespace Payments users may be required to submit a selfie photograph and a government-issued identity document; a third-party vendor then creates a biometric facial geometry scan to compare the two images for identity verification. The policy states that Squarespace itself does not create, store, or access the resulting biometric data.
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This provision discloses that a third-party vendor processes biometric data derived from user-submitted photographs and government documents, with the vendor's data practices governed outside this policy. The scope of vendor obligations regarding biometric data retention, deletion, and onward transfer is not detailed in this document.
Interpretive note: The policy asserts Squarespace does not create or store biometric data, but whether this assertion fully resolves legal obligations under BIPA or GDPR when Squarespace directs vendor processing depends on jurisdiction-specific interpretation and enforcement context.
Under this clause, Payments Services users who are required to complete identity verification must submit photographs and government identity documents that a vendor uses to generate biometric scan data. The agreement states that Squarespace does not retain or access this biometric data, but the vendor's handling is governed by separate agreements not reproduced here.
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Compare across platforms →"If you use the Payments Services, you may be required to provide us with additional information to verify your identity, including a photograph of you captured by you during the verification process and a copy of an official government document which includes a different photograph of you. When you're required to provide this additional information, our vendors may create a biometric scan of your facial geometry based on these two photographs in order to compare them and verify that you are the same individual whose photograph is on your government document. However, Squarespace does not create, store or otherwise have access to any such biometric data.Excerpt from Squarespace's Privacy Policy
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This provision discloses that a third-party vendor processes biometric data derived from user-submitted photographs and government documents, with the vendor's data practices governed outside this policy. The scope of vendor obligations regarding biometric data retention, deletion, and onward transfer is not detailed in this document.
Under this clause, Payments Services users who are required to complete identity verification must submit photographs and government identity documents that a vendor uses to generate biometric scan data. The agreement states that Squarespace does not retain or access this biometric data, but the vendor's handling is governed by separate agreements not reproduced here.
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