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The definition establishes the operational scope of entities authorized to receive customer data as part of Stripe's service delivery architecture. This categorization determines which third parties have legitimate access to transaction and payment data in the normal course of payment processing operations.
Interpretive note: Whether Financial Partner sharing constitutes a 'sale' or 'sharing' under CPRA depends on the commercial arrangements with each partner, which are not detailed in the policy.
Users' transaction data and payment information will be shared with the entities described in this definition as a necessary component of payment processing. The scope of data sharing extends across the payment infrastructure chain, including acquiring banks, payment networks, and payout providers required to complete transactions.
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""Financial Partners" are financial institutions, banks, and other partners such as payment method acquirers, payment intermediaries, payment aggregators, payout providers, payment method providers, payment processors, and card networks that we partner with, directly or indirectly, to provide the Services.— Excerpt from Stripe's Stripe Privacy Policy
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The definition establishes the operational scope of entities authorized to receive customer data as part of Stripe's service delivery architecture. This categorization determines which third parties have legitimate access to transaction and payment data in the normal course of payment processing operations.
Users' transaction data and payment information will be shared with the entities described in this definition as a necessary component of payment processing. The scope of data sharing extends across the payment infrastructure chain, including acquiring banks, payment networks, and payout providers required to complete transactions.
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