Venmo Privacy Policy

This document explains what personal information Venmo collects about you—including your bank account credentials, precise location, and optionally your face scan—how long Venmo keeps it (at least ten years after your relationship ends), and who it may be shared with. Venmo will not sell your information or share it with third parties for marketing, but connecting third-party apps or using Siri and iMessage can trigger direct data sharing with those parties. Venmo also cannot guarantee your data will never be exposed in a breach.

Venmo's Privacy Policy establishes the categories of personal information Venmo collects—including biometric face scans (conditioned on in-app consent), precise geolocation data, and sensitive financial credentials such as bank account login information and routing numbers—along with the purposes and limits of their use. The policy defines data-sharing conditions, including direct bilateral exchanges when users authorize third-party connections, disclosure of account data to Apple when Siri or iMessage features are used, and the accessibility of public profile information through Venmo's APIs and integrated third-party services. Venmo expressly prohibits selling or sharing Personal Information (including Sensitive Personal Information) and prohibits disclosure to third parties for their own promotional or marketing purposes. Personal information is retained for the duration of the user relationship plus ten years, with an open-ended exception permitting longer retention at Venmo's discretion. Venmo expressly disclaims any guarantee that personal information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed through a breach of its safeguards.

As a Venmo user, your sensitive financial credentials, precise location, and—if you consent—your biometric face scan are collected and stored for at least ten years after you stop using the service. Authorizing any third-party connection or using Siri and iMessage with Venmo triggers direct sharing of your account data with those parties. Your public profile information, including your username and photo, is accessible and downloadable by any third party using Venmo's APIs. Venmo does not respond to browser Do Not Track signals, so enabling that setting has no effect. If you are a California resident, the CCPA permits you to ask Venmo about the personal information it holds, submit access or deletion requests, and opt out.