Venmo shares your personal data — including your financial and identity information — with PayPal companies, service providers, business partners, and other third parties in a wide range of circumstances.
This provision means your financial transaction data, identity information, and behavioral data can be shared broadly across the PayPal corporate family and with external business partners, significantly expanding the population of entities that hold sensitive financial information about you.
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Compare across platforms →Your financial data, identity, and transaction history may flow to dozens of companies beyond Venmo itself, increasing the risk of data breaches, targeted advertising, and uses you didn't anticipate.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: GLBA (15 U.S.C. §6802–6803) requires annual privacy notices and opt-out rights before sharing non-public personal financial information with non-affiliated third parties. CCPA §1798.115 requires disclosure of categories of third parties with whom personal information is shared. CCPA §1798.120 requires opt-out rights for sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. FTC Act Section 5 applies to any deceptive representations about data sharing scope.
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