California residents have specific rights over their Venmo data including the right to see, delete, correct, and opt out of sale or sharing of their personal information.
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The policy explicitly grants California residents a set of enforceable privacy rights under CCPA/CPRA, including the right to opt out of data sale or sharing for behavioral advertising, which is directly actionable through the privacy request portal.
Interpretive note: The interaction between GLBA's partial CCPA exemption for financial institutions and Venmo's specific data practices creates interpretive uncertainty about which data categories are fully subject to CCPA rights and which may be exempted.
California residents can submit requests to access, delete, or correct their personal information held by Venmo, and can opt out of the sale or sharing of their data for behavioral advertising through the privacy request portal or in-app privacy settings.
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If you are a California resident, you may have the right to: Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share. Correct inaccurate personal information. Delete your personal information. Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. Limit the use and disclosure ...
If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose about you; the right to request deletion of your personal information; the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information; the right to correct inaccurate person...
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"If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, disclose, and sell or share; the right to delete your personal information; the right to correct inaccurate personal information; the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information; and the right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information. You may exercise these rights by submitting a request through our privacy request portal or by contacting us.— Excerpt from Venmo's Venmo Privacy Policy
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: CCPA as amended by CPRA is directly implicated by this provision, enforced by the California Privacy Protection Agency and the California Attorney General. The provision must satisfy CCPA's requirements for response timelines (45 days with possible 45-day extension), verification procedures, and non-discrimination requirements for users who exercise rights. GLBA's relationship with CCPA creates a partial exemption for certain financial data, and the scope of that exemption as applied to Venmo's data practices requires ongoing assessment as regulatory guidance evolves. 2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The provision describes rights in terms consistent with CCPA/CPRA requirements, but operational compliance depends on the adequacy of the verification process, response timelines, and whether the 'Do Not Sell or Share' mechanism functions correctly and covers all applicable data flows including those conducted through advertising technology vendors. 3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: California is the primary jurisdiction. Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, and other states with comprehensive privacy laws have enacted similar but not identical rights frameworks, and Venmo's rights disclosure may not address all applicable state privacy rights for non-California users. 4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Downstream data deletion requests require contractual mechanisms to ensure that personal data shared with service providers and contractors is also deleted upon valid consumer request. Vendor contracts should include data subject rights pass-through provisions. 5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should verify that the privacy request portal supports all five enumerated rights (know, delete, correct, opt-out, limit sensitive PI use); confirm that response processes meet CCPA's 45-day timeline; assess whether the GLBA exemption scope has been correctly applied to limit or include specific data categories in the rights framework; and audit whether deletion requests propagate to third-party service providers and contractors as required.
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The policy explicitly grants California residents a set of enforceable privacy rights under CCPA/CPRA, including the right to opt out of data sale or sharing for behavioral advertising, which is directly actionable through the privacy request portal.
California residents can submit requests to access, delete, or correct their personal information held by Venmo, and can opt out of the sale or sharing of their data for behavioral advertising through the privacy request portal or in-app privacy settings.
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