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The Google Payments Privacy Notice outlines extensive data collection practices, including personal and financial details from various sources, such as third-party verification services and consumer reports. This information is used to build fraud risk models, with the resulting scores and assessments shared with third parties (data_use-3). Data is broadly shared with Google's affiliates for everyday business purposes and can be retained for extended periods to meet legal and regulatory obligations (data_use-7). The security of a user's payments profile is heavily reliant on them keeping their account passwords and other access information confidential, and Google is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party merchants (risk_flags-1, risk_flags-2). Users have some control, with opt-out options for affiliate marketing and informing third-party merchants about their payments profile.
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Risk Flags
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Data Use & Sharing
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How the service collects, uses, shares, and retains user data, including for advertising, analytics, or third-party partnerships.
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Use of Data for Fraud Risk Modeling and Sharing with Third Parties
The service builds and trains fraud risk models using historical and current user information, producing fraud risk scores and assessments that are shared with third parties for fraud or abuse prevention purposes.
Why it matters: User data is used to create fraud risk profiles, which are then shared with third parties, potentially affecting a user's ability to transact or their financial reputation.
Build and train fraud risk models with your historic and current information, and produce fraud risk scores and assessments that are shared with third parties solely for their fraud or abuse prevention purposes
Make decisions about your future Google Payments transactions, paragraph 1 · Citation strength: strong
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Sharing Limited Payment Details with Merchants
When Google Pay is available, Google may inform a third-party merchant whether a user has a Google payments profile that can be used for payment. This may include sharing limited details like the card network and the last 4 digits of the card number.
Why it matters: Limited payment information can be shared with merchants to facilitate payment options, which might be an unexpected disclosure for some users, though an opt-out is available.
Where Google Pay is available, to inform a third-party merchant, whose site or app you visit, whether you have a Google payments profile that can be used to make payments through that merchant's site or app. This may include limited details about your payment method, such as the card network and last 4 digits of your card number. You can choose to turn off this setting
As permitted under the Google Privacy Policy, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
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Retention of Information for Legal and Regulatory Obligations
Google may retain user information for the duration of Google Payments use and for an additional period as necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
Why it matters: User data may be retained for extended periods even after ceasing to use the service, due to legal and regulatory requirements, which could lead to longer privacy exposure.
We may retain the information that you provide for the duration of your use of Google Payments, and for an additional period as necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Make decisions about your future Google Payments transactions, paragraph 6 · Citation strength: strong
Cancellation & Renewal
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Gotchas
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Protections
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Right to Request Deletion of Child's Payments Profile (Connecticut Residents)
For Connecticut residents, a child or their parent/guardian can request the deletion of the child's Google payments profile by following the process in the Google Privacy Policy.
Why it helps: This provides a specific mechanism for children or their guardians in Connecticut to manage and delete a child's financial information, enhancing privacy control for minors.
Connecticut Residents : A child or their parent or guardian may initiate a request to delete the child’s Google payments profile by following the process described in the Google Privacy Policy and may request information related to the child’s payments profile by contacting us via our Contact Us page .
Keeping your information secure, paragraph 7 · Citation strength: strong
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Google Privacy Policy Resources for Under 18
If a user is under the age of 18, they can find additional resources in the Google Teen Privacy Guide and the Google Payments privacy guide for children.
Why it helps: This indicates that Google provides specific resources aimed at protecting and guiding younger users on privacy matters related to Google Payments.
If you are under the age of 18, you can find additional resources in the Google Teen Privacy Guide and the Google Payments privacy guide for children .
Google Payments Privacy Notice, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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