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This privacy notice indicates that your personal information, including sensitive details like financial account numbers and creditworthiness data, may be collected from you and third parties. If you share your Google Account information with a third party, they will have access to your payments profile and personal information (risk_flags-1). Google also states it is not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties with whom you share information (risk_flags-2). Your data, including fraud risk scores, can be shared with Google’s affiliates and other third parties for their business purposes and fraud prevention (data_use-3, data_use-4), including information about your creditworthiness (data_use-5). You are responsible for reviewing third-party privacy policies as information shared directly with them is not covered (risk_flags-3).
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Risk Flags
Critical issues and red flags: financial, legal, or privacy risks that are often hard to reverse.
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Responsibility for Security When Sharing Account Information
If you share your Google Account information with a third party, that third party will have access to your Google payments profile and personal information.
Why it matters: Sharing Google Account information with a third party allows them access to your Google payments profile and personal information.
If you share your Google Account information with a third party, they will have access to your Google payments profile and your personal information
Keeping your information secure, paragraph 3 · Citation strength: strong
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No Responsibility for Third-Party Privacy Practices
The Privacy Notice states that Google is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of merchants or other third parties with whom you choose to share your personal information directly.
Why it matters: Google is not responsible for what third-party merchants or other third parties do with your personal information if you share it with them directly.
We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of merchants or other third parties with whom you choose to share your personal information directly.
Keeping your information secure, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
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Reliance on Third-Party Privacy Policies
Any information provided directly to a third-party merchant, website, or application is not covered by this Privacy Notice. You are encouraged to review the privacy policies of any third party with whom you choose to share your personal information directly.
Why it matters: Information you share directly with third-party merchants, websites, or apps is not covered by this Privacy Notice, requiring you to review each third party's privacy policy.
Any information that you provide directly to a third-party merchant, website or application is not covered by this Privacy Notice. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of merchants or other third parties with whom you choose to share your personal information directly. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party with whom you choose to share your personal information directly.
Keeping your information secure, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
Data Use
Practices concerning the collection, processing, and sharing of user data.
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Collection of Sensitive Personal Information
When signing up for Google Payments, you may be asked to provide sensitive information such as credit or debit card numbers, bank account numbers, national insurance numbers, or taxpayer identification numbers.
Why it matters: Providing sensitive personal information like credit card, bank account, or national identification numbers is required for Google Payments, which could pose a risk if not securely handled.
* Credit or debit card number and card expiry date
Google may obtain information about you from third parties, including third-party verification services, consumer reports as defined by the US Fair Credit Reporting Act, and information about your transactions with third parties for fraud risk modeling.
Why it matters: Google collects information about you from external sources, including sensitive consumer reports and transaction data from third parties, which is used for risk assessments.
We may obtain information about you from third parties, including third-party verification services. This includes:
Information obtained from third parties, paragraph 1 · Citation strength: strong
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Sharing Fraud Risk Scores with Third Parties
Google builds and trains fraud risk models with your historic and current information and produces fraud risk scores and assessments that are shared with third parties solely for their fraud or abuse prevention purposes.
Why it matters: Your historical and current data is used to create fraud risk scores that are shared with third parties for fraud or abuse prevention, potentially impacting your interactions with other services.
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
How we use the information we collect, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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Sharing Personal Information with Affiliates for Everyday Business Purposes
Information collected, including from third parties, may be shared with Google's financial and non-financial affiliates for their everyday business purposes.
Why it matters: Your collected information, including data from third parties, can be shared with Google's affiliated companies for their daily business operations.
The information we collect, including information obtained from third parties, may be shared with our affiliates, meaning other companies owned and controlled by Google LLC. Our affiliates, which can be financial and non-financial entities, will use such information for purposes as disclosed in this Privacy Notice and the Google Privacy Policy, including for their everyday business purposes.
Examples of when information may be shared:, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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Sharing Creditworthiness Information with Affiliates
Google Payment Corp. (GPC) may share information about your creditworthiness with its affiliates for their everyday business purposes unless you opt out.
Why it matters: Unless you opt out, information related to your creditworthiness may be shared among Google's affiliated companies for their daily business uses.
Sharing between GPC and its affiliates of information about your creditworthiness for their everyday business purposes;
Examples of when information may be shared:, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
Cancellation & Renewal
Terms related to subscription, service, and data retention.
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Gotchas
Potentially overlooked clauses that may be to your detriment, but are not severe enough to be 'risk flags.'
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Protections
Specific commitments or features that benefit the user.
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Partial Opt-Out for Affiliate Marketing
You may opt out of affiliates marketing their products or services to you based on your personal information collected and shared with them, including your account history.
Why it helps: You have the ability to prevent Google's affiliates from using your personal information and account history for their marketing purposes, giving you some control over how your data is used for promotions.
Our affiliates marketing their products or services to you based on your personal information that we collect and share with them. This information includes your account history with us
Examples of when information may be shared:, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
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Opt-Out for Merchant Profile Check
You may opt out of Google LLC or its affiliates informing a third-party merchant, whose site or app you visit, whether you have a Google payments profile that can be used for payment through that merchant's site or app.
Why it helps: You can prevent Google from automatically informing third-party merchants if you have a Google payments profile, giving you more control over your payment information visibility to merchants.
You may also choose to opt out of Google LLC or its affiliates informing a third-party merchant, whose site or app you visit, whether you have a Google payments profile that can be used for payment through that merchant's site or app.
Examples of when information may be shared:, paragraph 5 · Citation strength: strong
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