Notes on PayPal's privacy agreement emailed 11Sep20.
Under Cookies:
Line 128 (double spaced in NotePad+ so try line 64)
When you access our website, we, or companies we hire to track how our
website is used ...
[Does this mean these companies are just used for cookie tracking, what
else, and is there a list
of these companies?]
Line 174: information that has been anonymized [What does that mean? A
bit vague.]
Under "Our primary purpose in collecting person information ..."
Agreement;
. customize, measure, and improve the PayPal Services and the
content and
layout of our
website and applications;
. deliver targeted marketing, service update notices, and
promotional offers
[Why is personal information used to customize content. Shouldn't that be
aggregate information?
Let's keeaggregate, okay. Also why is personal infor needed to target
marketing? I don't want
marketing. I will pursue my own products or must we carry the junk burden
with PayPal now, as
well? Already some emails from PayPal have wasted my time and I don't
apprecite it.]
Line 201
layout of our
website and applications;
. deliver targeted marketing, service update notices, and
promotional offers
Line 308 "Members of our corporate family ..." [I only signed up for
PayPal. I don't appreciate my
personal info being shared with the corporate family.]
Line 317:
Our contracts dictate that these service providers only use your
information in connection with the
services they perform for us and not for their own benefit. [I appreciate
that.]
Line 373
If you open a PayPal account directly on a third party website or via a
third party
application, any information that you enter on that website or application
(and not
directly on a PayPal website) will be shared with the owner of the third
party website ...[That's
scary. Something people should be aware of.]
Line 383
Federal and state laws allow you to restrict the sharing of your personal
information in
certain instances. However, these laws also state that you cannot restrict
other types of
sharing. [That sounds like a threat.] Because we have chosen to refrain
from certain types of data
sharing, the only
type of sharing of your personal information that you may restrict is as
follows: [Sounds like
PayPal is above the law. Here PayPal has reversed the equation. The
consumer does not determine
privacy, PayPal does and it's our information. That's not the intent of
the Freedom of Information Act.]
