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Statement on Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Statement on Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Last updated on November 7, 2022
This page is designed to help you learn more about our use of cookie and tracking technologies. This policy applies to any PayPal service that is linked to this Statement or incorporates it by reference. When you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools or messages, we or our authorized service providers and third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies. These technologies allow our sites, services, applications, and tools to store relevant information in your browser or device. Our authorized service providers and third parties may place cookies on your device via our services.
What are cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies?
Cookies – Are small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers) placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser. There are several types of cookies:
- Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that browser session. They remain on your device only for the duration of the browser session.
- Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple sites. They remain on your device for a longer period.
- First-party cookies are set by the site you are visiting.
- Third-party cookies are set by third-party sites separate from the site you are visiting.
Web beacons – Small graphic images (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) that may be included on our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools, that typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behavior.
Similar technologies – Technologies that store information in your browser or device utilizing local shared objects or local storage and other web application software methods. These technologies can operate across all of your browsers, and in some instances may not be fully managed by your browser and may require management directly through your installed applications or device. We do not use these technologies for storing information to target advertising to you on or off our sites.
We may use the terms “cookies” or “similar technologies” interchangeably in our policies to refer to all technologies that we may use to store data in your browser or device or that collect information or help us identify you in the manner described above.
What information do cookies collect when you access our services?
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Technical Usage Data. Information about response time for web pages, download errors and date and time when you access the service, such as your IP address, statistics regarding how pages are loaded or viewed, the websites you visited before coming to the Sites and other usage and browsing information collected through Cookie.
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Information from your device. Information about your language settings, IP address, browser ID, device ID, cookie preferences, time zone, operating system, platform, screen resolution and similar information about your device settings, and data collected from cookies.
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Location Information. Information from IP-based geolocation such as latitude and longitude data, and Global Positioning System (GPS) information when you give us permission through your device settings.