Intellectual Property Notices & Marks Usage Terms

Last updated: September 16, 2025

By registering with Stripe, businesses confirm that they will not use Stripe Services (as defined here) in connection with certain businesses or business activities. We've outlined those on our Prohibited and Restricted Businesses page. One type of prohibited activity is the sale of any good or service that infringes the trademark, copyright, or other intellectual property ("IP") rights of any third party. Stripe understands that the protection of IP is important to our mission to increase the GDP of the internet, and we take claims of IP infringement seriously. To that end, if you are an IP owner (or an authorized representative of an IP owner), and you have a good-faith belief that a business is using Stripe Services in connection with the sale of goods or services that infringe your IP rights, please let us know by filling out this notice ("IP Notice"). While we will consider and review any complete IP Notice submitted to us through that process, unfortunately we can't do that for other communications that are submitted to us in other ways, or that are incomplete. Before you submit your IP Notice to us, we'd ask that you consider several points:

• Does the business at issue have its own IP notice process? If so, we'd ask that you use that first, and include with your IP Notice to us any documentation that you submitted to the business directly notifying them of the allegedly infringing goods or services.

• Are you sure that the business in question is using Stripe? Often businesses will claim to use Stripe that are not in fact using our Services. Moreover, it is not uncommon that references to Stripe will remain visible in a website's source code long after a business is no longer using Stripe. For that reason, we ask that you please include in your IP Notice any evidence that suggests that the business is currently using Stripe Services. Successful test purchases are encouraged (but not required), as evidence of a test purchase can be extremely helpful in that regard. That said, please do not include card information as part of your IP Notice.

• Is the business using Stripe Services in connection with the sale or distribution of specific infringing goods or services (such as infringing movies or software)? Or does your IP Notice allege that some aspect of the business overall (such as its name, its logo, its website design, etc.) is infringing? If the latter, we'd encourage you to resolve your dispute directly with the business: as a provider of economic infrastructure, Stripe is not in a position to mediate those types of IP disputes.

• Is this the right forum? In other words: does your notice allege that a business is using Stripe Services in connection with the sale of goods or services that infringe IP rights? Or does it allege something else? By way of example, please do not use this process to notify us about: 1) other (non-IP) alleged violations of our Restricted Business terms; 2) instances where you allege that Stripe itself is infringing your IP; or 3) instances where you allege that material that resides on a system or network controlled or operated by Stripe or one of our affiliated companies allegedly infringes your copyright (please contact our DMCA Agent for that: DMCA Agent; Stripe, Inc.; 354 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, California, 94080; phone: 628-250-1970; email: dmca@stripe.com).

Once we receive a complete IP Notice, we will consider and review the allegations in it, and will let you know if we need any more information. Several points to keep in mind as we do that: