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Privacy Notice for Square Sellers and Website Visitors

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DATED 2026-09-15 · VERSION 20260917_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20260811_rev01

What changed, in plain language

How reviews are made

Square updated its seller privacy notice with a new date, added a disclosure that customer, transaction, and employee data may be shared with multi-location merchant group account holders, and added a protective statement limiting sharing of phone numbers used for texting.

Changes that may affect you

Your business, customer, and employee data can now be shared with your merchant group's ownerSERIOUS
DATA SHARING

If you run a location that's part of a franchise, multi-location business, or corporate group, Square can share a wide range of your data — including your customers' transaction records and your employees' information — with the top-level account holder of that group. This applies even though the trigger is described as 'elected' or 'notified,' meaning you may not get a real opportunity to say no. This is a brand-new category of third party that did not exist in the prior notice.

“we may share your Square Account Data, Usage Data and Commercial Information (including customer directory data, customer transaction data and employee/staff data) with the account holder of that merchant group”

What you can do — If you operate within a franchise or multi-location merchant group, review the Square for Multi-Legal Entities Terms of Service and check your account settings to understand what data is shared with your group's account holder.

Changelog

  1. ± CHANGEDUpdated document date

    The 'Last Updated' date changed and the separate 'Effective Date' was removed, so the notice is now dated as taking effect immediately upon posting rather than a month later.

    **Last Updated: March 16, 2026 Effective Date: April 16, 2026**

    **Last Updated: September 15, 2026**

  2. + ADDEDNew data sharing with multi-location merchant group owners

    If you operate as part of a franchise, multi-location business, or corporate group, Square may now share your account data, usage data, and business data (including customer lists, customer transaction records, and employee/staff information) with the owner of that group, who can use it for oversight, reporting, and performance comparisons across locations.

    Multiple legal entity group account holders and locations within the same merchant group where you operate within their merchant group structure (including franchise networks, multi location businesses and corporate groups)

  3. + ADDEDAdded protection for texting phone numbers

    Square now explicitly states it will not share your phone number (given for text messages) with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing, and won't share your texting consent records except with the vendors who help send the texts.

    The mobile phone number you provide for text messaging purposes will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.

Full text changes — 20260811_rev01 to 20260917_rev01

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11General
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33## Privacy Notice for Square Sellers and Website Visitors
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5**Last Updated: March 16, 2026
6Effective Date: April 16, 2026**
5**Last Updated: September 15, 2026**
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87This Privacy Notice describes how your Square entity as indicated below ("Square", "we" and "us") collects, uses, discloses, transfers, stores, retains or otherwise processes your information when you (whether you are a person acting as a sole proprietor or on behalf of another business entity) visit our website [(www.squareup.com)](https://www.squareup.com/) or apply or sign up for a Square account (collectively, "Services").
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109If you are a consumer shopping at a business that uses Square, please refer instead to the Privacy Notice available [here](https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy-no-account).
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1211Additionally, another [Privacy Notice](https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/buyer-features) applies in connection with our Square Buyer Services. That Privacy Notice applies if, for example: you request a digital receipt; receive marketing communications from your Square Sellers via Square; participate in relevant loyalty or benefit programs; use our Square profile portal; or use Square Pay, Square Go, or our other features (collectively, "Square Buyer Services"). Please refer to the Privacy Notice available [here](https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/buyer-features).
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296295| Our Business Units, Affiliates, and Group Companies | With other business units, such as Cash App, and affiliates, including Afterpay/Clearpay and TIDAL and between wholly-owned subsidiaries of Block, Inc., such as Square Financial Services, Inc. For example, we may share your information internally to understand how you engage with our company products to help make our Services better for you and for everyone, to help us build Services tailored to your preferences, and to help protect our services and maintain a trusted environment. |
297296
298297| **Other third parties who will receive your personal information** | **Why we share data with these parties** |
299298| --- | --- |
300299| Other users of our Services with whom you interact through your own use of our Services. | To enable you to make or accept a payment, appointment, or money transfer using our Services. If you use a Franchise account, your information will also be shared with the Franchise account owner. |
300| Multiple legal entity group account holders and locations within the same merchant group where you operate within their merchant group structure (including franchise networks, multi location businesses and corporate groups) | Where you have elected to share this information or where you have been notified, we may share your Square Account Data, Usage Data and Commercial Information (including customer directory data, customer transaction data and employee/staff data) with the account holder of that merchant group. The account holder may use this information for purposes such as group management, consolidated reporting, operational oversight and business performance analysis across locations within the merchant, including sharing the information with other locations within the merchant group or designees. For more information, please see the \[Square for Multi-Legal Entities Terms of Service\](http://squareup/com/us/en/legal/general/mle). |
301301| Law enforcement and other public and private agencies | If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary (i) to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request (e.g., from creditors, tax authorities, law enforcement agencies, in response to a garnishment, levy, or lien notice, etc.); (ii) to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights; (iii) to enforce or comply with our [General Terms](https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/ua) or other applicable agreements or policies; (iv) to protect our or our customers' rights or property, or the security or integrity of our Services; (v) for an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity; or (vi) to protect us, users of our Services or the public from harm, fraud, or potentially prohibited or illegal activities. |
302302| To a subsequent owner, co-owner, or operator of one or more of the Services | To enable them to continue to run the Services after the change of owner or operator. |
303303| If we do or try to do a corporate merger, consolidation, or restructuring (including during due diligence and negotiation of these); the sale of substantially all of our stock and/or assets; the financing, acquisition, divestiture, or dissolution of all or a portion of our business; or other corporate change. | To enable the completion of the relevant merger, restructuring, financing, acquisition, divestiture, dissolution or other corporate change. |
304304| To others, at your direction | To carry out certain requests you make for us to share data. |
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306306## SECURITY
390390##### Location Information
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392392In order to provide certain Services, we may request access to location information, including precise geolocation information collected from your device. If you do not consent to the collection of this information, certain Services will not function properly and you will not be able to use those Services. You can stop our collection of location information at any time by changing the preferences on your mobile device. If you do so, some of our mobile applications will no longer function. You also may stop our collection of location information via mobile application by following the standard uninstall process to remove all Square mobile applications from your device.
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394394##### Promotional Communications
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396You can opt out of receiving promotional messages from Square by following the instructions in those messages, by informing the caller that you would not like to receive future promotional calls, or by changing your notification settings by logging into your Square account. You may only opt out of text messages from Square by replying STOP. Opting out of receiving communications may impact your use of the Services. If you decide to opt out, we will still send you non-promotional communications which are required for the running of your account, such as digital receipts and messages about your account or our ongoing business relations.
396You can opt out of receiving promotional messages from Square by following the instructions in those messages, by informing the caller that you would not like to receive future promotional calls, or by changing your notification settings by logging into your Square account. You may only opt out of text messages from Square by replying STOP. Opting out of receiving communications may impact your use of the Services. If you decide to opt out, we will still send you non-promotional communications which are required for the running of your account, such as digital receipts and messages about your account or our ongoing business relations. The mobile phone number you provide for text messaging purposes will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes. Any records relating to your consent to receive text messages will not be shared with any third parties, other than service providers or partners that help us with sending text messages to you.
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398398## CHILDREN'S PERSONAL INFORMATION
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400400Our Services are general audience services not directed at children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect, share, or sell any information from children under the age of 18. If we learn that any information we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 18, we will promptly delete that information.
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402402## ADDITIONAL JURISDICTIONAL DISCLOSURES