PayPal is designed from the ground up to be a safer way to send money online. PayPal doesn’t expose or sell your financial information to merchants.

How it works.

1. Your sensitive financial information is securely stored on our servers.
2. When you use PayPal to pay online, you provide only your PayPal email address.
3. The merchants/retailers receive payment from PayPal without ever seeing your financial information.

Feel secure with powerful encryption.

Information is automatically sent with a high level of data encryption.

Stay vigilant with automatic email confirmation.

To help safeguard you against identity theft, every PayPal payment is followed by an email confirming your transaction.

Monitor your sensitive information.

• Online Safety Essentials contains the Identity Protection Guide to help you avoid identity theft.

We also ensure you are buying safely with:

• Prevention to help stop fraud: We stop problems before they happen.