Privacy to Fight Identity Theft

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.

Your sensitive financial information is securely stored on our servers.
When you use PayPal to pay online, you provide only your PayPal email address.
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.

How PayPal Works

Take a Tour

1

CHOOSE WHO TO PAY

Select PayPal when checking out at online stores worldwide.
Or use PayPal to send money to friends across town or on another continent.

2

DECIDE HOW TO PAY

Pay directly from your PayPal balance or linked bank account.
Or charge it to your credit card.

3

PAYMENT SENT

Stay safer - recipient gets the money without seeing sensitive financial details like your credit card or bank account numbers.
Keep track of all your transactions on PayPal.

More ways to use

Is PayPal free?

Question :

Answer :

You can sign up for a PayPal account for free, and there's no charge to transfer funds from your bank account to your PayPal account.

There are fees in other instances such as:

If you have a Personal account, you have the option to accept credit card payments. You'll pay a fee if you choose to accept a credit card payment.
If you have a Premier or Business account, you'll pay a fee to receive payments.