Stripe is a payments infrastructure platform, reviewed for transaction data, fraud and machine-learning processing, sharing, retention, tracking, and business controls.
65
Mixed
65
Mixed
Stripe is stronger on account controls than on tracking, but payment metadata and web-level marketing tools still remain in play.
Stripe is strongest where businesses can manage roles, connected accounts, exports, and privacy requests through a mature admin surface.
Its weakest area is still tracking around account and web usage, plus the unavoidable exposure that comes with payment and fraud data.
70
Mixed
Stripe still processes transaction, identity, fraud, and business data at very large scale.
Where permitted by law, Stripe may use personal and transaction data to assess eligibility for or promote other end-user services.
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Mixed
45
Weak
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Mixed
80
Good
Stripe Privacy Page
Open: stripe.com1. Vendors
Stripe still processes transaction, identity, fraud, and business data at very large scale.
2. Vendors
Where permitted by law, Stripe may use personal and transaction data to assess eligibility for or promote other end-user services.
3. Controls
Stripe documents roles as controller, processor, and service provider depending on the activity.
4. Vendors
Stripe says many automated and machine-learning uses avoid decisions with legal or similarly significant effects in many contexts.
5. Vendors
Business users still decide what inputs, identity documents, and transaction data are sent into Stripe workflows.
6. No Sale
Stripe provides privacy-center documentation and role-specific explanations for different types of users.
Founded
Unknown
Founder
Unknown
Parent Company
Stripe
Lifecycle
Active
Category
Ecommerce & Payments
CEO
Unknown
Security Team
In house
Date Added
05-18-2026
Once you delete a chat, you cannot recover it. Deleting a chat removes it both from your visible chat history and the system after the retention window.
Stripe documents roles as controller, processor, and service provider depending on the activity.
Stripe says many automated and machine-learning uses avoid decisions with legal or similarly significant effects in many contexts.
Business users still decide what inputs, identity documents, and transaction data are sent into Stripe workflows.
Stripe provides privacy-center documentation and role-specific explanations for different types of users.
65
Mixed
Stripe shares personal data with business users, financial partners, service providers, and entities involved in a transaction.
Link partners, BNPL providers, crypto-wallet services, identity-verification services, and fraud systems widen the sharing surface further.
Stripe clearly documents when it acts as controller, processor, or service provider.
Stripe maintains a privacy center and role-specific explanations for end users, end customers, and business users.
Business users manage their own privacy notices, consent collection, and many downstream disclosure choices.
Link and some partner services are user-initiated rather than universally applied to all Stripe users.
45
Weak
Stripe still collects online activity, engagement data, cookies, and device information across its services.
Stripe may use personal and transaction data for advertising, co-marketing, and end-user-service promotion where permitted by law.
Stripe provides privacy-rights and settings paths for end users and business users.
End-user services such as Link let users manage some settings and stored preferences.
Stripe is primarily a financial infrastructure platform rather than a public-feed advertising product.
60
Mixed
Stripe may retain data after account closure or after transactions for legal, fraud, tax, accounting, and financial obligations.
Business users and financial ecosystem partners can keep their own copies of transaction and identity data outside a single user's direct control.
Stripe documents privacy-request paths for different user roles.
Account settings and Link management let users control some of their stored data directly.
Stripe is explicit that its retention is driven by financial, fraud, tax, accounting, and legal obligations.
80
Good
Users and businesses can manage account settings, Link, and role-based access controls.
Stripe provides privacy-center and rights-request paths for multiple user roles.
Businesses are expected to obtain consents and manage their own end-customer privacy duties.
The controller, processor, and service-provider distinctions give customers a clearer model for who controls what.
End customers often must contact the merchant or business user that originally collected the transaction data.
Financial and compliance obligations can block immediate full deletion even when users want it.
