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Policy Updates

Last update: May 29, 2019

 

 

This page shall serve as advance information for PayPal Users with regards to important upcoming changes of the PayPal Services, the PayPal User Agreement and the Fees Policy (collectively, the “Legal Agreements”) – please read this document carefully.

PayPal will change the Legal Agreements with effect to August 19, 2019.

You do not need to do anything to accept the changes as they will automatically come into effect on August 19, 2019.

Should you decide you do not wish to accept the changes, you can notify us prior to August 19, 2019, respectively, to close your account (https://www.paypal.com/ch/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_close-account) immediately without incurring any additional charges.

All changes and updates to the Legal Agreements are on this page highlighted in italic. This highlighting shall ensure better traceability of the changes and updates applied.

Amendments made for linguistic adjustment, to correct or remove orthographical and grammatical mistakes, or changes to the formatting are not highlighted. This does also apply where we have corrected or standardized numbering and references.

 

UPDATES TO THE PAYPAL USER AGREEMENT

With effect towards August 19, 2019 we make the following changes to the PayPal User Agreement:

 

3.1. Sending PayPal Payments

We have amended clause 3.1.d. on refused and reversed transactions, with a special focus on transactions which have been subject to a currency conversion:

  1. Refused and Refunded Payments

We may allow the recipient of your payment to:

  • refuse to accept it; or
  • decide to accept it and then use the PayPal Services to send you a refund of all or any part of the amount of the payment later. 

We will return the amount of any refused payment or refunded payment to your Balance.  We will return the amount of an unclaimed payment to your Balance within 30 days after the date you initiated the payment.

If any amount of any payment is returned to you in any of the ways outlined above, we may convert the returned amount for you into either:

  • the currency of the Balance you used for the original payment (before any conversion into the currency received by the recipient happened);
  • the original opening currency of your PayPal Account.

If the original payment you sent involved a currency conversion we will convert the returned amount from the currency received by the recipient as follows:

  • if the amount is returned within 1 day of the date of the original payment, we will use the transaction exchange rate applicable on the date of the original payment, so that you receive the original amount (including the currency conversion fee you paid) in the original currency you converted from for the original payment; and
  • if the amount is returned after 1 day of the date of the original payment, we will use the transaction exchange rate applicable at the time of the conversion of the returned amount.

We may also automatically withdraw the returned amount from your Balance and transfer the funds back to the funding source you used for the original payment. Withdrawals can also involve a currency conversion.

We may decide to not charge your original Funding Source for the original payment in the first place if the amount is returned to your Balance as outlined above before the payment from your original Funding Source to PayPal to fund your original payment has settled.

The returned amount could be lower in value than your original payment amount.  This can happen as a result of:

  • the recipient sending you a refund lower in value than your original payment amount. As we are only a payment service provider, we cannot know what you are entitled to from the original payment recipient as a refund or why the recipient sent the refund in a particular amount; or
  • transaction exchange rate fluctuations. 

PayPal is not responsible for any loss resulting from the recipient's decision to refuse or refund your payment, except to the extent that a refund sent by the recipient is a payment executed incorrectly by PayPal.

 

3.2. Receiving PayPal Payments

e. Your Refund Policy, Data Protection, Privacy Policy and Security

For better overview, we have divided clause 3.2.e. into sub-clauses. With the exception of adding the new sub-clauses 3.2.e.i.., 3.2.e.ii., and 3.2.e.iii. and the respective headlines, we have not applied any further changes.

 

5. Fees and Currency Conversions

We have divided our previous clause 5.2. Currency Conversion into two sub-clauses (5.2. Currency Conversion and 5.3. Currency Conversion Choices), but did not make any change to the actual content.