Last updated: March 20, 2026

When this Privacy Notice mentions “Square,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to the Block Inc. company you contracted with per the Staff Terms. Your contracting entity will generally be determined based on your Country of Residence. Your “Country of Residence” is the jurisdiction associated with your Square Team account as determined by either your express selection or by Square’s assessment of your residence using various data attributes associated with your Square account.

• If your Country of Residence is the United States, your Terms of Service are with Block Inc., 1955 Broadway, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94612, United States.
• If your Country of Residence is Canada, your Terms of Service are with Square Canada, Inc., or Square Technologies, Inc.
• If your Country of Residence is Japan, your Terms of Service are with Square KK.
• If your Country of Residence is Australia, your Terms of Service are with Square AU PTY, Ltd.
• If your Country of Residence is the United Kingdom, your Terms of Service are with Squareup Europe Ltd.
• If your Country of Residence is within the European Union, Ireland, or anywhere except the United States, Canada, Japan or Australia, your Terms of Service are with Squareup International Ltd.
  This Privacy Notice explains how information about you is collected, used, disclosed, transferred, retained or otherwise processed by Square and its affiliates when you or your Employer creates a Square Payroll or Square Team account (collectively, the “​Services​”) through Square’s website or applications (collectively, the “​Site​”). We receive personal data from our customers (aka your “Employer”, a Square Seller) about their current, prospective and former employees as well as employee dependents and family members, as needed for employee management and to provide benefits.

This Privacy Notice explains our practices with regard to the personal data we process when providing the Services to your Employer. Please read this Privacy Notice carefully.

This Privacy Notice does NOT describe the purposes for which your Employer uses your information which will be subject to the Employer's privacy practices and notices. To the extent you have any questions or wish to exercise any of your rights in relation to your information which we process on behalf of your Employer please contact your Employer directly.

Our Privacy Notice explains:

• Information we collect about you
• How we use your information
• How we share your information
• How long we keep your information
• Cookies and Other Similar Technologies
• Third Party Analytics
• Your rights
• International Data Transfers
• Changes to this Privacy Notice
• Contact

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

In connection with your use of the Site and the Services, we collect and store certain information about you. Some of this information can be used on its own or in combination with other information to identify you individually. We collect this and other information as described below.

Information You and Your Employer Provide

We collect the following information when your Employer and/or you sign up to use the Services, provide information when using the Services and in order to provide the Services to you and your employer.

• Employment information, such as your employee identification number, job title, salary information, hire date, paystub, work schedule, timecard information, and benefits enrollment information.
• Financial information, such as bank account information, and payment card numbers;
• Identification Information, such as:
  • Name, date of birth, email address, postal address, signature, and phone number;
  • Passport number, driver’s license number, government-issued identification number, or other unique reference number;
• Tax information, such as withholding allowances and tax filing status.

Information We Collect From Your Use of the Services

• Device information: Information about your device, including your hardware model, operating system and version, device name, unique device identifier, country and language settings, mobile network information, and information about the device’s interaction with our Services;
• Use information: Subject to your cookie consent settings, Internet or other electronic network activity information, which includes information about how you use and interact with our Services, including your access time, “log-in” and “log-out” information, browser type and language, the domain name of your internet service provider, other attributes about your browser, any specific page you visit on our platform, content you view, features you use, the date and time of your use of the Services, your search terms, and the website you visited before you visited or used the Services;
• Online identifiers: Information you use to log in to your account) including, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and unique personal identifiers (including device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and similar technology; customer number; unique alias, and other identifiers);

Information We Collect From Other Sources

• Compliance and Fraud. Information about you from third parties for any identity or account verification process, fraud detection process, or as may otherwise be required by applicable law.

Location Information

We may collect real-time information about the precise location of your device on behalf of your Employer for time and attendance purposes. If you do not want us to collect this information, you may decline our request to share your location or disable location services in your mobile device’s settings. However, opting out of the collection of location information will cause certain location-based features to be disabled and the online and/or mobile application may not function fully on your device.

Where your Employer has a lawful basis to do so, we may determine your approximate clock-in location based on an IP address. You may also opt out of this method via the application’s settings, however, opting out will interfere with the application’s functionality.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We collect and process your personal data as instructed or permitted by your Employer, and will share your personal data and will share your personal data with your Employer. In that context, we use information that we collect about you to provide the Services to your Employer and more particularly for the following purposes:

• to administer the Site, manage accounts and provide the Services;
• to monitor, analyze, improve and develop the Site and the Services, and to create and test new Services features;
• to provide a more customized experience on the Site and the Services;
• to validate user information provided to us for fraud and risk detection purposes;
• to determine eligibility for the Services;
• to prevent, identify and address fraudulent or other illegal activity and security issues;
• to (i) solicit feedback, (ii) respond to your or your Employers’ comments, requests or inquiries, (iii) provide customer service and support, or (iv) otherwise contact you in connection with the Site or the Services;
• to advertise and market the Square Services to you to send you promotional communications about our Services;
• to generate anonymized, aggregated data containing only de-identified, non-personal information that we may use to publish reports;
• to (i) comply with laws, rules and regulations, including any disclosure or reporting obligations, (ii) resolve disputes with users or third parties, (iii) respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas and court orders) as we deem necessary or appropriate, (iv) protect our property rights, (v) protect the safety of the public or any person, and (vi) prevent or stop any activity that we consider to be (or to pose a risk of being) illegal, unethical or legally actionable; and
• for any other purpose for which you or your Employer expressly authorize us to use your information.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We share information about you as follows:

With Your Employer

• With your Employer in using our Services with whom you interact through your own use of our Services. This is necessary to provide our Services to you and your Employer and in accordance with our Terms of Service. For example, we share information when you interact with a Square Team account.

With our Affiliates

• With our group companies, including our parent company, Block Inc., and other affiliates, for the purposes outlined above. This is necessary to provide, maintain, and improve our Services in accordaince with the Staff Terms and the Terms of Service with your Employer.

With Service Providers

• With service providers who access information about you to perform services on our behalf (e.g. identity verification, fee collection services and fraud prevention – including CIFAS, as well as financial institutions, payment networks, payment card associations, credit bureaus, partners providing services on Square’s behalf, and other entities (including First Data) in connection with Services.
• With third parties that run advertising campaigns, contests, special offers, or other events or activities in connection with our Services.
• We may share your information with certain other third parties with whom you or your Employer expressly authorise us to share your information.

Business Transfers and Corporate Changes We reserve the right to disclose and transfer all information related to the Services, including personal information:

• To a subsequent owner, co-owner, or operator of one or more of the Services in the event of a corporate merger, consolidation, or restructuring; the sale of substantially all of our stock and/or assets; financing, acquisition, divestiture, or dissolution of all or a portion of our business; or other corporate change (including, without limitation, during the negotiation or due diligence process).

Safety and Compliance with Law If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary (i) to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request (e.g., from tax authorities, law enforcement agencies, etc.); (ii) to enforce or comply with our General Terms or other applicable agreements or policies; (iii) to protect our or our customers’ rights or property or the security or integrity of our Services; or (iv) to protect us, users of our Services or the public from harm, fraud or potentially prohibited or illegal activities.

Aggregated and Anonymised Information

• We also may share (within our group of companies or with third parties) aggregated and anonymised information that does not specifically identify you or any individual user of our Services.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION

We generally keep your information for the period of time instructed by your Employer on the basis of your Employer’s privacy practices. However, even after you deactivate your account, we can retain copies of information about you and the Services for a period of time as we believe is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, applicable statute of limitations, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, to detect or prevent fraud, to collect fees owed, to resolve disputes, to address problems with the Services, to assist with investigations, to enforce applicable agreements or policies, or to take any other actions consistent with applicable law.

COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use various technologies to collect information when you access or use our Services, including placing a piece of data, commonly referred to as a “cookie,” or similar technology on your device and using web beacons. Cookies are small data files that are stored on your hard drive or in your device memory when you visit a website or view a message. Among other things, cookies support the integrity of our registration process, retain your preferences and account settings, and help evaluate and compile aggregated statistics about user activity. For more information and to learn how to block or delete cookies used in the Services, please see below.

Certain cookies we use last only for the duration of your web or application session and expire when you close your browser or exit the application. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to use the Services and, as such, will last longer.

We may use cookies to provide and improve the Services for your Employer, in particular to:

• Remember that you have visited us or used the Services before. This allows us to identify the number of unique visitors we receive, so that we can provide enough capacity to accommodate all of our users.
• Customise elements of the promotional layout and/or content of our Services.
• Collect data about the way you interact with our Services (e.g., when you use certain features or upload attachments).
• Collect anonymous statistical information about how you use the Services (including the length of your web or application session) and the location from which you access the Services, so that we can improve the Services and learn which elements and functions of the Services are most popular with our users.

We set some of these automated technologies ourselves, but others are set by third parties who deliver services on our behalf. For example, we may use other companies’ web analytics services (described in the Third-Party Analytics section below), which use automated technologies to help us evaluate how customers use our websites.

Your browser can alert you when cookies are placed on your device, and how you can stop or disable them via your browser settings. Please note, however, that without certain necessary or functionality cookies all of the features of our online services may not work properly. If you use a mobile device, you can manage how your device and browser share certain device data by changing the privacy and security settings on your mobile device.

You also can learn more about cookies by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org, which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies on different types of browsers and mobile devices. Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used in the Services, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Services.

THIRD PARTY ANALYTICS SERVICES

We may use third-party service providers to analyze and track usage of our Services, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand how you use our Services ultimately to improve the Services for your Employer. We may disclose your device and use information such as your IP address, identifiers associated with your device, other applications on your device, the browsers you use to access our Services, webpages viewed, time spent on webpages, and links clicked with these service providers for these purposes. The third-party service providers that we engage are bound by confidentiality obligations and other restrictions with respect to their use and collection of your information.

Examples of our third-party service providers to help deliver our Services or to connect to our Services include:

• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand how our Services perform and how you use them. Learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out here.
• Facebook: We use Facebook to advertise and market our services, and to enable our customers to market their services. Learn more about how Facebook uses your data here or log on to your Facebook account and access your settings. To understand more about Facebook advertising please see here.
• BugSnag and Crashlytics: We use Bugsnag and Crashlytics monitoring apps to monitor errors that impact customers and report diagnostic data to us so we can improve our Service and help to make sure they work when you need to use them. Learn more about BugSnag here. Learn more about here.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have certain rights in relation to your information (right to access, amend, erase, or restrict access to your information, object to processing, or withdraw your consent, in certain circumstances). To exercise any of these rights, please contact your Employer’s human resources department.

Deactivating Your Account

If you wish to deactivate your account, you can do so by logging into your account or by emailing us using the contact details provided below.

JURISDICTION SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES

UNITED STATES

California

This section supplements the generally applicable provisions of this Privacy Notice to provide information required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (including as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020)(“CCPA”) and applies to California residents. This Notice describes how we collect, process and manage personal information (as defined by the CCPA) within the scope of the CCPA. Defined terms shall refer to terms defined under the CCPA or as defined elsewhere in this Privacy Notice.

Information We Collect:

• Identifiers, such as your name, email address, postal address, or IP address;
• California Customer records such as name, passport number, driver’s license or credit card number, bank account number or other financial information (as defined in Cal. Civ. Code Sec. 1798.80(e));
• Characteristics of protected classifications, such as your race, gender or age;
• Commercial Information, such as information and records about the products and services you sell or information about your transactions;
• Internet or Other Electronic Activity Information, such as your browsing history and interactions with the Services or advertisements;
• Geolocation data, such as your country of residence or your location inferred from your IP address;
• Sensory information, such as your photo (if you provide one) or recordings (such as interactions between you and our Customer Success team);
• Professional or employment information, such as your place of employment, job title, employee identification number, salary, pay stubs and tax filing status; and
• Inferences drawn from any of the information above, including about your preferences.
  Please review the section titled “Information We Collect About You” for more information on the categories of personal information we collect about you and the sources we collect that information from. For information on the business purposes that we use your personal information for, please refer to the section tilted “How We Use Your Information”. For information on the categories of third parties that we disclose your personal information to, please review the section titled “How We Share Your Information”. For information on how we determine how long to retain your personal information, please refer to “How Long We Keep Your Information".
  Sensitive Personal Information
  We may also collect, and have collected in the past 12 months, certain sensitive personal information, including:

• Government identifiers, such as your social security number, driver’s license numbers, state issued identification numbers, or passport numbers;
• Financial account log in credentials;
• Financial account information, such as bank account numbers, or credit or debit card numbers, along with other information needed to access your account;
• Precise geolocation data, where you have given us consent, we may access the precise geolocation of your devices;
  We will only use your sensitive personal information for the purposes authorized under law.;

De-Identified Data

RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

If you live in California, California gives you the right: (a) to know what personal information a business processes on you, as well as how it is used and shared; (b) the right to delete personal information that a business collects on you; (c ) the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information; (d) the right to correct your personal information; and (e) the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your rights above. Because Square generally processes your personal information on your Employer’s behalf, we are unable to action these rights directly. If you wish to exercise any of your rights, please reach out to your Employer. For more information, contact us via our dedicated privacy portal privacy.block.xyz.

Opt-Out of Sales or Sharing of Personal Information

California Shine the Light

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

We may transfer and store your personal information in any location where we currently do business. We may also use third-party service providers to process and store your information in the United States, Canada, Japan, the European Union, and other countries.

For EU residents:

For UK based Employees, we use UK approved international data-transfer safeguards, such as the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement.

For Canada residents:

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We change this Privacy Notice from time to time by posting a revised version and updating the “Updated Date” above. If you disagree with these changes, you may cancel your account at any time.

CONTACT

As we process your information as a service provider on behalf of your Employer, we suggest you first contract your Employer with any questions on the use of your information.

Otherwise, if you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice, please reach out to us by contacting your country specific privacy contact below: