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Cash App Terms of Service & Privacy Notice

Cash App is a mobile financial services platform operated by Block, Inc. that lets users send and receive money peer-to-peer, hold a prepaid balance, use a debit card, buy and sell bitcoin, and access business payment and banking-adjacent features.

Analyzed May 21, 2026

Summary

Cash App's terms grant the company broad discretion to freeze funds, hold reserves, terminate accounts, and use AI on user data, while collecting sensitive identity, biometric, financial, and location data and sharing it with advertising and data broker partners. Arbitration is mandated with a class-action waiver. Users retain content ownership but grant an extremely broad, perpetual, irrevocable license, and the company keeps accrued interest on balances rather than crediting it to users.

Category Breakdown

Cash App collects government ID numbers, Social Security numbers, biometric/facial scan data, precise geolocation, contacts, and employment data, and uses data to train AI/ML models.

From: PRIVACY POLICYAdditional Identification Information, such as: Your full mailing address; date of birth; government-issued identification, including Social Security number, passport, or driver’s license; and photographs, facial scan and biometric information extracted from such images for verification purposes.
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Information is shared with third-party marketing/advertising partners and data brokers, including for a 'commerce media network' that shows personalized ads for other brands using shopping and transaction data, with only an opt-out (not opt-in default).

From: PRIVACY POLICYStarting on or after February 9, 2026: In connection with our commerce media network, we may use data about your activity, such as your shopping history, app browsing behavior, card transactions, and general location information to show you personalized advertisements for other brands outside of Cash App.
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Users retain rights to their content but grant Cash App a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, and create derivative works, which survives account termination.

From: TERMS OF SERVICEYou grant us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, transferable, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content throughout the world in any media for any reason
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The company can suspend, downgrade, or terminate accounts, freeze funds during investigations, and liquidate Virtual Currency holdings at its sole discretion without prior notice in some cases.

From: TERMS OF SERVICETo the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company may, in its sole discretion, liquidate all assets in your Virtual Currency Account. The Company is not responsible for any losses caused by the liquidation of assets in your Virtual Currency Account pursuant to this paragraph, including any tax liabilities.
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Cash App irrevocably assigns to itself all interest accrued on user balances instead of crediting it to the user, and imposes numerous discretionary fees and reserve holds on funds.

From: TERMS OF SERVICEUnless you are enrolled in the Savings Yield feature (see the Cash App Savings Terms of Service), as consideration for your use of the Service, you irrevocably transfer and assign to the Company all of your rights in any and all interest accrued on you Cash App Balance and your Savings Balance funds that are held by the Company on your behalf.
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