Legal - Tap to Pay & Privacy - Apple (2024)

Enabling Tap to Pay on iPhone

Tap to Pay on iPhone allows you to use your iPhone to accept contactless payments from a customer’s mobile device or contactless card through an enabled app. To enable Tap to Pay on iPhone, sign in with the AppleID you use as a merchant. The AppleID you use will be associated with a merchant account for merchant account management and fraud prevention and compliance purposes. You can unlink your AppleID from a merchant account by contacting Apple Support.

Using Tap to Pay on iPhone

When using Tap to Pay on iPhone, Apple processes your data in accordance with our agreements with you and your payment service provider, and as required by law. When initiating Tap to Pay on iPhone and opening a virtual payment terminal, Apple collects data necessary to open a valid session, such as a token that includes the identity of your payment services provider and merchant, information about the merchant like business name, and identifiers for your virtual payment terminal. Apple also collects a token indicating that your hardware is secure. If validated, Apple sends back a valid session token to your device, which your device will use to execute the transaction. To execute a transaction, your device will send encrypted transaction information to Apple; Apple does not decrypt this transaction information. Apple authenticates the transaction using information about the session token, device, and merchant, but not the content of the encrypted transaction. If authenticated, Apple helps further protect the transaction by changing the encryption key to a key that only your payment services partner can decrypt. Apple collects and maintains information about Tap to Pay on iPhone transactions, such as transaction amount, for 25 days as required for compliance with payment card industry and similar requirements.

Signing Up with Apple Business Register

You can connect a merchant account from a point-of-sale application to Apple Business Register using your AppleID, which will link your AppleID to the merchant account within Apple Business Register. Your use of Apple Business Register is subject to the Apple Business Register Terms of Service at register.apple.com/tou/abr/latest/en and Apple’s Privacy Policy at www.apple.com/privacy.

Tap to Pay on iPhone data that can no longer be tied to you may be retained for a limited period of time to generally improve the service.

At all times, information collected by Apple will be treated in accordance with Apple’sPrivacyPolicy, which can be found atwww.apple.com/privacy. Use of a third-party point-of-sale application is subject to the terms of that application’s service and its privacy policy.

Published Date: September 18, 2023