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PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. is a credit institution (or bank) authorised and supervised by Luxembourg’s financial regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (or CSSF). CSSF’s registered office: 283, route d’Arlon, L-1150 Luxembourg. The CSSF maintains a register of the organizations that it regulates at

PayPal is number B00000351 on the register, but you can also look us up on the register by our name. Trade Register Number: R.C.S. Luxembourg B 118 349.

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Directorate General for Economic Inspection of Belgium's Federal Public Service Economy, SMEs and self-employed, which can be contacted at its offices at North Gate III, Koning Albert II-laan 16, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

For consumers resident of the Czech Republic, the alternative dispute resolution authority regarding disputes with payment services providers is the Financial Arbitrator and the Office of the Financial Arbitrator (www.finarbitr.cz) to the extent and within the scope set forth in Act No. 229/2002 Coll., on Financial Arbitrator, as amended.

Bank of Spain. You can obtain further information about how to contact the Bank of Spain at

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The Consumer Rights Protection Center (in Latvian – Patērētāju tiesību aizsardzības centrs) (if you are a consumer). You may obtain further information regarding the Consumer Rights Protection Center and how to contact them at

The Ombudsman of the Finance Latvia Association (in Latvian– Finanšu Nozares Asociācija). You may obtain further information regarding the Ombudsman of the Finance Latvia Association and how to contact them at

The National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC) (if you are a consumer and a resident of Romania). You may obtain further information regarding the ANPC and how to contact them at

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) (if you are a resident of Romania). You can contact the BNR at 25 Lipscani Street., District 3, Bucharest, Romania. You may obtain further information regarding the BNR and how to contact them at:

Complaints section of our User Agreement.

European Consumer Centre (ECC-Net) which is available to assist consumers by providing guidance in your rights as a consumer and support in amicable dispute resolution:

Further information regarding additional alternative dispute resolution bodies that you may be able to refer your complaint to can be found in the

If the outcome of your complaint about our services, after completing the complaint escalation process, isn’t to your satisfaction, you can escalate it by contacting one of the following:

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We'll aim to respond to your complaint as quickly as possible. It may take up to 15 days for us to respond to payments-related complaints. Other complaints can take up to a month. We’ll send you an acknowledgement within 10 days. If there's any delay in our final response, we'll send you an update on our progress.

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