PayPal Terms & Conditions
Sending/Receiving gift certificates
Security: For security
and identification purposes, a recipient may be required to
enter credit card or bank account information before gift
certificate redemption.
Email Delivery: Gift
certificates that have a scheduled future email delivery
date are sent at approximately 2:00 a.m. Pacific Time (or in
purchaser’s time zone, if known) on the day of the scheduled
delivery.
Privacy Policy: For
recipients who are not PayPal members, PayPal will not use
the recipient's email address for any other purpose than to
send notifications to the recipient regarding his or her
gift certificate. This includes one reminder in the first 6
weeks, then quarterly reminders for one year. For details on
PayPal's privacy policy, see
https://www.paypal.com/privacy.
Cancellation/Non-Expiration of
gift certificates
Recipient Cancellations:
Gift certificate recipients can cancel their gift
certificate within 60 days of the purchase date and have
funds refunded to the purchaser.
Purchaser Cancellations:
If the recipient is not an existing PayPal member,
the purchaser will have 60 days from the date of purchase or
until the recipient opens a PayPal account, whichever comes
first, to cancel the certificate and receive a full refund.
Refunds: Refunds on
gift certificates that were purchased using a credit/debit
card will have the face value credited to that credit/debit
card. Refunds on gift certificates that were not purchased
using a credit/debit card will be placed into the
purchaser's PayPal account.
Expiration: Gift
certificates do not have an expiration date.
Maintenance Fee: Gift
certificates do not carry a maintenance fee.
Account closure: If
merchant closes its PayPal account, the remaining balance of
gift certificates less than 18 months old will be refunded
to the purchaser.