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by Terretta 1511 days ago
That could easily be a lawyer-speak official statement.

They say “personal information”. That is consumer-facing language for something which in banking has a legally (regulation) defined term: “PII” or personally identifiable information:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/personally-identifiable...

It can be argued that lists of money spent at stores cannot be reversed back to a person without other information. So they might not consider your transactions PII.

As for the consent, the TOS click wrap generally gets your consent, in the part where firms mumble about “our partners” for “legitimate uses” or etc. while bucketing various data brokers in that class.