How to receive payments with as little exchange of personal details as possible?

[RB1983]

After reading the help section and searching community messages I'm still not clear on the extent of the exchange of personal details that is part of receiving payments. The situations is as follows:

- I have a personal paypal account connected to my credit card and bank account

- Aside from a namebased email adress I also have a secondary address , not based on personal information, connected to my account.

- I don't send out an invoice or similar. It's small payments as a form of tips/gifts and I'd prefer to share as little personal detail about myself.

If I understand correctly, someone can send money to my wallet just by knowing that secondary address. If someone does, will that person see any other information about me or my paypal account (other than that email address) in for example his bank statement or email confirmation?

I'd appreciate it a lot if anyone could provide me with clarity on this matter. 

[PayPal_Bindu]

Hello @RB1983 

Welcome to the PayPal Help Community and thanks for posting your question here!

I see you're looking to receive payments through PayPal and wants to know about privacy works to carry out the transactions. PayPal keeps all your information secure. When you use your PayPal account to send and receive payments, PayPal only share the information that’s appropriate to complete the transaction.

When someone wants to pay you, the sender can see your name, profile pic or avatar, email, and amount requested to complete the transaction. Your financial info is never shared with the senders. You can also control how they can find you by managing your profile privacy. Please refer PayPal's Privacy Statement  which describes PayPal's information collection practices. 

I hope this information helps you,

Bindu