# Stripe User Terms Update - September 8, 2025 - Canada

Stripe updated our [Stripe Services Agreement](https://stripe.com/en-ca/legal/ssa) which applies to the use of Stripe services in Canada on September 8, 2025. As part of this update, we also updated the [Stripe Connected Account Agreement](https://stripe.com/en-ca/legal/connect-account) (applicable to connected accounts). You can find a summary of the most notable changes, when those changes take effect, and more information below.
### When do the updated terms apply?
The updated terms take effect immediately for new users in Canada who sign up on or after the above dates.
For existing Stripe users as of the above date in Canada, the updated terms will take effect on **September 8, 2025**.
### What if I don’t want to agree to the updated terms?
If you do not agree to the updated terms, you will need to stop using Stripe services and close your Stripe account before these terms become effective. If you have a Stripe Dashboard, you can close your account by following these instructions. If your Stripe account is integrated with a Stripe Connect Platform and you don’t have a Stripe Dashboard, you must contact your Stripe Connect Platform to close your account. Your use of the Stripe services after the applicable effective date will be subject to the updated terms.
### Do I need to take action to accept the updated terms?
You don’t need to take any action to accept the new terms. Connect Platform users with Custom or Express connected accounts and other connected accounts without access to a Stripe Dashboard should follow the guidance below to notify their connected accounts.
### I’m a Connect Platform User with Custom or Express Connected Accounts, or with Connected Accounts without access to a Stripe Dashboard. What do I need to do?
**Connect Platform Users with Custom or Express Connected Accounts, or with other Connected Accounts without access to a Stripe Dashboard, based in Canada**: You are responsible for notifying your Custom and Express connected accounts and your other connected accounts without access to a Stripe Dashboard of the updated terms. We suggest you use your usual method of updating your connected accounts about important changes (for example, by email). We recommend you send those connected accounts in Canada a notice that includes the following information:
_Stripe is updating its legal terms. You can read the Connected Account Agreement (incorporating the Stripe Services Agreement)_ [_here_](https://stripe.com/en-ca/legal/connect-account)_. The updates to the terms will take effect on September 8, 2025. No action is needed from you, but by continuing to use Stripe’s services on or after that date, you are agreeing to these updated terms._
If you use Connect but have no Custom or Express connected accounts or other connected accounts without access to a Stripe Dashboard, we’ve handled the communication for you by letting affected connected accounts know about the changes.
### Connect Platforms based outside of Canada
The updated terms do not apply to your use of Stripe (and your existing terms with Stripe remain applicable), but you are responsible for notifying your connected accounts in Canada of the updated terms as mentioned above.
### Does this update affect other terms I have agreed to with Stripe?
You can find our updated terms which are labeled with their most recent update date at [stripe.com/legal](http://stripe.com/legal). If you have agreed to other terms with Stripe for the use of Stripe services that take precedence over these online terms, those other terms are unaffected by this change.