[NOTE TO MERCHANT: This is a template Privacy Policy designed to cover your collection, use, and disclosure of personal information about visitors and customers of your Shopify-powered Site. Please review and customize the content so that it is tailored to your store and business practices regarding how you collect, use, and disclose personal data. For example, you may need to update the template content if: you are based in certain jurisdictions (particularly to reflect certain disclosures that are required under GDPR), you collect information from other sources like third parties or offline; you disclose information to additional service providers or business partners; or you add third-party cookies or other analytics tools. Please also remember to delete all "Note to Merchant" drafting notes prior to publishing.] This template is not legal advice, and you are solely responsible for ensuring that you meet your obligations under applicable laws. As privacy laws are constantly evolving, you should regularly review your privacy notice to ensure that it is compliant with updated laws and regulation and that it accurately reflects current data handling practices. We recommend that you consult a lawyer as needed.
Category
- Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account information
- Commercial information such as order information, shopping information and customer support information
- Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data
Categories of Recipients
- Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as Internet service providers, payment processors, fulfillment partners, customer support partners and data analytics providers)
- Business and marketing partners
- Affiliates
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purposes of inferring characteristics about you.
[NOTE TO MERCHANT- INSERT THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH AND CHART IF USING SHOPIFY’S AD SERVICES SUCH AS SHOPIFY AUDIENCES OR ENGAGING IN ANY OTHER ACTIVITY THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED “SELLING” OR “SHARING” PERSONAL INFORMATION OR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR “TARGETED ADVERTISING”]
We have “sold” and “shared” (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information over the preceding 12 months for the purpose of engaging in advertising and marketing activities, as follows.
Category of Personal Information
Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account information
Commercial information such as records of products or services purchased and shopping information
Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data
Categories of Recipients
Business and marketing partners
Business and marketing partners
Business and marketing partners
[NOTE TO MERCHANT: PLEASE CONSULT WITH LEGAL COUNSEL IF YOUR SITE IS CHILD FOCUSSED OR DIRECTED, AS MORE SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES MAY BE REQUIRED.]
[NOTE TO MERCHANT: IF USING SHOPIFY'S AD SERVICES SUCH AS SHOPIFY AUDIENCES OR ENGAGING IN ANY OTHER ACTIVITY THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED "SELLING" OR "SHARING" PERSONAL INFORMATION OR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR "TARGETED ADVERTISING", INSERT THE PARAGRAPH BELOW AND ENSURE YOU PROVIDE CUSTOMERS THE ABILITY TO "OPT OUT" OF THIS ACTIVITY ON YOUR SITE BY USING SHOPIFY'S PRIVACY AND COMPLIANCE APP OR OTHERWISE.]
Right to Opt out of Sale or Sharing or Targeted Advertising. You may have a right to direct us not to "sell" or "share" your personal information or to opt out of the processing of your personal information for purposes considered to be "targeted advertising", as defined in applicable privacy laws. Please note that if you visit our Site with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on where you are, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt-out of the "sale" or "sharing" of information for the device and browser that you use to visit the Site.
[NOTE TO MERCHANT: IF YOU COLLECT INFORMATION THAT MAY BE DEEMED TO BE SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION UNDER APPLICABLE PRIVACY LAWS THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL CONSENTS/DISCLOSURES REQUIRED. INSERT THE PARAGRAPH BELOW IF YOU COLLECT SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CONSULT WITH EXTERNAL LEGAL COUNSEL TO CONFIRM YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES.]
Right to Limit and/or Opt out of Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. You may have a right to direct us to limit our use and/or disclosure of sensitive personal information to only what is necessary to perform the Services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average individual.
[NOTE TO MERCHANT: INSERT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE IF USING SHOPIFY'S AD SERVICES SUCH AS SHOPIFY AUDIENCES]
We use Shopify's ad services such as Shopify Audiences to help personalize the advertising you see on third party websites. To restrict Shopify merchants that use these ad services from using your personal information for such services, visit https://privacy.shopify.com/en.
[NOTE TO MERCHANT: INSERT THE FOLLOWING IF YOUR SITE IS GOVERNED BY GDPR] For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller of your personal information. Our representative in the [EEA] [and] [the UK] is [INSERT REPRESENTATIVE DETAILS].