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Cookie notice

Shopify

Cookie Policy

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In short

  • This Cookie Policy explains how Shopify and its connected platforms collect tracking data to improve services, analyze usage, and deliver targeted advertisements.
  • You allow Shopify and third-party partners to place cookies on your device that remember your preferences and track your activity across the web.
  • This tracking extends to Shopify's own sites, merchant storefronts built on their platform, Shop.app, and subsidiary tools like Tinker and Oberlo.

What you accept

If you use this site

Everyday words for the material promises and rights you give up. Each line includes a quote from the document.

Fineprint cannot see whether you agreed. This page is posted on their site. Open the original if you need to know how they say it applies.

  1. 01

    You are agreeing to let Shopify place necessary, functional, analytics, and advertising cookies on your devices when you visit their sites or merchant stores.

    This product

    “We use a number of different cookies on the Shopify website, including strictly necessary, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies.”
  2. 02

    You are agreeing that Shopify may share information from these cookies with third parties, such as advertisers and analytics providers.

    Other companies

    “These cookies remember that you visited our website and we may share this information with third-parties, such as advertisers.”
  3. 03

    You are agreeing to tracking across Shopify’s web properties, merchant storefronts, Shop.app, Tinker, and Oberlo.

    Other products, stores, or brands

    “This document is meant to explain the types of cookies and other tracking technologies that Shopify may place on your device, either when you are visiting our web properties, or if you are visiting the storefront of a merchant who uses our platform to power their site.”

What it can cost you

Downsides we could quote

Quoted clauses that can affect your privacy, money, or right to go to court — including terms that follow you to other products.

Highest-cost clauses first

High cost

Tracking you across apps

You are agreeing to have your visits to other websites tracked by Shopify's advertising cookies.

“Advertising cookies are used on our website to tailor marketing to you and your interests... These cookies remember that you visited our website and we may share this information with third-parties, such as advertisers. Although these cookies can track your device’s visits to our website and other sites...”

What that means: Your browsing habits outside of Shopify's direct control may be tracked and sold or shared with ad networks to build a profile of your interests.

The policy explicitly states that advertising cookies track visits to 'other sites' and that data is shared with advertisers for tailoring marketing, constituting cross-site tracking.

High cost

Tracking you across apps

You are agreeing to have your page interactions remembered and analyzed by third-party analytics providers like Google Analytics.

“Third party analytics cookies - we also use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers listed below to help measure how users interact with our website content. These cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages...”

What that means: Detailed records of your navigation and interaction history are collected and stored by third-party analytics firms.

Use of Google Analytics and other third parties to 'remember' user actions constitutes extensive behavioral tracking and profiling via analytics.

High cost

Terms follow you to parks, stores, and other products

You are agreeing to cookie placement that spans Shopify.com, merchant storefronts, Shop.app, Tinker, and Oberlo.

“When merchants use our platform to power their online stores, we place the following cookies for visitors of their stores... We use the following cookies across the Shop experience... When visitors load Tinker's websites... When visitors load Oberlo’s websites...”

What that means: Accepting cookies on one Shopify-related service potentially allows tracking and cookie placement across all affiliated platforms, stores, and subsidiary apps.

The policy extends cookie placement beyond Shopify.com to include merchant storefronts powered by Shopify, Shop.app, Tinker, and Oberlo, meaning one consent event covers multiple distinct products and brands.

Medium cost

Cookie consent that favors Accept

You are agreeing that rejecting cookies may limit your access to certain website features and negatively affect your experience.

“You can control and manage cookies in various ways... Most browsers automatically accept cookies... removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.”

What that means: You face a degraded experience and potential loss of access to features if you actively block or reject cookies.

The document notes that browsers auto-accept cookies and warns that blocking them harms the user experience, which pressures users into acceptance rather than rejection.

If these terms already apply to you

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