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Cookie notice

Shopify

Cookie Policy

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In short

  • You are agreeing to let Shopify and its partners track your activity across their sites and third-party advertising networks.
  • This document allows them to place persistent cookies that remain on your device for up to two years.
  • You also accept that merchant stores using Shopify’s platform will collect similar data under these same terms.

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.

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  1. 01

    You are agreeing to allow the use of tracking technologies like cookies and pixels on Shopify’s platforms and merchant storefronts.

    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.”
  2. 02

    You are agreeing to let third parties like Google and Facebook set cookies to deliver targeted ads based on your visits.

    Other companies

    “We use Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites.”

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 cross-site browsing history tracked and shared with advertisers.

“Advertising 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 across different websites are tracked and shared for marketing purposes.

Shopify explicitly states it uses advertising cookies to track your visits to multiple sites and shares this data with third-party advertisers.

High cost

Terms follow you to parks, stores, and other products

You are agreeing to Shopify's tracking policies applying to third-party merchant storefronts.

“When merchants use our platform to power their online stores, we place the following cookies for visitors of their stores.”

What that means: Accepting these terms affects your privacy across thousands of independent online stores.

The policy applies not just to Shopify's corporate site but extends to any third-party merchant store powered by Shopify, binding users to tracking when shopping at those unrelated businesses.

Medium cost

Indefinite retention

You are agreeing to allow persistent cookies to store data on your device for up to two years.

“Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.”

What that means: Tracking data persists on your device for long durations without immediate removal.

Cookies can remain on your device for extended periods, specifically noted as up to two years, rather than being deleted when you close the browser.

If these terms already apply to you

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