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This requirement obligates merchants to surface Shopify's role in data processing to their own customers, which has direct implications for customer-facing transparency and applicable data protection compliance.
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The updated terms clarify the legal identity of the Shopify entity you contract with and establish which courts have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve disputes, depending on your store's billing address. Previously, the terms specified exclusive jurisdiction by region (Ontario for US/Canada, Singapore for Asia Pacific, Ireland for EMEA and other areas). The revised structure presents this information in a table format and adds explicit language stating that disputes can only be brought in the courts listed for your region, with those courts having exclusive jurisdiction. Shopify Inc. may act as a billing agent for other Shopify entities to collect fees and remit taxes in some jurisdictions. You can review the contracting party and forum table in Section 13 to confirm which entity and courts apply to your store based on your billing address.
View change record →Merchants must include specific disclosure language about Shopify's hosting and data-processing role in their own customer-facing legal documents.
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This requirement obligates merchants to surface Shopify's role in data processing to their own customers, which has direct implications for customer-facing transparency and applicable data protection compliance.
Merchants must include specific disclosure language about Shopify's hosting and data-processing role in their own customer-facing legal documents.
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