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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 specify which Shopify corporate entity you contract with and which courts have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes, based on your store's billing address. Previously, the terms designated contracting parties and courts by region but in separate sections; the revised structure consolidates this information in a single table and introduces Shopify Technology (USA) Inc. as a contracting party for US-based merchants. The practical effect is that merchants in different regions now have explicit clarity on their contracting counterparty and the specific court system that will handle disputes, though the geographic assignment of courts remains substantially similar to prior language.
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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