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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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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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"The content of your terms of service and privacy policy must also (i) disclose that your Store is hosted by Shopify, and Shopify collects and processes your customers' Personal Data...— Excerpt from Shopify's Shopify Terms of Service
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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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