Privacy Policy New

We generally process your information when we need to do so to fulfill a contractual obligation (for example, to process your subscription payments to use the Shopify platform), or where we or someone we work with needs to use your personal information for a reason related to their business (for example, to provide you with a service). European law calls these reasons “legitimate interests.” These “legitimate interests” include:

• Preventing risk and fraud
• Answering questions or providing other types of support
• Helping merchants find and use apps through our app store
• Providing and improving our products and services
• Providing reporting and analytics
• Testing out features or additional services
• Assisting with marketing, advertising, or other communications

We only process personal information for these “legitimate interests” after considering the potential risks to your privacy—for example, by providing clear transparency into our privacy practices, offering you control over your personal information where appropriate, limiting the information we keep, limiting what we do with your information, who we send your information to, how long we keep your information, or the technical measures we use to protect your information.

One of the ways in which we are able to help merchants using Shopify is by using techniques like “machine learning” to help us improve our services. When we use machine learning, we either:

(1) Still have a human being involved in the process or

(2) Use machine learning in ways that don’t have significant privacy implications.