COOKIE POLICY

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small packet of information sent to your computer or device when you visit certain websites. We use several types of cookies on the Shopify website, including essential cookies, performance cookies, advertising cookies, and social media and content cookies. Cookies improve your browsing experience by enabling the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information about how users use the site, such as whether this is their first visit or whether they are a repeat visitor. You can read more about cookies (and other similar tracking technologies) and how we use the data collected from these technologies in our Privacy Policy .

What cookies do we use and why?

Some cookies are necessary in order for you to move around our website, use its features and access secure areas. The use of these cookies is essential for the website to function. For example, we set user input cookies during a session to track input made by a user when filling out forms across multiple pages.

We also use functionality cookies to remember choices you make or information you provide, such as your username, language or region. This helps us tailor your website experience to your preferences. For example, authentication cookies are functionality cookies used during a session (or permanently if you agree to the “Remember me” function) that allow you to authenticate yourself on subsequent visits or to receive access to authorized content across pages. The functional cookies we use include:

  • User-centric security cookies to detect authentication abuse for a limited persistent period, such as repeated unsuccessful login attempts. These cookies have the specific function of increasing the security of the service.

  • Multimedia content player session cookies (flash cookies) are used during a session to store technical data required for the playback of audio or video content (e.g. image quality, network connection speed and buffering parameters).

  • Session cookies for load balancing are used during a session to identify the same server among the many present so that the load balancer redirects requests appropriately.

  • Permanent user interface customization cookies are used to store user preferences for the same service across all web pages.

Shopify is committed to optimizing the user experience, so we use a variety of tools to improve our website and commerce platform. To do this, we use analytics and reporting cookies to collect information about how and when you use our website or merchant storefronts. The performance cookies we use include:

  • First-party analytics cookies: We use these cookies to estimate the number of unique visitors, improve our websites and those of our merchants, and detect the most searched words in search engines that are responsible for sending traffic to a web page. These cookies are not used to target online marketing, but to evaluate the performance of our websites and those of our merchants and make relevant improvements in order to improve your browsing experience.

  • Third-party analytics cookies: We also use Google Analytics and the other analytics providers listed below to measure how users interact with the website content. These cookies “remember” what users have done on previous pages and how they interacted with the website. To learn more about Google Analytics, visit Google’s information page . See below for guidance on how to opt out of Google Analytics.

Advertising cookies are used on our website to tailor marketing to your preferences and interests and to provide a more personalized service in the future. These cookies remember that you have 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 websites, they cannot typically identify you personally. Without these cookies, the adverts you see may be less relevant and less engaging to you. Read more about how companies use cookies for targeted and retargeted advertising here . We do not set advertising cookies for storefronts, but our merchants can do so if they wish.

Finally, content and social media cookies are included in many social media plug-ins (e.g. the Facebook “Like” button) and other tools designed to provide or enhance the content of a website (e.g. services that allow the playback of video files or the creation of a comments section). We integrate these modules into our platform to enhance the experience of browsing and interacting with our websites. It is important to note that some of these third-party services send cookies that are also used for other purposes, such as behavioral advertising, analytics and/or market research.