Compliance on a Shopify project, end to end
The clauses are the visible part. What makes them worth having is that they keep matching the code after you stop paying attention.
It finds it without being told
AutomaticShopify resolves from its package, its endpoint or its credential name — so an integration with no SDK installed is found like any other.
Clauses, not a template
The disclosures Shopify forces are assembled from a library built from published regulatory text, and filled in from the catalog row rather than from a guess about what the vendor does.
Every clause explained
Beside each one, in plain English: what it means, why your product needs it, and which detected component put it there — with the file and line it was proved from.
It notices when this changes
DriftLater scans are diffed against the snapshot your documents were generated from, so removing Shopify or adding something beside it becomes an update you approve.
Delivered where you work
As a pull request on a connected Git host, as an approval in the dashboard, or from your editor over MCP — the same six tools your agent can call without opening a browser.
Read in memory, not retained
The files a scan reads are processed in memory and dropped when the request ends; what is kept is the list of services it found. The MCP server goes further and scans on your own machine.
How Poliogo proves Shopify is there
Detection is pattern matching over what is literally in your repository — dependency manifests, source files, configuration, edge functions and `.env.example` — not a model's opinion about your code. Shopify resolves from any of the signatures below, so an integration written as a bare `fetch` with no package installed is found exactly like one with an SDK.
- ✓The cart cookie lasts two weeks and is strictly necessary; _shopify_y and _shopify_s are Analytics and wait behind the gate. Same vendor, two classifications, which is why classification is per cookie rather than per service.
- ✓Shopify Inc. processes in Canada and the United States, so the transfer clause names an adequacy-decision country and a non-adequacy one in the same row.
- ✓Order details and payment status reach your Terms of Service, not only your Privacy Policy — refunds and shipping are contract terms, and a storefront with no refund clause has a gap no privacy drafting closes.
What Shopify changes in your documents
Shopify runs your store — this adds order, shipping and refund terms. It processes financial data on your behalf, so billing, refund and financial-data handling terms must be disclosed. That is why Shopify moves your Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and Cookie banner — and it is the same sentence the Updates page shows when a scan finds it for the first time, because both are read from one place.
- ✓Terms of Service — regenerated and shown as a diff before anything is published.
- ✓Privacy Policy — regenerated and shown as a diff before anything is published.
- ✓Cookie Policy — regenerated and shown as a diff before anything is published.
- ✓Cookie banner — regenerated and shown as a diff before anything is published.
Shopify in your sub-processor schedule
A sub-processor schedule names the legal entity, not the brand — Shopify Inc. rather than "Shopify" — because that is the name a customer's data protection agreement is checked against. The row below is what Poliogo generates and what your Trust Center publishes.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Legal entity | Shopify Inc. |
| What it receives | Order details, shipping and billing address, payment status, browsing history in store |
| Purpose | Running the storefront and processing orders |
| Processing location | Canada, United States |
| Their privacy policy | www.shopify.com/legal/privacy |
Generated from the catalog entry, and published on your Trust Center alongside every other sub-processor a scan found.
Getting this onto a Shopify project
Nothing is written or published until you have seen it. The scan proposes, you approve, and only then does anything reach your repository or your live pages.
Connect the repository, the host or the live address. The scan reads manifests, source, configuration and `.env.example` in memory and keeps the list of services it found, not the files it read.
A plain-English list of every service the scan proved, Shopify among them, each with the file and the line it was found on. Correct anything wrong before a word is generated.
Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and Terms, with the clauses Shopify forces already in them, and a plain-language explanation beside each one saying which detected component put it there.
Later scans are diffed against the snapshot your documents were generated from, so a service added next month becomes an update you approve rather than a quiet inaccuracy nobody notices.
Questions people ask
Does Poliogo detect Shopify on its own?
Yes. Shopify resolves from the signatures in the detection library — the package name, the endpoint it is called at, and the credential name it uses in `.env.example`. Matching on the endpoint is the part that matters: an integration written as a bare `fetch` with nothing added to package.json is still found, and that is the case a dependency-only scanner misses entirely.
What does Shopify actually receive from my users?
Order details, shipping and billing address, payment status, browsing history in store — for running the storefront and processing orders. That list is not written for this page: it is the catalog row the generated Privacy Policy prints, so what you read here is what your document will say, down to the categories.
Do I have to list Shopify as a sub-processor?
If it processes personal data on your behalf, yes — and the row names Shopify Inc., the legal entity, rather than the brand, because that is the name a customer's data protection agreement is checked against. Poliogo generates the row and publishes it on your Trust Center alongside every other sub-processor a scan found.
Where does Shopify process the data?
Canada, United States. That matters for the transfer clause rather than for the vendor list: an EU product sending personal data to a US processor owes a transfer disclosure whether or not anything else in the stack is American. The generated clause names the location from this same row rather than assuming one.
Which cookies does Shopify set, and are they blocked before consent?
_shopify_y, _shopify_s, cart. Whether each one waits depends on its classification, not on its vendor: the ones marked strictly necessary are disclosed in the Cookie Policy and always allowed to run, because gating them breaks the thing they exist for, and anything classified Analytics or Marketing is held until a visitor agrees.
What happens when I add another service later?
A scan has to run first — manually on any plan including Free, or on your plan's schedule from Starter. When one finds a service your documents do not mention, the change arrives as a proposal with a plain-language diff: what changed, why, and which detected component triggered it. On a connected Git host it can also arrive as a pull request on a side branch, so changes reach your default branch only through a pull request you approve.
Is any of this legal advice?
No. Poliogo reads code and assembles clauses from a library built from published regulatory text; it does not weigh your circumstances, and no generated document settles whether a business is compliant — that turns on how the business actually handles data. What the product is for is making sure the documents describe what the software genuinely does, which is the part that goes stale on its own and the part a person cannot check by hand every week.
Compliance for the rest of your stack
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