The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in effect since 2018 and requires customers to expressly consent to the collection and use of their data. Therefore, retailers must ensure that they obtain this consent from customers when collecting their data.

Shopify Plus, Shopify’s merchant service, offers merchants effective ways to respond to GDPR-related issues in a compliant manner. If customers can consent to data collection, Shopify Plus has several tools to help merchants remember and obtain this consent. Merchants can apply data collection fields on the Shopify checkout page to ensure that customers can consent to the use of data. Shopify Plus also offers a consent manager, giving merchants the visibility and control to organize and track all consents given by customers.

When it comes to data security and privacy, Shopify Plus helps merchants protect customer information by strictly encrypting data using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Shopify Plus is also developer friendly with its application program interface (API) and development store settings. This helps merchants adapt their stores to improve GDPR compliance and security while giving customers more control over their data.

When it comes to language and data regulation, Shopify Plus provides merchants with applicable local laws and languages to help comply with GDPR. The platform also offers merchants automatic deletion of merchant data, allowing them to delete any customer data that has not been expressly authorized under GDPR laws.

Overall, Shopify Plus takes steps to ensure that merchants can comply with GDPR data protection regulations. With SSL encryption and data collection forms, customers can consent to the use of their data. Additionally, Shopify Plus also provides merchants with laws, language, and automatic store removal to ensure all data is handled correctly. Shopify Plus has merchants covered when it comes to GDPR-related issues.