4 Steps to Ensure Compliance
Master compliance with our concise guide outlining four essential steps. This article simplifies the path to meeting regulatory requirements efficiently.
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In this guide, you'll get everything you need to know to get started with Pandectes for GDPR and other data regulation compliance. This guide assumes you have installed Pandectes app on your store.
The steps described below are:
1. Enable Shopify's customer privacy settings
2. Enable app embed
3. Select banner type / consent mode
4. Privacy policy & Customer data request pages
Follow the steps:
Navigate to Settings of your Shopify admin dashboard.
Select Customer Privacy from the left sidebar and click Cookie Banner (Ensure Pandectes GDPR Compliance is present in the Installed privacy apps section).
On the Cookie Banner page, click on More actions and select Use custom cookie banner.
From the Use Custom Cookie Banner modal, choose the regions in which you want the marketing and analytics data to be collected by Shopify after user consent and click Confirm.
By default are selected 31 regions (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom). You can also select more regions if you want.
To finalize the installation of the application you have to access the theme settings to enable Pandectes Core app embed.
From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click Customize.
On the sidebar, click the App embeds icon.
To enable the Pandectes Core app embed, either select it from the list or use the Search bar to find it among your installed apps.
Click on the toggle next to the Pandectes Core app embed to activate it, and click save.
Open the Pandectes GDPR Compliance app.
Navigate on Settings and then to Banner > Behavior
On the top, you can configure the Banner Type / Consent Mode. To comply with the regional laws, we recommend you select Accept/Decline or Accept only.
Note: If you are on any paid plan, we recommend selecting Preferences (which is more detailed). Under the Preferences, please select the Strict policy (or Strict/Loose Policy) and make sure at least the Decline and Accept buttons are checked for you.
a) Privacy policy page
Our cookie banner is good to have a link to your privacy policy page. Creating a Privacy Policy page that follows all the necessary rules to be compliant can be quite a burden to carry, and you probably have no time or resources needed to do it the right way. So if you still need one, the good news is that you can proceed with just a few clicks in seconds by following our guide here.
Once your privacy policy page is ready, you can link it directly to the banner. Open the app from the "Apps" heading on the left-side menu > "Settings" > "Banner" > “Behavior”, and scroll down on the Privacy Policy Link area.
When you click on the area of the link, a dropdown will open with all the store pages. From the list, you can select your privacy policy link. Also, with the link on the top of the link, you can preview the selected page or even refresh the dropdown pages.
Note: if your store has multiple domains or languages, you must use a relative path for your privacy policy page link. To do so, you can clear the link field by clicking the x on the right, and then you can type the relative path of the privacy policy page starting with a slash and then select the option "Create '/......'".
b) Customer data requests page
The customer data requests page is your final step. To keep transparency, you need to ensure your visitors are fully aware of what data is being collected and how it’s being used, and also give them the option to update their consent and make any requests regarding their personal data collected on your store.
The quickest way is with the code snippet. Open the app from the Apps heading on the left-side menu and then follow the Settings > Customer data requests, and on the top, you can click on the "View instructions" button. On the popup, copy the snippet code.
<div id="pandectes-dsr-container"><!-- leave empty --></div>
<script src="https://s.pandect.es/scripts/pandectes-dsr.js"></script>
Then on the left-side menu, open Online Store > Pages. Click "Add Page" on the top right and put as a title Customer Data Request or Data Subject Requests (or any other title you want). In the Content, click the right button that says "Show HTML" and in the textarea, paste the code snippet. Finally, Save from the top right.
🔔 Google’s new privacy compliance requirements (deadline March 2024), Consent Mode v2, and securing advertising 👉 Read how to enable it
Our app is compliant with the new Google Consent Mode v2 requirement
💡 Need more help? Get support by chatting with us from inside the app or by sending us an email.
🔔 Starting March 2024, Google has mandated using Consent Mode to access measurement, ad personalization, and remarketing features for users in the European Economic Area and the UK. 👉 Read how to enable it
Our app is compliant with the new Google Consent Mode v2 requirement
Introduction
In this guide, you'll get everything you need to know to get started with Pandectes for GDPR and other data regulation compliance. This guide assumes you have installed Pandectes app on your store.
Steps
The steps described below are:
1. Enable Shopify's customer privacy settings
2. Enable app embed
3. Select banner type / consent mode
4. Privacy policy & Customer data request pages
Follow the steps:
Step 1. Enable Shopify's customer privacy settings
Navigate to Settings of your Shopify admin dashboard.
Select Customer Privacy from the left sidebar and click Cookie Banner (Ensure Pandectes GDPR Compliance is present in the Installed privacy apps section).
On the Cookie Banner page, click on More actions and select Use custom cookie banner.
From the Use Custom Cookie Banner modal, choose the regions in which you want the marketing and analytics data to be collected by Shopify after user consent and click Confirm.
By default are selected 31 regions (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom). You can also select more regions if you want.
Step 2. Enable app embed
To finalize the installation of the application you have to access the theme settings to enable Pandectes Core app embed.
From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click Customize.
On the sidebar, click the App embeds icon.
To enable the Pandectes Core app embed, either select it from the list or use the Search bar to find it among your installed apps.
Click on the toggle next to the Pandectes Core app embed to activate it, and click save.
Step 3. Select banner type / consent mode
Open the Pandectes GDPR Compliance app.
Navigate on Settings and then to Banner > Behavior
On the top, you can configure the Banner Type / Consent Mode. To comply with the regional laws, we recommend you select Accept/Decline or Accept only.
Note: If you are on any paid plan, we recommend selecting Preferences (which is more detailed). Under the Preferences, please select the Strict policy (or Strict/Loose Policy) and make sure at least the Decline and Accept buttons are checked for you.
Step 4. Privacy policy & Customer data request pages
a) Privacy policy page
Our cookie banner is good to have a link to your privacy policy page. Creating a Privacy Policy page that follows all the necessary rules to be compliant can be quite a burden to carry, and you probably have no time or resources needed to do it the right way. So if you still need one, the good news is that you can proceed with just a few clicks in seconds by following our guide here.
Once your privacy policy page is ready, you can link it directly to the banner. Open the app from the "Apps" heading on the left-side menu > "Settings" > "Banner" > “Behavior”, and scroll down on the Privacy Policy Link area.
When you click on the area of the link, a dropdown will open with all the store pages. From the list, you can select your privacy policy link. Also, with the link on the top of the link, you can preview the selected page or even refresh the dropdown pages.
Note: if your store has multiple domains or languages, you must use a relative path for your privacy policy page link. To do so, you can clear the link field by clicking the x on the right, and then you can type the relative path of the privacy policy page starting with a slash and then select the option "Create '/......'".
b) Customer data requests page
The customer data requests page is your final step. To keep transparency, you need to ensure your visitors are fully aware of what data is being collected and how it’s being used, and also give them the option to update their consent and make any requests regarding their personal data collected on your store.
The quickest way is with the code snippet. Open the app from the Apps heading on the left-side menu and then follow the Settings > Customer data requests, and on the top, you can click on the "View instructions" button. On the popup, copy the snippet code.
<div id="pandectes-dsr-container"><!-- leave empty --></div>
<script src="https://s.pandect.es/scripts/pandectes-dsr.js"></script>
Then on the left-side menu, open Online Store > Pages. Click "Add Page" on the top right and put as a title Customer Data Request or Data Subject Requests (or any other title you want). In the Content, click the right button that says "Show HTML" and in the textarea, paste the code snippet. Finally, Save from the top right.
🔔 Google’s new privacy compliance requirements (deadline March 2024), Consent Mode v2, and securing advertising 👉 Read how to enable it
Our app is compliant with the new Google Consent Mode v2 requirement
💡 Need more help? Get support by chatting with us from inside the app or by sending us an email.
Updated on: 11/03/2025
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