How to setup data sales opt-out

Introduction

A data sales opt-out page is a specific page on your online store designed to give visitors the option to refuse the sale or sharing of their personal data with third parties. This page empowers users by giving them the ability to manage how their information is used and distributed. The presence of the Global Privacy Control (GPC) header triggers the automatic opt-out from the sale or sharing of data. More about how this feature works can be read here.

Setup Regions

Based on the recent updates from Shopify regarding the Customer Privacy you may see this screen under your Settings > Customer privacy. On the privacy settings click on the Data sales opt-out page option.


On the next screen you click on the Activate page button.


On the pop up just click the Activate button.


The next screen will look like this:



You can click on the edit option to visit the page that is auto generated in order to mark it as draft and proceed with the more advanced page from our app.

Create the page from Pandectes GDPR Compliance

Option A. If your theme supports Online Store 2.0:

Navigate to the active Theme.
Use the menu on top, select Pages → Create template and name it donotsell.
With the newly created template selected on the left side panel, click the Add section button, search for Pandectes Do Not Sell and add it to the template.
Make sure the item is visible (eye icon) and click Save to update the theme.
Navigate to Pages.
Select an existing page or create a new one and give it a proper title.
On the right side, set the theme template to point to the donotsell template you created in the previous step.
Click Save to update the page.

Option B. In any other case:

Navigate to Pages.
Select an existing page or create a new one and give it a proper title.
Switch to HTML view, copy the code snippet below and paste it inside the body of the page.
<div id="pandectes-ccpa-container"><!-- leave empty --></div><script src="https://s.pandect.es/c/pandectes-ccpa.js"></script>
Click Save to update the page.

Create a menu link to the page

Go to the Navigation page in admin.
Click the Footer option to navigate to the Footer menu.
Click on the Add menu item to create a new menu entry.
Name the menu item Do Not Sell and have the link point to the new page you created in step 1.
Click the Save to save changes.

Updated on: 03/10/2024