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# What is the CCPA?

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a bill intended to enhance privacy rights and consumer protection for residents of California, United States. 

The effective date of the CCPA is **January 1, 2020**. It is the first law of its kind in the United States.

The CCPA applies to any business, including any for-profit entity that collects consumers’ personal data, which does business in California, and satisfies at least one of the following thresholds:

* Has annual gross revenues in excess of $25 million;
* Buys or sells the personal information of 50,000 or more consumers or households; or
* Earns more than half of its annual revenue from selling consumers’ personal information.

Organizations are required to “implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices” in protecting consumer data.

### Transparency requirements

Starting January 1, 2020, California consumers can request that businesses share: – the categories and specific pieces of personal information that the business collects about them; – the categories of sources of that information; – the purpose for which that information is used; and – the categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose over the previous twelve months. As a result, if you are subject to the law, you should begin to gather documentation on your data management practices, looking back as far as January 1, 2019.

### Annual revenue of more than $25 million USD

To check your business’s annual revenue, navigate to the Analytics tab in your admin. Change the date range to the year you are investigating.

Don't have a Privacy Policy/Terms & Conditions page on your store yet? Follow [these instructions](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/checkout-settings/refund-privacy-tos) to see how you can create your store policies.