How To Add Privacy Policy To Shopify

Access your Shopify account by using your login details.

Go to the ‘Online Store’ and the ‘Pages’ option. From here you need to click on the option that says ‘Add Page’.

Now you need to enter a title for the page. It is recommended that you use the term ‘Privacy Policy’. This will mark it clearly for search engines and customers. You should also enter in limited amount of meta data for the page. Although you want Google to know it is there, you don’t want your ‘Privacy Policy’ to rank above other pages on your site.

Now you need to add the content that will become your ‘Privacy Policy’. You could get a lawyer to create this for you. However, there are lots of templates on the internet that you can use for free (either with or without attribution). All you need to do is to go to Google and search for ‘Privacy Policy Template, free’ and you will get a list.

Check that you edit the right parts of the ‘Privacy Policy’. Be sure that you’re entering in the right business address, legal jurisdiction and other details.

Be sure to spend some time on this part. It is recommended that you read the content at least three or four times to ensure you’re not missing parts out.

Now you need to set visibility. This is how you tell Shopify to publish the page. Be sure that your visibility is set to published, otherwise your policy won’t count for your SEO and customers won’t be able to see it.

Once you’ve made the changes, be sure that you click on the ‘Save’ button.

While you’ve created a page, if you want the ‘Privacy Policy’ to have the most impact, both on customers reading it and Google recognizing it, you should add your ‘Privacy Policy’ to your menu. It is best if you have this in a footer menu, but you can have it on the top menu if you have little other content up there.