Privacy Policy — Consent Matters
Effective date: October 5, 2026
Consent Matters is a cookie-consent app for Shopify stores. It was built around a simple principle: a privacy tool should collect as little data as technically possible. This page describes exactly what the app stores and what it never touches.
What the app stores
- The banner settings you configure (colors, texts, translations, layout, targeting choices) — saved inside your own Shopify store as app data, not on the app's servers.
- A short-lived API session issued by Shopify, held only in the server's memory while you use the app admin.
That is the complete list. The app has no database of its own.
What the app never stores
- No shopper or visitor personal data. Consent choices made by your visitors are recorded through Shopify's own Customer Privacy API and stay in the visitor's browser and Shopify's platform — they never reach this app's servers.
- No analytics or tracking of any kind — the app does not track merchants or shoppers, and your storefront never sends requests to the app's servers during normal browsing.
- No customer records — the app requests no access to orders, customers, or store content. It only reads your store's languages (to translate the banner) and your Shopify cookie banner setting (so it can show whether Shopify's own banner is also on, and switch it off when you click the button to do so).
Data deletion
Uninstalling the app makes Shopify delete the app's settings from your store automatically. The app also subscribes to Shopify's mandatory GDPR webhooks (customers/data_request, customers/redact, shop/redact) and honors them: since no customer data is stored there is nothing to return for customer requests, and the app keeps no shop records of its own to remove.
Infrastructure
The app runs on Vercel (hosting) in the United States (US East), which processes requests solely to operate the service.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data? Email the developer — every message is read and answered personally.