Legal Documents Built for Shopify Stores

Shopify creates store policy pages in your admin and shows them at checkout and in your footer, which gets the pages live in minutes. Whether the wording matches how your store operates is a separate question, and that part is yours. Shopify's templates are a starting point, and a privacy notice or refund policy that contradicts what your store does is what a regulator or a card network treats as a deceptive practice.

If you sell through a subscription app, your renewal terms fall under state automatic renewal laws. California's amended law took effect July 1, 2025, and it requires consent to the renewal terms through a separate checkbox or button, a cancel path online as easy as signup, and a reminder before a free trial converts to paid. The Eighth Circuit vacated the FTC's federal click-to-cancel rule on July 8, 2025, days before it took effect, but the older Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act and the active state laws still govern how your subscriptions renew, so your terms and your checkout language both have to match them.

Most Shopify stores run analytics, the Meta and TikTok pixels, email tools, and post-purchase upsell apps, and each one that sees customer data belongs in your privacy policy. Tracking pixels have driven a wave of wiretapping suits under the California Invasion of Privacy Act and the federal Wiretap Act, where the defense depends on consent captured through a cookie banner and a privacy notice that discloses the tracking. Eight new state privacy laws took effect in 2025, several reaching stores with as few as 35,000 residents in a state, so a larger store now carries disclosure and opt-out duties it did not have a year earlier.

Selling physical goods adds another set of rules. The FTC's Mail, Internet, or Telephone Order Rule requires you to ship within the time you promise or within 30 days, then notify the buyer and refund if you can't, and economic nexus can make you owe sales tax in a state where you've passed $100,000 in sales with no store or warehouse there. TermsBuilder builds your terms, privacy policy, and refund policy from how your store operates, because a dropshipping catalog, a downloads store, and a subscription brand face different renewal, fulfillment, and data questions. Our questionnaire asks about your payment methods, installed apps, fulfillment, and tracking tools, then generates terms, a privacy policy, and a refund policy that fit how you sell.