Shopify is probably the best-known and most widespread e-commerce platform on the internet. Online shops can be set up with just a few clicks and layouts can be designed flexibly. Shopify also offers a large marketplace of individual themes, most of which are chargeable. Furthermore, there is a large market for plug-ins that can extend your Shopify shop with various functions. Shopify offers connections to the most common payment service providers. As a user, you are also provided with various reports about your shop.
Shopify stores the majority of customer data on Canadian and EU servers. However, it cannot be ruled out that servers in the USA are also used for data storage. After the Privacy Shield agreement between the USA and the EU was overturned, Shopify reacted and published a Data Privacy Addendum. Source: https://help.shopify.com/de/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR/GDPR-Shopify
In addition to Shopify hosting, the shop operator itself is also obliged to comply with the GDPR guidelines. This requires, among other things, a compliant cookie banner for the corresponding online shop, as well as several other measures.
