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There's a few issues I'm seeing with automating Customer Privacy options:
1. The generated Privacy Policy has a typo/grammatical error under the Children's Data section:
If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we "share" or "sell" (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
This should be a simple fix, but it requires turning off automation for now.
2. The generated Privacy Policy includes our Shopify owner's address in the Contact section:
Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please call or email us at [store_owner_email] or contact us at [store_owner_address] For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller of your personal information.
The verbiage here says call or email us and only provides an email, and we should be able to hide the address or choose a different, public address, for this text.
3. The Data Sharing Opt-Out Page includes confusing text:
To opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information collected using cookies and other device-based identifiers as described above, you must be browsing from one of the applicable US states referred to above.
There are no states listed in the text about this, so it's misleading/confusing. This piece does not seem customizable at all - I can't find it anywhere. When I visit this page from a private browser (FireFox or Chrome Incognito) we see this text. When I visit the page from a logged in Chrome account (Georgia, USA) we are not seeing the verbiage, and we can "opt-out" even though Georgia is not one of the states listed in the automated settings' states.
4. The Data Sharing Opt-Out Page is not being included in our menus when automated:
We've tried setting this in the Customer privacy > Data sharing opt-out page to the Footer menu (recommended), we've tried adding it to the Footer menu via Content > Menus > Footer menu and it will not show up in either case. Other changes to the menu reflect when we reorder items or add links there, but the "Your privacy choices" page will not show up. We've added a direct link to the page URL for now but it should work when we select the page or add it via the Customer privacy settings.
5. Cookie Consent dialogue shows up for visitors outside visible regions:
This seems odd - when I visit the website from a private browser (FireFox or Chrome Incognito), I don't see the consent dialogue. But when I visit from Chrome (logged in from Georgia, USA - doesn't require consent) I do see it. According to the automated regions, the US is not included in places that should see the cookie consent banner.
Seems like these automations could use some work and small customizations shouldn't preclude automation functionality.