Running a successful e-commerce business often requires collecting details of your customers. These details often include credit card details, email addresses, gender, age, home or office address, and more.<\/p>\n
However, in recent times more people have become sensitive to how online service providers collect and use the data they share. According to Data Privacy Management<\/a>, 79% of respondents say they care about how companies collect and use their data.<\/p>\n In 2016, the European Union (EU) adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) policy. This policy aims to give web users a right over their data, preventing the misuse of collected data. Now internet users can decide whether or not they wish to share their details and how much they are willing to share.<\/p>\n Therefore, as a Shopify store owner, you need to abide by these policies as you go about collecting data from your customers. Failure to do this can get you into some dire legal issues. This is where the cookie consent bar comes into play.<\/p>\n