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2.85M Shopify Stores, One Privacy Policy Rule: 2026 Data

2.85M Shopify Stores, One Privacy Policy Rule: 2026 Data

Shopify's Merchant Terms of Service require a privacy policy from merchants using Enhanced Services like Shopify Payments, but no independent audit has measured compliance across the 2.85 million actively trading stores counted by Store Leads in February 2026. Here is what is actually verifiable.

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66% of Small Business Websites Lack a Privacy Policy [2026]

66% of Small Business Websites Lack a Privacy Policy [2026]

66% of company websites, two out of every three sampled, carry no privacy policy hyperlink on their landing page, according to Pennsylvania State University's 2023 study of a 7.17 million company dataset. See the sample breakdown, sector gap, and what US state privacy laws require in 2026.

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