Privacy policy
Last updated: October 21, 2026
This store at shop.bestfriends.org is run by Best Friends Animal Society. Our main privacy policy explains how we collect, use and protect your information, and it applies here too. This page adds what's different about the store. Where the two disagree about the store, this page governs.
Shopify runs our store
Our store is hosted by Shopify. When you browse, buy something or give a gift here, Shopify processes your information, including your contact and shipping details, your order and how you use the store, so we can run the store and fill your order.
Shopify's Enhanced Services
We currently have Shopify Network Intelligence turned on. With it on, Shopify combines what you do on our store with what you do with other Shopify stores and with Shopify itself. Shopify uses that combined information for its own purposes as well as ours: to personalize shopping, to show you more relevant ads, and to understand how people use stores and ads. Shopify calls these Enhanced Services, and it decides how your information is used for them under its own privacy policy.
To provide these services, your information is shared with Shopify and with other companies that may be located outside the United States.
Read how Shopify handles your information in Shopify's Privacy Policy and its Consumer Privacy Policy. You can ask Shopify directly to limit its use of your data for ads, or to give you or delete the data it holds about you, at privacy.shopify.com.
We may turn Network Intelligence off. If we do, we'll update this page.
Our supporter list
We don't sell, rent or exchange our donor or supporter list. Separately, Shopify's use of store activity for Enhanced Services may count as "selling" or "sharing" personal information, or as "targeted advertising," under some U.S. state privacy laws. That's why we give you the choices below.
Opting out
You can opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information and of targeted advertising in either of two ways:
- Use our Your Privacy Choices page, linked at the bottom of every store page.
- Email privacy@bestfriends.org with "Store opt-out" in the subject.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, the store treats it as a request to opt out.
When you opt out, Shopify won't use your activity on our store for advertising. Shopify still processes your information to run the store and fill your orders. Opt-outs made through the page or GPC may apply only to the browser you used. To have your data deleted, including from Shopify's Enhanced Services, email privacy@bestfriends.org or use privacy.shopify.com. Opting out never changes your prices, your order or how we treat you.
Cookies on the store
The store uses cookies and similar technology, including Shopify's. You can accept or decline non-essential cookies in the cookie banner, and change your choice any time with the Cookie preferences link at the bottom of the store. If you decline, Shopify won't use your device data from our store for non-essential purposes, including ads.
Questions
Email privacy@bestfriends.org.