Shopify data security

Updated on 2024-03-29

Littledata takes security for our customer's data seriously, and along with our data security policy, this guide will help you understand what we do and do not track.

Data processing overview

Littledata AWS infrastructure

Littledata's systems, hosted in AWS US-East-1, accept webhooks and API responses from Shopify (all using SSL) and process the data for forwarding to data destinations (Google Analytics or Segment). The data never leaves the USA.

All access to Littledata's secure systems is limited to a handful of senior full-time employees, on a least privilege basis, using multi-factor authentication.

Our tracking script also tracks some pseudo-anonymous fields from the end user's browser and stores them temporarily in the cloud for use in this event processing.

Customer data processed

Our policy is to store and process as little personally identifiable (PII) data as possible, and the specifics of how we handle PII fields is below.

We also store non-PII data in our MongoDB instance, for up to 2 months after the event, to use in refunds and error investigation. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest

Data fieldReceived by LittledataTemporary storage *Relayed to GoogleRelayed to SegmentRelayed to Facebook **Relayed to PinterestRelayed to TikTokRelayed to Klaviyo
Payment information
Physical address
Email address
Customer name
Partial IP address ***
Platform specific client ID ****
Shopify customer number
Contents of the shopping cart (item name, sku and quantity)
Phone Number
  • We store some fields for up to a month for reuse with other events for the same customer. Any fields not specified here are not stored. These fields are not stored with any other data which could be used to infer the customer.

** All data relayed to Facebook is hashed.

*** Last octet is anonymized

**** GA client ID / Segment Anonymous ID / fbp / fbc