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VLink Privacy Policy

Last updated 25 July 2026

The short version. VLink stores your store's products and the content of the page you build, so it can render that page. It never sees your customers' payment details, because checkout happens in your own Shopify checkout. Its page analytics are daily totals only — no cookies, no IP addresses, no visitor profiles. The only personal data it ever stores about a shopper is what that shopper types into a contact form you chose to add.

Who this covers

This policy describes the VLink app for Shopify ("VLink", "we"), published by Vergenerd Ltd. It applies to merchants who install VLink and to visitors of the public pages VLink renders at vergr.app/l/<handle>.

For the purposes of the GDPR, the merchant is the data controller for their store and page data; Vergenerd Ltd acts as a data processor on the merchant's instructions.

What we store, and why

DataWhyKept for
Store domain, store name, currency, and the API access token Shopify issues at install To identify your store and to read your catalog on your behalf Until you uninstall
Product title, handle, description, vendor, type, image URL, variant prices, SKUs and inventory counts So your page renders instantly without calling Shopify on every visit, and so prices and stock stay correct Until you uninstall, or the product is deleted or unpublished
Your page content: blocks, text, images you upload, colours, fonts and settings It is the page. Without it there is nothing to render Until you delete it or uninstall
Daily totals: page views, link clicks, cart adds, checkouts started, per block To show you which parts of your page work Until you uninstall
Contact-form submissions ("leads"): name, email, message, and phone if given Only collected if you add a contact form block. They are your leads and only you can read them Until you delete them or uninstall
Your subscription tier To apply your plan's limits. Billing itself is handled by Shopify Until you uninstall
Sales attribution (only if order tracking is enabled for your store): the date, the order total, the currency, and which block on your page the sale came from To show you which part of your page actually earns money, rather than only which part gets clicked. No buyer details are stored — see below Until you uninstall

What we deliberately do not store

Cookies and local storage on your public page

VLink pages set no tracking cookies. Two items are written to the browser's own local storage, both functional:

If you add your own marketing pixels (Meta, TikTok, Google) to your page, VLink shows a consent bar and loads nothing until the visitor accepts. If they decline, no pixel is loaded. Those pixels are then governed by the privacy policy of the provider you chose, and by your own.

Product feeds

If you use the catalog feed, VLink publishes a feed of your products at a URL containing your page handle. It contains product information only — title, description, price, availability, image and link. It contains no personal data. Anyone with the URL can read it, which is what lets Meta, Google and TikTok fetch it. Treat the URL as public.

Who else sees this data

We do not sell data and we do not share it for advertising. It is processed by:

Your rights, and how deletion actually works

You can export your leads to CSV at any time from the app, and delete any page, block or lead yourself.

VLink implements Shopify's mandatory privacy webhooks, so deletion is automatic:

To exercise any right directly, or to ask what is held, email support@vergr.app. We reply within 30 days.

Security

Encrypted in transit and at rest. All traffic is served over HTTPS. Everything stored is held in Google Cloud Firestore and Cloudflare R2, both of which encrypt data at rest by default; we operate no unencrypted storage of our own.

Access tokens are stored server-side and are never sent to a browser. Admin requests are authenticated with short-lived Shopify session tokens, and every incoming webhook is verified against its HMAC signature before it is acted on. API keys, if you create any, are stored only as a one-way hash and are shown to you once at creation — we cannot recover one, and neither could anyone reading our database.

How long we keep things

We keep the minimum needed to run the app, for as long as you use it, and no longer:

What we use it for, and nothing else

We process the data above only to provide VLink to you: to build and serve your page, to keep your catalog and stock accurate, and to report your own statistics back to you. We do not sell it, we do not share it for advertising, we do not use it to train anything, and we do not use it to make automated decisions about any individual. If we ever needed it for a new purpose, this policy would change first.

Children

VLink is a business tool and is not directed at children under 16.

Changes

If this policy changes materially we will update the date above and notify merchants in the app. Continuing to use VLink after a change means accepting it.

Contact

Vergenerd Ltd — support@vergr.app

A separate Data Processing Agreement covers our role as your processor under UK GDPR and EU GDPR, including the sub-processors listed above.