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Shopify

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Determination
Partly evidenced — the words this record quotes carry only part of this finding.
The quote names Shopify Inc., a Canadian corporation, as the entity for Canada, and Shopify Payments (USA) Inc., organized under the laws of Delaware, without saying which merchants it serves; Shopify International Limited, Shopify Commerce Singapore Pte. Ltd and every Designated Country but Canada rest on text this record does not quote. GLEIF records the entity's own reporting exception for its parent (NO_KNOWN_PERSON, read [2026-09-12]).
shopify.com · read 2026-09-16
read from terms of service
Contracting entity
Shopify Inc., for Canada
Jurisdiction
Not established
Governing law
Depends on the document and, for Shopify Payments, on where the merchant operates. The Shopify Terms of Service, which every merchant accepts, are governed by “the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein” whatever the merchant's billing region; the billing region changes the Shopify contracting party and the courts, not the law (§13 and §16, last updated 1 August 2026). The Shopify Payments Terms, which merchants using Shopify Payments also accept, are governed by the law for the customer's (the merchant's) Designated Country (Part I, Section D9; the page shows no date): Canada, “The laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein”; United States, “The laws of the State of Delaware”; Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, “The laws of Ireland”; Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore, “The laws of Singapore”. A security interest created under Part I, Section C2 of the Payments Terms is instead governed by “the laws of the applicable country, state, province, territory, or other jurisdiction in which such security interest is registered”. Read 22 September 2026.
US corporate control
Not established the rule
Depends on
The agreement is under a governing law that depends on where the customer is based.

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Who controls it
US corporate controlPartly evidenced — the quote names Shopify Inc., a Canadian corporation, as the entity for Canada, and Shopify Payments (USA) Inc., organized under the laws of Delaware, without saying which merchants it serves; Shopify International Limited, Shopify Commerce Singapore Pte. Ltd and every Designated Country but Canada rest on text this record does not quote · clause last confirmed 17 Sep 2026; its host's terms forbid automated re-reading, so it is not re-checked
Contracting entityShopify Inc., for Canada
Governing lawDepends on the document and, for Shopify Payments, on where the merchant operates. The Shopify Terms of Service, which every merchant accepts, are governed by “the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein” whatever the merchant's billing region; the billing region changes the Shopify contracting party and the courts, not the law (§13 and §16, last updated 1 August 2026). The Shopify Payments Terms, which merchants using Shopify Payments also accept, are governed by the law for the customer's (the merchant's) Designated Country (Part I, Section D9; the page shows no date): Canada, “The laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein”; United States, “The laws of the State of Delaware”; Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, “The laws of Ireland”; Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore, “The laws of Singapore”. A security interest created under Part I, Section C2 of the Payments Terms is instead governed by “the laws of the applicable country, state, province, territory, or other jurisdiction in which such security interest is registered”. Read 22 September 2026.

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Record history

This is the history of our record of this vendor: when we first recorded it; each time one of these changed: the determination sentence, the contracting entity, its country, the governing law, the US-control finding, what the answer depends on, the note beside the finding, or the cited document; and each time the vendor's document was read again and none of them changed. A change only in capitals, punctuation or spacing is not a line, and neither is a first document title. A line names what changed and does not repeat what those fields said before; the determination above says what they say now. Where the determination sentence itself changed, the line shows the earlier sentence too, marked as before, with why it changed. The automated re-check's latest result is not a line here; it is printed beside the clause above. A change here may be the vendor changing its document or us correcting our reading of it, and a line says which only where the record shows it; otherwise it says the cause is not established. Each line is today's reading of the record as it stood on that date. A reading we later found its citation does not carry was withdrawn, and is not repeated here. This history as data.

Signals on file
Origin
Canada

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Shopify: “Partly evidenced — the words this record quotes carry only part of this finding.”
Vannus, https://vannus.co/tool/shopify
shopify.com · read 2026-09-16

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