Privacy Policy

Ready Your Store -- Third Cache Pty Ltd (ABN 69 138 584 228)
Effective date: on installation · Last updated: 15 July 2026

Section 1

Introduction

Ready Your Store ("RYS", "we", "us", "our") is a Shopify application operated by Third Cache Pty Ltd (ABN 69 138 584 228), a company registered in Melbourne, Australia. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect information when you use our application.

We comply with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (including the Australian Privacy Principles), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and Shopify's data protection requirements.

By installing and using RYS, you agree to the practices described in this policy. If you do not agree, please uninstall the application.

Section 2

Information We Collect

Store Data (via Shopify API)

When you install RYS, we access the following data through the Shopify API to scan your store and apply fixes:

ScopeData AccessedPurpose
read_products / write_productsProduct titles, descriptions, variants, metafields, imagesScan for AI-visibility gaps; apply approved fixes to product metafields
read_content / write_contentPages, blog posts, articlesScan content quality; apply approved content fixes
read_themes / write_themesTheme files, template structureScan theme configuration; install theme app extension for schema injection
read_inventoryInventory levels, stock statusScan for inventory-related schema accuracy
read_locationsStore locationsScan for local business schema and location-based trust signals

Scan Results and Readiness Scores

We generate and store the results of each scan, including your readiness scores (GEO, UCP, and AP2), category breakdowns, and per-technique outcomes. This data is linked to your store.

Fix History

We maintain an audit trail of all fixes: what was changed, when, who approved it, and rollback data (retained for 72 hours).

AI-Generated Content

When you use the Content Engine, we store draft content generated by AI until you approve, edit, or discard it.

Account Information

Your Shopify store domain, store name, and Shopify plan information. Billing is handled entirely by Shopify -- we do not process or store payment information.

Important: RYS does not collect or store individual customer data. We do not access your customers' personal information, order history, or browsing behaviour. We only analyse publicly accessible store pages and product information.
Section 3

How We Use Your Information

We do not sell your data. We do not use your data for advertising. We do not share your data with third parties except as described in Section 6.

Section 4

AI-Powered Content Generation

The Content Engine uses large language models from Anthropic (Claude) and OpenAI (GPT) to generate content suggestions for your store. When you request content generation:

Additional AI model providers may be added as the field evolves. We will update this policy and our Sub-Processor List accordingly.

Section 5

Legal Basis for Processing

Under GDPR Article 6, we process your data on the following bases:

BasisApplication
Contract PerformanceProcessing necessary to provide the RYS service you have installed and subscribed to
Legitimate InterestAggregated analytics to improve scanning accuracy and product quality (your data is de-identified)
ConsentOptional marketing communications (you can unsubscribe at any time)
Legal ObligationCompliance with applicable laws including Australian tax obligations
Section 6

Data Sharing and Sub-Processors

We share data only with the following categories of third-party service providers, each under appropriate data processing agreements:

ProviderPurposeData Shared
Shopify Inc.Platform, billing, app hostingStore data, merchant account info
Supabase Inc.Database and authenticationAll application data (encrypted at rest)
Railway Corp.Application hostingApplication logs, API traffic
SentryError trackingError reports (PII filtered)
Anthropic PBCAI content generationProduct data for content generation
OpenAI Inc.AI content generationProduct data for content generation
Porkbun LLCTransactional emailEmail addresses, email content

For a detailed list, see our Sub-Processor List. We will notify active merchants before adding new sub-processors.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your information to any third party for marketing purposes.

Section 7

International Data Transfers

Third Cache Pty Ltd is an Australian company. Your data may be processed in jurisdictions outside Australia by our sub-processors, including the United States and Canada. Where data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, we rely on:

Section 8

Data Retention

We retain your data only as long as necessary to provide the service. For full details, see our Data Retention and Deletion Policy.

Data TypeRetention Period
Store metadataWhile installed + 30 days after uninstall
Product dataWhile installed, deleted on uninstall
Scan results and readiness scoresWhile installed + 90 days after uninstall
Operational fix history (approvals, rollback data)Rollback data 72 hours; remaining operational records deleted on a verified data-deletion (shop/redact) request
Compliance evidence receiptsAppend-only and tamper-evident. Not deleted on uninstall or by data-deletion requests -- see Section 9. Retained as an immutable compliance record; a 7-year retention schedule aligned with Australian record-keeping norms is being finalised.
AI-generated content draftsWhile installed, deleted on uninstall
Customer PIINot collected

The compliance evidence receipts in the row above are the one class of data we deliberately do not erase on request. They are a hash-chained, append-only ledger, so deleting a row would break the integrity proof. This is described in Section 9, and the lawful erasure of any personal data these receipts may contain is addressed there rather than by deletion.

Section 9

Evidence and Compliance Receipts

To make our fixes accountable and auditable, RYS keeps a tamper-evident record of the significant actions it takes on your store. We call these evidence receipts. They exist so that, if a scan result or an applied fix is ever questioned, there is an independently verifiable record of what happened and when.

What a receipt captures

A receipt is created for actions such as: a scan completing, a fix being applied, a fix being rolled back, a merchant approval, and disclosure events. Each receipt records the nature of the action, the store data involved (for example, the before and after values of a product field that a fix changed), and the time it occurred.

Please note: receipts currently record the store content involved in an action in full. We are implementing a minimisation control that replaces sensitive fields with a one-way salted hash before a receipt is written; this control is planned and not yet in effect, so today's receipts should be treated as holding the underlying store content, not a redacted form of it. Receipts relate to your store's own content and settings -- RYS does not access your customers' personal records (see Section 2).

How receipts are secured and retained

Deletion and erasure

Because the ledger is append-only, evidence receipts are deliberately excluded from the deletion performed on a Shopify shop/redact (data-deletion) request; all other store data is deleted as described in Section 8. Our intended mechanism for erasing any personal data that a receipt may contain is cryptographic erasure -- destroying the key needed to read an encrypted field, so the record stays intact and verifiable but the sensitive value becomes unrecoverable -- rather than deleting the receipt. This erasure mechanism is a stated intention that depends on the minimisation control above and is not yet operational. If you need personal data within the evidence layer addressed before then, contact us at support@readyyourstore.com.

Section 10

Automated Processing and Automated Decisions (APP 1.7)

In the interests of transparency, and ahead of the automated-decision-making disclosure requirements being introduced under the Australian Privacy Principles (APP 1.7), which take effect on approximately 10 December 2026, we describe here how RYS uses automated processing.

RYS uses automated processing in two ways:

These automated processes produce scores, findings, and draft suggestions only. They do not, on their own, make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about an individual, and they are not applied to your store automatically: a proposed fix or generated content is only applied after you review and approve it. A human -- you, the merchant -- remains in the loop for every change.

You may ask us how a particular scan result or AI suggestion was produced, or request human review of an outcome, by emailing support@readyyourstore.com.

Section 11

Your Rights Under GDPR

If you are in the European Economic Area, you have the following rights:

To exercise any of these rights, email support@readyyourstore.com. We will respond within 30 days.

Section 12

Your Rights Under the Australian Privacy Act

Under the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), you have the right to:

Section 13

Cookies and Tracking

RYS is an embedded Shopify application. Our cookie usage is minimal:

We do not use analytics cookies, advertising cookies, or third-party tracking cookies. For full details, see our Cookie Policy.

Section 14

Children's Privacy

RYS is a business tool for Shopify merchants. It is not directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

Section 15

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will:

Continued use of the application after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Section 16

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your data rights:

Email: support@readyyourstore.com
Company: Third Cache Pty Ltd
ABN: 69 138 584 228
Location: Melbourne, Australia

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