The next thing we now want to do is to create some policies for our store, because every store needs
a terms and conditions, a privacy policy and a refund policy.
Now, I appreciate these aren't the most exciting pages that we're ever going to create, but they are
essential.
And so in this lecture, I'm going to show you how to create the privacy policy and the terms and conditions.
And then we'll have a look at the refund policy later on when I start talking to you in more detail
about sales.
Now, once again, good news because Shopify actually makes this very easy for us.
So what you'll need to do is to come down to the settings and then scroll down towards the bottom where
you're going to see policies where you can see straight away.
We can create written policies for returns and refunds, a privacy policy, terms of service, a shipping
policy, contact information and a legal notice.
And of these, the ones we're going to concentrate on right now are the privacy policy and the terms
of service.
And I repeat myself, but we will come back to the return and refund policy later on in the course.
Now, I also said that Shopify makes this really easy and it really does.
Because if we start with the privacy policy, when I click into this, you will see immediately without
you doing anything at all, that Shopify has created an absolutely fantastic privacy policy for us.
And if that's not enough, I draw your attention to this at the top where it says use automated policy.
And below you can see that it says keep policy content in sync with store settings and latest Shopify
templates.
And that means that as long as you have this switched on, then this privacy policy is going to get
automatically updated with not only changes that you might make to your store, but also any changes
that Shopify makes to the privacy policy in general to ensure that everything is always kept completely
up to date.
And so there we go.
That's the privacy policy already done.
And so let me come out of here and go to the terms of service.
Now here you'll notice that things are a little different because we have a place to write text, which
at the moment is completely blank.
But fear not, because up here I have a button that says insert template, and when I click on this,
it immediately gives me a ready made terms of service, which is an absolutely fantastic start.
Now once again, there really is nothing to do here, although I would encourage you just to read down
to make sure that you are happy with the text that has been supplied.
But really, the only thing you need to concentrate on is the part at the bottom here where you have
a choice.
Either you could insert your trading name as they suggest, and then if I had also a business address,
a phone number, a registration number, a VAT number, etc. I could also include that here.
But to be honest with you, the simplest thing at this stage, particularly if you don't have a business,
is simply to delete this and also to delete where it asks you to insert the trading name, leaving simply
your email address, which is totally sufficient.
And so now I can click on publish.
And now you have a fantastic privacy policy and a Terms of service.
Now having created those, clearly the next thing we want to make sure of is that the visitors to our
site can find these policies.
So let's have a look and see how we're going to do that in the next lecture.