Privacy policy
Last updated October 1, 2026
Mint Swatches is a Shopify app made by Mint Labs ("we", "us"). It shows a store's colour options as swatches on product pages and product cards, and can link separate products into one swatch row. This policy explains what the app handles, why, and when it's deleted.
The short version
- The app works with product data only. It doesn't collect or store anything about shoppers: no names, emails, addresses, IP addresses or order data.
- Swatches are drawn by the store's theme from Shopify's data. Shopper clicks and choices stay in the shopper's browser.
- No cookies, no tracking, no analytics, no advertising, nothing sold or shared.
Information about merchants
| Information | Why |
|---|---|
| Store domain and a Shopify access token | To publish the swatch settings and product groups to the store, and to read products for the product picker and the colour-name check. |
| The app's installation ID, app ID and app handle in the store | To write the settings to the app's own storage in Shopify and to recognise the app's blocks in the live theme for the setup checklist. |
| Settings: which options show as swatches, colour names with their colours or image links, style and card settings | To show swatches the way the merchant set them up. |
| Product groups: product IDs, titles, handles and image links of the grouped products, and their swatch labels, colours or image links | To edit the groups in the app and publish them to the grouped products. |
| Plan and subscription status, and whether the last publish worked | Read from Shopify (Shopify App Pricing, looked up with your store's Shopify ID) to decide which features apply, and to show problems in the app. Payments are handled entirely by Shopify. |
What the app writes to the store
- One app-only setting in Shopify (an app-data metafield) with the swatch settings, which the theme reads.
- On grouped products only: two read-only fields owned by the app (
Mint Swatches groupandMint Swatches group products). The app never changes product titles, prices, variants, images, options or stock. - Nothing is written into the theme's code. The app's theme blocks are removed by Shopify when the app is uninstalled.
Shoppers
| Information | How it's used | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Swatch clicks, hovers and taps | Handled by the swatch script in the shopper's browser, which selects the theme's own variant picker or opens the product page. Never sent to us. | Not kept |
| Product cards the page couldn't prepare swatches for (Pro card swatches) | The script asks the store, through Shopify's app proxy, for swatch data for up to 20 product handles at a time. Shopify signs these requests and adds the store's domain and, for a logged-in shopper, their numeric customer ID. The app ignores the customer ID, answers with a template that Shopify fills in from the store's own catalogue, and stores and logs nothing about the request (our hosting logs don't keep request addresses or query strings). | Not kept |
| Browser storage and cookies | None. The scripts don't use cookies, local storage or session storage. | — |
Customer privacy requests
- Access requests (Shopify's
customers/data_request) and erasure requests (customers/redact): we hold no customer data, so there is nothing to report or delete. - Store deletion (
shop/redact, sent 48 hours after a merchant uninstalls): we permanently delete everything we hold for the store.
Where data is processed and how it's protected
The app runs on Cloudflare (hosting and database) and connects to Shopify's APIs. Data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. Access is limited to Mint Labs staff who need it to provide support. We use no other sub-processors, analytics or trackers. See our security policy.
Retention
Settings and product groups are kept while the app is installed and deleted 48 hours after uninstall (so a quick reinstall doesn't lose them). Access tokens are deleted as soon as the app is uninstalled. Shopify removes the app-data setting with the app and cleans up the app's product fields on its own schedule.
Your rights
Depending on where you are, you may have the right to access, correct or delete information about you. Merchants can contact us directly; we respond within 30 days.
Changes
If we change this policy we'll update the date above and, for significant changes, notify merchants in the app.
Contact
Mint Labs — support@stickermint.com