Display your store policies and other legal information in Japan

Merchants who sell in Japan often add pages to display their store's legal policies, and then add links to those pages to their store's footer menu.

You need to create your own store policies. Contact a local legal expert for help.

You can create pages for the following store policies in the Shopify admin:

  • Legal notice (特定商取引法に基づく表記)
  • Terms of service
  • Terms of sale

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Policies.

  2. Enter your store policies.

  3. Click Save.

When you add your store policies, they're automatically linked in the footer of your checkout pages. You can also link to the policies from your online store navigation.

Add custom pages to display legal information

Adding store policies automatically adds a link to them in your checkout pages. However, creating new pages for your legal policies and linking them to your footer ensures that customers can view legal policies on any page of your online store.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Apps and sales channels.

  2. From the Apps and sales channels page, click Online Store.

  3. Click Open sales channel.

  4. Click Pages.

  5. Click Add page.

  6. Enter a Title the text box. Paste your legal policies into the Content text box provided.

  7. Click Save.

After creating your legal policies, and creating new pages for them, a lot of store owners add links to their legal policies in the footer of their online store. This allows customers to view legal policies outside of your checkout pages.

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Apps and sales channels.

  2. From the Apps and sales channels page, click Online Store.

  3. Click Open sales channel.

  4. Click Navigation.

  5. On the Navigation page, click your footer menu.

  6. Click Add menu item.

  7. Enter the title of your legal policies page.

  8. Click the Search or paste a link field, and then select Pages.

  9. Select the page that your legal policies are on.

  10. Click Add > Save menu.

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