1. Overview
QuoteFlow is a Shopify application operated by MindFlash Studio. It helps merchants collect structured quote requests from product, cart and store pages, prepare and deliver offers, receive customer decisions, and create Shopify Draft Orders and payment links.
This policy explains how QuoteFlow processes information when a merchant installs or uses the app and when a customer submits or responds to a quote request.
2. Privacy roles
The Shopify merchant decides why and how customer information is collected through its store. For that information, the merchant is generally the data controller and MindFlash Studio processes the information through QuoteFlow as a service provider or processor on the merchant's behalf.
MindFlash Studio acts as a controller for limited information needed to operate QuoteFlow itself, such as merchant account and installation information, app security records, service usage, billing entitlement, support communication and legal-compliance records.
Customers should normally direct privacy requests to the merchant whose store collected their information. QuoteFlow supports merchants in responding to applicable Shopify privacy and deletion requests.
3. Information processed
Merchant and store information
- Shopify shop domain and store identifiers.
- App installation, authentication and session information.
- QuoteFlow settings, storefront setup and theme-placement diagnostics.
- Plan, entitlement and monthly request-usage information.
- Operational actions, status history, audit records and support communications.
- Limited app-success milestones and native Shopify review-prompt attempt records. These records are not intended to contain customer contact information.
Customer information submitted through a merchant's store
- Contact fields enabled by the merchant, such as name, phone number, email address, city and message.
- Product, variant, quantity, price, currency, cart and page context connected to the request.
- Product and variant identifiers, product links and request source.
Quote and sales-workflow information
- Request status, merchant notes and activity history.
- Offer contents, line items, versions, discounts, shipping or custom adjustments entered by the merchant.
- Protected offer links, customer acceptance or rejection and related timestamps.
- Email delivery records and merchant-initiated WhatsApp workflow records.
- Shopify Draft Order, payment-link, order and conversion references.
Technical and security information
- Request timestamps, error and diagnostic information.
- Authentication, access and personal-data audit records.
- Anti-abuse, rate-limiting, duplicate-submission and idempotency records.
- Infrastructure logs needed for reliability, security and incident investigation.
Information QuoteFlow does not require
QuoteFlow does not process payment-card numbers or customer passwords. Payments are completed through Shopify or the merchant's configured payment services. QuoteFlow does not sell personal information, build cross-store customer profiles, or use customer quote data for unrelated advertising.
4. How information is used
QuoteFlow processes information to:
- Install, authenticate and operate the embedded Shopify app.
- Display and submit quote-request forms selected by the merchant.
- Show requests and customer-provided context inside Shopify Admin.
- Prepare, version, deliver and track merchant offers.
- Support customer acceptance or rejection of an offer.
- Prepare merchant-initiated WhatsApp messages and send app emails where enabled.
- Create Shopify Draft Orders and payment links after merchant action.
- Reconcile quote outcomes with Shopify orders and payment status.
- Apply Free and Pro plan limits and maintain billing entitlement.
- Prevent abuse, protect accounts, troubleshoot errors and maintain service reliability.
- Respond to support, privacy, security and legal requests.
For customer data processed on behalf of a merchant, the merchant determines the applicable legal basis. For limited information processed directly by MindFlash Studio, processing may be necessary to provide the service, meet legal obligations, protect the service and users, or pursue legitimate operational and security interests.
QuoteFlow does not make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects for customers.
5. Service providers and external platforms
Information is disclosed only as needed to operate QuoteFlow, follow merchant instructions, protect the service, or comply with law. Relevant providers and platforms include:
- Shopify — installation, authentication, embedded administration, app proxy, billing, product and theme data, Draft Orders, orders, privacy webhooks and native app-review functionality.
- Google Cloud — application hosting, managed database, storage, backups, logging and infrastructure security.
- Resend — transactional email delivery when QuoteFlow email functionality is used.
- WhatsApp / Meta — only when a merchant chooses to open WhatsApp and send a prepared message. QuoteFlow does not automatically send WhatsApp messages on the merchant's behalf.
- Professional advisers, authorities or transaction counterparties where disclosure is reasonably necessary and legally permitted.
These providers process information under their own terms and privacy commitments. Some providers may process information outside the country where the merchant or customer is located and may rely on contractual or other legally recognized transfer safeguards.
6. Retention and deletion
QuoteFlow retains merchant settings, requests, offers, workflow history and related records while the app is installed and while the information is needed for the merchant's sales workflow, service security, support or legal obligations.
Merchants can manage requests through QuoteFlow's archive, trash, restore and deletion controls where available. QuoteFlow also handles applicable Shopify customer-data access, customer-redaction and shop-redaction requests.
When QuoteFlow is uninstalled, the app initiates deletion of the shop record, Shopify sessions and associated QuoteFlow data, including settings, quote requests, items, notes, offer workflow records and personal-data access logs, subject to limited operational, security, legal and backup retention.
Encrypted backups and platform logs can remain for a limited period until they are overwritten or expire under infrastructure-provider retention schedules. Information required to investigate abuse, resolve disputes, comply with law or protect legal rights may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for those purposes.
7. Privacy rights and requests
Depending on applicable law, individuals may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or portability of personal information and to complain to a relevant supervisory authority.
Customers should first contact the Shopify merchant that collected the quote request because the merchant controls the customer relationship and can identify the relevant store record. Merchants can then use QuoteFlow and Shopify's privacy-request mechanisms to complete the request.
Merchants and other individuals can contact MindFlash Studio at privacy@mindflashstudio.com. Additional information may be requested where reasonably necessary to verify identity, authority and the relevant Shopify store.
8. Security
QuoteFlow uses Shopify authentication, shop-scoped authorization, HTTPS/TLS, server-side secret handling, managed cloud infrastructure, access logging, abuse controls, idempotent operations and controlled production access. No internet service can guarantee absolute security, but reasonable technical and organizational measures are maintained to reduce unauthorized access, alteration, loss and misuse.
9. Cookies and tracking
QuoteFlow may use essential Shopify and application mechanisms required for authentication, security and service operation. QuoteFlow does not use customer quote information for cross-site advertising and does not add advertising pixels through its storefront extension.
10. Children
QuoteFlow is a business tool for Shopify merchants and is not designed to collect personal information directly from children. Merchants are responsible for configuring and using their stores in accordance with laws applicable to their customers.
11. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when QuoteFlow's functionality, providers or legal obligations change. The current version and effective date will remain available at this URL.
12. Contact
MindFlash Studio
Operator of QuoteFlow
privacy@mindflashstudio.com