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Sub-processors

Last updated: 2026-10-13

loving uses the following third-party services to operate the platform. Each processes only the data needed for its function, under a written agreement with data-protection, security and confidentiality obligations consistent with our Privacy Policy and, for data we process for stores, the Data Processing Addendum.

"Where" is where the provider processes the data. "Safeguard" is what protects data that leaves the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland: the European Commission's standard contractual clauses (SCCs) in the provider's data-processing terms, with the UK Addendum and the Swiss adaptations for UK and Swiss data (Module 3, processor to processor, for data we process for stores).

loving itself is a United States company, lovingapp, Inc.. Data a merchant in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland has us process reaches loving under the standard contractual clauses (Module 2, controller to processor) in our Data Processing Addendum.

Current sub-processors

ProviderPurposeData processedWhereSafeguard
Convex

Backend platform: database, server functions and internal file storage.

All platform data described in the Privacy Policy.Ireland (EU), on Amazon Web ServicesStored in the EU; SCCs for any access from outside it
Vercel

Application hosting and delivery, custom-domain certificates, and the visitor's country used for storefront markets.

Request data (IP address, headers) needed to serve the apps.Global edge network; United StatesSCCs
Cloudflare

Media storage and CDN delivery (R2), storefront bundles, image resizing, and bot protection (Turnstile) on guest chat.

Uploaded media (pictures, and short videos for marketing posts), store logos, review and conversation images; the browser signals Turnstile checks.

Global network; United StatesSCCs
Stripe

Platform billing (subscriptions, credit packs) and store payments (checkout, saved cards, payouts, refunds, disputes).

Payment and payout data, billing contact details, transaction metadata. Stripe handles card data directly; loving never stores full card numbers. Stripe is an independent controller for its own payment processing.

United States and other countriesSCCs
Anthropic

AI model provider for the loving AI agent: the store builder, the dashboard assistant and the AI in Studio.

Prompts, attached files and images, and the store records the agent reads to answer a merchant's request — which can include customer and order records.

United StatesSCCs
OpenAI

AI model provider for the storefront shopping assistant, AI features in storefronts (such as virtual try-on), inbox and WhatsApp reply drafts, marketing copy, customer persona and segment suggestions, translation, the writing assistant and "Enhance with AI", and image generation and editing.

Prompts and images submitted to those features; the catalog and, for a signed-in shopper, their own orders, tracking and returns for the shopping assistant; photos a shopper submits to try-on; the recent messages of a conversation a reply is drafted for; a summary of a customer's purchases and activity, without their name or contact details, for persona suggestions; text to translate.

United StatesSCCs
Resend

Transactional email and sign-in codes, the inbox's email channel, marketing email merchants send, and loving's own outreach email.

Sender and recipient email addresses, email content, delivery events.

United StatesSCCs
Google

Optional dashboard sign-in (OAuth). Web fonts are fetched by loving's servers, so no visitor's data reaches Google when fonts load.

Google account identity (name, email, photo) when a merchant chooses Google sign-in.

United States and other countriesSCCs
EasyPostShipping rates, labels and tracking.

Sender and delivery addresses, the recipient's name, phone and email, package details, tracking events.

United StatesSCCs
Shipping carriers (through EasyPost)

Delivering the parcels a merchant ships on a label bought through loving.

The delivery address, the recipient's name and contact details, and package details. Each carrier processes them as an independent controller to deliver the parcel.

The carrier's own network, including the destination countryNecessary to deliver the parcel the customer ordered
PrintNodeShipping-label printing (when a merchant connects it).

Label documents (which carry the delivery address) sent to the merchant's printers.

United KingdomUK adequacy decision
OpenProviderRegistering and renewing domains a merchant buys through loving.

The registrant's contact details required by domain registries, which receive them too.

Netherlands (EU); the registry of the domain's extension, wherever it is

Stored in the EU; registry transfers are necessary to register the domain
OpenStreetMap (Nominatim) and OpenFreeMap

Placing a store's own locations on a map, and the map tiles in the dashboard.

Business addresses a merchant enters for its locations; the viewer's IP address when map tiles load.

EuropeEU or UK adequacy decision

Platforms merchants connect

A merchant can connect its own accounts on these platforms. They receive data only when the merchant turns a feature on, and process it as independent controllers under their own terms, not as loving's sub-processors. Access tokens are encrypted at rest; disconnecting deletes them. Purchase conversions are sent only for orders whose visitor agreed to marketing in the store's cookie question, with email and phone hashed with SHA-256.

PlatformWhat the merchant can use it forData exchanged

Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Threads, Meta Ads)

Catalog and posts (pictures and short videos), ads and their measurement, customer conversations.

Products and posts; messages customers send the store and its replies; purchases with hashed email and phone.

TikTok (TikTok Shop, Business Messaging, posting, TikTok Ads)

Catalog sync, TikTok Shop customer service, posts, ads and their measurement.

Products and posts; buyer messages and the store's replies; purchases with hashed email and phone. Disconnecting TikTok Shop deletes the conversations and contacts it brought in.

Google (Search Console, Merchant Center, Google Ads, YouTube)

Search performance, product listings, ads and their measurement, and short videos posted as YouTube Shorts.

Products and store pages; search and ad performance data; the short videos the merchant posts; purchases with hashed email and phone.

Pinterest, SnapchatCatalog, ads and their measurement.Products; purchases with hashed email and phone.
TelegramCustomer conversations through the merchant's own bot.Messages customers send the store and its replies.

Changes to this list

We give at least 30 days' notice before adding or replacing a sub-processor that processes data for stores, by updating this page and announcing the change in the dashboard; merchants can object as described in the Data Processing Addendum. The "Last updated" date above reflects the latest revision.