Starbucks Shop Terms of Use

Use & Processing · User right or choice

New Shop users are opted in to promotional email by default and can opt out

If a user signs up to access or use the Shop, they are by default opted in to promotional email from Starbucks. The user may opt out at sign-up, and afterwards by adjusting profile settings in their Starbucks account on www.starbucks.com. Starbucks may keep sending necessary transactional emails even after you opt out of promotional email.

Supporting quotations

If a User signs up to access or use Starbucks Shop, the User is, by default, opted in to receive promotional email communications from Starbucks ("Email Communications"). The User may, at the time of sign up, opt out of receiving Email Communications from Starbucks. Thereafter, the User may opt out of receiving Email Communications by adjusting the User’s profile settings in the User’s Starbucks account via

We may continue to send you necessary transactional communications by email, even if you opt out of receiving Email Communications.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The default is opt-in; opting out covers promotional email only, not necessary transactional email.

Not stated here

• The text does not say which messages count as "necessary transactional communications".

Use & Processing · Company practice

In-app promotional messages may display automatically; the stated way to avoid them is to stop using the site

Using the Sites, including the web application, may automatically show in-app messages in display tiles, including promotional communications and offers. The text says that a user who does not wish to see or receive such messages must cease use of the Site; it offers no separate opt-out for them.

Supporting quotations

By using the Sites, including the web application, in-app messages may automatically be displayed to the User via the display tiles, including promotional communications and offers. If the User does not wish to see or receive such messages, the User must cease use of the Site.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Contrasts with promotional email, which has a stated opt-out.

Not stated here

• "the Sites" is not defined in this document, which otherwise defines "Starbucks Shop", so which properties this covers is unclear.