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title: About client secrets
description: Learn how to acquire and use a client secret to authenticate your app.
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  html: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/authentication-authorization/client-secrets
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* [Retrieve your app's client credentials](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/authentication-authorization/client-secrets#retrieve-your-apps-client-credentials)
* [Rotate or revoke your app's client credentials](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/authentication-authorization/client-secrets#rotate-or-revoke-your-apps-client-credentials)

# About client secrets

Your app's client secret is a unique key that authenticates your app when it requests access to a store's data. You can use your client secret to retrieve an access token for a store, or to verify a webhook request is genuine.

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## Retrieve your app's client credentials

You can retrieve your app's client credentials in the [Dev Dashboard](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/dev-dashboard).

1. Open the [Dev Dashboard](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/dev-dashboard).
2. Click **Apps**.
3. Select your app.
4. Click **Settings**.
5. View or copy your Client ID and Secret

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## Rotate or revoke your app's client credentials

You should rotate the client credentials for your app on a regular basis. To learn how to rotate your app's client secret, refer to [Rotate or revoke client credentials](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/authentication-authorization/client-secrets/rotate-revoke-client-credentials).

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* [Retrieve your app's client credentials](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/authentication-authorization/client-secrets#retrieve-your-apps-client-credentials)
* [Rotate or revoke your app's client credentials](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/authentication-authorization/client-secrets#rotate-or-revoke-your-apps-client-credentials)