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This establishes a hierarchy of enforcement responses, meaning account-level action such as suspension is constrained to a last resort when appropriate rather than being a default response.
Interpretive note: The clause does not define 'appropriate' or specify the conditions that elevate enforcement from product-level to account-level, leaving meaningful discretion undefined.
Merchants whose individual products violate rules are not automatically subject to account-level action; Shopify will first act at the product level.
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This establishes a hierarchy of enforcement responses, meaning account-level action such as suspension is constrained to a last resort when appropriate rather than being a default response.
Merchants whose individual products violate rules are not automatically subject to account-level action; Shopify will first act at the product level.
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