“When you build on Shopify with these principles in mind, we will give you notice, grant you opportunities to self-remediate conflicts, default to enforcement at the product level, and take account-level action as a last resort when appropriate.”
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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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"When you build on Shopify with these principles in mind, we will give you notice, grant you opportunities to self-remediate conflicts, default to enforcement at the product level, and take account-level action as a last resort when appropriate.Excerpt from Shopify's Acceptable Use Policy
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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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