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“We will provide you with 30 days advanced notice prior to any changes in Fees by sending an email to the Primary Email Account, providing notice through the Shopify administrative console, or by similar means.”
“If we are unable to successfully process payment of Fees using an Authorized Payment Method within 28 days of our initial attempt, we may suspend and revoke access to your Account and the Services.”
“The content of your terms of service and privacy policy must also (i) disclose that your Store is hosted by Shopify, and Shopify collects and processes your customers' Personal Data...”
“You expressly understand and agree that, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, Shopify and its suppliers will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses...”
“You agree to use Shopify Checkout for your store.”
“If you install or enable a Third Party Service for use with the Services, you grant us permission to share on your behalf, or allow the applicable Third Party Provider to access your data and other Materials and to take any other actions as required...”
This document sets the rules for using Shopify to run an online store. Shopify will not issue refunds, can suspend your account if a payment fails within 28 days, and must give you 30 days' notice before raising fees. You are responsible for everything in your store and must cover Shopify's legal costs if a claim arises, and any dispute must be resolved in Ontario courts.
Shopify's Terms of Service establishes the substantive rights, obligations, and limitations governing the merchant-platform relationship. Merchants are made solely responsible for store creation and operation, materials, goods and services sold, and all aspects of customer transactions, while Shopify and its suppliers exclude liability for the full spectrum of damages including direct, indirect, consequential, and exemplary losses. Shopify receives a broad, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free worldwide license to host, modify, distribute, and create derivative works of merchant materials, and merchants must indemnify Shopify and a wide range of affiliated parties against any claim or demand including attorneys' fees. Fee changes require 30 days' advance notice, no refunds are available, and failed payment processing within 28 days authorizes Shopify to suspend and revoke account access. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of Ontario courts, merchants must use Shopify Checkout exclusively, and installing third-party services automatically grants Shopify permission to share merchant data with those providers.
As a merchant using Shopify, you bear full responsibility for your store, its content, and your customer transactions, with no ability to hold Shopify financially accountable for virtually any harm, including loss of profits or data. Your store's own terms of service and privacy policy must disclose that Shopify hosts your store and collects and processes your customers' personal data. When you enable any third-party service, you automatically authorize Shopify to share your data and materials with that provider without an additional consent step. You must use Shopify Checkout exclusively and cannot process orders through alternative systems. If you wish to act before a fee change takes effect, Shopify's 30-day advance notice requirement gives you a defined window to do so.
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“We will provide you with 30 days advanced notice prior to any changes in Fees by sending an email to the Primary Email Account, providing notice through the Shopify administrative console, or by similar means.”
“If we are unable to successfully process payment of Fees using an Authorized Payment Method within 28 days of our initial attempt, we may suspend and revoke access to your Account and the Services.”
“The content of your terms of service and privacy policy must also (i) disclose that your Store is hosted by Shopify, and Shopify collects and processes your customers' Personal Data...”
“You expressly understand and agree that, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, Shopify and its suppliers will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of …”
“You agree to use Shopify Checkout for your store.”
“If you install or enable a Third Party Service for use with the Services, you grant us permission to share on your behalf, or allow the applicable Third Party Provider to access your data and other Materials and to take …”
“You agree to indemnify and hold us and (as applicable) our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, Shopify partners, officers, directors, agents, employees, and suppliers harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees...”
“You are responsible for the creation and operation of your Shopify Store, your Materials, the goods and services that you may sell through the Services, and all aspects of the transactions between you and your customer(s).”
“Shopify does not provide refunds.”
“You agree not to work around, bypass, or circumvent any of the technical limitations of the Services, including to process orders outside Shopify's Checkout...or decompile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer the Services.”
“You hereby grant Shopify a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to host, use, distribute, expose, modify, run, copy, store, publicly perform, communicate to the public...and create derivative works of your Materials.”
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