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By placing full responsibility on merchants for store operations, materials, and customer transactions, Shopify insulates itself from liability arising from any of those activities.
Merchants cannot look to Shopify to share responsibility for how their store operates, what they sell, or how their customer transactions are conducted.
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"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).— Excerpt from Shopify's Shopify Terms of Service
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By placing full responsibility on merchants for store operations, materials, and customer transactions, Shopify insulates itself from liability arising from any of those activities.
Merchants cannot look to Shopify to share responsibility for how their store operates, what they sell, or how their customer transactions are conducted.
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