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The updated terms specify which Shopify corporate entity you contract with and which courts have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes, based on your store's billing address. Previously, the terms designated contracting parties and courts by region but in separate sections; the revised structure consolidates this information in a single table and introduces Shopify Technology (USA) Inc. as a contracting party for US-based merchants. The practical effect is that merchants in different regions now have explicit clarity on their contracting counterparty and the specific court system that will handle disputes, though the geographic assignment of courts remains substantially similar to prior language.
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Company agrees that use of a developer account, including to access APIs to create automations or integrate the Services with Third-Party Services, is governed by the API Agreement.
Subject to this Agreement, xAI grants Customer a limited, non-exclusive right to use xAI's application programming interfaces to develop an integration between the Services and Customer's products
Access the Services by any means other than through the standard industry-accepted or ActiveCampaign-approved application program interfaces;
"You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs using your API Credentials (as defined in the API Terms) and for keeping your API Credentials secure.Excerpt from Shopify's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs using your API Credentials (as defined in the API Terms) and for keeping your API Credentials secure.”
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