Shopify can shut down your store immediately, at any time, for any reason — or no reason — and without warning, potentially cutting off your access to your business, products, and customer data.
Merchants face the risk of losing access to their online store, inventory data, customer information, and pending orders without any notice, and Shopify's liability for such termination is capped at 12 months of subscription fees regardless of actual business losses.
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Chegg has the right to terminate your account for any reason at our sole discretion without notice to you.
If you are under the age of 13, you may not use the Services and you should not be visiting the Sites or using the Services.
In addition to, and notwithstanding, any other rights we may have under these Terms, we reserve the right to terminate a Paid Subscription at any time, on no less than 14 days' notice to you. Unless we inform you otherwise, we will allow you to retain access to the Paid Subscription for the remainde...
For merchants whose entire business operates on Shopify, immediate termination without notice can cause catastrophic financial harm with very limited legal recourse due to the liability cap and arbitration clause.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Implicates FTC Act Section 5 (unfair business practices); EU Digital Services Act Art. 4 (transparency obligations for platform terminations) and Art. 17 (notice and statement of reasons for content restriction); EU Platform-to-Business Regulation (P2B) 2019/1150, which specifically requires platforms to give 30 days' advance notice before terminating business user accounts except for serious violations; GDPR Art. 20 (data portability rights upon account termination). Enforcement authorities: European Commission and national Digital Markets authorities (P2B), FTC (US), ICO (UK). (2)
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