Your Shopify account can be temporarily suspended or permanently terminated if you commit these mistakes below:
- Selling products that exploit children or of any age group.
- Any type of materials that can cause harassment, or bullying
- Selling products that incite hateful notations, against any gender or sect in society.
- Selling illegal products like weapons or drugs.
- Copyright infringement: If you are selling materials that copy others. Even, if you are copying the logo for your website, and if the owner reports it, then your store is in trouble. Mostly seen in the case of the Shopify app. Even when you are using a keyword that is registered by somebody for this platform, your app will be removed with any email notification. When you reach out the Shopify customer service, you may be notified. Things may change overnight without warning. So you must be careful.
- Malicious activities:
- If you are uploading documents, adding products, or deploying software that causes in some other way harm to other online stores in Shopify, then it will be considered as malicious actively and you may be suspended.
- At times, you may not know if your product is harming anybody and you may fall in trouble.
- Sharing Personal Info:
- Don’t share things like someone’s private info (like their name or credit card numbers) unless they said it’s okay. Also, don’t use this service to keep or work with super-secret health info that needs special protection by laws, like the HIPAA law
- Restricted Items
- There are more than 30 product categories that are restricted from selling in Shopify. If you sell any of these, then it is likely to cause the delisting of your items.
- Spam:
- Don’t use this service to send messages that try to sell things to people who didn’t ask for them. Imagine getting messages about stuff you didn’t want or need in your email or phone. That’s what we’re talking about here—sending those kinds of messages isn’t allowed.
- Terror products: If you are selling any products, services, or uploaded materials that are specially made for the benefit of a terror organization or those who benefit from it.
What are the terms and conditions for intellectual property in Shopify?
A valid intellectual property is crucial in all platforms. Here we are talking about Shopify. But it is common to all eCommerce platforms. To be more clear, you cannot copy any other content. Be it a text, image, or any other material you cannot copy it. If by any means that is being found. And that mostly happens when the valid trademark owner registers a complaint, without any notice, you may be suspended or terminated.
Now, when I say without any notice, it means without information, one morning suddenly you will find that your store is not available or restricted. Moreover, referring to numerous concerns raised by Shopify store owners in multiple public forums, they have said that they used to suffer these penalties without any notice.
Furthermore, we found that more of such trademark issues come from artwork or design-related websites. When copied designs are mostly registered as complaints in Shopify. So, as a suggestion, be very careful if you are into product design-related business.
Final Words
Copywrite and trademark copywriting infringement are some of the rules strictly followed in all the Commerce platforms. You cannot afford to escape and reach out to others to make a profit if you aren’t on the valid side. You cannot sustain for long.
