Shopify Terms of Service 8.1: Shopify takes no ownership of a merchant's Materials (its business content and data) but takes a licence to them (Shopify Terms of Service (last updated 20 October 2026), section 1 (Materials) and section 8.1 (Your Materials))
A Shopify store's products, prices, content and business data stay the merchant's; Shopify takes a licence to run and promote its services, not ownership. Nothing in the clause bars the merchant from licensing its own copy.
Dated 7 Nov 2026Source checked 7 Nov 2026Quote found on its page again 8 Nov 2026Basis: primary text
Selling a company's data? This is one of the rules a sale has to meet, and the guide beside the button reads it in plain words.
- No data upload
- About two minutes
- No email needed
In the source's own words
“" Materials " means Your Trademarks, copyright content, any products or services you sell through the Services (including description and price), and any photos, images, videos, graphics, written content, audio files, code, information, product reviews, or other business content and data provided or made available by you or on your behalf to Shopify or its affiliates. ... We do not take ownership of the Materials that you provide to Shopify; however, we do require a license to your Materials.”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
- Store platforms leave the records with the merchant and keep only a licence and an anonymised aggregate; a marketplace sets its own rules on what a seller may do with buyers' information
- Shopify Terms of Service 9.2: Shopify Network Intelligence uses a store's customer data alongside other merchants' data, and the merchant can switch it off (Shopify Terms of Service (last updated 20 October 2026), section 9.2 (Enhanced Services))
Figures it counts in
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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