Acceptable use

Vice City Shops is designed to be accessible to everyone…

From customers to third-party providers and beyond. Our goal is to empower businesses and provide convenience, enabling merchants to operate their businesses as they see fit and equipping them with the necessary tools, while giving our customers the freedom to make their own choices.

This philosophy guides how we build and manage our platform, and we strive to maintain this consistency with it everywhere else in the business.

The primary rule for using Vice City Shops is: you are responsible for adhering to the rules of our platform, our partners, and the law.

These are the principles behind our expectations in more detail:

You can’t use Vice City Shops to do anything that is illegal

We understand laws and regulatory frameworks can be complex, but in choosing a market to enter and products to sell, you, the merchant, are making a commitment to take that market seriously, and we trust and expect you to understand applicable boundaries. You must likewise respect that certain business activities are not supported by our platform.

Nobody can’t breach the social contract of commerce.

There are activities we don’t allow on the platform because they breach the social contract of commerce. This means you can’t call for, or threaten, violence against specific people or groups. And you can’t sell products that facilitate intentional self-harm.

You need to follow our agreements with you.

While we don’t want to burden you with a lot of paperwork, our Terms of Service are important for how we operate. Our agreements bind you as a as user and explain the platform rules you must follow.

Payment Terms (and terms from other add-on products) can also apply.

Vice City Shops offers a range of products and services that leverage partnerships with other organizations. When you use one of these products, you are interacting with an entire supply chain of businesses: for example, Vice City Shops Payments involves an ecosystem of processors, card networks, and banks working together. If you use these services, you need to respect how the supply chain works and what terms are asked of you.

Respect also Sales Channel rules that could apply.

Vice City sales channel comes with its own merchant guidelines and product eligibility criteria.

The most common product eligibility disputes originate from outside of Vice City Shops.We are a commerce platform: most product eligibility or takedown disputes that entrepreneurs may encounter originate from outside Vice City Shops, including from regulators and third-party IP rights holders. In these circumstances, we’ll give you notice and tools to self-manage your risks and disputes when appropriate.

We expect you to act in good faith.

If you don’t, account-level action may be appropriate.We don’t like to see people try to “game” systems to avoid constraints they don’t agree with. We also don’t tolerate anyone defrauding Vice City Shops, our merchants, or members, using Vice City Shops as a platform to send spam, or for other malicious practices. In those cases, while we try to minimize impact to business as a first-order principle, account-level action is oftentimes more appropriate.

If you join Vice City Shops with these principles in mind, we will give you notice, grant you opportunities to do more conflicts, default to enforcement at the ordering level, and take account-level action as a last resort when appropriate.

Finally, as with all great products, we expect to iterate on and update these principles from time to time.

If you believe a Vice City Shops user is violating this Acceptable Use Policy, you can submit a report.