Acceptable Use Policy

Last Updated: September 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") explains the standards that apply when using iStocker.shop. By accessing or using our platform, you agree to use our services responsibly, lawfully, and in accordance with this Policy.

This Policy applies to businesses, merchants, customers, account holders, and other users of the iStocker platform.

1. Purpose

iStocker provides digital commerce tools that allow businesses to create and manage online storefronts, list and sell products, manage customers and orders, configure payments and shipping, and provide digital products and services to their customers.

Our goal is to provide a secure, reliable, lawful, and trustworthy platform for businesses and their customers. This Policy helps protect our users, merchants, customers, the iStocker platform, and the wider online community.

2. General Requirements

When using iStocker, you must:

  • Comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
  • Provide accurate information when creating and managing an account.
  • Use the platform only for legitimate business or customer activities.
  • Respect the rights of other users, businesses, customers, and third parties.
  • Maintain the security of your account and login credentials.
  • Ensure that content and products uploaded to the platform are lawful.
  • Use iStocker in a manner that does not interfere with the platform or other users.

3. Prohibited Activities

You must not use iStocker to:

  • Sell, promote, or facilitate illegal goods or services.
  • Promote fraud, scams, deceptive practices, misleading claims, or fraudulent transactions.
  • Upload, distribute, transmit, or introduce malware, viruses, ransomware, spyware, or other malicious software.
  • Host phishing pages, fraudulent websites, or content designed to obtain another person's credentials or sensitive information.
  • Impersonate another individual, business, organisation, brand, or public institution.
  • Violate copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other intellectual property rights.
  • Distribute content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, or otherwise prohibited by applicable law.
  • Promote terrorism, terrorist activity, or other unlawful violent activity.
  • Use the platform to facilitate money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, or other financial crime.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorised access to another user's account, business, storefront, data, or systems.
  • Circumvent authentication, security controls, access restrictions, rate limits, or other technical protections.
  • Probe, scan, test, or attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in the iStocker platform without prior written authorisation.
  • Use automated scripts, bots, crawlers, scraping tools, or other automated systems in a manner that negatively affects platform performance or violates applicable restrictions.
  • Interfere with the availability, integrity, performance, or security of iStocker.
  • Attempt to bypass subscription, payment, access, usage, or other platform restrictions.

4. Prohibited Products and Services

Businesses are responsible for ensuring that all products and services offered through their storefront comply with applicable laws, regulations, payment-provider requirements, and this Policy.

The following categories are prohibited on iStocker unless expressly authorised by iStocker and permitted by applicable law:

  • Illegal drugs and controlled substances.
  • Counterfeit or unauthorised replica products.
  • Stolen goods or property.
  • Weapons or weapon-related products where prohibited by law.
  • Explosives or other prohibited hazardous products.
  • Fraudulent financial products or schemes.
  • Products intended to facilitate financial crime.
  • Pirated software, media, books, courses, or other digital content.
  • Products or services that infringe intellectual property rights.
  • Products intended to facilitate illegal activity.
  • Products prohibited by applicable payment-provider policies.
  • Any other goods or services prohibited by applicable law.

5. Regulated and Restricted Products

Some products may be subject to additional legal, regulatory, age, licensing, shipping, payment, or geographic restrictions.

Businesses are responsible for determining whether their products are subject to such restrictions and for obtaining any licences, registrations, permissions, certifications, or approvals required to sell them.

iStocker may restrict or prohibit products where required by law, payment-provider requirements, platform policies, or risk-management considerations.

6. Digital Products and Content

Businesses selling digital products must own, control, or have sufficient legal rights and permissions to distribute the content they upload or sell through iStocker.

This includes digital products such as:

  • Software
  • Documents
  • Books and publications
  • Courses and educational materials
  • Templates
  • Graphics and creative assets
  • Audio and video content
  • Other downloadable or digitally delivered products

Users must not upload or distribute pirated, stolen, unlawfully obtained, or copyright-infringing digital content.

Where we receive a valid intellectual property infringement complaint or otherwise identify suspected infringement, we may remove or restrict access to the relevant content and may take further action against the associated account.

7. Storefront Responsibility

Businesses are responsible for the operation and content of their storefronts.

This includes responsibility for:

  • Products and services offered for sale.
  • Product descriptions and claims.
  • Product pricing.
  • Product images and other media.
  • Business information.
  • Customer communications.
  • Order fulfilment.
  • Shipping and delivery arrangements.
  • Refund and cancellation practices.
  • Applicable taxes and regulatory obligations.
  • Compliance with consumer-protection laws.
  • Compliance with applicable advertising and marketing laws.

iStocker provides the technology used to operate the storefront but does not become the seller of products listed by independent businesses unless expressly stated otherwise.

8. Customer and Personal Information

Businesses must only collect, use, store, and disclose customer information for lawful purposes and in accordance with applicable privacy and data-protection laws.

Businesses must not use customer information obtained through iStocker for unlawful purposes, unsolicited activities, harassment, fraud, or unauthorised disclosure.

Businesses are responsible for maintaining appropriate privacy notices and obtaining any consent required by applicable law for their own customer-data processing activities.

9. Payments and Financial Activity

Users must not use iStocker to facilitate fraudulent, deceptive, or unlawful financial transactions.

Businesses are responsible for ensuring that their payment configuration, products, pricing, refunds, and financial activities comply with applicable laws and the terms of their selected payment providers.

Payment providers may impose additional restrictions on products, businesses, transactions, territories, or payment methods.

iStocker may restrict payment functionality or storefront activity where necessary to comply with applicable law, payment-provider requirements, fraud-prevention measures, or platform policies.

10. Account Security

Users are responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect their accounts and authentication information.

  • Keep login credentials confidential.
  • Use strong and unique passwords.
  • Do not share account credentials with unauthorised individuals.
  • Monitor accounts for suspicious activity.
  • Report suspected unauthorised access promptly.

If you believe your account has been compromised, you should contact iStocker as soon as reasonably possible.

11. Platform Security and Technical Restrictions

Users must not attempt to compromise, disrupt, reverse engineer, damage, or interfere with the security or operation of the iStocker platform.

This includes attempts to:

  • Access systems or data without authorisation.
  • Exploit security vulnerabilities.
  • Bypass authentication or access controls.
  • Introduce malicious code.
  • Overload or disrupt platform infrastructure.
  • Interfere with another business or user's storefront.
  • Extract data through abusive automated methods.

12. Intellectual Property

Users must respect the intellectual property rights of others when uploading products, images, videos, documents, software, trademarks, logos, designs, or other content to iStocker.

You must have the necessary rights or permissions to use and distribute content that you upload or sell.

iStocker may remove content or restrict accounts where there is credible evidence of intellectual property infringement or where required by law.

13. Misleading or Deceptive Practices

Businesses must provide accurate and non-misleading information about their products, services, pricing, availability, delivery, refunds, and business identity.

You must not:

  • Make fraudulent claims about products or services.
  • Misrepresent product characteristics or performance.
  • Manipulate reviews or customer feedback.
  • Use deceptive pricing practices.
  • Misrepresent your identity or business affiliation.
  • Use misleading images or descriptions to deceive customers.

14. Abuse, Harassment, and Harmful Conduct

Users must not use iStocker to threaten, harass, intimidate, exploit, or deliberately harm other users, customers, businesses, or third parties.

Content or conduct that violates applicable law or creates a serious risk of harm may be removed and may result in account restrictions.

15. Enforcement

iStocker may investigate suspected violations of this Policy.

Depending on the nature, severity, frequency, and circumstances of a violation, we may:

  • Issue a warning.
  • Request additional information or verification.
  • Remove or restrict products or content.
  • Restrict specific platform features.
  • Restrict payment or transaction functionality.
  • Temporarily suspend an account or storefront.
  • Permanently terminate an account or storefront.
  • Preserve relevant information where legally permitted or required.
  • Take other measures reasonably necessary to protect the platform and its users.
  • Report suspected unlawful activity to appropriate authorities where required or permitted by law.

Where appropriate and legally permitted, we may consider the circumstances of a violation before taking enforcement action.

16. Reporting Abuse

If you believe that a store, product, account, or user is violating this Policy, applicable law, or the rights of another person, please contact us with sufficient information to allow us to investigate.

Email: support@istocker.shop

Where possible, please include the relevant storefront, product, account, transaction, or other information that will help us identify the issue.

17. No Circumvention

Users must not attempt to circumvent enforcement measures or platform restrictions.

This includes creating or using another account to avoid a suspension, termination, product restriction, payment restriction, or other enforcement action.

18. Relationship with Other Policies

This Acceptable Use Policy forms part of the rules governing use of iStocker.shop and should be read together with our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and any other applicable policies or agreements.

Businesses may also be subject to additional requirements imposed by payment providers, regulators, shipping providers, or other third parties whose services they use.

19. Policy Updates

We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, technology, legal requirements, security practices, or business operations.

When changes are published, the updated version will appear on this page with a revised "Last Updated" date.

Continued use of iStocker.shop after an updated Policy becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.

20. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Acceptable Use Policy or wish to report suspected abuse, prohibited activity, or a policy violation, please contact:

Email: support@istocker.shop

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