Acceptable Content policy

This document states what content can be published, uploaded to ShopLocal.ie by its users, Customers and Businesses
By publishing, uploading an content, including images, product images, etc. you accept the following:

1.1 Posting content of any sort does not change your ownership of the copyright in it. We have no claim over it and we will not protect your rights for you.

1.2 By uploading and publishing any images, you explicitly confirm that you have obtained written permission from the copyright owner to use their images legally on our website.

1.3 You understand that you are personally responsible for your breach of someone else's intellectual property rights, defamation, or any law, which may occur as a result of any Content having been Posted by you. This includes any images you may post on our website.

1.4 ShopLocal.ie is not responsible for any content uploaded or published by you. While admin approval may be required for certain content, this approval does not include verification of your legal right to use the images or other materials provided.

1.5 Please note that if any third-party claims are made against ShopLocal.ie in relation to content you have posted, we will forward the claim to you. This applies even if you have ceased using our website at the time the claim arises.

1.6 You accept all risk and responsibility for determining whether any Content is in the public domain and not confidential.

.1 You warrant that any Product you place on Our Website for sale:

11.1.1 is not: illegal, obscene, abusive, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to any third party;

11.1.2 does not offend against the law of any country whose citizens might purchase it;

11.1.3 is not intended primarily to advertise any business, except your business.

11.2 You warrant that you own the copyright of any Content you place on Our Website for sale, or that you have the permission of the copyright owner:

11.2.1 to enter or upload that Content;

11.2.2 to receive the net proceeds of such sales as arise;

11.3 You are solely responsible for any breach of intellectual property rights, defamation, or any other legal violation that may result from the content you post, including images, product images, or other materials.

11.4 By uploading and publishing product images of any products you sell (regardless made by you or third party), you explicitly confirm that you have obtained written permission from the copyright owner to use their images legally on our website.

11.5 ShopLocal.ie is not responsible for any content uploaded or published by you. While admin approval may be required for certain content, this approval does not include verification of your legal right to use the images or other materials provided.

11.6 Please note that if any third-party claims are made against ShopLocal.ie in relation to content you have posted including any images uploaded, we will forward the claim to you. This applies even if you have ceased trading with us at the time the claim arises.

12. How we handle your Content

12.1 If you Post Content to any public area of Our Website it becomes available in the public domain. We have no control over who sees it or what anyone does with it.

12.2 Posting content of any sort does not change your ownership of the copyright in it. We have no claim over it and we will not protect your rights for you.

12.3 You accept all risk and responsibility for determining whether any Content is in the public domain and not confidential.

12.4 Please notify us of any security breach or unauthorised use of your account.

13. Restrictions on what you may Post to Our Website

We invite you to Post Content to Our Website for marketing your products and services. We have to regulate your use of Our Website to protect our business and our staff, to protect other users of Our Website and to comply with the law. We do not undertake to moderate or check any item Posted.

You agree that you will not use or allow anyone else to use Our Website to Post Content or undertake any activity which is or may:

13.1 be unlawful, or tend to incite another person to commit a crime;

13.2 be obscene, offensive, threatening, violent, malicious or defamatory;

13.3 be sexually explicit or pornographic;

13.4 be likely to deceive any person or be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity, age or affiliation with any person;

13.5 use a Posting to solicit responses unconnected with the purpose of Our Website or the terms proposed by this agreement;

14. Your Posting: restricted content

In connection with the restrictions set out below, we may refuse or edit or remove a Posting which does not comply with these terms.

In addition to the restrictions set out above, a Posting must not contain:

14.1 hyperlinks, other than those specifically authorised by us, as explained on Our Website;

14.2 keywords or words repeated, which are irrelevant to the Content Posted.

14.3 the name, logo or trademark of any organisation other than yours.

14.4 inaccurate, false, or misleading information.

14.5 For further information please see our Acceptable Content Policy.

ShopLocal.ie gives flexibility to participating Businesses to create and update content, products, images etc. on their ShopFront and webshop. As these remain part of ShopLocal.ie page, we must make sure that no illegal, harmful etc. images, content reaches our users.
Businesses can amend any of their content after logging in to their self service admin area.


For this reason we have introduced this Uploaded Content Policy. All Businesses must adhere to this policy at all times, when they create any type of content, regardless it is for public or for a specific user.


ShopLocal.ie reserves the right to pre-approve any content generated by Businesses. We also have right to reject publication of kind of text, image, product, etc. that we feel it breaches this policy. ShopLocal.ie's decision is final and Business cannot request any compensation against anything may occur (eg. loss of income, etc.)


ShopLocal.ie expects any Businesses to keep their account updated and accurate at all times. This includes:
- Updating relevant ShopFront images regularly (especially for special occasions).
- Update their Shipping charges, covered area, type of service offered.
- Provide as detailed information about their business, shop, covered area, products at all times.

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Any content, image uploaded with accordance of this Acceptable Content Policy


For Businesses:

Any text content, including:

- ShopFront description,

- Business' own Terms and other policies,

- product Description

- Reply text of a review received

- Reply to a lead message

CANNOT contain :

- anything that against the law,

- any sexual content

- any contact information, any email address, phone number, any postal address/eircode, any link to 3rd party websites including Businesses own website, link to their social media profiles, request users to search for their name on any 3rd party website, search engine, social media websites for further info / other products, etc.

Businesses cannot sell:

- prohibited items by law

- cigarettes, tobaco or nicotine replacements

- weapons, medicines, alcohol, sexual/erotic items/material, etc.

- pirated software, video game, media (audio/video content),

- animals

- laser pointer


Uploaded images:

- must Business own the images and their copyright,

- need to be clear of watermarks,

- cannot contain any text that prohibited above

- cannot be stock images, downloaded from 3rd party websites, etc.


Any uploaded content is subject to admin's approval before they are available online.

ShopLocal.ie approves uploaded content as soon as possible, but usually within 24 hours.

Businesses will receive email notification once an uploaded content has been approved/rejected