Marketplace author terms

Introduction

1. Submitting to our marketplace is the best way for vendors (authors) to offer plugins and themes to the nopCommerce merchants. These terms apply specifically to authors on the nopCommerce marketplace. You’ll need to agree to them before you can become an author. We (nopCommerce team) try to do all our best to improve our marketplace.

Your warranties and responsibilities

2. As an author you warrant to us and each buyer of your items (extensions or themes) that:

  • the item is of acceptable quality;
  • the item matches the description given by you on the item page;
  • the item and its description are not false, inaccurate, misleading, fraudulent, unlawful or defamatory;
  • the item and its description do not violate any applicable law or regulation (including those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, criminal law, pornography, anti-discrimination, trade practices or fair trading);
  • the item does not contain viruses or other computer codes, files or programs which are designed to limit or destroy the functionality of other computer software or hardware;
  • where relevant, you have the appropriate model or property release for your item and you can produce a copy of that model or property release when requested by us or a buyer of your item; and you will process a buyer’s information in accordance with applicable privacy law and data protection regulations.

The review process

3. Once you’ve submitted the extension or theme, you can visit your account page to check the status of your submission. nopCommerce team examines each extension for quality and to make sure that it meets all our requirements (including the documentation and images). If your submission does not pass our reviews, the nopCommerce team will tell you why, and how to fix it. Otherwise, your successful submissions will be listed on our marketplace.

4. All plugins and themes must meet the requirements described at "submitting plugins to nopCommerce marketplace". If one of them is not met, then nopCommerce team won't approve this listing until the vendor does meet it.

5. We have the right to remove an item for any reason, using our reasonable discretion. For example, we may review the libraries to keep the nopCommerce marketplace fresh and full of quality items that meet the latest technical standards and market trends. Also, issues about an item might be brought to our attention such as errors, representations, or even violations. Our goal is always to address these situations with you constructively. We also aim to give you notice before an item is removed, but this is not always feasible or possible, so we can’t guarantee this. We will not be responsible for any loss that you may suffer as a result of your item being removed.

6. Before submitting a plugin please note that nopCommerce strongly discourages code cloning. Cloned plugins will be removed, and authors or submitters of such plugins would face the consequences from banning from the nopCommerce community up to legal action.

Intellectual property

7. We do not own the items on the nopCommerce marketplace; our authors do. Items are uploaded at the direction of the author. So we cannot take responsibility for the quality, safety or legality of the items. We do not warrant that the items or any member content, code, data or materials available on or via the nopCommerce marketplace do not infringe the intellectual property rights of a third party.

8. We review the source code of each extension or theme submitted to the nopCommerce marketplace. But we guarantee that the source code provided by the author won't be shared with any third-party person or company. And we guarantee that the source code provided by the author won't be used by nopCommerce team for any development purposes.