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Terms of Service

Effective Date: August 10, 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to Merchmapper. By creating an account or using the Merchmapper website at www.merchmapper.com, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not use Merchmapper.

If you have questions about these terms, contact us at hello@merchmapper.com.

2. What Merchmapper Is

Merchmapper is a discovery platform where you can find merchandise from real-world places, parks, breweries, museums, markets, and more, displayed on an interactive map, sourced from both official place-affiliated sellers and independent third-party sellers.

For most listings, Merchmapper does not sell merchandise directly. Those products are sold by independent third-party vendors through their own stores, and when you click through to purchase, you leave Merchmapper and complete the transaction directly with the vendor. Merchmapper is not a party to those purchases.

For select listings, Merchmapper facilitates the sale and fulfillment of products through our external fulfillment partners. Where this is the case, it will be indicated on the product listing, and additional terms governing those purchases (including payment, shipping, and returns) will apply. See Section 5 for how revenue is shared with Designers and Creators on select listings.

Product listings on Merchmapper are discovered and imported from publicly available vendor websites or submitted directly by vendors and creators. We do not guarantee that any listing is accurate, current, or available. Prices, product details, and availability may change at any time.

3. Accounts

To access certain features, you need to create an account. You can sign up using an email and password or by signing in with your Google account.

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for all activity that occurs under your account. If you sign in with Google, you are also responsible for the security of your Google account. Merchmapper's use of Google sign-in is subject to Google's Terms of Service.

When you sign in with Google, Merchmapper receives only your name, email address, and profile photo from Google. We do not access your Gmail, Google Drive, or any other Google service or data.

Accounts are personal and non-transferable. You must provide accurate information when creating your account and keep it up to date.

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to create an account or use Merchmapper.

4. Account Roles

Merchmapper has four account roles: user, member, creator, and admin. Different roles have access to different features, including the ability to submit products and design requests. Merchmapper reserves the right to change role permissions at any time.

Section 5 below sets out the additional terms that apply if you submit products or designs as a member or creator.

5. Designer & Creator Terms

This section applies if you submit products, designs, or design requests to Merchmapper as a member or creator.

No Exclusivity Required

You are not required to submit any minimum number of designs, work exclusively with Merchmapper, or avoid submitting your designs to other platforms, except as stated in a specific Bounty Listing.

Ownership and License

You retain ownership of any product, design, or content you submit. By submitting to Merchmapper, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to display and reproduce your submission on the platform to showcase and promote it to users, including in listings, search results, and promotional materials. This license doesn't give us rights to modify your content beyond minor formatting or technical adjustments, and doesn't transfer ownership to Merchmapper.

For select listings where Merchmapper facilitates production and fulfillment through a fulfillment partner (see Sections 2 and 7), you additionally grant Merchmapper a non-exclusive, worldwide license to reproduce, manufacture, and sell products incorporating your design through Merchmapper and its fulfillment partners. This expanded license doesn't apply to products you sell through your own store, and doesn't stop you from offering the same design elsewhere unless a specific Bounty Listing (see below) states otherwise.

You may request that we remove your submitted content at any time, and we will do so within a reasonable timeframe, subject to any orders already placed or in process. This removal right does not apply to designs created under a Bounty Listing once payment has been made in full; see “Bounties and Commissioned Work” below.

Marketing License

You grant Merchmapper a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use your name, designer handle, likeness, and your submitted designs in Merchmapper's marketing, including social media, the /earn page, and other promotional materials. You can opt out of this at any time by contacting hello@merchmapper.com.

Revenue Split

How you get paid depends on how your product is sold:

  • Your own store. If your product is sold through your own store or a third-party vendor site, Merchmapper is not a party to that sale, does not process payment, and does not take a share of the revenue. You keep 100%.
  • Merchmapper-facilitated fulfillment. If Merchmapper facilitates the sale and production of your product through one of our fulfillment partners (a select listing), you receive 80% of Net Revenue from each unit sold. Net Revenue means the amount Merchmapper actually collects, minus production and fulfillment costs, payment processing fees, and any refunds or chargebacks.

Payment

Merchmapper pays accrued earnings on a monthly basis once your balance reaches $10, by Stripe Connect or, where Stripe Connect isn't available to you, PayPal. Balances under $10 roll over to the next month. If your account is terminated, we'll pay out any balance above $10 within 30 days.

You are responsible for reporting and paying any taxes owed on payments you receive. Stripe Connect's onboarding process collects any tax information required, such as a Form W-9 or equivalent, and Merchmapper will issue tax forms, such as a 1099-NEC, as required by law.

Bounties and Commissioned Work

Merchmapper may post bounties or otherwise request specific designs in exchange for a fixed fee (a “Bounty Listing”). Each Bounty Listing states its own fee, deadline, and deliverable requirements. By submitting work in response to a Bounty Listing, you agree to the terms stated in it and to this section, no separate signature required.

Any fee paid for a Bounty Listing is in addition to, not instead of, the revenue split described above. Where a Bounty Listing invites multiple submissions for a single opportunity, only the submission Merchmapper selects is eligible to receive the fee, and only submissions Merchmapper considers acceptable are eligible for selection. Merchmapper may cancel a Bounty Listing at any time, for any reason, without paying any fee, even to a Designer whose submission was acceptable but not selected.

Design work you create for a Bounty Listing remains your property, and Merchmapper receives the same non-exclusive license described above under “Ownership and License.” However, once Merchmapper has paid the fee for a Bounty Listing submission in full, you may not request that we remove that design from production, and our right to continue producing and selling it does not end if you later remove other content, close your account, or ask us to stop.

Content Standards

Anything you submit must be your own original work, or work you have full rights to submit. You may not submit a design that:

  • Reproduces another person's or company's copyrighted artwork, photography, or written work without permission
  • Reproduces a business, venue, sports team, band, or organization's logo, mascot, or other stylized trademark without permission (using a place or business name in a description, like referring to a neighborhood or landmark by name, is fine; reproducing that business's actual logo is not)
  • Uses a real, identifiable person's name, image, likeness, or voice without their permission
  • Falsely implies official affiliation with, or endorsement by, a business, venue, or organization
  • Otherwise violates Section 6 (Acceptable Use) or applicable law

If any part of your submission was generated or substantially assisted by an AI tool, you must disclose this at the time of submission and take reasonable steps to confirm it doesn't reproduce someone else's copyrighted or trademarked material.

Your Responsibility

You are solely responsible for making sure anything you submit doesn't infringe another party's rights. If a claim is brought against Merchmapper arising from your breach of this section, you are responsible for the costs and damages that result from that breach.

Merchmapper's review of a submission, if any, is not a guarantee that it's free of third-party rights issues, and does not shift that responsibility away from you.

Designers and creators participate as independent, unaffiliated contributors, not as Merchmapper employees, partners, or agents.

No Guarantee of Acceptance or Sales

Merchmapper has no obligation to accept, produce, list, promote, or sell any submission, and makes no guarantee regarding sales volume or earnings.

Removal and Account Consequences

Merchmapper may review, reject, or remove any submission at its sole discretion. A copyright complaint we determine to be valid, or a confirmed violation of the Content Standards above, counts as a strike against your account. A first strike results in content removal and a warning, a second results in suspension of your ability to submit new content, and a third results in permanent termination of your account and forfeiture of any unpaid balance, to the extent permitted by law. This applies across any accounts we reasonably believe you control.

Because products are made to order, Merchmapper does not typically hold pre-manufactured inventory. If we remove a design from sale, any orders already placed will still be fulfilled, but no further units will be produced.

Effect of Termination

If your account is terminated, whether by you or by Merchmapper, our license to continue producing and selling designs you submitted on your own initiative continues unless you separately request removal of that design, as described above under “Ownership and License.” Bounty Listing designs are not affected by termination, as described above under “Bounties and Commissioned Work.”

Confidentiality

You agree to keep confidential any non-public information Merchmapper shares with you in connection with your participation as a Designer or Creator, including unpublished Bounty Listing details and unreleased features, and to use that information only to participate on Merchmapper.

Disputes with Designers and Creators

For any dispute between Merchmapper and a Designer or Creator arising from this section, before filing any claim, both sides agree to first try to resolve it informally by contacting hello@merchmapper.com. Any dispute not resolved this way will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Fulton County, Georgia, and will be handled on an individual basis only, not as part of any class, collective, or representative action.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use Merchmapper to:

  • Scrape, crawl, or systematically extract data from the platform
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the platform or its infrastructure
  • Submit content that is false, misleading, infringing, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful
  • Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity
  • Interfere with or disrupt the platform or servers connected to it
  • Use the platform for any purpose that violates applicable law

Merchmapper reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account if you violate these terms or use the platform in a way that we determine, in our sole discretion, is harmful to Merchmapper or other users.

7. Third-Party Vendors, Fulfillment Partners, and Links

Product listings on Merchmapper include links to third-party vendor websites. Merchmapper has no control over and takes no responsibility for the content, policies, pricing, shipping, returns, or practices of those websites.

For most listings, any purchase you make on a vendor's website is solely between you and that vendor. Merchmapper is not responsible for products you purchase, disputes with vendors, or any harm arising from your use of a third-party site. We encourage you to review the terms and privacy policies of any vendor site before making a purchase.

For listings where Merchmapper facilitates the sale and fulfillment of products through an external fulfillment partner, that purchase is subject to the additional terms disclosed at checkout, including those governing payment processing, shipping, and returns. Merchmapper's role in these transactions is limited to facilitation through our fulfillment partner, and any issues with order fulfillment should be directed to us or to the fulfillment partner as instructed at checkout.

8. Intellectual Property

All Merchmapper branding, design, code, and original content is owned by Merchmapper. You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, or create derivative works from our original content without our written permission.

Product names, images, and descriptions displayed on Merchmapper belong to their respective vendors, members, or creators and remain their property. Merchmapper's use of this content is limited to the license described in Section 5 for member- and creator-submitted content, and to discovery purposes for vendor content sourced from publicly available vendor websites. Nothing in these terms grants you any rights in third-party vendor, member, or creator content beyond what is expressly stated.

9. Copyright Infringement Notices (DMCA)

Merchmapper responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Our designated agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, effective August 10, 2026.

Filing a notice. If you believe content on Merchmapper infringes your copyright, send a written notice to:

Merchmapper LLC, DMCA Agent
8735 Dunwoody Place Ste R, Atlanta, GA 30350
hello@merchmapper.com

Full designated agent contact details are available here.

To be effective, your notice must include:

  • Your physical or electronic signature, or that of someone authorized to act for you
  • Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed
  • Identification of the infringing material and enough information for us to locate it, such as a product or listing URL
  • Your contact information, including address, phone number, and email
  • A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
  • A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf

Our response. When we receive a valid notice, we remove or disable access to the identified material and notify the Designer or Creator who submitted it.

Counter-notice. If you believe your content was removed by mistake, you may submit a counter-notice with your signature, identification of the removed material and its prior location, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the removal was a mistake, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in your district. Unless the original complaining party files suit within 10 business days of our receiving a valid counter-notice, we may restore the material.

Repeated confirmed infringement leads to account termination under Section 5 (Designer & Creator Terms).

10. Disclaimers

Merchmapper is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure. We do not warrant that any product listing is accurate, current, or available.

Your use of Merchmapper is at your own risk.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Merchmapper and its owners, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of or inability to use the platform, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Merchmapper's total liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to these terms or your use of the platform will not exceed the greater of $0 or the total amount you have paid to Merchmapper in the twelve months preceding the claim. Because Merchmapper is a free service, this limit is $0 in most cases.

12. Account Termination

Merchmapper may suspend or terminate your account at any time for violation of these terms or for any other reason at our discretion.

You may request deletion of your account at any time by contacting hello@merchmapper.com. Upon deletion, your profile information is removed and your engagement data (likes, saves, follows, submissions) is anonymized.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Service at any time. When we do, we will update the effective date at the top of this page. Your continued use of Merchmapper after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms. If you do not agree to the updated terms, you should stop using Merchmapper and may request account deletion.

14. Changes to the Service

Merchmapper reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the platform at any time, with or without notice. We are not liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the service.

15. Governing Law

These Terms of Service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising from these terms or your use of Merchmapper will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Georgia. Additional dispute resolution terms specific to Designers and Creators, including venue and an individual-basis requirement, are set out in Section 5.

16. General Provisions

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.

No Waiver. Merchmapper's failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of its right to do so later.

Assignment. Merchmapper may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. You may not assign your account or these Terms to anyone else.

17. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, contact us at:

Merchmapper LLC
8735 Dunwoody Place Ste R, Atlanta, GA 30350
www.merchmapper.com
hello@merchmapper.com