Section 12 — Legal / PCI Tab

Purpose of the Legal / PCI Tab

The Legal / PCI tab attaches verified legal, compliance, and provenance information to each product record.

This information is machine-consumed first, but also provides a transparent compliance layer for regulators, marketplaces, and automated trust systems.

Unlike SEO or Social metadata, this tab establishes accountability and provenance, not marketing or discoverability.

What This Tab Provides

The Legal / PCI tab combines two distinct categories of information:

1. Product-Specific Compliance Fields

These fields may vary by product and are generated or populated when applicable:

  • Compliance Notes

     (e.g., care instructions, material handling, safety notes)

  • Warnings

     (e.g., choking hazards, material sensitivities, regulatory disclosures)

  • Country Restrictions

     (e.g., shipping limitations, export controls)

  • Adult Considerations

     (e.g., age-restricted products, suitability indicators)

These fields are deterministic and should only be edited if the merchant has factual, product-specific information to add.

Yellow-outlined fields indicate optional inputs — they are not required for CatalogPilot to function correctly.

2. Merchant & Policy Provenance (Applied to Every Product)

The following fields attach merchant identity and policy references to each product record:

  • About Us (link)
  • Terms & Conditions (link)
  • Return Policy (link)
  • Privacy Policy (link)
  • Merchant Name
  • Merchant Address
  • Merchant Logo

These values are inherited from the merchant’s configuration and remain consistent across all products.

They are included intentionally to ensure:

  • Clear merchant attribution
  • Policy traceability
  • Marketplace and crawler trust validation
  • Regulatory alignment

Editing Guidance

Merchants may edit product-specific compliance fields only when information is known and verifiable.

CatalogPilot does not encourage speculative or inferred content in this tab.

Key guidance:

  • Do not invent warnings or restrictions
  • Do not duplicate policy text into product fields
  • Do not override merchant-level policy links unless they are incorrect

The goal is accuracy and traceability, not completeness.

Why This Matters

Modern platforms, marketplaces, and AI systems increasingly evaluate:

  • Who sells the product
  • Under what legal terms
  • With what compliance disclosures
  • From which jurisdiction

By attaching this information at the product level, CatalogPilot ensures each product can stand independently when evaluated by automated systems.

Key Principle

Legal / PCI metadata is about trust, not optimization.

Most merchants will rarely interact with this tab.

When they do, edits should be deliberate, factual, and minimal.

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