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All you need to know about 2Checkout Legal
2Checkout Prohibited Product List / Acceptable Use Policy
The Prohibited Product List ("PPL") describes the acceptable use of the services provided to 2Checkout's users and customers by 2Checkout. 2Checkout may decline, suspend, or terminate your use of 2Checkout's services in accordance with the PPL. The PPL below outlines several categories of services or products that 2Checkout will not support. Please review this policy and ensure that your business practices, products and services are compliant with this PPL. Please note that 2Checkout has the right to update and modify this PPL at any time without prior notice. The list of Prohibited Products and Services listed below is merely representative, but not exhaustive. In other words, your business practices, products and services may not be approved by 2Checkout regardless of whether they appear below.
By signing up for a 2Checkout account, you agree that you will not use 2Checkout's services to accept payments for sale of any Prohibited Products.
Prohibited Products List
Adult Entertainment (Sexually Oriented)
Audio/video text (file sharing, video streaming)
Buyers Clubs
Cash Gifting
Chain Letters
Cultural artifacts, Antiquities, and Native American Artifacts
Cyberlockers
Dating/Social networking
Direct Marketing- Subscription Sellers
Drug Paraphernalia
Embassy, Foreign Consulate, or Other Foreign Government, Visa assistance
Employment Agencies
Essay/Thesis writing services
Extended warranty companies
Financial Services or Advice (including but not limited to)
Check cashing
Collection agencies or firms involved in recovering/collecting past due receivables
Credit card protection (including identity theft protection)
Credit Counseling or Credit Repair Services
Currency exchange
Debt consolidation
Money transfer services/Cash Advance (except for regulated Financial Institutions which are acceptable)
Quasi Cash
Firearms, Ammunition, High Capacity Magazines, Weapons (Swords, Knives, etc.)
Fulfillment Centers
Future services (merchants that provide investment on future maturity goods or services -greater than 4 months for delivery- with an intention of gaining return on investment (e.g., wines/spirits or timber investment))
Gambling, including Prognostication, Lotteries, Raffles, Contests, and sweepstakes
"Get-rich-quick" schemes (wealth management, income potential oriented)
Hypnosis and/or subliminal recordings or consultation
Illegal and Potentially Illegal Products/Services
Inbound Telemarketing Companies that receive calls as the result of post cards or similar mailings (as opposed to catalog or media advertising)
Infomercial Sellers
Internet Pharmacies
High Risk Marketing content
Products promoting healing claims, health/ anti-aging benefits, affiliations with any religious blessings and lucky charms
Branded / Trademark protected products in the absence of reseller rights
Parodies
Images, logos, designs of existing protected intellectual property
Celebrity images/names used in product advertisement
Courier/shipping and delivery services
NGO (donation websites, non-profit-excluding USA)
Crowdfunding
Contractors (handyman repairs, heating, electrician, construction, landscape)
Beauty Salons (hair dressers, Aesthetics)
Free websites (i.e. Facebook, blogs)
Internet Pharmacy Referral Sites
Legal services and/or advice
Loan or Mortgage Modification
Market Research Reports
Matrimonial sites, "Find-A-Bride", etc.
Medical Benefits packages
Medical Marijuana
Medical Services, Advice and/or Devices
Multi-Level Marketing Companies
Negative response marketing techniques by any type of seller (i.e. customer is automatically charged if they don't return the merchandise at the end of the free trial period)
Newsgroups and/or file sharing services
Non-Accredited Certification Test Exams, Academic Degrees, or Diplomas
Offering a Free Gift, Prize or Contest/Sweepstakes entry as an inducement to purchase their product or service
Online Gaming and In-Game Items (Minecraft)
Outbound Telemarketing Companies
Payment Service Providers
Phone unlocking/"jailbreaking", modification chips, unlock codes
Police and other Government Identification and Equipment
Pre-Adult Content- Pictures, Videos, etc. of individuals under the age of 18
Pre-Paid Phone Card or Services
Prescription Drugs/Devices, Controlled Substances, Unapproved Drugs, Unapproved Medical Devices,
Products that promote or facilitate illegal activity
Pseudo-pharmaceuticals (anti-aging pills, sex nutrients, herbal supplements, protein powder supplements)
Psychic or astrological readings/consultation
Radar and/or cellular jammers or boosters
Remote Access Services / Technical Support
Replica and/or unlicensed branded goods
Sellers offering Substantial Rebates or Special Incentives that are awarded to the cardholder subsequent to the original purchase
Selling Products/Services as an Agent for a Third Party
Sites that promote Hatred, Racism, or Religious Persecution
Social Media Advertising (excluding Social Media Management)
Sports forecasting or odds-making
Telecommunications industry (including Local and Long Distance Calls, Credit Card Calls, Calls Through Use of Magnetic-Stripe-Reading Telephones, and Fax Services)
Tobacco Products, Smoking Mixtures, or Tobacco Substitutes, e-cigarettes, vape accessories
Travel Services, including Airfare, Cruises, and Car Rentals
"Up-Sell" Sellers
Wigs, Hairpieces, Toupees (including false eye lashes, extensions)
Business consultancy
Relate to transactions that (a) show the personal information of third parties in violation of applicable law or platforms that facilitate the publication and removal of content (such as mug shots), where the primary purpose of posting such content is to cause or raise concerns of reputational harm
Sell any product, service or activity that is deceptive, misleading, predatory, prohibited by one or more Card Networks, or that provides no added benefit to the buyer (this being determined by 2Checkout in its sole discretion).
Sell any product or service enabling consumers to circumvent locks, programming codes or security features or manufacturer protections (illegally circumventing other copyright protection devices), or certain geographic or IP-based restrictions
Sell malware and including, but not limited to, computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, dishonest adware, crimeware, unauthorized rootkits, and other malicious and unsolicited software.
Involve the sales of activities that are identified by government agencies as having a high likelihood of being fraudulent.
As per International regulations, 2Checkout does not support business to and from any banned countries including, without limitation, countries that appear on certain lists provided by the United States Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Controls. You may view these lists at: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx.
Sell Access-based, media-downloading services or software where the participant(s) do not have the right to distribute the underlying content.
The Reseller of such product or service is unable to provide evidence of the appropriate reseller certificate or permission from the originator of the product or service.
Last update: May, 2019
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