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PROHIBITED PRODUCTS OR SERVICES Rubicon Free Press may not be used in relation to any of the following...

Prohibited products or services​

 

Wix Payments may not be used in relation to any of the following:

​Adult
  • Adult goods (excluding fetish products)

  • Fetish products

  • Pornographic content: books, magazines, audio, videos, websites, streaming services and other content formats deemed offensive or of a sexual nature

  • Entertainment: Gentleman's clubs, topless bars, strip clubs, sexually oriented massage parlours, saunas, escort agencies, or any sexually-related services

  • Sexually oriented dating services

 

Financial businesses
  • Binary options

  • Buy now, pay later / Instalment payment methods

  • Credit card and identity theft protection

  • Credit repair and credit protection business

  • Debt repayment and collection agency

  • E-wallet or e-money that can be monetised, resold or converted to physical and digital goods and services or otherwise exit the virtual world

  • Financial service or money service business, including but not limited to:

    • Traveler checks

    • Money orders

    • Foreign Exchange

    • Check cashing

    • Virtual currencies

    • Cash advances by non-financial institutions

  • Fines or penalty collections of any kind

  • Forwarding brokers

  • Independent or unlicensed financial advisors
    Note: You may be allowed to provide educational financial services as long as such services do not include financial advice. You'll need to add a disclaimer to your site that clarifies that you do not provide financial advice.

  • Insurance sales and services (life)

  • Insurance sales and services (non-life)

  • Money transfer & remittance businesses

  • Payday loans, unsecured loans and loans originating from non-FDIC-insured banks

  • Payroll, invoice & business services

  • Provider or seller prepaid access/stored value (includes gift cards when the value exceeds $2,000)

  • Shell banks

Healthcare
  • Prescription-only and regulated medical devices (including contact lenses)

  • Dental supplies

  • Health practitioners, private medical practices, e-doctors, dental/medical services and facilities

  • Intravenous therapy (e.g. IV drip bar, vitamin infusions, hangover cures)

  • Medical benefit packages

  • Pharmaceuticals, prescription medicine

  • Supplements which include prescription ingredients \ or containing CBD \ THC

  • Nutraceuticals that are harmful or make unsupportable claims

  • Nutraceuticals solely focused on weight loss or increasing sexual performance

For Wix Payments users in the United States and Canada: See a detailed breakdown of which healthcare products can and can't be sold through Wix Payments.

 

Intellectual Property (IP)
  • Counterfeit products, replicas or designed infringements of them, including products designed to circumvent IP

  • Essay mills, paper mills, where the intent is to falsely submit documents as their own work

  • Products designed to circumvent copyright protection techniques or to otherwise facilitate the unlicensed use of copyrighted material

 

Marketing practices
  • Business investment opportunities operating as ‘get-rich-quick schemes’

  • Business models that use ransom or extortion-like practices

  • Business practices that are designed to evade excessive chargeback monitoring programs

  • Data pass

  • Deceptive marketing tactics related to disclosure, false or inaccurate claims, before/after claims, endorsements, cancellation or refunds avoidance, pre-checked opt-ins, poorly disclosed negative options, misappropriation of incentives, disproportionate rebates, sweepstakes

  • Fake references and other services or products that foster deception

  • Inbound telemarketing for postcards or mailings

  • Products or services that promote hate, violence, discrimination, terrorism, harassment or abuse in any shape or form

  • Pyramid selling, chain letters or other financial scams

Not for profit
  • Unregistered charities
    Important: By using your Wix Payments account for your registered charity, you declare that you manage the entire flow of the donation and that no funds will be sent to third parties

  • Crowdfunding

Technology
  • Decryption and descrambler products and services, devices designed to block, jam or interfere with cellular and personal communications

​Other products and services
  • Airlines

  • Animals and wildlife products classified as endangered or protected

  • Bail bonds and bankruptcy lawyers

  • Bidding fee and penny auctions

  • Certain social media businesses (e.g. click farms, sale of Twitter followers, Facebook likes, YouTube views, and other forms of social media activity and online traffic)

  • Cloud storage, VPN, file sharing, (high-risk) cyber lockers

  • Cruise Lines

  • Direct Marketing – Inbound teleservices, outbound telemarketing and travel-related arrangement services, Insurance services, catalogue merchants, door-to-door sales

  • Governmental services, such as embassies or consulates

  • Hazardous materials (B2B), including but not limited to:

    • Hydrofluoric acid

    • Products containing cyanide

    • Prohibited ozone-depleting substances (ODS)

    • Nitric acid

    • Peptides, research chemicals

    • Bacterial cultures or other products containing E. coli or Escherichia coli

    • Toxic, flammable and/or radioactive materials

  • Hazardous materials (B2C), as described above

  • Human body parts or bodily fluids (excluding hair and teeth)

  • Live-streaming Services with in-app currency

  • Live-streaming Services with in-app donations functionality

  • Multi-level marketing

  • Pawn shops

  • Telemarketing companies selling products or services as an agent for a third party

  • Timeshare and timeshare maintenance

  • Veterinary practices

Third-party payment processing
  • Aggregators, including but not limited to:

    • Marketplaces 

    • Platforms

  • Staged Digital Wallet Operators

  • Payment Facilitators or other internet payment or member service providers (IPSP or MPS)

  • Payment service companies, including but not limited to:

    • Peer-to-peer 

    • Bill payments 

    • Commissary accounts

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Regulated (non-financial) products and services

 

  • Alcohol sales as main product (e.g. alcohol shops, bars, breweries, wineries)

  • Cannabis dispensaries and related businesses

  • Drugs, and tools specifically intended for the production of drugs, drug paraphernalia, illegal drugs, substances designed to mimic illegal drugs and/or other psychoactive products
    Important: Wix Payments does not support the sale of products that contain CBD and / or THC. However, for users in the USA selling CBD products, Wix offers other payment solutions. Learn more about selling CBD with Wix.

  • Illegal products or services or any service providing peripheral support of illegal activities, including illegal gambling services

  • Legal gambling or Game of Skill where participants receive cash or cash equivalents or prizes with/of material value: including but not limited to: Casinos, poker, bingo, slot machines, betting, lotteries, racing, fantasy sports

  • Products or services specifically offered or intended to be used to create, produce or grow drugs or drug ingredients

  • Tobacco, e-cigarettes, e-liquids

  • Trade of fireworks, flammable or radioactive materials

  • Trade of weapons, ammunitions, military arms, explosive devices and firearm parts

  • Any type of US based gambling services

 

Securities and trading
  • Cryptocurrency exchange

  • Cryptocurrency mining equipment

  • High-risk securities such as:

    • Contract for difference (CFD)

    • Financial spread betting

    • Initial coin offering (ICO)

    • Forex currency options

    • Cryptocurrency options

    • Trading and purchases

  • Security brokers /investments of any kind including the purchase of:

    • Securities

    • Currencies

    • Derivatives

    • Commodities

    • Shares

    • Options

    • Precious metal

    • Other financial instruments

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