PayPal Usage Policy
You are independently responsible for complying with all applicable
laws in all of your actions related to your use of PayPal's services,
regardless of the purpose of the use. In addition, you must adhere to
the terms of this Acceptable Use Policy.
Prohibited Activities
You may not use the PayPal service for activities that:
- violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation.
- relate to transactions involving (a) narcotics, steroids, certain
controlled substances or other products that present a risk to consumer
safety, (b) drug paraphernalia, (c) items that encourage, promote,
facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (d) stolen
goods including digital and virtual goods (e) items that promote hate,
violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime,
(f) items that are considered obscene, (g) items that infringe or
violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any
other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (h) certain
sexually oriented materials or services, (i) ammunition, firearms, or
certain firearm parts or accessories, or (j) ,certain weapons or knives
regulated under applicable law.
- relate to transactions that (a) show the personal information of
third parties in violation of applicable law, (b) support pyramid or
ponzi schemes, matrix programs, other "get rich quick" schemes or
certain multi-level marketing programs, (c) are associated with
purchases of annuities or lottery contracts, lay-away systems, off-shore
banking or transactions to finance or refinance debts funded by a
credit card, (d) are for the sale of certain items before the seller has
control or possession of the item, (e) are by payment processors to
collect payments on behalf of merchants, (f), are associated with the
sale of traveler's checks or money orders, (h) involve currency
exchanges or check cashing businesses, or (i) involve certain credit
repair, debt settlement services, credit transactions or insurance
activities.
- involve the sales of products or services identified by government agencies to have a high likelihood of being fraudulent.
- violate applicable laws or industry regulations regarding the sale
of (a) tobacco products, or (b) prescription drugs and devices.
- involve gambling, gaming and/or any other activity with an entry fee
and a prize, including, but not limited to casino games, sports
betting, horse or greyhound racing, lottery tickets, other ventures that
facilitate gambling, games of skill (whether or not it is legally
defined as a lottery) and sweepstakes unless the operator has obtained
prior approval from PayPal and the operator and customers are located
exclusively in jurisdictions where such activities are permitted by law.
Activities Requiring Approval
PayPal requires pre-approval to accept payments for certain services as set out in 6 above and detailed in the below.
Service Requiring Pre-Approval
Airlines and scheduled or non-scheduled charters/jets/air taxi
operators; collecting donations as a charity or non-profit organization;
dealing in jewels, precious metals and stones; acting as a money
transmitter or selling stored value cards; selling stocks, bonds,
securities, options, futures (forex) or an investment interest in any
entity or property; or providing escrow services. Please send contact
information, business website URL and a brief business summary to
compliance@paypal.com.
Offering online dating services; providing file sharing services or
access to newsgroups; or selling alcoholic beverages. Please send
contact information, business website URL and brief business summary to
aup@paypal.com.
More Information
To learn more about the Acceptable Use Policy, please refer to the Paypal Help Center.
Transactions on eBay
When using PayPal's services in support of eBay transactions, you
must comply with all of these guidelines and eBay's Prohibited and
Restricted Items rules found here - http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/items-ov.html.
Violations of the Acceptable Use Policy
We encourage you to report
violations of this Acceptable Use Policy to PayPal immediately. If you
have a question about whether a type of transaction may violate the
Acceptable Use Policy, you can email PayPal's AUP Compliance Department
at: aupviolations@paypal.com.
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