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Acceptable Use Policy

Acceptable Use Policy Last updated on October 29, 2022

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. Violation of this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a violation of the PayPal User Agreement.

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) cigarettes, (d) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (e) stolen goods including digital and virtual goods, (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime, (g) items that are considered obscene, (h) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (i) certain sexually oriented materials or services, (j) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories, or (k) 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, (g) involve currency exchanges or check cashing businesses, (h) involve certain credit repair, debt settlement services, credit transactions or insurance activities, or (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.

• involve the sales of products or services identified by government agencies to have a high likelihood of being fraudulent.

• relate to transactions involving any activity that requires pre-approval without having obtained said approval.

Activities Requiring Approval

PayPal requires pre-approval to accept payments for certain services as detailed in the chart below.

PayPal requires pre-approval to accept payments for certain items and services as detailed below.

Section

Category

Item or Service Requiring Pre-Approval (not intended to be an exhaustive list)

Contact Information

1

Transportation

Airlines and scheduled or non-scheduled charters/jets/air taxi operators.

For general questions, please refer to our Help Center.

If you have questions about obtaining a pre-approval or opening a new PayPal Business account that offers services requiring pre-approval, please contact our Sales team.

2

Charities / Non-Profit

Collecting donations as a charity or non-profit organization.

3

High Value Items

Operating as a dealer in jewels, precious metals and stones.

4

Payment Facilitator

Providing payment services which would fall under the definition of a money service business or an electronic money institution. Services would also include the sale of stored value cards and escrow services.