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Prohibited and
restricted businesses list

We do not accept products and/or services that (could) pose an unacceptable risk to the reputation or integrity of yappyBuy GmbH hereinafter referred to as “yappyBuy”.

By registering with yappyBuy, you acknowledge that you will not use the Service to place online orders in connection with the following:
- countries
- products
- services
- business activities
- or accept business practices

Unless yappyBuy has given you prior written consent.

Countries

It is strictly prohibited to use the yappyBuy service for business, engagements or the sale of goods or services with countries that are directly or indirectly associated with jurisdictions that have been identified by yappyBuy as high risk, such as:
Afghanistan, Albania, Barbados, Botswana, Donetsk region, Cambodia, Crimea region, Cuba, Luhansk region, Jamaica, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Russian Federation, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
If you trade with one or more countries from the list, we cannot allow the use of yappyBuy.

Activities for which yappyBuy cannot provide its services include, but are not limited to, the following categories of products, services, business activities or business practices:

1. Financial and professional products and services and high-risk businesses
Credit and investment services, credit counseling or repair; lending instruments; mortgage counseling or debt reduction; real estate transactions; securities brokerage and related businesses.
Legal and money services, bailments; collection agencies; money exchanges or money dealers; money order or money transmitter, wire transfers; law firms collecting funds for purposes other than payment of fees owed to the law firm for services rendered by the law firm.
Stored value or decentralized digital currency (cryptocurrency) that is monetized, resold or converted into physical or digital products and services or may otherwise leave the virtual world (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, etc.); sale of funds or funds managed, accepted and issued by a person other than the seller.
Bankruptcy attorneys; computer technical support; psychic services; travel reservation services and clubs; airlines; cruises; timeshares; prepaid phone cards, phone services and cell phones; telemarketing, telecommunications equipment and telephone sales; freight forwarding brokers; credit card and identity theft protection; the use of credit to pay for credit services; engaging in any form of licensed or unlicensed aggregation of funds owed to third parties, factoring or other activities designed to disguise the source of funds.

E-Doctors
Pre-sales outlets
Sale and trading of gaming currencies.

2. Infringement of intellectual property, regulated or illegal products, services
products or services that are not registered as official licensed replicas.
Any products that infringe the copyright, trademark or privacy of others.
Counterfeit products

3. Erotic
Adult content and services, obscene materials such as pornography and others, including literature, images and other media, and other related products; websites that offer sexually related services, such as live adult chat features, escorts, pay-per-view, prostitution, websites that offer erotic or sexual stimulants or accessories, toys, fetish or related products; massage parlors, websites that offer child abuse images or child pornography, or related services.

4. Gambling, online auctions, free auctions; contests; fantasy sports leagues with cash or money prizes; games of chance; internet gaming; lotteries, including online lotteries; sports predictions or betting odds; sweepstakes.

5. iIlegal or regulated products or services including drugs, drug paraphernalia and addictive substances
materials and devices intended for the manufacture or use of drugs, such as bongs, vaporizers, hookahs or other related devices.
New psychoactive substances - substances that mimic illegal drugs.
Sale of a legal substance that has the same effect as an illegal drug (e.g. salvia, kratom).

Pseudopharmaceuticals
Drugs and other products that make health claims that have not been approved or verified by the appropriate local and/or national regulatory authority or make specific claims about weight loss, anti-aging, muscle building or sexual stimulation, including dietary supplements, steroids and nutraceuticals, colon cleansers and detoxification products.
Marijuana dispensaries and related businesses; sales of CBD products and related businesses; sales of tobacco, e-cigarettes, and e-liquid; age-restricted goods or services.

6. Infringement of intellectual property or proprietary rights
Selling, distributing or accessing counterfeit movies, music, software or other licensed materials without the appropriate authorization from the owner of the respective rights; any product or service that directly infringes or facilitates infringement of a third party's trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret, or proprietary or privacy rights; Use of yappyBuy's intellectual property without yappyBuy's express consent; use of the yappyBuy name or logo, including use of yappyBuy trademarks or service marks, that is inconsistent with the yappyBuy Trademark Usage Agreement or otherwise detrimental to yappyBuy or the yappyBuy brand; any action that implies an untrue endorsement of or affiliation with yappyBuy.

7. Unauthorized goods or counterfeits
Unauthorized sale or resale of branded or designer products or services; sale of goods or services that are illegally imported or exported.

8. Pseudoscience
Services related to pseudoscience, such as clairvoyance, fortune telling, horoscopes, etc.

9. Social media activities
Sale of Twitter followers, Facebook likes, YouTube views and any other form of social media activity.

10. Weapons and ammunition - only with prior consent by yappyBuy GmbH
Weapons of all kinds, including firearm parts.
Ammunition of all kinds including gunpowder and other explosives.
All relevant and related materials and equipment intended for the manufacture or use of weapons, explosives or ammunition or other related equipment and materials that may be used for the construction of explosives, weapons or ammunition.
Fireworks and related goods; toxic, flammable and radioactive materials.

11. Unfair, predatory, illegal or deceptive practices
Pyramid and get rich quick schemes, network marketing and referral marketing programs.

Multi-level marketing
Investment opportunities or other services that promise high profits; so-called “growth hackers”.
Mug shot publishing or pay-to-remove sites.
Platforms that facilitate the publication and removal of content (e.g. mug shots) where the main purpose of publishing such content is to express or fear reputational damage.
Services without added value.
Selling or reselling a service with no additional buyer benefit; reselling government offers without authorization or added value; chain letters; websites that we, yappyBuy, in our sole discretion, deem unfair, misleading or predatory to consumers.
The promotion/advertising of terrorism or political violence.
Products or services with which the provider circumvents the law.
Products or services advertised by illegal means.
Deceptive, unfair or fraudulent products or services.
Misleading marketing practices.

12. Illegal or stolen products
All products and goods that have been illegally obtained, stolen or imported.
All products that incite or encourage illegal activities.

13. Animal trade
Illegal trade in puppies, illegal trade in live animals and wild animals of all kinds as well as trade in animal preparations, taxidermy business and trade, trade in animal organs, animal fluids and animal substances that are not clearly declared and approved as animal feed.

14. Trade in human organs, human body substances and fluids of any kind or form

Any other products and services, business activities or business practices that pose an unacceptable risk to the reputation and business integrity of yappyBuy.

Use of yappyBuy in a manner inconsistent with its intended use or as expressly prohibited in the yappyBuy Services Agreement. Any business that we believe poses increased financial risk, legal liability or increased risk to yappyBuy and consumers.
Any products or services, business activities or business practices that are otherwise restricted by our financial partners.

Any product or service, business activity or business practice and any business or organization that a) advocates, engages in, encourages or promotes physical harm or unlawful violence against persons, animals, nature or property, or b) advocates, engages in, encourages or promotes unlawful violence, hatred or discrimination against any group based on race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, national origin or any other immutable characteristic; any business that promotes terrorism, harassment or abuse.