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Acceptable Use
You are independently responsible for complying with all applicable laws in all of your actions related to your use of VPayments'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 VPayments 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 cheques or money orders, (h) involve
currency exchanges or cheque 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 VPayments and the operator and customers are located exclusively in jurisdictions where such activities are permitted by law. Violations of the Acceptable Use Policy.
We encourage you to report violations of this Acceptable Use Policy to VPayments immediately. If you have a question about whether a type of transaction may violate the Acceptable Use Policy, please contact your issuing financial institution.