Prohibited businesses

 

The following businesses are prohibited businesses. 

Fresha may update this list of prohibited businesses from time to time.

  • Age-restricted products or services
  • Age verification
  • Airlines
  • Alcohol
  • Any product or service that infringes upon the copyright, trademark, or trade secrets of any third-party
  • Any product, service or activity that is deceptive, unfair, predatory or prohibited by one or more card networks
  • Bail bonds
  • Bankruptcy lawyers
  • Bidding fee auctions
  • Chain letters
  • Check cashing, wire transfers or money orders
  • Collection agencies
  • Counterfeit goods
  • Credit card and identity theft protection
  • Cruise lines
  • Currency exchanges or dealers
  • Door-to-door sales
  • Drug paraphernalia
  • Embassies, foreign consulates or other foreign governments
  • Engaging in any form of licensed or unlicensed aggregation or factoring
  • Engaging in deceptive marketing practices
  • Essay mills
  • Evading a Payment Network's chargeback monitoring programs
  • Extended warranties
  • Firms selling business opportunities, investment opportunities, mortgage consulting, credit repair or protection or real estate purchases with no money down
  • Flea markets
  • Gambling
  • "Get rich quick" schemes
  • Illegal products or services
  • Mail-order brides
  • Medical devices
  • Money transmitters or money service businesses
  • Multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes
  • Negative response marketing
  • Pharmacies or pharmacy referral services
  • Pre-paid phone cards
  • Pseudo-pharmaceuticals
  • Prescription medications
  • Quasi-cash or stored value
  • Securities brokers
  • Sexually-oriented products or services categorised as:
  • Child pornography
  • Fetish gear and services, including S&M paraphernalia
  • Hard-core sexually-oriented products and services
  • International match-making services
  • Pornographic materials displaying sexually explicit pictures, images, and videos
  • Sexually explicit telephone or online conversations and chat
  • Sexually oriented dating services, including companion/escort services and prostitution
  • Sexually oriented massage parlours, sex shows, sex clubs, topless bars, strip shows, and other adult entertainment
  • Widgets that allow you to access pornography or pornographic ads
  • Selling social media activity, such as Twitter followers, Facebook likes or YouTube views
  • Sharing cardholder's data with another merchant for payment of up-sell or cross-sell product or service
  • Shipping or forwarding brokers
  • Sports forecasting or odds making
  • Substances designed to mimic illegal drugs
  • Telecommunications equipment and telephone sales
  • Telemarketing
  • Timeshares
  • Tobacco, e-cigarettes, vaporisers and accessories, including e-juice
  • Virtual currency that can be monetised, re-sold or converted to physical or digital goods or services or otherwise exit the virtual world or related services
  • Weapons and munitions