Prohibited Businesses List



Updated: September 30, 2024

Targetflow customers may not, and may not allow any third‐party, including Your users, to use the Targetflow if your business engages in the below prohibited activities or if you use your Targetflow Services to display, store, process or transmit, or permit use of Services to display, store, process or transmit materials related to the below prohibited activities:

Drugs
  • Illegal Drugs and related Paraphernalia
  • Non-pharmaceutical synthetic Drugs or Substances designed to mimic illegal drugs and/or other psychoactive products
  • Inhalants / Amyl Nitrite
  • Marijuana (Cannabis or CBD) or direct relationships to industry
  • Sales of goods requiring age verification (e.g. alcohol) not in-person
  • Tobacco Products (including cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, ENDS (Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems) products such as e-cigarettes and “Vape” supplies and accessories (e.g. vape pens, cartridge refills, etc.)

Extended Payments
  • Advanced Payments Greater Than 1 Year (any product or service)
  • Extended Warranty Companies
  • Lifetime Subscriptions (any product or service)

Financial Services
  • Cash Advances (other than regulated financial institutions), Cash Gifting, Check Cashing
  • Currency, Commodity Exchange, Foreign Exchange, Money Transfer Businesses
  • Credit Card Protection
  • Credit Repair Agencies
  • E-Cash, Digital cryptocurrency and/or cybercurrency
  • Informal Value Transfer System – A currency or value transmission system whereby money is paid to an agent who instructs a remote associate to pay the final recipient
  • Mortgage Reduction Services / Mortgage/ Loan Modification
  • Payment Facilitators (PayFac)
  • Payment processors
  • Predatory Lenders and Payday Loans
  • Prepaid Stored Value Card Companies
  • Programs on how to apply for low-interest credit cards
  • Quasi Cash
  • Wholesale currency, which includes discounted currencies or currency exchanges
  • Collection Agencies or firms involved in recovering/collecting past due receivables
  • Foreclosure Protection/Guarantees (including “how to” guides)
  • Virtual currency/cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or credits that can be monetized, re-sold, or converted to physical or digital goods or services or otherwise exit the virtual world

Health & Beauty
  • Massage Parlors
  • Modeling Agencies
  • COVID-19 (Sale of any goods or services that purports to test, cure, treat, or prevent COVID-19) (excluding licensed/genuine healthcare providers)
  • Astrology/Tarot Card/Psychics

Marketing
  • “Get Rich Quick” Schemes
  • Hate-related material
  • Deceptive Marketing Practices
  • Merchants offering free gifts, prizes, sweepstakes, incentives, or enticements, the winning of a contest as an inducement to purchase a product or service
  • Multi-level / Affiliate Marketing Businesses
  • Negative renewal option business models
  • Inbound Telemarketing with an “Up-Sell” and “Up-Sell” Merchants
  • Negative Option Billers
  • Outbound Telemarketing
  • Ponzi Schemes
  • Sweepstakes

Relationships
  • Companion/Escort Services, Dating Services
  • Bride Catalog /Mail Order Spouse/International Match Making Services
  • Most Sexually Oriented or Pornographic Products and Services

Retail
  • Pawn Shops
  • Counterfeit Goods / Replicas
  • Weapons or Gun Dealers
  • Any Product/Service considered illegal

Technology
  • Cyberlocker and similar storage entities
  • Phone Unlocking Services
  • Prepaid Access, Phone Cards, Phone Services and Cell Phones
  • Resale of Social Media Activity
  • Social Media “Click Farms” (e.g. the sale of clicks/likes/reviews/endorsements)
  • Spyware
  • Jammers
  • Malware

Travel
  • Subscriptions to travel services or prepackaged trips

Other Services
  • Gambling
  • Age Verification CNP: Card-not-present sales where products require age verification
  • Brand or reputational damaging, potential or otherwise, activities including but not limited to Occult materials, non-consensual mutilation of a person or body part
  • Fake references and other services / products that foster deception (including fake IDs and government documents)
  • Immigration Services (a business entity that providers employment-based immigration services programs)
  • Merchants that have ransom-like or extortion-like basis for their business model
  • Paper Mills (AKA Essay or Term Paper Mill)
  • Penny Auctions


This list may be updated from time to time.

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