Restricted Businesses
These businesses are not prohibited, but they may be subject to additional due diligence - including license verification, compliance checks, and an in-depth assessment of their business model - before being approved to use Payva's services. Any approval granted applies to specific businesses and may be modified or revoked at Payva's discretion.
| Adult | Adult, sexual or pornographic products and services, including live web cameras. |
| Adult | Services including sex chat lines/chat rooms, streaming services. |
| Financial and legal services | Bailiffs, bankruptcy/insolvency services, claims management, debt collection management agencies. |
| Financial and legal services | Crowdfunding. |
| Financial and legal services | Financial advice and investment services. |
| Financial and legal services | Insurance. |
| Financial and legal services | Money services, trading. |
| Gambling & gaming | Appropriately licensed gambling, betting, or lotteries. |
| High risk businesses, products and services | Medical devices. |
| High risk businesses, products and services | Medical treatments and services. |
| High risk businesses, products and services | Multi level marketing. |
| High risk businesses, products and services | Prescription pharmacies. |
| Travel, tours and events | Event organizers and ticketing platforms. |
| Travel, tours and events | Hotels and other accommodations. |
| Travel, tours and events | Rentals & housing. |
| Travel, tours and events | Tour agencies & tour operators. |
Prohibited Businesses
These businesses are prohibited from using Payva’s services.
| Adult | Sex work and escort services, sexually oriented massage parlors. |
| Adult | Products or services (including promotional materials) associated with pedophilia, non-consensual sexual activities, exploitation of minors, or non-consensual bodily harm. |
| Adult | Items linked to bestiality, incest, and prostitution. |
| Age restricted items | Sales and distribution of alcoholic products. |
| Age restricted items | Products that include e-cigarettes or vaping devices. |
| Age restricted items | Sale of fireworks and related items. |
| Age restricted items | Tobacco and related substitutes. |
| Deceptive or unfair marketing | Marketing practices that mislead consumers or bypass consumer protection regulations. |
| Drugs and illegally derived substances and products | Any illegal drugs or substances, including alternatives. |
| Drugs and illegally derived substances and products | Products or services associated with illegal drug activities. |
| Drugs and illegally derived substances and products | Products designed to imitate illegal drugs. |
| E-Commerce automation | Online marketplace ie Amazon, shopify, tiktok shops done for you automation stores |
| Financial and legal services | Financial services provided without appropriate licenses as required by law. |
| Financial and legal services | High risk securities, share dealing services, short term payday loans, tax evasion services, timeshares, forex / foreign exchange trading services. |
| Financial and legal services | Transactions involving binary options, currency exchange, money transfers, and cryptocurrencies. |
| Gambling | Gambling or lotteries provided without appropriate license, as required by law. |
| Gambling & gaming | Purchases made within gaming applications. |
| General | Content, products, marketing or services encouraging or in other ways inappropriately related to hate, violence, racism or discrimination. |
| General | Items or services intended to cause harm, injury, or suffering to individuals or animals. |
| General | Transactions involving endangered animals or plants and products derived from them. |
| High risk businesses, products and services | Charities. |
| High risk businesses, products and services | Drug paraphernalia. |
| High risk businesses, products and services | Prepaid phone services. |
| High risk businesses, products and services | Gift cards/ vouchers |
| Illegal products or services | Counterfeit products and illegally acquired goods, including copyright infringements, services designed to promote infringements of intellectual property rights, e.g. by bonus programs for uploading unauthorized digital content and unauthorized file sharing or streaming, unlicensed copies. |
| Illegal products or services | Any products or services that violate any legal statutes. |
| Illegal products or services | Orders or services related to illicit activities, including but not limited to money laundering, human trafficking, and tax fraud. |
| Illegal products or services | Business methods, products or practices that are illegal. |
| Illegal products or services | Practices misleading or deceiving consumers or discarding or avoiding consumer protection laws. |
| Illegal products or services | Methods or actions that involve exploiting individuals for personal or commercial gain, including any deprivation of liberty. Any acts of modern slavery in any part of a business or its supply chains. |
| Illegal products or services | Products and services provided without license as required by law. |
| Illegal products or services | Sanctioned goods or services, or goods or services originating from sanctioned countries or individuals, including travel to and accommodation in countries subject to sanctions. |
| Illegal products or services | Sale of age restricted services or products, including alcohol, E-cigarettes, tobacco and tobacco substitutes to minors. |
| Travel, tours and events | Airlines & cruise lines. |
| Weapons | Sale of weapons requiring licence. |
| Weapons | Goods and services related to firearms, explosives, and instruments designed for harm or destruction. |
| Weapons | Replica weapons, soft air gun and related accessories. |
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