Excluded Businesses

The following is a description of business models for which card acceptance is not supported or only supported subject to certain conditions.

The following business models are excluded:

• Technical support & Web development
• Health & Wellness Products
• eCigarettes
• Nutraceuticals
• ISP and Hosting Services
• Software & Other downloads
• Credit Repair
• Money Transfer
• Banned / illegal goods and services
• Drugs & related accessories (intoxicating substances)
• Alcohol products & beverages
• Pharmaceuticals and goods whose effect is doubtful
• Sale of tobacco products
• Outbound-Telemarketing
• Sub-Acquiring / merchant aggregation
• Church-like organizations or groups that do not have church status in Germany
• Charitable societies (with the exception of known German charitable organizations)
• Chain letters
• High-risk telemarketing companies (horoscopes, hypnosis, astrology, spiritual, predictions, forecasts of any kind)
• Timesharing
• Guarantees (long-term nature of contract makes risk difficult to calculate)
• Replicas
• Jewelry, watches & related accessories
• Smartphones – sale, resale & spare parts
• Electronics
• Car parts
• Game codes & hacks
• IPTV services
• Phone locking services
• Unregulated investments, assets & advisory
• Massage parlors & Tattoo studios
• Nightclubs / Cabaret bars
• Debt collection agencies
• Multi-Level Marketing

SecurionPay reserves the right to decline any business model not mentioned above based on Compliance's general evaluation and card network guidelines.