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.