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Restricted Stores

Restricted Stores

Stores no longer supported

Please note that if a customer adds any restricted content from the list below to their store after the initial build, we will not do any further work on the store. If you come across tickets for stores with restricted content, notate on the ticket that content is restricted and send an email to build team management. 

Restrictions for All Services

In addition to Section 5 (General Rules of Conduct) contained in the Universal Terms of Service Agreement, you acknowledge and agree that you will not use any Services in a manner, as determined by us in our sole and absolute discretion:

  • To display or advertise pornographic, X-rated, sexually explicit, or otherwise tasteless materials, descriptions, images, products or services (including, but not limited to escort or prostitution services);
  • To sell or promote stolen or illegal items and/or to facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activities;
  • To sell or promote products that infringe on third party rights (e.g. copyright or trademarks) or counterfeit goods as they mimic the brand features of the product in an attempt to pass themselves off as a genuine product of the brand owner;
  • To sell or promote controlled substances and illegal drugs (including prescription drugs), items used to manufacture controlled substances and illegal drugs, and drug paraphernalia;
  • To sell or promote products that have been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
  • To sell or promote content related to or products derived from threatened or extinct species.
  • To promote offline or online gambling or the instruction of gambling;
  • To promote content that may be deemed as capitalizing on or lacking reasonable sensitivity towards a natural disaster, conflict, death, or other tragic event.
  • To promote content that incites or endorses hatred against others. Content that inappropriately discriminates against a person or group or that seeks to intimidate, exploit, or humiliate others.
  • To promote content containing violent language, gruesome or disgusting imagery, or accounts of physical trauma. Content containing gratuitous portrayals of bodily fluids or waste.
  • To promote content containing obscene or profane language or content that are likely to shock or scare.

Web Store Service Restrictions (non-exhaustive list)

You agree you will not use Services to build Web Stores that sell:

  • alcoholic beverages
  • vaporizers, CBD, THC, marijuana, paraphernalia, tobacco and related products
  • abortion-related products or services
  • guns, gun parts or weapons
  • non-prescription and prescription pharmaceutical substances
  • explosives or similar products that can cause serious damage to person or property
  • financial, currency exchange, loans or related products
  • domain names

Website Design Service Restrictions and Exceptions (non-exhaustive list)

  • We restrict the use of nude imagery to only allow informational site for strip clubs or adult stores, or as it pertains to art (e.g. statue of David), or to the medical field (e.g. breast before and after for a breast cancer specialist);
  • We restrict the promotion of alcoholic beverages to only allow for the legal and responsible use of alcohol.
  • We restrict the promotion of knives to only allow for the legal and responsible use of knives or swords (e.g. use in defense, collection, kitchen appliances, recreation or sport).
  • We restrict promotion of products, or the instruction of products, that are designed to explode and could cause damage to nearby people or property to only allow for simple fireworks or model rockets.
  • We restrict the promotion of guns, gun parts, or weapons to only allow for legal and responsible use.
  • We restrict the promotion of abortion-related products or services to only allow for the non-profit information or consulting websites.
  • We restrict the promotion of pharmaceutical substances to only allow for those that follow local laws and industry standards.
  • We restrict the promotion of political candidates, parties or content to only allow for content that doesn't violate any other areas of our guidelines.
  • We restrict the promotion of tobacco and tobacco-related products to only allow for the promotion of quitting smoking.
  • We restrict the promotion of financial, currency exchange, loans or related products to only allow informational websites.

You are responsible for ensuring that any content on your Website or product posted for sale in your Web Store is in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations where your Website is accessible or where your items can be purchased. We reserve the right and sole discretion to determine whether the content on your Website or the sale of any particular item is illegal or otherwise prohibited, and to ban the sale of any prohibited item(s) and/or cancel your Website Design or Web Store Service.

Social Media Management.

Since every Social Media Management package includes Facebook ads, we are unable to service any sites or businesses that are not in accordance with Facebook’s advertising guidelines. For a full list of prohibited and restricted content, see Facebook's Advertising Policies.

Website Design Service Allowances (non-exhaustive list)

  • T-shirts or swag items with marijuana leaf images
  • Items for sale made from hemp (for example, fabrics or rope)
  • Adult toys for sale
  • Informational site for a strip club (cannot include nude imagery)
  • Informational site for an adult store (cannot include nude imagery)
  • Nude imagery as it pertains to art (for example, images of the statue of David)
  • Nude imagery as it pertains to the medical field (breast before and after images for a breast cancer specialist)

GoDaddy's Legal Agreement can be found here:
https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements/professional-web-services-agreement

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