Kayayyaki da Ayyukan Da Aka Taƙaita

Cikakke Bayanin Manufar
Kwarewar Mai Amfani
Bayanai

Cikakken bayanin doka

CANZA SHIGA
Manufar Doka
Domin ƙarfafa samun kariya da kuma hana harkokin da za su iya cutarwa, mun haramta yunƙuri daga ɗaiɗaikun mutane, masu samar da kaya, da ‘yan kasuwa na saya, sayarwa, gasar caca, kyauta, tiransifa ko cinikin wasu kaya ko ayyuka a kan dandamalinmu. Ba ma ƙyale musaya ko sayar da duk wasu ƙwayoyi da za su haddasa amfani da sinadarai ta mummunar hanya da manufofinmu da ke ƙasa suka shafa. ‘Yan kasuwar shagon kasuwanci da masu sayar da kaya ta intanet za su iya tallata bindigogi, barasa, da ganyen taba da ake dasu don sayarwa ba a kan ayyukanmu ba; sai dai, mukan taƙaita ganin wannan ƙunshiyar ga ƙananan yara. Haka kuma mun haramta musayar takardun da aka haramta da kuma gudanar da ayyukan kuɗin da aka haramta. Muna ba da damar tattaunawa game da sayar da waɗannan kayayyaki a shaguna ko ta hannun dillalan a intanet, bayar da shawarwarin yin canje-canje ga ƙa'idoji na kayayyaki da ayyuka da wannan dokar ta ƙunsa, da bayar da shawarwari ko kuma game da amfani da magungunan asibiti a muhallin magance cuta, har da tattaunawa game da illolin da ke shafar jiki ko tunani.
Kayayyaki da Ayyukan da Aka Taƙaita sun ƙunshi waɗannan rukunan:
  • Magunguna da Kayan Haɗa Magunguna
  • Makamai, Alburusai ko Abubuwan Fashewa
  • Kamfanin Taba da Kayayyakin Masu Alaƙa
  • Barasa
  • Lafiya da Walwala
  • Caca da Wasanni ta Intanet
  • Halittun da ke cikin haɗarin ɓacewa da waɗanda aka kare (dabbobin daji da tsirrai)
  • Kayan Tarihi
  • Kayayyaki da Abubuwa Masu Haɗari
  • Sassan Jiki da Ruwan Jiki
  • Kayan da Aka Dawo Da Su
  • Haramtattun Takardu da Ayyukan Kuɗi
An ba da cikakken bayanin kowane rukunin a ƙasa.
Magunguna da Kayan Haɗa Magunguna
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Magunguna masu illa (magunguna da ke da illa idan aka wuce gona da iri, ko masu alaƙa da rashin lafiya mai tsanani, da ya haɗa amfani da wuce gona da iri; misali, koken, ƙwayar fentanyi, hodar makakku).
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Yunƙurin saye, sayarwa, ciniki, shirya cinikin, ba da gudunmuwa, ba da kyauta ko ya ke nemen magungunan masu illa.
  • Ya ke amincewa kan sayen, ciniki ko shirya cinikin magungunan masu illa daga wanda ya wallafa bayanan da kansa ko ta hanyar wasu.
  • Amincewa kan amfani na ƙashin kai ba tare da ambato ko nuni da warkewa, yin magani, ko wani taimakon don a yaƙi yin amfani da shi. Wannan bayanin ba zai iya yin kyakkyawar magana game da, ƙarfafa amfani da, shiryawa ko samar da bayanan jagora don yin amfani da magungunan masu illa.
  • Shiryawa ko yaɗawa (wanda mu ke nufin ya ke kyakkyawar magana game da, ya ke ƙarfafa gwiwar amfani da, ko samar da bayanan jagora don amfani ko ya ke yin) magungunan masu illa.
  • Lura: An yarda da yin muhawara ko bayar da shawarwari game da halascin tattaunawa ko tattauna cancantar kimiyya ko magunguna na ƙwayoyi masu haɗari. Wannan ya haɗa da labarai da sanarwar aikin jama'a.
Ƙwayoyin da ba na magani ba (ƙwayoyi ko abubuwan da ba a amfani da su don magani ko kuma ana amfani da su don cimma wani abu - wannan ya haɗa da sinadarai ko abubuwan da ake amfani da su don samar da waɗannan ƙwayoyi.)
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Yunƙurin saye, sayarwa, ciniki, shirya cinikin, ba da gudunmuwa, ba da kyauta ko ya ke nemen magungunan da ba na asibiti ba.
  • Ya ke amincewa kan sayen, ciniki ko shirya cinikin magungunan da ba na asibiti ba daga wanda ya wallafa bayanan da kansa ko ta hanyar wasu.
  • Amincewa kan amfani na ƙashin kai ba tare da ambato ko nuni da warkewa, yin magani, ko wani taimakon don a yaƙi yin amfani da shi. Wannan bayanin ba zai iya yin kyakkyawar magana game da, ƙarfafa amfani da, shiryawa ko samar da bayanan jagora don yin amfani da magungunan da ba na asibiti ba.
  • Shiryawa ko yaɗawa (wanda mu ke nufin ya ke kyakkyawar magana game da, ya ke ƙarfafa gwiwar amfani da, ko samar da bayanan jagora don amfani ko ya ke yin) magungunan da ba na asibiti ba.
  • Ƙoƙarin sayarwa ko tallata kayan aikin ƙwayoyi waɗanda ba na magani ba.
  • Ya ƙunshi kayan sayarwa da ke nuna ƙwayoyi waɗanda ba na magani ba.
Magungun da likita ya rubuta (magungunan da ake buƙatar likita ko wani ƙwararre ya rubuta a bayar)
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa ko cinikin magungunan da likita ya rubuta ban da lokacin da:
    • Lissafa farashin alluran rigakafi a cikin ilimi bayyananne ko mahallin tattaunawa lokacin da aka ƙayyade wa manya masu shekaru 18 ko sama da haka.
    • Bayar da isarwa lokacin da halaltattun kasuwancin yanar gizo na kiwon lafiya suka aike da su lokacin da aka ƙayyade wa manya masu shekaru 18 ko sama da haka. Wannan abun dole ne kuma ya haɗa da sanarwar nisanta kai don tuntuɓar ƙwararren ma'aikacin lafiya ko samun ingantaccen magani.
  • Ƙoƙarin ba da gudunmawa ko kyautar magungunan da ake buƙatar takardar izini, sai dai a yayin matsalar tattalin arziki, lafiya, zamantakewa, ko ibtila'i.
  • Neman magungunan da ake buƙatar takardar izini, sai dai idan bayanin ya tattauna batun sauƙin farashi, samuwa, ko ingancin magungunan a fannin lafiya.
  • Lura: An yarda da yin muhawara ko ba da shawara game da halascin tattaunawa ko tattauna cancantar kimiyya ko magunguna na magungunan da ake buƙatar takardar izini. Wannan ya haɗa da labarai da sanarwar aikin jama'a.
Magungunan gargajiya
  • Bayanin da ke yunƙurin saye, sayarwa, cinikin, ba da gudunmuwar ko yin kyauta ko yake neman ra’ayin riƙau.
  • Lura: Mahawara ko yaɗa manufa ga halasci ko tattauna kimiyya ko ingancin maganin da aka yarda da shi.
Wiwi da Kayayyakin da Aka Samo daga Wiwi
  • Abubuwan da ke ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa, kasuwanci, ba da gudunmawa ko kyauta ko kuma neman wiwi da samfuran da ke ɗauke da THC ko wasu abubuwan da suka shafi maye.
Ga waɗnan abubuwan, mun taƙaita ganin su ga manya ‘yan shekaru 18 da sama da haka:
Magungunan gargajiya
  • Bayanin da ke yin nuna amincewa ga yin amfani na ƙashin kai, jagoranta ko bunƙasawa (a inda muke nufin yin maganar da ta dace game da), ko ƙarfafa yin amfani da ra’ayin riƙau.
    • Ban da lokacin da kowane ɗaya daga abubuwan sama ya faru a yanayi na almara ko shirin watsa bayanai.
Wiwi da Kayayyakin da Aka Samo daga Wiwi
  • Abubuwan da ke tsarawa ko yayatawa (wanda muke magana mai kyau a kan shi, ƙarfafa yin amfani da, ko bayar da umarni don amfani ko haɗa) wiwi da kayayyakin da ke ɗauke da THC ko wasu abubuwan da suka shafi maye.
  • Abubuwan da suka shafi kasuwanci waɗanda masu rarraba tabar wiwi suka aiko inda babu yunƙurin siya, sayarwa ko musayar tabar wiwi da kayayyakin da ke ɗauke da THC ko abubuwan da ke da alaƙa da su.
  • Abubuwan da aka yi ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa, kasuwanci, ba da gudunmawa, kyauta ko neman cannabidiol (CBD ko kayayyakin da suka danganci cannabinoid)
  • Bayanan da ke neman saye, sayarwa, yin musaya, bayarwa, kyauta, ko neman sinadarin cannabidiol (CBD) wanda ba a sha ko wasu kayayyaki makamantan kwayoyi masu kama da sinadarin wiwi.
  • Abubuwan da ke yin iƙirarin cututtuka masu alaƙa da cannabidiol (CBD) wanda ba za a iya sha ba ko makamantan samfuran cannabinoid.
  • Abubuwan da ke nuna kayan aikin tabar wiwi
Magungun da likita ya rubuta
  • Abubuwan da ke ƙoƙarin saya, sayarwa ko musayar magungunan da ake buƙatar takardar izini a kowane yanayi, gami da lokacin da halaltattun kasuwancin yanar gizo na kiwon lafiya suka aiko da su.
  • Abubuwan da ke ƙoƙarin saya, sayarwa, ciniki, ba da gudummawa, kyauta ko neman magani wanda ba a buƙatar takardar izini.
  • Abubuwan da suka haɗa da yarda ko shan magungunan da aka rubuta.
Makamai, Alburusai ko Abubuwan Fashewa
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa, kasuwanci, bindigogi, sassan bindigogi, harsashi, abubuwan fashewa, ko makamai masu kisa, ban da lokacin da:
    • wani Shafi, Ƙungiya ko furofayil ɗin Instagram da ke wakiltar hukumomi na gaskiya masu shagon kasuwanci suka aike, har da kasuwancin sayar da kaya, shafukan yanar gizo, nau'ikan kaya ko hukumomin gwamnati (misali sashen 'yan sanda, hukumar kashe gobara) ko wani mutum na ƙashin kai da ke raba abu a madadin hukumomi na gaskiya masu shagon kasuwanci; kuma an ƙayyade damar gani ga manya masu shekaru 21 zuwa sama.
  • Yunƙurin ba da gudunmuwa ko yin kyautar bindigogi, sassan bindiga, harsasai, abubuwan fashewa, ko masu bunƙasa ƙarfin makami sai dai idan an wallafa ne a wannan yanayi:
    • Bayar da gudummawa, musaya ko sayen makamai da alburusai daga Shafi, Ƙungiya ko furofayil ɗin Instagram wanda ke wakiltar ƙungiyoyi masu halascin da suke da shagon kasuwanci na zahiri, haɗi da 'yan kasuwa, shafukan yanar gizo, nau'in kaya ko hukumomin gwamnati, ko wani ɗaiɗaikun mutum yana raba bayanai a madadin ƙungiyoyi masu halascin da suke da kantunan zahiri; kuma bayyanrsa an taƙaita ta ga manya masu shekaru 21 ko sama da haka.
    • Gwanjo ko cacar makamai daga ƙungiyoyi masu halascin da suke da kantunan zahiri, har da 'yan kasuwa, ƙungiyoyin da ke da alaƙa da gwamnati ko ƙungiyoyin agaji, ko ɗaiɗaikun mutane masu alaƙa da ko ƙungiyoyi masu halascin da suke da kantunan zahiri ke ɗaukar nauyi; kuma ganinsa an taƙaita shi ga manya masu shekaru 21 ko sama da haka.
  • Neman bindigogi, sassan bindigogi, harsasai, abubuwan fashewa, ko ƙarin abubuwan da ke da hatsarin kisa.
  • Yunƙurin saya, sayarwa, bayar da kyauta, musanya, canja wuri, tsarawa, magana mai kyau game da, ƙarfafa amfani da ko samar da damar shiga umarnin bugawa na 3D ko umarnin ƙerawa ta kwamfuta don makamai ko sassan makamai ba tare da la'akari da mahalli ko mai aikawa ba.
  • Yunƙurin saya, sayarwa, musanya, bayar da gudummawa, bayar da kyauta, nema ko amincewa da mallakar na'urorin sauya bindiga.
Ga wannan bayanin, mukan taƙaita gani ga manya ‘yan shekaru 21 zuwa sama:
Makamai, Alburusai ko Abubuwan Fashewa
  • Bayanin da aka wallafa daga ko yaɗa halastaccen shagon kasuwanci na zahiri, ƙungiya, da ya haɗa da shafukan yanar gizo na ƙananan ƴan kasuwa, tamburan kaya, ko hukumomin gwamnati wanda ke yunƙurin saye, sayarwa, cinikin, ba da gudunmuwa, kyauta ko nema (da ya haɗa da a yanayin gwanjon kaya ko cacar canke) bindigogi, sassan bindigogi, harsasai, abubuwan fashewa, ko masu bunƙasa ƙarfin makami.
Ga waɗannan ƙunshiyar, mun taƙaita ganinsu ga manya masu shekaru 18 da sama da haka:
Abubuwa masu kaifi da sauran makamai:
  • Abubuwan da aka yi ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa, kasuwanci, tsarawa, ba da gudunmawa, kyauta ko neman: kayan masu kaifi da duk wasu makamai (misali, barkono mai sa hawaye ko zoben ƙarfe).
  • Bayanai da ke magana mai kyau game da, samar da umarnin yin amfani da ko ƙarfafa amfani da makamai, sassan makamai, alburusai, abubuwan fashewa, haɓaka abubuwan kisa, ko abubuwa masu kaifi a cikin bitar kaya
  • Tayin sayarwa da tallata kayan haɗin da ba sa kisa.
Kamfanin Taba da Kayayyakin Masu Alaƙa
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa ko kasuwancin kayayyakin taba/nicotine, ko kayayyakin da suke kwaikwayar shan taba, da suka haɗa da dukkan nau'o’in "ENDS" na Kayayyakin Tsarin Isar da Nicotine Mai Aikin da Lantarki (misali, sigarin lantarki, vapes, da vapes marasa nicotine).
    • Ban da lokacin da aka aike daga Shafi, Ƙungiya, ko furofayil na Instagram wanda ke wakiltar halastattun kamfanoni na zahiri, da suka haɗa da shagunan sayar da kaya, gidajen yanar gizo, samfura, ko ɗaiɗaikun mutane masu zaman kansu da ke raba abu a madadin halastattun kamfanonin zahiri, tare da bayar da isar da ayyuka da nau’in kayayyakin da ake bayarwa kyauta.
  • Yunkurin bayarwa ko yin kyauta da kayan taba/nicotine, ko kuma kayayyakin "ENDS".
    • Ban da lokacin da aka aike daga Shafi, Ƙungiya, ko furofayil na Instagram wanda ke wakiltar halastattun kamfanoni na zahiri, da suka haɗa da shagunan sayar da kaya, gidajen yanar gizo, samfura, ko ɗaiɗaikun mutane masu zaman kansu da ke raba abu a madadin halastattun kamfanonin zahiri, tare da bayar da isar da ayyuka da nau’in kayayyakin da ake bayarwa kyauta.
  • Neman kayan kamfanintaba/nicotine, ko kayayyakin da ke kwaikwayon shan taba, tare da duk wani nau'in kayayyakin "ENDS" (vapes ba tare da nicotine ba).
Ga waɗannan ƙunshiyar, mun taƙaita ganinsu ga manya masu shekaru 18 da sama da haka:
  • Bayanin da aka aika daga ko yaɗa halastattun ƙungiyoyin shagon kasuwanci, da suka haɗa da kasuwancin sayar da kaya, shafukan yanar gizo ko tamburan kaya, waɗanda ke yunƙurin saye, sayarwa, cinikin, bada gudunmuwar ko kyautar barasa ko taba.
  • Abubuwan da ke nuna shan taba, ko kayayyakin nicotine, ko kuma kayayyakin "ENDS".
  • Abubuwan da ke tsara ko yayata amfani da taba, kayayyakin nicotine, kayayyakin "ENDS", ko nau’in kayayyakin kamfanonin taba.
  • Bayanai da ke nuna Kayayyakin Daina Shan Taba
  • Bayanan da ke tattaunawa ko tallata amfani da taba, kayan shan taba, ko nau'in taba
  • Abun midiya da ke nuna shan taba ko amfani da taba a mahallin da ba na almara ba
    • Ban da a cikin yanayin gangamin yaƙi da shan taba, ayyukan ba da shawara kan kamuwa da shan taba, gyaran hali daga shan taba, ko yanayin sanarwa ga jama'a
Barasa
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa ko kasuwancin barasa ban da lokacin da:
    • Aike daga Shafi, Ƙungiya, ko furofayil ɗin Instagram da ke wakiltar sahihan wuraren kasuwanci, haɗi da dillalai, shafukan yanar gizo ko nau'ikan kaya, ko kuma wani mutum da ke raba bayanai a madadin sahihan wuraren kasuwanci, haɗi da bayar da sabis ɗin kai kaya da kyaututtukan nau'in kaya.
    • Abun da aka danganta da barasa ko bayar da gayyata zuwa wurin shan barasa a inda za a yi musaya ko shan barasa a wurin, gidan cin abinci, mashaya, ko wurin fati.
  • Yunƙurin ba da gudunmuwa ko kyautar barasa ko taba ban da a lokacin da wani Shafi, Rukuni ko furofayil ɗin Instagram da ke wakiltar halastattun ƙungiyoyin shagon kasuwanci, da suka haɗa da ƙananan ‘yan kasuwa, shafukan yanar gizo ko tamburan kaya, ko wani mutum daban da yake yaɗa bayanai a madadin halastattun ƙungiyoyin shagon kasuwanci.
  • Neman kayayyakin barasa da abubuwan sha.
Ga waɗannan ƙunshiyar, mun taƙaita ganinsu ga manya masu shekaru 18 da sama da haka:
  • Bayanin da aka aika daga ko yaɗa halastattun ƙungiyoyin shagon kasuwanci, kamar shaguna ko gidajen yanar gizo ko tamburan kaya, waɗanda ke yunƙurin saye, sayarwa, musaya, bayarwa ko yin kyautar kayayyakin barasa ko abubuwan sha.
  • Abubuwan da ke nuna shan kayayyakin da suka danganci barasa ko abubuwan sha ko raba hanyoyin haɗa abubuwan sha.
  • Abubuwan da aka danganta da kayayyakin barasa ko gayyatar mutane zuwa wajen shan barasa inda za a musanya ko shan barasa.
Lafiya da Walwala
Ga waɗannan ƙunshiyar, mun taƙaita ganinsu ga manya masu shekaru 18 da sama da haka:
Kayayyakin rage ƙiba ko na ƙara ƙiba ko ayyuka
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saya, sayarwa, kasuwanci, bayar da gudunmawa, kyauta, ambata, ko neman kayayyaki ko ayyuka rage ƙiba ko na ƙara ƙiba.
  • Yarda da ko nuna amfani da kayan rage ƙiba ko na ƙara ƙiba, a muhalli mai kyau ko kuma tattaunawa game da illolinsa.
  • Nuna tsarawa ko yayata (a inda muke nufi da magana mai daɗi, ƙarfafa yin amfani ko bayar da umarni don yin amfani ko haɗa) abinci mai gina jiki.
  • Ya ƙunshi bayanan ƙasƙanci game da siffar jiki (wato, kalmomi, kwatance, ko tambayoyi da suka kasance marasa kyau kuma suna kai hari ga siffar mutum, wasu sassan jiki, ko tsafta), ko nuna hotunan kusa na wani yanki na jiki da ke nuna tarin kitse.
  • Iƙirarin cewa za a iya cimma sakamako ta hanyar amfani da kayan da ake sawa kawai, kamar kayan ƙarau da kayan ƙawata sutturu.
  • Yana amfani da dabarun janyo hankalin mutane ta yaudara a cikin mahallin rage ƙiba ko ƙara ƙiba, kamar kalamai masu burgewa tare da iƙirari na kambamawa ko tsananta ciwo, ko alƙawarin takamaiman sakamako a cikin lokacin da aka saita ba tare da togaciya ko sharaɗi ba.
Kayan Ƙwalliya, Tsarin ƙwalliya, ko Tiyatar ƙwalliyan jiki
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa, kasuwanci, ba da gudunmawa, kyauta, ambata, ko neman kayan kwalliya, hanyoyi, ko tiyata. Wannan ya haɗa da:
    • Kayayyakin sanya hasken fata kamar mayukan ƙara fari.
    • Hanyoyin haɗa kayan gyaran kwalliya da nufin magancewa ko dawo da martaba ko tsarin fuskar mutum ko jikinsa.
  • Yarda da ko nuna yadda ake amfani da hanyar samar da kayan kwalliya ko tiyata, nuna tasirinsa mai kyau ko maras kyau, ko matsaloli.
  • Nuna tsari ko yayatawa (da ke nufi wajen magana mai kyau, ƙarfafa amfani da ko bayar da umarnin yin amfani ko aiwatarwa) hanyar samar da kayan kwalliya ko tiyata.
  • Ya ƙunshi bayanan ƙasƙanci game da siffar jiki, (wato, kalmomi, kwatance, ko tambayoyi da suka kasance marasa kyau kuma suna kai hari ga siffar mutum, wasu sassan jiki, ko tsafta)
Lura: Tallafa wa hanyoyin motsa jiki (kamar Pilates) ko kwalliya ta wucin gadi (kamar kwalliya) ba sa cikin wannan dokar.
Ayyukan Kiwon Lafiya Masu Ɓatarwa
  • Iƙirari (da suka haɗa da waɗanda suka fito daga ƙwararrun likitoci ko ƙungiyoyin lafiya) domin waraka, samar da lafiya, ko kawar da kowane daga cikin waɗannan cututtuka da ba su da magani da/ko cututtukan da suka kai ga ƙarshe (cikakken jeri): Lura: Wannan bai shafi iƙirari game da magancewa ko sarrafa alamomin waɗannan yanayi ba.
    • Ciwon Sukari
    • Ƙurajen Herpes
    • Cutar MaƘoshi
    • Psoriasis
    • Ebola
    • Ciwon Sankara
    • Cutar da ke taɓa ƙwaƙwalwa
    • Ciwon mantuwa
    • Cutar Parkinson
    • Cutar Da Ke Kashe Jijiya (ALS)
    • Cuta mai karya garkuwar jiki (HIV)
  • Yana amfani da dabarun janyo hankalin mutane a cikin muhallin lafiya, kamar batutuwan ban sha'awa tare da iƙirarin lafiya da aka kambama ko tsananta, ko alƙawarin takamaiman sakamakon da ya shafi lafiya a cikin lokacin da aka saita ba tare da togaciya ko sharaɗi ba.
Kayayyaki masu motsa sha'awar jima'i
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saya, sayarwa, tallata wa, musaya, bayar da gudunmawa, bayar da kyauta ko neman kayayyakin motsa sha'awar jima'in manya, inda babban abin da aka mayar da hankali a kai shi ne motsa jin daɗin jima'in mutum ko ƙara sha'awar jima'in mutum, a cikin yanayin almara ko wanda ba na almara ba. Wannan ya haɗa da:
    • Kayan wasa na jima'i
    • Kayayyakin motsa sha'awa
    • Kayayyakin ƙara girman al'aura ba tare da tiyata ba, kamar kayayyakin da ke ƙara motsa sha’awar jima'i ko inganta ƙarfin mutum wajen yin jima'i
    • Kayayyakin da babbar manufarsu ita ce tayar da sha'awar jima'i ko motsa sha’awa
    • Nuna kayan wasan jima'i ba tare da fayyataccen bayani ba
Kayayyakin Lafiyar Haihuwa ko Na Walwala
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa, tallatawa, kasuwanci, bayar da gudunmawa, kyauta ko neman kayayyakin lafiyar haihuwa ko na walwala. Wannan ya haɗa da:
    • Kayan Lafiyar Haihuwa ko na Walwala idan aka mayar da hankali a kan jindaɗin jima'i ba fa'idojin lafiya ba, waɗanda suka haɗa da waɗanda ke ɗauke da abubuwa masu kama da al'aurar namiji ko ta mace
    • Kayayyaki da ke tunkarar matsalolin da suka shafi haihuwa
    • Tiyatar al'aura ta kwalliya
    • Tiyatar al'aurar manya
    • Ilimin jima'i tare mai mayar da hankali a kan jindaɗin jima'i
    • Kayayyakin sinadarai (misali, masu ƙara motsa sha'awa)
Kasuwancin kayan jima'i na manya
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saya, sayarwa, tallata wa, ko neman kasuwancin jima'in manya, wanda zai iya motsa jin daɗin jima'in mutum ko ƙara sha'awar jima'in mutum. Wannan ya haɗa da:
    • Kasuwancin nishaɗantar da manya
    • Cibiyoyin nishaɗin manya
    • Ayyukan koyar da jimaʼi
Caca da Wasanni ta Intanet
Ga waɗannan ƙunshiyar, mun taƙaita ganinsu ga manya masu shekaru 18 da sama da haka:
Caca da Wasanni ta Intanet
  • Abubuwan da ke ƙoƙarin sayarwa, ciniki, nunawa ko haɓaka ayyukan wasan caca da caca ta kan layi inda duk wani abu mai darajar kuɗi (gami da tsabar kuɗi ko na dijital, misali, bitcoin) ake buƙata don bugawa kuma duk wani abu mai darajar kuɗi ya zama wani ɓangare na kyauta. Wannan ya haɗa da amma bai taƙaita ga:
    • Wasannin ƙwarewa, caca, sanya raba gardama na caca, wasannin kasino, wasannin samun dama, ko gasar cacar tsere/ kyaututtuka.
    • Wasannin caca da ke bayar da gwaji na wani ɗan lokaci da kuma neman a biya kuɗi bayan nan.
Wasannin Cacar Kazino
  • Abubuwan da ke ƙoƙarin sayarwa, kasuwanci, nunawa ko yayata wasannin gidan caca na casino da ke kwaikwayon wasannin caca kamar na'urar wasan caca, a inda babu damar cin kuɗi ko ƙimar kuɗi. Wannan ya kuma haɗa da abubuwan da ke nuna cewa za ka iya cin "silalla" waɗanda ba su da wata ƙima.
Wasannin da ake bugawa kyauta waɗanda ke da yanayi na caca
  • Abun da ke ƙoƙarin sayarwa, musaya, nuna ko tallata wasannin da ake bugawa kyauta waɗanda ke kwaikwayon wasannin caca, inda ba a buƙatar wani abu mai darajar kuɗi don buga wasan, amma akwai yiwuwar samun damar cin kuɗi ko abun da ya yi daidai da kuɗi.
Halittun da ke cikin haɗarin ɓacewa da waɗanda aka kare (dabbobin daji da tsirrai)
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa, kasuwanci, gudunmawa, ko kyauta ko kuma neman dabbobin da ke fuskantar barazanar ƙarewa ko sassan jikinsu ko kuma nau'in tsirran da aka kare.
  • Amincewa ko ƙarfafa farautar namun daji, siya ko kasuwancin namun daji da ke cikin hatsarin ƙarewa ko sassan jikinsu da mai wallafa abun ya aikata ko dai da kansa ko kuma ta hannun wasu. Wannan bai haɗa da nuna yin farautar da baƙi ke yi ba.
  • Nuna yin farautar halittun da ke gab da ɓacewa ko sassan jikinsu da mai wallafar bayanin ya aikata da kansa ko kuma abokan harkar su.
  • Nuna tsarawa ko yayatawa (inda muke nufin yin magana mai kyau game da shi, ƙarfafa yin farautar namun daji ba bisa ƙa'ida ba, ko ba da umarni) domin a yi amfani ko haɗa kayayyaki daga dabbobin da ke cikin hatsarin ƙarewa ko sassan jikinsu, ko wasu irin dabbobin daji ko tsirrai da ke cikin hatsarin ƙarewa.
Dabbobin da ba a keɓe ba
  • Bayanin da ke yunƙurin saye, sayarwa ko cinikin dabbobin da waɗanda ke gab da ƙarewa ba masu rai ban da lokacin da:
    • Da wani Shafi, Rukuni ko furofayil ɗin Instagram da ke wakiltar halastattun ƙungiyoyin shagon kasuwanci, da suka haɗa da ƙananan ‘yan kasuwa, halastattun shafukan yanar gizo, tamburan kaya ko matsugunnan sake samar da muhalli, ko wani mutum daban da yake yaɗa bayanai a madadin halastattun ƙungiyoyin shagon kasuwanci.
    • An aika a cikin mahallin ɗauka, kyauta, nema, bayarwa ko sake dawo da dabbobin da ba su cikin haɗari, gami da kuɗin sake dawowa don karɓan tsara-da-tsara.
    • Sayar da dabba don sadaukarwar addini, ko bayar da lada ga dabbobin da suka ɓata.
    • An aika a mahallin sayar da dabbobi.
    • An aika a mahallin siye, sayarwa ko kyauta, neman, bayar da ƙahoni, gabobin jiki, ƙasusuwa, gawa, na'urar busar da gawa, najasa (ban da takin zamani ko taki).
    • An aika a mahallin bayar da kayayyakin da suka shafi dabbobi don amfanin ɗan adam kamar ƙwai, kifi, da sauransu.
Kayan Tarihi
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Bayanin da ke yunƙurin saye, sayarwa, cinikin, ba da gudunmuwar ko yin kyauta ko ya ke neman kayan ayyukan fasaha na tarihi..
Kayayyaki da Abubuwa Masu Haɗari
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Bayanan da ke yunƙurin saye, sayarwa, cinikin, ba da gudunmuwar ko yin kyauta ko ya ke neman kayan masarufi da abubuwa masu haɗari.
Sassan Jikin Mutum da Ruwan Jiki
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Ƙunshiyar da ke:
  • Ƙoƙarin saye, sayarwa ko kasuwancin sassan jikin ɗan adam, har ma baya ga safarar mutane da aka haramta a ƙarƙashin dokar Ci Da Gumin Mutane.
  • Neman musayar ruwan jikin ɗan adam.
  • Ƙoƙarin siye, sayarwa ko kasuwancin ruwan jikin ɗan adam.
  • Sai dai idan an aika don ba da gudummawar ruwan jikin ɗan adam kamar maniyyi ko ruwan jini.
Kayan da Aka Dawo Da Su
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Ƙunshiyar da ke ƙoƙarin saya, sayarwa, musaya, daidaita cinikin, bayarwa, kyauta ko neman kayayyakin da aka maido.
Haramtattun Takardu da Ayyukan Kuɗi
Ba ma bayar da damar:
Ƙunshiyar da ke sauƙaƙawa ko tayin da neman, ƙirƙira, sayarwa, saye ko cinikin waɗannan:
  • Takardun Ƙarya, na Jabu, ko na Sata, da suka haɗa da amma ba su taƙaita ga:
    • Takardun shaida na gwamnati, kamar fasfo, lasisin tuƙi, biza ko katin zama na dindindin.
    • Takardun kuɗi.
    • Kuɗi, ban da kuɗin wasa idan akwai mahallin bayyananne cewa don dalilai na wasa ne.
    • Boca da lambobin kyauta, na zahiri da na dijital, ciki har da waɗanda aka yi amfani da su don siyan abubuwan da ba a yi su ba ko kuma idan sun gama aiki.
    • Takardun ilimi da satifiket ɗin fannin ƙwarewa.
  • Kayayyaki da Ayyuka na Ƙarya, Jabu, ko na Sata, amma ba a iyakance ga:
    • Kayan Aikin Kuɗi, da suka haɗa da katunan banki da aka sata ko wasu kayan aikin kuɗi da za a iya amfani da su don sayayya ba tare da izini ba.
    • Bitar ƙarya, ƙarfafa masu amfani a bayyane ko kuma a ɓoye don samar da bita a musayar rangwame, mayar da kuɗi ko kayayyaki na kyauta.
    • Kayayyaki da ayyukan sata, da suka haɗa da na zahiri da na dijital.
  • Na'urori da shiga tsaruka waɗanda aka sarrafa ko aka yi amfani da su ba tare da izini ba, har da amma ba'a iyakance ga:
    • Juya na'ura don samar da damar shiga ba tare da izini ba, watsa bayanai, ko rikodin na ƙunshiyar dijital.
    • Biyan kuɗi na watsa bayanai ba tare da izini ba.
    • Na'urorin da aka karya kariya ko aka ɗora ko aka buɗe akwatunan talabijin.
    • Bayar da damar saye, sayarwa, ko musayar bayanan shiga ciki don ayyukan rajistar kan layi masu biyan kuɗi.
    • Lambobin sirri don kauce wa matakan tsaro.
    • Na'urorin awo da aka jirkita, canja, ko na bogi.
    • Yarda da, tallatawa ko roƙon amfani na'urori jirkitawa na zahiri don cimma farashi mara daidaituwa.
  • Bayanin Gano Mutum ko Sauran Bayanan Ƙashin Kai na Mutum, da suka haɗa da amma ba su taƙaita ga:
    • Keɓantattun lambobin tantancewa da takardun shaida, da suka haɗa da bayanan mutum na dijital, sai dai idan na ƙirƙirren jarumi ne.
  • Kayayyakin da ke taimakawa wajen yin maguɗi, waɗanda suka haɗa da amma ba'a iyakance ga:
    • Takardun jarabawa ko takardun amsar jarrabawa na lokacin gaba.
    • Kayayyaki, ayyuka, ko na'urori da ke ba masu amfani damar yin maguɗi a jarabawa.
    • Kayayyaki ko ayyuka waɗanda ke ba da damar cin gwajin miyagun ƙwayoyi ba tare da izini ba.
    • Ayyukan da ke tayin rubuta takardu a madadin mai amfani.
Ƙunshiyar da ke shiryawa, yin tayi, ko neman gudanar da ayyukan zamba don samun fa’idar kasuwanci ko kuɗi, kamar:
  • Ɓoye Kuɗi, ya haɗa da ƙunshiyar da:
    • Tayi ko neman ɓoye kuɗi (yana sa waɗanda abin ya shafa su zama masu shiga cikin halasta kuɗin haram ba tare da saninsu ba ta hanyar bayar da kuɗi ko raba riba a madadin barin wasu su yi amfani da asusun bankinsu ko aika kuɗi a madadin wasu).
    • Yana tayi ko neman ɓoye kuɗi ta hanyar bayar da aiki don karɓa da aika kuɗi zuwa ga wasu mutane ta amfani da asusun bankin wanda abin ya shafa.
  • Halasta Kuɗin haram, wanda ya haɗa da ƙunshiyar da:
    • Nema, roƙo, ko bayar da taimako wajen halasta kuɗin haram, wanda wani ƙoƙari ne na sa kuɗin da aka samu ba bisa ƙa'ida ba su yi kama da na halal ta hanyar ɓoye asalin kuɗin ta hanyar jerin hada-hadar kuɗi masu rikitarwa, wanda ya haɗa da ta ɗayan waɗannan hanyoyin:
      • Neman aikawa da kuɗi ta hanyar SWIFT (Ƙungiyar Sadarwa ta Kuɗi ta Duniya Tsakanin Bankuna) ko makamantan waɗannan hanyoyin,
      • Nema ko bayar da cikakkun bayanai kan nau'ukan asusan banki da ake da su don tallafa wa karɓa ko aika kuɗi.
Don waɗannan Tsarin Rayuwar Al'umma, muna buƙatar ƙarin bayani da/ko a muhallin da za a tilasta:
Za mu iya cire ƙunshiyar da:
  • Tayi ko neman kayayyaki ko ayyukan da aka tsara don sauƙaƙa ɓoye kallo ko naɗar ɗaiɗaikun mutane, misali, kyamarorin leƙen asiri, masu bin diddigin wayar hannu (gami da waɗanda ke ba da damar bin diddigin lambobin waya da ba a sani ba), ko wasu kayan aikin sa ido na ɓoye.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We also prohibit the exchange of prohibited documents and the facilitation of prohibited financial services. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
  • Recalled Goods
  • Prohibited Documents and Financial Services
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, gift, exchange, transfer, coordinate, speaks positively about, encourages the use of or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, asks for or admits ownership machine gun conversion devices.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or asks for (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed items and other weapons:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
  • Content that speaks positively about, provides instructions to use or encourages the use of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, lethal enhancements, or bladed items in product reviews
  • Sales offers and the promotion of non-lethal accessories
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
  • Content depicting Tobacco Cessation Products
  • Content discussing or promoting the use of tobacco, tobacco paraphernalia, or tobacco brands
  • Media content depicting smoking or tobacco consumption in a non-fictional context
    • Except in the context of anti-smoking campaigns, counseling services for smoking addiction, smoking rehabilitation, or PSA context
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages.
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages.
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed.
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss or weight gain products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention or ask for weight loss or weight gain products or services.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss or weight gain product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product.
  • Contains statements of inferiority about physical appearance (i.e., terms, descriptions, or questions that are negative and attack an individual’s appearance, specific body parts, or hygiene), or depictions of close ups of a specific body area showing pinched fat.
  • Claims that results can be achieved solely by using wearable products, such as jewelry or patches.
  • Employs clickbait tactics in a weight loss or weight gain context, such as sensational language with exaggerated or extreme health claims, or promises of specific outcomes within a set timeframe without disclaimers or qualifiers.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as bleaching creams.
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery.
  • Contains statements of inferiority about physical appearance, (i.e., terms, descriptions, or questions that are negative and attack an individual’s appearance, specific body parts, or hygiene)
Note: The promotion of workout methods (such as Pilates) or temporary cosmetics (such as makeup) are not covered by this policy.
Misleading Health Practices
  • Claims (including those from health professionals or health organizations) to cure, heal, or eliminate any of the following incurable diseases and/or terminal illnesses (exhaustive list): Note: This does not apply to claims about treating or managing symptoms of these conditions.
    • Diabetes
    • Herpes
    • Thyroid
    • Psoriasis
    • Ebola
    • Cancer
    • Autism
    • Alzheimer's
    • Parkinson's
    • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
    • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Employs clickbait tactics in a health context, such as sensational language with exaggerated or extreme health claims, or promises of specific health-related results within a set timeframe without disclaimers or qualifiers.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, where the primary focus is to stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal, in a fictional or non-fictional context. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
    • Depiction of sex toys with no clear context
Reproductive Health or Wellness Products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for reproductive health or wellness products. This includes:
    • Reproductive Health or Wellness products when focused on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits, including those containing phallic or yonic objects
    • Products addressing sexual reproductive disorders
    • Cosmetic genital surgeries
    • Adult genital surgeries
    • Sex education with focus on sexual pleasure
    • Hormone products (e.g., testosterone boosters)
Adult sexual businesses
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, or ask for adult sexual businesses, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Adult entertainment businesses
    • Adult establishments
    • Instructional sexual services
Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws.
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter.
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Free-to-play games with Gambling context
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote free-to-play games that simulate gambling games, where anything of monetary value is not required to play the game, but there may be an opportunity to win money or money’s worth.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Non-endangered animals
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
    • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
    • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
    • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as: eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials.
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange.
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids.
  • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma.
Recalled Goods
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for recalled goods.
Prohibited Documents and Financial Services
We do not allow:
Content that facilitates or offers the solicitation, creation, sale, purchase or trade of the following:
  • Fake, Forged, or Stolen Documents, including but not limited to:
    • Government identification documents, such as passports, driving licenses, visas or green cards.
    • Financial documents.
    • Currency, except board-game currency if there is clear context that it is for board-game purposes.
    • Vouchers and coupons, both physical and digital, including those used to purchase items for which they were not intended or if they are expired.
    • Educational documents and professional certificates.
  • Fake, Forged, or Stolen Goods and Services, including but not limited to:
    • Financial Instruments, including stolen credit cards or other financial instruments that can be used for unauthorized purchases.
    • Fake reviews, implicitly or explicitly incentivising users to provide reviews in exchange for discounts, refunds or free items.
    • Stolen goods and services, including physical and digital.
  • Devices and subscriptions that are manipulated or used in an unauthorised manner, including but not limited to:
    • Device manipulation to provide unauthorized access, streaming, or recording of digital content.
    • Unauthorized streaming subscriptions.
    • Jailbroken and loaded devices or unlocked TV boxes.
    • Offers to buy, sell, or trade login credentials for paywalled online subscription services.
    • Access codes to circumvent security measures.
    • Manipulated, altered, or fake measurement devices.
    • Admits to, promotes or solicits use of physical manipulation of devices to achieve inaccurate pricing.
  • Personal Identifiable or Other Personal Information, including but not limited to:
    • Personal identification numbers and identity documents, including digital identity, except if it belongs to a fictional character.
  • Products that enable cheating, including but not limited to:
    • Future exam papers or answer sheets.
    • Products, services, or devices that enable cheating in exams.
    • Products or services that enable passing drug tests in an unauthorized manner.
    • Services that offer to write papers on behalf of the user.
Content that coordinates, offers, or solicits the facilitation of fraudulent activities for commercial or financial gain, such as:
  • Money Muling, including content that:
    • Offers or asks for money muling (causing victims to be unknowing participants in money laundering by offering money or share of profits in exchange for allowing others to use their bank accounts or transferring money on behalf of others).
    • Offers or asks for money muling by offering employment to accept and transfer money to third parties using the victim’s bank account.
  • Money Laundering, including content that:
    • Requests, solicits, or offers to facilitate money laundering, which is an attempt to make illegally obtained money appear legitimate by disguising the origin of the money through a complex sequence of financial transactions, including through any of the following means:
      • Seeking transfer of funds through SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) or similar methods,
      • Seeking or offering details on types of bank accounts available to support receipt or transfer of cash.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We may remove content that:
  • Offers or asks for products or services designed to facilitate the surreptitious viewing or recording of individuals, e.g., spy cams, mobile phone trackers (including those that allow tracing unknown phone numbers), or other hidden surveillance equipment.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, gift, exchange, transfer, coordinate, speaks positively about, encourages the use of or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, asks for or admits ownership machine gun conversion devices.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or asks for (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed items and other weapons:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
  • Content that speaks positively about, provides instructions to use or encourages the use of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, lethal enhancements, or bladed items in product reviews
  • Sales offers and the promotion of non-lethal accessories
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
  • Content depicting Tobacco Cessation Products
  • Content discussing or promoting the use of tobacco, tobacco paraphernalia, or tobacco brands
  • Media content depicting smoking or tobacco consumption in a non-fictional context
    • Except in the context of anti-smoking campaigns, counseling services for smoking addiction, smoking rehabilitation, or PSA context
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages.
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages.
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed.
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss or weight gain products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention or ask for weight loss or weight gain products or services.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss or weight gain product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product.
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
  • Contains statements of inferiority about physical appearance (i.e., terms, descriptions, or questions that are negative and attack an individual’s appearance, specific body parts, or hygiene), or depictions of close ups of a specific body area showing pinched fat.
  • Claims that results can be achieved solely by using wearable products, such as jewelry or patches.
  • Employs clickbait tactics in a weight loss or weight gain context, such as sensational language with exaggerated or extreme health claims, or promises of specific outcomes within a set timeframe without disclaimers or qualifiers.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as bleaching creams.
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery.
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
  • Contains statements of inferiority about physical appearance, (i.e., terms, descriptions, or questions that are negative and attack an individual’s appearance, specific body parts, or hygiene)
Note: The promotion of workout methods (such as Pilates) or temporary cosmetics (such as makeup)Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Misleading Health Practices
  • Claims (including those from health professionals or health organizations) to cure, heal, or eliminate any of the following incurable diseases and/or terminal illnesses (exhaustive list): Note: This does not apply to claims about treating or managing symptoms of these conditions.
    • Diabetes
    • Herpes
    • Thyroid
    • Psoriasis
    • Ebola
    • Cancer
    • Autism
    • Alzheimer's
    • Parkinson's
    • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
    • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Employs clickbait tactics in a health context, such as sensational language with exaggerated or extreme health claims, or promises of specific health-related results within a set timeframe without disclaimers or qualifiers.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, where the primary focus is to stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal, in a fictional or non-fictional context. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
    • Depiction of sex toys with no clear context
Reproductive Health or Wellness Products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for reproductive health or wellness products, where the primary focus is on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits. This includes:
    • Reproductive Health or Wellness products when focused on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits, including those containing phallic or yonic objects
    • Products addressing sexual reproductive disorders, where the primary focus is on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits
    • Cosmetic genital surgeries
    • Adult genital surgeries
    • Sex education with focus on sexual pleasure
    • Hormone products (e.g., testosterone boosters)
Adult sexual businesses
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, or ask for adult sexual businesses, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Adult entertainment businesses
    • Adult establishments
    • Instructional sexual services
Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws.
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter.
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Free-to-play games with Gambling context
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote free-to-play games that simulate gambling games, where anything of monetary value is not required to play the game, but there may be an opportunity to win money or money’s worth.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Non-endangered animals
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
    • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
    • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
    • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as: eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials.
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange.
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids.
  • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma.
Recalled Goods
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for recalled goods.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Attempts to buy,Sst>sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, donate, gift, asks for or admits ownership machine gun conversion devices
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed iItems and other weapons:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
  • Content that speaks positively about, provides instructions to use or encourages the use of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, lethal enhancements, or bladed items in product reviews
  • Sales offers and the promotion of non-lethal accessories
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
  • Content depicting Tobacco Cessation Products
  • Content discussing or promoting the use of tobacco, tobacco paraphernalia, or tobacco brands
  • Media content depicting smoking or tobacco consumption in a non-fictional context
    • Except in the context of anti-smoking campaigns, counseling services for smoking addiction, smoking rehabilitation, or PSA context
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention,or ask for, weight loss products or services
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as; bleaching creams
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception
Note: Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, where the primary focus is tothat can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal, in a fictional or non-fictional context. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
    • Depiction of sex toys with no clear context
Reproductive Health or Wellness Products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for reproductive health or wellness products, where the primary focus is on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits. This includes:
    • Reproductive Health or Wellness products when focused on sexual pleasure and containing phallic or yonic objects
    • Products addressing sexual reproductive disorders, where the primary focus is on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits
    • Cosmetic genital surgeries
    • Adult genital surgeries
    • Sex education with focus on sexual pleasure
Adult sexual businesses
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, or ask for adult sexual businesses, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Adult entertainment businesses
    • Adult establishments
    • Instructional sexual services
Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Free-to-play games with Gambling context
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote free-to-play games that simulate gambling games, where anything of monetary value is not required to play the game, but there may be an opportunity to win money or money’s worth.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Non-endangered animals
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
  • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
  • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
  • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as; eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids, except for a donation
    • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma
Recalled Goods
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for recalled goods.
Added clarifications on content we we restrict visibility to adults aged 18 years and over and other prohibited content
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed Items:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, ask for, weight loss products or services
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as; bleaching creams
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception
Note: Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Non-endangered animals
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
  • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
  • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
  • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as; eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids, except for a donation
    • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma
Recalled Goods
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for recalled goods.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed Items:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, ask for, weight loss products or services
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as; bleaching creams
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception
Note: Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • ttempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
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Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
LiveNon-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
  • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
  • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
  • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as; eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids, except for a donation
    • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, as well as advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy , and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consists of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Locally Illegal Content, Products, or Services
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
Do not post:We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceuticalprescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceuticalprescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks forpharmaceuticalprescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceuticalprescription drugs in a medical context
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
MarijuanaCannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
FirearmsWeapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
FirearmsWeapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed weaponsItems
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate,donate, gift or asks for:bladed weapons items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
Alcohol Tobacco and Related Products
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
      • Content refers to alcohol/ tobacco, that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
Alcohol/Tobacco
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways
    • Content refers to alcohol /tobaccoor offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party and so on
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities
  • Asks for alcohol products and beveragesor tobacco
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products or beverages
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed
Health and Wellness
Do not post:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss products or servicesand potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift, mention, ask for, weight loss products or servicesor potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects.or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as; bleaching creams
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception
Note: Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Content that:
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products Adult sexual arousal products
  • attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate or, gift or ask forsex toys andadult sexual arousalenhancements products, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increasing a person’s sexual arousal this includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
Real moneyOnline Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Real moneyOnline Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize., This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Historic Artifacts
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Human blood Body Parts and Fluids
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human bloodhuman fluids, except for a donationor gift
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Content Requiring Additional Context to Enforce
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
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Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices.
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
  • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
We are introducing a new policy section within our Restricted Goods and Services policy for the highest-risk drug violations, including fentanyl sales
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
  • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
We are clarifying our prohibition on the sale of machine gun conversion devices (e.g., glock switches and auto sears). While this has been a long-standing prohibition, we are looking to make this policy more explicit in response to the external pressure from stakeholders and recent escalations.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, as well as advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used recreationally to achieve an altered mental stateto achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
  • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
This update was based on external feedback on the need to enforce on sales of “precursors,” or chemicals that can be used in the manufacture of dangerous drugs. These were previously enforced under our policies, and we are updating our external community standards to provide clarity that removing sales of precursor chemicals of non-medical drugs is a priority.
Additionally, we are updating the policy rationale for our Restricted Goods policies to emphasize that we remove any content that attempts to buy or sell dangerous drugs. We do not tolerate individuals attempting to buy or sell non-medical drugs on our platforms.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used recreationally to achieve an altered mental state.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
  • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
In response to an Oversight Board recommendation in a Policy Advisory Statement, we committed to review our approach to non-medical drugs in religious or traditional contexts. This update was based on stakeholder engagement with a broad range of academics and civil society organizations affected by the policy, including scholars focussed on health, medicine, anthropology, clinical psychology, drug policy, ethnography, ethno-ornithology, religion, psychedelic drug research, as well as legal experts, regulators, freedom of expression advocates, health professionals, traditional/religious healer associations, community leaders, and indigenous groups. In our consultations, we explored how to balance protection of speech and dialogue about traditional and religious substances against the safety risks involved with promotion of non-medical drugs. We also listened to stakeholders describe the contextual complexity of what constitutes a religious or traditional context due to the diversity of cultural and legal practices in different regions and national contexts. Two themes stood out: The first was the difficulty of defining religious or traditional indicators/contexts on a global scale; attempts to do so could lead to excluding groups the policy is trying to protect. The second was the viewpoint that speech around entheogens should be allowed because these substances do not harm people by themselves and because this gives voice to communities that have been using these substances for centuries. We used the input we received on these points to craft a revision of our approach to “positive discussion” of non-medical drugs in traditional or religious contexts.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used recreationally to achieve an altered mental state.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster. even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites
Non-medical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
The policy is being updated to clarify that content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials is prohibited.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, as well as advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy. To encourage safety and compliance with common legal restrictions, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell or trade non-medical drugs, pharmaceutical drugs and marijuana. We also prohibit the purchase, sale, gifting, exchange, and transfer of firearms, including firearm parts or ammunition, between private individuals on Facebook. Some of these items are not regulated everywhere; however, because of the borderless nature of our community, we try to enforce our policies as consistently as possible. Firearm stores and online retailers may promote items available for sale off of our services as long as those retailers comply with all applicable laws and regulations. We allow discussions about sales of firearms and firearm parts in stores or by online retailers and advocating for changes to firearm regulation. Regulated goods that are not prohibited by our Community Standards may be subject to our more stringent Commerce Policies.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster. even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites
Non-medical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying,trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associatesthrough others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
As part of our response to an Oversight Board decision, we are updating our context-specific policy to clarify that in certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
The title and policy rationale has also been updated to clarify our principled approach, which is based on the potential harm these products and services can result in rather than in existing regulations. New policy language has also been added to address gambling content to protect minors against potentially harmful content.
Finally, the real money online gaming policy update was based on global stakeholder engagement with various gambling regulatory authorities, gambling and addiction subject matter experts and fundraising professionals in the non-profit sector. We also connected with experts who work at the intersection of content governance and online gambling. In our consultations, we explored the harms or risks of allowing online gambling in organic content. We also sought to understand the impact of prohibiting online gambling on charities or smaller, “friendly” examples of gambling and whether there were other unexpected consequences of prohibiting online gambling. We listened to experts tell us about the variety of harms associated with online gambling, including addiction, financial ruin, and diminished mental and physical health. However, there was a general consensus that while all forms of gambling carry risk, not all gambling is harmful. Only a small percentage of those that gamble has gambling problems. All stakeholders we spoke to highlighted the importance of reducing harm by protecting those most at risk, including problem gamblers and minors. Generally, stakeholders acknowledged that small-dollar raffles are not as problematic. We used the input we received on these points to craft a revision to our Restricted Goods and Services policy.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster. even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites
Non-medical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, or gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying or trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associatesthrough others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
This update clarifies that the co-ordination of the trade of non-medical goods is prohibited on the platform.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department).
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
Non-medical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,orgift or asks forsolicit non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Speaks positively, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs.
    • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Marijuana and Pharmaceutical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
    • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
    • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks forsolicit endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species orand their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others.their associatesthrough others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species orand their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.their associates.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the poaching of endangered species and their parts.
  • Provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species and their parts.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks forsolicits human blood exceptunless for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or supplements.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or solicitasks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimatea brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businessesstore, legitimate websites, brands, or government agencies which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimatea brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businessesstore, legitimate websites or brands, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services.
Bladed weapons
  • Content thatwhich attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss productsand potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss productsor potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnationor potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the use of weight loss products.
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products.
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
The policy has been updated to refine the definition of promotion, improve references to “solicit,” and clarify certain aspects of the policy. It also reorganizes sections to mirror internal documentation.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department).
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage.
  • Speaks positively, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs.
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs.
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the poaching of endangered species and their parts.
  • Provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species and their parts.
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or gift.
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or supplements.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate gift or solicit historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services.
Bladed weapons
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnation.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the use of weight loss products.
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products.
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
This policy update clarifies that content related to regulated goods that’s shared in a fictional or documentary context is allowed under the policy. It also updates the policy to restrict visibility to people over 18 years old for content attempting to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Speaks positively, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the poaching of endangered species and their parts
  • Provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Weight loss products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift weight loss products or supplements
Historical artifacts:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit historical artifacts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnation
  • Speaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of weight loss products
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation
  • Speaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Promotes,Speaks positively, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively, of the poachingcoordinates or encourages the poaching of of endangered species and their parts
  • Promotes, encourages, or coordinates the poaching ofProvides instructions to use or make products fromendangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Weight loss products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift weight loss products or supplements
Historical artifacts:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit historical artifacts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnation
  • PromotesSpeaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of weight loss products
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation
  • PromotesSpeaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively of the poaching of endangered species and their parts
  • Promotes, encourages, or coordinates the poaching of endangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Weight lossDiet products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim with a commercial offerand attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift weight loss products or supplements
Historical artifacts:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit historical artifacts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of weight loss products
  • Mentions or depicts a weight loss product or supplement, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use, or
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price, or
    • Gives away the product for free
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnation
  • Promotes or encourages the use of weight loss products
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure:
  • Mentions or depicts the cosmetic procedure, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure, or
    • Explicitly mentions the procedure is for sale, or
    • Asks the audience to purchase the procedure, or
    • Lists the price of the procedure, or
    • Gives away the procedure for free
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation
  • Promotes or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals, and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively of the poaching of endangered species and their parts
  • Promotes, encourages, or coordinates the poaching of endangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Diet products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim with a commercial offer
Historical artifacts:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit historical artifacts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of weight loss products
  • Mentions or depicts a weight loss product or supplement, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use, or
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price, or
    • Gives away the product for free
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure:
  • Mentions or depicts the cosmetic procedure, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure, or
    • Explicitly mentions the procedure is for sale, or
    • Asks the audience to purchase the procedure, or
    • Lists the price of the procedure, or
    • Gives away the procedure for free
These policies are not new; we’ve long had policies against regulated goods (the details of which are struck through, below). This month, we rewrote the Regulated Goods section of our Community Standards so that the language is simpler and the prohibitions are easier to follow.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals, and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively of the poaching of endangered species and their parts
  • Promotes, encourages, or coordinates the poaching of endangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Diet products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim with a commercial offer
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of weight loss products
  • Mentions or depicts a weight loss product or supplement, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use, or
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price, or
    • Gives away the product for free
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure:
  • Mentions or depicts the cosmetic procedure, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure, or
    • Explicitly mentions the procedure is for sale, or
    • Asks the audience to purchase the procedure, or
    • Lists the price of the procedure, or
    • Gives away the procedure for free
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or 3D gun printing files of any firearm or its parts, and*
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
  • 3D gun printing files or instructions to manufacture firearms using 3D printers or CNC milling machines, including links to websites where such files or instructions are made available, may not be shared by anyone. A Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand can otherwise post content that may promote these items only for sale off of our services and as long as those retailers comply with all applicable laws and regulations.*
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching, selling, buying or trade/trading of endangered species and their parts
Content that depicts poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts committed by you or your associates
Content about endangered species:
  • Promoting or speaking positively of the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts.
  • Depicts poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content or their associates.
  • Content that attempts to sell, poach, buy, giveaway endangered species and their parts.
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals. This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts alcohol or tobacco, and
    • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
      • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade, or
      • Asks the audience to buy, or
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      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
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    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
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      • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
      • Asks the audience to buy, or
      • Lists the price, or
      • Gives away the product for free
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    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
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    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
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      • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
      • Including any type of contact information
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    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery or
    • Asking the audience to buy or
    • Listing the price or
    • Giving away the product for free
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    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure or
    • Explicitly mentioning the procedure is for sale or
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      • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
      • Asks the audience to buy, or
      • Lists the price, or
      • Gives away the product for free
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      • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure, or
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    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
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    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
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      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
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  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
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      • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
      • Including any type of contact information
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    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery or
    • Asking the audience to buy or
    • Listing the price or
    • Giving away the product for free
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    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure or
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    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
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Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or 3D gun printing files of any of the above, and a product unrelated to firearmsof any firearm or its parts *, and
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    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
  • 3D gun printing files or instructions to manufacture firearms using 3D printers or CNC milling machines, including links to websites where such files or instructions are made available, may not be shared by anyone. A Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand can otherwise post content that may promote these items only for sale off of our services and as long as those retailers comply with all applicable laws and regulations. *
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    • Listing price or noting product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
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      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
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  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals. This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts alcohol or tobacco, and
    • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
      • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade, or
      • Asks the audience to buy, or
      • Lists price or notes product is free
      • And is not posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase knives, which includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts a knife or bladed weapon, and
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade or delivery, or
  • Asks the audience to buy, or
  • Lists the price, or
  • Asks or gives away the product for free between private individuals, or
  • Encourages contact about the product either by:
    • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
    • Including any type of contact information
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services. This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts alcohol or tobacco, and
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price or notes product is free or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by:
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
      • Including any type of contact information
The updates reflected here are not changes to our policy, but are continued attempts to clarify policy language. *
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives, 3D gun printing files of any of the above, and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts 3D gun printing files of any of the above and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioned the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing price or noting product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals. This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts alcohol or tobacco, and
    • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
      • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade, or
      • Asks the audience to buy, or
      • Lists price or notes product is free
      • And is not posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase knives, which includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts a knife or bladed weapon, and
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade or delivery, or
  • Asks the audience to buy, or
  • Lists the price, or
  • Asks or gives away the product for free between private individuals, or
  • Encourages contact about the product either by:
    • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
    • Including any type of contact information
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services. This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts alcohol or tobacco, and
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price or notes product is free or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by:
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
      • Including any type of contact information
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, 3D gun printing files of any of the above, and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brandtrade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or deliveryor
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts 3D gun printing files or any of the above and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioned the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing price or noting product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as:
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase knives which includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts a knife or bladed weapon, and
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade or delivery, or
  • Asks the audience to buy, or
  • Lists the price, or
  • Asks or gives away the product for free between private individuals, or
  • Encourages contact about the product either by:
    • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
    • Including any type of contact information
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts.
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.¹
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
¹ As we strive to protect the welfare of animals against illicit trades, we cannot always ensure their safety in a peer-to-peer transaction. We will still allow such sales if posted by brick-and-mortar entities, animal rehoming, and adoption agencies and shelters. This is an update to our existing policy, which already prohibits the sale of endangered wildlife and their parts. We will continue working to keep both people and animals safe and also plan on providing new reporting options on Facebook so that people can report content that violates this policy.
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts.
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts.
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Do not post:
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
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