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सुरक्षेला प्रोत्साहन देण्यासाठी आणि संभाव्य हानीकारक अ‍ॅक्टिव्हिटीना प्रतिबंध करण्यासाठी, आम्ही व्यक्ती, उत्पादक आणि रिटेलरकडून आमच्या प्लॅटफॉर्मवर काही वस्तू व सेवा खरेदी, विक्री, रॅफल, भेट, ट्रान्सफर किंवा व्यापार करण्याच्या प्रयत्नांना प्रतिबंधित करतो. आम्ही कोणत्याही औषधांची देवाणघेवाण किंवा विक्री सहन करत नाही ज्यामुळे अमली पदार्थांचा दुरुपयोग होऊ शकतो जी आमच्या खालील धोरणांतर्गत समाविष्ट आहेत. ब्रिक आणि मॉर्टर आणि ऑनलाइन रिटेलर आमच्या सेवांमधून विक्रीसाठी उपलब्ध असलेल्या बंदुका, दारू आणि तंबाखूच्या वस्तू प्रमोट करू शकतात; तथापि, आम्ही अल्पवयीन मुलांसाठी या कंटेन्टची दृश्यमानता प्रतिबंधित करतो. आम्ही प्रतिबंधित दस्तऐवजांचा विनिमय आणि प्रतिबंधित आर्थिक सर्व्हिसची सोय करण्यासदेखील प्रतिबंध करतो. आम्ही या धोरणात कव्हर केलेल्या वस्तू व सेवांच्या नियमनांमधील बदलांचे समर्थन करणाऱ्या आणि वैद्यकीय उपचारांच्या संदर्भात फार्मास्युटिकल्स औषधांच्या वापरासाठी किंवा त्यासंबंधात समर्थन करणाऱ्या या वस्तूंच्या स्टोअरमधील किंवा ऑनलाईन रिटेलरद्वारे होणाऱ्या विक्रीबद्दलच्या चर्चांना अनुमती देतो, यात वास्तविक किंवा मानसिक दुष्परिणामांबद्दलची चर्चा समाविष्ट आहे.
प्रतिबंधित वस्तू व सेवांमध्ये खालील श्रेण्या असतात:
  • औषधे आणि फार्मास्युटिकल्स
  • शस्त्रास्त्रे, दारूगोळा किंवा स्फोटके
  • तंबाखू आण संबंधित प्रॉडक्ट
  • अल्कोहोल
  • आरोग्य आणि निरोगीपणा
  • ऑनलाईन जुगार आणि गेम
  • लुप्तप्राय आणि संरक्षित प्रजाती (वन्यजीव आणि वनस्पती):
  • ऐतिहासिक कलाकृती
  • धोकादायक वस्तू आणि साहित्य
  • शरीराचे अवयव आणि द्रव
  • परत मागवलेले सामान
  • प्रतिबंधित दस्तऐवज आणि आर्थिक सेवा
प्रत्येक श्रेणीचे तपशीलवार वर्णन खाली केले आहे.
औषधे आणि फार्मास्युटिकल्स
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
उच्च-जोखीम असलेली औषधे (ज्या औषधांचा गैरवापर, व्यसनाधीन होण्याची संभावना अत्याधिक असते किंवा अतिप्रमाणात घेण्‍यासह आरोग्याच्या बाबतीत असलेल्या गंभीर धोक्यांशी संबंधित असतात; उदा., कोकेन, फेंटॅनाइल, हेरॉइन).
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • उच्च-जोखीम असलेल्या औषधांची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार करणे, व्यापाराचे समन्वय साधणे, देणगी देणे, भेट देणे किंवा विचारण्याचे प्रयत्न करतो.
  • स्वतः किंवा इतरांद्वारे कंटेन्टच्या पोस्टरद्वारे उच्च जोखीम असलेली औषधे खरेदी, व्यापार किंवा व्यापारासाठी समन्वय साधल्याचे कबूल करतात.
  • रिकव्हरी, उपचार किंवा अन्य निराकरणाच्या वापरासाठी साहाय्य यासाठीच्या पोचपावतीशिवाय किंवा संदर्भाशिवाय वैयक्तिक वापर केल्याचे कबूल करणे. हा कंटेन्ट उच्च जोखीम असलेली औषधे बनवण्यासाठी किंवा वापरण्यासाठी सकारात्मक असू शकत नाही, वापरण्यास प्रोत्साहित करू शकत नाही, समन्वय साधू शकत नाही किंवा सूचना देऊ शकत नाही.
  • उच्च जोखीम असलेल्या औषधांचा समन्वय साधतो किंवा त्यांना प्रमोट करतो (असे म्हणण्याचा आमचा अर्थ सकारात्मक असतो, वापरण्यास प्रोत्साहित करतो किंवा वापरण्यासाठी किंवा बनवण्याच्या सूचना देतो).
  • टीप: कायदेशीरपणासाठी वादविवाद करणे किंवा समर्थन करणे किंवा उच्च जोखीम असलेल्या औषधांच्या वैज्ञानिक किंवा वैद्यकीय गुणवत्तेवर चर्चा करण्यास अनुमती देणे. यामध्ये बातम्या आणि सार्वजनिक सर्व्हिस घोषणांचा समावेश आहे.
वैद्यकीय नसलेली औषधे (औषधे किंवा पदार्थ ज्यांचा उपयोग वैद्यकीय हेतूसाठी केला जात नाही किंवा उच्च उद्दिष्ट साध्य करण्यासाठी उपयोग केला जातो - यामध्ये प्रीकर्सर केमिकल किंवा पदार्थ समाविष्ट असतात जे अशाप्रकारच्या औषधांच्या प्रॉडक्टसाठी वापरले जातात.)
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार, दान किंवा भेटवस्तू देण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो किंवा वैद्यकीय नसलेल्या औषधांची मागणी करतो.
  • स्वतः किंवा इतरांद्वारे कंटेन्टच्या पोस्टरद्वारे वैद्यकीय नसलेली औषधे खरेदी केल्याचे किंवा व्यापार केल्याचे कबूल करतात.
  • रिकव्हरी, उपचार किंवा अन्य निराकरणाच्या वापरासाठी साहाय्य यासाठीच्या पोचपावतीशिवाय किंवा संदर्भाशिवाय वैयक्तिक वापर केल्याचे कबूल करणे. हा कंटेन्ट वैद्यकीय नसलेली औषधे बनवण्यासाठी किंवा वापरण्यासाठी सकारात्मक असू शकत नाही, वापरण्यास प्रोत्साहित करू शकत नाही, समन्वय साधू शकत नाही किंवा सूचना देऊ शकत नाही.
  • वैद्यकीय नसलेल्या औषधांचा समन्वय साधतो किंवा त्यांना प्रमोट करतो (असे म्हणण्याचा आमचा अर्थ असतो, त्याबद्दल सकारात्मकपणे बोलणे, वापरण्यास प्रोत्साहित करणे किंवा वापरण्यासाठी किंवा बनवण्याच्या सूचना देणे).
  • वैद्यकीय नसलेल्या औषधांच्या साहित्याची विक्री किंवा प्रमोट करण्याचे प्रयत्न.
  • गैर-वैद्यकीय औषधे दर्शविणारा व्यापारी माल आहे.
प्रिस्क्रिप्शन आवश्यक असलेली औषधे (अशी औषधे ज्यांना प्रिस्क्रिप्शन किंवा वैद्यकीय व्यावसायिकांचे नियंत्रण आवश्यक आहे)
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • प्रिस्क्रिप्शन आवश्यक असलेल्या औषधांची खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याचे प्रयत्न करतो यास हे अपवाद आहे:
    • 18 वर्षे किंवा त्याहून अधिक वयाच्या प्रौढांसाठी मर्यादित असताना स्पष्ट शिक्षण किंवा चर्चेच्या संदर्भात लसींच्या किमतीची लिस्ट करणे.
    • 18 वर्षे किंवा त्याहून अधिक वयाच्या प्रौढांसाठी मर्यादित असताना कायदेशीर आरोग्यसेवा ई-कॉमर्स व्यवसायाद्वारे पोस्ट केल्यावर वितरण ऑफर करणे. या कंटेन्टमध्ये परवानाधारक आरोग्य व्यावसायिकांचा सल्ला घेण्यासाठी किंवा वैध प्रिस्क्रिप्शन मिळविण्यासाठी अस्वीकरणदेखील समाविष्ट करणे आवश्यक आहे.
  • आर्थिक, आरोग्य, सामाजिक किंवा नैसर्गिक संकटांच्या इव्हेंट वगळता प्रिस्क्रिप्शन आवश्यक असलेल्या औषधांची देणगी देण्याचा किंवा ती गिफ्ट करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो.
  • कंटेन्ट वैद्यकीय संदर्भात प्रिस्क्रिप्शन आवश्यक असलेल्या औषधांची खरेदी करण्याची, ती मिळवण्याची क्षमता किंवा त्यांची कार्यक्षमता याबद्दल चर्चा करतो ती बाब वगळता, प्रिस्क्रिप्शन आवश्यक असलेल्या औषधांची मागणी करणे.
  • टीप: कायदेशीरपणासाठी वादविवाद करणे किंवा समर्थन करणे किंवा प्रिस्क्रिप्शन औषधांच्या वैज्ञानिक किंवा वैद्यकीय गुणवत्तेवर चर्चा करण्यास अनुमती देणे. यामध्ये बातम्या आणि सार्वजनिक सर्व्हिस घोषणांचा समावेश आहे.
एन्थिओजेन्स
  • असा कंटेन्ट जो एन्थिओजेन्सची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार, दान किंवा भेटवस्तू देण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो किंवा मागणी करतो.
  • टीप: कायदेशीरपणासाठी वादविवाद करणे किंवा समर्थन करणे किंवा एन्थिओजेन्सच्या वैज्ञानिक किंवा वैद्यकीय गुणवत्तेवर चर्चा करण्यास अनुमती देणे.
कॅन्नाबीज आणि कॅन्नाबीजपासून मिळवलेले प्रॉडक्ट
  • असा कंटेन्ट जो मारूआना आणि THC असलेल्या किंवा त्यासंबंधित सायकोअॅक्टिव्ह घटक असलेल्या प्रॉडक्टची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार करतो किंवा त्यांची देणगी देतो किंवा त्याबद्दल मागणी करतो.
खालील कंटेन्टसाठी, आम्ही दृश्यमानता 18 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाचे प्रौढ पाहू शकतील अशी मर्यादित करतो:
एन्थिओजेन्स
  • कंटेन्ट जो वैयक्तिक वापरासाठी होकार दर्शवितो, समन्वय साधतो किंवा प्रोत्साहन देतो (ज्याद्वारे आमचा अर्थ सकारात्मक बोलणे असा होतो) किंवा एन्थिओजेन्सच्या वापरास प्रोत्साहित करतो.
    • काल्पनिक किंवा माहितीपटाच्या संदर्भात घडणारी वरीलपैकी कोणतीही बाब अपवाद आहे.
कॅन्नाबीज आणि कॅन्नाबीजपासून मिळवलेले प्रॉडक्ट
  • असा कंटेन्ट जो मारूआना आणि THC असलेल्या किंवा त्यासंबंधित सायकोअॅक्टिव्ह घटक असलेल्या प्रॉडक्टचे समन्वय किंवा त्यांना प्रमोट (म्हणजे आमचा म्हणण्याचा अर्थ असा की ज्याबद्दल सकारात्मक बोलतो, त्याच्या वापराबद्दल प्रेरित करतो किंवा ते बनवण्यासाठी किंवा वापरण्यासाठी सूचना प्रदान करतो) करतो.
  • मारूआना डिस्पेन्सरीद्वारे पोस्ट केलेल्या व्यवसायाशी संबंधित कंटेन्ट जिथे गांजा आणि THC किंवा संबंधित सायकोअॅक्टिव्ह घटक असलेली प्रॉडक्ट खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याचे कोणतेही प्रयत्न केलेले नाहीत.
  • असा कंटेन्ट जो खाण्यायोग्य कॅन्नाबिडायोल (CBD) किंवा तत्सम कॅन्नाबिनॉइड प्रॉडक्टची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार करण्याचा किंवा त्याची देणगी, गिफ्ट देण्याचा किंवा त्यांची मागणी करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो.
  • असा कंटेन्ट जो खाण्यायोग्य-नसलेल्या कॅन्नाबिडायोल (CBD) किंवा तत्सम कॅन्नाबिनॉइड प्रॉडक्टची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार करण्याचा किंवा त्याची देणगी, गिफ्ट देण्याचा किंवा त्यांची मागणी करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो.
  • खाण्यायोग्य-नसलेल्या कॅन्नाबिडायोल (CBD) किंवा तत्सम कॅन्नाबिनॉइड प्रॉडक्टशी संबंधित रोगांचा दावा करणारा कंटेन्ट.
  • मारूआनाच्या साहित्याचे वर्णन करणारा कंटेन्ट.
प्रिसिक्रिप्शन औेषधे
  • कायदेशीर आरोग्यसेवा ई-कॉमर्स व्यवसायांनी पोस्ट केलेल्या कंटेन्टसह, कोणत्याही संदर्भात प्रिस्क्रिप्शन औषधे खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणारा कंटेन्ट.
  • काउंटरवर मिळणाऱ्या औषधांची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार, देणगी, भेटवस्तू किंवा मागणी करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणारा कंटेन्ट.
  • असा कंटेन्ट ज्यामध्ये प्रिस्क्रिप्शन असलेल्या औषधांचा स्वीकार किंवा सेवन समाविष्ट आहे.
शस्त्रास्त्रे, दारूगोळा किंवा स्फोटके
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • खालील परिस्थिती वगळता बंदुका, बंदुकींचे भाग, दारूगोळा, स्फोटके किंवा प्राणघातक एनहान्समेंट यांची खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो यास हे अपवाद आहे:
    • कायदेशीर ब्रिक आणि मोर्टर घटकांचे प्रतिनिधित्व करणाऱ्या पेज, ग्रुप किंवा प्रोफाईलने पोस्ट केले असते, यात रिटेल व्यवसाय, वेबसाईट, ब्रँड किंवा शासकीय एजन्सी (उदा. पोलिस विभाग, अग्निशमन विभाग) किंवा कायदेशीर ब्रिक आणि मोर्टर घटकांच्या वतीने कंटेन्ट शेअर करणारी खाजगी व्यक्ती यांचा समावेश होतो आणि दृश्यमानता ही 21 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाच्या लोकांपुरती मर्यादित केली असते.
  • खालील संदर्भात पोस्ट करण्याव्यतिरिक्त बंदुक, बंदुकीचे भाग, दारूगोळा, स्फोटके किंवा प्राणघातक एनहान्समेंट दान किंवा भेट देण्याचे प्रयत्न करतो:
    • कायदेशीर ब्रिक आणि मोर्टर घटकांचे प्रतिनिधित्व करणाऱ्या पेज, ग्रुप किंवा प्रोफाईलने बंदुका आणि दारूगोळा दान करणे, व्यापार करणे किंवा पुन्हा खरेदी करणे यात रिटेल व्यवसाय, वेबसाईट, ब्रँड्स किंवा शासकीय एजंसी किंवा कायदेशीर ब्रिक आणि मोर्टर घटकांच्या वतीने कंटेन्ट शेअर करणारी खाजगी व्यक्ती यांचा समावेश होतो आणि दृश्यमानता ही 21 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाच्या लोकांपुरती मर्यादित केली असते.
    • रिटेल व्यवसाय, सरकारशी संलग्नित संस्था किंवा ना नफा किंवा कायदेशीर ब्रिक अँड मोर्टर घटकांशी संलग्न असलेले किंवा त्यांनी प्रायोजित केलेल्या खाजगी व्यक्ती यांसह कायदेशीर ब्रिक अँड मोर्टर घटकांद्वारे बंदुकांचा लिलाव किंवा सोडत आणि दृश्यमानता ही 21 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाच्या लोकांपुरती मर्यादित केली असते.
  • बंदुका, बंदुकांचे भाग, दारूगोळा, स्फोटके किंवा प्राणघातक एनहान्समेंटबाबत विचारणा करतो.
  • संदर्भ किंवा पोस्टर यांचा विचार न करता, बंदुका किंवा बंदुकांच्या भागांसाठी खरेदी, विक्री, भेटवस्तू, देवाणघेवाण, ट्रान्सफर, समन्वय करण्याचा, त्याबद्दल सकारात्मक बोलण्याचा, त्यांच्या 3D प्रिंटिंग किंवा कॉम्प्यूटर-साहाय्यक उत्पादन निर्देशांचा वापर करण्याचा किंवा त्यात ॲक्सेस प्रदान करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणे.
  • मशीन गन रूपांतरण डिव्हाईसची खरेदी, विक्री करण्याचा, देणगी, भेट देण्याचा, त्याबाबत विचारणा करण्याचा किंवा त्यांची मालकी मान्य करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो.
खालील कंटेन्टसाठी, आम्ही दृश्यमानता 21 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाचे प्रौढ पाहू शकतील अशी मर्यादित करतो:
शस्त्रास्त्रे, दारूगोळा किंवा स्फोटके
  • रिटेल व्यवसाय, वेबसाईट ब्रँड किंवा सरकारी एजंसीसह कायदेशीर ब्रिक्स अँड मोर्टर स्टोअर, घटकांनी पोस्ट केलेला कंटेन्ट जो बंदुका, बंदुकीचे भाग, दारूगोळा, स्फोटके किंवा प्राणघातक एनहान्समेंटची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार करण्याचा, देणगी किंवा भेट (लिलाव किंवा सोडतीच्या संदर्भासह) देण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो.
खालील कंटेन्टसाठी, आम्ही दृश्यमानता 18 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाचे प्रौढ पाहू शकतील अशी मर्यादित करतो:
ब्लेड असलेले आयटम आणि इतर शस्त्रे:
  • खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार, समन्वय, दान करणे, भेट देणे किंवा यासाठी मागण्याचा प्रयत्न करणारा कन्टेन्ट: ब्लेड असलेले आयटम आणि इतर कोणतीही शस्त्रे (उदा. मिरपूड किंवा अंगठ्या).
  • असा कंटेन्ट ज्यात प्रॉडक्ट रिव्ह्‍यूमध्ये बंदुका, बंदुकांचे भाग, दारूगोळा, स्फोटके, प्राणघातक एनहान्समेंट किंवा ब्लेड असलेले आयटम यांबद्दल सकारात्मक बोलले जाते, त्यांच्या वापराबद्दल सूचना प्रदान केलेल्या असतात किंवा त्यांच्या वापराबद्दल उत्तेजन दिले असते
  • प्राणघातक नसलेल्या साधनांच्या विक्रीची ऑफर आणि प्रमोशन
तंबाखू आण संबंधित प्रॉडक्ट
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • सर्व प्रकारच्या “ENDS” ईलेक्ट्रॉनिक निकोटीन डिलिव्हरी सिस्टीम प्रॉडक्टसह (उदा. ईलेक्ट्रॉनिक सिगारेटस, व्हेपोरायझर आणि निकोटीन नसलेले व्हेपोरायझर) तंबाखू/निकोटीन संबंधित प्रॉडक्टची किंवा धूम्रपानास उत्तेजन देणाऱ्या प्रॉडक्टची खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याचे प्रयत्न करतो.
    • डिलिव्हरी सर्व्हिस आणि ब्रॅंड गिव्हअवे ऑफर करण्यासह, रिटेल व्यवसाय, वेबसाईट, ब्रँड्स किंवा ब्रिक अँड मोर्टर संस्थांच्या वतीने खाजगी वैयक्तिक शेअर करता येणारा कंटेन्ट यासह, कायदेशीर ब्रिक अँड मोर्टर घटकांचे प्रतिनिधित्व करणाऱ्या पेज, ग्रुप किंवा Instagram प्रोफाईलद्वारे पोस्ट केले जाते ते वगळून.
  • तंबाखू/निकोटीन प्रॉडक्टची किंवा “ENDS” प्रॉडक्टची देणगी देण्याचे किंवा गिफ्ट देण्याचे प्रयत्न करतो.
    • डिलिव्हरी सर्व्हिस आणि ब्रॅंड गिव्हअवे ऑफर करण्यासह, रिटेल व्यवसाय, वेबसाईट, ब्रँड्स किंवा ब्रिक अँड मोर्टर संस्थांच्या वतीने खाजगी वैयक्तिक शेअर करता येणारा कंटेन्ट यासह, कायदेशीर ब्रिक अँड मोर्टर घटकांचे प्रतिनिधित्व करणाऱ्या पेज, ग्रुप किंवा Instagram प्रोफाईलद्वारे पोस्ट केले जाते ते वगळून.
  • तंबाखू/निकोटीन प्रॉडक्टची किंवा धूम्रपानास उत्तेजन देणाऱ्या प्रॉडक्टची मागणी करणे यात सर्व प्रकारच्या “ENDS” प्रॉडक्टचा (निकोटीन नसलेल्या व्हेपोरायझरह) समावेश आहे.
खालील कंटेन्टसाठी, आम्ही दृश्यमानता 18 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाचे प्रौढ पाहू शकतील अशी मर्यादित करतो:
  • मद्य किंवा तंबाखूजन्य पदार्थांची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार, दान किंवा भेट देण्याचा प्रयत्न करणाऱ्या किरकोळ व्यवसायाच्या वेबसाईट किंवा ब्रँडसह कायदेशीर ब्रिक-अँड-मोर्टार संस्थांद्वारे पोस्ट केलेला किंवा प्रमोट करणारा कंटेन्ट.
  • तंबाखू, निकोटीन प्रॉडक्ट किंवा “ENDS” प्रॉडक्टच्या वापराचे वर्णन करणारा कंटेन्ट.
  • तंबाखू, निकोटीन प्रॉडक्ट, “ENDS” प्रॉडक्ट किंवा तंबाखूच्या ब्रँडच्या वापराचे समन्वयन करणारा किंवा त्यास उत्तेजन देणारा कंटेन्ट.
  • तंबाखू बंद करण्याच्या प्रॉडक्टचे वर्णन करणारा कंटेन्ट
  • तंबाखू, तंबाखूबाबतचे साहित्य किंवा तंबाखूचे ब्रॅंड यांच्या वापराबद्दल चर्चा किंवा ते प्रमोट करणारा कंटेन्ट
  • धूम्रपान किंवा तंबाखूच्या वापराचे काल्पनिक नसलेल्या संदर्भात वर्णन करणारा मीडिया कंटेन्ट
    • धम्रपान-विरोधी कॅम्पेन, धूम्रपानाच्या व्यसनाबाबत असलेल्या समुपदेशनच्या सर्व्हिस, धूम्रपानाबाबतीत पुनर्वसन किंवा PSA संदर्भ यांच्या व्यतिरिक्त असलेला संदर्भ
अल्कोहोल
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • अल्कोहोलची खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याचे प्रयत्न करतो यास खालील घटना अपवाद आहेत:
    • डिलिव्हरी सर्व्हिस आणि ब्रॅंड गिव्हअवे ऑफर करण्यासह, रिटेल व्यवसाय, वेबसाईट, ब्रँड किंवा ब्रिक अँड मोर्टर घटकांच्या वतीने खाजगी वैयक्तिक शेअर करता येणारा कंटेन्ट यासह, कायदेशीर ब्रिक अँड मोर्टर घटकांचे प्रतिनिधित्व करणाऱ्या पेज, ग्रुप किंवा Instagram प्रोफाईलद्वारे पोस्ट केले जाते.
    • अल्कोहोलचा संदर्भ देणारा किंवा अल्कोहोलचा विनिमय किंवा वापर केला जातो अशा अल्कोहोलच्या ठिकाणचे किंवा ज्या लोकेशनवर इव्हेंट, रेस्टॉरंट, बार किंवा पार्टीचे आमंत्रण देणारा कंटेन्ट.
  • रिटेल व्यवसाय, वेबसाईट, ब्रँड किंवा सरकारी एजंसी किंवा ब्रिक अँड मोर्टार घटकांच्या वतीने खाजगी वैयक्तिक शेअर करता येणारा कंटेन्ट यासह, कायदेशीर ब्रिक अँड मोर्टर घटकांचे प्रतिनिधित्व करणाऱ्या पेज, ग्रुप किंवा Instagram प्रोफाईलद्वारे पोस्ट केल्याशिवाय मद्य किंवा तंबाखू दान किंवा भेट स्वरूपात देण्याचा प्रयत्न करणे.
  • अल्कोहोल प्रॉडक्ट आणि पेये यांची मागणी करणे.
खालील कंटेन्टसाठी, आम्ही दृश्यमानता 18 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाचे प्रौढ पाहू शकतील अशी मर्यादित करतो:
  • मद्य असलेली प्रॉडक्ट किंवा पेयांची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार, देणगी किंवा भेट देण्याचा प्रयत्न करणाऱ्या किरकोळ व्यवसायाच्या वेबसाईट किंवा ब्रँडसह कायदेशीर ब्रिक-अँड-मोर्टार संस्थांद्वारे पोस्ट केलेला किंवा प्रमोट करणारा कंटेन्ट.
  • मद्य असलेली प्रॉडक्ट किंवा पेयांच्या वापराचे वर्णन करणारा किंवा मद्य असलेल्या पेयांच्या पाककृती शेअर करणारा कंटेन्ट.
  • ज्यात अल्कोहोल आहे अशा प्रॉडक्टचा संदर्भ देणारा किंवा जिथे अल्कोहोलचा विनिमय किंवा वापर केला जाईल अशा अल्कोहोलच्या ठिकाणचे आमंत्रण देणारा कंटेन्ट.
आरोग्य आणि निरोगीपणा
खालील कंटेन्टसाठी, आम्ही दृश्यमानता 18 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाचे प्रौढ पाहू शकतील अशी मर्यादित करतो:
वजन कमी करणे किंवा वजन वाढवण्याचे प्रॉडक्ट किंवा सर्व्हिस
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • वजन कमी करण्याचे किंवा वजन वाढवण्याचे प्रॉडक्ट किंवा सर्व्हिसची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार करण्याचा, देणगी, गिफ्ट देण्याचा, त्यांचा उल्लेख करण्याचा किंवा त्यांची मागणी करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणे.
  • वजन कमी करण्यासाठी किंवा वजन वाढवण्यासाठी अनुकूल संदर्भांमधील वापराचे किंवा त्याच्या दुष्परिणामांवर चर्चा करण्यासाठी त्यास मान्यता देतो किंवा वर्णन करतो.
  • आहार विषयक प्रॉडक्टचे समन्वय किंवा प्रमोशन दर्शवतो (म्हणजे आमचा म्हणण्याचा अर्थ असा की ज्याबद्दल सकारात्मक बोलतो, त्याच्या वापराबद्दल प्रेरित करतो किंवा ते बनवण्यासाठी किंवा वापरण्यासाठी सूचना प्रदान करतो).
  • शारीरिक अपिअरंसबद्दलची न्यूनत्व विधाने (म्हणजे अटी, वर्णने किंवा प्रश्न जे नकारात्मक आहेत आणि एखाद्या व्यक्तीच्या अपिअरंसवर, विशिष्ट शरीराच्या भागांवर किंवा स्वच्छतेवर हल्ला करतात) किंवा पिंच केलेली चरबी दर्शवणाऱ्या विशिष्ट शरीराच्या भागाच्या क्लोज अपची चित्रणे समाविष्ट असतात.
  • परिणाम केवळ दागिने किंवा पॅचेस यांसारखे घालण्यायोग्य प्रॉडक्ट वापरून साध्य केले जाऊ शकतात असे दावे.
  • वजन कमी करणे किंवा वजन वाढवण्याच्या संदर्भात क्लिकबेट युक्त्या वापरतो, जसे की अतिशयोक्तीपूर्ण किंवा अत्याधिक आरोग्य क्लेमसह अतिशयोक्तीपूर्ण भाषा किंवा अस्वीकरणे किंवा पात्रता नसलेल्या एका निर्धारित कालावधीत विशिष्ट परिणामांची आश्वासने.
कॉस्मेटिक प्रॉडक्ट, कार्यपद्धती किंवा शस्त्रक्रिया
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • कॉस्मेटिक प्रॉडक्टची, कार्यपद्धतींची किंवा शस्त्रक्रियांची विक्री, खरेदी, व्यापार करण्याचे, देणगी किंवा गिफ्ट देण्याचे त्यांचा उल्लेख करण्याचे किंवा त्यांची मागणी करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो. यामध्ये पुढील गोष्टींचा समावेश होतो:
    • त्वचा उजळवणारे प्रॉडक्ट जसे की ब्लीचींग क्रीम.
    • लोकांच्या चेहऱ्यांच्या किंवा शरीराच्या रचनेवर उपचार करण्यासाठी, कार्यप्रणाली रिस्टोअर करण्यासाठी किंवा ठेवण सुधारण्याच्या हेतूने होणार्‍या कॉस्मेटिक कार्यपद्धती.
  • कॉस्मेटिक कार्यपद्धती किंवा शस्त्रक्रिया करण्याबाबत, तिच्या सकारात्मक किंवा नकारात्मक प्रभावास किंवा दुष्परिणाम हायलाईट करण्यास मान्यता देणे किंवा वर्णन करणे.
  • कॉस्मॅटिक कार्यपद्धती किंवा शस्त्रक्रियेचे समन्वय किंवा प्रमोशन दर्शवते (म्हणजे आमचा म्हणण्याचा अर्थ असा की ज्याबद्दल सकारात्मक बोलतो, त्याच्या वापराबद्दल प्रेरित करतो किंवा ते बनवण्यासाठी किंवा कार्य करण्यासाठी सूचना प्रदान करतो).
  • शारीरिक अपिअरंसबद्दल न्यूनत्व विधाने असतात, (म्हणजे, अटी, वर्णने किंवा प्रश्न जे नकारात्मक असतात आणि एखाद्या व्यक्तीच्या अपिअरंसवर, विशिष्ट शरीराच्या भागांवर किंवा स्वच्छतेवर हल्ला करतात)
टीप: वर्कआउट पद्धतींचे (जसे की पिलेट्स) किंवा तात्पुरत्या कॉस्मेटिकचे (जसे की मेकअप) प्रमोशन या धोरणात कव्हर केलेले नाही.
दिशाभूल करणाऱ्या आरोग्यविषयक सराव पद्धती
  • खालीलपैकी कोणतेही बरे न होणारे रोग आणि/किंवा असाध्य आजार बरे करण्याचे, त्यावर उपचार करण्याचे किंवा वगळण्याचे दावे (यात आरोग्य व्यावसायिक किंवा आरोग्य संस्था यांचा समावेश आहे) (व्यापक लिस्ट): टीप: हे या स्थितींच्या लक्षणांवर उपचार करण्याच्या किंवा ती व्यवस्थापित करण्याच्या दाव्यांना लागू होत नाही.
    • मधुमेह
    • हार्पिस
    • थॉयरॉइड
    • सोरॅसिस
    • ईबोला
    • कर्करोग
    • ऑटिझम
    • अल्झायमर
    • पार्किन्सन्स
    • एमियोट्रोफिक लॅटरल स्क्लेरोसिस (ALS)
    • ह्यूमन इम्यूनोडेफिशियन्सी व्हायरस (HIV)
  • आरोग्याच्या संदर्भात क्लिकबेट तंत्रे वापरतो, जसे की अतिशयोक्तीपूर्ण किंवा अत्याधिक आरोग्य क्लेमसह सनसनाटी भाषा किंवा अस्वीकरण किंवा पात्रता नसलेल्या सेट केलेल्या कालमर्यादेत विशिष्ट आरोग्य-संबंधित परिणामांची आश्वासने.
प्रौढांची लैंगिक उत्तेजना देणारे प्रॉडक्ट
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • प्रौढांच्या लैंगिक उत्तेजनेबद्दलच्या प्रॉडक्टची खरेदी, विक्री, प्रमोट करण्याचा, भेट देण्याचा किंवा त्यांची मागणी करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो ज्याचा प्राथमिक हेतू काल्पनिक किंवा काल्पनिक नसलेल्या संदर्भात एखाद्या व्यक्तीच्या लैंगिक आनंदाला उत्तेजित करणे किंवा एखाद्या व्यक्तीच्या लैंगिक उत्तेजना वाढवणे हा असतो. यामध्ये पुढील गोष्टींचा समावेश होतो:
    • लैंगिक खेळणी
    • उत्तेजित करणारे प्रॉडक्ट
    • शस्त्रक्रिया विरहित जननेंद्रियांचे एनहान्समेंट करणारे प्रॉडक्ट, जसे की अशी प्रॉडक्ट जी लैंगिक इच्छेस उत्तेजित करतात किंवा लैंगिक कार्यक्षमता वाढवतात
    • ज्यांचा लैंगिक इच्छेस किंवा उत्तेजित होण्यास प्रेरित करणे हा प्राथमिक फोकस असतो अशी प्रॉडक्ट
    • स्पष्ट संदर्भ न देता लैंगिक खेळण्यांचे वर्णन
पुनरूत्पादन आरोग्य किंवा सुदृढतेबाबतचे प्रॉडक्ट
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • पुनरूत्पादन आरोग्य किंवा सुदृढतेबाबतच्या प्रॉडक्टची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार करण्याचा, देणगी किंवा गिफ्ट देण्याचा, त्यांची मागणी करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो. यामध्ये पुढील गोष्टींचा समावेश होतो:
    • पुनरूत्पादन आरोग्य किंवा सुदृढतेबाबतचे प्रॉडक्ट जेव्हा त्यांचा हेतू वैद्यकीय लाभ नसून, लैंगिक आनंद मिळवणे हा असतो, यात पुरूषांच्या किंवा महिलांच्या जननेंद्रियांसंबंधित वस्तू असतात
    • लैंगिक पुनरूत्पादन विकारांचे निराकरण करणारे प्रॉडक्ट
    • कॉस्मेटिक जननेंद्रियांच्या शस्त्रक्रिया
    • प्रौढांच्या जननेंद्रियांच्या शस्त्रक्रिया
    • लैंगिक आनंद हाच हेतू असलेले लैंगिक शिक्षण
    • हॉर्मोन प्रॉडक्ट (उदा. टेस्टोस्टेरॉन बूस्टर्स)
प्रौढ लैंगिक व्यवसाय
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • एखाद्या व्यक्तीच्या लैंगिक आनंदाला उत्तेजन देऊ शकणारे किंवा व्यक्तीची लैंगिक उत्तेजना वाढवू शकणारे प्रौढ लैंगिक उत्तेजना व्यवसाय खरेदी, विक्री, प्रमोट करण्याचा किंवा त्यांची मागणी करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणे. यामध्ये पुढील गोष्टींचा समावेश होतो:
    • प्रौढांचे मनोरंजनात्मक व्यवसाय
    • प्रौढांविषयक संस्था
    • सूचनात्मक लैंगिक सर्व्हिस
ऑनलाईन जुगार आणि गेम
खालील कंटेन्टसाठी, आम्ही दृश्यमानता 18 वर्षे आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त वयाचे प्रौढ पाहू शकतील अशी मर्यादित करतो:
ऑनलाईन जुगार आणि गेम
  • ऑनलाईन गेमिंग आणि जुगार सर्व्हिसची विक्री, व्यापार, चित्रित किंवा प्रचार करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणारा कंटेन्ट जिथे पैशांच्या मूल्यामध्ये कोणतीही गोष्ट (रोख किंवा डिजिटल/आभासी चलने, उदा. बिटकॉइनसह) खेळण्यासाठी आवश्यक असते आणि आर्थिक मूल्याची कोणतीही गोष्ट बक्षिसाचा भाग बनते. यात हे समाविष्ट आहे परंतु त्यापुरतेच मर्यादित नाही:
    • कौशल्यांचे गेम, लॉटरी/रॅफेल, बेटिंग, क्रीडा बेटिंग, कॅसिनो गेम, संधीचे गेम किंवा स्वीपस्टेक/बक्षिसांची सोडत.
    • एक मर्यादित चाचणीचा कालावधी ऑफर करणारे आणि त्यानंतर पेमेंट आवश्यक करणारे जुगाराचे गेम.
सोशल कॅसिनो गेम
  • असा कंटेन्ट जो स्लॉट मशीनसारख्या जुगाराच्या गेमची प्रतिकृती करणाऱ्या सोशल कॅसिनो गेमची विक्री, व्यापार, वर्णन किंवा प्रमोट करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो, जिथे पैसे किंवा पैशांच्या समतुल्य असलेले काहीही जिंकण्याची संधी नसते. यात असा कंटेन्ट समाविष्ट असतो जो पैशांचे मूल्य नसलेले “कॉईन्स” जिंकण्याची संधी सूचित करतो.
जुगाराच्या संदर्भात खेळण्याचे विनामूल्य गेम
  • खेळण्यासाठी विनामूल्य असलेल्या अशा प्रकारच्या गेमची विक्री, व्यापार, वर्णन किंवा प्रमोट करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणारा कंटेन्ट जे जुगाराच्या गेमची प्रतिकृती असतात, जिथे पैशाच्या रूपातील कोणतेही मूल्‍य आवश्यक नसते परंतु पैसे किंवा समतुल्य जिंकण्याची संधी मात्र असते.
लुप्तप्राय आणि संरक्षित प्रजाती (वन्यजीव आणि वनस्पती)
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • लुप्तप्राय प्रजातीची किंवा त्यांच्या भागांची किंवा संरक्षित वनस्पतींच्या प्रजातींची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार करण्याचे, त्यांची देणगी किंवा गिफ्ट देण्याचे किंवा त्यांची मागणी करण्याचे प्रयत्न करतो.
  • लुप्तप्राय प्रजातींची शिकार करणे किंवा त्यांचे भाग खरेदी करणे किंवा त्यांचा व्यापार करणे कंटेन्टच्या पोस्टरद्वारे वचनबद्ध असलेल्या एकतर स्वत: किंवा त्यांच्या सहकाऱ्यांद्वारे इतरांच्या माध्यमातून केले जातात हे मान्य करतो किंवा प्रेरित करतो. यात अनोळखी लोकांकडून शिकार करण्याचे चित्रण समाविष्ट नाही.
  • लुप्तप्राय प्रजाती किंवा त्यांचे भाग शिकार केल्याचे स्वतः किंवा त्यांच्या सहयोगींद्वारे कंटेन्टच्या पोस्टरद्वारे मान्य करणारे चित्रण.
  • लुप्तप्राय प्रजातींचा किंवा त्यांच्या भागांचा किंवा कोणत्याही लुप्तप्राय होणाऱ्या वन्यजीवांचा किंवा वनस्पतींचा वापर करण्यासाठी किंवा त्यांपासून प्रॉडक्ट बनवण्यासाठी समन्वय किंवा प्रमोशन दर्शवतो (म्हणजे आमचा म्हणण्याचा अर्थ असा की त्याबद्दल सकारात्मक बोलतो, शिकार करण्यास प्रोत्साहित करतो किंवा सूचना देतो).
विलुप्त होत नसलेले प्राणी
  • असा कंटेन्ट जो धोकादायक नसलेल्या प्राण्यांच्या खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याचा प्रयत्न करते, खालील घटना वगळता:
    • किरकोळ व्यवसाय, कायदेशीर वेबसाईट, ब्रॅण्ड्स, किंवा पुनर्वसन आश्रयस्थानांसह किंवा कायदेशीर ब्रिक अँड मोर्टार घटकांच्या वतीने खाजगी वैयक्तिक कंटेन्ट शेअर करण्यासह वैध ब्रिक अँड मोर्टार घटकांचे प्रतिनिधित्व करणारी पेज, ग्रुप किंवा Instagram प्रोफाईलद्वारे पोस्ट केलेले.
    • जिवंत, विलुप्त होत नसलेले प्राणी दत्तक घेणे, भेट देणे, मागणे, दान करणे किंवा पुनर्वसन करणे या संदर्भात पोस्ट केलेले, ज्यामध्ये पीअर-टू-पीअर दत्तक घेण्यासाठी पुनर्वसन शुल्क समाविष्ट आहे
    • धार्मिक बळीसाठी प्राणी विकणे किंवा हरवलेल्या पाळीव प्राण्यांसाठी एक रिवॉर्ड ऑफर करणे.
    • पशुधन विक्री संदर्भात पोस्ट केले.
    • प्राण्यांची शिंगे, अवयव, हात किंवा पाय, मृतदेह, टॅक्सीडर्मी, विष्ठा (कंपोस्ट किंवा खत वगळून) खरेदी, विक्री किंवा भेट म्हणून देणे, मागणे, दान करण्याच्या संदर्भात पोस्ट केलेले.
    • मानवी वापरासाठी प्राण्यांशी संबंधित प्रॉडक्ट ऑफर करण्याच्या संदर्भात पोस्ट केलेले जसे की: अंडी, मासे इत्यादी.
ऐतिहासिक कलाकृती
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार, देणगी किंवा गिफ्ट देण्याचा किंवा ऐतिहासिक कलाकृतींची मागणी करणारा कंटेन्ट.
धोकादायक वस्तू आणि मटेरियल
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
असा कंटेन्ट जो धोकादायक वस्तू आणि साहित्य यांची कलाकृतींची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार, दान भेटवस्तू किंवा मागणी देण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो.
मानवी शरीराचे अवयव आणि शारीरिक द्रवपदार्थ
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
असा कंटेन्ट जो:
  • मानवी शोषणविषयक धोरण अंतर्गत प्रतिबंधित असलेल्या मानवी-ट्रॅफिकिंग कंटेन्टच्या पलीकडे मानवी शरीराच्या भागांची खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याचे प्रयत्न करतो.
  • मानवी द्रवपदार्थांच्या देवाणघेवाणीची मागणी करणे.
  • मानवी द्रवपदार्थ खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याचे प्रयत्न.
  • वीर्य किंवा रक्त प्लाझ्मा यासारख्या मानवी द्रवपदार्थांच्या दानासाठी पोस्ट केलेल्याव्यतिरिक्त.
परत मागवलेले सामान
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
असा कंटेन्ट जो परत मागवलेल्या सामानाची खरेदी, विक्री, व्यापार किंवा व्यापाराचा समन्वय करण्‍याचा, देणगी देण्याचा, गिफ्ट देण्‍याचा प्रयत्न करतो किंवा त्याची विनंती करतो.
प्रतिबंधित दस्तऐवज आणि आर्थिक सेवा
आम्ही यास अनुमती देत नाही:
असा कंटेन्ट जो खालील बाबींची विनंती, निर्मिती, विक्री, खरेदी किंवा व्यापार सुलभ करतो किंवा ऑफर करतो:
  • बनावटी, नकली किंवा चोरलेले दस्तऐवज यात यांचा समावेश आहे परंतु ते त्यापुरतेच मर्यादित नाहीत:
    • पासपोर्ट, ड्रायव्हिंग लायसन्स, व्हिजा किंवा ग्रीन कार्ड यांसारखे शासकीय ओळख पटवण्याचे दस्तऐवज.
    • आर्थिक दस्तऐवज.
    • चलन, बोर्ड-गेम चलन वगळता जर तेथे स्पष्ट संदर्भ असेल की ते बोर्ड-गेम हेतूंसाठी आहे.
    • व्हाउचर आणि कूपन, दोन्ही वास्तविक आणि डिजिटल, ज्यांचा हेतू ज्या वस्तूंची खरेदी करणे नव्हता त्यांच्या खरेदीसाठी वापरले गेले किंवा ते कालबाह्य झाले असल्यास.
    • शैक्षणिक दस्तऐवज आणि व्यावसायिक प्रमाणपत्रे.
  • बनावटी, नकली किंवा चोरलेल्या वस्तू व सेवा, यांचा समावेश असलेल्या परंतु त्यापुरतेच मर्यादित नसलेल्या:
    • वित्तीय साधने, चोरलेल्या क्रेडिट कार्डसह किंवा अनधिकृत खरेदींसाठी वापरली जाऊ शकतात अशी इतर वित्तीय साधने.
    • बनावटी रिव्ह्यू, सवलती, रीफंड किंवा विनामूल्य आयटमच्या बदल्यात रिव्ह्यू प्रदान करण्यासाठी युजरना ध्वनितपणे किंवा स्पष्टपणे लाभ मिळवून देतात.
    • भौतिक आणि डिजिटल समाविष्ट असलेल्या चोरलेल्या वस्तू व सेवा.
  • डिव्हाइस आणि सबस्क्रिप्शन ज्यांच्यात अनधिकृतपणे फेरफार केला जातो किंवा वापरला जातो, यात याचा समावेश आहे परंतु त्यापुरते मर्यादित नाही:
    • अनधिकृत ॲक्सेस, स्ट्रीमिंग किंवा डिजिटल कंटेन्टचे रेकॉर्डिंग प्रदान करण्यासाठी डिव्हाइसमध्ये अयोग्यरित्या केलेला फेरफार.
    • अनधिकृत स्ट्रीमिंग सबस्क्रिप्शन.
    • जेलब्रोकन आणि लोड केलेले डिव्हाइस किंवा अनलॉक केलेले टीव्ही बॉक्स.
    • पेवॉल केलेल्या ऑनलाइन सबस्क्रिप्शन सर्व्हिससाठी लॉगिन क्रेडेन्शियल्स खरेदी, विक्री किंवा व्यापार करण्याची ऑफर देतो.
    • सुरक्षा उपाययोजना टाळण्यासाठी ॲक्सेस कोड.
    • फेरफार केलेले, बदललेले किंवा बनावट मापन डिव्हाइस.
    • चुकीची किंमत मिळवण्यासाठी डिव्हाइसमध्ये वास्तविक फेरफार करण्यास समर्थन देतो, प्रमोट करतो किंवा विनंती करतो.
  • वैयक्तिक ओळखण्याजोगी किंवा इतर वैयक्तिक माहिती, यासह परंतु त्यापुरते मर्यादित नाही:
    • डिजिटल ओळखीसह वैयक्तिक ओळख क्रमांक आणि ओळख दस्तऐवज, यास काल्पनिक कॅरेक्टरच्या मालकीचे असलेले अपवाद आहेत.
  • गैरव्यवहार करण्यात सक्षम करणारे प्रॉडक्ट यात यांचा समावेश आहे परंतु ते त्यापुरतेच मर्यादित नाहीत:
    • भविष्यातील परीक्षेचे पेपर किंवा उत्तरपत्रिका.
    • असे प्रॉडक्ट, सर्व्हिस किंवा डिव्हाइस ज्यामुळे परीक्षेत गैरव्यवहार करता येतो.
    • असे प्रॉडक्ट किंवा सर्व्हिस ज्यामुळे अनधिकृत पद्धतीने ड्रग चाचण्यांमधून उत्तीर्ण होता येते.
    • युजरच्या वतीने पेपर लिहिण्याची ऑफर देणाऱ्या सर्व्हिस.
असा कंटेन्ट जो व्यावसायिक किंवा आर्थिक लाभासाठी फसव्या ॲक्टिव्हिटींच्या सुविधेसाठी समन्वय साधतो, ऑफर करतो किंवा विनंती करतो, जसे की:
  • मनी म्यूलिंग, यात याचा समावेश आहे:
    • मनी म्यूलिंग ऑफर करतो किंवा त्याची मागणी करतो (यामुळे पीडित व्यक्ती त्यांच्या बँक खात्यांचा वापर करण्याची किंवा त्यांच्या वतीने पैसे ट्रान्सफर करण्याची इतरांना अनुमती देऊन त्याबदल्यात पैशाची किंवा नफ्यातील भाग ऑफर करून अजाणतेपणी पैशाच्या भ्रष्टाचारातील सहभागी होतात).
    • पीडित व्यक्तीच्या बँक खात्याचा वापर करून तृतीय पक्षाला पैसे स्वीकारण्यासाठी आणि ट्रान्सफर करण्यासाठी नोकरीची ऑफर देऊन मनी म्यूलिंग ऑफर करतो किंवा त्याची मागणी करतो.
  • मनी लाँडरिंग, यात याचा समावेश आहे:
    • पैशाच्या भ्रष्टाचारास उत्तेजना देण्यासाठी विनंत्या करतो, आग्रह करतो किंवा ऑफर करतो, जो असा एक प्रयत्न आहे जो वित्तीय व्यवहारांच्या जटील सीक्वेंसद्वारे पैसे कमावण्याचा मूळ स्रोत लपवून बेकायदेशीर मार्गाने मिळवलेल्या पैशाला कायदेशीर असल्याचे दर्शवतो, यात खालीलपैकी कोणत्याही माध्‍यमाचा समावेश आहे:
      • SWIFT (सोसायटी फॉर वर्ल्डवाइड इंटरबॅंक फायनान्शियल टेलिकम्युनिकेशन्स) किंवा तत्सम पद्धतींद्वारे पैसे ट्रान्सफर करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणे,
      • रोख रक्कम प्राप्त करण्यास किंवा ट्रान्सफर करण्यास सपोर्ट करण्‍यासाठी उपलब्ध असलेल्या बॅंक खात्यांच्या प्रकारांबाबत तपशील मिळवण्याचा किंवा ऑफर करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणे.
कम्युनिटी स्टँडर्ड फॉलो करण्याकरिता अंमलबजावणी करण्यासाठी, आम्हाला यासाठी अतिरिक्त माहिती आणि/किंवा संदर्भ आवश्यक आहे:
आम्ही असा कंटेन्ट काढू शकतो ज्यामध्ये:
  • व्यक्तींना चोरून पाहणे किंवा त्यांचे रेकॉर्डिंग करणे सुलभ करण्यासाठी डिझाइन केलेल्या प्रॉडक्ट किंवा सर्व्हिसची ऑफर देतो किंवा त्यांची मागणी करतो, उदा. गुप्त कॅमेरे, मोबाईल फोन ट्रॅकर (अज्ञात फोन नंबर शोधण्याची अनुमती देणाऱ्यांसह) किंवा इतर लपवलेली पाळत ठेवणारी उपकरणे.
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
      • 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
  • Content promoting weight loss products that include a miracle claim with a commercial offer
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
  • 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
  • Promotes the use or depicts the sale of certain cosmetic procedures such as those involving body enhancement:
    • 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, or 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
      • 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
  • Content promoting weight loss products that include a miracle claim with a commercial offer
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
  • 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
  • Promotes the use or depicts the sale of certain cosmetic procedures such as those involving body enhancement:
    • 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 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
  • Content promoting weight loss products that include a miracle claim with a commercial offer
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
  • 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
  • Promotes the use or depicts the sale of certain cosmetic procedures such as those involving body enhancement:
    • 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 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
  • Content promoting weight loss products that include a miracle claim with a commercial offer
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
  • 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 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
  • 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 mentioning the procedure is for sale or
    • Asking the audience to purchase the procedure or
    • Listing the price of the procedure or
    • Giving away the procedure for free
  • 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
  • Promotes the use or depicts the sale of a potentially dangerous certain cosmetic procedures such as those involving body enhancement:
    • 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 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
  • Content promoting weight loss products that include a miracle claim with a commercial offer
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
  • 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 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
  • 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 mentioning the procedure is for sale or
    • Asking the audience to purchase the procedure or
    • Listing the price of the procedure or
    • Giving 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 of the above, and a product unrelated to firearmsof 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 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
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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