no longer my pals
Dear James Goad,
The PayPal User Agreement states that PayPal, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to close an account for any violation of the User Agreement, including the Acceptable Use Policy. Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments or donations for obscene or sexually oriented goods or services. The complete Acceptable Use Policy addressing Mature Audiences can be found at the following URL:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/use/index_frame-outside&ed=mature
We are hereby notifying you that, after a recent review of your website that lists PayPal, it has been determined that you are in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy. Therefore, your account has been closed.
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Mature Audiences Policy
You may not use PayPal in the purchase or sale of, or receipt of donations for, any obscene or sexually oriented goods or services.
In determining what goods or services are prohibited under the Mature Audiences Policy, PayPal will consider some or all of the following factors:
• Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct.
• Representations or descriptions of intercourse, masturbation, excretory functions, or lewd exhibition of the genitals.
• Dominant theme of the material or website.
• Literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
• Safety and protection of its customers, both buyers and sellers.
• Medical or educational usage of the product or service.
Any sexually oriented goods or services involving minors, or made to appear to involve minors, will automatically be treated as violations of the Mature Audiences Policy.
PayPal will not include sexual preferences or viewpoints as a factor in determining what goods or services are prohibited under the Mature Audiences Policy.
