Deel Legal Hub
The information provided here is for Deel customers and users who have legal questions about our products, terms, policies, and compliance.
Prohibited Uses and Activities
1. Prohibited User Activities
1.1 The following is an indicative list of prohibited User activities of the Platform:
| - Activities that relate to transactions that are associated with purchases of annuities or lottery contracts, lay-away systems, off-shore banking, or transactions to finance or refinance debts funded by a credit card - Activities that relate to transactions that are associated with the sale of traveler’s checks or money orders - Activities that relate to transactions that are by payment processors to collect payments on behalf of merchants - Activities that relate to transactions that are for the sale of certain items before the seller has control or possession of the item - Activities that relate to transactions that involve certain credit repair, debt settlement services, credit transactions, or insurance activities - Activities that relate to transactions that involve currency exchanges or check-cashing businesses - Activities that relate to transactions that involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption - Activities that relate to transactions that show the personal information of third parties in violation of applicable law - Activities that relate to transactions that support pyramid or Ponzi schemes, matrix programs, other “get rich quick” schemes or certain multi-level marketing programs - Activities violating any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation - Transactions involving ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories - Transactions involving auctions including online auctions and motor vehicles - Transactions involving bearer share companies - Transactions involving certain sexually oriented materials or services such as pornographic solicitation or material including telephone, pictures, books, movies, t-shirts, internet adult sites, etc. - Transactions involving charities - Transactions involving cigarettes |
- Transactions involving consulates, diplomatic missions, economic citizenship, or citizenship by investment programs - Transactions involving crowdfunding, penny stocks, or microcap securities - Transactions involving drug paraphernalia - Transactions involving items that are considered obscene - Transactions involving items that encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others to engage in illegal activity - Transactions involving items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction - Transactions involving narcotics, steroids, cannabis, certain controlled substances, or other products that present a risk to consumer safety - Transactions involving precious metals dealers that purchase metals from pawnbrokers and other secondary sources - Transactions involving scholarship programs, universities, and students for online tuition solutions - Transactions involving shell banks, as defined in Section 1010.605 of Title 31 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations - Transactions involving shipping and general trading companies operating in free trade zones - Transactions involving stolen goods including digital and virtual goods - Transactions involving the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that are discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime - Transactions involving weapons or knives which are regulated under applicable law - Transactions that involve the sales of products or services identified by government agencies to have a high likelihood of being fraudulent |
2. Prohibited Uses of the Deel Platform and Services
2.1 The following is an indicative list of prohibited uses of the Deel Services and Platform:
| - Duplicate, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or decode the Platform or Deel Services (including any underlying idea or algorithm), or attempt to do any of the same - Access or use the Platform or Deel Services in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, disrupt, or impair the Platform or Deel Services or interfere with any other party's access to or use of the Platform or Deel Services or use any device, software, or routine that causes the same - Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt the Platform or Deel Services, Accounts registered to other Users, or the computer systems or networks connected to the Platform or Deel Services - Circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade, or thwart any technological measure or content protections of the Platform or Deel Services |
- Use any robot, spider, crawler, or other automatic device, process, software, or other queries that intercepts, “mines,” scrapes, or otherwise accesses the Platform or Deel Services to monitor, extract, copy, or collect information or data from or through the Platform or Deel Services, or engage in any manual process to do the same - Introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other materials that are malicious or technologically harmful - Use the Platform or Deel Services for illegal, harassing, unethical, or disruptive purposes - Violate any applicable law or regulation in connection with your access to or use of the Platform or Deel Services - Use or access another User’s account or password without permission - Access or use the Services in any way not expressly permitted by the Terms. |
