Prohibited Services

At Upkazi, we are committed to offer top-quality services within a professional, decent, and respectful environment. The safety of our users, their well-being, and mental health are our utmost priority. That’s why we created these policies; to ensure that buyers and sellers alike feel free to express their creativity and vision without causing discomfort or harming others. 

Please find a list of guidelines below.

Sale of illegal or regulated goods

Upkazi prohibits services that aim directly to sell, link to, or facilitate access to any of the regulated goods and illegal services listed below.

• Alcohol
• Nicotine and tobacco products (including those intended for consumption by heating or evaporation), smoking accessories (including e-cigarettes, electronic nicotine delivery systems, devices for heating tobacco or nicotine-containing liquids, vapes and consumables for vapes, pipes, hookahs, cigarette paper) and any smoking mixture
• Controlled narcotics and psychotropic substances, their derivatives, and any products associated with them
• Pharmaceuticals
• Organs
• Human or Wildlife trafficking
• Sex, escort or adult services
• Explosives, weapons (including hunting, pneumatic, civilian, airsoft, paintball, souvenir and decorative weapons), any accessories for those weapons, or knives

Nudity and sexual content

Upkazi prohibits services that offer nudity, and sexual content explicitly meant to be sexually gratifying. Please read our examples for other types of content that violate this policy.

• Masturbation in all its forms
• Pornography
• Sexual acts
• Graphic or humiliating fetish content
• Use of sex toys for sexual gratification
• Incest
• Non-consensual acts or unwanted sexualization
• Depiction of genitals and other body parts for the purpose of sexual gratification
• Any sexual act involving minors

Suicide and self-injury

Upkazi prohibits services and content that promote suicide, self-harm, or is intended to disturb, or upset our users. Please read our examples for other types of content that violate this policy.

• Promoting or exalting suicide
• Providing instructions on how to self-harm or die by suicide
• Posting images and videos of self-harm

Inappropriate language and hate speech

Upkazi prohibits services and language that violate moral and ethical standards. Hate speech is not allowed. Please read our examples for more information on content that violate this policy.

• Use of abusive or offensive language
• Use of excessive profanity
• Swearing and insulting

Moreover, all content containing language that promotes violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on the following attributes is strictly forbidden:

• Age
• Caste
• Disability
• Ethnicity
• Gender and gender identity and expression. Sexual orientation
• Nationality
• Race
• Religion

Harmful or dangerous content

Upkazi prohibits services and content that encourages dangerous or illegal activities that may have physical or deadly consequences. Please read our examples for more information on content that violate this policy.

• Extremely dangerous challenges
• Violent events or instructions to kill or harm
• Drug use
• Instructions to commit crimes
• Instructions on hacking techniques
• Instructions on the bypassing of payment for digital services

Violent and graphic content

Upkazi prohibits services and content intended to shock or disgust users. All services that offer to commit acts of violence are not allowed. Please read our examples for more information on content that violate this policy.

• Inciting others to commit violent acts
• Targeting specific individuals or groups with violence
• Provide footage, audio or imagery involving:

– Accidents

– Terrorist attacks

– Physical attacks

– Sexual assaults

– Torture

– Corpses

– Crimes, violent or not

Cyberbullying and harassment

Upkazi prohibits services and content intended to threaten or target individuals with malice. All services that are meant to offend individuals based on their attributes or physical traits are not allowed. Please read our examples for more information on content that violate this policy.

• Services that target, insult and abuse individuals
• Create content that offends an individual based on their intrinsic attributes
• Use extreme insults to dehumanize an individual
• Offer content depicting an individual being injured, murdered, or engaged in a sexual act without their consent
• Post an individual’s nonpublic personal information
• Offer prank calls services
• Create video games promoting violence or hatred

Financial services

Upkazi prohibits services that aim directly to sell, link to, or facilitate access to any of the regulated services listed below.

• Stock trading, securities operations, cryptocurrencies and/or foreign exchange markets
• Binary options, forex-related operations (including equipment, consulting and training)
• Securities and cryptocurrencies (including their sales and/or any related consulting or training services)
• Financial and/or commodity pyramids, suspicious means of generating income or goods, as well as any and all related training
• Bank account passwords, stolen credit cards, or other financial information
• Gambling, sports betting, lotteries, risk-based games including any equipment related to their implementation

Medical and health-related services

Upkazi prohibits services and content or illegal activities that may have physical or deadly consequences. Such services should be performed by trained personnel only. Please read our examples for more information on content that violate this policy.

• Sale of pharmaceuticals with or without a prescription
• Psychotherapeutic and medical care, including folk remedies
• Treatment, interpretation of analyses and/or the preparation of prescriptions
• Prescription of drugs and/or dietary supplements
• Medical consultations
• Design and/or sale of nutritional or workout plans for medical purposes
• Sale, advertising and/or description of the use of medicines and dietary supplements, raw medical materials and/or devices for treatment
• Psychological consultations

Academic services

Upkazi prohibits services that aim directly to sell or facilitate access to any of the regulated goods and services listed below.

• Compilation of academic material such as term papers, abstracts, dissertations, theses, and any other works provided for by the state system of scientific certification
• Test-taking for third parties

Deceptive practices and scam services

Upkazi prohibits services and content that encourages illegal activities that take advantage of others. Please read our examples for more information on content that violate this policy.

• Fraud, spam including incentivisation, video, and comments spam
• Unauthorized advertising
• Unfair competition
• Placement, posting and/or deletion of paid reviews and rated comments
• Social media indicators, such as likes, subscribers, views, votes in polls and others, obtained via black hat techniques and any means that can harm a buyer’s community and/or account. This includes the sale and development of software for these purposes. Organic account promotion is an exception to this rule

Intellectual property and copyright infringement services

Upkazi prohibits services and content that encourages illegal activities that take advantage of others or may otherwise harm them. Please read our examples for more information on content that violate this policy.

• Services that infringe upon the intellectual property rights and/or copyrights of others
• Illegal use of trademarks
• Services that violate the terms of use and distribution of content. For example, data from such services as Behance, Viber, Elementor, Yellow Images
• Services designated for the collection and transmission of information that is prohibited from distribution, including personal data
• Creation and distribution of encryption devices, programs and/or any technical means intended for the secret or unlawful attainment of information, as well as related documents
• Posting materials that threaten or discredit other users

Non-digital services, services of no value

Upkazi prohibits services that cannot be provided online. This includes all and any type of service for which the final product cannot be transmitted electronically through communication channels. It is also prohibited to offer services that bring no value to buyers. Please read our examples for more information on content that violate this policy.

• Astrology and magic, including witchcraft, numerology
• Fortune-telling, any types of rituals, divination services and/or predictions
• Search or advertisement of work in this sector
• Services providing access to other free services
• Sale of free and open-source software, coupons and/or promotional codes
• Debt collection

Keep in mind

These are just some examples, Upkazi may at its sole discretion remove content for violations not included in the current list. If your content violates this policy, we’ll immediately remove such content and inform you of our decision. This is intended to be a first warning; if you perpetrate this kind of behavior, we reserve the right to suspend or cancel your account.

Report violation of Terms of Service or Guidelines

At Upkazi, we constantly monitor the services offered, and our Team Members are on the lookout for any suspicious activity.

However, given the high amount of new Upkaz is offered on a daily basis, we might miss something. That’s why we rely on all our users to report or flag content and services that they find inappropriate.

It is Upkazi’s responsibility to review the service being reported and take all the necessary measures to remove it if it violates Upkazi’s Terms of Service or Guidelines.

You can always Contact Us for questions or to report inappropriate behavior.