Restricted Merchant Categories 🚨

Fidel is mandated and regulated on the type of merchants or industries that are on-boarded by our Publishers and participate in a Fidel program. Below you will find a list of restricted categories, for any further information please speak to your Fidel contact or our support team at [e-mail] to discuss.

Alcohol	Direct Marketing - subscription merchants
Tobacco	Infomercial Merchants
Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals (excluding general merchandise transactions of a drug store that maintains separate POS systems for general merchandise and pharmacy)	Gambling
Financial Services	Betting, including Lottery Tickets, Casino Gaming Chips, Off-Track Betting, and Wagers at Race Tracks
Insurance Products	Online/Internet Gambling
Legal Services	Drugs, Drug Proprietaries, Druggist Sundries
Political Organisations	Internet Pharmacies
Court costs/alimony/support	Internet Pharmacy referral sites
Fines, bail and bond payments	Buyers clubs/membership clubs
Firearms	Credit counselling or credit repair services
Funeral Services	Credit protection/identity theft protection
Dating or escort services	Multi-level marketing businesses
Massage Parlours	Rebate-based businesses
Religious Organisations	Up-selling merchants
Direct Marketing - Travel - Related Arrangement Services	Merchants that have sale of counterfeit or trademark infringing products or services
Direct Marketing - Outbound Telemarketing Merchants, Outbound telemarketers	Merchants that have a sale of adult or mature content products and services
Direct Marketing - Inbound Telemarketing Merchants	Other regulated products or merchants as determined by Schemes from time to time