We prohibit projects that are illegal, heavily regulated, or potentially dangerous for backers, as well as rewards that the creator did not make. Any item claiming to detect, cure, treat, or stop an illness or condition (whether via a device, app, book, nutritional supplement, or other means).

• Contests, coupons, gambling, and raffles.
• Energy food and drinks.
• Offensive material (e.g., hate speech, encouraging violence against others, etc).
• Offering a genetically modified organism as a reward.
• Live animals. Projects cannot include live animals as a reward.
• Offering alcohol as a reward.

Offering financial, money-processing, or credit services; financial intermediaries or cash-equivalent instruments; travel services (e.g., vacation packages); phone services (e.g., prepaid phone services, 900 numbers); and business marketing services.

• Political fundraising.
• Pornographic material.
• Projects that promote discrimination, bigotry, or intolerance towards marginalized groups
• Drugs, nicotine, tobacco, vaporizers and related paraphernalia.
• Weapons, replicas of weapons, and weapon accessories.