Our Advertising Policies provide guidance on what types of ad content are allowed. When advertisers place an order, each ad is reviewed against these policies. If you have question please contact us.

Prohibited Content

1. Area Restrictions
If your business is located outside of the greater Tokyo area your request will be rejected.
2. Illegal Products or Services
Ads must not constitute, facilitate, or promote illegal products, services or activities. Ads targeted to minors must not promote products, services, or content that are inappropriate, illegal, or unsafe, or that exploit, mislead, or exert undue pressure on the age groups targeted.
3. Discriminatory Practices
Ads must not discriminate or encourage discrimination against people based on personal attributes such as race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family status, disability, medical or genetic condition.
4. Tobacco Products
Ads must not promote the sale or use of tobacco products and related paraphernalia.
5. Drugs & Drug-Related Products
Ads must not promote the sale or use of illegal, prescription, or recreational drugs.
6. Unsafe Supplements
Ads must not promote the sale or use of unsafe supplements, as determined by Facebook in its sole discretion.
7. Weapons, Ammunition, or Explosives
Ads must not promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition, or explosives. This includes ads for weapon modification accessories.
8. Adult Products or Services
Ads must not promote the sale or use of adult products or services, except for ads for family planning and contraception. Ads for contraceptives must focus on the contraceptive features of the product, and not on sexual pleasure or sexual enhancement, and must be targeted to people 18 years or older.
9. Adult Content
Ads must not contain adult content. This includes nudity, depictions of people in explicit or suggestive positions, or activities that are overly suggestive or sexually provocative.
10. Third-Party Infringement
Ads must not contain content that infringes upon or violates the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other personal or proprietary rights.
11. Sensational Content
Ads must not contain shocking, sensational, disrespectful or excessively violent content.
12. Personal Attributes
Ads must not contain content that asserts or implies personal attributes. This includes direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s race, ethnic origin, religion, beliefs, age, sexual orientation or practices, gender identity, disability, medical condition (including physical or mental health), financial status, membership in a trade union, criminal record, or name.
13. Misleading or False Content
Ads, landing pages, and business practices must not contain deceptive, false, or misleading content, including deceptive claims, offers, or methods.
14. Controversial Content
Ads must not contain content that exploits controversial political or social issues for commercial purposes.
15. Non-Functional Landing Page
Ads must not direct people to non-functional landing pages. This includes landing page content that interferes with a person’s ability to navigate away from the page.
16. Surveillance Equipment
Ads may not promote the sale of spy cams, mobile phone trackers or other hidden surveillance equipment.
17. Grammar & Profanity
Ads must not contain profanity or bad grammar and punctuation. Symbols, numbers and letters must be used properly without the intention of circumventing our ad review process or other enforcement systems.
18. Nonexistent Functionality
Ads must not contain images that portray nonexistent functionality. This includes imagery that replicates play buttons, notifications, or checkboxes, as well as ads containing features that do not work, such as multiple choice options in the ad creative itself.
19. Personal Health
Ads must not contain “before-and-after” images or images that contain unexpected or unlikely results. Ad content must not imply or attempt to generate negative self-perception in order to promote diet, weight loss, or other health related products.
20. Payday Loans, Paycheck Advances, and Bail Bonds
Ads may not promote payday loans, paycheck advances, bail bonds, or any short-term loans intended to cover someone’s expenses until their next payday. Short term loan refers to a loan of 90 days or less.
21. Multilevel Marketing
Ads promoting income opportunities must fully describe the associated product or business model, and must not promote business models offering quick compensation for little investment, including multilevel marketing opportunities.
22. Penny Auctions
Ads may not promote penny auctions, bidding fee auctions, or other similar business models.
23. Counterfeit Documents
Ads may not promote fake documents, such as counterfeit degrees, passports or immigration papers.
24. Low Quality or Disruptive Content
Ads must not contain content leading to external landing pages that provide an unexpected or disruptive experience.
25. Spyware or Malware
Ads must not contain spyware, malware, or any software that results in an unexpected or deceptive experience. This includes links to sites containing these products.
26. Automatic Animation
Your website must not contain audio or flash animation that plays automatically without a person’s interaction.
27. Unauthorized Streaming Devices
Ads must not promote products or items that facilitate or encourage unauthorized access to digital media.
28. Circumventing Systems
Ads must not use tactics intended to circumvent our ad review process or other enforcement systems. This includes techniques that attempt to disguise the ad’s content or destination page.
29. Prohibited Financial Products and Services
Ads must not promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.
30. Sale of Body Parts
Ads must not promote the sale of human body parts or fluids.