Marketplace rules
Prohibited Items Policy
Last updated: September 26, 2026
This policy applies to listings, images, profiles, messages, links, and transactions arranged through Vinito. It is a platform policy as well as a reminder that users must comply with all applicable federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal laws.
Always prohibited
Illegal, stolen, or infringing property
- Stolen property, property obtained by fraud, or goods the seller has no authority to sell.
- Counterfeit, pirated, replica, or trademark-infringing goods; circumvention devices; and unauthorized copies or access keys.
- Items whose possession, import, export, advertising, or sale is unlawful.
Weapons and dangerous devices
- Firearms, ammunition, firearm parts or magazines, explosives, detonators, and instructions or components primarily intended to make them.
- Prohibited or restricted weapons, conducted-energy weapons, switchblades, brass knuckles, and items marketed for harming people.
- Military ordnance, live ammunition, and unsafe or unverified deactivated weapons.
Drugs, intoxicants, and regulated substances
- Illegal drugs, controlled substances, drug paraphernalia, and products represented to produce an unlawful high.
- Cannabis, tobacco, nicotine, vaping products, alcohol, and related delivery services.
- Prescription drugs, unauthorized health products, controlled medications, human tissue or fluids, and misleading disease-treatment claims.
Unsafe, recalled, or hazardous products
- Recalled goods and products banned from sale, advertising, or importation in Canada.
- Products that present a danger to human health or safety, lack required labels or certification, or have had a safety feature disabled.
- Explosives, radioactive material, asbestos, toxic or infectious material, and hazardous chemicals that cannot lawfully be transferred through a consumer marketplace.
Animals and protected resources
- Live animals or pets. Vinito’s pet category is not available at launch.
- Endangered or protected wildlife, ivory, illegal animal parts, and products obtained through poaching or unlawful harvest.
- Animal-fighting equipment or services and content depicting animal cruelty.
Personal data, credentials, and accounts
- Government identification, financial records, health records, contact lists, login credentials, verification codes, and unlawfully obtained personal information.
- Accounts, licences, permits, benefits, loyalty points, tickets, or subscriptions that are non-transferable or offered contrary to the issuer’s rules or law.
- Tools or services for phishing, malware, surveillance without consent, identity theft, or unauthorized system access.
Sexual content and exploitation
- Sexual services, escort services, pornography, explicit sexual content, and intimate images shared without consent.
- Any sexualized content involving or appearing to involve a minor.
- Offers involving trafficking, coercion, exploitation, or abuse.
Fraudulent and harmful offers
- Advance-fee schemes, pyramid or gifting schemes, fake cheques or transfers, money laundering, mule recruitment, and deceptive investment or lending offers.
- Gambling, lotteries, raffle entries, financial instruments, cryptocurrency, and services primarily intended to conceal or transfer criminal proceeds.
- Listings that impersonate others, misrepresent location or availability, use stolen photos, or redirect users to credential-harvesting or payment sites.
Rules for active categories
Buy & Sell
Do not list recalled or unsafe products, counterfeit goods, used cosmetics that pose a hygiene risk, opened food or health products that cannot lawfully be resold, recalled child products, or anything you cannot legally own and transfer. Sellers must disclose known defects and whether an item is new, used, or refurbished.
Services
Services must be lawful and accurately described. Prohibited services include unlicensed regulated work where a licence is required, academic cheating, document forgery, hacking, spam, harassment, evading law enforcement, deceptive reviews, sexual services, and any service that facilitates a prohibited item or unlawful act.
Jobs
Job listings may not charge unlawful recruitment fees, demand payment for access to a job, disguise a business opportunity as employment, recruit money mules, omit material compensation terms, or unlawfully discriminate. Employers and recruiters must have authority to hire and comply with employment, immigration, wage, occupational-safety, and human-rights law.
Vehicles
Do not list stolen vehicles, vehicles with altered or removed vehicle identification numbers, vehicles subject to an undisclosed lien, odometer fraud, counterfeit parts, or vehicles you lack authority to sell. Dealers must identify themselves and follow dealer-licensing and disclosure requirements. VIN reports, inspections, and title checks must come from sources independently chosen by the buyer.
Long-term rentals
A listing must be for a genuine long-term rental the poster has authority to offer. Prohibited listings include copied or fictitious properties, unlawful deposits or fees, discriminatory restrictions, hidden mandatory costs, unsafe or unlawfully occupied premises, and requests for sensitive identity or financial documents before a legitimate application stage. Vacation and short-term rental listings are not available at launch.
Product-safety checks
Before listing a consumer product, check the Government of Canada’s Recalls and Safety Alerts database and consumer product safety information. A listing is not permitted merely because a similar item appears elsewhere online.
Enforcement
Vinito may reject or remove content, limit visibility, request proof of ownership or compliance, preserve records, warn users, suspend or terminate accounts, and notify regulators or law enforcement where permitted or required. Attempts to disguise a prohibited offer, complete it through messages, or move it to another platform are also violations.
Report a concern
Use the report control on the listing and choose “Prohibited item,” or email support@vinito.ca with the listing link and a brief explanation. If someone is in immediate danger, contact emergency services. For transaction precautions, read the Scam and Safe-Meeting Guide.