Acceptable Use Policy

This policy sets out what you can and can't publish with Designhouse. It applies to every site you build here, whether it sits on a Designhouse address or your own domain, and it forms part of the Terms of Service.

Almost everything is allowed. The list below is short on purpose: it covers sites built to deceive or harm people, not businesses in industries some might find sensitive. A licensed dispensary, a firearms retailer, a bar, a crypto company, a debt-advice service and a political campaign are all welcome here.

Every site published on Designhouse shares infrastructure with every other one, so a site built to defraud people puts other customers' businesses at risk as well as its visitors. These are the things we don't host:

• Financial fraud

  Sites built to take money by deception: advance-fee schemes that ask for a payment to release funds, fake investment or mining returns, bogus fund-recovery services, and financial services offered without the licence they require.

  Real financial businesses, crypto companies, and mining operations are welcome. The line is claiming returns you cannot deliver or collecting money for something that does not exist.

• Impersonation

  Presenting yourself as a company, product, person, bank, or public body you are not — including using their name, branding, or a lookalike domain to suggest an association you do not have.

  You can name other companies honestly: comparisons, integrations, stockist listings, and 'we work with' pages are all fine.

• Phishing and credential harvesting

  Collecting passwords, recovery phrases, private keys, card numbers, bank details, or identity documents under false pretences — including forms that imitate another company's login or verification flow.

  Ordinary contact, booking, and enquiry forms are fine. So is asking for details a customer would expect to give your business directly.

• Malware and abuse infrastructure

  Distributing malicious software, or building pages designed to install it, exploit a visitor's browser, or act as infrastructure for an attack.

  Security research, tooling, and educational content about how attacks work are fine — publishing a working attack against other people's machines is not.

• Counterfeit goods

  Selling or advertising fakes, replicas, or knock-offs presented as genuine branded products.

  Resale, vintage, refurbished, and unbranded goods are fine, as is anything described honestly as inspired-by rather than genuine.

• Stolen data or accounts

  Trading in stolen credentials, hacked accounts, leaked personal data, or payment details.

• Child sexual abuse material

  Any sexual content involving a minor. Accounts are removed immediately and we report to the authorities.

• Hate and harassment

  Attacking people for who they are, targeting an individual for abuse, or inciting violence against anyone.

  Strong opinions, criticism, and political disagreement are fine. Targeting a person or a group for harm is not.

• Adult content

  Pornography and sexually explicit material, whether or not it is legal where you are.

  Bars, nightlife, lingerie, dating, health, and sex-education businesses are fine. This rule is about explicit material, not the industry you are in.

Our tools decline to build sites that clearly fall into the categories above, and we review published sites against this policy. Reviews look at the content of the site itself — the words on the page, what your forms ask visitors for, and where the site links to.

We take the site offline. Depending on what we find, we may also suspend the account and any other sites on it. Serious cases are reported to the relevant authorities.

Your project and its content stay in your dashboard. We don't delete your work when we take a site offline.

Email support@designhouse.com and a person will look at it.

We'll update this policy as the product changes. The date at the top of this page tells you which version is current.