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Last updated: October 3, 2026

At Automate Horizon, we believe in empowering creators while ensuring the safety, legality, and stability of their digital businesses. This policy outlines how we manage the infrastructure of the websites we host, our security protocols, and the compliance standards required for operating in the adult industry.

1. Our Core Philosophy: Your Ownership, Our Protection

We recognise that your website is your digital business. We fully respect your creative control and your right to manage the content, images, wording, and look and feel of your online presence.

Operating in the adult sector brings specific legal and financial responsibilities that standard businesses do not face. Our role is not to censor your vision. It is to act as your compliance guardrails. We ensure that your creative choices do not accidentally cross legal or financial lines that could result in site shutdowns, payment freezes, or legal exposure.

2. How We Work: The Building Manager Model

The simplest way to understand our role is to think of our hosting environment as a secure apartment building.

  • You are the tenant. You decide the decor, the furniture, and how your space looks. You have full autonomy over your content and brand.
  • We are the building managers. We maintain the security infrastructure: the foundation, the electrical wiring, and the locks. But we also enforce building codes. Just as a building manager must ensure a tenant is not violating codes that could endanger the whole building, we must ensure your site stays within the legal framework that governs hosting and payments in this industry.

This is not about control. It is about protection. An unmaintained site on our network is a risk to every other site on our infrastructure.

3. Content Classification & Age Verification

To protect our clients from federal and state enforcement (USA, UK, EU), we distinguish between two categories of content:

Standard & Artistic Content: Creators have broad creative freedom here. However, the boundary between artistic and suggestive content is often a grey area. We advise caution and encourage creators to consider their audience jurisdiction before publishing borderline material.

Explicit & Restricted Content: If your site features sexually explicit content, Age Verification (AV) software is a legal requirement in a growing number of jurisdictions, including US states (Florida, Texas, Utah, and others), the UK Online Safety Act, and EU regulations. Sites on the Automate Horizon network displaying explicit content without a compliant AV gate are in breach of our Terms of Service and will be suspended. See our ToS ยง6 for full obligations.

4. Security Infrastructure We Maintain

We run specific background systems to keep every site on our network safe, visible, and compliant. These cannot be disabled by individual site owners.

Server-level protection: Bots continuously scan the internet for outdated or misconfigured sites to target with brute-force logins and malware injection. Our server answers on three ports only and everything else is closed at the firewall. Automated intrusion prevention bans sources that repeatedly fail authentication, administrative access is by key only, and a WordPress-specific malware detection agent runs on the server. Operating-system security patches install automatically. These controls sit below the level of any individual site, so no site owner can weaken them for the others.

Search and social metadata: Horizon Core, our own platform layer, manages your site’s structured metadata, the “digital ID” that search engines and social platforms read. Because social accounts in the adult industry are frequently banned or suspended, you can update your own social handles in Horizon Studio if you are forced to rebrand, and your site’s metadata follows.

Abuse response: Sources that attack the server are banned automatically. A site under sustained attack may be temporarily taken offline to protect the rest of the network and restored once the threat has passed.

5. Visitor Privacy & Consent

Visitor privacy is built into every creator site we run. Analytics cookies are only set with a visitor’s consent, and for visitors in the UK, the EU and Switzerland, our sites do not contact analytics providers at all until the visitor agrees. Adult businesses are held to a higher standard, so we hold ourselves to one.

A consent layer built into every site, not added on top

  • Built into our platform and maintained by us on every creator site, not a third-party widget each site installs.
  • Visitors in the UK, the EU and Switzerland are asked before any non-essential cookie is set, and their sites do not contact analytics providers at all until they agree.
  • Visitors in the US can opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of their data, and browsers that send a Global Privacy Control signal are honoured automatically.
  • “Reject” is as easy as “Accept”, and visitors can change their mind at any time from the Cookie Policy page linked on every page of the site.
  • Every site’s Cookie Policy describes what the site does, and we update it when the platform changes.

Automate Horizon does not provide legal advice. Clients should consult qualified legal professionals for legal or regulatory guidance.

6. Payment Gateway: CCBill Only

All payment processing on Automate Horizon’s network is handled exclusively through CCBill, LLC. We do not support Stripe, PayPal, or Square for adult-related transactions.

Why: Mainstream payment providers operate aggressive acceptable-use policies that frequently result in account freezes and closures for adult creators, even for entirely legal transactions. We have seen creators lose weeks of revenue to unannounced PayPal and Stripe holds. CCBill is purpose-built for the adult industry.

How this works for you: Automate Horizon is a CCBill Partner. We manage the technical integration so your subscription renewals are automated and your billing runs on a processor built for the adult industry.

7. Our Hosting Infrastructure

All sites on the Automate Horizon network run on a managed WordPress platform on a server we operate ourselves. This is not a public shared hosting pool.

Managed IP Reputation: Creator content sites and billing infrastructure run on separate IPs, so a reputation issue on one can never drag down the other. Your content site runs on Automate Horizon’s own dedicated hosting, not a public shared pool packed with unrelated “neighbours” whose behaviour you cannot control. Email is sent through dedicated, authenticated sending domains, so your deliverability never rides on the web host’s IP.

Solid-state storage: Every site runs on solid-state storage.

One managed estate: Sites share the same server and the same patched platform code, which is what lets us secure and update every site at once. Each site has its own database tables and its own media directory, and individual site owners cannot install code or edit platform files, so one site’s mistake does not become everyone’s problem.

Automated Maintenance: We perform WordPress core updates, PHP version upgrades, plugin security patches, and theme updates without requiring action from you. These are non-negotiable. An outdated site on our network is a security risk to every other site.

8. Theme & Platform Integrity

The Automate Horizon theme is purpose-built to function as a controller layer for our proprietary platform. It is directly and specifically configured to interface with our systems. You may not:

  • Attempt to modify, copy, or extract the theme’s source code.
  • Disable, bypass, or circumvent any Automate Horizon security plugin, AV gate, or platform monitoring tool.
  • Install plugins or code that conflict with our security infrastructure.

Violation of any of these restrictions is grounds for immediate account suspension under our Terms of Service.

9. Questions & Security Reports

If you believe you have identified a security vulnerability on our platform, or if you have questions about our compliance obligations, please contact us directly rather than disclosing publicly.