Acceptable Use Policy
This policy sets out what you may not do with Dark Orb and what happens if you break these rules. It applies to everyone who uses the service: when you build and publish a website, when you direct the service through intent, and when you host content with us.
Prohibited content
You may not use Dark Orb to create, publish, host, or distribute content that:
- is unlawful under the law of England and Wales, or unlawful where it is published or directed,
- infringes anyone's intellectual property, including copyright, trademarks, or design rights,
- is defamatory, harassing, or threatening, or that incites violence or hatred against people on the basis of a protected characteristic,
- is deceptive or fraudulent, including phishing, impersonation, fake storefronts, and scams,
- distributes malware, or attempts to deliver malicious code to visitors,
- is sexually explicit, or that sexualises or endangers children in any way,
- promotes self-harm, or facilitates serious harm to others,
- discloses another person's private information without a lawful basis.
Prohibited business types and uses
You may not use Dark Orb to operate or promote any business that is illegal to operate in England and Wales; the sale of weapons, controlled drugs, or other restricted goods without lawful authorisation; gambling services without the licences they require; high-risk financial schemes presented deceptively, including pyramid and Ponzi schemes; or any service whose primary purpose is to enable the prohibited content above. If your vertical needs regulated disclosures or licences (for example financial, legal, or healthcare services), meeting those obligations on your published site is your responsibility as the operator of the business.
Special category and criminal-record data
UK data protection law treats some information as special category data: health, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, trade union membership, sex life or sexual orientation, genetic data, and biometric data used to identify someone. Information about criminal offences and convictions is treated with similar strictness. Collecting any of this from the people who contact you, for example through a form field on a site you build with us, needs an explicit lawful basis under UK GDPR, which in practice means explicit consent backed by a Data Protection Impact Assessment and a way for people to withdraw it.
You may not use Dark Orb to collect special category data or criminal-record data from your visitors unless you hold that lawful basis and the consent infrastructure it requires. When you ask the service to add a form field that would collect this data, it will tell you what the law requires and leave the field off by default. If you have the proper basis, you can say so and proceed, and we record that you confirmed it. Confirming that you hold a basis you do not have, or relabelling a neutral field to gather this data after the fact, is a breach of this policy. As the operator of your business you are the controller of the data your visitors submit, and meeting these obligations is your responsibility.
Platform integrity
You may not attempt to break, overload, disrupt, or degrade the service or its infrastructure (including denial-of-service attempts); probe or test its security without our written permission, or circumvent any authentication measure; access or try to access another user's account, data, or sites; reverse-engineer the service except as the law allows; attempt to extract our system prompts, exfiltrate other users' data through the AI, or otherwise make the AI behave outside its intended use; use the service to build or train a competing product, or scrape it at scale; or resell or sublicense access without our agreement.
Naming and subdomains
When custom subdomains are available, you may not register a subdomain or name in bad faith. This includes squatting on names you have no legitimate interest in, impersonating Dark Orb or a third party, registering reserved or system names, and hoarding subdomains to deny or resell them. We may reclaim a subdomain registered in breach of this rule.
Your responsibility for your content
You are responsible for everything you publish through Dark Orb, including its accuracy, its legality, and the rights to use it. The service uses AI to compose output automatically, and AI output can be wrong: you must review what you publish before relying on it. Nothing the service produces is legal, financial, or professional advice.
How we enforce this policy
We enforce this policy on objective triggers, not on taste: a credible report or our own discovery of prohibited content or use, a legal demand or court order, a rights-holder complaint, or evidence of a platform-integrity breach. Where we act, our response is proportionate to the breach. Depending on severity we may ask you to remove or correct content, remove or restrict access to specific content, suspend the affected site or your account, or close your account.
For a serious or unlawful breach (for example child sexual abuse material, an active phishing campaign, or malware distribution) we may act immediately and without prior notice, and we will report unlawful content to the relevant authorities where the law requires it. For less serious breaches we will give notice and a chance to put things right where it is reasonable to do so. We apply these rules consistently.
Reporting abuse
If you find content on a Dark Orb-hosted site that breaks this policy, report it to hello@danieltodd.uk with the address of the site and a short description. We review reports and act where the policy is broken.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the service and its abuse surface grow. See also our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
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