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What is the difference between Low Risk and High Risk accounts?

High Risk Applications/Accounts


High Risk Applications and Accounts include the following:

Adult Related Digital Products

  • Adult entertainment such as pornographic, provocative or sexually explicit image galleries
  • Sites which have sexually explicit personal advertisements or message boards
  • Sites which depict sex acts or sexually aroused people in graphic detail
  • Sites that primarily contain sex stories
  • Sites which have sexually explicit images or text in advertising
  • Sites whose Meta tags contain sexually explicit text, or which imply that the site contains Adult content (such as "naked pictures", "sexy nude photos", or "hot young girls")
  • Sites which primarily serve to drive traffic to sites with Adult content, such as links lists or non-sexually explicit "teasers" for Adult sites
  • Sites which contain a mixture of adult content (as defined above) and non-adult content
  • Sites that may infer sexual content or provide links to adult content elsewhere

Continuity Tangible Products

  • Any tangible product that is sold online, typically as a loss leader, and shipped to a customer followed by regular interval charges and shipments of additional product until the customer cancels future shipments of said product.

Low Risk


Non-adult* Digital Products

Tangible Goods

  • Tangible goods, including adult related tangibles, with the exception of continuity tangible products** are considered low risk.

See high risk account type definition for a description of adult related products and services.

See high risk account type definition for a description of continuity tangible products.