Acceptable use

• •Phishing: pretending to be a person, business or service to obtain logins, payment details or personal information
• •Malware: linking to anything that installs or delivers harmful software
• •Fraud: fake shops, fake charities, advance-fee scams, investment scams
• •Impersonation: presenting yourself as someone you aren't, including as this service
• •Spam: unsolicited bulk messaging, in any medium
• •Deceptive redirection: sending people somewhere materially different from what the link promised
• •Content that is illegal where you are, where we operate, or where your audience is
• •Material that sexually exploits children, in any form or context
• •Harassment, threats, or content intended to incite violence against people
• •Getting around a block by shortening a link to another short link or redirect

Affiliate links are fine. Not disclosing them is a matter between you and your audience, and increasingly between you and your regulator.

Adult content that is legal and consensual is not prohibited, but a link that gives no indication of where it leads is a poor way to share it. The link preview page exists partly for this.

Making links in bulk isn't supported: creation is rate limited per connection, and thousands of links pointing at hundreds of domains looks exactly like the thing we watch for.

For phishing, malware and fraud we disable the link immediately, and usually block the destination domain so every link to it stops working. The harm is ongoing while anyone deliberates, and the person clicking has no idea a review is in progress.

A disabled link shows a notice instead of redirecting. If you think a decision was wrong, use the contact form. We would rather hear it than have you assume there was no route back.

Use the report form. No account needed, and no name required. If you have already entered a password or card details on a page you reached through a link, changing that password and contacting your bank matters far more urgently than the report does.

For anything that isn't abuse, support@linkmint.org or the contact form.