ABUSE POLICY


We give all abuse reports concerning Urlinko seriously and are committed to investigating all violations submitted to us. If you come across content on Urlinko that you think violates our Terms and Conditions, please report a violation. After you submit a report, we will investigate it and take the appropriate action. We will get back to you only if we need additional details or have more information to share. We may close your report without a reply if we believe that the reported instance does not amount to a violation.

Report Abuse by writing to us at info@urlinko.com


What types of Abuse can you report?

We have sorted various kinds of abuse into the following categories:

Spam, Malware, and Phishing

Users are prohibited from using Urlinko Services for promoting Hatred, Violence, or Illegal/Offensive Activities– Transmission or publishing any content that:

is unlawful, illegal, hateful, promotes discrimination or hatred based on gender, disability, age, race, religious preferences, nationality, ethnicity, sexual preferences, and

defames, abuses harass, stalks threatens, or otherwise violates privacy and other legal rights of others, are explicitly considered as prohibited activities by Urlinko.

Sexually Explicit Material

Sexually explicit materials are those materials that contain adult or mature content. We do not authorize users to publish or transmit sexually explicit material using Urlinko Services.

Personal and Confidential Information

We do not allow the use of Urlinko services to publish personal and confidential information of persons that is not publicly accessible without their explicit consent. Examples of personal and confidential information are full name, phone number, address, social security number, credit card number, government-issued identification card details, and bank information.

Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement occurs when someone other than the copyright holder copies the “expression” of a work. If you discover that there has been copyright infringement by a Urlinko user involving your work, we will take the necessary action as specified here.

Other Violations

If you believe that you have a violation to report, that does not fall within any of the categories mentioned above, you may choose this to report such violation. Please note that you will be required to describe such a violation for us to take appropriate action.


Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the non-exclusive worldwide royalty free right to use that content.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.


Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Usage Policy.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact: info@urlinko.com.


Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in user policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a royalty free license to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our user policy.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.


PROHIBITED USES

You may use our site only for lawful purposes.

  • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our policies.
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.