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Our License & Your Rights
All content on Link With Pride—including guides, stories, maps, resources, and original materials—is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
What this means for you: You're free to share, remix, transform, and build upon our materials for any purpose, even commercially. The only requirements are:
- Give credit. Provide the name of the creator(s), a link to the license, and indicate what changes you made.
- Use the same license. If you remix or adapt our content, distribute your contributions under CC BY-SA 4.0 as well.
- No additional restrictions. You can't add legal or technological measures that prevent others from doing anything the license permits.
See the full CC BY-SA 4.0 legal code for complete details.
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Community Guidelines & Safe Space Policy
Link With Pride is a safe space for the trans and queer community. To maintain that, we don't tolerate:
- Hate speech, discrimination, or harassment based on gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, or other protected characteristics.
- Misgendering, deadnaming, or invalidating anyone's identity.
- Outing or revealing someone's identity without their consent.
- Threats, intimidation, or calls for violence.
- Sexual exploitation or non-consensual intimate imagery.
Our commitment: We actively work to make this space safer by training moderators in LGBTQ+ sensitivity, responding quickly to reports, and protecting the privacy and dignity of our community members.
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User Content & Acceptable Use
If you submit content to Link With Pride (comments, stories, photos, recommendations), you agree that:
- You own or have permission to use everything you submit.
- We may display, distribute, and archive your content under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- You give us the right to edit or moderate content for clarity, safety, or moderation.
- Your submissions don't infringe on anyone else's rights or privacy.
What you can't do: Don't post spam, malware, illegal content, or anything that violates these guidelines. We reserve the right to remove content or suspend accounts that violate our community standards.
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Privacy & Data Protection
Your privacy matters. For detailed information about how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.
Key points:
- We collect only necessary information to provide our services.
- We never sell your data to third parties.
- We protect sensitive information with industry-standard security.
- You have rights over your data—request access, correction, or deletion anytime.
- For users in the EU, UK, or other regions with data protection laws, we comply with GDPR and equivalent regulations.
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Our Intellectual Property
Link With Pride's logos, branding, name, and design—except for content licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0—are our exclusive property. You may not use them without written permission.
You're welcome to:
- Link to Link With Pride from your own site.
- Share our guides and content under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
- Reference us in your writing with proper attribution.
You may not:
- Use our name or logo to suggest we endorse your product or service.
- Reproduce our design, layout, or branding for commercial purposes without permission.
- Create derivative works of our site's code or interface (except as explicitly permitted under open-source licenses we use).
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Limitation of Liability & Disclaimers
We provide information as-is. While we work hard to ensure accuracy, Link With Pride makes no guarantees about the completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of content. Travel conditions, laws, and safety situations change.
Always verify critical information with official local sources, embassies, tourism boards, or local LGBTQ+ organizations before making travel decisions.
We're not liable for:
- Indirect, consequential, or special damages (lost profits, data, reputation).
- Decisions you make based on information from our site.
- Third-party websites we link to or recommend.
- Service interruptions or downtime.
Some jurisdictions don't allow limits on certain types of liability. Where applicable by law, liability is limited to the amount you paid us (if any).
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Third-Party Links & External Content
Link With Pride may link to external websites, travel providers, LGBTQ+ organizations, and resources. We don't control these sites or endorse everything they contain.
We're not responsible for:
- The accuracy, legality, or quality of third-party content.
- How third parties use your information.
- Service quality or policies of linked businesses.
Always review a site's own terms and privacy policy before making bookings or sharing personal information.
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Changes to These Terms
We may update these terms from time to time. When we make significant changes, we'll post a notice on this page and update the "last updated" date below.
Your continued use of Link With Pride after changes means you accept the updated terms. If you disagree with changes, please stop using the site.
Last updated: May 12, 2026
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Questions? Get in Touch
If you have questions about these terms, our community guidelines, or anything else, we'd love to hear from you.
Email us: hello@linkwithpride.com
Or fill out our contact form and we'll get back to you soon.