Do I need permission to link to a website?

Web portal - can we just start linking?

[littlegreen]

do we need any license or permission from the host website that we are going to put the link in our webportal..

thankz

[trillianjedi]

As long as it's just a link to their site, without copying any of their actual page content and reproducing it on your site, then no.

TJ

[cmatcme]

In fact, I'm sure the company would give you credit by linking to them!

cmatcme

[monkeythumpa]

I hereby grant you permission to link to my site. Check my profile.

[jimbeetle]

Some folks aren't so easy.

I had a full-page blurb on an event that one of the major non-profits runs each year. A couple of weeks ago I went to its site to grab a piece of information.

The org's new "linking policy" is a two-page pdf form (yep, two pages) that has to be printed out, completed and faxed back (yep, faxed), before you can get permission to link to the site. It contains all sorts of the most silly legalese, some that I understand, some I would never agree to.

Needless to say, I no longer promote that event.

Some folks just don't get it.

[partnermine]

Welcome to link to mine as well. And, if you are wholesome and nice and congruent with my business, I will link back to you. All I ever ask is that we use your bandwidth for any images you put in your site about me, not mine :)

[MatthewHSE]

The org's new "linking policy" is a two-page pdf form (yep, two pages) that has to be printed out, completed and faxed back (yep, faxed), before you can get permission to link to the site. It contains all sorts of the most silly legalese, some that I understand, some I would never agree to.

I am highly skeptical that this can be enforced. Not that I'd advocate going against their wishes, of course, but I don't understand how they'd go after someone for linking to their site. That's how the Internet works.

[hunderdown]

How could you prevent someone from linking to your site? Might as well try to prevent someone from listing your mailing address in a directory....

That "requirement" may serve some internal purposes ("See, we don't let any bad organizations link to us!"), of course.