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Equifax Will Revoke Your Right to Link to Their Site
Posted on Feb 15, 2007 by Tom Fragala
Another thing that bugs me about the Equifax service? Take a look at their Terms of Use. This is what they say is their link policy:
You are granted a limited, non-exclusive right to create a hypertext link to this Web Site found at http://www.equifax.com/; provided such link does not portray Equifax and/or its affiliates or any of their respective products and services in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise defamatory manner. This limited right may be revoked at any time.
Oh, really? Are they saying no one in the world can link to their site while writing something in a disapproving manner? Think about how absurd that is for a second. Uh oh, I guess this blog post is in violation of their terms of use. Now they are going to revoke my “right” to link to them. Dear Equifax (EFX), you can reach me here. Go for it.
Let me parse that link policy language for you. What they are doing is threatening their customers: if you link back to us and say anything that is not nice (in our opinion), we will dump you, or go after you, or both.
Comments
Monty Loree on Oct 22, 2007
lol... I've often thought about that, however, I've never blogged about it..
So... has Equifax contacted you yet? I would imagine they haven't!!
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