Community Guidelines

1. What These Guidelines Cover

WrestleLink is a directory of independent professional wrestling: the shows, the promotions that run them, the wrestlers and other talent who work them, and the businesses that serve them. These Guidelines describe what may be posted through the Services operated by Rocket Small Business Services, LLC ("Rocket," "we," "us," or "our"), and what happens when something posted breaks them.

They apply to everything a person supplies: profile text, photographs and video, event listings, match cards, posts and updates, links, and anything published through a wrestle.link page. They apply whether or not you hold an account, and whether the material is about you or about somebody else.

These Guidelines sit alongside the Terms of Use. Where they appear to conflict, the Terms govern.

2. Content You Post Must Be Yours to Post

You may only upload content that you own, or that you have permission to use.

This is the single rule that matters most on a directory built from photographs, and it applies to every image and video on the Services. Before you upload, you should be able to say which of the following is true:

• you created it yourself;

• the photographer or videographer gave you permission to use it;

• the promotion gave you permission to use it;

• it came from a media kit issued for publicity use;

• you licensed it; or

• it is offered under a licence that permits this use.

When you upload an image or video we record a dated acknowledgement that you hold the rights to it, and we ask you to say which of the above applies. That record is what we rely on if somebody later complains, so answer it accurately.

Being in a photograph is not the same as owning it. A wrestler pictured in a match photograph usually does not hold its copyright — the photographer does. If you want to use a photograph of yourself that somebody else took, ask them.

Content about other people also needs their agreement. Uploading an image needs permission from the copyright owner and from anybody identifiable in it. That is a separate question from copyright and it matters just as much.

3. What Is Not Allowed

Do not post:

• Material you do not have the rights to, as described in Section 2.

• Material that misrepresents who somebody is — claiming a profile that is not yours, presenting yourself as a promotion or wrestler you are not, or presenting yourself as WrestleLink.

• Deliberately false information about a show or a person — dates, venues, cards, or results you know to be wrong. Getting something wrong by accident is not a breach; we would rather you corrected it than left it.

• Harassment, threats, or targeted abuse, including material intended to humiliate a named person.

• Material that is unlawful, including content sexualising minors, incitement to violence, and content that breaches somebody's privacy rights.

• Personal information about other people that they have not made public themselves — home addresses, personal phone numbers, and similar.

• Sexual content, and gratuitously graphic imagery. Wrestling involves blood and injury, and coverage of that is within scope; imagery whose purpose is shock is not.

• Spam, scraping, and automated bulk submission, and links whose purpose is to move people off the platform for unrelated commercial gain.

4. Wrestling Is a Performance, and We Account for That

Professional wrestling involves staged conflict, characters, and storylines. A wrestler's persona may be deliberately unpleasant, and a promotion's storytelling may involve threats and confrontations that would read very differently outside a ring.

We take that context into account. In-character material presented as part of a storyline is treated as performance, not as harassment. What we do not accept is a persona used as cover for abuse of a real person outside the fiction, or for the other things in Section 3.

5. Reporting Something

Different problems have different routes, and picking the right one gets a faster answer:

• A copyright complaint — that material infringes a copyright you own or represent — goes to our Designated Copyright Agent under the Copyright and DMCA Policy. It has a formal procedure and legal consequences for misuse.

• A profile that is wrong, out of date, or should not exist — including a profile of you that you did not create — goes through the correction and removal process in the Profile Claim, Correction and Removal policy. No account is required.

• Impersonation — somebody presenting themselves as you — goes through the same policy.

• Privacy and personal-data requests go through the Privacy Policy.

• Anything else, including breaches of these Guidelines, can be sent through the contact form.

6. What We Do When Guidelines Are Broken

What we do depends on what happened, how serious it is, and whether it has happened before. In roughly increasing order:

• we may correct or remove the specific material;

• we may disable public access to it while we look at it;

• we may restrict what an account can do;

• we may return a claimed listing to an unclaimed state, so that the wrestling information stays available while the account loses control of it;

• we may suspend or terminate an account.

We aim to tell you when we act on something you supplied, and to say what and why. We may act without prior notice where the material is unlawful, where somebody is at risk, or where a legal process such as a copyright notice requires us to act expeditiously.

Repeat infringement of copyright leads to account termination. Our repeat-infringer policy, including how notices are counted and the discretion we retain, is set out in Section 7 of the Copyright and DMCA Policy.

7. Appeals and Corrections

If we have acted on your material and you think we were wrong, tell us through the contact form and we will look again. Where the material was removed following a copyright notice, the counter-notification process in the Copyright and DMCA Policy is the formal route, and it carries legal weight that an informal request does not.

We would rather fix a listing than remove it, and rather remove one item than an account.

8. Changes to These Guidelines

We may update these Guidelines. The version in force is the one published on this page, with its effective date shown alongside it.