Terms of service

LINC, The Licensing Network for Content, operated by IntentBridges Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)Last updated 7 Oct 2026

In plain language: LINC enrolls your websites with the RSL Collective, which licenses content to AI companies, and passes on what the RSL Collective pays for them, after a 15% platform fee and a service fee (15% to IntentBridges, or your channel partner's agreed rate). You keep all rights to your content, and there is no exclusivity. We pay only what the RSL Collective has paid us. You can withdraw your authorization at any time.

These terms govern the use of LINC, a service operated by IntentBridges Pte. Ltd. (UEN 202445703M), a company incorporated in Singapore. In them, “IntentBridges,” “we” and “us” mean that company, and “you” means the organization you use LINC for: a publisher or a channel partner. The rules in section 3 and section 10 also apply to each person who uses LINC for it. A “publisher” is a business that owns websites and uses LINC to enroll them. A “channel partner” is a company that manages publishers' accounts in LINC for them.

A person who signs in to LINC after being shown these terms accepts them for the organization they use LINC for, and confirms that they are authorized to do so. Our Privacy policy explains how we handle personal data.

1. The service

IntentBridges is an Enrollment Partner of the RSL Collective. LINC lets a publisher enroll its websites with the RSL Collective and receive what the RSL Collective allocates to them. In LINC, a publisher:

• registers and acknowledges LINC's authorization;
• adds its websites, sets the licensing terms for each, and confirms its rights to them; and
• publishes, on each website, the RSL license file and the robots.txt line that LINC generates.

LINC then checks those files, sends each eligible website to the RSL Collective every night, and receives the RSL Collective's results, settlement and payment information. IntentBridges keeps its fees (section 7) and pays out the rest, to the publisher or, for a publisher with a channel partner, to that partner (section 8). RSL license files follow the RSL standard, published at rslstandard.org.

If your organization registered interest on joinlinc.com, the Publisher Registration Terms covered that registration. When your organization acknowledges LINC's authorization in LINC, these terms, together with the acknowledgements and the fee table shown in LINC, are the separate agreement those Registration Terms refer to, and they govern your use of LINC from then on. The confidentiality obligations in the Registration Terms continue for the period they state.

2. Who can use LINC

LINC is for businesses that own or control websites, the channel partners that work with them, and the people they authorize to act for them. A sole trader counts as a business. Each person who uses LINC must be at least 18 and authorized to act for their organization.

You must give accurate information when you register. We may ask for information to verify your business, its owners and its bank account, and may decline or end a registration if the law or sanctions do not allow us to deal with you. We may also decline a registration, for example when the publisher or its website is already in LINC.

3. Accounts and security

• You sign in with Google or with a sign-in link we email you. Your account is tied to your email address, so keep your email account secure: anyone who can read your email can sign in as you.
• A person belongs to one publisher at most, and cannot belong to both a publisher and a channel partner.
• An invitation can be accepted only by signing in with the email address it was sent to. It expires after 30 days.
• Your organization is responsible for what is done under its members' accounts.
• Tell us at once if you think someone has used your account without permission.
• Our staff can see and act in any account to operate LINC, but never acknowledge anything for a publisher.

4. Your acknowledgements

LINC asks a publisher for two acknowledgements. Each is shown with its wording and one button; nothing is typed or signed. Each time, LINC keeps a record of who acknowledged, the time (UTC), the IP address and the wording version, as our Privacy policy describes. The RSL Collective receives each record's id and date with the publisher's websites. LINC offers no way to edit or delete a record.

LINC's authorization

At registration, below a table of the fees that apply to the publisher (section 7), the publisher acknowledges:

By continuing, you acknowledge that LINC will enroll the sites you add with the RSL Collective, receive what RSL allocates to them, and pass it on to you after the fees above.

This is the wording of Enrollment acknowledgement v1.0. “The fees above” are the fees in that table. By acknowledging, the publisher:

• authorizes IntentBridges to enroll, through LINC, the websites the publisher adds with the RSL Collective, to receive what the RSL Collective allocates to them, and to pass it on after the fees in the table (section 8 describes payment through a channel partner); and
• if the table names a channel partner, agrees to that partner acting for it in LINC (section 9) and to the partner's service fee shown.

The authorization stays in force until the publisher withdraws it (section 12).

Rights to the content

When the publisher adds websites, confirms its rights to websites its channel partner or our staff added, or reclaims a website, it acknowledges, for the websites listed:

By continuing, you acknowledge that you own, or are authorized to license, the content each site offers in its RSL file, and that LINC may enroll the sites with the RSL Collective on that basis.

This is the wording of Rights acknowledgement v1.0. Only the publisher's own members can give this acknowledgement. Channel partners and our staff never give it for a publisher, and a website a channel partner or our staff adds is not enrolled until the publisher confirms its rights to it.

If we change the wording of an acknowledgement, it gets a new version, and each record keeps the version that was shown.

5. Your responsibilities as a publisher

• Rights. You must own, or be authorized to license, the content each of your websites offers in its RSL file, for the uses the file permits, for as long as the website is enrolled. If that stops being true for a website, tell us at once so that we can stop enrolling it.
• Websites you control. Add only websites you control.
• Your files. Publish the RSL file and robots.txt line LINC generates, as given, and keep them in place and reachable while the website is enrolled. If you change a website's terms in LINC, publish the new file. Do not block LINC's checker (its User-Agent starts with LINC-Checker) from reading them.
• Checks. LINC checks each website it may send to the RSL Collective once a day, including websites not yet enrolled. A website at the RSL Collective (licensed or skipped) that fails three daily checks in a row is left out of the repertoire file LINC sends the RSL Collective each night until it passes a check again. While it is left out, the RSL Collective may stop licensing it, and it may earn nothing.
• Accurate details. Keep your company and contact details accurate. Give bank details for an account you are entitled to receive the publisher's payments into, and keep them current. Only the publisher's own members can add or change them.
• The law. Comply with the laws that apply to you and your content.

6. LINC's role

IntentBridges is an Enrollment Partner of the RSL Collective. It is not the licensor of your content and is not a party to the licenses. Your RSL file offers your content under the RSL Collective's collective license, which your file references; that license, and any terms the RSL Collective sets for it, are between you, the RSL Collective and the AI companies it licenses. IntentBridges enrolls your websites, receives what the RSL Collective allocates to them for you, and pays it out under these terms. It does not negotiate with AI companies, enforce your license terms against them, or block crawlers for you.

IntentBridges does not guarantee that:

• the RSL Collective will accept or keep any website (it may skip one, for example when another enrollment already claims its hostname);
• any AI company will license or pay for your content; or
• you will receive any particular allocation or amount, or receive it by any date.

Allocations are set by the RSL Collective; what a publisher receives is the allocation less the fees in section 7. LINC shows the RSL Collective's figures as it sends them.

7. Fees

Two fees are taken from each allocation, and every statement shows both: a platform fee, which IntentBridges keeps, and a service fee, which goes to whoever manages the publisher's account. An allocation is what the RSL Collective allocates to a publisher for a settlement period (currently a calendar month).

• Platform fee: 15% of every allocation, to IntentBridges, whoever manages the publisher's account.
• Service fee: one service fee, never two. For a publisher that manages its own account (a direct publisher), IntentBridges keeps its service fee of 15%. For a publisher with a channel partner, the partner's own rate, agreed independently between the publisher and its partner. IntentBridges does not deduct the partner's fee: we pay the partner the allocation less the platform fee, and the partner keeps its service fee (section 8).

The fees that apply to a publisher are shown in the table it sees when it acknowledges LINC's authorization. Each fee is calculated on the allocation and rounded to the cent on its own. The publisher's net is the allocation minus both fees, plus or minus any revision (section 8). IntentBridges makes no other charge for using LINC; banks may deduct their own charges (section 8).

Each month uses the channel partner and service fee in effect on the first day of that month. A channel partner can change its rate, and the change applies from the first day of the next month. When it does, we email the publisher's members the same day, and the publisher's Payments page shows the change until it takes effect. If you object to a change, write to us (section 19) before it takes effect.

Changes to IntentBridges' own fees are made as section 16 describes.

8. Payments

Currency and timing

All amounts are in US dollars, and we send every payment in US dollars; LINC does not convert currency. We pay our own bank's charges. Any intermediary or receiving bank charges, and any currency conversion by the recipient's bank, are the recipient's, so the amount credited may be less than the statement shows.

We pay for a month only after the RSL Collective has paid us for it, and only once the payment we received matches the RSL Collective's settlement for that month. If it does not match, for example because the RSL Collective paid less or a payment was returned, we wait until it does, and if it has not matched within 60 days, we tell the publisher, or its channel partner. Once it matches, we aim to send payments within 15 business days. There is no fixed payment date: payments follow the RSL Collective's cycle and these checks. We pay by bank transfer, and we email the recipient's members when we send a payment.

Holds and checks

We may hold a payment while we verify a new bank account or who you are, screen for sanctions or other legal restrictions, or investigate a claim that you do not hold the rights to a website, or if the law or a court requires it. We will tell you why unless the law forbids it, and we release the payment once the reason is resolved.

Direct publishers

We pay a direct publisher its allocation less both fees, plus or minus any revision, to the bank account it gives in LINC. If it has no bank account in LINC when a month is paid, its payment waits until it adds one.

If a payment fails or is returned because the bank details were wrong, we send it again once they are corrected, less any charges the banks deducted. We will help try to recover a payment sent to a wrong account, but we are not responsible for it if we followed the details you gave.

Publishers with a channel partner

We pay the channel partner the publisher's allocation less the platform fee, plus or minus any revision. The partner keeps its service fee and pays the publisher the rest under their own arrangement, outside LINC. LINC shows the month as paid to the partner once our transfer is recorded; it does not track the partner's payment to the publisher. The partner that manages a publisher on the first day of a month is the one paid for that month.

When we pay a channel partner for a publisher, we pay it on the publisher's behalf, and that payment settles our obligation to the publisher for the amount paid. The partner then owes the publisher that amount less its service fee, in the currency and on the timing they agree; any currency conversion is between them. If a publisher tells us in writing that its partner has not paid it what its statement shows, we will give the publisher and the partner the statement for that month and, at the publisher's request, remove the partner (section 9); we then pay the publisher directly for the months that start after the change takes effect.

Statements

Each paid month has a statement showing the allocation, the platform fee, the service fee and who receives it, any revision, and the net. A publisher can download its statement with the RSL Collective's figures behind it.

Corrections

If the RSL Collective revises a month after we have released its payments, we work out the change in the publisher's net at that month's fees and carry it, once, into the publisher's next month that has an allocation and whose payments we have not yet released. A change in the publisher's favor is added in full. A change against it is deducted, oldest first, only as far as that month's payment stays at zero or more, and the rest is deducted from later months. For a publisher with a channel partner, the revision is included in the partner's payment, and the partner passes it on. If the publisher has no such month within 12 months, we pay a revision in its favor on its own, and it repays a revision against it within 30 days of our request.

If we paid the wrong amount because of our own error, we will correct it: we pay any underpayment in full, and the recipient repays any overpayment within 30 days of our request.

Returned or recovered payments

If the RSL Collective reverses, returns or recovers money it paid us for a month we have already paid out, each publisher paid for that month bears a share in proportion to its allocation for that month, unless the RSL Collective tells us whose allocation it relates to. We recover only the publisher's net share, that is its share less the fees on it; we do not keep our fees on money the RSL Collective recovers. We may deduct it from the publisher's later payments in the same way as a revision against it. For a publisher with a channel partner, we deduct the share less the platform fee from our payments to the partner, and the partner recovers only the publisher's net share from it. If no payment covers the amount within 12 months of our notice, or the publisher has withdrawn LINC's authorization, the publisher will repay the rest within 30 days of our request. We tell the publisher, or its partner, the month, the amount and the reason.

Taxes

Our fees do not include GST or similar taxes. Where GST applies to our fees, we add it, show it on the statement, and issue a tax invoice where the law requires. If the law requires us to withhold or deduct tax from a payment, we pay the amount less that tax and give the recipient a record of it; we apply a reduced treaty rate if you give us the documents it needs. Allocations are as the RSL Collective reports them, after any tax it withholds. You are responsible for all other taxes on what you receive, and for any tax registration, reporting or invoices your country requires. A channel partner's service fee, any tax on it (such as Japanese consumption tax) and the invoice for it are a matter between the publisher and its partner.

9. Channel partners

A publisher has at most one channel partner at a time. A partner is assigned to a publisher when it invites the publisher to LINC. Otherwise, we assign or change a publisher's channel partner only at the publisher's written request or with its written agreement. A partner that invites a publisher works in its account from the invitation, before the publisher registers. The partner's access to the publisher's account starts on the date of the assignment and ends when a new assignment takes effect or the publisher withdraws LINC's authorization.

When a publisher acknowledges LINC's authorization with a fee table that names a partner, or asks us in writing to assign a partner, it agrees to that partner acting for it in LINC. While assigned, the partner acts for the publisher as its agent. It can add websites (they wait for the publisher's rights confirmation), edit licensing terms, run checks, remove websites still waiting for rights, and set its service fee. It sees the publisher's account, including the activity history, money for the months it managed, and the current bank account in full, so that it can pay the publisher. It cannot confirm rights, reclaim websites, add or change the bank account, or give or withdraw LINC's authorization. Everything a partner's user does is recorded in the activity history under their name and the partner's.

The partner's service fee, and anything else between a publisher and its partner, is agreed between them; IntentBridges is not a party to that arrangement. To change or remove your partner, contact us. A change takes effect from the first day of the next month. Until then, the current partner keeps its access and is paid for the months it managed. If your partner is removed and no new one is assigned, you become a direct publisher, and IntentBridges' service fee applies from that date.

A channel partner may act only for the publishers assigned to it, within the access described here, and use their information, bank details included, only to manage their accounts and pay them. It must pay each publisher what it receives for it, less its service fee, under its arrangement with that publisher. If it gives us someone's personal details, for example when it invites a publisher, it must be entitled to do so and must tell them about our Privacy policy. Its own agreement with IntentBridges also applies.

10. Acceptable use

You must not:

• enroll content you have no right to license, or add websites you do not control;
• give false or misleading information, or pretend to be someone else;
• access, or try to access, accounts, data or parts of LINC you are not allowed to, or get around LINC's access controls;
• interfere with LINC, for example by overloading it, probing or testing its security without our written permission, or introducing malicious code;
• copy, resell or reverse engineer LINC, except as the law allows; or
• use LINC for anything unlawful.

11. Intellectual property

You keep all rights in your content and your websites. These terms give IntentBridges no rights in your content. You let us use your websites' addresses, the licensing terms you set and the records described in these terms to provide LINC and enroll your websites.

The RSL files and robots.txt lines LINC generates for you are yours to publish and use.

IntentBridges and its licensors own LINC, including its software, its design and the LINC name. You may use LINC only as these terms allow. The RSL standard and the RSL Collective's names belong to their owners.

12. Suspension and termination

Withdrawing LINC's authorization

A publisher can withdraw LINC's authorization at any time. Until LINC offers this in the app, contact us to do so. When the authorization is withdrawn:

• the channel partner's access to the publisher's account ends, except its own statements for the months it managed;
• LINC stops checking the publisher's websites; and
• LINC stops sending the publisher's websites to the RSL Collective, and we will have them removed from its repertoire as soon as the RSL Collective allows.

For months a channel partner managed, we still pay that partner, and the partner pays the publisher under their arrangement.

A withdrawal cannot be undone in LINC; to enroll again after withdrawing, contact us. A publisher can also stop licensing a single website: contact us to do so. A website not yet enrolled can be removed in LINC.

Suspension or termination by us

We may suspend your access, stop enrolling some or all of your websites, or end these terms with you if you breach them, if the law or the RSL Collective requires it, or to protect LINC, its users or the RSL Collective. Where reasonable, we will tell you first and give you a chance to put things right.

We may also stop offering LINC, for example if IntentBridges is no longer an Enrollment Partner of the RSL Collective. Except where the law, the RSL Collective or a breach requires otherwise, we will give at least 30 days' notice before we end these terms with you or stop offering LINC.

What stays

However these terms end, we pay allocations for months before the publisher's websites left the RSL Collective's repertoire, less any amount the publisher owes us under these terms, unless the law or the RSL Collective prevents it.

Acknowledgement records, the activity history and payment records are kept after an account ends, as our Privacy policy describes. The acknowledgements (section 4), the publisher's rights confirmation for the period each website was enrolled (section 5), a channel partner's duty to pay what it received for its publishers (section 9), and the sections on fees, payments, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, governing law and general terms continue to apply.

13. Disclaimers

We will provide LINC with reasonable skill and care, and calculate fees and payments as these terms describe. Beyond that, LINC is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the extent the law allows, IntentBridges gives no warranties or conditions beyond those these terms state, including about quality, fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted availability.

A check shows what LINC's checker saw when it ran. LINC is not legal, tax or financial advice. IntentBridges is not responsible for what the RSL Collective, AI companies, channel partners (except as section 8 and section 9 describe) or your website host do.

14. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows:

• IntentBridges is not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data or goodwill, however it arises; and
• IntentBridges' total liability for all claims arising out of LINC or these terms is limited to the greater of (a) the fees IntentBridges kept from the publisher's allocations (or, for a channel partner, from its publishers' allocations) in the 12 months before the event that gave rise to the claim, that is its platform fee and, for a direct publisher, its service fee, and (b) US$1,000.

This does not limit our obligation to pay amounts due under section 8, our liability for our fraud or wilful misconduct or for our breach of data protection obligations, or any liability the law does not allow to be limited, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

15. Indemnity

A publisher will indemnify IntentBridges, its officers and its staff against losses and reasonable costs, legal fees included, arising from a third-party claim, including one by the RSL Collective or an AI company, to the extent it results from the publisher not owning, or not being authorized to license, content it enrolled through LINC, or from a rights confirmation it gave being untrue. We will tell the publisher promptly. We will let it take part in the defense, or conduct it if it asks and accepts that the claim is covered. We will not settle a claim at its cost without its consent, which it will not unreasonably withhold.

16. Changes to LINC and these terms

We may change LINC, including by adding or removing features.

We may update these terms for a good reason, such as a change in the law, in the RSL Collective's requirements, in how LINC works, or in our fees. When we do, we will change the date at the top of this page. We will tell your organization's members by email at least 30 days before a material change takes effect, unless the law or the RSL Collective requires it sooner.

A change to IntentBridges' fees applies only to months that start after it takes effect. It applies to a publisher only once that publisher acknowledges the new fee table; until then, its months are paid at the fees it last acknowledged. If it has not acknowledged within 60 days, we may end these terms with it (section 12), and months before its websites leave the repertoire are paid at those fees.

Other changes apply from the date they take effect. If you do not agree to a change, a publisher may withdraw LINC's authorization (section 12) and a channel partner may stop using LINC before it takes effect.

17. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Singapore. If a dispute arises, either side may send the other a written notice, and both will try in good faith to settle it within 30 days. A dispute not settled by then will be finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre under its rules then in force, before one arbitrator, seated in Singapore, in English, under the Expedited Procedure where it applies. Either side may still ask any court for urgent interim relief.

18. General

• If a publisher or channel partner has a separate signed agreement with IntentBridges, that agreement prevails where it conflicts with these terms.
• We send notices to the email addresses your organization's members sign in with. Send notices to us using the details in section 19.
• We may transfer these terms to an affiliate or to a successor to LINC's business by telling you; your rights under them, including to payments, are not reduced. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these terms without our written consent.
• Neither side is liable for a delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, such as a failure of the RSL Collective's systems, banks or hosting providers; payment obligations resume once the event ends.
• Except for IntentBridges' officers and staff under section 15, no one other than you and IntentBridges has a right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 2001 to enforce these terms.
• If a publisher sells a website, it should stop licensing it in LINC (section 12); we can then let the buyer add it and confirm its rights.
• If any part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a term, we have not waived it.
• If these terms are translated, the English version prevails.
• These terms, the fees shown when a publisher acknowledges LINC's authorization, and any separate signed agreement are the whole agreement about LINC.

19. Contact us

For questions about these terms, contact: