If you're seeing your Flickr content appear on a non-Flickr site, there are a few possible reasons. Below are the most common explanations, along with tips on how to adjust your settings or take further action if needed.
Your Content Is Publicly Viewable
If your content is set to Public, it can be viewed, and in some cases, embedded, on other websites.
What you can do. To limit where your content appears, you can change your privacy settings to Private or Friends & Family.
Search Permissions Are Enabled
By default, Flickr allows your public content to be indexed by search engines and shared through third-party apps that use the Flickr API.
What you can do.You can hide your stuff, or your profile from public searches by adjusting your search permission settings to prevent Yahoo and API apps from accessing your content.
Community Guidelines Were Violated by the External Site
Our Community Guidelines emphasize the importance of respecting photographers and their work, including proper credit and a link back to Flickr when content is shared elsewhere.
If your content appears on another site without credit or a link, this may violate our guidelines.
What you can do. You can report the violation to our Trust & Safety team for review.
- If our Trust & Safety team finds that the reported site is using Flickr’s API inappropriately, we’ll take action by terminating their API access to prevent further misuse.
- If they are not using the Flickr API, you may need to file a DMCA takedown request directly with the site hosting the content.