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Are my galleries protected from Pinterest use, or can I customize my SmugMug site to block out Pinterest use and abuse?

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If you want your website to have social sharing, you should have your settings as such(doc outlines below). Pinterest itself has show to be a great source of referrals if you are looking to sell your work. – dpollitt♦ Feb 18 '12 at 21:31
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I will say I have had five "pins" in one day from people I don't know. So in terms of the social aspect I find it better than other places. – Bradford Benn♦ Feb 22 '12 at 3:43
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However you may want to review the Terms of Service on Pinterest as you make your decision. A fellow photographer pointed me toward the directmatch post about their copyright usurption. I am not a lawyer but from my read, the ToS seems rather "grabby" pinterest.com/about/terms – Bradford Benn♦ Feb 22 '12 at 18:53

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If you want to be a bit more explicit about your anti-pinterest interest:

We have a small piece of code you can add to the head of any page on your site:

<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />

When a user tries to pin from your site, they will see this message:

"This site doesn't allow pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the owner with any questions. Thanks for visiting!"

From the help pages linked off http://blog.pinterest.com/post/17949261591/growing-up.

This works, put the code in the head tag of your Advanced Customization (power and pro accounts only).

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oo great answer! – chrisjlee Feb 27 '12 at 4:44
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Thanks! Yes, I added this- thank you. My hesitation is from the shaky ToS mentioned in a different answer posting. They can modify and sell 'your' content. Also, if I understand correctly, if someone pins my photo, and someone else pins from their pin, any trace back to me, my copyright, my site, etc. is then lost. There is not yet any sign of willing enforcement of the restriction (as most other social sites have willingly enforced) that users only use/post material they own the copyright. Almost everything on the site is someone else's picture. I'd rather wait until the dust settles. – LucidRog Feb 28 '12 at 22:35
@LucidRog: if this answers your question, you can accept it. – ℝaphink Mar 29 '12 at 12:02
Pinterest has updated their Terms of Service, so you may want to revisit the blocking. – Bradford Benn♦ Apr 12 '12 at 20:17
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In my testing I have found that Pinterest does seem to respect the gallery protected setting. That way you can allow pinning from specific galleries and block it from others. I would recommend you set the galleries to protected if you are a Power or Pro user. I would also disable external links as that can also help.

For total site Pinterest blocking, Power and Pro users can add <meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" /> to the head tag of their advanced customizations to block it.

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