Terms

Last updated 22 September 2026.

These are the terms for reading ARNK and for taking part in it. Reading needs no account and no agreement beyond the ordinary ones. Signing in, submitting a post, voting or commenting means you accept what is below. Questions go to hello@arnk.net.

Your account

One account per person, and it is yours: do not share it, and do not sign in as someone else. You choose a handle, which is your public name here and the address of your profile. A handle that impersonates a person, a company or the site itself will be changed.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we may close an account that has been inactive for a long time. You may close yours at any time by writing to us, and Privacy says what happens to your data when you do.

What you post

You keep what you write. By submitting a post or a comment you give ARNK a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to publish it on the site, in the feeds, and in the brief, with your handle beside it, and to keep it in the archive. That license is what lets the site exist, and it survives the closing of your account: a comment in a public conversation is anonymized rather than removed, so that the replies to it still make sense.

Post only what you have the right to post. Quoting a source is fine with a link to it; pasting a paywalled article in full is not. Do not post anything that is unlawful, that defames or harasses a person, that reveals someone's private information, or that is spam. A submission is a title, a link and a body about the travel industry; anything else will not be approved. The guidelines say what that means in practice.

You are responsible for what you post. ARNK does not endorse reader posts and comments and is not responsible for them.

Moderation

Every submission is read by a person before it is published, and that person decides whether it is a note or an opinion and may edit the title for clarity. Comments are held until they have been reviewed. We may decline a submission, remove a comment, or remove a post at any time and for any reason, and we will usually not explain why. The editorial judgment is ours.

Voting is one vote per account on a thing. Casting votes from more than one account, trading votes, or automating them will close the accounts involved.

Our content

The briefs, notes and opinions ARNK writes are ours, and so are the name and the mark. You may quote from them with attribution and a link, and you may subscribe to the feeds for your own reading. You may not republish them, scrape the site, or use its content to train a model without our written permission.

Sponsors and links

One sponsor a week is shown, labeled as such, to every reader alike. A sponsor's message is the sponsor's, not ours, and we do not endorse it. Most posts link to other sites, and those sites are theirs: their content, their terms and their policies are not ours.

What we do not promise

ARNK is a publication, not advice. Nothing here is legal, financial or professional advice, and a fare, a rule or a schedule quoted in a post may have changed by the time you read it. The site is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent the law allows, ARNK is not liable for any loss arising from your use of the site or from anything posted on it, by us or by anyone else.

Changes

When these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. A material change will be announced on the site, not only recorded here. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it.

Contact

hello@arnk.net, for anything on this page.