# Discourse avatar's usage policy
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-avatars-usage-policy/38103
**Category:** General
**Created:** [Janvier 18, 2016, 10:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-avatars-usage-policy/38103 "2016-01-18T10:36:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Lewis\_Wright](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lewis_Wright)
#### Post date: [Janvier 18, 2016, 10:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-avatars-usage-policy/38103/1 "2016-01-18T10:36:09Z")
Hi there, apologies if this information is already publicly accessible, I did do some research but couldn’t find anything.
I was wondering what the usage policy was for hotlinking discourse’s avatar service? We’d like to use it in a few of our admin systems, but they’re not built on the discourse platform. The hits this would add would be miniscule compared to the kind of traffic you no-doubt already receive, but it’s only fair that I seek permission.
Lewis.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Janvier 18, 2016, 10:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-avatars-usage-policy/38103/2 "2016-01-18T10:47:14Z")
Thanks for asking!
We would prefer that [avatars.discourse.org](http://avatars.discourse.org) only be used in connection with Discourse, in some capacity.
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### Author:  [@Lewis\_Wright](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lewis_Wright)
#### Post date: [Janvier 18, 2016, 11:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-avatars-usage-policy/38103/3 "2016-01-18T11:00:03Z")
Fair enough, thanks for your quick response.
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [Janvier 19, 2016, 10:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-avatars-usage-policy/38103/4 "2016-01-19T22:26:55Z")
Just an addendum: the code for the avatars service we run is open source and available from [Github](https://github.com/discourse/letter-avatars), so if you wanted to spin up one of your own, it’s easy to do.