unwanted Links showing on footer

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  rkeogh2015 · Member · Apr 23, 2015 at 7:56 am

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  Hi, I have just changed themes from Gridiculous toBasis. On this theme, my site displays “Blog at WordPress” and “The Basis Theme” links at the bottom of every page. How do i get rid of this?

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  pmciano · Member · Apr 23, 2015 at 2:26 pm

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  @rkeogh2015

  The footer credit is required to be displayed according to our terms of service:

  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  If you have additional questions, please let us know.

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  rkeogh2015 · Member · Apr 24, 2015 at 12:59 am

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  If that is the case, could you please explain why my previous theme, Gridiculous did not have these compulsory links. I can perhaps live with the wordpress blog link, but the additional one for the “The Basis Theme” is a deal breaker. I paid for this theme and am on a premium package. It is not acceptable therefore that I should also then have to promote these links on my blog and website.

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  pmciano · Member · Apr 24, 2015 at 6:54 pm

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  @rkeogh2015

  If you do not want to abide by WordPress.com’s Terms of Service, you can migrate your site to a self-hosted, WordPress.org installation.

  This guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  As we only support sites hosted here at WordPress.com, all issues with the new site – including the importing of the file – must be taken to the WordPress.org support community:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  Let us know if you have any more questions.