A link or QR code you have already published keeps resolving — forever — no matter what happens to your subscription. Cancel, downgrade, let a card expire: your link still works. Downgrade removes features, never your redirect. We will never show a subscribe-to-continue wall, an injected ad, or a bare 404 on a link you have published.

If your plan lapses, some FEATURES step down to your new tier — analytics stop accruing new data (what was already collected stays visible, read-only, for your new tier's retention window), the free-tier mark reappears if you had removed it, and the destination locks at its last-known-good address until you re-upgrade. The link itself never stops resolving through any of that.

If a link's destination is flagged as unsafe — at creation, or later if it changes to something malicious — we freeze it behind a plain warning page instead of sending visitors on. This is a SAFETY decision, never a billing one: it can happen on any plan, including our highest tier, and it is the only thing that ever freezes a link. The owner is notified immediately with a one-click path to appeal.