InMotionHosting modifying WordPress footer

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I have paid for a year of hosting with InMotionHosting. Is there something in the agreement that gives InMotionHosting the right to advertise and link to itself on my WordPress site without my permission and without compensating me?
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dubosqued
I just installed the Twenty Twelve theme on a site hosted by another company, and guess what? No additional link appeared in the footer. The Inmotion Hosting WP install within the last two months, whether through script or Softaculus, inserted the link to InMotion Hosting in the footer of the Twenty Twelve. This is apparently not behavior that only existed "quite some time ago."
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dubosqued
Aha—thanks for the explanation, and sorry for my accusations (the idea was actually put in my head by an "expert" who was upset with me). The theme is WordPress's own Twenty Twelve, and my WordPress installation has only happened in the last couple months. I had none before then.

Thanks for the instructions on editing the theme, something else I knew little about.
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JeffMa
We do not make any modifications to your WordPress site hosted on our servers. Many 3rd party themes, however, have links placed within them by their authors.