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I wanted to check if links that have built naturally over the past years, linking from a badge (image) sitewide, can harm the linked website?

Here is some more information:

1. It's from a competition that the winners were able to add the badge with the link to their site (the link to our website was to a subpage, not homepage).

2. There are around 15 websites with the badge as a link. The website has around 200 root domain links. There will not be any more websites with the badge, just these 15.

3. The sitewide links percentage are 5% of the overall number of pages linked to our website.

Based on the last penguin update (4th of October, 2013), can our website be harmed from the badge link building?

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