Best Location for Deploying Common File in WSP

I have a small wsp containing a masterpage and a stylesheet that will act as the standard branding for many SP site collections in my company. One of the requirements is to have a footer with a link to a Terms & Conditions PDF in the masterpage.
So I'd like this PDF to be deployed in this WSP with the masterpage and styles so that we don't have to manually add it when a new site collection is created.
My question is where is the best place to deploy this file so that I can easily link to it from anywhere in the site collection (i.e. top level site vs subsite)? I was thinking a mapped folder would be best, but I'm not sure, and frankly I'm not sure
how to link to a file in a mapped folder. Am I making this too difficult, should I just put the file in one centralized public place and hard-code the link in the master page? Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks.

Use mapped folder (Layouts) to deploy your files. In custom web part solution, map folder with your solution and copy the files in it. All other site collections can access files form mapped folder.
For Reference:
Deploying files using Mapped Folders
Adnan Amin MCT, SharePoint Architect | If you find this post useful kindly please mark it as an answer :)

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