Affiliate Terms and Conditions
You must agree to abide by the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement in order to participate. Please read this Agreement carefully before registering and using the Service as an Affiliate. By signing up you indicate your acceptance of this Agreement and its terms and conditions. If You do not accept this agreement, do not use our service as an Affiliate.
The following agreement is summarized as follows:
- You place our merchants banners anywhere on your site as you see fit, or within non-spam emails.
- We may email you concerning new merchant programs
- We might change the service here and then
- Adult, Hate, or other related sites are not allowed
- You will be paid your commissions, at such time as your account balance is $50 or more.
- All statistics are collected and calculated by us and will be the only valid stats used for determining commissions.
- Any page that contains our links, banners, or code must be written in English.
- As an affiliate, you can only have 1 account. You can list multiple domains in one account, but only one account is allowed. Self-referrals for affiliate or merchant accounts are strictly prohibited.
- International affiliates (those with addresses outside of the 50 U.S. States) are paid via Direct Deposit where possible.
- Your physical address listed for receiving checks MUST be your actual address. Mail forwarding services, for the purpose of avoiding network demographics, is NOT allowed. For example, if you choose USA as your country, you must be in the USA. If you choose Russia as a country, you must be in Russia.
- You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. We will terminate your account on the first offense of SPAMMING. Do not send email to lists or groups that you do not have permission to send to. We cannot stress this enough, we WILL terminate your account on the first offense.
- You may place banners or links within your newsletters, in content of your website, or within other web related content.
- Affiliate accounts that are left inactive will be removed from our system if their balance is equal to or less than $25. If an abandoned affiliate account has a balance between $25 and $50, a $25 fee will be assesed once per calendar month, until the balance is equal to zero dollars - and is closed. At no time will an affiliate ever owe monies to us based on fees - the account will simply be closed. An abandoned affiliate account is defined as any account that has not been logged in to for a period of 6 months, nor have any transactions been posted to that account. If one or the other of those conditions are true - the account will remain in an active state.
- NOT ALLOWED: All other uses of banners or links, such as newsgroups, chat rooms, ICQ, message boards, banner networks, hit farms, counters, or guestbooks etc. are NOT allowed.
- NOT ALLOWED: Any placement of creative in a "Desktop" advertising scheme. This includes any and all 3rd party advertising platforms that use a desktop application to display ads in any form.
- NOT ALLOWED: Any display of a merchant window that isn't the result of a direct click by the end-user.
- Failure to abide by these rules could mean termination from a given merchant program with a complete forfeit of commissions.
- Fraud is a serious offense, and will be treated as such. Fraud is defined as any action that intentionally attempts to create sales, leads, or click-throughs using robots, frames, iframes, scripts, or manually "refreshing" of pages, for the sole purpose of creating commissions. ANY ATTEMPTED FRAUD OR FRAUD WILL RESULT IN MEMBERSHIP TERMINATION AND VOIDED COMMISSIONS.
- You cannot refer yourself as a Merchant with us and receive commission. Sorry.
PRIVACY POLICY
We respect the privacy of its users and will not disclose personal information to third parties without the express permission of you and your company. If you have any questions please contact us directly.
AFFILIATE PAYMENT
You will receive a Commission for sending a Merchant authorized sales, and/or clicks via Your Links. In order to place Links, You must first be approved by a Merchant to become an Affiliate of that Merchant’s program. You understand that the Payout amount may be changed at any time. You are responsible for determining if the payout for a link you have placed on your site has changed or been discontinued. You receive the Commission from us. Payments are made automatically on the twentieth (20th) day of each month when Your account balance reaches $50 or more for the previous months' transactions. Money credited to your account does not accrue interest. In the event of a VOID by a Merchant, we may recover from you the corresponding Commission previously credited to Your Account. The VOID Commission will be immediately deducted from Your account balance. In the event that your account balance is less than the VOID commission, the VOID commission will be deducted against Your future earnings. You will NEVER be asked to send money to us.
REGISTRATION
To sign up as an affiliate of us and to use the service as an affiliate partner you must be at least 18 (eighteen) years of age, and supply a valid tax-id, which may be your social security number for individuals, or a federal tax-id for corporations or entities.
THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SITES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN our affiliate program: ADULT SITES, SITES THAT DISPLAY ADULT BANNERS, SITES THAT PROMOTE VIOLENCE, BIGOTRY, OR HATRED. SITES THAT PROMOTE ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, including but not limited to WAREZ, CRACKING, and HACKING SITES. As part of the registration process, You will select a username and password combination that you use to access Your affiliate area within the service. You shall provide us with accurate, complete and updated registration information. You may not select the name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person or deceive members or other users as to Your true identity. You agree that we may rely on any data, notice, instruction or request furnished to us by you which is reasonably believed by us to be genuine and to have been sent or presented by a person reasonably believed by us to be authorized to act on your behalf. You shall notify us by e-mail of any known or suspected unauthorized uses of your account, or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure of your username and password. You shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password and you are responsible for all usage and activity on your account, including use of the account by a third party authorized by you to use your account. Any fraudulent, abusive or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for termination by us and referral to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.