Vanity Planet Affiliate Terms & Conditions
Updated March 2019
Please read our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our program or begin marketing our program.
ENROLLMENT
We reserve the right to review and reject any application; however, we encourage you to contact us if you feel we have made an incorrect decision. Including all of the websites that you use in your profile will help us make a better decision.
WEBSITE RESTRICTIONS
Your participating website(s) may not:
• Infringe on our or any anyone else’s intellectual property, publicity, privacy, or other rights.
• Violate any law, rule, or regulation.
• Contain any content that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, harmful to minors, or contains nudity, pornography, or sexually explicit materials.
• Contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data, or personal information.
• Contain software or use technology that attempts to intercept, divert, or redirect Internet traffic to or from any other website, or that potentially enables the diversion of affiliate commissions from another website.
COUPON GUIDELINES
• Affiliates may only promote coupon codes available in the ShareASale platform.
• Affiliates will not earn commissions on orders placed using coupon codes not available in ShareASale.
• Coupon websites will not receive commission on orders where the click takes place within 5 minutes of checkout.
LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE
Upon acceptance into the Program, links will be made available to you through the affiliate interface. Your acceptance in our program means you agree to and abide by the following.
• You will only use linking code obtained from the affiliate interface without manipulation.
• All domains that use your affiliate link must be listed in your affiliate profile.
• Your website will not in any way copy, resemble, or mirror the look and feel of our website. You will also not use any means to create the impression that your website is our website or any part of our website, including, without limitation, framing of our website in any manner. You may not engage in cookie stuffing or include pop-ups, false or misleading links on your website. In addition, wherever possible, you will not attempt to mask the referring URL information (i.e. the page from where the click is originating).
• Using redirects to bounce a click off of a domain from which the click did not originate in order to give the appearance that it came from that domain is prohibited. This does not include using “out” redirects from the same domain where the affiliate link is placed.
PPC GUIDELINES
If you are enrolled in our Program and participate in pay-per-click (“PPC”) advertising, you must adhere to our PPC guidelines as follows:
• You may not bid on any of our trademarked terms (Vanity Planet), including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content based campaigns.
• You may not use our trademarked terms in sequence with any other keyword (i.e. Vanity Planet Coupons).
• You may not use our trademarked terms in your ad title, ad copy, and display name or as the display URL.
• You may not direct link to our website from any PPC ad or use redirects that yield the same result. Affiliates must be directed to an actual page on your website.
• You may not bid in any manner appearing higher than Vanity Planet for any search term in position 1-5 in any auction style PPC advertising program.
If you automate your PPC campaigns, it is your responsibility to exclude our trademarked terms from your program, and we strongly suggest you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords.
DOMAIN NAMES
Use of any of our trademarked terms as part of the domain or sub-domain for your website is strictly prohibited (i.e., Vanityplanet.website.com or www.Vanityplanet-coupons.com).
Abide by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Public Law No. 108-187) with respect to our Program.
E-mail must be sent on your behalf and must not imply that the e-mail is being sent on behalf of Vanity Planet.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Promotion on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms is permitted following these general guidelines:
• You ARE allowed to promote offers to your own lists; more specifically, you’re welcome to use your affiliate links on your own Facebook, Twitter, etc. pages.
• You ARE PROHIBITED from posting your affiliate links on Vanity Planet’s Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. company pages in an attempt to turn those links into affiliate sales.
• You ARE PROHIBITED from running Facebook ads with Vanity Planet’s trademarked company name.
• You ARE PROHIBITED from creating a social media account that includes Vanity Planet’s trademark in the page name and/or username.
REVERSAL POLICY
We reserve the right to reverse orders due to order cancellations, duplicate tracking, returns, disputed charges, and program violations as outlined in these terms and conditions.
FTC DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
You shall include a disclosure statement within any and all pages, blog/posts, or social media posts where affiliate links for our affiliate program are posted as an endorsement or review, and where it is not clear that the link is a paid advertisement. This disclosure statement should be clear and concise, stating that we are compensating you for your review or endorsement. If you received the product for free from us or from the affiliate management team for review, this also must be clearly stated in your disclosure.
Disclosures must be made as close as possible to the claims.
Disclosures should be placed above the fold; scrolling should not be necessary to find the disclosure. (e.g. Disclosure should be visible before the jump).
Pop-up disclosures are prohibited.
For more information about FTC disclosure requirements, please review the FTC's "Dot Com Disclosures" Guidelines at http://www.ftc.gov/os/2013/03/130312dotcomdisclosures.pdf; and the FTC's Endorsement Guidelines at http://business.ftc.gov/advertising-and-marketing/endorsements
INFLUENCER AGREEMENT
1. Engagement. Advertiser engages Influencer to post on Influencer’s social media channels, including but not limited to, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Blog, Facebook Page, Tumblr, Vine, SnapChat and WeChat (the “Social Media Channels”) a promotion for products sold by Advertiser (the “Promotions”). Influencer must post the initial Promotion within 21 days after execution of this Agreement. The Promotion may include any of the products designated by Advertiser and communicated to Influencer (the “Products”). The Promotion must remain posted on the Social Media Channels indefinitely and may only be removed after receiving written permission from Advertiser.
Influencer agrees to the following
• Provide 5 to 10 high resolution images (2500 px wide, 72 dpi) to Advertiser
• Follow these guidelines when creating content
? Highlight the most important aspect of the product
? Demo how to use the product/provide an image of yourself using product
? Link code, savings, tag name of brand, name of product and what you like most about it
? Show product/ branding clearly
2. Term and Termination. This Agreement will continue until terminated by either party upon 30 days’ written notice, or automatically if a party fails to cure a breach within 10 days’ of receipt of written notice from the other party describing the breach and the action required to cure the breach.
3. Approval Rights. Influencer shall submit the Promotion to Advertiser prior to publication on Social Media Channels for approval by Advertiser. Following receipt of written approval by Advertiser, which approval may be granted or withheld in Advertiser’s sole discretion, Influencer may post the approved Promotion on Social Media Channel(s). Promotions that were not approved by Advertiser prior to publication will not qualify for compensation.
4. Publication Rights. Advertiser shall have the perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, assignable right to use, publish, republish, distribute, exploit, sublicense and make derivative works of the Promotions created by Influencer under this Agreement.
5. Representations. Influencer represents and warrants to Advertiser that: (1) he/she is at least 18 years old and has the full legal capacity to execute this Agreement; (2) Influencer’s Promotions will comply with all applicable laws, including but not limited to laws, regulations and guides promulgated by the FTC, such as its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising; (3) Influencer will not, either during or after the term of this Agreement. disparage the Products, Advertiser, or any of Advertiser’s customers, agents, or affiliates in any way; (4) Influencer will perform the designed services under this Agreement in a professional and workmanlike manner and shall not make any misrepresentations regarding the Product, slanderous statements regarding any competing product or service, use profanity or engage in obscene acts within the Promotions.
6. Indemnity. Influencer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Advertiser, its agents, officers, employees, advertisers and customers from any claims, expenses, liabilities, costs, and damages (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising in any way from Influencer’s violation of any laws or regulations, or breach of any covenant, obligation or warranty contained in this Agreement.
7. Governing Law/Venue. Any dispute arising out the Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California and you agree to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts located in Orange County, California.
9. Confidentiality. Influencer agrees that this Agreement and the terms hereof, as well as any and all information pertaining to Advertiser, its customers or affiliates, which Advertiser communicates to Influencer and designates as confidential shall be deemed confidential and proprietary information of Advertiser and Influencer shall not, either during or after the term hereof, disclose such confidential information to any other person or entity without Advertiser’s prior written consent.
10. Additional Provisions. Influencer will provide the services hereunder solely as an independent contractor and has no authority to bind Advertiser in any way. No partnership, agency relationship or joint venture is created hereby. If any provision of this Agreement is deemed invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, all other provisions of the Agreement, which are not so affected, will remain in full force and effect.. This Agreement may only be modified by an instrument in writing signed by both parties. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Advertiser and Influencer with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior understandings, communications, and agreements between them, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. A waiver of any provision hereof with respect to one event shall not be construed as continuing, or as a bar to or waiver of any right or remedy as to subsequent events. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original for all purposes. The services being provided by Influencer under this Agreement are unique in character and are personal to the skills and Influencer of Influencer, and may not be assigned or delegated to any third party, unless expressly authorized by prior written consent of Advertiser. Advertiser may assign this Agreement without restriction. This Agreement will be deemed to have been jointly drafted by the parties and in the event of any ambiguity in interpretation, the ambiguity will not be resolved by any rule of interpretation providing for interpretation against the party who causes the uncertainty to exist or against the draftsman.
