AFFILIATE AGREEMENT FOR 97TAX
The term of this agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your affiliate application and/or any modifications of this agreement and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this agreement at any time, with or without cause. As an affiliate, you have already accepted binding terms with the ShareASale network. The following agreement is specific to your engagement with 97tax and our affiliate management team.
Breach of these terms could lead to immediate termination from our program, negative feedback on your network profile and voids in transactions.
ADVERTISING
You do NOT have permission to spend money on ads specifically promoting our brand or products, especially in search engines and social media. However, if you want to explore paid ads with our brand, we are open to collaborating. Please reach out to the 97tax team. These restrictions include but are not limited to: pay per click, pay per view, pay per impression, media buys on ad networks, social media marketplaces (Facebook, Instagram), offline print publications, billboards, radio, tv, YouTube and others. No direct linking, no trademark keyword bidding, no trademark plus coupon keyword bidding, no non-trademark keyword bidding. We monitor this account daily for violations.
TRADEMARK
Trademark names include 97tax and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these keywords.
Affiliate agrees not to register or use any URLs, domains or social profiles (pages, groups, forums) which are considered by 97tax to be infringing on the 97tax name or trademark, including but not limited to any registered trademark and all pending trademarks. Affiliate agrees not to use, purchase or otherwise contract with a third party to exploit any of the 97tax marks or registered domain names, or any marks or domain names which may, in 97tax reasonable discretion, be confused with 97tax marks or registered domain names, including but not limited to misspellings of 97tax marks or registered domain names, whether in metatags or otherwise.
DEALS AND PROMOTIONS
YES, you can purchase through your own affiliate links. We encourage you to purchase our products so that you may be able to share and speak to the entire customer experience from a place of genuine authenticity.
YES, we want you to promote our products on social media, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, along with proper FTC disclosure. (See below)
Only use logos, banners and images provided through the ShareASale interface. Contact the affiliate management team before using any images from the merchant website or social media.
We reserve the right to reverse transactions due to order cancellations, duplicate tracking, returns, credit card fraud, disputed charges or violations of this agreement.
FTC COMPLIANCE
For more information and suggestions about how to comply with the FTC’s Endorsement Guidelines, please review the FTC Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, the FTC Endorsements website resource and the FTC Dot Com Disclosures. Please note that the FTC guides and resources are only intended to provide guidance. They do not purport to provide legal advice and they do not guarantee that you will be in compliance with FTC regulations if you follow the suggestions presented. You are advised to seek and obtain your own legal advice on how these rules apply to your website or other promotional activities for which you receive compensation.
You are required by 97tax to disclose your affiliate relationship on any promotion for this merchant. This includes but is not limited to blog posts, videos, emails, social media and website pages. Your audience must understand you could earn commissions if they click your links. This disclosure statement should be clear and concise, stating that 97tax is compensating you for your review or endorsement. If you received the product for free from 97tax for review, this also must be clearly stated in your disclosure.
Some specific examples that our affiliate management team will seek out when providing audits of your endorsements include but are not limited to:
- 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).
- For Image-heavy platforms, such as Pinterest, Instagram Stories, Snapchat, etc., #ad should be on the image or the first image in a series. On video platforms, such as YouTube, verbal disclosure within the video as well as text disclosure in the description is sufficient.
- Pop-up disclosures are prohibited.
- Social media posts must include proper disclosure which may include hashtags such as #ad, #advertisement and #sponsored. Hashtags such as #sp, #spon, #affiliate or #aff are NOT acceptable. Forms such as Ad, (Ad), //Ad// are acceptable on Facebook, as is natural language disclosure, if it's clear and concise. Eg: This post does contain an affiliate link, which means if you purchase after clicking the link I may receive compensation.
