General Terms and Conditions of the solebox Affiliate Program
The Affiliate affirms that he/she has accepted the General Terms and Conditions of the affiliate network through which he/she is applying for the solebox affiliate program. He further undertakes to observe the following terms and conditions of Snipes. Violations of these terms and conditions or the terms and conditions of the affiliate network entitle Sole Brothers GmbH to immediately terminate participation in the solebox affiliate program and/or cancel the leads/sales generated in violation of the rules.
1. Advertising with the solebox Brand
a. The advertising materials offered may not be modified in any way. The solebox.com website may not be accessed directly in a PopUp, PopUnder, Frame or iFrame. The links provided with the advertising media may also not be modified.
b. The Affiliate may only use the name, logo and own brands of solebox and advertising materials provided via the Network for measures in the area of affiliate marketing. The data are excluded for the use of offline measures. Furthermore, the use of the solebox name or logo for PR activities and direct marketing measures of any kind, in particular newsletters, must be agreed in advance with solebox Affiliate Management and requires prior written consent. For this purpose, please contact: affiliate@solebox.com
c. Only those promotions and vouchers may be communicated to which you have access via the voucher tool of the Affiliate Network and/or about which you have been notified via the Affiliate Newsletter of the Network. CRM vouchers, such as those from the newsletter, will not be compensated.
d. It is not permitted to post on the solebox Facebook fan page, these will be removed from the fan page.
e. Dissemination of spam e-mails is prohibited. The owner of the e-mail address has expressly agreed in advance to the receipt of advertising by e-mail by "opt-in". In addition, the affiliate is clearly recognizable as the sender; the impression must not be created that the mail was sent by solebox. When sending newsletters and/or e-mail advertising, the express written consent must also be obtained from solebox by fax or e-mail.
f. It is not allowed to publicly advertise codes for vouchers that require registration.
g. Applications from layer partners and banner networks will not be accepted.
h. Cookiedropping / Typosquatting is strictly prohibited.
i. The affiliate website must not have spyware, adware, malware, viruses and other harmful content. The use of software or proxy services that alter or manipulate URLs and employ tracking links is not permitted. In addition, software or proxy services that replace advertising banners with their own ads are prohibited.
j. Any affiliate website used for promotion must be transparently viewable. If these conditions are not met, Sole Brothers GmbH reserves the right to terminate the partnership (all campaigns in all countries).
2. SEM
a. The term " solebox " may not be booked as a keyword on search engines - not even in connection with other words and/or brands of the Group. Neither as a result link, nor as a special booking outside the result links displayed on Internet search engines (e.g. Adwords Select or Premium placements on Google).
b. Furthermore, it is not permitted for affiliates to book the solebox own brands of Sole Brothers GmbH as a keyword on Google or other search engines.
c. Booking on misspelled keywords or keywords that differ only slightly from the original keyword is also prohibited, e.g. slebox, solebx, olebox, solbox (...). Thus, when advertising via SEM, the brand name solebox as well as variations/typing errors must additionally be booked negatively via the booking option Negative Broad in order to prevent delivery. These terms as well as their misspellings may not be placed in search engines. Furthermore, it is prohibited to use domain names which directly or indirectly cause name-legal violations of the solebox brand.
3. General Exclusion Criteria
Affiliates who publish the following content from their websites will not be admitted to the solebox affiliate program
• Political, erotic or pornographic content
• Weapons, violence and glorification of violence
• Positive portrayal of drugs, alcohol and tobacco
• contents relevant to criminal law
• Insults or content that violates the rights of third parties
Affiliates of the following segments are also not eligible for the affiliate program:
- Banner Networks
- Voucher Sites
- Sites without content, incorrect domains or inaccessible pages
- Operators of paidmail systems cannot participate in the Affiliate Program
- Postview
- Browser Extensions
- CSS activities only after prior agreement
4. further requirements for affiliate websites
• Complete imprint
• Site in German language
• appealing website design
• Newsletter sender: Affiliates who send newsletters to users as their main business model should additionally consider the following: All addresses must have been generated using the double opt-in process and the newsletter template must be submitted to the SNIPES Affiliate Team for approval prior to sending.
5. Other
a. Commission: Furthermore, the Affiliate is not entitled to disclose the amount of the agreed commission to the end customer.
b. Affiliates who have an individual commission agreement are excluded from all standard compensation models, bonus scales or special compensation within the scope of promotions.
c. Updates: The Affiliate is obliged to ensure completeness, accuracy and constant updating of the data and information provided by solebox, e.g. on promotions.
d. Sole Brothers GmbH reserves the right to terminate an existing partnership and/or withhold the commission.
e. The cookie duration is 30 days, whereby the principle of "last cookie wins" is applied. As soon as the user is in the first log-in step, where he has the opportunity to complete his
order (start of data entry), the existing cookie cannot be overwritten for a period of 10 minutes ("Cookiefreeze"). After the 10 minutes have elapsed, the cookie freeze is lifted, allowing the cookie to be overwritten.
