COLPOINT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED Affiliate Terms & Conditions
Please read our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our program or begin marketing our program. These terms and conditions are written in plain terms intentionally avoiding legalese to ensure that they may be clearly understood and followed by affiliates. Adherence to the terms and conditions provides that our TVCMall.com affiliate program is sustainable and profitable for both COLPOINT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED and our affiliates. It is each Affiliate’s responsibility to ensure compliance at all times and each affiliate is solely responsible for the actions of employees, agents, or contractors acting on that affiliate’s behalf. Thank you.
DEFINITIONS
As used in the below Terms: (i) “We”, “us”, or “our” refers to COLPOINT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED and our website; (ii) “you” or “your” refers to the Affiliate; (iii) “our website” refers to the COLPOINT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED properties located at http://www.tvcmall.com/. (iv) “your website” refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) “Program” refers to the TVCMall.com Affiliate Program.
ENROLLMENT
After receiving your application, we will review your website and notify you of your acceptance or rejection of our Program. Please allow up 48 hours for your application to be reviewed. We reserve the right to 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:
1. Infringe on our or any other person's or entity's intellectual property, publicity, privacy or other rights.
2. Violate any law, rule, or regulation.
3. Contain any content that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, harmful to minors, or contains nudity, pornography or sexually explicit materials.
4. Contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or personal information.
5. 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.
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 will agree to and abide by the following.
1. You agree that you will only use linking code obtained from the affiliate interface without manipulation.
2. All domains that use your affiliate link must be listed in your affiliate profile.
3. You hereby agree that 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.
4. Cookie stuffing, pop-ups, and false or misleading links are strictly prohibited. In addition, wherever possible, you will not attempt to mask the referring URL information (i.e. the page from where the click is originating).
5. 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 expressly prohibited and is a direct violation of the program terms.
If you are found redirecting links to hide or manipulate their original source, your current and past commissions will be voided or your commission level will be set to 0%. 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 PPC advertising, you shall do as follows:
You can not bid on any of our trademarked terms on Google Search Engines, excluding the words of variations or misspellings.
You can not use our trademark terms in sequence with other keywords (i.e. TVCMall.com Coupons).
You can not use our trademarked terms in your ad title, ad copy, display name, or as the display URL.
You can direct link to our website from the Pay Per Click ad or use redirects.
You can bid any of our product keywords on Google Search Engines
We accept all publishers in our program to run PPC campaigns for this time, please feel free to contact us if you have any questions!.
COUPON GUIDELINES
If you are enrolled in our Program and your Website promotes coupon codes, you must adhere to our Coupon Guidelines as follows:
You may ONLY advertise coupon codes that are provided to you through the affiliate program or network.
You may NOT advertise coupon codes obtained from our non-affiliate advertising, customer e-mails, paid search, or any other campaign.
On click-through, you must link directly to our website. Framing of our website is strictly prohibited.
Cookie Stuffing: You must not mislead customers into clicking on an offer or coupon that does not exist or practice similarly deceptive tactics that are generally accepted as “cookie stuffing.” These include, but are not limited to
Using knowingly expired offers or presenting offers that do not exist or are not affiliate offers
Making claims that a user must click on a link first to activate or receive an offer.
Presenting a button that claims to show all offers that set the affiliate cookie in the background
Technology that generates a click or sets the cookie from the action of copying a coupon code or through a pop-under.
ADVERTISING & PUBLICITY
You shall not create, publish, distribute, or print any written material that makes reference to our Program without first submitting such material to us and receiving our prior written consent. If you intend to promote our Program via e-mail campaigns, you must adhere to the following:
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 TVCMall.com.
E-mails must first be submitted to us for approval prior to being sent or we must be sent a copy of the e-mail.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Promotion on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms is permitted following these general guidelines:
1) 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. For example, You can post, “25% off sale at TVCMall.com through Wednesday with code Tvcmall25.”
2) You ARE PROHIBITED from posting your affiliate links on Company pages in an attempt to turn those sales into affiliate sales. It is not permitted to use the @ symbol so that your post shows up on the merchant’s page. For example, you cannot post, “25% off sale at @ TVCMall.com through Wednesday with code Tvcmall25.”
REVERSAL & COMMUNICATION POLICY
COLPOINT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED takes pride in our very low reversal rate, which we attribute to open communication with our affiliates. However, 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.
Additionally, if we ask you for clarification or more information on any orders or clicks that we suspect may be in violation of our terms and conditions, we expect that you will respond in a timely and honest manner. Below are violations of our communications policy.
1) You are not forthcoming, intentionally vague or are found to be lying.
2) You are not responsive within a reasonable time period and after multiple attempts to contact with information listed in your network profile.
3) You cannot substantiate or validate the source of your traffic to our program with clear and demonstrable proof.
If any of the above apply, then we reserve the absolute right to reverse orders, set your commission to 0%, or suspend you from the program for the period or orders in question. We know that many violations are a result of automated processes; however, it is incumbent upon each affiliate to ensure that they have the appropriate checks and balances in place to pro-actively address these issues and adhere to our program rules.
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