In effect from October 19th, 2022
This Affiliate Service Agreement (the "Agreement") is made by and between VitalRemedyMD Inc. (“VR”), and you as a Publisher/Affiliate (“Affiliate”) utilizing the AWIN service ("the Service").
You must agree to abide by the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement 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 the Affiliate Window Service as an Affiliate.
The following agreement is summarized as follows:
1. You place our banners anywhere on your site as you like, or within non-spam emails.
2. Adult, Hate, or other related sites are not allowed. You cannot link directly to the VR sites outside of the Affiliate Window platform.
3. If you are creating product links, please be sure to take these from the product feed. Links taken from other sources may result in commissions being declined as they are identified as coming from a different channel. You CANNOT take content directly from VR, which is not present on the product feed or on the Offer section.
4. Any page containing our links, banners, or codes must be written in English. In case you would like to work with another language please contact us under info@vitalremedymd.com for written approval.
5. Affiliates need to get prior approval from VR, if they wish to send out any emails about the program.
6. You may place banners or links within your newsletters, in content of your website, or within other web related content.
7. 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.
8. NOT ALLOWED: Any display of a merchant window that isn't the result of a direct click by the end-user.
9. Failure to abide by these rules could mean the suspension of your collaboration with a complete forfeit of commissions
10. 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.
EMAIL CONTACT
We reserve the right to send e-mail to you for the purposes of informing you of applicable changes or additions to the Service or related products and services.
CHANGES TO THE SERVICE
We reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Agreement at any time and may add to, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time. In the event of any material change, we’ll notify you via e-mail, newsletter or at least 30 days prior to any such changes taking effect, at which time you may either agree to such changes or withdraw from the Service.
VR is not liable for any loss of data or interruptions of service on the AWIN web site(s).
COOKIES
For details, please see our Privacy Policy under https://vitalremedymd.com/policies/privacy-policy
PRIVACY POLICY
VR will 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 info@vitalremedymd.com
COPYRIGHTS
VitalRemedyMD, Inc. owns all copyrights to VR brands, marketing materials, websites and products. Affiliates and purchasers do not have the rights to redistribute or resell our
products or derivative versions of our products outside of this agreement as a reseller. Affiliates may market our products, but all sales must be processed through the Service.
ACTIVITIES
1. Pay Per Click search activity
Affiliates ARE NOT PERMITTED to carry out any PPC search activity sending traffic to vitalremedymd.com directly. If an affiliate is found running PPC activity, this may result in them being removed from the program. Any affiliate found running PPC Activity will see their participation terminated immediately and any related commissions voided.
Affiliates also must not send traffic through automatic redirects on a website page.
Affiliates generating traffic to their own sites must also abide by the following rules.
a. Using the VR brand term in the sub folder of the display URL (eg www.affiliate.com/vitalremedymd) – NOT ALLOWED
b. Using the VR brand term in the sub domain of the display URL (eg VRwww.vitalremedymd.affiliate.com) – NOT ALLOWED
c. Using the VR brand in the ad title – NOT ALLOWED
d. Bid on the brand term “vitalremedymd” – NOT ALLOWED
e. Advertise as the brand- NOT ALLOWED
f. Show adverts on competitors’ brands – NOT ALLOWED
2. Advertising as VR
Publishers are not allowed to do any form of advertising as the VR brand.
3. Discount code / voucher code websites
a. Publishers must not display made up / invented discount codes on their site(s) or display discount codes that were intended for use in other channels or for other online publishers. If you are found doing this, your participation in the VR program will be terminated immediately and commissions voided.
b. Under no circumstances are publishers allowed to surreptitiously use i-frames to set cookies onto a user’s computer.
c. Discount code and deals publishers are accepted in the program if do not promote discount codes.
4. Email Marketing
All email marketing must be signed off previously by VR.
Creative
Affiliates may not alter any of the creative made available through the Service. Affiliates are also requested not to hardcode banners into their sites, so updates made to those available through Affiliate Service may take immediate effect. If your site requires that banners are hardcoded, please contact the account management team to obtain permission before putting this in place. This will allow us to contact you whenever updates are necessary.
Affiliate Payment
The affiliate commission (as defined under “Transactions” below) will be pre-approved after the order has been placed and confirmed by VR. We're able to track all transactions generated from your site and operate a 365 day payment window. Payment will be done according to the Terms & Conditions of the Service.
You warrant that you are acting as an independent party and as such are responsible for your own taxes and any other liabilities. You agree that you are not authorized to act on our behalf other than marketing our products and services as an independent party for a commission.
PPC _ Policy Definition
• If Affiliates/Publishers promote you via PPC, will they be entitled to full commission? -NO
• If publishers directly link to your website from search engines, will they receive full commission? - NO
• If publishers use your brand name in their display URL, will they receive full commission? -NO
• If publishers use your brand name in their paid search title and description, will they receive full commission? – NO
• If publishers add your brand name into their negative keyword list, will they receive full commission? – NO
• If publishers display their ads when your brand name or variations of your brand name are entered as search keywords, will they receive full commission? (e.g. vitalremedymd, vitalremedy md) - NO
• If publishers display their ads when misspellings of your brand name are entered as search keywords will they receive full commission? (e.g. vitalremedi)
• If publishers display their ads when your brand name and another word are entered as search keywords, will they receive full commission? (e.g. Vodafone Mobile) - NO
• Do you have a restricted group of publishers who can earn commission on sales generated by brand related terms? – NO
• For any agreed publisher paid search activity, will publishers be paid for sales generated from the following search engines? – NO
o Google – NO
o Yahoo – NO
o Bing – NO
o Other -NO
• Are there any specific search terms (keywords) where sales from publisher PPC ads will not be eligible to earn commission? – YES
• If publishers/affiliates place shopping ads on a search engine and link directly to your website, are they eligible to receive full commission? – NO
• If publishers place shopping ads on a search engine such as a Comparison-Shopping Service (CSS), does this activity need to be tracked in a separate specific publisher account? -NO
Transactions_Policy Definition
• Does the transaction value that commissions are paid on include VAT / sales tax? – YES
• Does the transaction value that commissions are paid on include credit card fees? – YES
• Does the transaction value that commissions are paid on include delivery charges? – YES
• Does the transaction value that commissions are paid on include gift wrapping or other service charges? –YES
• Are commissions not paid out on some products or product categories? - NO
For what reasons are commissions declined?
o Order canceled – YES
o Item was returned without quality-related reason – YES
o Customer failed credit check – YES
o Breach of program terms – YES
o Duplicate order - YES
o Item was out of stock – NO
Affiliates/Publishers_Policy Definition
• What promotional types of publishers/affiliates are allowed to work on your program?
• Cashback – NO
• Community – YES
• Content – YES
• Loyalty – YES
• Search -YES
• Coupon Code – NO
• E-mail -YES
• Behavioural Retargeting – Yes
• Media Brokers – YES
Are there any other restrictions that publishers need to consider? For example, promoting adult content or age-restricted products. - YES
