AFFILIATE AGREEMENT FOR Conscious Copper
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 Conscious Copper 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.
COMMISSIONS
Advanced commission rules (conversion lines) are in place. Last-click attribution is no longer the sole method of deciding which affiliate earns the commission. Affiliate models such as traditional coupon-focused are subject to commission splitting or commission elimination when closing on influencer (content-focused) transactions. These end-of-funnel models receive less than default commission. If you have questions about your commission, ask the affiliate management team.
ADVERTISING
You do NOT have permission to spend money on ads specifically promoting Conscious Copper or its products, especially in search engines and social media. However, if you want to explore paid ads with our company, we are open to collaborating. Please reach out to our affiliate management team. These restrictions include but are not limited to: pay per click, pay per view, pay per impression, media buys, social media marketplaces (Facebook, Instagram), offline print publications, eBay, Craigslist, billboards, radio, tv/cable, YouTube, traffic exchanges 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.
PROMOTION
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.
Sub-affiliate transactions without referring URLs are subject to voids. We must know who is promoting our products and where the traffic is coming from. Coupon, loyalty and paid search affiliates are prohibited from using sub-affiliate networks to promote Conscious Copper .
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
You are required by Conscious Copper 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 Conscious Copper is compensating you for your review or endorsement. If you received the product for free from Conscious Copper for review, this also must be clearly stated in your disclosure.
Proper FTC disclosure is required to remain in the Conscious Copper affiliate program. Some specific examples that our affiliate management team will seek out when providing audits of your disclosures 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. (I.e., the 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 are sufficient.
Pop-up disclosures are prohibited. Disclosure statements in the sidebar or in the footer are not sufficient.
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. E.g.: This post contains an affiliate link, which means if you purchase after clicking the link I may receive compensation.
Using this natural language disclosure avoids triggering the Handshake Tool on Facebook or the Branded Content Tool on Instagram. Do not use either of these tools to connect with Conscious Copper.
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.
If you have questions email andy@consciouscopper.com.
