DEFINITIONS
As used in the below Terms: (i) "Portland Leather Goods" "We", "us", or "our" refers to Portland Leather Goods, LLC. (ii) "You" or "your" refers to the Affiliate (iii) "Our Website" refers to the portlandleathergoods.com properties, "Your Website" refers to any Websites that you will link to our Website; "Program" refers to the Portland Leather’s Affiliate Program.
ENROLLMENT
After receiving your application, we will review your Website and notify you of your acceptance or rejection into our Program. Please allow up to 48 hours (Mon-Fri) for your application to be approved. We reserve the right to reject any application; however we encourage you to contact us if you feel we have made an incorrect decision. Please include all websites that you use in your profile as that will help us make a better decision.
LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE
Upon acceptance into the Program, links will be made available to you through the Affiliate Window interface. You agree that you will only use linking code obtained from Affiliate Window without manipulation. Also, please ensure that all domains where you use our link are listed in your affiliate network profile.
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. 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). Using redirects to bounce a click off of a domain where 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. 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 must adhere to our PPC Guidelines as follows:
- You may not bid on any of our branded terms, including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content based campaigns on Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask or any other network.
- You may not use our branded terms in sequence with any other keyword (i.e. Portland Leather Coupons).
- You may not use our branded terms in your ad title, ad copy, display name or as the display url.
If you automate your PPC campaigns, the responsibility is on you to exclude our trademark terms from your program and we strongly suggest you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords. We have a strict no tolerance policy on PPC trademark bidding. We will not enter a discussion about when the violation started and when it stopped; you will forfeit all commissions for a minimum of the past 30 days.
Branded Terms Include (but not limited): Portland Leather, Portland Leather Goods, Portland Leather Discounts, Portland Leather Bags etc…
DOMAIN NAMES
Use of any of our copyrighted & trademarked terms as part of the domain or sub-domain for your website is strictly prohibited i.e. portlandleathergoods.com.
The following agreement is summarized as follows:
- You place our banners anywhere on your site as you see fit, or within non-spam emails.
- Adult, Hate, or other related sites are not allowed. You cannot link directly to the Portland Leather sites outside of the Affiliate Window platform.
- 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 Portland Leather, which is not present on the product feed.
- Any page containing our links, banners, or codes must be written in English
- Affiliates need to get prior approval from Portland Leather, if they wish to send out any emails about the program.
- You may place banners or links within your newsletters, in content of your website, or within other web related content.
- 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.
- NOT ALLOWED: Any display of a merchant window that isn't the result of a direct click by the end-user.
- Failure to abide by these rules could mean the suspension of your collaboration with a complete forfeit of commissions
- 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.
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.
AFFILIATE PAYMENT
The affiliate commission will be pre-approved after the order has been placed and confirmed by Portland Leather.
