Affiliate Agreement for: SONU Sleep
Please read our full affiliate agreement carefully before you join our program or begin marketing our program. 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 SONU Sleep 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.
Definitions
As used in the below Terms: (i) "We", "us", or "our" refers to SONU Sleep; (ii) "you" or "your" refers to the Affiliate; (iii) "our website" refers to the SONU Sleep website located at sonusleep.com; (iv) "your website" refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) "Program" refers to the SONU Sleep Affiliate Program.
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, loyalty/cashback and shopping cart abandonment 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. In order to earn commissions, all orders must include a mattress purchase.
If you have questions about your commission, ask the affiliate management team.
Commissions to be paid out only for sales that include a Mattress purchase.
Advertising
You do not have permission to spend money on ads specifically promoting SONU Sleep 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, Pinterest ads), 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.
Trademark
Trademark names include SONU Sleep, sonusleep.com, SONUSleep, SONU-Sleep, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these keywords.
Affiliate agrees not to register or use any URLs, domains or social profiles (pages, groups, forums) which are considered by SONU Sleep to be infringing on the SONU Sleep name or trademark, including but not limited to any registered trademark and all pending trademarks.
Affiliate agrees not to use, purchase or otherwise contract with a third party to exploit any of the SONU Sleep marks or registered domain names, or any marks or domain names which may, in SONU Sleep's reasonable discretion, be confused with SONU Sleep marks or registered domain names, including but not limited to misspellings of SONU Sleep marks or registered domain names, whether in metatags or otherwise.
Deals, Coupons and Promotions
Yes, you can purchase through your own affiliate links. We encourage you to purchase our products so that you may be able to share and speak to the entire customer experience from a place of genuine authenticity.
When promoting SONU Sleep, find all coupon codes through the ShareASale Deals and Coupons Database under the Links Tab. Read our newsletters to learn about new deals/offers and promotional tips. Talk to the affiliate managment team.
Affiliates are not permitted to use misleading text, images or links that imply any deal that is not expressly authorized through the affiliate channel.
The use of exclusive coupon codes by unauthorized affiliates will result in voided transactions. User-submitted coupon codes from other marketing channels such as email or Facebook marketing are prohibited from use by affiliates. We have the right to void those sales.
Expired coupons and deals must be removed or clearly marked as expired immediately. You are not allowed to post coupons/offers that are not available via the ShareASale Deals and Coupons database.
Forced click coupons/offers or offers/coupons that are hidden and require a click to reveal the actual coupon code/offer are prohibited. All coupon codes/offers must be viewable without additional clicks. Publishers who violate this rule may be removed from the program.
Only use logos, banners and images provided through the ShareASale interface or provided by the affiliate managment team. 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 SONU Sleep.
We reserve the right to reverse transactions due to order cancellations, duplicate tracking, returns, credit card fraud, disputed charges or violations of this agreement.
Sub-Networks
Subnetworks are required to filter out or remove all coupon and loyalty/cashback websites from joining the SONU Sleep affiliate program via their network. Coupon, Deal, Cashback, and Loyalty sites must apply to the SONU Sleep affiliate program directly through ShareASale.
FTC Compliance
You are required by SONU Sleep 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 SONU Sleep is compensating you for your review or endorsement. If you received the product for free from SONU Sleep for review, this also must be clearly stated in your disclosure.
Proper FTC disclosure is required to remain in the SONU Sleep 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. Example:
This post contains an affiliate link, which means if you purchase after clicking the link I may receive compensation.
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.
Questions
If you have any questions, please contact our affiliate management team via ShareASale or Hit reply to any newsletter.
