The MyGiftStop Affiliate Terms & Conditions
Please read our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our program or begin marketing of 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 MyGiftStop affiliate program is sustainable and profitable for both MyGiftStop and our affiliates.
DEFINITIONS
As used in the below Terms: (i) “We”, “us”, or “our” refers to MyGiftStop.; (ii) “you” or “your” refers to the Affiliate; (iii) “our website” refers to the MyGiftStop website located at MyGiftStop.com; (iv) “your website” refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) “Program” refers to the MyGiftStop Affiliate Program.
COMMISSIONS
We use advance attribution rules in the MyGiftStop program. Commission levels are based on the type of referral site, as well as new vs existing customer. If you have questions about commission rates please contact our team. MyGiftStop@snow-consulting.com
COUPON GUIDELINES
If you are enrolled in our Program and your Website promotes coupon codes, you must adhere to our Coupon Guidelines as follows:
1. You may ONLY advertise coupon codes that are provided to you through the affiliate program or network.
2. You may NOT advertise coupon codes obtained from our non-affiliate advertising, customer e-mails, paid search, or any other campaign.
3. Violation of these terms may result in removal from the MyGiftStop affiliate program, reversal of sales, or reduction in commissions.
4. No commission will be given on sales where a customer uses restricted coupon codes.
We can provide you with a list of codes to suppress. Please email MyGiftStop@snow-consulting.com
PPC GUIDELINES
If you are enrolled in our Program and participate in PPC advertising, you must adhere to our PPC guidelines as follows:
1. You may not bid on any of our trademarked terms, including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content based campaigns on Google, Bing, Yahoo or any other network.
These trademark terms include: MyGiftStop,MyGiftStop Coupons, MyGiftStop.com , and similar terms or variations.
2. You may not use our trademark terms in sequence with any other keyword (e.g “MyGiftStop Coupons”,“MyGiftStop.com coupons”).
3. You may not direct link to our website from any Pay-Per-Click ad or use redirects that yield the same result. Affiliates must be directed to an actual page on your website.
4. You may not use our URL MyGiftStop.com as your Display URL, however use as a subfolder or subdomain (i.e. http://www.yoursite.com/MyGiftStop.) is permissible.
If you automate your PPC campaigns, the responsibility is yours to exclude our trademark terms from your program and we require you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords.
If you violate these PPC guidelines your current and past commission will be set to 0% without warning. Trademarked Terms: MyGiftStop, MyGiftStop.com
DOMAIN NAMES
Use of any of our trademarked terms or misspellings as part of the domain for your website is strictly prohibited. (e.g. MyGiftStop -trademark.com or MyGiftStop -coupons.com as examples).
WHOLESALE or BULK TRANSACTIONS (Intended for Resale)
Transactions made through MyGiftStop affiliate program are not eligible for commission.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Affiliates are not permitted to use TM, TM+terms or any variation or misspelling to create pages or accounts on Facebook/Youtube/Twitter/Reddit/Instagram etc., including but not limited to MyGiftStop, MyGiftStop.com, MyGiftStop + keyword
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. You are not permitted to create advertising campaigns, or accounts that represent yourself as MyGiftStop or as an agent of MyGiftStop.
If you intend to promote our Program via e-mail campaigns, you must adhere to the following:?
1. Abide by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Public Law No. 108-187) with respect to our Program. 2. E-mail must be sent on your behalf and must not imply that the e-mail is being sent on behalf of MyGiftStop.
3. E-mails must first be submitted to us for approval prior to being sent. It is entirely your responsibility to follow all applicable intellectual property and other laws that pertain to your site. You must have express permission to use any person's copyrighted material, whether it be a writing, an image, or any other copyrightable work.
We will not be responsible (and you will be solely responsible) if you use another person's copyrighted material or other intellectual property in violation of the law or any third party rights.
We strongly advise affiliates to stay compliant with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines on testimonials and endorsements.
All endorsements, reviews, testimonials on MyGiftStop products and services, as well as relationships between other types of content websites (forums, blogs, microblogs and other Social Media channels) and MyGiftStop must be clearly disclosed in a separate policy on the affiliate sites.
The FTC points out that “when there exists a connection between the endorser and the seller of the advertised product” it is imperative that such connection is “fully disclosed”. The FTC deems the relationship in an endorser-sponsor light, and believes that the end user has the right to understand that one exists
Resouces:
http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-publishes-final-guides-governing-endorsements-testimonials/091005revisedendorsementguides.pdf
We share the undergirding idea of this approach and strongly encourage our affiliates to adhere to the FTC’s rules. We also reserve the right to terminate a relationship with any non-compliant affiliates. We have the right to monitor your site at any time to determine if you are following the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
We may notify you of any changes to your site that we feel should be made, or to make sure that your links to our web site are appropriate and to notify further you of any changes that we feel should be made.
If you do not make the changes to your site that we feel are necessary, we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the MyGiftStop Affiliate Program.
QUESTIONS
If any of these terms are unclear, please contact MyGiftStop@snow-consulting.com for clarification or questions.
