HockeyWorld.com 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 HockeyWorld.com affiliate program is sustainable and profitable for both HockeyWorld.com and our affiliates.
DEFINITIONS
As used in the below Terms: (i) “We”, “us”, or “our” refers to HockeyWorld.com; (ii) “you” or “your” refers to the Affiliate; (iii) “our website” refers to the HockeyWorld.com website located at www. HockeyWorld.com; (iv) “your website” refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) “Program” refers to the HockeyWorld.com Affiliate Program.
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 HockeyWorld.com affiliate program, reversal of sales, or reduction in commissions.
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, MSN, Yahoo or any other network. These trademark terms include HockeyWorld.com, HockeyWorld, www.hockeyworld.com, and similar terms unless given written permission.
2. You may not use our trademark terms in sequence with any other keyword (i.e. HockeyWorld.com Coupons) unless given written permission.
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.
If you automate your PPC campaigns, the responsibility is yours to exclude our trademark terms from your program and we strongly suggest 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: HockeyWorld.com, Hockey World, HockeyWorld, www. HockeyWorld.com
DOMAIN NAMES
You may use of any of our trademarked terms as part of the domain or sub-domain for your website i.e. HockeyWorld.website.com or www.website.com/ HockeyWorld
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. 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 HockeyWorld.com
3. E-mails must first be submitted to us for approval prior to being sent.
NEXUS AFFILIATE RESTRICTIONS
Prohibition against solicitation activities by resident affiliates in the states of Arkansas, California, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island: As a condition of its participation in the HockeyWorld.com Affiliate Program, Affiliate agrees that its solicitation activities on behalf of HockeyWorld.com within the States of Arkansas, California, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island shall be limited to providing a link on Affiliate’s website to the HockeyWorld.com website. Affiliate acknowledges that under current State Law in Arkansas, California, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, further solicitation and promotional activities by Affiliate within their respective state may subject HockeyWorld.com to liability for collecting sales tax in that state. Therefore, Affiliate is prohibited from engaging in any solicitation activities in the states of Arkansas, California, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island intended to refer potential customers to HockeyWorld.com, including, but not limited to: distributing flyers, coupons newsletters and other printed materials, or electronic equivalents of such materials, engaging in verbal solicitation, including in-person referrals or initiating telephone calls, and sending emails intended to refer customers to HockeyWorld.com. Further, Affiliate agrees that it will, upon reasonable request, issue annual affidavits certifying that they are not conducting any prohibited solicitation activities on behalf of HockeyWorld.com.
