It is important that you read the following terms and conditions carefully before you apply, join or begin marketing the Green Kid Crafts program. You are responsible for assuring that your employees, agents and contractors comply with these terms and conditions. If you have any questions regarding these terms, please contact the affiliate program manager at Green Kid Crafts. DEFINITIONSAs used in these terms and conditions: (i) "We", "us", or "our" refers to Green Kid Crafts, Inc. ("Green Kid Crafts") and our website; (ii) "you" or "your" refers to the Affiliate; (iii) "our website" refers to the Green Kid Crafts properties located at http://www.greenkidcrafts.com/ and http://www.greenkidcraftsblog.com/ (iv) "your website" refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) "Program" refers to the Green Kid Crafts Affiliate Program.COMMISSION PAYOUTSThe Green Kid Crafts Commission structure will be set up as follows:1. All qualified monthly subscription purchases will be eligible for commission payouts. 2. Gift Subscription purchases do not automatically renew after their subscription period ends. Every Gift Subscription is eligible for a commission payout of $8.00 (eight dollars USD) - regardless of the subscription length.3. Standard Subscription purchases (also called Join purchases, since they originate from the Join page) automatically renew after their subscription period ends. Every Standard Subscription is eligible for a commission payout of $20.00 (twenty dollars USD) - regardless of the subscription length.4. Single item purchases, including (but not limited to), Discovery Boxes, Creativity Kits, STEM Science Kits, Birthday Party Favors and Gift Cards are NOT eligible for commission payouts. If multiple non-subscription items are purchased together, the commission payout remains $0 (zero dollars USD).ENROLLMENTAfter receiving your application, we will review your website and notify you of your acceptance or rejection into our Program. Please be sure that your profile includes all of the websites that you use . Providing additional information about why these sites are a fit for the program will help us better evaluate your application.Please allow up 48 hours for your application to be reviewed. We reserve the right to reject any application, however we encourage you to contact us if you feel we have made an incorrect decision.WEBSITE RESTRICTIONSYour participating website(s) may not:1.Infringe on our or any anyone else's intellectual property, publicity, privacy or other rights.2.Violate any law, rule or regulation.3.Contain any content that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, harmful to minors, or contains nudity, pornography or sexually explicit materials.4.Contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data, or personal information.5.Contain software or use technology that attempts to intercept, divert or redirect Internet traffic to or from any other website, or that potentially enables the diversion of affiliate commissions from another website.LINKING TO OUR WEBSITEUpon acceptance into the Program, links will be made available to you through the affiliate interface. Your acceptance in our program means you agree to and abide by the following.1.You will only use linking code obtained from the affiliate interface without manipulation.2.All domains that use your affiliate link must be listed in your affiliate profile.3.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.4.You may not engage in cookie stuffing or include pop-ups, false or misleading links on your website. In addition, wherever possible, you will not attempt to mask the referring url information (e.g., the page from where the click is originating).5.Using redirects to bounce a click off of a domain from which the click did not originate in order to give the appearance that it came from that domain is prohibited. If you are found redirecting links to hide or manipulate their original source, your current and past commissions will be voided or your commission level will be set to 0%. This does not include using "out" redirects from the same domain where the affiliate link is placed.PPC GUIDELINESIf you are enrolled in our Program and participate in PPC advertising, you must adhere to our PPC guidelines. Green Kid Crafts does not allow PPC or paid search without express permission of program manager. If you are interested in using PPC or paid search, please send a summary of your plans (and keywords) to affiliates@greenkidcrafts.com.All approved programs must follow the guidelines below: 1.You may not bid on any of our trademarked or prohibited terms (see list in ShareASale for comprehensive and current terms), including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content based campaigns on Google, MSN, Yahoo or any other network.2.You may not use our trademarked or prohibited terms in sequence with any other keyword (e.g., Green Kid Crafts Coupons)3.You may not use our trademarked or prohibited terms in your ad title, ad copy, display name or as the display url.4.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.5.You may not bid in any manner appearing higher than Green Kid Crafts for any search term in position 1-5 in any auction style pay-per-click advertising program If you automate your PPC campaigns, it is your responsibility to exclude our trademarked and prohibited terms from your program and we strongly suggest you add our trademarked and prohibited terms as negative keywords. We have a strict no tolerance policy on PPC trademark bidding. You will forfeit all commissions for a minimum of the past 30 days and your commission will be set to 0% without warning if you engage in PPC trademark bidding that uses our trademarked terms. Trademarked and Prohibited Terms: Green Kid Crafts, Green Kids Crafts, greenkidcrafts, greenkidscrafts, greenkidcrafts.com, greenkidscrafts.com. See Additional Prohibited Terms in ShareASale.6.These terms are subject to change. If our policy on PPC changes, affiliates will have 10 business days to adjust their campaigns appropriately. Be sure to follow the affiliate newsletter for notice of change or revisions to this policy. COUPON GUIDELINESIf 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 or that are displayed on our website(s).2.Posting any information about how to work around the requirements of a coupon/promotion (e.g., first time customers only) will result in removal from the program.3.Coupons must be displayed in their entirety with the full offer, valid expiration date and code.4.You may NOT use any technology that covers up the coupon code and generates the affiliate click by revealing the code(s).5.You may NOT advertise coupon codes obtained from our non-affiliate advertising, customer e-mails, paid search, or any other campaign.6.You may NOT give the appearance that any ongoing offer requires clicking from your website in order to redeem. For example, if all items on the site have free shipping over $100, you may not turn this into an offer that infers that the customer must click from your site to get this deal. Additionally, if your website ranks on the first page of Google for terms related to our website or company name(s) combined with the words coupon, coupons, coupon code, promo code, etc. and/or your conversion rate exceeds 25%, you may be offered a lower commission than our standard rate to offset the reduced profitability of orders. The current rate is 2%.DOMAIN NAMESUse of any of our trademarked or prohibited terms as part of the domain or sub-domain for your website is strictly prohibited (e.g., www.greenkidcrafts-deals.com )ADVERTISING & PUBLICITYYou shall not create, publish, distribute, or print any written material that makes reference to our Program without first submitting that 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 Green Kid Crafts3.E-mails MUST first be submitted to us for approval prior to being sent or we must be sent a copy of the e-mail.SOCIAL MEDIAPromotion on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms is permitted following these general guidelines:1.We encourage you to promote offers to your own lists and followers on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. pages. 2.You ARE PROHIBITED from posting your affiliate links on Green Kid Crafts’ Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or other company pages in an attempt to turn those links into affiliate sales.REVERSAL & COMMUNICATION POLICY To date, Green Kid Crafts has never had to reverse orders and hope that this continues. However, we do reserve the right to reverse orders due to order cancellations, duplicate tracking, returns, disputed charges, and program violations as outlined in these terms and conditions. Additionally, if we ask you for clarification or more information on any orders or clicks that we suspect may be in violation of our terms and conditions, we expect that you will respond in a timely and honest manner. Below are violations of our communications policy.1.You are not forthcoming, intentionally vague or are found to be lying.2.You are not responsive within a reasonable time period and after multiple attempts to contact with information listed in your network profile.3.You cannot substantiate or validate the source of your traffic to our program with clear and demonstrable proof.If any of the above apply, then we reserve the absolute right to reverse orders, set your commission to 0% or suspend you from the program for the period or orders in question. We know that many violations are a result of automated processes; however it is incumbent upon each affiliate to ensure that it has the appropriate checks and balances in place to pro-actively address these issues and adhere to our program rules.FTC DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTSYou shall include a disclosure statement within any and all pages/posts where affiliate links for our affiliate program are posted as an endorsement or review, and where it is not clear that the link is a paid advertisement. This disclosure statement should be clear and concise, stating that we are compensating you for your review or endorsement. If you received the product for free from us or from the affiliate management team for review, this also must be clearly stated in your disclosure.
