Mattress Insider's AFFILIATE TERMS & CONDITIONS: Please read our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our program or begin marketing our program. Each Affiliate is responsible for assuring that its employees, agents and contractors comply with these terms and conditions. Affiliate terms and conditions are subject to change. Thank you. ENROLLMENT After receiving your application, we will review your website and notify you of your acceptance or rejection into our Program. 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 RESTRICTIONS Your 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 content that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, harmful to minors, or contains nudity, pornography or sexually explicit materials. 4. Contain 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. This includes toolbars, browser plug-ins, extensions and add-ons. LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE Upon acceptance into the Program, links will be made available to you through the affiliate interface. Your acceptance in our program means you agree to 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 (i.e. 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 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 (which are identified below), including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content-based campaigns on Google, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook or any other network. 2. You may not use our trademarked terms in sequence with any other keyword (i.e. Mattress Insider Coupons). 3. You may not use our trademarked 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. Affiliate links must be directed to an actual page on your website. 5. You may not bid in any manner appearing higher than Mattress Insider 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 terms from your program. 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% if you engage in PPC trademark bidding that uses our trademarked terms. Trademarked Terms: MattressInsider; Mattress Insider; MattressInsider.com; Mattress Insider LLC; Sedona Mattress; Elation Mattress, Ovation Mattress; Deluxe Sofa Bed Mattress; 8” Luxury. 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. 2. Posting any information about how to work around the requirements of a coupon/promotion (ie 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 any non-affiliate marketing channel, including coupon codes from our email, paid search or any other campaigns. 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., you will be offered a lower commission than our standard rate to offset the reduced profitability of orders. The current rate is 2%. COUPON ATTRIBUTION & AUTHENTICATION Valid coupon codes are defined as codes that are made available to the affiliate, through newsletters or the Deals Database in ShareaSale, and directly or privately to affiliates. Coupon codes that are not real, expired, not specific (i.e up to 40% off sale items) or are long-term sitewide offers that do not require a code may not be considered valid codes and the affiliate will not be given commission on these orders. SUB-AFFILIATE NETWORKS Promoting Mattress Insider through a sub-affiliate network is permitted, however you must be completely transparent with regards to where traffic from your sub-affiliates originated. Sub-affiliate networks must ensure that all sub-affiliates promoting the Mattress Insider program adhere to our program terms and conditions. DOMAIN NAMES Use of any of our trademarked terms as part of the domain or sub-domain for your website is strictly prohibited i.e. MattressInsider.website.com or www.MattressInsider-coupons.com ADVERTISING & PUBLICITY You 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 Mattress Insider. 3. 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 MEDIA Promotion on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms is permitted following these general guidelines: 1. You ARE allowed to promote offers to your own lists; more specifically, you’re welcome to use your affiliate links on your own Facebook, Twitter, etc. pages. For example: You may post, “25% off sale at Mattress Insider through Wednesday with code MattressInsider25.” 2. You ARE PROHIBITED from posting your affiliate links on MattressInsider’s Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. company pages in an attempt to turn those links into affiliate sales. 3. You ARE PROHIBITED from running FaceBook ads with Mattress Insider's trademarked company name. 4. You ARE PROHIBITIED from creating a social media account that includes MattressInsider’s trademark in the page name and/or username. OPERATIONS OUTSIDE UNITED STATES If you are conducting business in or taking orders from persons in other countries, you will follow the laws of those countries. For example, you will comply with the European Union’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive if you are conducting business in or taking orders from persons in one or more of the European Union countries. REVERSAL & COMMUNICATION POLICY Mattress Insider takes pride in its very low reversal rate, which we attribute to open communication with our affiliates. However, we 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. FTC DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS You shall include a disclosure statement within any and all pages, blog/posts, or social media 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.
