BasicInvite.com LLC Affiliate Terms & Conditions
Updated 2/19/2014
Please read our affiliate terms of agreement carefully before you apply to our program or start advertising on behalf of Basic Invite.
Definitions
As used in the following Affiliate Terms of Agreement, “we”, “us”, or “our” refers to Basic Invite and its websites. “You” or “your” refers to the Affiliate. The “Program” refers to the Basic Invite Affiliate Program.
Enrollment into the Basic Invite Affiliate Program
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 at our sole discretion if we feel your site is unsuitable for our program. However, we encourage you to contact us to explain your marketing intentions if you feel we have made an incorrect decision.
Unsuitable sites may include, but are not limited to, sites that:
1) Contain content that is not appropriate or relevant to Basic Invite and its products
2) Are primarily a link or banner farm that contains little to no content •Promote sexually explicit materials, discrimination, illegal activities, violence, or anything similar
3) Do not comply with the Basic Invite affiliate agreement
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.
By participating in the Program you agree that you will not engage in any such activities. If we reject your application, you are welcome to re-apply to the Program at any time. You should also note that if we accept your application and your site is thereafter determined (in our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program, we may terminate this Agreement (your program contract).
LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE
You will only use linking code obtained from the affiliate interface without manipulation.
1) All domains that use your affiliate link must be listed in your affiliate profile.
2) 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.
3) 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).
4) 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.
5) 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:
Trademarked Terms: www.basicinvite.com, BasicInvite, Basic Invite
1) You may not use our trademarked terms in your ads as part of the ad copy, the ad title, the display name, or the display URL .
2) You may not bid on any of our trademarked terms or misspellings of our trademarked terms for search or content based campaigns on search networks.
3) You may not bid on our trademarked terms in sequence with any other keyword (i.e. BasicInvite.com coupon code, Basic Invite coupon code).
4) You agree that bids for non-compete brand terms for any search term in position 1-5 in any auction style pay-per-click advertising program may not exceed those of Basic Invite. We recommend you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords in your campaign.
5) You may not direct link to our website from any Pay Per Click ad or use redirects that yield the same result. The destination URL must be an actual page on your website.
BasicInvite.com LLC has a strict no tolerance policy on PPC trademark bidding. You will forfeit all commissions for a minimum of the past 30 days and your your account will be suspended without notice.
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).
You may NOT advertise coupon codes obtained from our non-affiliate advertising, customer e-mails, paid search, or any other campaign.
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 1%.
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. basicinvite.website.com or www.basicinvite-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.
EMAIL
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 Basic Invite
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, “20% off sale at Basic Invite through Wednesday with code Feb20.”
2) You ARE PROHIBITED from posting your affiliate links on Basic Invite’s Facebook, Twitter, etc. company pages in an attempt to turn those links into affiliate sales.
3) You ARE PROHIBITED from running Facebook ads with Basic Invite’s trademarked company name.
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
Basic Invite 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.
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.
4)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 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.
1) Disclosures must be made as close as possible to the claims.
2) Disclosures should be placed above the fold; scrolling should not be necessary to find the disclosure. (e.g. Disclosure should be visible before the jump).
3) Pop-up disclosures are prohibited.
For more information about FTC disclosure requirements, please review the FTC's "Dot Com Disclosures" Guidelines at http://www.ftc.gov/os/2013/03/130312dotcomdisclosures.pdf ; and the FTC's Endorsement Guidelines at http://business.ftc.gov/advertising-and-marketing/endorsements
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