Sovereign Laboratories Affiliate Agreement
Sovereign Laboratories Affiliate Paid Search Policy
Affiliates agree not to bid on the SovereignLaboratories.com brand name (or any common misspelling or a confusingly similar name) on any pay-for-placement search engine. Publishers agree not to use the SovereignLaboratories.com brand name in the display URL on any search engines. Publishers may not mask their URL with the SovereignLaboratories.com brand.
Sovereign Laboratories Coupon and "Promo Code" Policy
SovereignLaboratories.com will not partner with sites that purely advertise coupons and promotions. Affiliates agree not to utilize, advertise, or otherwise promote any SovereignLaboratories.com brands, promotional code or coupon not made available to the Affiliate through affiliate network directly without first obtaining written permission from SovereignLaboratories.com. Use of false or misleading advertising related to the business or promotions is prohibited. Violation in any terms listed herein may result in loss of commissions and/or immediate termination from the program.
Other Terms, Conditions and Operating Agreements
Invalid Conversions
Conversions (purchases or other qualified actions) generated through your ads must result from genuine user interest. Any method that generates invalid conversions, or uses artificial means to emulate actual purchases or other qualified actions, is strictly prohibited. These methods include but are not limited to using an expired or stolen credit card for purchases, buying and returning items to earn commissions, submitting registrations with false information, self-inflating, duplicating or stealing registrations, or using a device, program, robot, or other means to emulate actual purchases or other qualified actions.
Furthermore, affiliates are not allowed to purchase products (using their affiliate link) for personal use. Using your affiliate link to obtain a de facto discount on our products is strictly prohibited.
Encouraging Conversions
Affiliates are allowed to encourage users to convert through their ads, although if compensation is being offered to users as an incentive for purchasing or generating other qualified actions, it must be approved by us. For example, 'loyalty' sites that provide users with miles, points, or some other type of reward for converting are allowed as long as they are approved. In addition, publishers may not make purchases through Share A Sale ads on their own site as a means of getting cash back on purchases, this behavior is strictly prohibited and violation will result in loss of commissions and/or immediate termination from the program.
Email Marketing
Affiliates may display ads in emails to users that have selected to receive email.
Affiliates displaying ads in emails must adhere to all applicable legislation and regulations governing email marketing, including the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Emails must:
Contain accurate sender information and subject lines
- Include a functioning Internet based opt-out mechanism
- Include publisher's postal address
- Not be false or misleading
As required by law, Affiliates must promptly remove end-users who opt-out.
Additional Terms
Affiliates must abide by the following as well.
- May not promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
- May not incorporate any materials which infringe or assist others to infringe on any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or to violate the law.
- May not Include " Sovereign Laboratories" or variations or misspellings thereof in its domain name.
- In any way be unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to us at our sole discretion.
- Purchase or bid for placement of any of Sovereign Laboratories trademarked company names and any variation of our trademarked names, service marks or copyrighted terms and logo.
- May not utilize Pop-Up, Pop-Under, or automatic Redirects to link to our site. Any method that automatically plants an affiliate cookie is strictly prohibited. Any method that automatically redirects the customer to Sovereign Laboratories website by execution of an affiliate link is in violation of the Affiliate Program Agreement. The customer must click on a SovereignLaboratories.com affiliate link to set the affiliate cookie.
- Vendors and employees of SovereignLaboratories.com (and any associated company) are not eligible to become Affiliates without advanced written permission from Symco, Inc.
- Resellers may not purchase products under this program and are not eligible to become Affiliates.
- Residents in Colorado, Arkansas, New York, North Carolina, California, Illinois, Connecticut, Georgia and Rhode Island are ineligible to participate in the program. In addition, if at any time following your enrollment in the Program you become a resident of Colorado, Arkansas, New York, North Carolina, California, Illinois, Connecticut or Rhode Island, you will become ineligible to participate in the Program, and this Operating Agreement will automatically terminate, on the date you establish residency in that state. In addition, you must promptly notify us in writing of your Colorado, Arkansas, New York, North Carolina, California, Illinois, Connecticut, Georgia or Rhode Island residency.
- If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Program at any time. You should also note that if we accept your application and your site is thereafter determined (at our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program, we may terminate this Agreement.
- Affiliates who are terminated from the Program are forbidden to reapply at any time in the future. Any such attempts to do so will result in commissions not being issued.
- We grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license for the duration of the term of this Agreement, solely for purposes of facilitating referrals from your site to our site, to establish and maintain lists, links and search boxes.
- Product Links: You may promote products in the Sovereign Laboratories product offering. It is the responsibility of the affiliate partner to ensure these links are up to date at all times. Offers may be withdrawn at any time.
- Gift certificates purchases are not eligible for commission via the affiliate program.
- You may provide a general link on your site to our home page. We will provide you with guidelines and graphical artwork to use in linking to the Sovereign Laboratories home page.
- Neither you, nor any person or entity acting on your behalf, shall engage in any solicitation activity on behalf of Sovereign Laboratories other than by the maintenance of one or more links from your site to the Sovereign Laboratories site as authorized by this Agreement. Such prohibited additional solicitation activities include, but are not limited to, the distribution of flyers, coupons, and other printed promotional materials; circulation of printed and electronic newsletters; initiation of telephone calls; and sending emails; any of which mention Sovereign Laboratories or refer to the presence of a Sovereign Laboratories link on your site.
- We will process Product orders placed by customers who follow Special Links from your site to the SovereignLaboratories.com site. We reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any requirements that we periodically may establish. We will be responsible for all aspects of order processing. Among other things, we will prepare order forms; process payments, cancellations and returns; and handle customer service. The Google Affiliate Network will track sales made to customers who purchase Products using Special Links from your site to our site and will provide you reports summarizing sales activity. To permit accurate tracking, reporting and fee accrual, you must ensure that the Special Links between your site and our site are properly formatted. We will not be liable for paying referral fees on purchases that are not correctly tracked and reported because the links between your site and our site are not properly formatted.
- You will be solely responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of your site and for all materials that appear on your site. For example, you will be solely responsible for: the technical operation of your site and all related equipment; creating and posting Product descriptions on your site and linking those descriptions to the Sovereign Laboratories catalogue using Special Links and special link formats provided to you; the accuracy and appropriateness of materials posted on your site (including, among other things, all Product-related materials) ensuring that materials posted on your site do not breach or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights; ensuring that materials posted on your site are not defamatory or illegal. We disclaim all liability for these matters. Further, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, damages and expenses (including, without limitation, legal fees) relating to the development, operation, maintenance and contents of your site.
- The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Program application and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination. You are only eligible to earn referral fees on sales of Qualifying Products occurring during the term and fees earned up to the date of termination will remain payable only if the related orders are not cancelled or returned. We may withhold your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid. Upon termination of this Agreement, you must promptly return to us, or at our request, destroy any and all of our intellectual or proprietary property, information and/or materials in your possession and, subject to receiving written consent to the contrary from us, remove all hypertext links to our site from your site.
- We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and at our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on our site. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope of available referral fees, fee schedules, payment procedures and Program rules. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this agreement. Your continued participation in the program following our posting of a change notice or new agreement on our site will constitute binding acceptance of the change.
- You and we are independent contractors and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties or our respective affiliates. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations, guarantees or warranties on our or our affiliates' behalf, including with respect to our or our affiliates Products or services. You will not make any statement or representation, whether on your site or otherwise, that you are connected or affiliated with us or our site, other than for the purpose of referring users to our site as defined under this Agreement, or that otherwise reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.
- Neither we, nor any of our affiliates, will be liable for indirect, special or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Program, even if we, or any of our affiliates, have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, to the fullest extent permitted by law, our and our affiliates' collective aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement at the time the act or omission giving rise to the liability occurred.
- To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither we nor any of our affiliates makes any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any Products sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, non-infringement or any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade usage), and the same are hereby excluded. In addition, neither we, nor any of our affiliates, make any representation that the operation of our site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or will not be re-routed or "black holed." As a result, we might temporarily be unable to capture information regarding Tagged Links. We will not be liable for the consequences of any such interruptions or errors.
- This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. You irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of such courts. Any action relating to this Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts located in Arizona and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of such courts. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent.
Sovereign Laboratories Affiliate Disclosure Rules
Sovereign Laboratories complies with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines about online disclosures, found here: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-staff-revises-online-advertising-disclosure-guidelines/130312dotcomdisclosures.pdf
As a Sovereign Laboratories affiliate, you are required to disclose that you are a paid affiliate or spokesperson when presenting affiliate links for people to buy Sovereign Laboratories products in which you receive a commission.
An affiliate disclosure can be written almost any way you want, as long as it does two things:
1) identifies a link as an affiliate link.
2) explains what that is and does for you.
Many savvy influencers and marketers know these disclosures rules inside and out and use some of the following examples to disclose that they are paid affiliates without turning off their audiences:
Example #1: “Since I write about health and wellness topics with awesome people like you, naturally my content may contain affiliate links for products that I personally use and love. If you take an action by clicking one of these links (like making a purchase or subscribing after clicking one of these links), I will receive some coffee money which I promise to drink while creating more health and wellness content.”
Example #2: “Disclosure: We sometimes use affiliate links in our content. This won’t cost you anything, but it helps us keep the lights on. Thank you for your support.”
Example #3: “Please note: I joined the Sovereign Laboratories affiliate program because I’ve personally used their products and I believe in them. You should know that my content regarding Sovereign Laboratories contains affiliate links which means I get a small commission if you buy any of their great products! Thank you for your support!
Example #4: “Notice: I am a paid affiliate for Sovereign Laboratories. I receive a commission if you click on one of the links that goes to their store and make a purchase. I believe in their products and use them personally. Thank you for your support.”
These disclosure examples address the fact that the affiliate is receiving compensation for recommending Sovereign Laboratories products. To follow the FTC disclosure rules you always want to put a disclosure that you are a paid affiliate near the affiliate link itself. Burying your affiliate disclosure on an obscure page somewhere else on your website is not good enough.
For more in-depth information on how to properly do affiliate disclosures (in addition to reading the FTC’s guidelines, we recommend that you read: https://kinsta.com/affiliate-academy/affiliate-disclosures/#how-to-write-an-affiliate-disclosure ).
Failure to disclose that you are a paid affiliate in your content will have you removed from our affiliate program.
