Use of Trademarks
We do not allow the use of our trademarks, urls, misspellings, extensions or any variation within the goal of optimizing for them. Below are guidelines to follow.
• PPC and Media Buys – You may not bid or use any of our trademarks, names, extensions or variations as keywords for any PPC network, content network or media buy. Please also add i-blason.com, SupCase.com, i-blason and supcase to your negative keywords list. We may ask for screen shots if we see your ads showing and you agree to provide them within 2 business days.
• Social Media – You may not use the i-blason.com or supcase.com name or any variation as hashtags, pretend to be us, represent us or be endorsed or sponsored by our companies. You may not create any account using our name or post any messages, include our materials or links to any i-blason or supcase account or profile. You also agree to not tag, call out or link to our social profiles.
• SEO – You may not build pages, websites, blogs or domains that optimize for i-blason.com or supcase.com including modifiers and extensions. This includes terms like reviews, coupons, discounts, download, etc… If you build a URL like supcase-coupons.html, we will ask you to include a meta robots no index tag and possibly a disallow in your robots.txt file. If this cannot be done, we will ask for the page to be taken down within 2 business days or you will be removed from the program and all commissions will be reversed. Certain exceptions may be provided but only in writing from the current head of ecommerce and marketing. Not from the affiliate manager or affiliate agency.
Advertising Disclosures
Advertising disclosures must always be present. They must appear before any affiliate links are visible, cannot be in popup windows, drop down menus, footers, the bottom of blog posts or anywhere else that would appear after an affiliate link or is not easily visible. Advertising disclosures must also always be used when promoting an affiliate link on any social media site, email campaign or other marketing piece. Failure to use a proper advertising disclosure will result in an immediate removal from the partner/affiliate program and all commissions will be reversed. You as the partner and affiliate also agree to take any and all financial and legal liabilities that occur to i-blason.com and supcase.com for your lack of disclosing.
Coupon & Loyalty Sites
If you run a deals, coupon or loyalty site, please read the following closely. If we find any of the following, and you do not have approval or permission from the current head of marketing or ecommerce (not the affiliate manager) we may reverse all commissions and you may be removed the program without warning.
We do not allow the following:
• Hidden codes – You cannot hide, have click to reveal or block users from accessing a deal, coupon or discount code.
• Expired codes – You cannot post any deal or discount code that is expired and all codes on your site must be current, active and approved.
• Non affiliate codes – you cannot use any code, discount or deal that is not provided inside the affiliate network.
• Nonexistent codes or deals – You cannot post that there is a deal or discount available if we are not offering one through our partner program.
• Pages to rank for URL + modifiers – You cannot create indexable pages that are built to rank for our URL + coupons, deals, discounts, savings, etc…
• Posting codes to properties you do not own – You cannot post codes, coupons or deals to websites and web properties you do not own. You can however post to your own social media accounts, as long as you follow our trademark, disclosure and branding guidelines.
Toolbars, Downloadable Software and Adware
We do not allow adware of any kind in the program. Adware by our definition is anything that can interrupt the shopping process, traffic, distrupt the end user experience or be used to display an ad. This includes but is not limited to PPV, couponware, reminderware, loyaltyware, contextual ads, interruptive ads, shopping windows, browser helper objects, CPV advertising.
Link Cloaking
All links have to be clearly visible and not cloaked. We need to see the referring URL from the exact page the last click came from. You cannot cloak links, use redirects or show us one page but end users the other.
No Automonetization Tools or Scripts
We treat this the same as adware. Anything that interrupts the current shopping process will not be allowed for any reason. Turning direct links into affiliate links with javascripts, toolbars, contextual software, etc… will not be allowed since it is poaching traffic we would have had anyways.
The one exception is for new traffic and new content that is created directly from the efforts of the tool or script providers. This content will have to be approved as commissionable by the current head of marketing or ecommerce (not the affiliate manager) and exist in writing or an email.
Right to Reverse Commissions and Acceptance Into the i-blason.com and supcase.com Programs
We reserve the right to reverse any commission at any time for any reason. We can also remove any partner for any reason and at any point in time without question.
TOS Changes
It is your responsibility to check our TOS as we will update them on occasion and may not provide the dates when they will change or the details about the changes.
