EasyClosets Affiliate Terms & Conditions
Updated 03/29/2019
Please read our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our program or begin marketing our program. These terms and conditions are written in plain language intentionally avoiding legalese to ensure that they may be clearly understood and followed by affiliates. Each Affiliate is responsible for assuring that its employees, agents and contractors comply with these terms and conditions. By applying for acceptance into the Program, you agree to these terms and conditions if you are accepted into the Program. Affiliate terms and conditions are subject to change. Thank you.
DEFINITIONS
As used in these terms and conditions: (i) “We”, “us”, or “our” refers to EasyClosets, EasyGarage and our websites; (ii) “you” or “your” refers to the Affiliate; (iii) “our website” refers to the EasyClosets properties located at www.EasyClosets.com and www.EasyGarageStorage.com; (iv) “your website” refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) “Program” refers to the EasyClosets and EasyGarage Affiliate Programs.
ENROLLMENT
After receiving your application, we will review your website and notify you of your acceptance or rejection into our Program. Please allow up to 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. Including all of the websites that you use in your profile will help us make a better decision.
DORMANCY
Upon being admitted into the EasyClosets or EasyGarage Affiliate program, if you remain dormant in the program after six months (meaning you have produced zero sales), you will be removed from the EasyCloset EasyGarage Affiliate program.
COLLABORATION PROJECT POLICY
If your website is selected for a collaboration project with EasyClosets or EasyGarage, you will be unable to post Affiliate links with your posts. After 12 months has passed since the original date of the post, an Affiliate partnership can be revisited.
EASYCLOSETS PRO POLICY
At this time, EasyClosets Pro Partners (Professional Trade Partner Program participants) cannot also be EasyClosets Affiliate Partners. If you are an Affiliate and would like to become an EasyClosets Pro Partner, please let us know and we can remove you from the Affiliate program.
DESIGNER RESTRICTIONS
At this time, EasyClosets or EasyGarage designers cannot place orders through an Affiliate link. If a designer becomes cookied, we will reverse those orders and block the designers IP address through ShareASale.
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 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. 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. 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, at our discretion, 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.
PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Affiliates may not create affiliate tracking links that also contain a tracking link for the EasyClosets Professional Program. Affiliates are permitted to participate in either the Program or the Professional Program but individual links must be specific and exclusive to one of the programs. By participating in this Program, you agree not to claim commission or credit from both the Program and from our Professional Program for the same transaction.
MID-CHECKOUT COMMISSION REDUCTION & OVERWRITE RULE
EasyClosets and EasyGarage uses a dynamic pixel system that may make changes to the standard commission in the case of a mid-checkout referral, which is defined as a cookie that is set within a set amount of time prior to the purchase. By reducing our commission on these types of referrals and by closely monitoring the quality of traffic we receive from each affiliate, we will be able to pay out higher commissions for driving new customers and traffic. This logic also gives full credit to the first referring affiliate in the case that a second affiliate enters within a set amount of time prior to the purchase. Mid-checkout commission and overwrite rules are subject to change.
Scenarios
1. Two affiliates outside of ten minutes before sale, normal "last in" logic applies.
2. One affiliate outside of ten minutes before sale, one within. "Last in" affiliate will receive 2% lowered commission and first affiliate will receive full commission.
3. Single affiliate within last ten minutes, 2% commission will apply
4. Two affiliates within last ten minutes, “last in” affiliate will receive the reduced 2% commission.
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. ‘EasyClosets Coupons’ or ‘EasyGarage 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 EasyClosets or EasyGarage 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 and we strongly suggest you add our trademarked 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 Terms: EasyClosets, EasyClosets.com, Easy to Design. Easy to Install. Easy to Afford., Easy To Love, EasyGarage, Get your Garage in Gear
COUPON GUIDELINES
If you are enrolled in our Program and your Website promotes promo codes, you must adhere to our Coupon Guidelines as follows:
1. You may ONLY advertise promo codes that are provided to you through the affiliate program.
2. Posting any information about how to work around the requirements of a promo code/promotion (ie first time customers only) will result in removal from the program.
3. Promo codes 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 promo code and generates the affiliate click by revealing the code(s).
5. You may NOT advertise promo codes obtained from any non-affiliate marketing channel, including promo codes from our email, direct mail, paid search or any other non-affiliate advertising 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. 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%.
COUPON ATTRIBUTION & AUTHENTICATION
Affiliates whose primary business is posting coupons, who are viewed by the program as being a coupon site, and/or who are tagged as coupon in our system, may not be paid commissions for sales generated without a corresponding valid promo code. Valid codes are defined as codes that are made available to the affiliate channel in general, through newsletters or the Deals Database in ShareASale, and directly or privately to affiliates. Promo 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 EasyClosets or EasyGarage 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 EasyClosets or EasyGarage programs adhere to our program terms and conditions. This includes restrictions on advertising through toolbars, browser extensions, and through any paid placements such as a pay-per-click campaigns. Sub-affiliate networks must also receive approval prior to allowing any type of coupon sub-affiliate to promote the EasyClosets or EasyGarage programs.
Failure to comply with our sub-affiliate network terms may result in a loss and/or reduction of commission from sales made through any sub-affiliate that does not comply with our program terms.
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. EasyClosets.website.com, www.EasyClosets-coupons.com, www.EasyGarage-coupons.com, www.EasyGarageStorage.website.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 EasyClosets or EasyGarage
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, “5% off EasyClosets . Limited time offer. Click for details. #AD”
2. You ARE PROHIBITED from posting your affiliate links on EasyClosets’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 EasyClosets or EasyGarage’s trademarked company name.
4. You ARE PROHIBITED from creating a social media account that includes EasyClosets or EasyGarage’strademark 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
EasyClosets and EasyGarage 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.
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.
• Disclosures must be made as close as possible to the claims.
• 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).
• 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
PROHIBITION AGAINST SOLICITATION FOR RESIDENT AFFILIATES IN SELECT STATES
As a condition of its participation in the EasyClosets and EasyGarages Affiliate Programs, Affiliate agrees that its solicitation activities on behalf of EasyClosets or EasyGarage within Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Puerto Rico (hereinafter “these states”) shall be limited to only providing a link on Affiliate’s website to EasyClosets or EasyGarage’s own website. Affiliate acknowledges that under current law in these states, further solicitation and promotional activities by Affiliate may render EasyClosets or EasyGarage liable for collecting sales tax on all sales to customers in these states. Therefore, as a condition of participation in the EasyClosets or EasyGarage Affiliate Program, Affiliate is prohibited from engaging in any solicitation activities in these states intended to refer potential customers to EasyClosets or EasyGarage, including, but not limited to: (i) distributing flyers, coupons, newsletters and other printed materials, or electronic equivalents of such materials; (ii) engaging in verbal solicitation, including in-person referrals or initiating telephone calls; and (iii) sending emails intended to refer customers to EasyClosets or EasyGarage. Proof of compliance must be sent to EasyClosets or EasyGarage on an annual basis (by May 31 of each year) or Affiliate may be removed from the program. Affiliate further acknowledges that state tax laws are subject to change at any time and such changes may render Affiliates in certain states ineligible for continued participation in EasyClosets and/or EasyGarage’s Affiliate Program. EasyClosets reserves the right to remove any Affiliate from the EasyClosets and/or EasyGarage’s Affiliate Program at any time for any reason.
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