**Backfireboards Affiliate Terms & Conditions Updated 12/17/2023**
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. Affiliate terms and conditions are subject to change. DEFINITIONS As used in these terms and conditions: (i) “We”, “us”, or “our” refers to Backfireboards and our website; (ii) “you” or “your” refers to the Affiliate; (iii) “our website” refers to the Backfireboards properties located at backfireboards.com; (iv) “your website” refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) “Program” refers to the Backfireboards Affiliate Program. 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. WEBSITE RESTRICTIONS Your participating website(s) may not: 1.Infringe on our or any anyone else’s intellectual property, publicity, privacy or other rights. 2.2. Violate any law, rule or regulation. 3.3. Contain any content that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, harmful to minors, or contains nudity, pornography or sexually explicit materials. 4.4. 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. 5.5. 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 and abide by the following. 1.You may ONLY advertise coupon codes that are provided to you through the affiliate program or network. 2.2. You may NOT advertise coupon codes obtained from our non-affiliate advertising, customer e-mails, paid search, or any other campaign. 3. Violation of these terms may result in removal from the Backfireboards affiliate program, reversal of sales, or reduction in commissions. 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, including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content-based campaigns on Google, Bing, Yahoo or any other network. These trademark terms include backfireboards, backfireboard.com, www.backfireboards.com, https://backfireboard.com/ and similar terms without express written permission. 2. You may not use our trademark terms in sequence with any other keyword (e.g “Backfireboards Coupons”) without express written permission. 3. You may not direct link to our website from any Pay-Per-Click ad or use redirects that yield the same result. Affiliates must be directed to an actual page on your website. 4.You may not use our URL (www.backfireboards.com) as your Display URL, however use as a subfolder or subdomain (i.e. http://www.yoursite.com/backfireboards or http://backfireboards.yoursite.com) is permissible. If you automate your PPC campaigns, the responsibility is yours to exclude our trademark terms from your program and we strongly suggest you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords. If you violate these PPC guidelines your current and past commission will be set to 0% without warning. Trademarked Terms: backfireboards , backfireboard.com, www.backfireboard.com Violation of these terms may result in removal from the Backfireboards affiliate program, reversal of sales, or reduction in commissions. SOCIAL MEDIA Affiliates are not permitted to use TM, TM+terms or any variation or misspelling to create pages or accounts on Facebook/Youtube/Twitter/Reddit/Instagram etc., including but not limited to Mango Power, backfireboard.com.com, www.backfireboard.com.com DOMAIN NAMES Use of any of our trademarked terms or misspellings as part of the domain for your website is strictly prohibited. (e.g. www.backfireboards.com-coupons.com). 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 Backfireboards. FTC COMPLIANCE You are required by Backfireboards to disclose your affiliate relationship on any promotion for this merchant. This includes but is not limited to blog posts, videos, emails, social media and website pages. Your audience must understand you may earn commissions if they click your links. This disclosure statement should be clear and concise, stating that Backfireboards is compensating you for your review or endorsement. If you received the product for free from Backfireboards for review, this also must be clearly stated in your disclosure. For more information and suggestions about how to comply with the FTC’s Endorsement Guidelines, please review the FTC Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, the FTC Endorsements website resource, and the FTC Dot Com Disclosures. Please note that the FTC guides and resources are only intended to provide guidance. They do not purport to provide legal advice and they do not guarantee that you will be in compliance with FTC regulations if you follow the suggestions presented. You are advised to seek and obtain your own legal advice on how these rules apply to your website or other promotional activities for which you receive compensation. Please visit the FTC.gov website Business Center – Advertising and Marketing – Endorsements, Influencers and Reviews
