By applying to and joining the Readability Tutor affiliate program, or accessing an affiliate link from a third party or other partner within the Readability Tutor affiliate program, you agree to the following rules, regulations, and terms and conditions.
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 for social media, organic search (SEO) or PPC.
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.
During this time frame your commissions may be set to zero and some or all may be reversed regardless of origin. If we can verify sales were not driven using our trademarks, your commissions will be restored. This will be at the sole discretion of the affiliate manager.
Social Media
You may not use the Readability Tutor name or any variation of our brands as hashtags, pretend to be us, represent us or be endorsed or sponsored by Readability Tutor.
You may not create any account using our name or post any messages, include our materials or links to any Readability Tutor 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 Readability Tutor including modifiers and extensions. This includes terms like Readability Tutor reviews, Readability Tutor coupons, Readability Tutor discounts, Readability Tutor download, Readability Tutor cash back, Readability Tutor app, etc…
If you build a URL like URL.com/readability-tutor-coupons.html, we will ask you to include a no index tag and block access to the page via your site’s robots.txt. This is to help ensure that the dedicated page cannot be indexed in the search engines.
If this cannot be done, we will ask for the page to be taken down immediately, or you can and will be removed from the program, and all commissions will be reversed regardless of origin.
Certain exceptions may be provided, but only in writing from the current head of ecommerce and marketing and not the Affiliate Manager. With the written approval, it must say that Readability Tutor understands that allowing you to do this will cause financial harm and damage to Readability Tutor's revenue.
If this is not on the signed document, you will not earn any commissions and all unpaid commissions will be voided. There are zero exceptions and any future, past and current agreements do not override this.
Advertising Disclosures
Advertising disclosures must always be present. They must appear on any and every webpage that uses affiliate links and before any affiliate links are visible. The advertising disclosure cannot be in popup windows, drop down menus, footers, the bottom of blog posts, require a user to click to another page to read it, appear at the bottom of a page, or anywhere else that would appear after an affiliate link or where they are 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 Readability Tutor program and/or all commissions being reversed regardless of origin.
We may also set your commissions to 0% and send a warning until disclosures are in place, but this is on a case by case basis. You as the affiliate also agree to take on any and all financial and legal liabilities or issues that arise for Readability Tutor and any legal and financial liabilities or issues that arise because of your lack of disclosures to the affiliate management agency because you did not use a disclosure properly or at all.
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 written approval or permission from the current head of marketing or ecommerce (not the affiliate manager), we may reverse all commissions both current and previous, and you may be removed from the program without warning.
The written permission on the exclusion must also include the head of ecommerce or digital marketing stating that they are fully aware that by allowing you to do any of the following that you will be causing severe financial harm and damage to Readability Tutor. The heads of marketing and ecommerce must fully understand the following causes financial damage to Readability Tutor and these words must appear on their signed and initialed agreement.
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 affiliate program.
- Pages to rank for URL + modifiers – You cannot create indexable pages that are built to show up for our URL or brand + coupons, deals, discounts, savings, etc… in search engines.
This also includes our branded terms + modifiers like cash back, promo codes, vouchers, downloads and reviews.
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, social media, advertising 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, disrupt 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, browser extensions, 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. If you are found cloaking links, we will reverse all commissions from cloaked links, or where the referrer is not available and without warning. You may also be removed from the program without warning or notice because of cloaked links. This cannot be overwritten by any previous, future or current agreements.
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 Readability Tutor 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 the approval must exist in writing or an email. Verbal permissions will not be considered for approval.
Right to Reverse Commissions and Acceptance Into the Readability Tutor affiliate program
We reserve the right to reverse any commission at any time for any reason and without warning. We can also remove any partner for any reason and at any point in time without question. By agreeing and joining, you understand that no previous, future or current agreement overrides this. There are no guaranteed commissions, payouts or commission levels, even if you have a custom offer from Readability Tutor or an outside agency. This can and may be revoked with or without warning. This agreement overrides any past, present and future agreements.
TOS Changes
It is your responsibility to check our TOS as we will update them on occasion, and we may not provide the dates when they will change or the details about the changes.
