ONLINE ADVERTISING COMPLIANCE:
If you are enrolled in our Affiliate Program and participate in online advertising, such as Google AdWords or Facebook, you must adhere to our Online Advertising Guidelines by not doing any of the following without April Notes’s prior written consent:
1. Bidding on the April Notes brand in a search engine or social media advertising, such as Google AdWords, Facebook, Instagram, or Yahoo/Bing, including, but not restricted to, our domain name, our company name, and our trademarks or registered URLs, including any variations, abbreviations, or misspellings) of April Notes.
2. You may not use our trademarked or brand terms in sequence with any other keyword (e.g. April Notes Coupons), including any misspellings.
3. You may not use our trademarked terms in your ad title, ad copy, display name, ad extensions, or as the display URL nor may you CLOAK or MASK these URLs in online advertising campaigns.
4. You may not direct link to our website from any online ad or use redirects that yield the same result (a.k.a. URL hijacking). Affiliates must be directed to an actual page on your website.
If you automate your online advertising campaigns, it is your responsibility to exclude our trademarked, brand, and misspelled terms from your program and we suggest you add our trademarked, brand, and misspelled terms as negative keywords. We have a strict no-tolerance policy on online advertising trademark bidding. If you are unsure whether a term is trademarked, brand, or misspelled, it is your responsibility to reach out to us to find out. If you are an affiliate partner, please email shop@aprilnotes.com. You will forfeit all commissions for a minimum of 30 days and your commission will be set to 0% without warning if you engage in online advertising trademark bidding that uses our trademarked, brand, or misspelled terms without prior written consent.
ONLINE ADVERTISING COMPLIANCE:
If you are enrolled in our Program and your Website promotes coupon codes, you must adhere to our Coupon Guidelines as follows:
1. You may only advertise coupon codes that are provided to you through the affiliate program or network.
2. Posting any information about how to work around the requirements of a coupon/promotion will result in removal from the Program.
3. You may not use any technology that covers up the coupon code and generates the affiliate click by revealing the code(s).
4. You may not advertise coupon codes that you did not obtain from our affiliate marketing channel, including coupon codes from our marketing emails, paid search, or any other non-affiliate advertising campaigns, unless the codes are also provided in our affiliate marketing channel.
5. You may NOT give the appearance that any ongoing April Notes promotional offer requires clicking from your website in order to redeem. For example, buying an order result in free shipping at checkout for all customers, you may not turn this into an offer that infers that the customer must click from your site to get this deal.
6. Cookie Stuffing/Forced Clicks: You must not mislead customers into clicking on an offer or coupon that does not exist or practice similarly deceptive tactics that are generally known as "cookie stuffing or forced clicks." These include, but are not limited to:
Using knowingly expired offers or presenting offers that do not exist or are not affiliate offers.
Making claims that a user must click on a link first to activate or receive an offer.
Presenting a button that claims to show all offers that set the affiliate cookie in the background.
Technology that generates a click or sets the cookie from the action of copying a coupon code or through a pop-under.
Affiliates whose primary business is posting coupons, who are viewed by the program as being a coupon site, and/or who are tagged as coupons in our system, will not be paid commission for any sales generated without a corresponding valid coupon promotion or code. Coupon codes that are not real, expired, or not made available to the affiliate are not considered valid codes and the affiliate will not be given commission on these orders. These orders will be canceled zeroing out commissions for improper use.
