This Agreement contains terms and conditions that apply to your participation as an affiliate in the Affiliate Program of V Smiley Preserves, and the establishment of links from your affiliate website to our website www.vsmileypreserves.com.
Customer: The user sent to V Smiley Preserves’ site via affiliate link
Affiliate / You: The publisher advertising links/promotions of V Smiley Preserves
Prohibited Sites/Verbiage
Sites that promote sexually explicit material or violence.
Sites that promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, or physical disability.
Sites that promote illegal activities.
Sites or verbiage making medical claims in regards to our products/services (ie. the curing or recession of an ailment)
Spam
Affiliate agrees to not utilize SPAM in promoting V Smiley Preserves. This action will result in the immediate termination of the Affiliate account with a cancellation of any pending commissions. Affiliate will also be in violation of V Smiley Preserves Affiliate Agreement and subject to legal action and be held liable for any financial loss incurred by V Smiley Preserves.
For the purpose of this agreement, SPAM is defined as emailing ANYONE, in bulk or by single mailing, about V Smiley Preserves, who has not specifically requested the information directly from Affiliate.
V Smiley Preserves also considers ANY type of advertisement about V Smiley Preserves posted to a Newsgroup or Chat Room to be spam.
PPC Bidding Rules
Publishers are prohibited to bid on the following:
Branded/trademarked terms
Derivatives of branded/trademarked terms
Broad-match based on branded/trademarked terms
Paid Search publishers are also not allowed to use the brand name V Smiley Preserves in:
Display URL
Title & Ad Copy
Affiliates are also prohibited from bidding on the following trademarks, domain names, and or variations of them:
V Smiley Preserves
V Smiley
Contests and Promotions:
As an Affiliate, you will be entitled to participate and promote on your site any special promotions we may offer and share with you. In addition, you will be entitled to earn commissions as set forth.
Only offers and promotional tools provided explicitly by V Smiley Preserves for use on an affiliate site are valid.
The unauthorized use of promotional offers taken from another website is strictly forbidden and may result in the termination of this agreement.
Promotion through Google Shopping / Product Listing Ads are not allowed unless express permission is provided.
Compliance with the Agreement:
We have the right in our sole discretion to monitor your site at any time and from time to time to determine if you are in compliance with the terms of this Agreement.
We will monitor for FTC compliance to ensure disclosures are adequately added.
Your Responsibilities
You are solely responsible for ensuring that reviews, descriptions, and articles on your site comply with applicable copyright, FTC disclosure, and other laws. You must have express permission to use another party’s copyrighted or other proprietary material. We are not responsible for violations.
Policies and Pricing
Customers who buy V Smiley Preserves products through the Affiliate Program will be deemed to be customers of V Smiley Preserves. Accordingly, all of our rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for our products sold under the Affiliate Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Our prices and product availability may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect products that you already have listed on your site, you should update pricing often or not include price information in your product descriptions.
Customers sent to V Smiley Preserves must be the end-user of the product/service. If Affiliate is placing order on behalf of the customer, approval of this promotional method must be explicitly provided by V Smiley Preserves
Publicity
You shall not create, publish, distribute, or permit any written material that makes reference to us without first submitting such material to us and receiving our written consent, which we agree shall not be unreasonably withheld.
Licenses and Use of V Smiley Preserves’ logos and Trademarks
WE GRANT YOU A NON-EXCLUSIVE, NON-TRANSFERABLE, REVOCABLE RIGHT TO (i) ACCESS OUR SITE THROUGH THE LINKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND (ii) SOLELY IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH LINKS AND UNDER THE CONDITIONS PROVIDED FOR HEREIN, TO USE OUR LOGOS, TRADE NAMES, TRADEMARKS, AND SIMILAR IDENTIFYING MATERIAL RELATING TO US (COLLECTIVELY, THE "LICENSED MATERIALS"), FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SELLING PRODUCTS ON YOUR SITE FOR V SMILEY PRESERVES. YOU MAY NOT ALTER, MODIFY, OR CHANGE THE LICENSED MATERIALS IN ANY WAY WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION. YOU ARE ONLY ENTITLED TO USE THE LICENSED MATERIALS WHILE YOU ARE A MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING OF THE AFFILIATES PROGRAM.
You shall not make any specific use of any Licensed Materials for purposes other than selling products on your site for V Smiley Preserves, without first submitting a sample of such to us and obtaining the prior written consent of V Smiley Preserves Affiliate Program Manager, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. We reserve all of our rights in the Licensed Materials and of our other proprietary rights. We may revoke your license at any time, by giving you written notice.
