LINUS BIKE, INC. and LINUS DISTRIBUTION, LLC (together, the “Brand”) designs, manufactures, and distributes bicycles and accessories throughout the world through dealers and its online sales and social media presence. Brand wishes to engage you (“Partner”), to promote the Brand and brand content via and affiliate marketing program.
Based on the foregoing, Partner hereby agrees as follows:
1. Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Guidelines. Partner may not bid on any of our trademarked terms (including any variations or misspellings thereof) either along or in sequence with any other keywords for search or content-based campaigns on Google, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook or any other network. Additionally, Partner may not include trademarks in titles, ad copy, display names or display URLs.
Brand’s trademarked terms include the following: LINUS, LINUS BIKE, and FOXRIDER
2. Coupon Code Guidelines. Partner may NOT advertise coupon codes obtained from any non-affiliate marketing channel, including coupon codes from Brand’s email, paid search or any other non-affiliate advertising campaigns.
3. Compliance with FTC Guidelines. When publishing ads, pages, blog/posts, social media posts or anything similar with an endorsement or review about Brand’s products or services, Partner must clearly disclose your “material connection” with our Brand, including the fact that you are being paid for a particular service. This disclosure must be clear and prominent and made in close proximity to any statements that you make about the Brand or the Brand’s products or services. This disclosure is required regardless of any space limitations of the medium (e.g., Twitter), where the disclosure can be made via hashtags, e.g., #sponsored. Any such statements should always reflect Partner’s honest and truthful opinions and actual experiences. Partner should only make factual statements about the Brand or Brand’s products which you know for certain are true and can be verified.
4. Nexus Restrictions. Brand is a resident of the state of California. Brand is not able accept partners which legally reside in states outside of California with “Affiliate State Tax Nexus” or “Click-through Nexus” laws. Further, Partner will become ineligible to act as an affiliate of Brand if Partner establishes residency in a Nexus state at any time.
5. No Conflicting Obligations. Partner certifies that Partner has no outstanding agreement or obligation that conflict with any of the provisions of this Agreement. Partner will not enter into any agreements or obligations that would conflict with any of the provisions of this Agreement or that would preclude the Partner from complying with the provisions hereof.
