Strict Anti-Spam & Compliance Enforcement
Aff Wing strictly prohibits unconsented emails, deceptive originating addresses, misleading subject lines, unauthorized SMS marketing, and automated bots. Violations result in immediate account termination, forfeiture of earnings, and legal liability.
4.1.
Failure to adhere to the following rules is a violation of the Agreement and will result in immediate termination of the Affiliate from the Aff Wing Network with forfeiture of all monies due to Affiliate.
4.2.
Affiliate must not load Advertiser’s website within a frameset or iframe unless prior written approval is obtained from Aff Wing.
4.3.
Affiliate must not modify the Ads supplied by Aff Wing in any way unless prior written approval is obtained from Aff Wing.
4.4.
Affiliate must indicate whether he uses incentive traffic, and only offer incentives to Users to respond to Ads with permission from Aff Wing and the Advertiser as indicated on the Network and Campaign Terms, or in writing. Aff Wing reserves the right to define the term incentive.
4.5.
Affiliate must not make misleading or disparaging statements, oral or written, about any Ad, Advertiser or Aff Wing.
4.6.
Affiliate must agree to receive periodic communications from Aff Wing. This communication could be in the form of e-mail, instant message, postal mail, telephone or fax.
4.7.
Affiliate must not display any Ad in third Party newsgroups, social Networks, message boards, blogs, link farms, counters, chatrooms or guestbooks without the consent of such third-Party entity.
4.8.
Affiliate must comply with all Campaign Terms as outlined in Ads.
4.9.
Affiliates must not use SMS/text messages to deliver Ads to Users.
4.10.
Affiliate must not generate any Actions in bad faith or through fraudulent mechanisms. This includes, but is not limited to, generating own Actions using manual or automated processes, misrepresenting product or service offered by Advertisers, deceiving Users into obtaining product or service offered by Advertisers, and encouraging or educating Surfers to cancel any product purchase or service provided by Advertisers.
4.11.
Affiliate must not share, lend, lease, sell or transfer their account to any third Party unless prior written approval is obtained from Aff Wing.
4.12.
Any Affiliate engaged in the distribution of Ads via email must comply with all of the following rules:
4.12.1.
Affiliate must distribute Ads only to those recipients who have Opted-in to receive such email from the Affiliate. Aff Wing prohibits the use of Spam. Any use of Spam whatsoever by Affiliate will result in the forfeiture of Affiliate’s entire commission for all campaigns, and the termination of the Affiliate’s account. Affiliate will also be held liable for any and all damages resulting from a violation of this provision including reasonable court costs.
4.12.2.
If requested by Aff Wing, Affiliate must be able within 24 hours of such request, to supply the name, date, time, IP address and URL where the User gave permission to the Affiliate to receive such Ads through e-mail.
4.12.3.
Affiliate must ensure each email recipient is provided with a valid opt-out mechanism within each email delivered in order for the recipients to “opt-out” of future mailings from Affiliate.
4.12.4.
Affiliate must not use the Advertiser or Aff Wing name (including any abbreviation thereof) in the originating email address line (“From” line) or subject line of any email transmission, unless specific permission is given otherwise.
4.12.5.
Affiliate must not use falsified sender information or falsified IP Addresses.
4.12.6.
Affiliate must use only pre-approved Advertiser subject lines and from lines as set out in Campaign Terms.
4.12.7.
Affiliate must use only legitimate routing information.
4.12.8.
Affiliate must use their own tracking links that redirect to the tracking links supplied by Aff Wing.
4.12.9.
Affiliate must have a proper privacy policy on their website that includes a link to Aff Wing’s privacy policy to the extent Affiliate communicates any personal information with Aff Wing. Affiliates’ privacy policy must be in compliance with all Applicable Privacy Laws, guidelines, rules and regulations and shall warrant that email campaigns are conducted in accordance with that privacy policy, and in accordance with any Applicable Privacy Laws.
4.12.10.
Affiliate must ensure each email contains Advertiser’s unsubscribe mechanism as set out in Campaign Terms.
4.12.11.
Affiliate must not send email to any email address or domain contained in an Advertiser’s suppression list as set out in Campaign Terms.
4.12.12.
Affiliate must ensure each email clearly contains the Affiliate’s physical address, which cannot be a PO BOX.
4.12.13.
Affiliate must comply with all campaign instructions from Aff Wing and Advertiser as set out in Campaign Terms.
4.12.14.
Affiliate must be compliant with all relevant laws, including but not limited to the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act of 2003 15 U.S.C. ch. 103 and an Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act S.C. 2010, c. 23 (CASL).
4.13.
If Affiliate has not logged into their account for six (6) consecutive months, it will be moved to an inactive status. If this inactivity continues for nine (9) months, Aff Wing reserves the right to terminate the account for inactivity and debit any remaining balance that is held in the Affiliate account.
4.14.
If Affiliate (i) operates from a jurisdiction subject to Applicable Privacy Laws; (ii) markets to or targets individuals in a jurisdiction subject to Applicable Privacy Laws; or (iii) collects or otherwise processes any personal information from users in a jurisdiction subject to Applicable Privacy Laws, then Affiliate hereby represents, warrants, covenants and agrees that Affiliate will (a) comply with Applicable Privacy Laws; (b) inform end users in a prominent manner of their rights under Applicable Privacy Laws and that Affiliate uses tracking devices and cookies for advertising purposes, including Interest-Based Advertising; and (c) obtain all required end user consents to place tracking devices, such as cookies (including those enabled by Aff Wing at Affiliate’s request on Affiliate’s behalf) on such end users’ computers and internet enabled devices and provide