Please review our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our program. Failure to follow these terms and conditions will cause us to terminate your affiliate membership. These terms and conditions are not written legal but in plain terms so everyone can understand and follow them. The terms and conditions were designed to help ensure that the affiliate program is sustainable and profitable for both Memorable Gifts and its participating affiliates. It is each affiliate's responsibility to ensure compliance at all times, and each affiliate is solely responsible for the actions of employees, agents or contractors acting on that affiliate's behalf. For any questions regarding policies please email tia@MemorableGifts.com
ENROLLMENT
After receiving your application, we will review your website and notify you of your acceptance or rejection for our program. Please allow up 48 hours for your application to be reviewed. We reserve the right to reject any application, but we encourage you to contact us if you feel that you have been rejected in error. We request that you include all of the websites you use and or manage in your profile in order to help us make a better decision.
WEBSITE RESTRICTIONS
Your participating website(s) may not:
LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE
Upon acceptance into the Program, you will have access to through the affiliate interface. Your acceptance in our program means you will agree to and abide by the following:
If you are found redirecting links to hide or manipulate their original source, your current and past commission will be voided or your commission level will be set to 0%. This does not include using "out" redirects from the same domain where the affiliate link is placed.
PPC GUIDELINES
If you are enrolled in our Program and participate in PPC advertising, you must adhere to our PPC guidelines as follows:
If you automate your PPC campaigns, the responsibility is yours to exclude our trademark terms from your program. We strongly suggest you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords. We have a strict no tolerance policy on PPC trademark bidding. We will not enter a discussion about when the violation started and when it stopped; you will forfeit all commissions for a minimum of the past 30 days and your commission will be set to 0% without warning.
Trademarked Terms: Memorable Gifts, Memorable Gifts.com, www.Memorable Gifts.com, Memorable Gifts, or any other terms that reasonable people would consider to refer to Memorable Gifts.
COUPON GUIDELINES
If you are enrolled in our Program and your website promotes coupon codes, you must adhere to our Coupon Guidelines as follows:
Additionally, if your website ranks on the first page of Google for terms related to our website or company names combined the words coupon, coupons, coupon code, promo code, etc., and/or your conversion rate exceeds 25%, you may be offered a lower commission than our standard rate to offset the reduced profitably of orders. The current rate is 3%.
DOMAIN NAMES
Use of any of our trademarked terms as part of the domain or sub-domain for your website is strictly prohibited (i.e. Memorable Gifts.website.com or www.Memorable Gifts-coupons.com).
ADVERTISING & PUBLICITY
You shall not create, publish, distribute or print any written material that makes reference to our Program without first submitting such material to us and receiving our prior written consent. If you intend to promote our Program via email campaigns, you must adhere to the following:
REVERSAL & COMMUNICATION POLICY
Additionally, if we ask you for clarification or more information on any orders or clicks that we suspect may be in violation of our terms and conditions, we expect that you will respond in a timely and honest manner. Below are violations of our communications policy:
If any of the above applies, we reserve the absolute right to reverse orders, set your commission to 0% or suspend you from the program for the period or orders in question. We know that many violations are a result of automated processes; however it is incumbent upon each affiliate to ensure that he or she has the appropriate checks and balances in place to proactively address these issues and adhere to our program rules.
PROHIBITION AGAINST SOLICITATION FOR CALIFORNIA STATE RESIDENT AFFILIATES
As a condition of participation in the Memorable Gifts Affiliate Program, the Affiliate agrees that its solicitation activities on behalf of Memorable Gifts within the State of California shall be limited to only providing a link on Affiliate's website to the Memorable Gifts website. Affiliate acknowledges that under current California law, further solicitation and promotional activities by Affiliate within California State may render Memorable Gifts liable for collecting California State sales tax on all sales to California customers. Therefore, as a condition of participation in the Memorable Gifts Affiliate Program, Affiliate is prohibited from engaging in any solicitation activities in California State intended to refer potential customers to Memorable Gifts, including, but not limited to: (i) distributing flyers, coupons, newsletters and other printed materials or electronic equivalents of such materials; (ii)engaging in verbal solicitation, including in-person referrals or initiating telephone calls; and (iii) sending emails intended to refer customers to Memorable Gifts. Proof of compliance must be sent to Memorable Gifts on an annual basis