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Bliss Love Toys Affiliate Program Operating Agreement
Bliss Love Toys Affiliate Program Operating Agreement, including all exhibits and attachments hereto and incorporated herein by reference (the “Agreement”), contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to a party’s participation as an Affiliate in our Affiliate Program (the “Program”). As used in this Agreement, “we”, “us”, or “blisslovetoys.com” means Bliss Love Toys, and “you” means the applicant party. “Site” means a World Wide Web site and, depending on the context, refers either to our Site or to the portion of our Site that you will link to using Qualifying Links as defined in Section 2 of this Agreement.
1. Enrollment in the Program
{{config path=”general/store_information/name”}}’s non-Affiliate Program marketing partners, re-sellers, drop-shippers and suppliers are not eligible to enroll in the Program.
Unsuitable websites include, but are not limited to, those that:
- Promote violence or hate toward any persons or groups
- Promote illegal activities
- Promote the use of pyramid, “ponzi”, or similar investment schemes
- Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
- Contain, in our sole judgment, material that is defamatory, fraudulent, or harassing to us or any third party
- Include “{{config path=”general/store_information/name”}}” or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names;– Otherwise violate intellectual property rights of Blisslovetoys.com, or its suppliers
- Disparage Blisslovetoys.com, {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}} Affiliates, or their suppliers
- Are under construction or not live at the time of Application
- Do not clearly state an online privacy policy to its visitors
- Provide a portion of their Referral Fees (as defined in Section 5) to websites or organizations that would violate any of the above criteria.
In addition, Blisslovetoys.com may, at its discretion, decline to accept, require adherence to an additional set of terms and conditions, or require the posting of specific copy for any website that (1) donates, directs or transfers any portion of their Referral Fees or Affiliate benefits to any charitable website, education-related website, organization or program; or (2) provides rewards back to their members in the form of points or cash-back, or conduct other similar loyalty programs in connection with purchases made by members via their websites.
Regardless of your acceptance in the Program, we may terminate this Agreement for any reason, at any time.
The terms of our acceptance criteria are subject to change at any time without prior notice.
All decisions for acceptance into the Program will be made within our sole discretion.
If your Affiliate account is suspended for any reason, you may contact our affiliate support at any time to se how best we could move forward.
As a member of the Affiliate Program, you grant Blisslovetoys.com permission to distribute any email communication directly to you that Blisslovetoys.com determines is necessary communication for you to receive in order to continue as a member of the Program, regardless of your choice to opt-out from certain communication.
2. Links on Your Website or Third Party Websites
The Qualifying Links will serve to identify you website as a member of the Program and will establish a link from a website to our Site. All Qualifying Links that you will use in the Program will be provided to you from {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}}’s in-house Affiliate Program or by other means selected by us. You also agree that you will display on the website containing the Qualifying Link only those logos, trade names, trademarks, graphic images and similar identifying material (“Licensed Materials”) that are provided by us or by our in-house Affiliate Program, and you will substitute such images with any new materials provided by us or our in-house Affiliate Program from time to time throughout the term of this Agreement. A web widget that is pre-approved in writing by Blisslovetoys.com for use on your website may be considered a Qualifying Link for purposes of this Agreement. Accordingly, web widgets are subject to all of the Terms and Conditions of this Agreement that apply to Qualifying Links.
Only valid Qualifying Links will be tracked for purposes of determining Referral Fees that you may be eligible to receive on sales of Qualifying Products (as defined below) generated through your participation in the Program.
Only Qualifying Links may be used to link a website to areas within our Site. You may not link directly to Blisslovetoys.com without use of a Qualifying Link. You may post as many Qualifying Links to our Site as you like on a website, provided that you ensure that each website containing a Qualifying Link posted by you meets the terms of this Agreement, including without limitation, that such website does not fall into the “unsuitable website” category described in Section 1, does not fall into the “prohibitions” set forth in Section 3, and you take responsibility for all websites on which you post a Qualifying Link in accordance with Section 10. The position, prominence and nature of links on a website shall comply with any requirements specified in this Agreement but otherwise will be in your discretion.
You acknowledge that, by participating in the Program and placing a link to Blisslovetoys.com (or any category page therein) on any website through use of a Qualifying Link, we may receive information from or about visitors to such website or communications between such website and those visitors. Your participation in the Program constitutes your specific and unconditional consent to and authorization for our access to, receipt, storage, use, and disclosure of any and all such information, consistent with the policies and procedures set forth in our Privacy Policy located in the footer of our Site.
3. Prohibitions –
As a condition to your acceptance and participation in the Program, you agree to the following prohibitions:
A. General Prohibitions.
You may NOT:
- Engineer any website containing a Qualifying Link in such a manner that pulls Internet traffic away from Blisslovetoys.com
- Publish, link to, sell, otherwise distribute, or place a Qualifying Link on the same page or in close proximity to any Objectionable Content. For purposes of this Agreement, “Objectionable Content” means any material, including textual, audio or video material, which is offensive (including hate speech or violence against a particular group of people); contains depictions of violent; is defamatory to any group or individual
- Attempt to modify or alter our Site in any way.
- Make any representations, either express or implied, or create an appearance that a visitor to your website is visiting our Site, e.g., “framing” or “wrapping” the Site in any manner without first obtaining in advance our express permission. Such requests must be sent into our support desk for approval
- “Scrape” or “Spider” the site for content (such as images, logos or text)
- Place ads on, or participate in any way in, AdNetworks or Search Content Networks that links directly to our website. Such links mus first be direcected to your website before the customer click to our website.
- Link any Qualifying Link to any website other than our Site, including, for example, your own website.
- Bid on our Trademarks at any website that provides search engine services and that results in driving traffic to any website, other than our Site, including your website.
- Engage in any direct or indirect relationships with ISPs and/or mobile carriers that results in the delivery or act of address bar keyword and URL error trafficking (e.g., a user mistypes a web address in the ISP’s address bar or search bar, and, as a result, is redirected to a web page that contains a Qualifying Link that directs the user to sites like Blisslovetoys.com).
- Employ the use of any type of software download or technology which attempts to intercept or redirect traffic or Referral Fees to or from any website.
- Use any Trademark (as defined in Exhibit A), or any Licensed Materials (as defined in Section 2), provided to you as a result of your participation in the Program to advertise or engage in services which result in a sale occurring on your website, whether or not you then have the item fulfilled through Blisslovetoys.com.
- Without the prior written approval of Blisslovetoys.com, use any Trademark, or any Licensed Material in an advertisement that is not created or provided by Blisslovetoys.com in any way that might suggest or imply or mislead or is likely to mislead a visitor to your website into believing that Blisslovetoys.com was the creator or sponsor of such advertisement.
- Re-distribute Licensed Materials (as defined in Section 2) to websites which can reasonably be viewed as Blisslovetoys.com’s competitors.
- Employ, use, or receive any direct or indirect benefit from, any “cookie stuffing” methods (e.g., use of “cookie stuffing” to cause {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}}’s in-house tracking systems to conclude that a user has clicked through a Qualifying Link – and to pay commissions accordingly – even if the user has not actually clicked through any such link)
- Install spyware on another person’s computer; cause spyware to be installed on another person’s computer, or use a context based triggering mechanism to display an advertisement that partially or wholly covers or obscures paid advertising other content on a website in a way that interferes with a person’s ability to view that website
- Display any material on a website containing a Qualifying Link which contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines
- Without the prior written approval of Blisslovetoys.com, use any widgets on your website that: (a) include any Trademarks (as defined in Exhibit A); (b) include any Licensed Materials (as defined in Section 2); or (c) directly or indirectly send traffic to Blisslovetoys.com
- Post, publish, link to or place a Qualifying Link on the {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}} Facebook Page or any other of our social media accounts.
- Forward, redistribute, or otherwise repurpose any or all Qualifying Links to any third party
- Release {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}}’s sales circulars, advertisements or other information prior to their authorized release dates; or– purchase products or services sold or promoted on Blisslovetoys.com through a Qualifying Link for resale or commercial use of any kind.
B. Prohibitions Regarding Use of Electronic Communications
You may use Electronic Communication includes email messages, text messages, and any other form of non-verbal communication to sharing your Qualified Links with exceptions to the following.in-house Affiliate Program Membership Agreement, as amended. You may not:
- Generate or use Electronic Communication using or containing Trademarks (as defined in Exhibit A), or any variation or misspelling thereof.
- Send any other Electronic Communication that in any way suggests or implies or misleads or is likely to mislead (including without limitation, via the return address, subject heading, header information or message contents) a recipient into believing that Blisslovetoys.com was the sender or sponsor of such Electronic Communication or procured or induced you to send such Electronic Communication.
- Forward, redistribute, or otherwise repurpose any Electronic Communication that Blisslovetoys.com sends to its associates and/or customers; and– generate or send any unsolicited Electronic Communication (spam) under this Agreement
C. Prohibitions regarding use of Trademarks (as defined in Exhibit A)
In addition to the requirements and prohibitions regarding use of the Trademarks set forth in Exhibit A, and incorporated herein by reference, you may NOT:
- Use the Trademarks in any manner not expressly authorized by this Agreement.– use the Trademarks, or any variation or misspelling thereof, in metatags, hidden text or source code, in your domain name or any other part of your URL as further detailed in Exhibit A
- Bid on keywords as further detailed in Exhibit A
- Bid on our Trademarks at any website that provides search engine services and that results in driving traffic to any website including your website
- Use Blisslovetoys.com or {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}}’s vendors or suppliers’ logos, trade names, trademarks, graphic images, product images, product references and similar identifying material unless expressly and specifically provided by Blisslovetoys.com for use in the Program, unless used within a keyword string (i.e. Hanes T-Shirts).
In addition, you are bound to act in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, including without limitation, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (“CAN-SPAM”) and the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”). You shall protect, defend, indemnify and hold harmless us and our parent and related entities from and against any claims, actions, liabilities, losses, damages, costs or expenses, including without limitation, attorneys’ fees and costs of litigation, even if such claims are groundless, fraudulent or false, incurred by us arising out of any content or activity by you or on your website or resulting from or in connection with your violation of any of the terms or prohibitions contained in this Agreement or any law, rule or regulation, including without limitation, claims for violations of third party intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy, including but not limited to CAN-SPAM and COPPA.
We will be responsible for all aspects of order processing and fulfillment of orders placed by customers who follow your Qualifying Links to our Site in accordance with applicable legal requirements. We reserve the right to reject orders that do not comply with any reasonable requirements that we periodically may establish. Among other things, we will prepare orders forms; process payments, cancellations, and returns; and handle customer service. Through the {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}} In-House Affiliate Program, you have the ability to track sales made to customers who purchase products using your Qualifying Links and you can review reports summarizing this sales activity. To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and fee accrual, you must ensure that your Qualifying Links are properly formatted. The form, content, and frequency of the reports are limited to those reports and capabilities available through the {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}} In-House Affiliate Program. Blisslovetoys.com is not responsible for any changes that The {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}} In-House Affiliate Program’s format, timing, or types of reports available to members of The {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}} In-House Affiliate Program and Blisslovetoys.com’s Affiliates. Blisslovetoys.com will not be responsible for improperly formatted links regardless of whether you have made amendments to the code or not. In addition, we are unable to track or provide credit for sales from customers that are referred to us with browsers that do not have their cookies setting enabled.
5. Referral Fees –
- Use a browser that has its cookies setting enabled follow a Qualifying Link (in the format specified by Blisslovetoys.com) from a site to our site
- Purchase the product using our automated ordering system
- Accept delivery of the product at the shipping destination; and– remit full payment to us.
We will pay ultimate payment to you directly, Referral Fees on products that are actually purchased by a customer within 30 days after the customer has initially entered our Site (“Referral Fee Time”) as long as the customer reenters our Site directly during that time (and not through another associate link).
We will not pay Referral Fees on any products are purchased on our Site when a customer has re-entered our Site (other than through a Qualifying Link from your website) after the Referral Fee Time, even if the customer previously followed a link from your website to our Site. Referral Fees will not be earned on products where a customer’s purchase of the product derived from search results driven from free or natural search; this includes results containing Qualifying Links displayed in a search engine’s free/non-paid, natural, or organic search results in response to a search query which sends customers directly to Blisslovetoys.com without the customer first being sent to an affiliate site and the customer clicking on a link to arrive at Blisslovetoys.com. Purchases from Gift Cards, and Online Gift Cards are not eligible to earn Referral Fees. Customer Service invoice adjustments and reorders are not eligible to earn Referral Fees. Products that are entitled to earn Referral Fees under the rules set forth above are hereinafter referred to as “Qualifying Products.”
6. Referral Fee Schedule
7. Referral Fee Payment
8. Policies and Pricing
9. Limited License; Restrictions –
You acknowledge that this Agreement does not provide you with any intellectual property rights in the Licensed Materials other than the limited rights contained herein. We reserve all of our rights in the Licensed Materials and of our other proprietary rights. You may not sublicense, assign or transfer any such licenses for the use of the Licensed Materials, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer is void. We may terminate your license to use the Licensed Materials for any reason at any time in our sole and absolute discretion. You agree to follow our Trademark Requirements in Exhibit A, as those may change from time to time. We may revoke your license at any time by giving you written notice.
10. Responsibility for Your Website or a Third Party Website on which you place a Qualifying Link (“Third Party Site”) –
- The technical operation of your website and all related equipment creating and posting product descriptions on your website or a Third Party Site and linking those descriptions to our Site
- Updating product information, content and item descriptions (including, but not limited to, product price and availability) within 24 hours of any update of such product information, content and/or item description at Blisslovetoys.com or from datafeed content provided through {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}} In-House Affiliate Program.
- The accuracy, timeliness and appropriateness of content posted on your website (including, among other things, all product-related materials)
- Ensuring that materials posted on your website or a Third Party Site do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights), or any term of this Agreement
- Monitoring your website content and the content of a Third Party Site to ensure your website or the Third Party Site does not publish, link to, sell or otherwise distribute Objectionable Content (as defined in Section 3)
- Removing any Licensed Materials and Trademarks from your website or a Third Party Site as soon as any Objectionable Content appears on the website– notifying us and the {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}} In-House Affiliate Program of any Objectionable Content that appears or appeared on your website or a Third Party Site at any time during your participation in the program, within six (6) hours of its appearance, even if you immediately removed the Objectionable Content per the requirements of this Agreement or for any other reason
- Ensuring that content posted on your website or a Thrid Party Site is not libelous or otherwise illegal; and– notifying us and the {{config path=”general/store_information/name”}} In-House Affiliate Program of any malfunctioning of the Qualifying Links or other problems with your participation in the Program in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
We disclaim all liability for these matters. Further, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees) relating to the development, operation, maintenance, and contents of your website.
11. Term of the Agreement –
12. Modification –
13. Relationship of Parties –
14. Indemnification –
15. Limitation of Liability –
16. Disclaimers –
17. Independent Investigation –
18. Miscellaneous –
19. Publicity –
20. Confidentiality –
21. Remedies to Blisslovetoys.com –
We have the right in our sole and absolute discretion to monitor your website at any time and from time to time to determine if you are in compliance with the terms of this Agreement, and you agree to provide us with unrestricted access to your website for such purpose.
Exhibit A – Trademark Requirements –
1. You may use the Trademarks only for purposes expressly authorized by us.2. You may not modify the Trademarks in any manner. For example, you may not change the proportion, color, or font of the Trademarks.3. You may not display the Trademarks in any manner that implies endorsement of your website or business by Blisslovetoys.com outside of your involvement in the Program.4. You may not use the Trademarks to disparage Blisslovetoys.com, its products or services, or in a manner which, in our reasonable judgment, may diminish or otherwise damage our good will in the Trademarks.5. Each Trademark must appear by itself, with reasonable spacing (at least the height of the Trademark) between each side of the Trademark and any other graphic or textual image. You may place our name or logo adjacent to competitive brands, subject to the requirements of this Agreement, including prohibitions against objectionable material and websites.6. You must use the TM symbol next to the trademarks. You must use the SM symbol next to the service marks.7. You must include the following statement in your materials that include the Trademarks: “Blisslovetoys.com SM is a service mark of Blisslovetoys.com USA, LLC, You must include similar statements for any other Trademarks used on an ongoing basis in your materials.8. You acknowledge that all rights to the Trademarks are our exclusive property and all goodwill generated through your use of the Trademarks will inure to our benefit.9. YOU MAY NOT USE THE TRADEMARKED NAMES, Blisslovetoys.com, OR ANY VARIATIONS OR MISSPELLINGS THEREOF, IN ANY MANNER INCLUDING KEYWORD BIDDING ON SEARCH ENGINES; YOU MAY NOT USE Blisslovetoys.com, OR ANY VARIATION OR MISSPELLINGS THEREOF, IN METATAGS OR TO DIRECT TRAFFIC TO ANY WEBSITE OTHER THAN OUR SITE; YOU MAY NOT USE Blisslovetoys.com, OR ANY VARIATIONS OR MISSPELLINGS THEREOF, IN HIDDEN TEXT OR SOURCE CODE ; YOU MAY NOT USE Blisslovetoys.com, OR ANY VARIATIONS OR MISPELLINGS THEREOF, IN YOUR DOMAIN NAME OR ANY OTHER PART OF YOUR UNIVERSAL RECORD LOCATOR.10. You may not bid on any keyword or on any Pay per Click Search Engines (PPCSEs) where such keyword is one of our Trademarks or any variation or misspelling of one of our Trademarks (see the non-exclusive list of examples set forth below in Section 15). Further, you may not bid on any word or term that is confusingly similar to any of our Trademarks standing alone. You may, however, bid on keyword strings that incorporate our Trademarks (e.g., “Blisslovetoys.com Electronics”); provided, however, that such permissible keyword strings must be used in a manner that directs traffic only to our Site. You may not bid on keywords strings that contain the terms “Rollbacks” or “Advertised Values”.11. You may not employ any “fat finger” domains or typosquatters redirecting web traffic to your website. A typosquatter for “fat finger” domain is any domain that amounts to misspellings of any registered or unregistered Trademarks.12. You may not bid on any keyword or on any PPCSEs that is one of our competitors’ trademarks (or a derivation of a competitor’s trademark), or any other word or term that is likely to cause confusion regarding its affiliation with the competitor. Examples of these keywords include, but are not limited to: “Lightinthebox”, “tinydeal”, “dx”, “Bangggod”,”focalprice”, “Amazon”, “Aliexpress”, “Geekbuying”, and “dinodirect”.13. You may not bid on restricted manufacturer brand terms, including but not limited to “XiaoMi”, or any derivatives thereof that are likely to cause confusion regarding its affiliation with Blisslovetoys.com, its associates or you, in any paid search.14. You may not use the Trademarks alongside or in conjunction with the following terms: “percent (%) off”, “sale”,or “coupons”.15. Blisslovetoys.com may, in its sole discretion, terminate you or withhold payment of your Referral Fees for the days that we determine that you were bidding in violation of the keyword bidding requirements above.16. The list below sets forth examples of impermissible keywords, “fat-finger” domains, and variations of Trademarks that you may not bid on. The list is for example purposes only and is not a complete list of prohibited words which infringe a Trademark, and therefore violate a term of this Agreement.
www.Blisslovetoys.com
We reserve the right in our sole discretion to modify these requirements at any time.
Exhibit B – Networks & Sub-Associates –
1. You agree to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including all attached Exhibits, on behalf of all sub-associates operating under the Network and are responsible for any action or inaction by such sub-associates.2. You must seek prior written approval from Blisslovetoys.com before choosing to operate as a Network. Such requests must be made in writing and sent to Blisslovetoys.com, Kevin Xiao: Affiliate Program Manager, Shen Zhen, China3. You must provide to Blisslovetoys.com a list of all sub-associates working within your Network within twenty-four (24) hours of any request from Blisslovetoys.com.4. Any violation of this Agreement by any sub-associate may result in immediate termination of the entire Network from the Program.
Last Updated: Mar. 25, 2016