Blurb, Inc. Affiliate Terms & Conditions

Please read our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our programme or begin marketing our programme. These terms and conditions are written in plain language intentionally avoiding legalese to ensure that they may be clearly understood and followed by affiliates. Each Affiliate is responsible for assuring that its employees, agents and contractors comply with these terms and conditions. Thank you.

DEFINITIONS
As used in these terms and conditions: (i) "We", "us", "our" or Blurb, Inc. refers to Blurb, Inc., including our international operations and our website; (ii) "you" or "your" refers to the Affiliate; (iii) "our website" refers to the Blurb, Inc. properties located at www.blurb.com and its subdomains including international subdomains; (iv) "your website" refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) "programme" refers to the Blurb, Inc. Affiliate Programme.

ENROLLMENT
After receiving your application, we will review your website and notify you of your acceptance or rejection into our Programme. Please allow up 48 hours for your application to be reviewed. We reserve the right to reject any application, however we encourage you to contact us if you feel we have made an incorrect decision. Including all of the websites that you use in your profile will help us make a better decision.

WEBSITE RESTRICTIONS
Your participating website(s) may not:

1. Infringe on our or any anyone else's intellectual property, publicity, privacy or other rights.
2. Violate any law, rule or regulation.
3. Contain any content that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, harmful to minors, or include nudity, pornography or sexually explicit materials.
4. Contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data, or personal information.
5. Contain software or use technology that attempts to intercept, divert or redirect Internet traffic to or from any other website, or that potentially enables the diversion of affiliate commissions from another website.

LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE
Upon acceptance into the Programme, links will be made available to you through the affiliate interface. Your acceptance in our programme means you agree to and abide by the following.

1. You will only use linking code obtained from the affiliate interface without manipulation.
2. All domains that use your affiliate link must be listed in your affiliate profile.
3. Your Website will not in any way copy, resemble, or mirror the look and feel of our Website. You will also not use any means to create the impression that your Website is our Website or any part of our Website including, without limitation, framing of our Website in any manner.
4. You may not engage in cookie stuffing or include pop-ups, false or misleading links on your website. In addition, wherever possible, you will not attempt to mask the referring URL information (i.e. the page from where the click is originating).
5. Using redirects to bounce a click off of a domain from which the click did not originate in order to give the appearance that it came from that domain is prohibited.

If you are found redirecting links to hide or manipulate their original source, your current and past commissions 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 Programme and participate in PPC advertising, you must adhere to our PPC guidelines as follows:

1. You may not bid on any of our trademarked terms (which are identified below) including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content-based campaigns on Google, MSN, Yahoo or any other network.
2. You may not use our trademarked terms in sequence with any other keyword (i.e. Blurb Coupons).
3. You may not use our trademarked terms in your ad title, ad copy, display name or as the display URL.
4. You may not direct link to our website from any Pay Per Click ad or use redirects that yield the same result. Affiliates must be directed to an actual page on your website.
5. You may not bid in any manner appearing higher than Blurb for any search term in position 1-5 in any auction style pay-per-click advertising programme.

If you automate your PPC campaigns, it is your responsibility to exclude our trademarked terms from your programme and we strongly suggest you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords. We have a strict no tolerance policy on PPC trademark bidding. You will forfeit all commissions for a minimum of the past 30 days and your commission will be set to 0% without warning if you engage in PPC trademark bidding that uses our trademarked terms.

Trademarked Terms: Blurb, Inc., Blurb, blurb.com, Bookify, Blurb BookSmart, Blurb for Good.

COUPON GUIDELINES
If you are enrolled in our Programme and your Website promotes coupon codes, you must adhere to our Coupon Guidelines as follows:

1. You may ONLY advertise coupon codes that are provided to you through the Affiliate Programme or network.
2. You may NOT advertise coupon codes obtained from our non-affiliate advertising, customer e-mails, paid search, or any other campaign.
3. On click through, you must link directly to our website. Framing of our website is strictly prohibited.
4. Cookie Stuffing: You must not mislead customers into clicking on an offer or coupon that does not exist or practice similarly deceptive tactics that are generally known as "cookie stuffing." These include, but are not limited to:
   1. Using knowingly expired offers or presenting offers that do not exist or are not affiliate offers.
   2. Making claims that a user must click on a link first to activate or receive an offer.
   3. Presenting a button that claims to show all offers that sets the affiliate cookie in the background.
   4. Implementing technology that generates a click or sets the cookie from the action of copying a coupon code or through a pop under.

Due to repeated abuse, the initial commission level offered to new coupon and deal oriented sites is 10%. Additionally, if your website ranks on the first page of Google for terms related to our website or company name(s) combined with the words coupon, coupons, coupon code, promo code, etc and/or your conversion rate exceeds 25%, you may be offered a lower commission to offset the reduced profitability of orders. The current rate is 2%.

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. blurb.website.com or www.blurb-coupons.com.

ADVERTISING & PUBLICITY
You shall not create, publish, distribute, or print any written material that makes reference to our Programme without first submitting that material to us and receiving our prior written consent. If you intend to promote our Programme via e-mail campaigns, you must adhere to the following:

1. Abide by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Public Law No. 108-187) with respect to our Programme.
2. E-mails must be sent on your behalf and must not imply that the e-mail is being sent on behalf of Blurb, Inc.
3. E-mails must first be submitted to us for approval prior to being sent or we must be sent a copy of the e-mail.

SOCIAL MEDIA
Promotion on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms is permitted following these general guidelines:

1. You ARE allowed to promote offers to your own lists; more specifically, you're welcome to use your affiliate links on your own Facebook, Twitter, etc. pages. For example: You can post, "25% off sale at Blurb through Wednesday with code Blurb25."
2. You ARE PROHIBITED from posting your affiliate links on Blurb's Facebook, Twitter, etc. pages in an attempt to turn those sales into affiliate sales. It is not permitted to use the @ symbol so that your post shows up on the merchant's page. For example, you cannot post, "25% off sale at @BlurbBooks through Wednesday with code Blurb25."

EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES
You will comply with the European Union’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive if you are conducting business in or taking orders from persons in one or more of the European Union countries.

REVERSAL & COMMUNICATION POLICY
Blurb, Inc. takes pride in its very low reversal rate, which we attribute to open communication with our affiliates. However, we reserve the right to reverse orders due to order cancellations, duplicate tracking, returns, disputed charges, and programme violations as outlined in these terms and conditions.

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.

1. You are not forthcoming, intentionally vague or are found to be lying.
2. You are not responsive within a reasonable time period and after multiple attempts to contact with information listed in your network profile.
3. You cannot substantiate or validate the source of your traffic to our programme with clear and demonstrable proof.

If any of the above apply, then we reserve the absolute right to reverse orders, set your commission to 0% or suspend you from the programme 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 it has the appropriate checks and balances in place to pro-actively address these issues and adhere to our programme rules.

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