Terms of Service
Affiliate Terms of Service for the Raven Tools Affiliate Program.
This agreement is subject to change with 7 days email notice. Continuation in our program after the terms have been posted constitutes agreement to any changes. It is the affiliate’s responsibility to have a working email address available in Shareasale so that such notices can be delivered.
1. KEYWORD ADVERTISING RESTRICTIONS (PPC, Social Media etc.)
1a. Direct to merchant linking is allowed with prior written permission. Without prior permission all pay per click and social media (Twitter, FaceBook. etc) advertising needs to link to the affiliate’s site, not directly to the Raven Tools website.
1b. Trademark bidding is allowed with prior written permission.
Subject to change with 30 day advance notice from Raven Tools.
2. COUPON AND DEALS SITES ADDITIONAL TERMS
2a. Affiliates may not use misleading text on affiliate links, buttons or images to imply that anything besides currently authorized deals or other savings are available.
2b. Affiliates may not bid on Raven Tools Coupons or other phrases implying coupons are available if there is 1. not a coupon posted or 2. no coupons or savings available.
2c. Affiliates may not generate pop-ups, pop-unders, iframes, frames, or any other seen or unseen actions that set affiliate cookies unless the user has expressed a clear and explicit interest in activating a specific savings by clicking on a clearly marked link, button or image for that particular coupon or deal. Your link must send the visitor to the merchant site.
2d. User must be able to see coupon/deal/savings information and details before an affiliate cookie is set (i.e. “click here to see coupons and open a window to merchant site” is NOT allowed).
3. WEBSITE AND PROMOTION RESTRICTIONS
3a. Affiliates may not frame or display in an iframe the Raven Tools site or products unless they are being displayed using an approved third party tool. Framing in an invisible frame is expressly prohibited.
3b. No software downloads or technology that may be used to intercept, redirect or divert traffic and/or referral fees from RavenTools.com or any of its affiliate partners. This restriction includes browser helper objects (BHOs), spyware, adware, parasiteware(tm) and similar products.
3c. Traffic Exchanges, autosurfing or pay-to-surf promotions, pop-ups, pop-unders, and other seen or unseen setting of cookies are NOT allowed.
3d. Using Raven Tools, Raventools, RavenSeoTools with or without hyphens or other characters, or any misspellings in your top level domain name are prohibited.
3e. Raven Tools prohibits sites that are link farms or banner farms, i.e. there is no content on the site other than lists of text links or banners.
3f. You are not allowed to market Raven Seo Tools in a negative way using words like “scam”, in your meta tags, on your site or in ppc campaigns.
4. EMAIL RESTRICTIONS
4a. Affiliate agrees that they will not engage in spamming, unlawful mass emailing or any unapproved emailing or in any way fail to comply with the CAN SPAM Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-187 or any additional legislation), and/or any other rules, laws or regulations that govern email marketing and advertising. Affiliate agrees that their promotional activities will not infringe on Raven Tools’s protected business rights, including but not limited to copywrite and trademark rights.
4b. All email advertising that includes advertising for Raven Tools products need to link to a landing page on the affiliate’s website and not to the Raven Tools domain, unless written permission is obtained in advance of the mailing.
*Raven SEO Tools has strict anti-spam policies regarding internet programs. Raven SEO Tools does not condone spam by affiliates. This includes, but is not limited to, spam via email, instant messaging, ICQ, chat rooms, message boards, social media or online forums. Unsolicited advertising in any form is not condoned by Raven SEO Tools in any manner. Any affiliate found to be involved in any of these type of activities will be terminated and shall expect no affiliate payment compensation.
If you have questions about any of these restrictions, please contact affiliate@raventools.com for clarification.
Any affiliate found to be in violation of the above terms is subject to immediate deactivation from the program, in addition to all fees being canceled from previous 7 days of violation being detected.
5.Social Media Usage
5a. Affiliates are allowed to use social media to promote the affiliate program as long as they are not using trademarked terms. Affiliates are also restricted from using the merchants name or similar in their user ID or claim to be the merchant.
5b. Affiliates must respect the terms of services on the social networking site that they are using. If we see an affiliate getting suspension notices and or terminations we reserve the right to remove them from the affiliate program.
5c. Mentions on streaming services such as (but not limited to) Twitter can only be used a maximum of 5 times per day. Streams that only consist of messages with direct links that don’t engage in conversation are subject to removal from the affiliate program.
5d. Spam reports from any Social Media site are grounds for removal from affiliate program.
5e. If you are not sure your social networking methods are allowed please ask.
6. SUB AFFILIATE NETWORKS – THIRD PARTY TOOLS
6a. We only work with affiliates that are approved directly through the Shareasale system. If you are operating in a way that allows you to pay and/or approve of affiliates under you, you will not be allowed as an affiliate.
6.b. If your site looks like a subaffiliate network and are a “third party tool” please contact us in advance of applying so we can review your site and talk about your business plan.