As an affiliate it is your responsibility to carefully read, review, and keep on file any legal agreement that you accept in order to promote a certain product or service. Just checking the little “I Accept” box is not enough. If you are serious about promoting affiliate programs, you will take the time to review the legal agreement.
If you don’t take the time to review the legal agreement then don’t be surprised one day to learn that your affiliate account, and all earnings associated with it, has been closed to due a violation in the legal agreement. Ignorance is no excuse. The affiliate managers have to deal with tons of spammers, content thieves, fraud players, etc and they usually don’t have time to go back and ask why you were breaking the rules. Simply put… you can easily get your affiliate account locked for investigation if you don’t follow the rules laid out in the agreement.
Common Items in the Agreement
Before writing this post I went and reread the PartyPartners affiliate agreement. I used their agreement as a base because it has some pretty strict rules about fraud traffic. Some common things you may find in a poker affiliate programs agreement are…
- Real Money Player Qualifications.
- Allowed Methods of Promotion.
- Definition of fraud traffic.
- All the technical stuff about payment plans and payments.
- Tax information.
In a nutshell, the legal agreement covers the poker rooms ass, throughly. If you decide to try to pull a fast one, chances are you will get caught and simply saying that you didn’t know it wasn’t allowed is no reason for them to reverse their decision. Most police officers wont let you off for speeding just because you didn’t know that the speed limit was 55 and not 70. I see posts all the time at PAW about someone who either didn’t get paid, got locked out of their account, or both because they did something stupid without reading the legal agreement first.
If you haven’t read over your affiliate agreements I suggest you do so now. It could save you some trouble in the near future.
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