Shokz CA Affiliate Terms & Conditions

Please read our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our program or begin marketing of our program. These terms and conditions are written in plain terms intentionally avoiding legalese to ensure that they may be clearly understood and followed by affiliates. Adherence to the terms and conditions provides that our Shokz CA affiliate program is sustainable and profitable for both Shokz and our affiliates.

DEFINITIONS

As used in the below Terms: (i) “We”, “us”, or “our” refers to Shokz; (ii) “you” or “your” refers to the Affiliate; (iii) “our website” refers to the Shokz website located at www. Shokz .com; (iv) “your website” refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) “Program” refers to the Shokz Affiliate Program.

COMMISSIONS

We use advance attribution rules in the Shokz CA Affiliate Program. Commission levels are based on the type of referral site, as well as new vs existing customer. If you have questions about commission rates please contact our team.

COUPON GUIDELINES

If you are enrolled in our Program 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 program 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. Violation of these terms may result in removal from the Shokz affiliate program, reversal of sales, or reduction in commissions.

PPC GUIDELINES

If you are enrolled in our Program 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, including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content based campaigns on Google, Bing, Yahoo or any other network. These trademark terms include Shokz, Shokz .com, ca.Shokz .com, www. Shokz .com, http://www. Shokz .com and similar terms without express written permission.
2. You may not use our trademark terms in sequence with any other keyword (e.g “Shokz Coupons”) without express written permission.
3. 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.
4. You may not use our URL (www.Shokz.com) as your Display URL, however use as a subfolder or subdomain (i.e. http://www.yoursite.com/Shokz or http://Shokz.yoursite.com) is permissible.
If you automate your PPC campaigns, the responsibility is yours to exclude our trademark terms from your program and we strongly suggest you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords. If you violate these PPC guidelines your current and past commission will be set to 0% without warning.
Trademarked Terms: Shokz, Ca.Shokz.com, www.Shokz.com,
Violation of these terms may result in removal from the Shokz affiliate program, reversal of sales, or reduction in commissions.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Affiliates are not permitted to use TM, TM+terms or any variation or misspelling to create pages or accounts on Facebook/Youtube/Twitter/Reddit/Instagram etc., including but not limited to Shokz, Shokz.com, ca.Shokz.com

DOMAIN NAMES

Use of any of our trademarked terms or misspellings as part of the domain for your website is strictly prohibited. (e.g. www. Shokz-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 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 Program.
2. E-mail must be sent on your behalf and must not imply that the e-mail is being sent on behalf of Shokz.
3. E-mails must first be submitted to us for approval prior to being sent.

FTC COMPLIANCE

You are required by Shokz to disclose your affiliate relationship on any promotion for this merchant. This includes but is not limited to blog posts, videos, emails, social media and website pages. Your audience must understand you may earn commissions if they click your links. This disclosure statement should be clear and concise, stating that Shokz is compensating you for your review or endorsement. If you received the product for free from Shokz for review, this also must be clearly stated in your disclosure.
For more information and suggestions about how to comply with the FTC’s Endorsement Guidelines, please review the FTC Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, the FTC Endorsements website resource, and the FTC Dot Com Disclosures.
Please note that the FTC guides and resources are only intended to provide guidance. They do not purport to provide legal advice and they do not guarantee that you will be in compliance with FTC regulations if you follow the suggestions presented. You are advised to seek and obtain your own legal advice on how these rules apply to your website or other promotional activities for which you receive compensation.
Please visit the FTC.gov website Business Center – Advertising and Marketing – Endorsements, Influencers and Reviews