Trendy Treats Influencer Program Rules, Terms and Conditions
Tracking is Cookie and lifetime customer association based - first active cookie gets credit for the sale unless a lifetime association is already in place. Meaning that any customer that makes a purchase through your link will be associated to you as a customer, so long as that customer is not associated to The Company or another Influencer from a prior purchase.
The Federal Trade Commission has recently more clearly defined best practices for affiliate marketers, and it is our position that all Influencers of Trendy Treats must use these guidelines and regulations as Standard Operating Procedure during their endorsement or promotion.
Step 1 - Download and Review the FTC Document for Endorsement Guidelines: http://ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005revisedendorsementguides.pdf
Step 2 - In addition to the FTC Guidelines, please observe the following Best Practices: When you promote, make sure you:
** Disclose your affiliation with Trendy Treats when promoting the products and/or company on your website, social media, or in video format.
** Include your relevant Privacy Policies on sites that you are promoting Trendy Treats with.
** Include your Terms of Service on sites that you are promoting Trendy Treats with.
** Include your Forward Looking Earnings Statements on sites that you are promoting Trendy Treats with.
** DO NOT SPAM (Do NOT send JUNK or UNQUALIFIED TRAFFIC to this offer)
** Don't TWITTER SPAM or Social Media Spam
** Don't misrepresent yourself as a "typical result" or as a "typical customer" when you promote products
** Be transparent and authentic – We'll treat your customers with MASSIVE RESPECT!
NOTE: There will be NO commission payments on the first $100 sold through your Influencers site each month. If the only purpose in joining this Influencers program is to get a commission on a sale for Personal USE of Trendy Treats, that's not cool. We do track and reconcile every sale – and in cases where an Influencers has a single sale to themselves, commission will NOT be paid on that sale, except for any amount over $100. That's simply NOT FAIR to the Influencers who have promoted in good faith only to have one of their prospects join the Influencers program to get their own commission and cut the original Influencers out.
Terms & Conditions:
Trendy Treats (hereinafter referred to as “The Company”) Influencers Agreement
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to your participation as an Influencers in the Influencers Program of The Company, and the establishment of links from your Influencers website to our website https://trendytreats.com
Definitions
Customer: The user sent to The Company site via Influencers link
Influencers / You: The publisher advertising links/promotions of The Company
1. Enrollment in the Influencers Program
First, you need to submit a complete Influencers Program Application. We will evaluate your application and will notify you of your acceptance or rejection in 1 to 3 business days. We may reject your application if we determine (at our sole discretion) that your site or social media is unsuitable for the Influencers Program for any reason. If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Influencers Program at any time.
2. Prohibited Social Media/Sites/Verbiage
Sites that promote sexually explicit material or violence.
Sites that promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, or physical disability.
Sites that promote illegal activities.
Sites or verbiage making medical claims in regards to our products/services (ie. the curing or recession of an ailment)
3. Spam
Influencers agrees to not utilize SPAM in promoting The Company. This action will result in the immediate termination of Influencers account with a cancellation of any pending commissions. Influencers will also be in violation of The Company’s Influencers Agreement and subject to legal action and be held liable for any financial loss incurred by The Company. Any service interruptions to The Company’s website as a result of Influencers spamming will be billed to Influencers at 500 U.S. dollars per hour until service is restored. For the purpose of this agreement SPAM is defined as emailing ANYONE, in bulk or by single mailing, about The Company, who has not specifically requested the information directly from Influencers. The ONLY exceptions to this are:
Mailing to APPROPRIATE OPT-IN mailing lists where the source does the mailing on Influencers's behalf. However, use extreme caution when choosing an opt-in mailing list company! Using anything but the most reputable sources could generate spam complaints against Influencers resulting in suspension or termination.
You may include information on The Company in email Acknowledgement Messages for orders and inquiries that you receive so long as it is stated upfront that you will be sending them an acknowledgement.
The Company also considers ANY type of advertisement about The Company posted to a Newsgroup or Chat Room not run by the Influencers to be spam.
4. Promotion of Our Influencers Relationship
As a Influencers, we will make available to you Links (each of these links sometimes being referred to herein as "Links" or, individually, as a "Link") and banners or other content, which, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, you may display as often and in as many areas on your site or social media as you desire. The Links will serve to identify you as a member of our Influencers Network and will establish a link from your site or social media to ours. Company may repost, share or advertise content, for the purpose of promoting the company, Influencers Program, or Influencers, without prior consent or financial compensation, that is posted by the Influencers to their own social media or website, whether that content was originally supplied by Trendy Treats or the Influencers themselves.
Links:
Subject to the terms of clause © below, we will provide you with Links, which will consist of a graphic images or text provided by us (and subject to change from time to time in our sole discretion). These Links will connect your site directly to ours. By utilizing these Links, users of your site will be able to order, directly from us, any product(s) that were described or referenced on your site.
Agreements Regarding Links:
In utilizing Links, you also agree that you will display on your site only those graphic images (indicating a Link) that are provided by us, or that are created in good taste by the Influencers. All Links may be modified and/or expanded from time to time throughout the term of this Agreement pursuant to the mutual agreement of the parties hereto. Each Link connecting users of your site to the pertinent area of our site will in no way alter the look, feel or functionality of our site.
5. PPC Bidding Rules
TM and TM + Keyword are restricted: (Trendy Treats, all other Trendy Treats products).
6. Our Responsibilities
We will be responsible for providing all information necessary to allow you to make appropriate Links from your site to our site. We will be solely responsible for processing every order placed by a customer following a special Link from your site, for tracking the volume and amount of sales generated by your site, and for providing information to Influencers regarding sales statistics. We will be responsible for order entry, payment processing, shipping, cancellations, returns, and related customer service.
7. Other Responsibilities and Opportunities of Influencers Sites
If you qualify and agree to participate as a Influencers Site, you shall display Links prominently throughout your site as you see fit and with our consent.
Contests and Promotions:
As a Influencers, you will be entitled to participate and promote on your site any sweepstakes, contests, and special promotions we may offer. In addition, you will be entitled to earn commissions as set forth.
Only offers and promotional tools provided explicitly by The Company for use on a Influencers site are valid.
The unauthorized use of promotional offers taken from another website is strictly forbidden and may result in the termination of this agreement.
Compliance with the Agreement:
We have the right in our sole discretion to monitor your site at any time and from time to time to determine if you are in compliance with the terms of this Agreement.
We will monitor for FTC compliance to ensure disclosures are adequately added. Please ensure compliance by following the guidelines set by the FTC.
8. Reports of Sales
You will be given a user name and password and have the ability to enter a password-protected site to receive your sales statistics on a daily basis.
9. Your Responsibilities
You are solely responsible for ensuring that reviews, descriptions, and articles on your site comply with applicable copyright, FTC disclosure and other laws. You must have express permission to use another party’s copyrighted or other proprietary material. We are not responsible for violations. For additional information on expectations around FTC disclosure please visit the FTC website.
10. Policies and Pricing
Customers who buy The Company’s products through the Influencers Program will be deemed to be customers of The Company. Accordingly, all of our rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for our products sold under the Influencers Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Our prices and product availability may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect products that you already have listed on your site, you should update pricing often or not include price information in your product descriptions.
11. Publicity
You shall not create, publish, distribute, or permit any written material that makes reference to us without first submitting such material to us and receiving our written consent, which we agree shall not be unreasonably withheld.
12. Licenses and Use of the The Company’s logos and Trademarks
WE GRANT YOU A NON-EXCLUSIVE, NON-TRANSFERABLE, REVOCABLE RIGHT TO (i) ACCESS OUR SITE THROUGH THE LINKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND (ii) SOLELY IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH LINKS AND UNDER THE CONDITIONS PROVIDED FOR HEREIN, TO USE OUR LOGOS, TRADE NAMES, TRADEMARKS, AND SIMILAR IDENTIFYING MATERIAL RELATING TO US (COLLECTIVELY, THE "LICENSED MATERIALS"), FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SELLING PRODUCTS ON YOUR SITE FOR THE COMPANY. YOU MAY NOT ALTER, MODIFY, OR CHANGE THE LICENSED MATERIALS IN ANY WAY WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION. YOU ARE ONLY ENTITLED TO USE THE LICENSED MATERIALS WHILE YOU ARE A MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING OF THE Influencers PROGRAM.
You shall not make any specific use of any Licensed Materials for purposes other than selling products on your site for The Company, without first submitting a sample of such to us and obtaining the prior written consent of The Company’s Influencers Program Manager, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. We reserve all of our rights in the Licensed Materials and of our other proprietary rights. We may revoke your license at any time, by giving you written notice.
13. Lifetime Association
Any customer that makes a purchase through your Influencers site will be associated to you as a customer, so long as that customer is not associated to The Company or another Influencers from a prior purchase. If a Influencers is inactive in the Program for a period of 60 days, with no sales to new customers, The Company reserves the right to remove the customer lifetime association of all Influencers customers and place that association directly with The Company or another Influencers. If a customer that is lifetime associated to a Influencers becomes inactive, meaning they do not continue to purchase product, the Company reserves the right to remove the customer lifetime association and place that association directly with The Company or another Influencers.
A lifetime association can also be created through the download of the Trendy Treats App. In this instance the customer will become lifetime associated to the Influencers if the app download was initiated through the Influencers's specific app download link if no lifetime association was in place from a prior purchase or app download. A lifetime association that is created from an app download applies to future purchases on The Company's website. If that customer does not purchase a product from the website within an appropriate timeframe determined by The Company, the lifetime association may be removed and/or placed directly with The Company or another Influencers.
14. Promotion or sale of Trendy Treats products through Google Shopping, Amazon, Ebay, or other Product Listing Ads or Sites (owned or not owned by you), are not allowed unless express written permission is provided by Trendy Treats.
CONFIDENTIALITY & NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
The Company proposes to disclose certain of its confidential and proprietary information (the "Confidential Information") to Influencers. Confidential Information shall include all data, materials, products, production methods, proprietary vendors, technology, computer programs, specifications, manuals, business plans, software, marketing plans, financial information, training materials and other information disclosed or submitted, orally, in writing, or by any other media, to Influencers by The Company. All Information disclosed orally shall be considered Confidential Information, unless identified as non-confidential by The Company at the time of disclosure. Nothing herein shall require The Company to disclose any of its information.
Influencers agrees that any Confidential Information disclosed by The Company will not be shared with others in person, by email, or through social media. Influencers agrees that Information sent to Influencers from The Company will not be photographed, recorded or reproduced in any way on social media. This includes but is not limited to Influencers training material, e-mail correspondence, written correspondence.
Influencers agrees that the Confidential Information is to be considered confidential and proprietary to The Company and Influencers shall hold the same in confidence, shall not use the Confidential Information other than for the purposes of its business with Company, and shall disclose it only to its officers, directors, or Influencers with a specific need to know and only disclosed as instructed by The Company. Influencers will not disclose, publish or otherwise reveal any of the Confidential Information received from The Company to any other party whatsoever except with the specific prior written authorization of The Company. Influencers shall not duplicate confidential Information furnished in tangible and nontangible form except for purposes of this Agreement. Upon the request of The Company, Influencers shall return all Confidential Information received in written or tangible form, including any information, copies, or reproductions, taken from trendytreats.com, within fifteen (15) days of such request. If the Influencers discloses, publish, or otherwise reveal any information, media, or idea, from Trendytreats.com, the Influencers agrees to pay $5,000 US dollars to Company as and for liquidated, estimated and stipulated damages, to be paid within thirty (30) calendar days. At Influencers 's option, Influencers may destroy any documents or other media developed by the Influencers containing Confidential Information. Influencers shall provide a written certificate to The Company regarding destruction within ten (10) days thereafter.
The obligations of Influencers herein shall be effective indefinitely from the date that the Influencers Agreement between The Company and Influencers terminates. Further, the obligation not to disclose shall not be affected by bankruptcy, receivership, assignment, attachment or seizure procedures, whether initiated by or against Influencers, nor by the rejection of any agreement between The Company and Influencers, by a trustee of Influencers in bankruptcy, or by the Influencers as a debtor in possession or the equivalent of any of the foregoing under local or federal law.
Influencers may not at any point disclose any sales, financial figures, cost or profit with anyone within The Company or outside of it without written consent of The Company. This is included but not limited to sales figures, sales tracking methods, customer counts, company growth, incentive programs, sales contests or events. Disclosing such information to another Influencers or an external party will be considered a material breach of this Agreement and subject the Influencers to damages, injunctive relief and reimbursement of The Company's attorneys' fees and costs.
SALES REPRESENTATIVE AGREEMENT
The Company is in the business of formulating, manufacturing, marketing, and selling of nutritional products, supplements and branded apparel and accessories. Influencers is in the business of marketing and promoting products of The Company. The Company and Influencers desire to enter into a business relationship subject to the terms and conditions set forth below.
The Company engages Influencers, and Influencers agrees to be engaged, to The Company. The term of this Agreement shall commence on the date herein above and shall continue through its termination. Either party may terminate this Agreement without cause. Influencers agrees to provide thirty (30) days’ advance written notice of termination. The Company may terminate this Agreement without advance notice. Influencers acknowledges that he/she is an independent contractor and that no employer-employee relationship, join venture, partnership or agency relationship is created by this Agreement.
Non-Compete:
Influencers agrees not to directly or indirectly compete with the businesses of The Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates, to include, but not limited to Trendy Treats L.L.C., or any other business owned or partially owned by Trendy Treats, during the term of this agreement for a period of two (2) years following termination of this Agreement within the Territory and not withstanding the cause or reason for the termination of this agreement.
The term “non-compete” as used herein shall mean that the Influencers shall not own, manage, operate, consult with, officially represent, or be employed by or in a business substantially similar to or competitive in any way with the business of The Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates, or such business activity in which the Company may substantially engage during the term of this agreement and for a period two (2) years following this agreement.
Non-Solicitation of Customers:
Influencers agrees not to solicit or attempt to solicit, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is not in the interest of The Company, any customers of The Company with which Influencers had any contact during the term of this Agreement, whether or not the customer is located within the Territory, during the term of this Agreement and for a period of two (2) years following termination of this Agreement, and notwithstanding the cause or reason for the termination of this Agreement. Influencers agrees that The Company has good will among its customers. Influencers agrees that the temporal restrictions of this provision are reasonable.
This Agreement is binding upon, and in-turn, to the benefit of the parties, their successors, subsidiaries, affiliates, and personal representatives.
I acknowledge that I have read and fully agree to the terms of this Influencers Agreement.
