Terms of Use

Last Updated November 17th, 2021

Terms and Conditions

PLEASE READ THIS SUBSCRIBER AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SERVICES OFFERED BY Black Forest Ads, LLC. ("COMPANY"). BY CLICKING ON THE "I ACCEPT" BUTTON UPON REGISTRATION, YOU AGREE TO BECOME BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, PLEASE SUBMIT A REQUEST TO HAVE YOUR ACCOUNT CLOSED AS YOU DO NOT WISH TO USE THE SERVICES OFFERED BY COMPANY. COMPANY'S ACCEPTANCE IS EXPRESSLY CONDITIONED UPON YOUR ASSENT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHER TERMS; IF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE CONSIDERED AN OFFER BY COMPANY, ACCEPTANCE IS EXPRESSLY LIMITED TO THESE TERMS.

The Web pages available at www.shareyoursocial.com, and all linked pages unless indicated otherwise ("Site"), are owned and operated by Company, and are accessed by you ("Subscriber") under the following terms and conditions:

1. ACCESS TO THE SERVICES. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Company may offer to provide certain services that relate to facilitating the purchase and sale of Internet advertisements by bringing together Internet advertisers and publishers, as described more fully on the Site, and which are selected by Subscriber through the process provided on the Site ("Services"). Company may change, suspend or discontinue the Services (or Subscriber's access thereto) at any time, including the availability of any feature, advertisement, publisher or content, without notice or liability. Company reserves the right, at its discretion, to refuse to allow access to the Services to any applicant at any time. Company also reserves the right, at its discretion, to modify this Agreement at any time by posting a notice on the Site, or by sending Subscriber a notice via email or postal mail. Use of the Services by Subscriber following such notification constitutes Subscriber's acceptance of the modified terms and conditions. Subscriber certifies to Company that if Subscriber is an individual (i.e., not a corporation) Subscriber is at least 18 years of age. Subscriber also certifies that it is legally permitted to use the Services and access the Site, and takes full responsibility for the selection and use of the Services. This Agreement is void where prohibited by law, and the right to access the Site is revoked in such jurisdictions.

2. IMPLEMENTATION. Subscriber agrees to comply with the technical specifications provided by Company to enable proper display of the advertisements in connection with the Services, including without limitation by not modifying the JavaScript or other programming provided to Subscriber by Company in any way.

3. COMMUNICATIONS SOLELY WITH COMPANY. Subscriber agrees to direct to Company and not to any advertiser or publisher, as the case may be, all communications regarding any matter arising out of Subscribers use of the Services.

4. CONTENT. The Site and its contents are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws and are intended solely for the use of Company subscribers and may only be used in accordance with the terms of this Agreement in connection with authorized use of the Services. All materials displayed or performed on or accessible through the Site or Services (including, but not limited to text, graphics, articles, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips and video clips, also known as the "Content") are protected by copyright. The term "Content" as used herein specifically includes any advertising or other content made available or submitted by any advertiser and any website or other content published by or associated with any publisher. Subscriber shall abide by all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Content accessed in connection with the Services. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that if Subscriber uses any of the Services to contribute or make available Content, Company is hereby granted a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right to fully exploit such Content (including all related intellectual property rights) and to allow others to do so in connection with the Services and the Site. If Subscriber is a publisher, Subscriber grants Company the right to access, index, and cache Subscriber's website, or any portion thereof, including by automated means including Web spiders or crawlers.

5. RESTRICTIONS. Subscriber (whether a publisher, advertiser or otherwise) warrants, represents and agrees that it will not contribute, submit or make available through the Services, or use the Services in connection with, any Content that that: (i) is infringing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, offensive, violent or hateful, having to do with death or murder; (ii) contains alcohol or drug abuse; (iii) violates any law or right of any third party; or (iv) promotes or facilitates any of the foregoing, whether directly or through a peer-to-peer network that is owned, operated or provided by Subscriber. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) if Subscriber is an advertiser, Subscriber agrees to comply with Company's Advertiser Acceptable Use Policy (found on this page), as the same may be updated from time to time in Company's sole discretion ("Advertiser AUP"), and if Subscriber is a publisher, Subscriber agrees to comply with Company's Publisher Acceptable Use Policy, as the same may be updated from time to time by Company in its sole discretion ("Publisher AUP"). If Subscriber is a publisher, Subscriber shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to (i) generate fraudulent impressions of or fraudulent clicks on any advertisement, including but not limited to through repeated manual clicks, the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated search requests, and/or the fraudulent use of other search engine optimization services and/or software; (ii) edit, modify, filter or change the order of the information contained in any advertisement, or remove, obscure or minimize any advertisement in any way; (iii) redirect an end user away from any Web page accessed by an end user after clicking on any part of an advertisement ("Advertiser Page"), provide a version of the Advertiser Page different from the page an end user would access by going directly to the Advertiser Page or intersperse any content between the advertisement and the Advertiser Page; or (iv) display any advertisements on any error page, registration or "thank you" page (e.g. a page that thanks a user after he/she has registered with the applicable website). Company reserves the right to remove any Content from the Site at any time, or to terminate Subscriber's right to use the Services or access the Site, for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such Content or if Company is concerned that Subscriber may have breached the terms of this paragraph), or for no reason at all, subject to the provisions of paragraph 15 (Termination). Subscriber is responsible for all of its activity in connection with the Services. Any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity is grounds for termination of Subscriber's right to use the Services or to access the Site. Use of the Site or Services to violate the security of any computer network, crack passwords or security encryption codes, transfer or store illegal material including materials that are deemed threatening or obscene, or engage in any kind of illegal activity is expressly prohibited. Subscriber will not run Maillist, Listserv, any form of auto-responder, or "spam" on the Site, or any processes that run or are activated while the Subscriber is not logged in.

6. DISCLAIMERS. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that Company has no special relationship with or fiduciary duty to Subscriber and that Company has no control over, and no duty to take any action regarding: which users gains access to the Site or Services; what Content Subscriber accesses or receives via the Site or Services; what Content other subscribers may make available, publish or promote in connection with the Services; what effects any Content may have on Subscriber or its users or customers; how Subscriber or its users or customers may interpret, view or use the Content; what actions Subscriber or its users or customers may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content, or whether Content is being displayed properly in connection with the Services. Further, (i) if Subscriber is a publisher, Subscriber specifically acknowledges and agrees that Company has no control over (and is merely a passive conduit with respect to) any Content that may be submitted or published by any advertiser, and that Subscriber is solely responsible (and assumes all liability and risk) for determining whether or not such Content is appropriate or acceptable to Subscriber, and (ii) if Subscriber is an advertiser, Subscriber specifically acknowledges and agrees that Company has no control over any Content that may be available or published on any publisher website (or otherwise), and that Subscriber is solely responsible (and assumes all liability and risk) for determining whether or not such Content is appropriate or acceptable to Subscriber. Subscriber releases Company from all liability in any way relating to Subscriber's acquisition (or failure to acquire), provision, use or other activity with respect to Content in connection with the Site or Services. The Site may contain, or direct Subscriber to sites containing, information that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. Company makes no representations concerning any content contained in or accessed through the Site or Services, and Company will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Site or Services. Company makes no guarantee regarding the level of impressions of or clicks on any advertisement, the timing of delivery of such impressions and/or clicks, or the amount of any payment to be made to Subscriber in connection with the Services.

THE SERVICES, CONTENT AND SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THE RESULTS OF USE OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE RESULTS OF ANY ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN, AND SUBSCRIBER ASSUMES ALL RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY WITH RESPECT THERETO. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO SUBSCRIBER.

7. COPYRIGHT DISPUTE POLICY. Please review Company's Copyright Dispute Policy (found on this page). By registering as an advertiser and/or publisher, Subscriber agrees that the sole method for resolving complaints of copyright infringement if Subscriber believes that material or content residing on or accessible through the Site or Services infringes a copyright, shall be through the practices described in the Copyright Dispute Policy.

8. PRIVACY POLICY. Please review Company's Privacy Policy (link to privacy policy is available on footer of this page). By registering as an advertiser and/or publisher, Subscriber is consenting to the use of any personal information and non-personal information Company collects from Subscriber as described in the Privacy Policy. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, by providing information to us, Subscriber acknowledges that Company operates in the United States and Subscriber agrees to permit Company to collect, transmit and use Subscriber's personal information and non-personal information anywhere that Company deems necessary for the performance of Company's Services -- including outside the country where Subscriber is located, across international boundaries and in the United States -- and that such use shall be subject to the terms and conditions stated in Company's Privacy Policy and this Agreement. In the case of the United States, Company may be required to disclose Subscriber's personal information to government authorities, regulators, or law enforcement in accordance with applicable laws, which may include the USA PATRIOT Act.

EXCEPT AS DISCLOSED IN THE PRIVACY POLICY, (I) COMPANY MAKES NO GUARANTY OF CONFIDENTIALITY OR PRIVACY OF ANY COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TRANSMITTED ON OR THROUGH THE SITE, SERVICES OR ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO THE SITE; AND (II) COMPANY WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE PRIVACY OF E-MAIL ADDRESSES, REGISTRATION AND IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION, DISK SPACE, COMMUNICATIONS, CONFIDENTIAL OR TRADE-SECRET INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER CONTENT STORED ON COMPANY'S EQUIPMENT, TRANSMITTED OVER NETWORKS ACCESSED BY THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE CONNECTED WITH SUBSCRIBER'S USE OF THE SERVICES.

9. REGISTRATION AND SECURITY. As a condition to using Services, Subscriber may be required to register with Company and select a password and Subscriber name ("Company User ID"). Subscriber shall provide Company with accurate, complete, and updated registration information. Failure to do so shall constitute a breach of this Agreement, which may result in immediate termination of Subscriber's account. Subscriber may not (i) select or use as a Company User ID a name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person; (ii) use as a Company User ID a name subject to any rights of a person other than Subscriber without appropriate authorization; (iii) register for the Services using more than one Company User ID. Company reserves the right to refuse registration of, or cancel a Company User ID in its discretion. Subscriber shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Subscriber's Company password and for all activities that occur under Subscriber's password or account. Subscriber agrees to (a) immediately notify Company of any unauthorized use of Subscriber's password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that Subscriber exits from its account at the end of each session. Company cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from Subscriber's failure to comply with this Paragraph 9.

10. INDEMNITY. Subscriber will indemnify and hold Company, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, harmless, including costs and attorneys' fees, from any third party claim proceeding, suit, investigation or demand due to or arising in whole or in part out of Subscriber's access to the Site, use of the Services, the violation of this Agreement by Subscriber (including, without limitation, the violation of the Publisher AUP and/or the Advertiser AUP), or the infringement by Subscriber, or any third party using the Subscriber's account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. Subscriber agrees that Company will have sole and exclusive control over the defense and settlement of any such third party claim.

11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY BE LIABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE OR THE SERVICES (I) FOR ANY AMOUNT IN THE AGGREGATE IN EXCESS OF THE FEES PAID BY SUBSCRIBER THEREFOR; OR (II) FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO SUBSCRIBER. SUBSCRIBER AGREES THAT REGARDLESS OF ANY STATUTE OR LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST COMPANY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO USE OF THE SERVICES OR THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE FILED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION AROSE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.

12. FEES AND PAYMENT. Some of the Services require payment of fees. Subscriber shall pay all applicable fees, as described on the Site in connection with such Services selected by Subscriber. Subscriber agrees that Company may offset any amount owed to Subscriber in Subscriber's capacity as a publisher by any amount owed by Subscriber to Company in Subscriber's capacity as an advertiser. If Subscriber is an advertiser: Subscriber shall pay all applicable fees, as described on the Site in connection with such Services selected by Subscriber. Company reserves the right to change its price list and to institute new charges at any time, upon prior notice to Subscriber, which may be sent by email or posted on the Site. Amounts due shall be calculated solely based on records maintained by Company. No other measurements or statistics of any kind shall be accepted by Company or have any effect under this Agreement. In the event a website publisher has active sold site ads on their account and this publisher is due a payment (cashout), the balance of all active site ads will be held in the publishers account until such ads have expired. Funds are held incase a refund is requested by an advertiser of the site specific ads. Company reserves the right to suspend any advertisement in the event of non-payment by Subscriber of any amount owed to Company. Amounts that remain unpaid after their due date shall accrue late payment interest thereafter in the amount of 1.5% compounded monthly or the highest rate that is legally allowable under applicable law, whichever is less. In the event that Company institutes legal proceedings to collect any amount outstanding to Company, Subscriber shall be liable for any resulting collection costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees). Subscriber agrees to the terms of Company's Refund Policy, (see on this page) as the same may be updated from time to time by Company in its sole discretion. Subscriber agrees to pay all applicable taxes or charges imposed by any government entity in connection with Subscriber's use of the Services. Subscriber agrees that Company may apply any overpayment by Subscriber on one account to set-off an amount owing on another related account or to pay any amounts that are past due to Company for a period of 90 Days. Subscriber agrees to pay all sales, use and other applicable taxes or charges imposed by any government entity in connection with Subscriber's use of the Services.

If Subscriber is a publisher: Subscriber shall receive as payment a percentage of the sale price of advertisements displayed in connection with Subscriber's website as determined by Company for Subscriber's use of the Services. Subscriber's payable revenue shall be determined on the first day of each month, for those revenues earned in previous month shall become eligible to be paid. Payments to Subscriber shall be sent by Company within approximately twenty (20) days of the previous calendar month end, if Subscriber's earned balance is greater than or equal to Subscriber's minimum check amount. If Subscriber's earned balance is less than Subscriber's minimum check amount, no check shall be sent and the Company shall make the aforesaid determination anew on the first day of the following month. Subscriber agrees that (i) any payments that may become due to Subscriber (as described on the Site) are specifically conditioned upon Company's receipt of full payment from the applicable advertiser, and that any such payments do not become due to Subscriber until Company's receipt of full payment from the applicable advertiser, and (ii) if Company does not receive the applicable payment in full from any such advertiser, or Company's payment from advertiser is later reversed at any time, Company may debit Publisher's account or reverse or stop payment on any payment previously made to Publisher in respect of such advertisements, and Company shall have no liability or responsibility to Subscriber (and Subscriber hereby releases Company) with respect thereto. If Subscriber disputes any payment made in connection with the Services, Subscriber must notify Company in writing within thirty (30) days of any such payment. Failure to so notify Company shall result in the waiver by Subscriber of any claims related to such disputed payment. Company shall not be liable for any payment based on (i) any fraudulent impressions, clicks or acquisitions generated by any person, robot, automated program or similar device, as reasonably determined by Company; (ii) advertisements delivered to end users whose browsers have JavaScript disabled; (iii) impressions clicks or acquisitions commingled with a significant number of fraudulent impressions clicks or acquisitions described in (i) above, (iv) any impressions, clicks or acquisitions that arise in whole or in part as a result of any violation of Company's Publisher AUP (including any clicks, impressions or acquisitions that result from a publisher site that violates the Publisher AUP); or (v) any impressions, clicks or acquisitions that arise as a result of another breach of this Agreement by Subscriber for any applicable pay period. Company reserves the right to withhold payment or charge back Subscriber's account due to any of the foregoing or any breach of this Agreement by Subscriber. In addition, if Subscriber is past due on any payment to Company in connection with the Services (for example, from Subscriber's use of the Services as an advertiser), Company reserves the right to withhold payment until all outstanding payments have been made. All payments to Subscriber are contingent upon, and will be made pursuant to Company's  Publisher Payment Policy (shown on this page), as the same may be updated from time to time by Company in its sole discretion. To ensure proper payment, Subscriber is solely responsible for providing and maintaining accurate contact and payment information associated with Subscriber's account and Company User ID. For U.S. taxpayers, this information includes without limitation a valid U.S. tax identification number and a fully-completed Form W-9. For non-U.S. taxpayers, this information includes without limitation either a signed certification that the taxpayer does not have U.S. activities or a fully-completed Form W-8 or other form, which may require a valid U.S. tax identification number, as required by the U.S. tax authorities. Any bank fees related to returned or cancelled checks due to a contact or payment information error or omission may be deducted from the newly issued payment. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Publisher acknowledges and agrees that checks payable to Publisher that are not cashed within 180 days from the date of issuance will be cancelled by Company and will not be reissued, and in the event of such cancellation, Publisher irrevocably waives any right to payment of amounts represented by such checks. Subscriber agrees to pay all income taxes and other applicable taxes or charges imposed by any government entity in connection with Subscriber's use of the Services.

13. CONFIDENTIALITY. Subscriber agrees not to disclose Company Confidential Information without Company's prior written consent. "Company Confidential Information" includes without limitation: (i) all Company software, technology, programming, technical specifications, materials, guidelines and documentation Subscriber learns, develops or obtains that relate to the Services or the Site; (ii) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance in the Services provided to Subscriber by Company; and (iii) any other information designated in writing by Company as "confidential" or any designation to the same effect. "Company Confidential Information" does not include information that has become publicly known through no breach by Subscriber or Company, or information that has been (a) independently developed without access to Company Confidential Information as evidenced in writing; (b) rightfully received by Subscriber from a third party; or (c) required to be disclosed by law or by a governmental authority.

14. USE OF AGGREGATE INFORMATION; MARKETING RIGHTS. Company may share aggregate (i.e., not personally identifiable) information about Subscriber with advertisers, publishers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. Additionally, Subscriber grants to Company a non-exclusive license to republish in any medium advertisements, web pages, banners, interstitials or other content for purposes of marketing Company products and Services.

15. TERMINATION. Either party may terminate the Services at any time by notifying the other party by any means. Company may also terminate or suspend any and all Services and access to the Site immediately, without prior notice or liability, if Subscriber breaches any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement. Any fees paid hereunder are non-refundable and non-cancelable. Upon termination of the Subscriber's account, Subscriber's right to use the Services will immediately cease and Subscriber will remove all Company HTML code from Subscriber's websites. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, indemnification provisions, warranty disclaimers, and limitations of liability.

16. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. Subscriber represents and warrants that (i) Subscriber is the owner of each website Subscriber designates in connection with the use of Services or that Subscriber is legally authorized to act on behalf of the owner of such website for the purposes of this Agreement, and (ii) Subscriber has all necessary right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform the acts required of Subscriber thereunder hereunder; (iii) when participating in Company's network as an advertiser, Subscriber will comply with Company's Advertiser AUP; (iv) when participating in Company's network as a publisher, Subscriber will comply with Company's Publisher AUP, and (v) each of Subscriber's websites and any material displayed therein: (a) comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations; (b) do not breach and have not breached any duty toward or rights of any person or entity including, without limitation, rights of intellectual property, publicity or privacy, or rights or duties under consumer protection, product liability, tort, or contract theories; and (c) are not hate-related in content.

17. MISCELLANEOUS. The failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder. Company shall not be liable for any failure to perform its obligations hereunder where such failure results from any cause beyond Company's reasonable control. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.. This Agreement is not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by Subscriber except with Company's prior written consent. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state Tennessee without regard to the conflict of laws provisions thereof. Both parties agree that any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts sitting in Clarksville, Tennessee and waive any objection they may have to such jurisdiction, including on the ground that it is an inconvenient forum for the resolution of a dispute hereunder. Both parties agree that this Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding of the parties and supersedes and cancels all previous written and oral agreements, communications and other understandings relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, and that all modifications must be in a writing signed by both parties, except as otherwise provided herein. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of this Agreement and Subscriber does not have any authority of any kind to bind Company in any respect whatsoever. Subscriber agrees that, except as otherwise expressly provided above, there shall be no third-party beneficiaries to this Agreement.

For Advertiser and Publishers

Advertiser - A person, organization or company that places advertisements (also known as Ads) in order to target customers or generate traffic.

Publisher - A person, organization or company that allows "Company" to display targeted advertisements to visitors of publishers website. Ad publishing is a revenue generating engine for website owners. Advertisers display their
ads in various formats on your site and pay you to do so.

Advertiser Acceptable Use Policy (with Ad Approval Guidelines)

The Advertiser Acceptable Use Policy is applicable to advertisers participating in the Share Your Social marketplace. To be considered as an Share Your Social advertiser, you are required to adhere to the following policies.

We suggest you read the policies carefully and reference the guidelines often as we may change our policies at any time. As pursuant to our Terms and Conditions, it is your responsibility to keep up to date with and adhere to the policies posted here. Failure to comply with these policies may warrant us limiting ad serving to your site and/or limiting your Share Your Social account.

Unacceptable Content - Share Your Social prohibits advertisements that contain the following content:

• Any pornographic, full nudity, body parts and vulgar material including animation or artificially censored nudity, all other tasteful adult content must use the "Adult" category;

• Sexual enhancers including herbal supplements, devices, adult toys or products, contraceptive sites that encourage casual sex or suggest promiscuity must use the "Adult" category. Prescription contraceptives are acceptable in the "None of the above" category, provided that they do not reference descriptive metaphors in a sexual context or in bedroom activity;

• Dating and find love related advertisements must be tasteful and not vulgar as well as must use the "Dating" category;

• Any material that offers illegal products or services;

• Promotion of violence, racial intolerance, or advocacy against any individual, group, or organization;

• Promotion of fake documents, copied material, or paper mills;

• Any unauthorized use of third party trademarks that either creates a likelihood of confusion that consumers will believe the products or services originated from the trademark owner or is likely to dilute the value of a known trademark;

• Promotion or any attempt to profit from human tragedy or suffering;

• Promotion of excessive profanity or violence;

• Hosting or providing links for copyrighted MP3 audio files, video streams, clips, movies, games, applications, or any sound file you do not have the legal right to show, link to, or host.;

• Promotion of illegal activities that infringes on the rights of others;

• Promotion of gambling or online betting or lottery programs must use the "Bookmaker/Casino/Gambling" category;

• Promotion of pyramid or Ponzi schemes, matrix programs and other "get rich quick" schemes;

• Promotion of proxy servers, any anonymizing software, VPN, TOR or anything related to proxies.

Editorial Guidelines - Share Your Social requires that all ad campaigns follow the editorial guidelines listed below:

• The ad copy must be complete and fit within the character limits.

• The ad copy cannot be written in all CAPS.

• The ad copy must have appropriate spacing.

• The ad copy must use correct spelling and grammar.

• The creative must have coherent ad copy. This applies to banner images as well.

Content Guidelines - Share Your Social requires that all ad creative's follow the guidelines listed below:

• The ad copy or creative must match the content of the landing page.

• All ad variations must relate to the same industry as the original ad creative.

Landing Page URL Guidelines - Share Your Social requires that all landing pages for ad campaigns follow the guidelines listed below:

• The URL provided must work and cannot take longer than 5 seconds to load.

• The URL may not contain spaces. If the URL contains a space it will not work correctly.

• The site cannot link to a blank page, a page with little content, a page where the majority of the content consists of ads, a page that is under construction, a page that is only has default template prebuilt content with no original content that users would come to see or a page with raw or incorrect coding.

• The destination URL cannot use rotating landing pages.

• The URL cannot link directly to an executable file or any download that is not user initiated. (We allow messages to update media players such as Windows Media Player, Quicktime, Flash players.)

• The landing page cannot require a login to view any site content.

• The landing page cannot contain code scripts that cause the website to break out of frames.

• The landing page may not use malware, malicious code, or deliver harmful programs.

• The landing page cannot engage in any illegal online activities such as phishing, spoofing or spamming.

• The display URL must correspond to the landing page URL.

• The landing pages cannot contain pop-up windows, including any exit pop-ups, messages, or chat windows that prevent a user from easily exiting a landing page.

• The destination URL for a Full Page Ad may not redirect.

• The requirements to redeem a free offer must be within one link of the landing page, and the redemption requirements must be contained within a single page.

Publisher Acceptable Use Policy

The Publisher Acceptable Use Policy is applicable to publishers participating in the Share Your Social marketplace. To be considered as a Share Your Social Ads publisher, you are required to adhere to the following policies. If a publisher reaches the minimum payout and decides to remove our ad code, Share Your Social has the right to refuse to pay this publisher because we require our ad code to be displayed on the publishers pages in order to be eligible for a withdrawal.

We suggest you read the policies carefully and reference the guidelines often as we may change our policies at any time. As pursuant to our terms and conditions, it is your responsibility to keep up to date with and adhere to the policies posted here. Failure to comply with these policies may warrant us limiting ad serving to your site and/or limiting your Share Your Social account. If Share Your Social limits an account for violation of our policies set in this agreement, the account will not be reinstated and all funds accrued will be forfeited. Share Your Social automatically approves each website that is submitted and will review each website within 30 days after the first impression is received. At that time Share Your Social can at it's own discretion remove this website if it violates any of the terms set below.

Site Content Guidelines - Share Your Social prohibits ads from displaying on sites with the following content:

• Any pornographic material, adult material, or mature content including thinly censored nudity, full nudity, body parts, and vulgar material including animation or artificially censored nudity. Due to the risk of adult content, we do not allow image hosts or free web hosting services;

• Any offers for illegal activities, products, or services such as pirated movies, software, music, phishing schemes, etc.;

• Promotion of fake documents, copied material, or paper mills;

• Promotion of drugs or any related paraphernalia websites, or any website that Share Your Social feels may be unsuitable for our viewers;

• Promotion of excessive profanity or violence;

• Promotion of discrimination or infringes on the legal rights of others;

• Promotion or any attempt to profit from human tragedy or suffering that lacks any social, artistic, or political value. This includes any content that may be deemed inappropriate or insensitive to victims of natural disasters or human tragedies;

• User submitted content that is not moderated;

• Websites made for the sole purpose of clicking on advertisements such as scraper sites.
• Promotion of proxy servers, anonymizing software, VPN, TOR, or anything related to proxies.
• Hookup sites, adult dating, webcam, escort services are strictly prohibited.
• Website pages that have an ad to content ratio of more than 30% are prohibited; this means 70% of the web page must have content the users come to look at or use, and 30% or less of that website pages content can be ads.
  (No Banner Farms)
• Faucets, in general the one page faucets filled with ads are not allowed. If you have a Faucet that has more than just the page with lots of ads on it then the ads could be placed on those pages. For example lets say you have a website that has a Faucet in it. But it also has other stuff like members areas, paid to click area, games, forum and so on. Any of them other pages you could put our ads on. Issue one, The Claim and Faucet pages that have more than 30% of the content as ads. We don't allow our ads to be put on pages that are banner farms. Issue two, One page Faucets with no members area or anti-bot system will almost certainly be infested with bots, these are not allowed. Issue three, even with a members area and some anti-bot systems there is a high probability there could be issues with the traffic. If them issues are not major issues then we will mitigate the bad traffic. If they are a major issue we will notify you and or suspend the website depending on the severity.
• Websites that have stolen or copied content from other websites or content and are attempting to pass it off as their own original content, this is known as (Plagiarism), are strictly forbidden.
• Website pages that refresh automatically by any method without the user's interaction directing it to refresh or otherwise change are prohibited.

Excessive Zones or Keywords:

• To ensure a quality experience for advertisers and site visitors, Share Your Social does not allow excessive placement of zones on a page or excessive unrelated keywords in the zone description.

• You may not place the same zone multiple times on one page. You need to create unique zones.

• You may not place multiple zones at the footer of the page.

• You may not place multiple zones in close proximity to one another or in a manner where the banner competes visually with other zones or with other non-Share Your Social banners on your page. This includes, but is not limited to, zones placed one on top of the other or side by side.

• Share Your Social reserves the right to disable zones if they severely degrade advertising effectiveness or create a "spammy" look-and-feel even if the site is within the six zone limit. The majority of the space on the site should not consist of only ads.

• You may not have excessive or irrelevant keywords within a zone's site description.

Encouraging Clicks - Publishers participating in the Share Your Social program may not:

• Compensate users for viewing ads or performing searches, or promise compensation to a third party for such behavior.

• Encourage users to click the Share Your Social ads using phrases such as "click the ads", "support us", "visit these links" or other similar language.

• Direct user attention to the ads using arrows or other graphical gimmicks.

• Format ads so that they become indistinguishable from other content on that page.

• Format site content so that it is difficult to distinguish it from ads.

• Place misleading labels above Share Your Social ads. For instance, ads may be labeled "Sponsored Links" or "Advertisements", but not "Favorite Sites" or "Today's Top Offers".

Invalid Clicks and Impressions - Clicks on Share Your Social ads must result from genuine user interest.

• Any method that artificially generates clicks or impressions on your Share Your Social ads is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include, but are not limited to:
  
  • Repeated manual clicks or impressions
  
  
  • Automated click and impression generating tools
  
  
  • Most low cost paid traffic sent to your site with the sole purpose of generating clicks. (There is a reason why some traffic is so low priced. Not all but most low cost traffic websites intentionally send bots to click the ads on your page or are infested with bots coming in from publishers websites. Some networks are aware of the issue but do nothing about it, others are unaware of any issues at all and pay for the fraudulent traffic then send it on to you. Or another option is they pay users to click ads or purchase traffic that is incentive based from others both are forbidden. Because of this most traffic like this will result in a website suspension and loss of earnings.)
  
  
  • Placing content that covers our ads in part or in whole that may or may not cause people to miss-click our ads.
  
  
  • Incentivizing or encouraging clicks on our ads or any other ads on your site in any way.
  
  
  • Intentionally or unintentionally placing our ads extremely close to other content without proper spacing (minimum 10px on all sides that have content a user may interact with.) that may cause people to miss-click.
  
  
  • Placing our ad zones in front or on top of videos to force clicks or placing ads that are in a fixed position is not permitted.
  
  
  • Use of robots or deceptive software such as proxies or anonymizers or any tool that masks, hides or changes your IP address

• Please note that clicking your own ads for any reason is strictly prohibited.

• Any account having a CTR (Click Thru Rate) above 5% will have their account limited so any further clicks will not be compensated for, extended large scale amounts of non-valid clicks like this may result in account termination as this will be viewed as attempting to brute force click credits.

• You may not place Share Your Social ads inside an iframe or us any type of include to achieve the same result that does not reside on your website's domain.

• You may not have large amounts of traffic incoming to your site solely from redirect URLs that hide where the user came from.

• Any account that maintains an internal valid click rate of less than 20% valid 80% invalid may trigger a review and or account suspension if the accounts activities may endanger major advertiser investment.

• Excessive invalid clicks will also lead to immediate account suspension.

• Excessive invalid, fake or otherwise hidden and or misleading referring address may lead to website suspension and or immediate account suspension.

Other

• You may not cover the Share Your Social logo that is shown in the lower right corner of our ads. This logo must be present on all image ads and the Share Your Social text must be present on all text based ads.

Share Your Social has adopted the following general policy toward copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA . The address of Share Your Social Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement ("Designated Agent") is listed at the end of this policy.

It is Share Your Social policy to (1) block access to or remove material that it believes in good faith to be copyrighted material that has been illegally copied and distributed by any of our advertisers, affiliates, content providers, members or users; and (2) remove and discontinue service to repeat offenders.

Procedure for Reporting Copyright Infringements:

If you believe that material or content residing on or accessible through the Share Your Social Web site or service infringes a copyright, please send a notice of copyright infringement containing the following information to the Designated Agent listed below:

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that has been allegedly infringed;

• Identification of works or materials being infringed;

• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing including information regarding the location of the infringing materials that the copyright owner seeks to have removed, with sufficient detail so that Share Your Social is capable of finding and verifying its existence;

• Contact information about the notifier including address, telephone number and, if available, e-mail address;

• A statement that the notifier has a good faith belief that the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

• A statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided is accurate and the notifying party is authorized to make the complaint on behalf of the copyright owner.

Please contact the Share Your Social Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement at the following address:

Refund Policy
If you are not fully satisfied with Share Your Social or your advertising campaign, you may be eligible to receive a refund. Please contact Support through our Contact Us page and explain why you are unsatisfied. Share Your Social will evaluate refund inquiries for all reasonable requests (listed "Grounds for refund evaluation") for up to the last 30 days of receiving your request. We will provide a response to your request within 2 business days of its receipt. All refunds are issued in the form of an account credit.

Grounds for refund evaluation:

• Publisher does not display a Flat Rate Ad for the entire purchased duration
• Nonexistent clicks and/or impressions on a publisher's website for a long period of time
• Invalid ad clicks and/or impressions

Not grounds for refund evaluation:

• Ad statistics do not match third party analytics software
• Advertiser's landing page is down
• Advertiser misunderstanding about products, policies, or services or did not pause the ad in question.