FAQ - Policy Concerning Fraud

Ad Angler’s Policy Concerning Fraud Quick Links:

1. What marketing techniques are prohibited?
2. What are the rules concerning intellectual property and false identity?
3. Will I have to comply with the Can-Spam Act?



Ad Angler’s Policy Concerning Fraud

1. What marketing techniques are prohibited?
Affiliates may not use Ad Angler Advertiser promotions to promote any fake services or products that are not offered by the actual promotion. Affiliates may not create fake blogs, news sites, and similar tactics to promote Ad Angler Advertiser promotions.
Affiliates are not permitted to use any type of fraudulent marketing techniques, activities or programs in order to invade, inflate, hide the origin of, mask, or increase traffic or clicks such as phishing, blind text links, using spyware, redirecting, spoofing, forcing clicks, auto spawning, the purchase of traffic, or any other fraudulent techniques. Further, Affiliates may not engage in spamming, pinging, software piracy, harvesting data, or any other types of fraudulent techniques or tactics.
Affiliates may not use any devices, strategies, or procedures to commit fraud, to interfere with the Ad Angler website, with fellow Affiliates, or with Advertisers and their campaigns. Affiliates may not change or falsify any information concerning leads, clicks, or other data, use devises, software, or programs to automatically record and increase invalid click activity, or use deceptive click fraud techniques such as cookie-stuffing, spyware, etc. Suspicious activity, such as high conversions on sites with low traffic, clicks procured through automated software or manual repeat clicking, leads reported on sites where the ads are not placed, incentive-driven leads, use of false or unauthorized data or credit cards on signups, registrations, or contracts, etc. are some, but not all examples of fraudulent behaviors.
Affiliates are prohibited from using unauthorized credit card numbers, personal identification, and/or data in the name of a third party in order to sign up, apply, or register at sites, etc.  

2. What are the rules concerning intellectual property and false identity?
Affiliates may not use organizations, government agencies, celebrities or public figures, their names, their images, their quotes, their business names, logos, seals, trademarks, any type of intellectual properties, or any aspect of the above to promote any Ad Angler Advertiser promotions. Affiliates may not represent themselves or their websites falsely, claim falsely to be or have an affiliation with any organization or government agency, use any URLs that include the domain “.gov” or any variation on that URL, or in any way represent themselves and/or their marketing formats in a fictitious manner. Ad Angler Affiliates are forbidden to use any marketing tactic designed to defraud or mislead the public, in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission Act (Section 5). Affiliates are instructed to read the government rules concerning marketing and advertising at www.ftc.gov.
Affiliates are prohibited from falsely marketing themselves, their websites, their e-mail and text transmissions, etc. as being associated with or representing a government agency, or any organization. Affiliates are prohibited from bidding on keywords that relate to or name any government agency. Should fraud be suspected, Ad Angler will notify the Affiliate and render the account inactive while the issue is examined. If it is determined that fraud has occurred, the Affiliate’s account will be closed and all commissions forfeited.

3. Will I need to comply with the Can-Spam Act?
Affiliates and their websites, links, e-mail campaigns and all other media must be compliant with all local, state, federal and International laws and regulations, including those of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.  (See also the Terms and Conditions section on e-mail campaigns, the Suppression List, and opt-out requirements). Affiliates may not conduct any illegal activities including United States local, state, and federal violations, regulations, and laws. Affiliates operating outside the US may not conduct any illegal activities or violate laws within the country’s jurisdiction they operate within.