BY REGISTERING AS AN AFFILIATE YOU ARE AGREEING TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM.
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Payment Requirements:
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As a Bluehost affiliate, you may accrue a one-time referral fee for each purchase of a
hosting account that you refer to Bluehost that meets the definition of a "Qualified
Purchase" and the requirements set forth herein.
A
"Qualified Purchase" is the purchase of
Bluehost's hosting services by a new and unique
customer who: (i) clicks on an affiliate
tracking link, (ii) completes the signup process within
ninety (90) days of clicking on the
affiliate tracking link, (iii) maintains an active account with
Bluehost for a minimum of ninety (90)
days; and (iv) did not transfer from a
Bluehost partner or related company.
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Affiliate accounts must be active at the time of the referral. No referral fee will accrue for
sales that occurred before your participation in the Affiliate Program.
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In order for affiliate referrals to accrue and be eligible for your first referral fee payment,
you must (i) reach a minimum threshold of USD$100
(the
"Minimum Threshold") in referral fees
within twelve (12) months of the first Qualified Purchase you
refer to Bluehost; and (ii) provide
Bluehost with all relevant tax and address
documentation, as further discussed herein.
The Minimum Threshold only applies to
the first payment issued to you under the
Affiliate Program. All subsequent
referral fees or credits for Qualified Purchases will accrue and
only become payable once you have
provided all relevant tax and address documentation.
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You are solely responsible for
keeping all information up to date including postal and email
addresses, name, payment information,
tax information and any other personal information that will
impact the ability to issue a valid
payment. Each Affiliate is required to submit an accurate and up
to date W-8/W-9 tax form. If you have
not submitted a tax form, we have provided some of the most
commonly required tax forms under the
"Tax Form" tab located in the "Settings" tab in the affiliate
portal for your convenience. If we do
not receive the necessary tax or payment information from you
within ninety (90) days of a Qualified
Purchase that would otherwise trigger a referral fee, such
referral fee shall not accrue and no
resulting referral fee will be owed with respect to such
Qualified Purchase. Your tax information
is required to be on file in order for your referral fees
to accrue and become payable.
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Affiliates are solely responsible for ensuring that all payee information is accurate and up to
date in the affiliate system. Bluehost is not responsible for any lost or stolen
payments.
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Missing or untracked affiliate
referrals must be reported during the then current referral period
(either between the 1st and the 15th of
the month or between the 16th and the end of the month) and
will be credited to your account at our
sole discretion, provided that such credit has accrued
pursuant to the terms contained herein.
Referrals that are not reported during
the then current referral period will not be credited to your
account.
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The affiliate referral fees are
determined approximately 45 days after the end of the month in
which the Qualified Purchase is
recorded. Payments are then processed and sent to Affiliates between
the 16th of the month and the last day
of the month. EXAMPLE: A Qualified Purchase recorded in
January will be sent to the Affiliate
between March 16th and March 31st.
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Payments are sent using the PayPal
mass payment system. Bluehost pays for the
transaction fee associated with the mass
payment system. You are required to supply a PayPal address
to receive payments. If you would prefer
to receive payments by check, you must notify
Bluehost and payments will be sent to
the address you provide. Please note that payments by
check take up to an additional thirty
(30) days to arrive. For larger affiliates with balances of
over USD$10,000 per month, Bluehost offers a
wire transfer option. To update your payment information, please contact the affiliate
department.
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In the event that Bluehost re-issues any payment, a
USD$35 charge will apply and be deducted from the
Affiliate's earnings.
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Affiliates are responsible for making sure they are able to accept payments. Please ensure that
your bank or PayPal account can accept payments from US-based companies.
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Affiliates are responsible for any and all fees, taxes, exchange rates, surcharges and other
expenses incurred in order to receive their referral fees. Please check with your local banking
institution or PayPal to find out if any of these apply for your account.
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Because of the high frequency of
credit card fraud and cancellation rates, Bluehost
reserves the right to hold referral fees
for up to two (2) additional months for verification. At
Bluehost's sole discretion, we reserve
the right to cancel referral fees in the event that
we are unable to collect funds, the
order is fraudulent, the customer cancels within the first
ninety (90) days, or if we learn that
the referral fee was earned improperly for any other reason.
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Bluehost will be using the URL
Pink.host to raise awareness for Breast Cancer
Awareness. We will not pay affiliate
bounties on any referrals sent to Pink.host and will instead
donate a portion of the bounty to
Huntsman Cancer Institute
(http://healthcare.utah.edu/huntsmancancerinstitute/).
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As a Bluehost affiliate, you may accrue a one-time referral fee for each purchase of a
hosting account that you refer to Bluehost that meets the definition of a "Qualified
Purchase" and the requirements set forth herein.
A
"Qualified Purchase" is the purchase of
Bluehost's hosting services by a new and unique
customer who: (i) clicks on an affiliate
tracking link, (ii) completes the signup process within
ninety (90) days of clicking on the
affiliate tracking link, (iii) maintains an active account with
Bluehost for a minimum of ninety (90)
days; and (iv) did not transfer from a
Bluehost partner or related company.
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Reversals:
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If a referred customer initially
purchases a hosting package with a term of at least one (1) year
and then downgrades their hosting
package to a term of less than one (1) year within one (1) year of
their initial purchase, the applicable
referral fees paid to the Affiliate will be reversed and
deducted from future earnings.
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Referred customers that issue a
chargeback or are found to be fraudulent (e.g. false information,
fake/stolen credit cards, selling
counterfeit goods etc.), as determined in Bluehost's
sole discretion, will be reversed
regardless of the amount of time that has passed since the signup
occurred.
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Customers using non-standard rates
(rates not available through the Affiliate Program) are not
eligible for affiliate referral fees, as
determined at Bluehost's sole discretion.
Non-standard rates include but are not
limited to: sales, promotions, email offers, prepaid accounts
and discounted pricing offered for
educational, government, non-profit or charity organizations.
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If a referred customer initially
purchases a hosting package with a term of at least one (1) year
and then downgrades their hosting
package to a term of less than one (1) year within one (1) year of
their initial purchase, the applicable
referral fees paid to the Affiliate will be reversed and
deducted from future earnings.
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Affiliate Restrictions and Responsibilities:
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Affiliates MAY NOT offer cash back, rewards or other incentives to drive traffic/sales via their
affiliate tracking links.
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Affiliates MAY NOT use traffic that is generated by pay to click, pay to read, banner exchanges,
click exchanges, CPV advertising, pop-up/under, SPAM, purchased traffic or similar methods.
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Affiliates MAY NOT use cookie stuffing techniques that set the tracking cookie without the user
actually clicking on the referral link (for example a 1x1 pixel iframe).
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Affiliates MAY NOT bid on or use Bluehost's trademark, trademark +, or misspelled
keywords for the purpose of PPC on Internet search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask etc.).
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Affiliates MAY NOT use Bluehost's trademark, trademark +, or misspelled keywords in
their domain names.
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Affiliates are responsible for ensuring their tracking code is working properly before sending
traffic to Bluehost's servers. Any modification to the links is the sole responsibility
of the Affiliate. Referral fees may not be paid for tracking errors caused by editing, masking,
redirecting or tampering with affiliate links, as determined in Bluehost's sole
discretion.
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Affiliates MAY NOT use redirected pages and links to send a user to our site. For example, you
may not have a PPC link on a search engine that redirects the user to our site.
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Domain forwarding is prohibited -- you may not purchase a domain and set it to forward directly
to our site using your affiliate link.
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Affiliates MAY NOT copy Bluehost's website or any portions thereof, including, without
limitation, any of Bluehost's trademarks or other intellectual property, and display them
on their own site or subdomain or use them in any way without Bluehost's prior express
written permission.
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Affiliates MAY NOT engage in the
advertisement of business-opportunity sites or use marketing
practices that attract fraudulent or
short-term customers (customers with low retention and renewal
rates) which shall be determined at our
sole discretion.
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Affiliates MAY NOT offer cash back, rewards or other incentives to drive traffic/sales via their
affiliate tracking links.
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FTC Disclosure Policy:
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It is our intent to treat our customers fairly. Accordingly, we require all Bluehost
affiliates to comply fully with all applicable laws, regulations and guidelines concerning
advertising and marketing, including without limitation, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Endorsement Guides (See the
FTC Endorsement Guide
for more information.), which require
that material connections between advertisers and endorsers be
disclosed. This means that all affiliate
websites (e.g. directories, review/rating sites, blogs
and other websites) and any email or
collateral that provide an endorsement or assessment of
Bluehost, must prominently disclose the
fact that you may receive compensation for
referring customers to Bluehost.
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For more information and suggestions
about how to comply with these guidelines, please click the
"FTC Disclosure" tab under the Terms tab
when logged in to your affiliate account. Please note that
the FTC Disclosure page is only intended
to provide guidance. It does not purport to provide legal
advice and it does 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.
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At our sole discretion, we reserve the right to withhold referral fees and/or terminate the
affiliate relationship for your failure to comply with Bluehost's FTC disclosure policy
or with any other applicable regulations or guidelines, as determined by Bluehost at our
sole discretion.
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It is our intent to treat our customers fairly. Accordingly, we require all Bluehost
affiliates to comply fully with all applicable laws, regulations and guidelines concerning
advertising and marketing, including without limitation, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Endorsement Guides (See the
FTC Endorsement Guide
for more information.), which require
that material connections between advertisers and endorsers be
disclosed. This means that all affiliate
websites (e.g. directories, review/rating sites, blogs
and other websites) and any email or
collateral that provide an endorsement or assessment of
Bluehost, must prominently disclose the
fact that you may receive compensation for
referring customers to Bluehost.
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Deactivation:
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Affiliate accounts may be deactivated
at any time without warning or notice at our sole
discretion. Any affiliate who violates
Bluehost's Terms of Service, including without
limitation, these Affiliate Program
Terms, or any applicable law is subject to having their
affiliate account deactivated
immediately, and any and all accrued, but not yet received, referral
fees will be forfeited.
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In our sole discretion, any false or misleading advertising or suspected fraudulent activity
associated with your affiliate account will result in immediate deactivation.
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Affiliate accounts generating a large number of fraudulent accounts, as determined in our sole
discretion, will be deactivated.
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Affiliates may not resell hosting. All referred customers must provide their own payment method
and contact information to be a Qualified Purchase. If Bluehost determines in its sole
discretion that an Affiliate is reselling hosting, the affiliate account will be immediately
deactivated.
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If you would like to discontinue your
participation in the Affiliate Program at any time, simply
remove your affiliate links from your
website and no longer promote them. For accounting purposes,
our systems will retain your account and
personal information.
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Affiliate accounts may be deactivated
at any time without warning or notice at our sole
discretion. Any affiliate who violates
Bluehost's Terms of Service, including without
limitation, these Affiliate Program
Terms, or any applicable law is subject to having their
affiliate account deactivated
immediately, and any and all accrued, but not yet received, referral
fees will be forfeited.
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Changes:
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Bluehost may change any of the terms
and conditions in this Affiliate Agreement, in
whole or in part, at any time at
Bluehost's sole discretion. Unless otherwise provided,
such modifications will take effect when
posted on Bluehost's website and apply to all
referral fees that have not yet accrued.
If we make any significant changes to this Affiliate
Agreement, we will post a notice on this
page for at least thirty (30) days after the changes are
posted and will indicate at the bottom
of this Affiliate Agreement the date of the last revision. In
addition, Bluehost will use reasonable
efforts to provide you with seven (7) days advance
notice of any changes that materially
impact your participation in the Affiliate Program. Unless
otherwise provided, your continued
participation in the Affiliate Program following our posting of
any modification on our website will
constitute your acceptance of all changes. If you do not agree
to any such changes, your sole and
exclusive remedy is to deactivate your account as described
above.
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Bluehost may change any of the terms
and conditions in this Affiliate Agreement, in
whole or in part, at any time at
Bluehost's sole discretion. Unless otherwise provided,
such modifications will take effect when
posted on Bluehost's website and apply to all
referral fees that have not yet accrued.
If we make any significant changes to this Affiliate
Agreement, we will post a notice on this
page for at least thirty (30) days after the changes are
posted and will indicate at the bottom
of this Affiliate Agreement the date of the last revision. In
addition, Bluehost will use reasonable
efforts to provide you with seven (7) days advance
notice of any changes that materially
impact your participation in the Affiliate Program. Unless
otherwise provided, your continued
participation in the Affiliate Program following our posting of
any modification on our website will
constitute your acceptance of all changes. If you do not agree
to any such changes, your sole and
exclusive remedy is to deactivate your account as described
above.
Thank You,
Bluehost
