The UNK.com Affiliate Program Agreement (the Agreement) serves to protect both parties by preventing confusion, misunderstanding, and to ensure we both work fairly.
UNK.com is wholly owned by Uncommon Knowledge Ltd.
It contains the terms and conditions that apply to The UNK.com Affiliate Program (the program) between Uncommon Knowledge Ltd (we) and you the affiliate, while participating in the program.
Please take a moment read this through. We’re really looking forward to having you on board and want you to know the facts from day one.
Requirements To Join
The program is open to anyone who has a valid email address and a working website. Exceptions to the above are websites which promote or contain sexually explicit material, violence, illegal activities such as software piracy, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical disability, sexual orientation, age, or practice UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), also known as SPAM, in any way.
We reserve the right to terminate the agreement with individuals if we feel your site is unsuitable. This Agreement is totally Non-Exclusive and does not impede the freedom of your website content and/or operations in any way. Reading this document is a condition of joining the program.
Affiliate Program Details
KEYWORD ADVERTISING RESTRICTIONS (PPC etc.)
All pay per click advertising needs to link to the affiliate’s site, not directly to the UNK.com website.
Trademark bidding is allowed. Affiliates may not bid on Uncommon Knowledge Ltd Coupons or other phrases implying coupons are available if there is 1. not a coupon posted or 2. no coupons or savings are available. Affiliates must use only coupons assigned through the affiliate channel and not accept user submitted coupons.
COUPON AND DEALS SITES ADDITIONAL TERMS
Affiliates may not use misleading text on affiliate links, buttons or images to imply that anything besides currently authorized deals or other savings are available. Affiliates must REMOVE out of date coupons and promotions and not leave them up on their site as “invalid”.
WEBSITE AND PROMOTION RESTRICTIONS
Affiliates may not generate pop-ups, pop-unders, iframes, frames, or any other seen or unseen actions that set affiliate cookies unless the user has expressed a clear and explicit interest in activating a specific savings by clicking on a clearly marked link, button or image for that particular coupon or deal. Your link must send the visitor to the merchant site.
Affiliates may not frame or display in an iframe any Uncommon Knowledge Ltd site or products unless they are being displayed using an approved third party tool. Framing in an invisible frame is expressly prohibited.
Promotion
Upon your acceptance to the program, you will be given access to promotional material. You may display these anywhere on your site.
No software downloads or technology that may be used to intercept, redirect or divert traffic and/or referral fees from Uncommon Knowledge Ltd or any of its affiliate partners. This restriction includes browser helper objects (BHOs), spyware, adware, parasiteware(tm) and similar products. Traffic Exchanges, autosurfing or pay-to-surf promotions, pop-ups, pop-unders, and other seen or unseen setting of cookies are NOT allowed.
Uncommon Knowledge Ltd prohibits sites that are link farms or banner farms, i.e. there is no content on the site other than lists of text links or banners.
Social Media Usage
Affiliates are allowed to use social media to promote the affiliate program as long as they are not using trademarked terms. Affiliates are also restricted from using the merchants name or similar in their user ID or claim to be the merchant.
Affiliates must respect the terms of services on the social networking site that they are using. If we see an affiliate getting suspension notices and or terminations we reserve the right to remove them from the affiliate program.
Mentions on streaming services such as (but not limited to) Twitter can only be used a maximum of 5 times per day. Streams that only consist of messages with direct links that don’t engage in conversation are subject to removal from the affiliate program.
Spam reports from any Social Media site are grounds for removal from affiliate program.
If you are not sure your social networking methods are allowed please ask.
SUB AFFILIATE NETWORKS – THIRD PARTY TOOLS
If your site looks like a subaffiliate network and are a “third party tool” please contact us in advance of applying so we can review your site and talk about your business plan.
Any written material (newsletters etc) with reference to UNK.com or Uncommon Knowledge Ltd must be submitted to us for approval (please email your affiliate manager Roger Elliott here). We will always endeavor to reply within 24 working hours).
Title, ownership, and content shall remain the property of Uncommon Knowledge Ltd and is protected by International Copyright Law. You are responsible for ensuring that your advertising obeys all applicable copyright and trademark laws. We are not responsible for any Affiliate’s misuse of any copyrighted material.
Cookies will remain active for 365 days and are refreshed at every user revisit to the site. Should a user create an account, your affiliate number is stored in their account. Last cookie wins applies.
Any promotions, product changes or additions. We will also contact you periodically with news, tips on marketing the product, product updates, affiliate earnings etc.
Commission Structure & Payment
All services sold by UNK.com to customers originating from the Affiliate’s website, or referral URL, qualify to earn Affiliate referral fees as described below.
Affiliates are paid 35% for each sale on download sales generating from their websites and 25% on ‘physical products’ such as CDs, DVDs and courses.
Any tax liability on the amount of commission received will be your responsibility. Every customer who purchases services from UNK.com is deemed to be a customer of UNK.com.
Affiliates do not have the authority to make or accept any offer on behalf of Uncommon Knowledge Ltd or UNK.com. The price of all UNK.com services will be determined by Uncommon Knowledge Ltd. We reserve the right to reject any order that does not comply with Uncommon Knowledge Ltd policy.
Commission will be deducted for any purchases refunded. Although our refund rates are very low, we have to so this to prevent fraud against the program.
Commissions on credit card chargebacks are processed manually. Higher than average returns (currently less than 1%) from your customers will trigger investigation and possible termination if no plausible explanation is found.
Termination Uncommon Knowledge Ltd reserves the right to terminate individual agreements at any time. However, we’ll do so only after careful consideration of the facts. We would only terminate an affiliate who has explicitly broken the policy as described in this agreement. Uncommon Knowledge Ltd reserves the right to visit your website to view content for this reason.
Reasons for termination include:
1. Linking to Uncommon Knowledge Ltd from websites which promote or contain sexually explicit material, violence, illegal activities such as software piracy, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical disability, sexual orientation, age.
2. Use of/practicing UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), also know as SPAM, in any way. Definition of SPAM: “Sending any e-mail on any subject to anyone or any organization that has not requested this information specifically by requesting it directly or by giving their permission for you to send them information”. This is one definition. If you are not sure, don’t do it. We encourage responsible opt-in permission marketing. Our Affiliates will be given advice on effective and responsible use.
3. Generating bogus traffic, referrals and sales by electronic means or otherwise, for the purpose of inflating commissions. Such activity will be tracked and monitored.
4. Not responding to warnings and requests to cease and desist any activities we deem negligent, inappropriate, or harmful to us or other affiliates.
5. Use of the program to get money off the full download price. That is, purchasing downloads through your own affiliate link to gain the commission on these downloads. If you would like a particular download for review purposes, please contact the affiliate manager stating where the review will be placed.
Termination for any other reason
Termination for any reason will done by email and a full explanation provided. Either party can terminate the agreement. Any affiliate terminated for reasons (1-4) will not receive any commissions due, including commissions earned by sub-affiliates. Sub-affiliates’ own commissions will remain unaffected. Upon termination, you are required to remove all links and material referring to Uncommon Knowledge Ltd and its websites.
Disputes
Most differences can resolved easily enough if the lines of communication are open, and we hope if they do arise, to resolve them swiftly and amicably. If you have any concern or complaint, please contact us immediately.
Privacy Policy
We respect the privacy of our Affiliates. Your contact information, affiliate statistics, reports and commission amounts are only available to Shareasale and our affiliate team.
General Liability
This agreement gives you no rights to any content on the UNK.com or Uncommon Knowledge websites. UNK.com claims no right to ownership of any of your website content. UNK.com shall have no liability for any damages (indirect, incidental or consequential) or any loss of revenue arising under or with respect to this agreement or the UNK.com Affiliate Program. Any damages that result from your negligence will result in action being taken for compensation. We will make every effort to ensure that our website and tracking system is operational at all times. In the event of unavoidable technical difficulties, which may cause service and tracking interruptions, you agree that UNK.com is not liable in any way for such interruptions.
Jurisdiction
This Agreement shall be governed by English law and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Relationship
As an Affiliate you are an independent contractor, and nothing in this Agreement shall create any form of partnership, joint venture, franchise, agency, or employment relationship between the parties. You will not be treated as an employee with respect to the regulations of any country whatsoever. You shall not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior express written consent of Uncommon Knowledge Ltd. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement is binding upon, insures to the benefit of, and is enforceable by the parties and their respective successors and assigns. This agreement will stay in effect as along as Uncommon Knowledge Ltd makes this service available, unless this agreement is terminated beforehand due to breach of its terms. Uncommon Knowledge Ltd reserves the right to make changes to this affiliate agreement as and when necessary. Affiliates will be notified 7 days in advance via email. Thank you for taking the time to read this document. We look forward to working with you.
