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Shokz AU Affiliate Terms & Conditions

Please read our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our program or begin marketing of our program. These terms and conditions are written in plain terms intentionally avoiding legalese to ensure that they may be clearly understood and followed by affiliates. Adherence to the terms and conditions provides that our Shokz AU affiliate program is sustainable and profitable for both Shokz and our affiliates.

DEFINITIONS

As used in the below Terms: (i) “We”, “us”, or “our” refers to Shokz; (ii) “you” or “your” refers to the Affiliate; (iii) “our website” refers to the Shokz website located at https://shokz.com.au; (iv) “your website” refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) “Program” refers to the Shokz Affiliate Program.

COMMISSIONS

We use advance attribution rules in the Shokz AU Affiliate Program. Commission levels are based on the type of referral site, as well as new vs existing customer. If you have questions about commission rates please contact our team.

COUPON GUIDELINES

If you are enrolled in our Program and your Website promotes coupon codes, you must adhere to our Coupon Guidelines as follows:
1. You may ONLY advertise coupon codes that are provided to you through the affiliate program or network.
2. You may NOT advertise coupon codes obtained from our non-affiliate advertising, customer e-mails, paid search, or any other campaign.
3. Violation of these terms may result in removal from the Shokz affiliate program, reversal of sales, or reduction in commissions.

PPC GUIDELINES

If you are enrolled in our Program and participate in PPC advertising, you must adhere to our PPC guidelines as follows:
1. You may not bid on any of our trademarked terms, including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content based campaigns on Google, Bing, Yahoo or any other network. These trademark terms include Shokz, uk.shokz.com, www.shokz.com.au, https://shokz.com.au and similar terms without express written permission.
2. You may not use our trademark terms in sequence with any other keyword (e.g“Shokz Coupons”) without express written permission.
3. You may not direct link to our website from any Pay-Per-Click ad or use redirects that yield the same result. Affiliates must be directed to an actual page on your website.
4. You may not use our URL (https://shokz.com.au) as your Display URL, however use as a subfolder or subdomain (i.e. http://www.yoursite.com/Shokz or http://Shokz.yoursite.com) is permissible.
If you automate your PPC campaigns, the responsibility is yours to exclude our trademark terms from your program and we strongly suggest you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords. If you violate these PPC guidelines your current and past commission will be set to 0% without warning.
Trademarked Terms: Shokz, shokz.com.au, https://shokz.com.au,
Violation of these terms may result in removal from the Shokz affiliate program, reversal of sales, or reduction in commissions.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Affiliates are not permitted to use TM, TM+terms or any variation or misspelling to create pages or accounts on Facebook/Youtube/Twitter/Reddit/Instagram etc., including but not limited to Shokz, shokz.com.au, https://shokz.com.au

DOMAIN NAMES

Use of any of our trademarked terms or misspellings as part of the domain for your website is strictly prohibited. (e.g. www. Shokz-coupons.com).

ADVERTISING & PUBLICITY

You shall not create, publish, distribute, or print any written material that makes reference to our Program without first submitting such material to us and receiving our prior written consent. If you intend to promote our Program via e-mail campaigns, you must adhere to the following:
1. Abide by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Public Law No. 108-187) with respect to our Program.
2. E-mail must be sent on your behalf and must not imply that the e-mail is being sent on behalf of Shokz.
3. E-mails must first be submitted to us for approval prior to being sent.

ASA/CAP or CMA COMPLIANCE

1.Affiliate relationship disclosure
You must clearly state that Shokz compensates you for reviews or endorsements—including affiliate commissions—on every blog post, video, email, social-media post or web page. Your audience must understand you may earn a commission if they click your links.
2.Gift disclosure
If Shokz provides you with products free of charge for review, you must explicitly disclose this gift at the beginning of your content (e.g. “Product gifted by Shokz”).
3.Labeling requirements
All paid promotions must be labelled in accordance with the ASA’s CAP Code—using clear tags like “#ad”, “Paid partnership” or “Affiliate link”—and placed so they are visible before any “read more” or swipe-up links.
4.Legal basis & enforcement
For more information and suggestions about how to comply with AU rules on transparent endorsements and affiliate marketing, please review:ASA Guide，CAP Code and CMA Unfair Commercial Practices Guidance. Please note that these resources are intended for guidance only. They do not constitute legal advice and do not guarantee compliance with ASA/CAP or CMA rules if you follow them. You are advised to seek your own legal advice on how these requirements apply to your specific promotional activities.
5.Intellectual Property Rights
All promotion medias provided to you through the uppromote.com are owned by Shokz an d are protected by copyright laws, trademark laws and all other intell ectual property rights and unfair competition laws in different coun tries. Shokz authorizes you to use promotion materials subject to the following conditions:
(1) You agree not to copy, modify, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribut e any promotion medias without Shokz prior consent; All promotion medias are the property of Shokz and may be updated at any time;
(2) You agree to use these promotion medias for Affiliate Program use only and not for any other unauthorized commercial or illegal use;
(3) You agree not to remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices that have been placed on the promotion materials.

Shokz reserve the right to take legal measures if the promotion medias are used for any other unauthorized commercial or illegal use.