Hey Judy, personally I think that words are important, but for now thats not important, I do however have a quick question for you
Would you not think this particular term is far worse than anything that Bwin have done
XXXXXXXX has the right to monitor the Partner Site to ensure you are complying with the terms of this Agreement and you shall provide xxxxxxxxx with all data and information (including, but not limited to, passwords) to enable xxxxxxxx to perform such monitoring at no charge.
I do, in fact I find that one of the worst terms ever, in any affiliate program agreement
I have deliberatley replaced the name of the said affiliate program with a bunch of xxxxxxxxx, but I tell you this, I promote this company, you promote them, almost everyone promotes them, they are not rogue and have never been campaigned against to my knowledge and yet that term is outrageous.
That term allows the program in question to access your sites, by accepting that agreement that is in fact what we have all done, not just you and me Judy, but as far as I can see almost everyone that is against Bwin's terms,
At least Bwin do not have the right to demand passwords to your sites and remember refusal to provide your password is grounds for termination.
I cannot understand why affiliates promote programs with far worse terms and say absolutely nothing but go after programs and not just Bwin that do not have such outrageous terms.
There are some other beauties as well, this one is from an award winning program that we both promote and a hell of a lot of others do as well, a very well known brand
You shall incorporate and prominently and continually display the most up-to-date links provided by us on all pages of your website in a manner and location agreed by us and you shall not alter the form, location or operation of the links without our prior written consent. You are eligible for Referral Commissions based upon your continued promotion of Sports at xxxxxxxx, Casino at xxxxxxxx, Poker at xxxxxxxx, Games at xxxxxxxx or Bingo at xxxxxxxx. We reserve the right to reduce Referral Commission percentages if you reduce your efforts to recruit new Customers. Your reduced or suspended promotion of our sites will be deemed to represent your termination of this Agreement.
So in effect if you move a link, remove a link or just simply reduce promotions from this program they have the right to terminate the agreement, in effect the way you start to promote them has to be maintained otherwise they could close your account.
But they have to agree first on the location and it has to be on every page of your website lol, sorry have to laugh, and guess what both of us Judy have broken this term and have given this company grounds for termination.
I find that scandalous, but I love the program, I do very well from them and they are extremly popular, but those terms are bad, very bad.
I could go on time and time again, there are terms out there that have been accepted by affiliates that are far worse than Bwin's or come to that RA/CR.
If affiliates really want to remove and rogue such programs you will find that there will be just handful left for 10000's of affiliates to promote, the industry would just collapse.
Building relationships with affiliate managers and affiliate programs is the best defence, because seriously people if you think Bwin's terms are really that bad I can assure you, that you are promoting programs that are far worse.
Appears it is time for affiliates to start going through all terms and conditions with a fine tooth comb because it does seem that the watchdogs, unions, organisations etc that are so relied on by affiliates are just not catching these awful terms.
Finally, I have always been aware of these terms, I read the terms and I have to think that either my fellow affiliates have not read the terms, which is not the best way to conduct a business, or they have and have found these terms acceptable.