Hey Dude Shoes Affiliate Terms & Conditions Updated 06/07/2022  Please read our affiliate terms and conditions carefully before you join our program or begin marketing our program. These terms and conditions are written in plain language intentionally avoiding legalese to ensure that they may be clearly understood and followed by affiliates.  Each Affiliate is responsible for assuring that its employees, agents and contractors comply with these terms and conditions.  Affiliate terms and conditions are subject to change. Thank you.  DEFINITIONS  As used in these terms and conditions: (i) “We”, “us”, or “our” refers to Hey Dude Shoes and our website; (ii) “you” or “your” refers to the Affiliate; (iii) “our website” refers to the Hey Dude Shoes properties located at www.HeyDudeShoesUSA.com; (iv) “your website” refers to any websites that you will link to our website; (v) “Program” refers to the Hey Dude Shoes Affiliate Program.  ENROLLMENT  After receiving your application, we will review your website and notify you of your acceptance or rejection into our Program. Please allow up to 48 hours for your application to be reviewed. We reserve the right to reject any application, however we encourage you to contact us if you feel we have made an incorrect decision. Including all of the websites that you use in your profile will help us make a better decision.   WEBSITE RESTRICTIONS  Your participating website(s) may not: Infringe on our or any anyone else’s intellectual property, publicity, privacy or other rights.  Violate any law, rule or regulation. Contain any content that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, harmful to minors, or contains nudity, pornography or sexually explicit materials. Contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data, or personal information. Contain software or use technology that attempts to intercept, divert or redirect Internet traffic to or from any other website, or that potentially enables the diversion of affiliate commissions from another website. This includes toolbars, browser plug-ins, extensions and add-ons.  LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE  Upon acceptance into the Program, links will be made available to you through the affiliate interface. Your acceptance in our program means you agree to and abide by the following.   You will only use linking code obtained from the affiliate interface without manipulation. All domains that use your affiliate link must be listed in your affiliate profile. Your Website will not in any way copy, resemble, or mirror the look and feel of our Website. You will also not use any means to create the impression that your Website is our Website or any part of our Website including, without limitation, framing of our Website in any manner.  You may not engage in cookie stuffing or include pop-ups, false or misleading links on your website. In addition, wherever possible, you will not attempt to mask the referring URL information (i.e. the page from where the click is originating).  Using redirects to bounce a click off of a domain from which the click did not originate in order to give the appearance that it came from that domain is prohibited.  You may not use any Hey Dude Shoes’ trademarked terms or misspellings of trademarked terms to re-direct traffic through an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to a page on your website or the Hey Dude Shoes website without written approval from Hey Dude Shoes. If you are found redirecting links to hide or manipulate their original source, your current and past commissions will be voided or your commission level will be set to 0%. This does not include using “out” redirects from the same domain where the affiliate link is placed. MID-CHECKOUT COMMISSION REDUCTION & OVERWRITE RULE   Hey Dude Shoes uses a dynamic pixel system that may make changes to the standard commission in the case of a mid-checkout referral, which is defined as a cookie that is set within a set amount of time prior to the purchase. By reducing our commission on these types of referrals and by closely monitoring the quality of traffic we receive from each affiliate, we will be able to pay out higher commissions for driving new customers and traffic. This logic also gives full credit to the first referring affiliate in the case that a second affiliate enters within a set amount of time prior to the purchase. Mid-checkout commission and overwrite rules are subject to change.  Scenarios Two affiliates outside of ten minutes before sale, normal "last in" logic applies. One affiliate outside of ten minutes before sale, one within. "Last in" affiliate will receive 2% lowered commission and first affiliate will receive full commission. Single affiliate within last ten minutes, 2% commission will apply Two affiliates within last ten minutes, “last in” affiliate will receive the reduced 2% commission.   PPC GUIDELINES  If you are enrolled in our Program and participate in PPC advertising, you must adhere to our PPC guidelines as follows: You may not bid on any of our trademarked terms (which are identified below), including any variations or misspellings thereof for search or content-based campaigns on Google, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook or any other network. You may not use our trademarked terms in sequence with any other keyword (i.e.  Hey Dude Shoes Coupons). You may not use our trademarked terms in your ad title, ad copy, display name or as the display URL. You may not direct link to our website from any Pay Per Click ad or use redirects that yield the same result. Affiliate links must be directed to an actual page on your website.  You may not bid in any manner appearing higher than Hey Dude Shoes for any search term in position 1-5 in any auction style pay-per-click advertising program  If you automate your PPC campaigns, it is your responsibility to exclude our trademarked terms from your program and we strongly suggest you add our trademarked terms as negative keywords. We have a strict no tolerance policy on PPC trademark bidding. You will forfeit all commissions for a minimum of the past 30 days and your commission will be set to 0% without warning if you engage in PPC trademark bidding that uses our trademarked terms. Trademarked Terms:  Hey Dude, Hey Dude Shoes, Hey Dudes, HeyDude, HeyDudes, HeyDude Shoes, Wally, Wendy  COUPON GUIDELINES  If you are enrolled in our Program and your Website promotes coupon codes, you must adhere to our Coupon Guidelines as follows: <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW77541536 BCX0" style="margin:0px 0p