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Advertising Guidelines
- Advertiser's advertising environment must be appropriate in the context
of our websites on which Advertiser's advertising content shall appear. The
advertising environment includes the advertising content itself and the
specific destination URL. In addition to the content guidelines listed
below, Advertisers must have a privacy policy that is clearly posted either
on the landing page from the advertisement or on the Advertiser's home page.
If the privacy policy is found only on the home page, there must be a link
to the home page from the landing page. Where the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act ("COPPA") applies, Advertisers must take appropriate measures
to ensure that they are COPPA compliant.
- We must approve all advertising content prior to posting on our
websites. Once advertising content has been posted on our websites, we shall
have the right to remove previously approved advertising content if we
determine that Advertiser's advertising does not meet our standards or
comply with our policies.
- Below are our content guidelines regarding advertising materials.
Inappropriate Advertising
- Advertising content that is inappropriate for all our websites:
- Tobacco - cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing
tobacco, etc. and except for anti-smoking campaigns approved
by us.
- Guns - firearms, bullets, weapons or explosives.
- Non-FDA Drugs - Sites providing prescription
drugs over the Internet - either without a prescription, or
by providing a prescription themselves.
- Applied to Canadian, Mexican and other offshore
pharmacies; also, sites that promote links to them.
- Applied to sites promoting banned or
experimental pharmaceuticals that have not received
FDA approval; for instance (but not exclusively).
- Pornography - or anything we deem distasteful.
- Defamatory, Threatening, Libelous -
Advertisements for websites espousing racial or religious
epithets, advocating physical harm against people or their
property, or making blatantly false claims will not be
accepted.
- Inappropriate language
- Gambling (except for Gambling related sites) -
Gambling sites are those that accept wagers or require
payment in exchange for the chance to win prizes, as well as
sites that offer information or links related primarily to
the promotion of gambling.
- Applied to online casinos, sites with links to
online casinos.
- Not applied to sites with general travel
resources for Las Vegas, Atlantic City, or other
cities that have casinos.
- Not applied to gambling addiction recovery
programs.
- Misleading language - using the word "free" in
the advertisement to describe a contest or sweepstakes
prize.
- Fake IDs - Even if web sites include a disclaimer
such as "novelty items only".
- Creatives that blink or shake as to be disruptive
- "System Errors" - any ad that mimics a system
message of any sort will be rejected unless the word
"Advertisement" is conspicuously included.
- Black boxes/cable descramblers - Products that
may facilitate illegal activity such as pirating cable
television.
- Work-at-home services and multilevel marketing
- Email extraction software
- Appz, Warez, Crackz, Hackz, etc. - Sites that
sell cracked or pirated software, or promote the cracking or
pirating of software are banned.
Run of Network
- In addition to the advertising content listed above, the following are
also inappropriate for our Run of Network Advertising (RON):
- Graphic violence
- Death (funeral homes, mortuaries)
- Sensationalism (killer bees, gossip, aliens, scandal, etc.)
Subject for Review
- Advertising content that may be considered inappropriate by us and will
be reviewed on a case-by-case basis:
- Involves a direct business competitor of any of our websites
- Unauthorized or unapproved use of our creative materials
- Unreasonable or highly unlikely product or service claims
- Double entendres
- A copy or parody of current or past advertising content on any
of our websites
- An implied affiliation or favored status with any of our
websites
- We maintain the right to reject any advertiser
Advertising Content
- The advertising content must be clearly identifiable as an advertisement
and may not be disguised as editorial content.
- Advertisers must fulfill the advertised offer as stated in the
advertisement, including without limitation, not altering any offer
periods, product offers or prices that are stated in the
advertisement; unless Advertiser has obtained our prior approval.
Personal Information
- Where personal information is solicited on the Advertiser's landing
page:
- Any collection of personal information must be in full
compliance with all privacy laws, including COPPA where applicable.
- Advertiser must clearly explain to the guest how Advertiser will
use the personal information collected.
- Advertiser must provide all guests with an alternate user
experience that doesn't require submitting personal information.
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