Amazon Affiliate Program

What Are The Amazon Affiliate Program Rules And Requirements?

• You will ensure that your site is not unsuitable (as described in Section 2 of the Operating Agreement).
• You will not display or otherwise use our or our affiliates’ trademarks or logos.
• You will not display or otherwise use any logo of any third party seller on the Amazon Site in connection with any Special Link unless you have obtained from that seller the specific right to do so.
• You will not remove, obscure, or alter, or make invisible, illegible, or indecipherable to visitors of your site, any “Privacy Information” link or any of our or our affiliates’ trademarks or logos (including any Amazon Mark) that we include in a Special Link.
• You will use Content solely in accordance with the terms of the Operating Agreement and within the express scope of the license granted in Section 11 of the Operating Agreement.
• You will not engage in any promotional, marketing, or other advertising activities on behalf of us or our affiliates, or in connection with the Amazon Site or the Program, that are not expressly permitted under the Operating Agreement.
• You will not use any Content or Special Link, or otherwise link to the Amazon Site, on or in connection with any site or application designed or intended for use with a mobile phone or other handheld device.
• You will not add to, delete from, or otherwise alter any Content in any way, including by adding additional information.
• You will not sell, resell, redistribute, sublicense, or transfer any Content or any application that uses, incorporates, or displays any Content.
• You will promptly remove from your site and delete or otherwise destroy any Content that is no longer displayed on the Amazon Site or that we notify you is no longer available for your use.
• You will not use any Content, including any name or likeness embodied in that Content, in a manner that implies a person’s or company’s endorsement or sponsorship of, or commercial tie-in or other association with, any product, service, party, or cause.
• You will not seek to purchase or register any Proprietary Term for use in any Search Engine; purchase, register, or otherwise use any Proprietary Term as or in a domain or subdomain name; or register or use any Proprietary Term as or in any Associates ID or “tag.”
• You will not bid on or purchase keywords, search terms, or other identifiers (including Proprietary Terms) or otherwise participate in keyword auctions on any Search Engine if the resulting paid search advertisement is a Prohibited Paid Search Placement.
• You will not offer any person or entity any consideration or incentive for using Special Links.
• You will not intercept, record, redirect, read, interpret, or fill in the contents of any electronic form or other material submitted to us by any person or entity.
• You will not request, collect, obtain, store, cache, or otherwise use any account information used by our customers in connection with any Amazon Site.
• You will not modify, redirect, suppress, or substitute the operation of any button, link, or other feature of the Amazon Site.
• You will not make any orders or engage in other transactions of any kind on the Amazon Site on behalf of any other person or entity, or authorize, assist, or encourage any other person or entity to do so.
• You will not use Special Links to link to the Amazon Site from references to items on your site that are not Products.
• You will not take any action that could reasonably cause any customer confusion as to our relationship with you, or as to the site on which any functions or transactions are occurring.
• You will not include on your site, display, or otherwise use Special Links or Content in connection with any spyware, malware, virus, worm, Trojan horse, or other malicious or harmful code.
• You will not frame the Amazon Site, or any part of it, within your site.
• You will not post or serve any Special Links or other content promoting the Amazon Site within any pop-up or pop-under windows, transitional page ads, or layer ads around or in conjunction with the display of any site that is not your site.
• You will not include any Special Links in any content that you place on the Amazon Site.
• You will not attempt to circumvent the Associates Program Advertising Fee Schedule or artificially increase your advertising fees.
• You will not attempt to intercept or redirect traffic from or on, or divert advertising fees from, any site that participates in the Program.
• You will not artificially generate clicks or impressions on your site or create Sessions on the Amazon Site.
• You will not display or otherwise use any of our customer reviews or star ratings, in part or in whole, on your site unless you have obtained a link to that customer review or star rating through the Product Advertising API and you comply with the requirements set forth in the License Agreement.
• You will not purchase any Product(s) through Special Links for use by you or for resale or commercial use of any kind.
• You will not cloak, hide, spoof, or otherwise obscure the URL of your site containing Special Links.
• Unless otherwise agreed by Amazon, your site must not have price tracking and/or price alerting functionality.