DRM Box Co. Affiliate Program Terms

DRM Box Co Affiliate Program Terms

These Terms govern participation in the DRM Box Co. Affiliate Program. By applying to, joining, remaining in, or using links or benefits provided through the Program, the affiliate accepts these Terms and any incorporated Program materials. If the affiliate does not agree, the affiliate must not participate or use a DRM Box Co. affiliate link.

1 Definitions

In these Terms, “DRM,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean the Program operator identified above. “Affiliate,” “you,” and “your” mean the person or entity approved to participate. “Content” means any post, livestream, video, review, unboxing, advertisement, email, website content, message, image, statement, or other communication concerning DRM or its products. “Affiliate Link” means the unique Shopify Collabs tracking link or code assigned to you. “Net Product Revenue” means the amount DRM actually receives for eligible products, excluding shipping, taxes, discounts, refunds, cancellations, disputes, chargebacks, fraud, and other ineligible amounts.

2 Eligibility and Approval

You must be at least 18 years old, legally able to enter a binding agreement, and provide complete and accurate application, identity, payment, and tax information. Applications are reviewed individually. Applying does not guarantee acceptance. DRM may approve, decline, suspend, or remove an affiliate in its reasonable discretion, subject to applicable law.

Your approval is personal to you. You may not sell, assign, transfer, or share your account, Affiliate Link, or Program access without DRM’s prior written permission. You are responsible for all activity conducted through your account and for keeping your login credentials secure.

3 Commission

Approved affiliates earn a 3% commission on Net Product Revenue from a qualifying purchase that Shopify Collabs properly attributes to their Affiliate Link, unless DRM provides a different rate for a specific product or campaign in writing.

No commission is earned on:

shipping charges, taxes, tips, gift-card purchases, or amounts not retained by DRM;

discounted, excluded, or 0% commission products or campaigns identified in Shopify Collabs;

refunded, canceled, returned, disputed, charged-back, fraudulent, duplicated, or otherwise ineligible transactions;

self-referrals, household or related-party purchases arranged to generate commission, or transactions involving misrepresented purchaser identity;

orders generated through prohibited promotion, manipulation, cookie stuffing, unauthorized paid advertising, or violation of these Terms; or

purchases that Shopify Collabs does not attribute to the Affiliate Link for any reason.

DRM’s good-faith records and Shopify Collabs’ tracking records control commission calculations unless there is a clear error. DRM may investigate, dispute, cancel, withhold, offset, or recover commissions connected to suspected or confirmed violations, refunds, chargebacks, fraud, or platform error. You must notify DRM of a suspected commission error within 30 days after it appears in Shopify Collabs.

4 Tracking Holding Period and Payment

You are responsible for using the correct Affiliate Link. Tracking depends on Shopify Collabs, customer browser settings, cookies, devices, and other technical factors. DRM does not guarantee that every click or purchase will be tracked or attributed.

Commissions are subject to the holding period shown in DRM’s Shopify Collabs payment terms, currently 30 days. During that period, commissions may be canceled or disputed if an order is refunded, canceled, disputed, charged back, fraudulent, or otherwise ineligible. Eligible commissions are processed through Shopify Collabs after the holding period according to Shopify Collabs’ payment procedures and timing. Platform processing time is outside DRM’s control.

You are responsible for completing payout setup and maintaining accurate payment and tax information. You are also responsible for all taxes, fees, reporting, and legal obligations related to your earnings. Participation does not guarantee any minimum traffic, sales, commission, payment, free product, merchandise, or customer discount.

5 No Self Referrals or Manipulation

You may not purchase through your own Affiliate Link; direct another person to purchase primarily for your benefit; disguise a self-referral; create duplicate, fictitious, or misleading purchaser identities; place or encourage sham orders; interfere with another affiliate’s attribution; automatically set tracking cookies; or use bots, scripts, forced redirects, toolbars, browser extensions, pop-ups, misleading buttons, or other methods that generate artificial clicks, traffic, leads, or commissions.

6 Required Affiliate Disclosures

Every Content item that endorses, reviews, demonstrates, promotes, or links to DRM must clearly and conspicuously disclose your financial relationship with DRM. The disclosure must be easy to notice, easy to understand, placed with the endorsement itself, and made before or at the point where a viewer could act on the endorsement or Affiliate Link.

Use direct language such as: “I earn a commission if you purchase through this link.” You may also use “Paid affiliate link” if it clearly communicates that you are paid. The words “affiliate link” by themselves, a disclosure hidden among hashtags, a disclosure after a “more” button, or reliance only on a platform’s built-in disclosure tool may be inadequate.

For video or livestream Content, make the disclosure within the Content itself, both audibly and visibly when practical, and repeat it periodically during longer livestreams. A description-only disclosure is not enough if viewers may not see it. Disclosures must be in the same language as the endorsement and must remain visible long enough to be read and understood.

You must comply with the FTC Endorsement Guides, the FTC Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule, platform rules, and all other applicable advertising, consumer-protection, privacy, and marketing laws. You must promptly correct any missing or inadequate disclosure when DRM requests it.

7 Truthful and Accurate Representation

Your opinions and descriptions must be honest and based on your genuine experience. You may not make a statement that is false, misleading, unsubstantiated, or inconsistent with current DRM-approved product information.

You must clearly communicate that box contents are unknown until opened, vary from box to box, and may include different product categories. You may not promise or imply any particular product, brand, quantity, condition, category mix, source, authenticity, resale value, retail value, profit, odds, outcome, or guaranteed value unless DRM has expressly authorized that exact statement in writing.

You may not describe DRM products or promotions using gambling, lottery, raffle, prize, jackpot, betting, guaranteed-win, or similar language. You may not suggest that an affiliate or customer is a DRM employee, partner, agent, franchisee, spokesperson, or official representative.

You may not create fake reviews or testimonials; purchase reviews; condition compensation on a positive review; suppress honest negative reviews; use fabricated social-media indicators; or claim to have used, received, or opened a product that you have not actually experienced.

8 Content and Conduct Standards

Affiliate Content and conduct must be lawful, accurate, professional, and consistent with DRM’s brand guidance. You may not use Content that:

infringes or misuses another person’s copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights;

contains unlawful, deceptive, defamatory, harassing, hateful, discriminatory, sexually explicit, violent, or threatening material;

targets or exploits children, collects personal information unlawfully, or violates a platform’s age or safety rules;

contains malware, phishing, false scarcity, deceptive pricing, misleading coupons, or an imitation DRM login, checkout, or website;

sends unsolicited commercial email, text messages, or direct messages, or violates anti-spam, telemarketing, or privacy laws; or

could reasonably expose DRM to legal, regulatory, platform, payment-processing, safety, or reputational harm.

You are solely responsible for your Content, accounts, statements, music, images, footage, permissions, releases, and legal compliance. DRM’s approval or failure to object does not transfer that responsibility to DRM.

9 Monitoring Cooperation and Removal

DRM may review and monitor Affiliate Content and request links, screenshots, analytics, records, disclosures, edits, corrections, or removal. You must cooperate with reasonable compliance requests and preserve relevant promotional records for at least two years after publication.

If DRM identifies Content that may violate these Terms or applicable law, you must stop using it immediately and correct or remove it as soon as possible, but no later than 24 hours after DRM’s request unless DRM specifies a shorter period because of an urgent legal, safety, platform, or reputational concern. DRM may suspend links, withhold disputed commissions, notify a platform, or terminate participation while reviewing a potential violation.

10 DRM Brand Materials and Limited License

While you remain an approved affiliate, DRM grants you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicensable, revocable license to use DRM-provided logos, product images, and promotional materials solely to promote DRM under these Terms. DRM retains all ownership and goodwill in its names, logos, trademarks, website content, and other brand materials.

You may not alter the DRM logo; create a confusingly similar brand, domain, username, page, or account; register or claim rights in DRM’s name or marks; impersonate DRM; manufacture branded merchandise; or suggest sponsorship or authorization beyond your approved affiliate status. You must stop using DRM brand materials immediately upon suspension or termination, or earlier if DRM requests it.

11 License to Affiliate Content

When you publish Content promoting DRM or submit Content to DRM, you grant DRM a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to display, reproduce, repost, share, crop, resize, caption, and otherwise use that Content, together with your public-facing name, username, image, voice, and likeness appearing in it, for DRM’s organic social-media, website, email, and Program promotion. This license includes the right to use platform tools and service providers needed to exercise those rights.

The license begins when the Content is published or submitted and continues while you participate in the Program and for 12 months afterward. DRM may continue displaying previously published reposts, archived posts, or historical campaign materials after that period, but may not create a materially new paid advertisement from your Content after the license period without additional written permission. You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to grant this license. DRM is not required to use or credit the Content.

12 Paid Advertising and Promotional Restrictions

Without DRM’s prior written permission, you may not purchase or run paid advertising that uses DRM’s name, website, logo, trademarks, product names, branded search terms, misspellings, or confusing variations. You may not bid on DRM-branded keywords; use DRM in ad display URLs; directly link paid ads to DRM’s website; represent yourself as DRM; or use coupon, cashback, deal, browser-extension, or sub-affiliate networks to promote DRM.

You may not publish a DRM coupon, discount, giveaway, contest, sweepstakes, or promotional claim unless DRM has authorized the exact offer and terms in writing. You may not alter an approved code, invent a code, advertise an expired offer, or claim an Affiliate Link provides a customer discount when it does not.

13 Independent Relationship

You are an independent participant and not an employee, worker, agent, partner, joint venturer, franchisee, or legal representative of DRM. You have no authority to bind DRM, sign on DRM’s behalf, make warranties for DRM, incur obligations for DRM, or direct DRM’s operations. You control when, where, and how you create Content, subject to these Terms and applicable law. You are responsible for your own equipment, expenses, insurance, licenses, permits, and taxes.

14 Suspension and Termination

Either party may end participation at any time. DRM may immediately suspend or terminate an affiliate, links, codes, benefits, or access for a violation or suspected violation of these Terms; legal or regulatory risk; fraud; misleading promotion; inadequate disclosures; inactivity; platform or payment issues; conduct harmful to DRM; or discontinuation of the Program.

Upon suspension or termination, you must immediately stop presenting yourself as a DRM affiliate and stop using DRM brand materials, confidential information, Affiliate Links, codes, and any Content DRM directs you to remove. Termination does not create a right to payment for ineligible or later-refunded transactions. Subject to these Terms and Shopify Collabs procedures, eligible commissions properly earned before termination remain payable unless they are withheld, offset, disputed, or canceled for a permitted reason.

Sections concerning commission adjustments, taxes, Content responsibility, licenses already granted, records, indemnification, liability, dispute terms, and other provisions that by their nature should continue will survive termination.

15 Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless DRM and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, agents, successors, and service providers from claims, demands, investigations, penalties, losses, liabilities, judgments, settlements, damages, and reasonable legal fees arising from or related to: your Content or conduct; your breach of these Terms; your violation of law or platform rules; your taxes or business obligations; or your infringement or misuse of another person’s rights. DRM may control the defense and settlement of a covered matter, and you must reasonably cooperate. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault by or imposes an obligation on DRM without DRM’s written consent.

16 Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

The Program, Affiliate Links, platform services, tracking, materials, and related benefits are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, DRM disclaims warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, uninterrupted availability, tracking accuracy, and any guarantee of traffic, sales, earnings, or results.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, DRM and its owners, employees, agents, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages; lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity; platform outages; attribution failures; or third-party conduct. DRM’s total aggregate liability arising from the Program will not exceed the commissions paid or payable to you during the six months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim. These limits do not apply where applicable law does not permit them.

17 Program and Term Changes

DRM may change commission rates, eligible products, holding periods, Program benefits, Program availability, or these Terms. When reasonably possible, DRM will provide notice of a material change through email, Shopify Collabs, or the Program page. Changes apply prospectively from the stated effective date. Continuing to participate after that date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree, your remedy is to stop participating before the change takes effect.

18 Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any dispute arising from or related to the Program or these Terms must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts having jurisdiction in Lorain County, Ohio, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction and venue there. Before filing a claim, the parties will make a good-faith attempt for at least 30 days to resolve the dispute through written notice and direct discussion. Either party may seek urgent injunctive relief to prevent misuse of intellectual property, confidential information, or unlawful Content.

19 General Terms

These Terms, together with DRM’s applicable Shopify Collabs offer and written campaign instructions, are the entire agreement concerning the Program and replace prior discussions or understandings on that subject. If there is a direct conflict, these Terms control unless DRM expressly states in writing that a specific campaign term overrides them.

If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be modified only as much as necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will continue in effect. DRM’s failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without DRM’s written consent; DRM may assign them in connection with a sale, transfer, reorganization, or change in Program operator. Headings are for convenience only. Electronic notices, approvals, records, and acceptance are valid to the extent permitted by law.

20 Contact

Questions, compliance notices, and requests concerning the DRM Box Co. Affiliate Program may be sent to drmboxco@gmail.com.