Our primary goals for our affiliate program are to bring awareness of the variety of services and products Zumalka.com offers and to acquire new customers. We will accept various types of pets/animal blogs and websites.


HOW IT WORKS


Advertise Zumalka.com with a link, banner, or ad on your blog or website. Commission is 20% of purchases made by those who click through your site to ours (there is no commission on purchases you make through your own affiliate link). And please note: this only applies to products purchased through the Shopify shopping cart.

Once you submit your application, you may be emailed and asked additional questions about various details about your website. Once reviewed by our staff, you will normally hear back from us in 1-5 business days with our response to your application. 

**NOTE** If accepted in the program you will receive commission earned once a month through PayPal, so please sign up for our affiliate program with your PayPal email. 

POLICIES & RESTRICTIONS


Our staff will review your site for the following items in order to accept you into our network:

-Compatible philosophy
-Quality site design
-A majority of original content and also about animals (not other subjects)
-Top-Level-Domain (is not required but recommended).
-Prospective ability of your site to drive traffic to our website and store.
-Strong and active social media presence (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest)
-Disallowed sites include: anything illegal, porn, hate, etc... on your site or on sites that you link to
-Other misc. factors


If approved as a brand ambassador (and in addition to your commission) :


-You'll be added to a brand ambassadors mailing list.
-For ads and banners, only use the refersion images provided (if you need a different size, just let us know!).
-Do not create your own coupons to promote Zumalka.com products.
-There will be no commission on purchases you make using your own affiliate link. But if you want to test the system, you may do so using a free product.
-No "cookie-stuffing."
-Don't overdo it. Too many plugs for Zumalka.com can be counterproductive. 

Search Engines ads 

Bidding is allowed on Google and Bing/Yahoo with a few restrictions listed herein:

• Affiliates may not enter in competition with HomeoAnimal in terms of search engine ads. They may not bid on terms on Google and Bing/Yahoo that are used by HomeoAnimal for our own ads. Before using a term, always verify that Zumalka does not use the same terms.

• Affiliates may not bid on phrases or keywords suggesting promotions from Zumalka. Examples include, but are not limited to terms like "discount", "code", "promotion" "coupon" "offer".

• If in doubt, the affiliate may contact us for the use of a term. You may do so by email at sue@zumalka.com
  

Truth in advertising and content

Affiliates are required to be truthful and accurate regarding (and not limited to): any advertisement representing Zumalka.com, information surrounding discounts and special offers, promotions, discounts, and any other content or information published on the affiliate’s page or in search engine ads. Further, Zumalka will not partner with any affiliates containing false, misleading, or inaccurate information on their site.

Promotions, discounts, or deals of any kind are prohibited

Offering promotions of any kind on Zumalka.com products or services is strictly prohibited and considered false and/or misleading advertising. Any promotions offered by Zumalka.com will be exclusive to the site and will not be offered by affiliates; therefore, any promotions offered by affiliates are false. This includes, but is not limited to, specials, deals, sales, coupons, or discount codes. 

Furthermore, presenting information on our products/services so they appear to be part of a special promotion is considered misleading. Examples include, but are not limited to, listing a product’s actual price as if it were a limited-time deal or offering free shipping on orders over $80, which is included in our standard shipping rates.

Any false, misleading, or inaccurate offers, ads, content, or  information will result in a warning, which could result in termination of affiliation and/or loss of commissions (read “warning” below).

Review pages

While Zumalka accepts review pages as one of the marketing strategies that can be used by affiliates in its affiliate program, there are conditions that should be strictly observed to avoid a particular review page being flagged as violative of its policies and restrictions.

Being flagged as such could possibly lead to the termination of the affiliate relationship, as provided in the warning section of our policy. The said affiliate program conditions are as follows:

General conditions:

• The same requirements specified for websites should still be followed for review pages.

• The same requirement with respect to the truthfulness and accuracy imposed for the websites should also apply to review pages.

• The same restrictions as to promotions, discounts, or deals of any kind imposed for websites should be followed for review pages as well.

• A review page is not allowed to send clients to the Zumalka website through unscrupulous means. This specifically pertains to the use of pop-ups that only allow viewers to access the content of the said review page by first activating the affiliate link.

• All traffic directed to the HomeoAnimal website must be done so with the full knowledge of the customer.

Conditions after being accepted in the affiliate program:

• A review page is subject to continuous scrutiny by the Zumalka staff after acceptance. This is to ensure that the conditions imposed are followed properly.

• Zumalka reserves the right to recommend modifications on an affiliate marketer’s review page. Said affiliate marketer is also obliged to notify the Zumalka staff in case there are changes in his or her review page as a gesture of good faith.

• Kindly refer to the warning section of our policy as regards to other key details that should be taken note of. 

Warning

Affiliates will receive no warning. Any violation will result in termination of the affiliate relationship and may be cause for reversal of past commissions earned up to 30 days prior to the violation.

From time to time, Zumalka.com may review the policies for changes in the way search engines operate or changes in Zumalka.com's philosophy. Any changes made to the Policies will be announced via the HomeoAnimal.com affiliate newsletter and posted on the Zumalka Program Application Page (under “Program Terms & Policies”). Affiliates are given no less than 14 business days to comply with any new terms before a first violation is cited on the affiliate's account.

Reporting Violations

Violations of the Zumalka.com policies may be reported to sue@zumalka.com. Please have all applicable proof in your email, including but not limited to screenshots of the ad, geographical location of the ad, URL/network tracking information and the search engine where the ad was found.




Should you have any questions, feel free to contact HomeoAnimal.com by emailing our affiliate program manager at sue@zumalka.com.

Also, the content above may change at any time without notice.


Thanks for your interest in Zumalka.com!