Terms of Service

Backcountry.com Sites

Note these terms and conditions apply to the entire suite of Backcountry.com Corporation retail & One Deal at a Time (ODAT) websites which include: Backcountry.com, BackcountryOutlet.com, DepartmentofGoods.com, Dogfunk.com, HucknRoll.com, RealCyclist.com, SteepandCheap.com, WhiskeyMilitia.com, Tramdock.com, Chainlove.com, Bonktown.com & Brociety.com. In these terms and conditions this family of sites shall be referred to as “Backcountry.com sites.”

Brand Representation

Publisher’s ad copy cannot misrepresent the relationship between the publisher and Backcountry.com sites. Copy cannot contain misspellings, incorrect grammar or false statements such as “Free Shipping on every order”, “No Tax” or “Backcountry.com Coupon” when no coupon has been offered. Ad copy should always represent Backcountry.com sites in a professional manner – basically don’t do anything that would degrade our brand. Publishers cannot post anything in ad copy that alludes to the fact that we compete on price, period. Claims such as 'authorized dealer' or 'official store' can never be used in ad copy.

Coupon Bidding

Backcountry.com sites allow Publishers to bid on the term “Backcountry.com Coupons” and variations (no straight trademark bidding). Within the ad copy it’s prohibited for the Publisher to claim they have a coupon when one hasn’t been offered.  For example “Backcountry.com 30% Off Coupon” is unacceptable.  Backcountry.com catalog sites do not compete on price and only offer site-wide coupons 2-3 times per year.  These are the only times it’s acceptable to allude in the ad copy you hold a percent off coupon. All other times publishers must use the current sale, promo or similar in their ad copy.  For example “Winter Clearance Up To 50% Off”, notice no mention of the word “coupon.”

Cookie Policy

To maintain fairness between all Backcountry Corp marketing channels we follow a strict cookie policy. All cookies regardless of channel are subject to being trumped by the last referring URL with marketing campaign tracking. Credit will only be given to the last referring channel/website at the time of conversion.

Domain Names and URLs

Publisher websites must have a unique URL (including subdomain and URL path) that does not contain Backcountry.com sites, trademarked brand names or any misspellings or variations of our name or trademarked names. Use of our vendor trademarked names or variations in URLs is prohibited.

Bidding on Pay per Click Search Engines

Domestic Search Policy

General Rule:

Publishers may not bid on Backcountry.com sites, trademarks, misspellings or variation of our brand names through Google AdWords, Yahoo Sponsored Search or MSN ad Center.

Acceptable Publishers can direct link on any keyword (including trademarks) through Content Match (Defined as ads placed within the content of engine network sites, exclusive of search results) within any search engine. Publishers can direct link on any keyword (including trademarks) through any Tier 2 search engine. Publishers can bid and direct link on any vendor brand specific keyword (including common misspellings) that is listed for each site on the non-default list provided by backcountry on any Search Engine except Google.

Publisher’s ad copy cannot misrepresent the relationship between the publisher and Backcountry.com sites. Copy cannot contain misspellings, incorrect grammar or false statements such as “Free Shipping on every order” or “No Tax”. Ad copy should always represent Backcountry.com sites in a professional manner – basically don’t do anything that would degrade our brand. Publishers cannot post anything in ad copy that alludes to the fact that we compete on price, period. Claims such as 'authorized dealer' or 'official store' can never be used in ad copy.

Engine Specific Rules:

Google: • Publishers cannot direct link on any term using AdWords for any Backcountry.com site • Publishers can bid and direct link on any term within Content Match (including trademarks) for any Backcountry.com site

Yahoo: • Publishers can bid and direct link on any term within Content Match (including trademarks) for any site • Publishers can direct link on any non-default brand term (including common misspellings) – see non-default list for acceptable keywords & related sites. • Publishers cannot direct link within Yahoo Sponsored Search on any term not specifically identified on the non-default list provided by backcountry.com

MSN: • Publishers can bid and direct link on any term within Content Match (including trademarks) for any site • Publishers can direct link on any non-default brand term (including common misspellings) – see non-default list for acceptable keywords & related sites. • Publishers cannot direct link any term within MSN ad Center not specifically identified on the non-default list provided by backcountry.com

Tier 2 engines: • Publishers can bid and direct link on any term (including trademarks) for any Backcountry.com site

Comparison Shopping: • Publishers cannot submit data feeds directly to any comparison shopping portal

International Search Policy

General rule: Publishers can bid on any keyword (including trademarks) and direct link through search in foreign languages (any language except English) on any search engine.

List of countries we DO ship to: Argentina Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Barbados Belgium Belize Bermuda Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Colombia Cyprus Denmark Finland Germany Greece Greenland Grenada Hong Kong Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Senegal Slovak Republic South Korea Spain Sri Lanka St. Lucia Sweden Switzerland United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States

List of items we CANNOT ship internationally: ANY STOVE FUEL

Other Shipping Restrictions: The North Face CANNOT be shipped to Canada Line CANNOT be shipped to Canada, UK, or Japan

Shipping Policies

Promoting Sales Prices

Backcountry.com sites may have monthly sales. Publishers may promote our sales, but must include the sale end date in all advertisements. Sale information must be removed as soon as that sale ends.

Pop-Up, Pop-Under, Re-Directs and Software

Publishers may not use site re-directs, pop-ups or pop-unders that link to Backcountry.com sites.

Spam and Electronic Messages

Under no circumstances shall Publisher send commercial electronic mail messages as defined in the new Federal spam law, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 [the “Act”], with respect to Backcountry.com’s Affiliate Program. For clarification, this does not prohibit Publisher from sending transactional or relationship messages as defined in the Act. In addition, except as expressly authorized by Backcountry.com, any and all electronic messages initiated or sent by Publisher or on Publisher’s behalf must identify Publisher as the sender and may not suggest or imply, or mislead or be likely to mislead a recipient into believing that a Backcountry.com site is the sender or sponsor of, or has procured Publisher to send, such electronic messages. To be clear, Publisher may not use a return address, subject heading, header information or message contents that misleads or confuses or is likely to mislead or confuse a recipient as to Publisher being the sender.

All publisher electronic messages representing Backcountry.com sites must be approved before sending.

Adult Content and other Unacceptable Content

Publisher may not post adult-oriented content on any page where Backcountry.com sites’ content appears. Backcountry.com sites consider content to be "adult" if it contains nudity or obscenity, sexually explicit, pornographic, or lewd material. Publisher may not post any offensive content or incorporate images or content that is in any way harmful, threatening, obscene, harassing or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, or promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.

Datafeeds

Datafeeds are to be used only on approved publisher websites. Publishers may not submit any of Backcountry.com sites’ datafeeds to any shopping portal such as Froogle or Google Base as stated in their terms of service.

Content

Publishers may not use Backcountry.com sites’ content (including but not limited to reviews, copy, and images) unless it is provided in a data feed or approved by Backcountry.com affiliate managers. Because our content is produced entirely in-house, approved publishers may not utilize Backcountry.com sites’ content on any page that promotes any other company.

Communication

Because we are extremely cautious with our brand and the brands we represent we ask that publishers adhere closely to these requirements. We have a long-standing reputation of supporting our publishers, and are here to help our publishers achieve success. Please call upon us for any assistance. Our Affiliate Team may be contacted via telephone at 801-746-7580x 5194 or also via email at affiliates@backcountry.com .