Site: Macbellads
URL: http://www.macbellads.com
Macbellads has created this privacy statement in order demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site.

Information Automatically Logged
This site uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our site. This site records the browser type to monitor market penetration of various web browsers so we can better determine the Internet technologies we may utilize in the design of our pages. This site uses page referrer data - that is, information about the page that linked you to this page - to determine to what extent our page is referenced by other resources on the Web. This data may be used to preserve the integrity of our computing resources.

Personal Information
Macbellads collects your name and email address, and other pertinent information. This information is used to facilitate buying and selling of links/ advertisements on the Internet. We do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes beyond those stated here.
Visit http://www.macbellads.com/ and click " Manage Account " to update your personal information.

Cookies
This site uses cookies for session management. See the Session Management section for more information about how cookies are used.

Session Management
This site uses form elements and / or cookies on each page to maintain a continuous user session. Form elements and/or cookies may contain a unique ID that identifies your browser session.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Log file access is restricted to system administrators while stored on the server. Log files are rotated regularly and archived in a secure location.

All credit card information is encrypted with 40-bit SSL encryption before it is transmitted across the network.

Macbellads complies with all statutory and legal requirements with respect to access to information.

If you are not fully satisfied with Macbellads or your advertising campaign, you may be eligible to receive a refund. Please contact Support through our Contact Us page and explain why you are unsatisfied. Macbellads will evaluate refund inquiries for all reasonable requests ( listed “Grounds for refund evaluation” ) for up to the last 60 days of receiving your request. We will provide a response to your request within 2 business days of its receipt. All refunds are issued in the form of an account credit.

Grounds for refund evaluation:

1. Ad not showing properly
2. Site no longer online or operating
3. Zone inactive or down
4. Invalid ad clicks and/or impressions
5. Publisher cancels ad
6. Flat rate ad did not run
7. Did not start on scheduled start date
8. Cancelled flat rate ads that have not yet started
9. Ad edits rejected

Not grounds for refund evaluation:

1. Ad not performing or drop off in clicks/impressions other than host site down
2. Ad statistics do not match third party analytics software
3. Advertiser misunderstanding about products, policies, or services
4. Advertiser did not pause network ad
5. Advertiser unaware of flat rate ad recurrence

When are publisher checks processed?

Macbellads begins processing publisher payments on the first business day of each month and mails them out within the first five business days. Please note that check transit times vary. Based on marketplace feedback, India addresses can take from 7 to 10 business days for the check to arrive. Non-India addresses may take up to 21 business days.

I haven’t received my check, what now?
If you did not receive your payment and have waited the specified amount of time mentioned above, or misplaced your check, please first confirm your “Pay to”, “Address”, and “Minimum check amount” information before contacting Support. To view your payment information, please log into your account and select the “publishers” tab. Click the Manage Account link. On this page, your payment information is present.

If your information is confirmed correct, please contact Support through our Contact Us form. In order to process your check reissue request, we will need the following information:

1. Check number (Reference No.)
2. Payment month
3. Payment Amt.

Please note that Macbellads no longer reissues payments throughout the month. Instead, we confirm your check has not been cashed, stop payment, and re-deposit earnings back into your publisher account. The re-deposited earnings will be included as part of your next publisher payment. Checks that are outstanding after 180 days from date of issue will be voided and ineligible for re-deposit or reissue.

Macbellads pays publishers on a net-60 basis . Because we uphold our responsibility to pay webmasters for traffic that was delivered, we can only give refunds for the last 60 days from the request date.

The Publisher Acceptable Use Policy is applicable to publishers participating in the Macbellads marketplace. To be considered as a Macbellads publisher, you are required to adhere to the following policies.

We suggest you read the policies carefully and reference the guidelines often as we may change our policies at any time. As pursuant to our terms and conditions, it is your responsibility to keep up to date with and adhere to the policies posted here. Failure to comply with these policies may warrant us limiting ad serving to your site and/or limiting your Macbellads account.

Site Content Guidelines:
Macbellads prohibits ads from displaying on sites with the following content:

1. Little or no original content. This includes, but is not limited to:

(a). Scraped content: Sites with content taken from high-quality sources or “Free Article” sites. These are often template or cookie cutter sites.

(b). Auto-generated content: Sites with programmatically generated content. These sites often have random content that is confusing or nonsensical to a site visitor.

(c). Doorway sites: Sites with content designed to increase search engine rank, with little content for an actual site visitor.

(d). Made for ad sites: Sites that primarily consists of only advertisements do not constitute content for a landing page.

(e). Login to view any content: Sites with landing pages with only a login or registration form.

(f). Thin affiliate sites: These sites collect pay-per-click (PPC) revenue by sending visitors to the sites of affiliate programs, while providing little or no value-added content or service to the user. These sites usually have no original content and may be cookie-cutter sites or templates with no unique content.

(g). Site under construction: Sites that are blank, under construction, page with raw coding/incorrect coding, or take too long respond.

2. Any pornographic, adult, or mature content including animation.

3. Any offers for illegal activities, products or services.

4. Promotion of fake documents, copied material, or paper mills.

5. Promotion of drugs, or any related paraphernalia.

6. Promotion of excessive profanity or violence

7. Promotion of discrimination or infringes on the legal rights of others.

8. Promotion or any attempt to profit from human tragedy or suffering that lacks any social, artistic, or political value. This includes any content that may 9. be deemed inappropriate or insensitive to victims of natural disasters or human tragedies.

10. Promotion of incentives for users or third-party beneficiaries for online activities, but not limited to, completing offers, performing searches, surfing websites, reading emails, completing surveys, clicking on ads, or any activity that artificially enhances website/advertiser metrics.

11. Content or site construction intended to deceive or mislead for purposes of increasing traffic or clicks.

12. Sales or offers that contain certain weapons, alcohol, tobacco, or any related paraphernalia.

13. User submitted content that is not moderated.

Click Enticement Policy:
Macbellads does not allow any of the following methods, but without limitation, to artificially generate clicks or impressions:

1 . Placement of advertisements in order to induce clicks. This includes the following:

(a). Image + ad : Placing an image, photo, or thumbnail above or next to a text ad. This results in lower conversion rates for advertisers and is prohibited.

(b). Misleading labels: Do not mislabel a zone, such as labeling a text ad module “Most Popular” as opposed to “Sponsored Links”.

(c). Blind links: Placement of a text ad in a manner that it looks like site content or a site navigation link, such as only displaying the ad headline and not the copy.

(d). Ad modification: An ad must be shown its original form, must be fully visible, and the zone code cannot be modified to change the targeting, behavior, or delivery of ads.

(e). Gimmicky ad: Placement of an ad in a manner that makes it difficult to distinguish from site content.

(f). General click enticement: Asking visitors to click on an ad in order to support a site.

2. Incentivized programs such paid to click, paid to read, paid to search, paid to surf, autosurf, third party services, or click exchange.

3. Use of bots or automated click and impression generating tools.

4. Clicking on one’s own ads is prohibited.

5. Displaying ads in any type of pop-up is not permitted.

Excessive Zones:
To ensure a quality experience for advertisers and site visitors, Macbellads does not allow excessive placement of zones on a page.

* You may use three zones of each advertising product per page.
* You may not display the same CPM zone multiple times on one page. Please create a unique zone.
* You may not place multiple leaderboard banners on top of one another, or in an area where the banner competes visually with banners or affiliate zones from other companies. The leaderboard format is not intended to be placed in a manner where it competes visually with other site elements.
* Macbellads reserves the right to disable zones if they severely degrade advertising effectiveness or create a “spammy” look-and-feel, even if the zones are within the three zone limit.

Non-English Sites:
At this time, Macbellads current reviews English language sites only.

The Advertiser Acceptable Use Policy is applicable to advertisers participating in the Macbellads marketplace. To be considered as an Macbellads advertiser, you are required to adhere to the following policies.

We suggest you read the policies carefully and reference the guidelines often as we may change our policies at any time. As pursuant to our Terms and Conditions, it is your responsibility to keep up to date with and adhere to the policies posted here. Failure to comply with these policies may warrant us limiting ad serving to your site and/or limiting your Macbellads account.

Landing page URL guidelines:

* URL must work.
1. Landing page cannot take too long respond [less than 5 seconds].

* No extra characters in URL.
1. Spaces are translated as %20 and therefore your link will not work.

* Site cannot link to a blank page, very little content/majority of page consists of ads, a page that is under construction, or a page with raw coding/incorrect coding.

* URL cannot utilize rotating landing pages.

* We must be able to review your intended landing pages.

* URL cannot link directly to an executable file or any download that is not user initiated. Browser/system updates are an exception:
(Windows Media Player, Quicktime, Flash players, or other programs required by the browser to view content).

* Landing page cannot require login to view any site content.

* The landing page may not contain code or scripts that cause the website to break out of frames.

* May not use malware/malicious code (e.g. virus, Trojans, worms, spyware, etc.) or deliver harmful programs.

* May not engage in any illegal online activity such as phishing, spoofing, or spamming.

* The display URL must correspond to the landing page URL.

Editorial guidelines:
* Ad copy must be complete.
* Ad copy must fit within character limits; text may seem cut-off if you hit the character limits.
* All or a majority of ad copy cannot be in ALL CAPS.
* Ad copy must have appropriate spacing.
* Ad copy must use correct spelling and grammar.
* Ad copy does not support HTML coding elements. Our exceptions are copyright and registered trademark.
* Ad copy must have coherent ad copy.
* Take advantage of the text limits to create engaging ad copy that appeals to your audience.
* This applies to image banners as well. Your images must have a clear message for your audience.

Ad/Site content guidelines:
* Ad copy or creative must match the content of the landing page.
* Ad variations must cover the same industry as the initial ad created.
1. While variations allow you to test various banner creatives and landing pages, ad variations must remain within the same industry as your primary ad. If you want to add different industries, you can create a new campaign for each industry.
* There must be content on the landing page.
1. A site that primarily consists of only advertisements does not constitute content for a landing page.

* Banners cannot imitate system messages or system windows.
1. Macbellads does not allow banner ads that imitate a windows system message in likeness and behavior.
2. While we do allow banners that utilize other creative design methods for improving click through rate (CTR), you may run into unforeseeable problems with conversions on these types of banners.

This includes but is not limited to the following scenarios:
(a). Image banners that look like functioning video players.
(b). Image banners that look like there is interactive content.

* Audio must be user initiated and cannot start automatically.
1. If audio is used, the creative must include controls to stop, pause, or mute it.

* Animation that utilizes strobe animation, flashing background/text, or shaking is considered distracting and not allowed.

* Animation length is restricted to a maximum of 15 seconds (at 15-20 fps frame rate), after which point the ad must remain static.

Unacceptable Content:
* Any pornographic, adult, or mature content including animation or artificially censored nudity.
* Any offers for illegal activities, products or services.
* Promotion of incentives for online activity to surf websites, click on ads, or any activity that artificially enhances website/advertiser metrics.
* Promotion of violence, racial intolerance, or advocacy against any individual, group, or organization.
* Promotion of fake documents, copied material, or paper mills.
* Promotion of drugs, or any related paraphernalia.
* Sales or offers that contain certain weapons, alcohol, tobacco, or any related paraphernalia.
* Promotion or any attempt to profit from human tragedy or suffering. This includes any content that may be deemed inappropriate or insensitive to victims of natural disasters or human tragedies.
* Promotion of excessive profanity or violence.
* Promotion of illegal activities or infringes on the legal rights of others.

Non-English Sites:
At this time, Macbellads currently reviews English language ads only.

For all Full Page Ads, we will require your acceptance and compliance with the Full Page Ad Terms and Conditions. Please read this agreement carefully. By using Full Page Ads, you agree to the "Full Page Ad Terms and Conditions Agreement".

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Full Page Ad Terms and Conditions Agreement:

I understand the Full Page Ad is a full page interactive ad that drives engaged users directly to my website or landing page between pages of a publisher’s website. I agree to the following terms and conditions.

I will not redirect or change the URL associated with the Full Page Ad. Note: To change a URL, please submit a new variation for approval.

I will not implement or use code to have the Full Page Ad break out of the iframe.

I will not use pop-ups and pop-unders.

I will not use malware/malicious code (e.g. virus, Trojans, worms, spyware, etc.) or deliver harmful programs.

I will not engage in any illegal online activity such as phishing, spoofing, or spamming.
Should I fail to follow any of these rules, I understand that I will be terminated immediately and may be liable for all damages my infringing campaign caused, including consequential damages.