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.
Refund policy
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
Why only allow refunds for
up to the last 60 days of my request date?
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.
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.
Publisher
Acceptable Use Policy
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 11. websites, reading
emails, completing surveys, clicking on ads, or any activity
that artificially enhances website/advertiser metrics.
12. Content or site construction
intended to deceive or mislead for purposes of increasing
traffic or clicks.
13. Sales or offers that contain
certain weapons, alcohol, tobacco, or any related paraphernalia.
14. 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.
Advertiser
Acceptable Use Policy (with Ad Approval Guidelines)
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.
Contact Information
Macbellads complies with all statutory and legal requirements
with respect to access to information.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement,
the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site,
you can contact
supports@macbellads.com
