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Advertisers Terms of Service

FireHouseOffers Advertisers Program Policies

To uphold the quality and reputation of Firehouseoffers.com all publishers who apply are reviewed according to these program policies. We also monitor sites after we begin running their ads under this program. If a site is found to be in violation of our policies at any time, we will warn the publisher or suspend or terminate the account. Please read the policies carefully and assume that they all apply to you, unless the specific policy explicitly states otherwise.

Account Transferability

Advertisers Accounts are not transferable, assignable or resalable in connection with the sale of your site or otherwise. For example, when a site changes ownership or management, the prior owner or manager must cancel the Advertiser Account for the site, and the new owner or manager may sign up for a new Advertiser Account in his or her own name.

Copyrighted Material

In order to avoid associations with copyright claims, website publishers may not display ads on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results.

Refunds

Refunds are allowed only on your Advertiser Account available funds. To request a refund, you will have to open a Trouble Ticket or Contact Us. Unused advertising credits are not refundable.

Site Content

Site may not include:
    1.) Excessive profanity
    2.) Hate, violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organization
    3.) Hacking/cracking content
    4.) Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
    5.) Pornography, adult, or mature content
    6.) Any other content that promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others
    7.) Excessive advertising
    8.) Pop-ups, pop-under or exit windows that interfere with site navigation, obscure Firehouseoffers.com interface, change user preferences, or are for unauthorized downloads.
    9.) Deceptive or manipulative content

Site Functionality

Your site must not contain broken links and must be launched, functioning, and easily navigable.

Site Responsiveness

    1.) Sites must respond adequately to support requests and enquiries of their users or visitors.
    2.) Do not employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
    3.) Hidden text and hidden links.
    4.) Links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web as your website may be affected adversely by those links and will infringe on our Privacy Policy.

Changes to this Policy

Please note this Advertisers Terms of Service Policy will change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice on our News Page. Each version will be noted at the top of the page.
 

Members Terms of Service

By signing up and actively using the Firehouseoffers.com program you agree to all terms and conditions set forth in this agreement. Firehouseoffers.com may, at any time, choose to edit, add and/or delete portions of this agreement and impose changes without prior notification of its members. Members will be informed of any and all changes to this policy via an email to their primary contact email address provided upon signing up with Firehouseoffers.com. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this agreement or to file an appeal. Your continued participation in the Firehouseoffers.com program following our posting of a change in policy notice or new agreement on our site will constitute binding acceptance to the change.

Responsibility of Members

Any method that artificially and/or fraudulently generates clicks is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to: repeated manual clicks, incentives to click, using robots, automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs.

We do not endorse down line builders. You MUST Understand English. You must be 18 years of age or older. Minors must have parental consent to participate in this program, and is void where prohibited by local governing laws.

You agree to and must use your own name (full name no initials), address (full physical address including country code, no PO Box, Please note if you have Check as payment option and your mailing address differs from your physical address please email us with the mailing address so I can note your account, and email address in the sign-up process and may not assume a false identity. You may not signup multiple times with different email addresses. Your computer must not be shared with another individual that has an existing Firehouseoffers.com account.

**If you log into an account from a pc that is already being used by a Firehouseoffers.com member both accounts will be suspended. In addition you many NOT use a proxy server.

You will use your username / password combination to access your account, it is your responsibility to keep this information confidential; you may change your password by logging into your Firehouseoffers.com account and change the information. You may not sign-up multiple times with different email addresses.

**Please be aware anyone caught cheating/committing fraud in any way are in violation of terms, and privacy statement and therefore are not protected by them due to their own violation. Therefore that gives us the right to make others aware of your identity to protect further fraud .Username, IP, & offers are not considered personal info.

Cheating is: using software to click links or participate in our program in any way, having multiple accounts, attempting to sell your account and any other behavior that commits fraud, including working on more than one GPT site and repeating the same offers: once you are paid for doing a particular offer it can not be done again, anywhere. This includes offers completed on another site, but the site owner either refused to pay, or went out of business.”

In addition no payment will be made to you . This includes any members whom we are notified by other GPT sites as being banned for fraud. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your Firehouseoffers.com account including authorization by you to any third party individual that may use your account. Should any instances of fraud, system abuse, or any type of activity deemed to be inappropriate or illegal by Firehouseoffers.com be detected,  it may result in member termination and possible legal action. This includes any members whom we are notified by other GPT sites as being banned for fraud.

You must maintain your email account that you used when signing up. Should you need to change your email address simply let admin know and change it in your profile information. In the event your email account on file becomes closed or blocked for 7 (seven) or more days to messages from Firehouseoffers.com your account will be terminated and you will forfeit all prior earnings. In addition, anyone found to be inactive, who has not clicked on at least 10 cents worth of links in 30 days, could be terminated and all earnings forfeited.

Relationship of the Parties

You and Firehouseoffers.com are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement creates any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative or employment relationship between you and Firehouseoffers.com. You understand that you do not have authority to make or accept any offers or make any representations on behalf of Firehouseoffers.com. You may not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that would contradict anything in this section. You are solely responsible for the reporting and payment of any taxes for money earned while using the Firehouseoffers.com program. For privacy and for protection of our marketing strategies no part of the site, emails, newsletters, updates, templates and promotions may be reproduced in any way without prior consent. This includes but it not limited to use of our images, ideas, text, terms or any other information we consider as copyrighted material. Publishing/posting/quoting part or all of such content online or offline by any means or method is prohibited.

Limitation of Liability

Firehouseoffers.com will not be liable for lost profits, lost business opportunities, or any other indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages arising out of or related to this Agreement or Firehouseoffers.com program, even if Firehouseoffers.com has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Furthermore, Firehouseoffers.com aggregate liability arising under this Agreement will not exceed the amount of the total fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement. The provisions of this Section survive termination or expiration of the Agreement.

Payments

We require all members to send us in a state issued ID in order to be verified for cash out. This also includes ALL international members. It must be a photo id showing your name and address that you used when signing up for Firehouseoffers. Anyone not providing us with this will not be able to cash out. We do not need to see any important info.. just the name and address and picture..all other info can be blacked out.

Members will be paid via pay pal, Money order, or gift card. We pay on a net 35 basis. All helmets are paid on a net 35 basis also.

No member will be able to cash out any points (helmets) unless they have been active on Fire House Offers and have made the minimum required amount of $20.00 cash, or equivalent in points by doing point offers. This means you must have completed and had approved the amount of offers for points that make up 400 points. Our points are also called helmets. You may not consider or use "free" points from trivia etc for cash out.

Spam

You may not promote your referral links through unsolicited emailing (i.e. SPAMMING), newsgroup postings, or any other method of mass communication. Failure to comply will result in immediate termination of your membership with Firehouseoffers.com and may result in legal prosecution. Firehouseoffers.com strictly enforces anti-spamming laws. Spamming is a federal crime. Any member caught spamming will not only have their account terminated immediately and lose any past, present and future earnings, but shall also be held liable for Spamming as we shall cooperate with any authorities and investigations that may arise from the Spamming incident. Firehouseoffers.com may charge up to $5 per Spam email sent. Multiple signups shall be grounds for immediate termination of all involved accounts. Signing up multiple times from the same computer also constitutes fraud. Firehouseoffers.com will file charges for recovery of any earnings received from multiple signups.

Privacy Policy

At Firehouseoffers.com we strive to develop innovative services to better serve our users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use Firehouseoffers.com's services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it. The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address.

Data collection

Firehouseoffers.com collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, the date and time of your access and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.

Some of our services require you to register for an account. Firehouseoffers.com asks you for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, email address, e-gold account and a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide the service. For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we may request credit card or other payment information, which we maintain in encrypted form on our server.

Cookies

Upon your first visit toFirehouseoffers.com , a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website.

We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us. Firehouseoffers.com does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people access our site.
 

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Firehouseoffers.com features or services may not function properly without cookies.

Information sharing

We will not sell, disclose or lease our member’s personal information to any other entity, unless this information is required by a local Law Enforcement Agency.

Exceptions to this term are as follows: If you are found guilty of or suspected of fraudulent behavior, your account information may be shared or exchanged with advertisers or other site owners upon their request or upon my request. Furthermore, in the event that you post information concerning Firehouseoffers.com on forums, or other public avenues, you forfeit your right to privacy. We may respond to your post by listing reversed offers or other fraudulent behavior on your part. We may also list your username or other account information that we deem necessary in order to defend Firehouseoffers.com and protect the integrity and safety of Firehouseoffers.com, other sites and site owners, and the GPT industry as a whole.
 

Changes to this Policy

Please note these terms will change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice on our News Page. Each version will be noted at the top of the page.
 

Added November 4th 2008
New changes made to TOS - Username, IP, & offers are not considered personal info.

Added November 22nd 2008

New changed made to TOS and email was sent out on this change.

Added December 22nd 2008  

Update on Cashing out Points and being Active in order to cash them out. An email was sent out on this change.

Update on sending in a W9 form at 500 dollars or not being paid until you do so--added on Jan 24-2010