Policies regarding compliance with content requirements
Let's review the articles in the ' Policies regarding compliance with content requirements' section.
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The list of forbidden content you can find below:
- Termination of pregnancy
- Mature content
- Promoting alcoholic beverages
- Casual matchmaking
- Birth control methods
- Items related to drug use
- Exploitation of underage individuals
- Content that is disturbing or shocking
- Promotion of illegal betting activities
- Unauthorized drugs
- Live streaming of adult content
- Depicting minors in a sexual context
- Drugs that affect mental state
- Devices for covert surveillance
- Tobacco-related goods
- Dealing or mistreatment
- Firearms and explosive devices
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The list of limited content you can find below:
- Alcoholic beverages
- CBD products
- Dating services
- Electronic cigarettes, vaping products, non-nicotine smoking blends, and related items
- Energy supplements
- Financial products and services
- Gambling and gaming content
- Healthcare products and medications
- ICOs, binary options, and trading platforms
- Radar detectors
- Religious content (permissible for charity advertising campaigns, subject to individual review)
- Software
- Subscription services
- Sweepstakes
- Video streaming platforms and online cinemas
- Volunteer opportunities
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At its sole discretion, ScroogeFrog AdNetwork reserves the right to refuse or block content, products, or services, regardless of category, reject advertisers and ads if they are deemed non-compliant with ScroogeFrog AdNetwork's standards, at any time and for any reason.
Brand Protection
- Engagement tactics leading to redirects to third-party websites
- Navigation without clear visibility or direction
- Web pages that are broken or display no content
- Deceptive practices to mask website content
- Violations of copyright
- Pages displaying errors
- Counterfeit brand elements
- False domain names
- Fabricated widgets
- Content that is offensive, threatening, or inappropriate, such as discriminatory, suicidal, or displaying severe health issues
- Spoilers, including those concealing prohibited content
- Unofficial sources of video content
- Websites designed to imitate legitimate original sources
- Websites that are still in the process of being built
Privacy and Protection
- Browser lockout
- Automatic download without user consent
- Harmful software
- Malicious advertising
- Deceptive online practices
- Websites containing malicious software
Legal issues
All proposed offers for placement undergo thorough legal scrutiny. Any content accepted by ScroogeFrog AdNetwork must always comply fully with ScroogeFrog AdNetwork’s publicly available Terms Of Use. Each approved offer is meticulously reviewed by a team of legal experts to ensure compliance with current legislative regulations and industry advertising standards. -
Promotion of multiple offers
Products and services that rotate within a single URL should belong to the same category or vertical (for example, multiple weight loss products like Garcinia Cambogia, Choco Slim, etc.).
Leveraging famous figures for promotion
Celebrity images and names permitted in:
- If the celebrity owns the product
- If the celebrity represents or endorses the brand
- If permission is granted by the celebrity to use their name for product promotion.
It is not allowed to utilize a celebrity's image or name for advertising purposes on product landing pages without their explicit knowledge and consent.
Lead-generating proposition
Web pages offering to collect customer information should furnish users with thorough:
- Terms and conditions
- Disclaimer
- Privacy policy
Users should be able to actively consent to personal data processing through visible means, such as checkboxes or pop-ups, which they must accept.
Products available at no cost
Products or services cannot be provided entirely for free.
Free trials are permitted as long as they offer clear terms regarding purchase conditions, subsequent payments, and delivery.
Deceptive Practices:
- Misleading users with deceptive promises of receiving free items
- Advertising products as free without providing a comprehensive description of the service.
Replicated items
The landing page must clearly indicate that the product is a reproduction (copy/replica) of the original item. This indication can be in the form of a disclaimer, word, sentence, sticker, label, or tagline. Even minor mentions of replicas are meaningful and can be regarded as statements.
False assertions such as "branded," "original," "official," "authentic," "genuine," "from the official dealer," etc., are not allowed in either landing pages or ad units. -
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Promotional content / Sponsored content
Kindly mark your landing pages with "Advertorial/Advertisement" at the page's top.
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Divulgence
Kindly include a Disclosure reference on your landing page. For consumer protection purposes, ads depicting a consumer's experience with a product or service as typical when it's not must transparently reveal the typical results consumers can expect. Adding a Disclosure statement to your website informs users of relevant information so they can make well-informed decisions.
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Terms & Conditions
Please ensure that you furnish users with clear and transparent terms of your service. Place a reference to the Terms & Conditions at the bottom of your landing page.
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Privacy Policy
Please ensure that you offer users information regarding the handling of personal data. Place a reference to the Privacy Policy at the bottom of your landing page.
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Counterfeit navigation buttons
Please refrain from employing counterfeit navigation and social media buttons. Each navigation element must be functional, allowing users to click on them and be directed to the intended destination.
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