On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova <[email protected] > wrote:
> On 06/08/2014, Hashem Nasarat <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/06/2014 11:24 AM, Rosanna Yuen wrote: > >> Hi, > >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova > >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> On 06/08/2014, Bastien Nocera <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 19:03 +0100, Juanjo Marín wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Hi ! > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> In 2009 we introduced an amazon store in the friend of gnome page > >> [1]. > >> >> AFAIR, Jaap Haitsma was, at least, one of the person on charge of > >> this > >> >> and did a very good job. When you make your Amazon purchases at > >> this > >> >> store the GNOME Foundation will receive a referral fee which > >> amounts > >> >> to 4-6% of the total purchase you make. Depending on where you > >> live > >> >> you can use the US, Canada, Germany, France, Japan or UK store. > >> > > >> > I have a couple of questions regarding the stores. > >> > > >> > - is the "front-end" at http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ the > >> only > >> > way for GNOME to get a referral fee, or would setting a referal > >> "store" > >> > as the Search plugin/Firefox add-on give you the same referral > >> fees? > >> > >> One needs to have the referrer in the URL when one navigates to > >> Amazon, so it is possible to have a search in Epiphany with the > >> referrer ID without too much difficulty. It would be nice if this > was > >> something that was shipped with Epiphany by default. > >> > >> > >> I vaguely remember this was discussed in the past and we couldn't do it > >> because it was against their terms of service. Does anyone have time to > >> look them over to make sure that that isn't the case? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Rosanna > >> > >> > > > > > > You mean this? > > https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement/ > > " Qualifying Purchases exclude, and we will not pay advertising fees on > > any of, the following: > > any Product purchased by a customer who is referred to the Amazon Site > > through any of the following: > > a link to the Amazon Site, including a Redirecting Link, that is > > generated or displayed on a Search Engine in response to a general > > Internet search query or keyword (i.e., in natural, free, organic, or > > unpaid search results), whether those links appear through your > > submission of data to that site or otherwise. " > > This would not apply as we would be searching Amazon directly, with > the intention of buying something from Amazon (almost same as what our > Amazon store does), and the submission of data is only to Amazon > without going through any third parties. > > I think this clause is more aimed at preventing search engines having > a "featured" Amazon referral for all searches. > > But if there is still doubt, we can always ask Amazon to clarify. > I know someone did ask Amazon for clarification in the backwhen about referral links and searches which resulted in a negative response. I don't know exactly what the question was or where that email would be archived, unfortunately. Is this conversation ringing any bells with anyone else? Thanks, Rosanna
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