Rules for the ride up: Banner Elevator Policies and Rules

We have established these rules to help make everyone's experience here the best experience possible.

Elevator rules: Site content

The following restrictions apply to any page being promoted through Banner Elevator :

• Any code, intentional or accidental, which interrupts the flow of our elevator ride browser:
  • Frame breakers are not permitted
  • Pop-ups, Pop-unders, slide-in windows are permitted
  • Any script, image, or other element which causes a windows-dialog to appear, including but not limited to:
    • Automatic downloads
    • Automatic form submission
    • Blatant scripting errors
• Sites may not display any of the following types of material:
  • Illegal, hacking, warez
  • Pornographic, abusive, obscene or vulgar
  • Racism, Hate-mongering
  • Other material deemed by us to be objectionable
  • Pirated Software or Sale of Pirated Software
    
• Sites must be in English, or have an 'English version' function on them

Any site violating these rules will be suspended allowed on the elevator ( or Removed When Found ), and the member will receive a warning.  Blatant and/or repeated violation of content rules is grounds for account termination.

Rider rules: Restrictions on membership

• Members must join for themselves.  Any member caught filling in forms "on behalf of" another member will face immediate account closure.
• Membership is limited to one membership id per physical human being.  (In other words, different accounts under different email addresses that end up at the same person is a violation of our policies.)
• Members may not spoof or tamper with our elevator browser.  Attempts to do so will lead to account termination, and potential membership banning (meaning you can't re-join).
• Members may not send Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE or spam) promoting Banner Elevator in any way, shape or form.  We take spam seriously: if you don't have direct permission to send someone email, you may not advertise on our behalf.

Referrals page views for impressions

You may show our referral page through traffic exchanges.  You will earn banner impressions to keep your banner showing in the on site banner system and in the BE banner exchange just from showing your referral page. Your banner always shows on your top spot of your referral page and that requires no impressions, it is a static banner.

Referral impressions

If a member signs up through your referral page, or through our main join screen within 30 days of viewing your referral page (meaning they have your cookie on their browser), you will receive impressions when they join, and a percentage of their earnings or spend credited directly to your account.

Once you have referral credit for a member, they become part of your "downline". 

Emailing your downline (and vice-versa)

In your weekly e-mails, you will be notified of new referred members, and if they elected to receive mail from their upline (they get a impression bonus for doing so).

If your downline members permit it (they have the choice, when joining), you may send electronic mail to them through our 'mail your downline' form.  You may not send more than 1 mail per week, and you do not have access to their email address.

You can elect to show or hide your email address.  If you send a message to your downline, even with your email obscured, they can respond through our 'upline response' form.

Content of these emails is subject to the same rules as site content, with the following additional restrictions:

• Be aware that we will receive a copy of any email sent through this method for evaluation of content
• Content sent this way can only contain plain text - no graphics or attachments are permitted

Delivery of hits

We will make every effort to deliver hits to your approved sites as quickly as possible.  We make no guarantees of any kind that you will receive a given number of hits in a certain period of time.

Account closure

You can elect to close your account at any time.  This is done through the members' area.  If closed by mistake, you can un-close an account for up to 72 hours with no loss of impressions or referrals.

Banner Elevator personnel may also close any account if it is found to violate our policies, either with frame-breaking, popup technology, actions used to cheat the system and/or artificially boost impression counts, actions to damage either the operation or reputation of our site (including the use of UCE (spam)), or other actions deemed by us to be unsuitable for our membership.

When an account is closed, any remaining impressions and referrals are forfeited.  Referred members will rise to the closed member's upline referrer, or be listed as free agents.

These rules and policies may change, and will always be posted at
http://bannerelevator.com/Info/policies.php