Marketing Guidelines

Please avoid using the below in any of your advertising or marketing materials.

• Refrain from making any claim or statement that there is little or no risk of the client investor making a loss.
• Do not make any promises of any benefits when it is likely that these promises cannot be fulfilled.
• Avoid giving any misleading information, materially false or incorrect claims or statement to attract or persuade a person to apply for an account with us. If you are unsure of what to say please contact us straight away and we will be able to assist you.

You must not market to potential traders:

• On any site where we promote our website.
• On any internet search engine on which we promote our website.
• In any other manner which results in you competing with us in relation to the promotion of your sites including but not limited to the promotion of your site(s) through other Partners.
• Any other online software, application or other platform enabling online trading like and/or competitive with us.
• Using paid search ads that target keywords like `IC Markets` or `IC Markets Global` or any variation of that.

If you breach these provisions, we reserve the right to terminate your membership of the Program and void any fee entitlements due to you.

• You acknowledge that we will retain the ownership of all rights (including intellectual property rights) in the material we develop before or during the term of these Terms, including the Partners Collateral. Nothing in these Terms should be construed as granting you any license or right to use the Partners Collateral or any of our other trademarks and branding other than as permitted under these Terms.
• You may display Banners and Text Links on your site, use another Partners Collateral, and hold yourself out to be an `IC Markets Global Affiliate` for the purpose of conducting referrals under this Affiliate Program, if you:
  • Obtain our approval first before you publish any Partners Collateral (which we will not unreasonably withhold); refrain from using Partners Collateral as part of your own product name, URL or as a component of another logo; and display Partners Collateral in a way that complies with our brand guidelines and any other directions that we give you from time to time.
  • You will notify us immediately in writing if you become aware of an infringement on any of our intellectual property or other ownership rights, or if you become aware of a claim by any party that our products, trademarks, or logos infringe on a third party’s intellectual property or ownership rights.

If you breach these provisions, we reserve the right to terminate your membership of the Program and void any fee entitlements due to you.

• Only use our Banners and Text Links in the manner directed by us and not modify them in any way without our prior written consent.
• Only direct Display Banners and Text Links to the homepage of our Website.

• You must not engage in any illegal, improper, misleading, or deceptive conduct or make any representations which may have a detrimental effect on our reputation or those of our products and services.
• You must not engage in any illegal activity of any type, such as displaying illegal content on your website or in your subscription emails.
  You must not actively target: Any person who is under the age of 18 years old, regardless of the age of majority in the location where you are engaging in referral activities; and Any resident of the United States, and any other countries where we are banned from registering Traders, as notified to you from time to time.
• Log in to Trader accounts or conduct trading activities on their behalf.
• Operate a website that contains or promotes misleading, defamatory, or illegal content, or a link to a website that does so. Misleading content includes making any promises whatsoever in relation to returns and displaying our disclaimer, licence without our express permission.
• Send unsolicited commercial electronic messages (spam).
• Send potential trader directly to our Website via your referral links to our Website(s) in commercial electronic messages, display advertising networks, counters, guestbooks, forums, blogs, chat rooms or another similar internet resources.
• Enable bad faith transactions, including via any device, program, robot, IP address, redirects and `bogus` traffic.
• Establish any promotion that provides rewards, points, or compensation to a Trader for registering for an account with us, including any kind of payment deal, without our prior approval.
• Take any action that would dilute or tarnish the value of our trademarks or branding.