Why would an affiliate program prohibit affiliates that have “Unattached body parts” on their websites? Is there a rash of rogue affiliates selling arms and legs or something??? I don’t think I’ve ever seen ANY site with Unattached body parts on it, much less an affiliate site, so why would this even be mentioned in the affiliate TOS???

I discovered these odd program terms while I was doing some research for a client . The strange TOS is from a company that is one of the biggest companies in the WORLD and the affiliate program is on LinkShare. It’s not a typo or anything because when I searched Google I found it on another one of the company’s affiliate program TOS on another network.

Restrictions on Content - The pages on Affiliate’s website will not contain the following content: Guns, Pornography, Gambling, yada, yada. All the usual suspects - all these I understand.

#6 on the list is Unattached body parts.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all! ;-)