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Many companies offer payment (either in cash or in other forms of compensation)
to individuals who provide a link from their personal website, usually in the
form of a banner graphic, to a specific website that the company in question
wishes to advertise. These pay-for-web-referral schemes are usually called "click-through"
payment programs.
University of Oregon users are reminded that those sorts of schemes are unacceptable
under the Addenum to the University of Oregon Acceptable Use Policy (http://cc.uoregon.edu/policy/aup_addend.html)
which states:
"Banner exchanges that include commercial sites are inappropriate on personal Web pages due to the commercial nature of their content. Links to commercial sites that are intrusive or that facilitate marketing or promotion rather than serving as a simple link to another site are inappropriate due to their commercial content."
Questions about commercial content restrictions or other acceptable use questions may be sent to Jon Miyake (miyake@oregon.uoregon.edu).