Hi.
My name is Hylton Donnelly, and I represent "the highstreet web".
Apologies for not replying to this post sooner - I have been waiting for my account to be activated.
Most importantly, I would like to confirm to everyone that it is our company policy NOT to show thehighstreetweb pop-under to any visitors to our partner sites (such as CD-Wow) that have come from an affiliate. This has been our policy since inception, as we fully appreciate the concerns raised in this thread. We also know that most affiliates and our partners share the same views on this matter.
Our launch script has therefore been designed to automatically exclude any traffic redirected through the main affiliate programs like Trade Doubler, Affiliate Window and Commission Junction.
Unfortunately, this was clearly not sufficient in the case of our new partner CD-Wow, as some affiliate traffic is being sent directly to their site. After seeing these posts on Tuesday this week we immediately investigated and that same morning updated our launchscript to also recognise affiliate traffic arriving directly at the site with an "affid=" parameter in the paramater string.
This traffic is now excluded, and you should not see thehighstreetweb when clicking on any affiliate link to CD-Wow.
I would like to reiterate our commitment to ensuring that thehighstreetweb does not launch for any affiliate traffic. In fact, should anyone ever notice this happening in the future (which should only be due to a change in how the traffic is being delivered that we are not currently aware of) then please let us know, and I assure you that we will investigate and address it immediately.
Kind regards
Hylton Donnelly
the highstreet web
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