Websites must comply with the adCenter Editorial Guidelines and may not include content that promotes or enables any of the following:

• Hate speech, including content devoted to intolerance, violence, defamation, or destruction of peoples, races, religions, countries, or ideologies
• Weapons, ammunition, harmful substances, or glorification of violence
• Alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, or drug paraphernalia
• Gambling or casinos
• Pharmaceutical sales (unless site is certified by PharmacyChecker)
• Adult and mature content (including pornography, sex toys, or sex education)
• Trademark and Copyright Infringements – e.g., sites devoted to selling fake handbags or bootleg DVDs, or sites promoting illegal file downloads
• Fake documents and cheating Services – sites enabling a consumer to evade the law, education systems, or other good-faith arrangements
• Hacking, cracking, security evasion, and surveillance
• Bulk marketing, e-mail address mining, instructions on how to spam
• Multi-level marketing, get rich quick sites, work from home sites
• Excessive profanity
• Other illegal or offensive content, or any content that infringes on the rights of others

• Publisher pages may not contain any pop-ups or pop-unders that are not part of a user-initiated action
• Publisher pages may not issue any “leave-behinds” or other actions when a user clicks away from the page
• Sites whose primary intent is to induce end users to click on ads are not permitted.
• Sites whose primary content is ads are not permitted.
• Sites with entirely or largely imported content are not permitted.
• Sites may not download software onto or change settings on a user’s machine without the user’s express permission.
• Sites may not disable the user’s back button or otherwise interfere with a user’s navigation path.
• Sites must offer content that is primarily in one of adCenter’s supported languages: English.
• Sites under construction or unfinished are not permitted.
• Sites requesting personally identifiable information (PII) from users must contain a prominent link to a privacy policy.

• Publisher pages may contain a maximum of three ad units.
• Ad units must be clearly marked as advertisements and must contain the words “Sponsored Links.” This text may not be obscured in a way that may mislead the user or suggest that the ads are natural links.
• Users must be able to distinguish advertising links from other links on the page.
• The ad block or ad unit may not be displayed as a pop-up.

If you find ads or publisher sites that violate Microsoft pubCenter policies, please notify us in one of these ways:

• For trademark issues, fill out the Trademark Complaints Form.
• For other policy issues, send an e-mail message to ad-pub@microsoft.com.

To be eligible for payments, you must:

• if representing a corporation, be incorporated in the United States, have a valid U.S. address (not a post office box), and provide a valid Tax Information Number (TIN); or, if an individual, be a U.S. resident, have a valid U.S. address, and provide a valid Social Security Number (SSN).
• Fill out the online W9 form in pubCenter.
• Fill out the online Payment Method information form in pubCenter.

If you are subject to backup withholding, you are not eligible to participate in the pubCenter program and will receive no payments.

Microsoft cannot send payments to post office boxes (P.O. boxes).

Payments are made monthly and are subject to threshold requirements. Within seven business days of the end of each month, Microsoft will post your payment information in pubCenter on the Payment History page. You can view the available payment amount in the Payment column. You must have a minimum of $50 in payments due, in a given month, in order to be paid. If your earnings balance is less than $50, payments will continue to accrue until they reach a minimum of $50. When the $50 threshold is reached, Microsoft will issue a payment within thirty days of posting your payment information on pubCenter.