Affiliates

I just found out today that Target.com refused my application to become an affiliate because of any number of reasons:

* Promote sexually explicit materials
* Promote violence or hate toward any persons or groups
* Promote discrimination based on race, sex, age, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation
* Promote illegal activities
* Promote tobacco or gambling
* Contain, in our sole judgment, material that is defamatory, fraudulent or harassing
* Misrepresent themselves as a Target Web site by using the "look and feel" of or text from our site
* Include "Target" or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names
* Otherwise violate intellectual property rights of Target or its affiliates
* Do not clearly state an online privacy policy to their visitors
* Require a user name and password to access
* Are non-US based sites or are sites that primarily serve a non-US based audience
* Are unable to direct a reasonable amount of traffic by way of sales volume, clicks and page views to our site
* Otherwise are considered (in our sole judgment) offensive or inappropriate
* Link to or provide a portion of their commission or affiliate benefits to sites or organizations that violate any of the above criteria.

As far as I know, my site blog doesn't do any of those things. My other affiliates don't seem to think so anyway. Does that mean that Target has a higher moral standard than Wal-mart? Wal-mart barely had an approval process.