[tyingq]

They do have a policy that they deduct purchases for friends/family, but the tone of the wording is that they seem to recognize it happens:

"Why is there a deduction for personal use of the program?

We do not pay referral commissions for products you purchase through your own links. This includes orders for customers, orders on behalf of customers, and orders for products to be used by you, your friends, your relatives, or your associates in any manner. Due to the proprietary nature of the way we determine if the order was personal, we can't share the full list of criteria by which we detect these ineligible orders."

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/G46FTB8...

I don't read anything there, or in further text that sounds like you'll get banned. Just that they might exclude those purchases from paying out affiliate fees.

[failTide]

It's also disturbing that they might be tracking who your friends and family are even though you never told them.

[sidewndr46]

That's a really curious policy. In my family I know of at one person who after an 18th birthday discovered they were adopted. People they thought as on unrelated were actually sisters and brothers etc. How would you square that up with Amazon's policy?

"friends" and "associates" is easy to square up and try and define. My business partner is obviously an associate, my neighbor I cook BBQ with is a friend. How would I know who is my relative? What defines relations?