Nest Affiliate Program Terms and Conditions
This document sets out the Terms and Conditions for participation in the Nest Affiliate Program.
This Affiliate Service Agreement (the "Agreement") is made by and between Nest (“Nest”), and you as an Affiliate (“Affiliate”) utilizing the AWIN service ("the Service").
You must agree to abide by the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement in order to participate. Please read this Agreement carefully before registering and using the Service as an Affiliate. By signing up, you indicate your acceptance of this Agreement and its terms and conditions. If you do not accept this Agreement, do not use the Affiliate Window Service as an Affiliate.
The following agreement is summarized as follows:
- You place our banners anywhere on your site as you see fit, or within non-spam emails.
- Adult, Hate, or other related sites are not allowed. You cannot link directly to the Nest sites outside of the Affiliate Window platform.
- If you are creating product links, please be sure to take these from the product feed. Links taken from other sources may result in commissions being declined as they are identified as coming from a different channel. You cannot take content directly from Nest, which is not present on the product feed or on the Offer section.
- Any page containing our links, banners, or codes must be written in English
- Affiliates need to get prior approval from Nest, if they wish to send out any emails about the program.
- You may place banners or links within your newsletters, in content of your website, or within other web related content.
- NOT ALLOWED: Any placement of creative in a "Desktop" advertising scheme. This includes any and all 3rd party advertising platforms that use a desktop application to display ads in any form.
- NOT ALLOWED: Any display of a merchant window that isn't the result of a direct click by the end-user.
- Failure to abide by these rules could mean the suspension of your collaboration with a complete forfeit of commissions
- Fraud is a serious offense, and will be treated as such. Fraud is defined as any action that intentionally attempts to create sales, leads, or click-throughs using robots, frames, iframes, scripts, or manually "refreshing" of pages, for the sole purpose of creating commissions. ANY ATTEMPTED FRAUD OR FRAUD WILL RESULT IN MEMBERSHIP TERMINATION AND VOIDED COMMISSIONS.
EMAIL CONTACT
We reserve the right to send email to you for the purposes of informing you of applicable changes or additions to the Service or related products and services.
CHANGES TO THE SERVICE
We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Agreement at any time and may add to, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time. In the event of any material change, we’ll notify you via email, newsletter or at least 30 days prior to any such changes taking effect, at which time you may either agree to such changes or withdraw from the Service.
COOKIES
Nest operates a 7 day-cookie policy.
PRIVACY POLICY
Nest will respect the privacy of its users and will not disclose personal information to third parties without the express permission of you and Your Company. If you have any questions please contact communications@buildanest.org.
ACTIVITIES
1. Pay Per Click search activity
Affiliates ARE NOT PERMITTED to carry out any PPC search activity sending traffic to buildanest.org directly. If an affiliate is found running PPC activity, this may result in them being removed from the program. Any affiliate found running PPC Activity will see their participation terminated immediately and any related commissions voided.
Affiliates also must not send traffic through automatic redirects on a website page.
Affiliates generating traffic to their own sites must also abide by the following rules.
a. Using the Nest brand term in the sub folder of the display URL (eg www.affiliate.com/nest or buildanest) – NOT ALLOWED
b. Using the Nest brand term in the sub domain of the display URL (eg www.buildanest.affiliate.com) – NOT ALLOWED
c. Using the Nest brand in the ad title – NOT ALLOWED
d. Bid on the brand term “Nest” – NOT ALLOWED
e. Advertise as the organization- NOT ALLOWED
f. Show adverts on competitors’ brands – NOT ALLOWED
2. Advertising as Nest
Publishers are not allowed to do any form of advertising as Nest.
3. Discount code / voucher code websites
a. Publishers must not display made up / invented discount codes on their site(s) or display discount codes that were intended for use in other channels or for other online publishers.If you are found doing this, your participation in the Nest program will be terminated immediately and commissions voided.
b. Under no circumstances are publishers allowed to surreptitiously use i-frames to set cookies onto a user’s computer.
c. Discount code and deals publishers are accepted in the program as long as do not promote discount codes.
4. Email Marketing
All email marketing must be signed off by Nest.
Creative
Affiliates may not alter any of the creative made available through the Affiliate Window.com interface. Affiliates are also requested not to hardcode banners into their sites, so updates made to those available through Affiliate Window.com may take immediate effect. If your site requires that banners are hardcoded, please contact the account management team to obtain permission before putting this in place. This will allow us to contact you whenever updates are necessary.
Nest grants you, as a Contracted Affiliate, a non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable (sub)license for the term of the Affiliate Agreement to use and reproduce the Nest Marks solely for the purposes of placement of Ad Links on the Affiliate Sites.
Nest reserves the right to terminate the Affiliate Agreement at any time for any reason whatsoever.
You undertake to return to Nest or to delete all materials which relate to Ad Links, designs, developments, prototypes, product samples and other items provided by Nest pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement, in the event of termination, for any reason whatsoever, of the Affiliate Agreement.
You undertake to immediately cease (i) to further use and reproduce any Ad Link, Nest Mark or other Intellectual Property Rights of Nest (or one of Nest Affiliates or any third party related to Nest); (ii) to use all (technical) know-how and other information provided to the Contracted Affiliate by Nest pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement, in the event of termination, for any reason whatsoever, of the Affiliate Agreement.
You undertake not to use any Nest promotion codes or coupons that are not made available through Nest. Any promotion of a code before the official live date and time is not allowed. Any use of toolkits for product launches provided by Nest are not to be used before the embargo date and time lifts. Any violation of these terms will disallow you to earn commission on that code or product launch.
You guarantee that your Affiliate Site does not conduct any illegal activity and does not contain: 1. Discriminative content; 2. Pornographic content; 3. Hate/offensive/violent content; 4. Lewd/pornographic content; 5. Religious content; 6. Political content that endorses one party or candidate; 7. Aesthetically unpleasing content as advised by Nest; 8. Abusive or irresponsible promotion of Alcohol, Tobacco or Drugs; 9. Use of the word "sex" gratuitously or excessively; 10. Firearms, games of chance, and lotteries.
SOCIAL MEDIA promotion on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms is permitted following these general guidelines:
1. You ARE allowed to promote offers to your own lists; more specifically, you are welcome to use your Affiliate links on your own Facebook, Twitter, etc. pages. For example: You may post, "20% off sale at Nestofficial.com through Wednesday with code Nest20."
2. You ARE PROHIBITED from posting your Affiliate links on Nest’s Facebook, Twitter, etc. company pages in an attempt to turn those links into Affiliate sales.
3. You ARE PROHIBITED from running advertisements on our social media platforms using the Trademarked Terms.
AFFILIATE PAYMENT
The affiliate commission will be pre-approved after the order has been placed and confirmed by Nest and their supplier. We're able to track all transactions generated from your site, and operate a 365 day payment window. NB: Some products are subject to a confirmation delay as they will require supplier approval. Furthermore, the commission will be paid after the activity / tour / excursion has been completed.
