Niketeamsport.com is operated by Zelus Sport Limited trading as Nike Team Sport. Zelus Sport Limited is the official teamwear licensee of Nike Inc. and trades as Nike Team Sport. This document sets out the Terms and Conditions for participation in the Nike Team Sport Affiliate Program via Awin’s network. By signing up to the Nike Team Sport Affiliate Program you agree to abide by the specific terms and conditions for this program.
A) You agree that you contract with Awin under an agreement (“Affiliate Agreement”) and that there is not, nor will be, any contractual affiliate relationship with Nike Team Sport.
B) Awin grants you, as a contracted affiliate (“Contracted Affiliate”), a non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable (sub)license for the term of the Affiliate Agreement to use and reproduce the Nike logos and name on Niketeamsport.com (“Niketeamsport Marks”) solely for the purposes of placement of ad links (“Ad Links”) on selected affiliate websites (“Affiliate Sites”).
C) Awin reserves the right to terminate the Affiliate Agreement at any time for any reason whatsoever.
D) You undertake to return to Awin or to delete all materials which relate to Ad Links, designs, developments, prototypes, product samples and other items provided by Awin pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement, in the event of termination, for any reason whatsoever, of the Affiliate Agreement.
E) You undertake to immediately cease (i) to further use and reproduce any Ad Link, Niketeamsport Marks or other intellectual property rights of Nike Inc or Nike Team Sport (or one of Nike Inc’s affiliates or any third party related to Nike Inc); (ii) to use all (technical) know-how and other information provided to the Contracted Affiliate by Awin pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement, in the event of termination, for any reason whatsoever, of the Affiliate Agreement.
F) The term of the Affiliate Agreement as well as the sublicense as mentioned under B is subject to the contract period (“Term”) of the agreement between Awin and Nike Team Sport. For the avoidance of doubt the Affiliate Agreement and the sublicense will under no circumstances be longer than the remaining term of the agreement between Awin and Nike Team Sport, and will terminate in the event that the agreement between Awin and Nike Team Sport terminates, for any reason whatsoever.
G) You undertake not to use any Nike Team Sport promotion codes or coupons that are not made available through Awin. Any promotion of a code before the official live date and time is not allowed. Any use of toolkits for product launches provided by Nike Team Sport and/or Awin 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.
H) 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 Nike Team Sport; 8. Unlawful, or busive or irresponsible (in the opinion of Nike Team Sport) promotion of Alcohol, Tobacco or Drugs; 9. Use of the word "sex" gratuitously or excessively; 10. Firearms, games of chance, and lotteries.
I) You undertake not to use other URLs, banners, button(s), pointer(s), icon(s) or other link(s) that individuals can click on and that enables them to navigate directly to Nike Team Sport, than the Ad Links provided by Awin pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement.
J) You undertake not to modify any creative made available through Awin and are not allowed to conduct display activities of any kind with self-designed creatives, without express permission and sign-off by Nike Team Sport.
K) You agree to use the creative/promotions made available through Awin.
L) You agree not to bid, except with prior written permission, on Niketeamsport Marks, Nike Inc’s name and on any Nike Inc trademarks or any common misspelling or confusingly similar trademarks, on any pay-for- placement search engines, including, but not limited to: google.com, yahoo.com (overture), ask.com, msn.com and ilse.nl. Furthermore, You agree, except with prior written permission, not to utilise, advertise or otherwise promote, any Nike Team Sport terms in the headline or description copy associated with pay-for-placement search engines or in meta-tags, keywords, page titles or paid search engine advertising. You agree that you shall not mention the name ‘Zelus’ or ‘Zelus Sport’ or link to anything Zelus related when placing any Ad Links on Affiliate Sites.
M) You shall at all times comply with Awin’s requests as to the use of the Ad Links and Niketeamsport Marks and shall not remove any Nike Team Sport copyright notices, trade marks or trade names from the Niketeamsport Marks.
N) You acknowledge that you will respect all intellectual property rights of any third party pursuant to this Affiliate Agreement.
O) You explicitly acknowledge and agree that all intellectual property rights in the Niketeamsport Marks and Nike branded products on Niketeamsport.com belong to and shall continue to belong to Nike Inc (or Nike Inc’s affiliates, its licensors or other third party owners including Nike Team Sport) and that you do not have any rights in or to the Niketeamsport Marks, Nike Inc trademarks and websites, and Nike branded products on Niketeamsport.com other than the right to use or reproduce them during the term and in accordance with the Affiliate Agreement.
P) You agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations and to conform to current good practice and any relevant regulatory guidance and rulings, including but not limited to advertising rules, regulations and standards, for the performance of the Affiliate Agreement. You will comply with any disclosure requirements or guidance provided by Awin and Nike Team Sport from time to time. Furthermore, you agree to comply with all environmental policies, standards and procedures described in manuals or other written notification provided to the Contracted Affiliate by Awin from time to time. Pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement, you shall in particular not (non-limitative): For example: 1) send spam; 2) use spyware; 2) misrepresent to visitors of its Affiliate Site;
Q) You agree that Awin has the right to audit your business facilities to verify compliance with the Affiliate Agreement, any laws and any guidelines imposed on you pursuant to the Affiliate agreement.
R) You undertake not to assign (which includes (i) a sale or other transfer of shares or of all or substantially all of the assets of the business of Contracted Affiliate and (ii) a merger, consolidation or other reorganization to which the Contracted Affiliate is a party) any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement without the prior written approval of Awin.
S) You agree to respect confidentiality regarding all documents and materials which are made available to you and clearly marked as ‘Confidential’ pursuant to the Affiliate Agreement.
T) Nike Team Sport will aim to validate transactions on a twice-monthly basis, after the returns period has ended. This period is 30 days for all Nike Team Sport products.
U) Transaction queries must be submitted within 30 days of the transaction date. Nike Team Sport reserve the right to decline claims submitted after this time period.
V) Toolbars are not permitted on the Nike Team Sport affiliate programs, in any region.
W) As an approved partner you cannot allow any sub-networks to promote under you. You are and will be responsible for compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations related to your sub-network.
X) Use of the affiliate channel for dropshipping or re-seller activities is not allowed. This is applicable for both direct activities or through any cashback websites. Consumers using cashback for dropshipping or re-seller activities are not eligible to receive cashback and any transaction resulting from either of these will be declined. Niketeamsport allows a maximum of 50 products per week per user to be eligible for Cashback if a campaign is running.
Paid Search Policy:
The Nike Team Sport program has a closed PPC policy. Affiliates are not permitted to use niketeamsport.com or any other Nike Team Sport URL as a display URL in any paid search listings. Nike Team Sport does not allow affiliates to bid on any brand name or terms including any misspellings, variations or derivatives. Affiliates are not permitted to bid on phrases which include both brand terms and generic keywords. Affiliates are not permitted to include any brand terms, misspellings, variations or derivatives in any search string or display URL on any pay per click search engines (including, but not limited to, Google AdWords, Google Content Network, Yahoo, Overture, Miva, Mirago, Bing, AOL search, 7Search etc.). Examples of prohibited terms include but are not limited to: Niketeamsport.com, Niketeamsport, Nike Team Sport.
The use of any of the above search terms as either a keyword or in the display URL of any PPC advert is prohibited. To ensure that you do not appear for any search strings that include the ‘NIKE’ brand name, please make sure the following terms are negatively matched in all PPC campaigns: Niketeamsport.com, Niketeamsport, Nike Team Sport. Niketeamsport Marks must not be used as a subdomain or subfolder on any display URL in paid search listings. For example: www.niketeamsport.mywebsite.com www.mywebsite.com/niketeamsport. Anyone found infringing these terms will be contacted by Nike Team Sport directly. Affiliates found to be breaching the program terms and conditions may have their commissions declined and will face suspension from the program. In extreme circumstances Nike Team Sport reserves the right to immediately suspend any affiliates found breaching these terms and conditions and declining any commissions accrued from the activity.
The Nike Team Sport program has a closed Paid Social policy. Affiliates are not permitted to use niketeamsport.com or any other Nike Team Sport URL as a display URL in any paid social listings.
The use of any of direct paid social linking to Nike Team Sport’s website in any advert is prohibited. In extreme circumstances Nike Team Sport reserves the right to immediately suspend any affiliates found breaching these terms and conditions and declining any commissions accrued from the activity.
Commission Rates:
Please see commission tab for details on the commission structure.
Seeding Policy:
The Nike Team Sport program has a strict seeding policy. Seeded Affiliates are required to use specific linking to promote the seeded products. If applicable to you, please first contact Nike Team Sport for further information on the structure for linking.
