Program Restrictions
Unless explicitly authorised otherwise by Citizens of Soil the following programme restrictions apply:
- Affiliates are not permitted to purchase, own or bid on any domain names with the word ‘Citizens of Soil’ or misspellings of ‘Citizens of Soil’ in the URL. For example, www.citizensofsoil.com.
- Affiliates must not include brand terms, or misspelled variations of the same, in the sub-domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://citizensofsoil.affiliate.com.
- Affiliates may use correctly spelled brand terms after the domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://www.affiliate.com/citizensofsoil.
- Affiliates are not allowed to register Citizens of Soil or any variation of it on any social media platform. This includes and does not limit to brand + generic word or sentence as well generic word or sentence + brand. Any attempt to register such social media accounts will be a direct breach of the Awin terms and conditions, in particular section 7. Intellectual Property Rights of the Awin code of conduct.
- Affiliates must not post on any official Citizens of Soil social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. Social media platforms include Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Any affiliates, subnetworks and/or affiliates of subnetworks who do not abide by these rules risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.
PPC Policy
Commissions will not be paid where there is evidence of any paid search activity on brand terms without prior authorization. This includes permutations, misspellings and broad matches containing brand terms.
Restrictions include, but are not limited to the following:
Citizens of Soil
citizensofsoil
The Olive Oil Club
Oil Club
theoliveoilclub
www.citizensofsoil.com
citizensofsoil.com
Please do not use the word ‘official’ in your advertisements.
Social Content Creators
All affiliate content on social media must be ASA compliant, read the ASA Guide here. If you wish to use affiliate links within your Instagram Stories and other social channels, use #ad as a valid identifier to be ASA compliant.
Awin has a one-page website - Paid for Advertising - which explains how free content can have a commercial relationship attached to it. This can be linked to by any affiliate in order to make your readers aware of how affiliate links work. If you have any questions on this please speak to your account contact.
Creatives
Affiliates may not alter any of the creative or text links available through the Affiliate Window interface.
Affiliates are also requested not to hardcode banners into their sites, so updates made to those available through Affiliate Window may take immediate effect.
