Awin | Boots Influencer Ambassadors Affiliate Programme

These Terms and Conditions govern your promotion and marketing of the Boots Brands and Boots Products during your participation in the Affiliate Programme.

By participating in the Affiliate Programme, you confirm that you accept these terms and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you must not participate in the Affiliate Programme.

If you require advice on a specific problem, please contact lucy.budge@boots.com

General

The Affiliate Programme and the Boots URLs are provided by Boots UK Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (company number 928555), with its registered office at Nottingham NG2 3AA (“Boots”).

References in these terms and conditions to:

"Affiliate”, or "you" or "your" means the participants in the Affiliate Programme, who have been approved by Boots to put in place an Affiliate Link to facilitate the generation of leads and transactions for Boots.
“Affiliate Programme” means the programme and network through which Affiliates will market Boots or its products;
“Affiliate Link” means a hyperlink from an Affiliate Website to a Boots URL.
“Applicable Laws” means all applicable laws, legislation, European regulations, statutes, statutory instruments, regulations, edicts, bye-laws, codes or directions or guidance from government or governmental agencies, whether local, national, international or otherwise existing from time to time.
“Boots Brands” means “Boots”, “No7” “No7 Beauty”, “No7 Mediterranean”, “Botanics”, “Natural Collection”, “Soltan”, “Shapers”, “Boots the Chemist”, and any other Walgreens Boots Alliance brand of which Boots may notify Affiliates from time to time;
“Boots Companies”, each a “Boots Company”, shall mean Boots and its Group Companies;
“Boots Products” means a product, service or equivalent offered for sale by Boots on any Boots URL;
“Boots Trademarks” means all trade marks belonging to The Boots Company PLC, Boots UK Limited or the Boots Companies including, without limitation, the trade marks “Boots”, “boots.com”, “No7” “17”, “No7 Mediterranean, Botanics”, “Natural Collection”, “Soltan”, “Shapers” and “Boots the Chemist”;
“Boots URLs” means the websites owned by any of the Boots Companies and accessible at www.boots.com;
“Group Company” means any holding company or subsidiary of Boots or any of their holding companies. A company is a "subsidiary" of another company, its "holding company", if that other company (i) holds a majority of the voting rights in it, or (ii) is a member of it and has the right to appoint or remove a majority of its board of directors, (iii) or is a member of it and controls alone, pursuant to an agreement with other members, a majority of the voting rights in it;
The Boots Companies are owners or licensees of all intellectual property rights in the Boots URLs and the material published on them. Those works are protected by copyright laws and international treaties. All such rights are reserved.
The trade marks, logos and trade names displayed on the Boots URLs ("Marks") are the property of the Boots Companies or other third parties. You are not permitted to download, copy, modify or use the Marks without the prior written consent of Boots or the consent of such third party who may own the Marks. (See also the section below on Trade Marks.)
The Boots Companies and their suppliers own the intellectual property rights in the software that runs the Boots URLs. Save to the extent expressly permitted by applicable laws, you must not copy, modify, download, distribute, decipher, decompile, interfere with or attempt to interfere with that software without Boots’ prior written consent.
You must not post or provide to Boots via this Affiliate Programme any document or file which you believe may contain a virus. You must virus check any document or file which you intend to post or provide to Boots, or link to a Boots URL, via the Affiliate Programme or an Affiliate Link. You must not misuse the Boots URLs by knowingly introducing computer viruses, other malicious code or harmful components. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Boots URLs. In the event of a breach by you of this clause 1.6, your right to participate in the Affiliate Programme will cease immediately, and you will indemnify the Boots Companies for any loss or damage the Boots Companies suffer as a result of your breach
You may only set up an Affiliate Link with the prior written consent of Boots, which may be requested by email to lucy.budge@boots.com and is subject to the following terms and conditions:

You must not

replicate the Boots URLs;
create a frame or any other browser or border environment around the Boots URLs;
Use, set up, establish or bid for any domain name or social media account that includes reference to a Boots Brand or includes a Boots Trademark or anything similar to a Boots Trademark or Boots Brand (including misspellings).
in any way imply that Boots is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
use, set up, or establish any domain name that would mislead the consumer to believe that the website is associated with Boots, for example, www.[bootsdomain].com. For the avoidance of doubt, you are permitted to use www.[domain].com/boots; however, this should not be used as a display URL within listings on paid-for-performance search engines (for example, Google.com) or in an email address.
Use www.boots.com as the display URL in Google, or any other paid performance website or generally mislead the consumer into believing any advertisement is from the official www.boots.com website. For the avoidance of doubt, this applies to and includes all paid performance keywords.
remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the logo of a Boots Brand or any other Boots Trademarks;
misrepresent your relationship with Boots, nor present any other false information about Boots;
use or display anywhere (including but not limited to on your website) any trade marks or logos or any trading name of Boots without express prior written permission from Boots;
link (including via Affiliate Link) from a website that is not owned by you;
you may only link to the Boots URLs in a way that is fair and does not damage Boots’ reputation or take advantage of it.
you must obtain prior written approval from Boots before taking/scrapping any content from the Boots URLs.
any website of yours (whether or not such website contains a link to Boots URLs), or content/media you publish, must not contain or endorse any content that:
contravenes any Applicable Laws or contravene any person's legal rights or promotes, advocates or assists any illegal activity;
is non-compliant with Advertising Standards Agency requirements and the CAP Code;
is indecent or obscene, contains any sexually explicit material or promotes or refers to sexual activity;
is abusive, offensive, hateful, threatening or inflammatory, is disrespectful of other people’s privacy and is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm, deceive, inconvenience or annoy anyone;
promotes violence or gambling;
promotes any form of ‘buy now and pay later’ or other lending/credit related services;
is used to impersonate anyone or to misrepresent identity or affiliation with any person or organisation;
is libellous or defamatory;
relates to cryptocurrencies;
promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; or
infringes any copyright, database right, trade mark or other intellectual property of any person;
must not in any other way be indecent or inappropriate or incompatible with Boots’ reputation; and
You will comply with any direction that we may give in relation to the link to the Boots URLs and/or to the use or display of the Boots Trademarks, trading names, and logos.
Boots expressly reserves the right to revoke consent and/or the rights granted in clause 1.7 for you to link to the Boots URLs websites at any time at Boots’ discretion and without notice and to require you to immediately remove from your website, social media profile or any other location any links to the Boots URLs (including Affiliate Links), Boots trading names, Boots Trademarks and Boots logos and, if any provisions of clause 1.7 have been breached, to take any action Boots deems appropriate against you.
You shall fully indemnify each of the Boots Companies for any breach by you of clause 1.7.
You will not at any time during or after your participation in the Affiliate Programme disclose to any third party any confidential information relating to the Boots Company, unless required by law. You will return to Boots on request any confidential information or property belonging to Boots.
Boots and You will comply with all Applicable Laws relating to Personal Data.
Except to the extent required in order to use the Boots URLs in accordance with these terms and conditions, you may not copy, store in any medium (including in any other website), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, broadcast, modify, delete or show in public any part of the Boots URLs or systematically extract material from the Boots URLs or any document available through them, create any derivative works from them or in any other way exploit commercially all or any part of the Boots URLs or any document available through them without Boots’ prior written consent.
Boots reserves the right to vary or amend these terms and conditions from time to time. Any changes shall take effect upon reasonable notice to you (which shall include by publishing them on the Awin affiliate platform).
Any dispute arising between you and us, or you and a Boots Company in relation to these Terms and Conditions shall be governed by English law, and the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction for the purposes of any such dispute.

If any of these Terms and Conditions is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that shall not affect:

the legality, validity or enforceability in that jurisdiction of any other term or condition, which shall continue to have full force and effect; or
the legality, validity or enforceability in other jurisdictions of that or any other term or condition, which shall continue to have full force and effect.

Each Boots Company may enforce any clause of these Terms and Conditions. No other person who is not a party to these Terms and Conditions may enforce any of them under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
No waiver of any of these Terms and Conditions shall be valid unless provided in writing by us.
Except as set out in this clause 1.16, the express provisions of these Terms and Conditions are in place of all warranties, conditions, terms, undertakings and obligations implied by statute, common law, custom, trade usage, course of dealing or otherwise, all of which are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Boots Companies may on reasonable notice to you specify additional issue further instructions in relation to the Affiliate Programme (“Guidelines”). You must comply with any Guidelines issued by the Boots Companies. If there is any inconsistency or conflict between the provisions of any Guidelines and the provisions of these Terms and Conditions, the provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall prevail.
Boots, in its sole discretion, has the right to terminate the agreement and refuse any and all current or future use of the Affiliate Program, or any other Boots Company service, for any reason at any time.
Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your site, all links to the Boots URLs all our images and other materials provided under or in connection with the Affiliate Program.
All notices given by you to Boots must be given by email to the following address: uk-boots@awin.com. Boots may give notice to you by email (to such address(es) as you make available to us from time to time, by post or via publication on the Awin platform.

Purchase of Goods

Where Products or other goods are purchased from a Boots URL the Boots.com Terms and Conditions available at https://www.boots.com will apply to those purchases.

Discount/Voucher Codes

Only discount and/or voucher codes (“Codes”) that are supplied to Affiliates by Boots are valid for use by Affiliates. Any Codes that have not been approved by Boots or are found to be displayed on websites that have not been approved by Boots will result in commissions for such Codes being declined.
Boots will decline commission on sales which contain an unauthorised Code, or relate to an exclusive Code that has tracked through a different publisher from the Affiliate to whom the exclusive Code was assigned.
For the avoidance of doubt, any vouchers which have been added to the ‘My Offers’ section of the Awin website, communicated through Awin newsletters or by a member of the Awin affiliate team for Boots.com are eligible for commission.
Customers must be logged in to the Boots URLs to redeem Codes.
Codes may not apply to certain products, which may change from time to time at the discretion of the Boots Companies. For example, Codes have previously not applied to certain products under the following brands: Silver Cross, PS4, Skylanders: TrapTeam, Infinity 2.0, Lego, XBOX One, Little Big Planet, Just Dance 2015, Kindle, Fitbit, Dyson, Yves Saint Laurent and Liz Earle. A full list of currently excluded products can be requested via email.
Affiliates should ensure that customers are aware that certain products may not be purchased with Code discounts.
Where Codes are issued with an expiry date, this should be clearly displayed, and Codes should be removed or explicitly marked as expired after this date.

Omnichannel offers

Existing retail customers using the Boots URLS who receive personalised offers can now redeem these offers online and in-store at Boots retail stores. These offers that a retail customer receives cannot be used in conjunction with a media code.
If a retail customer has a personalised offer active on their Boots loyalty card, when a media code is entered an error message will be displayed. Should a user wish to use the media code instead of the personalised offer, they can do so by deselecting their personalised offer and entering the media code instead.

Commission

“Boots Kitchen Appliances” is managed as a separate programme from the Affiliate Programme, and any queries for commissions relating to Boots Kitchen Appliances that are submitted through the Affiliate Programme will be declined. Any order referencing "BTS" relates to Boots Kitchen Appliances and you should contact their Boots Kitchen Appliances team directly via the contact details on your Boots Kitchen Appliances account.
Products in the Fenty Beauty range (“Fenty Products”) are excluded from Affiliate sales, and are not permitted to be marketed through the Affiliate Programme. Commission will not be awarded for Fenty Product sales.
Boots reserves the right to reasonably decline any commission (or “Affiliate Fees”) payable on any transaction pursuant to the Affiliate Programme. Reasons for declined commissions or Affiliate Fees will be provided by a Boots representative to you in writing; however, you understand and agree that Boots retains sole discretion to decline commission or Affiliate Fees and is not obligated to enter into any correspondence beyond provision of its initial reasons for declining such commission or Affiliate Fees.
We reserve the right to cancel any orders which fit the definition of a B2B sale and commission on these orders will be denied. A B2B sale is a sale to a customer who does not have, or we suspect, in our discretion, may not have, the intention to use the products for their own personal use.

Online returns policy

You may return any unwanted items to any Boots retail store within 35 days of receiving your order for a refund or replacement, or return free of charge using the returns label on the invoice received with your order. Boots regrets that it is unable to exchange items.
Any items that are unused and in their original packaging can be returned under Boots’ 35 day returns policy. Electrical and photographic equipment will only be accepted if complete with all leads, accessories and software. Any software must have its original seal intact.
Boots reserves the right to refuse an exchange or refund if goods are not returned in a saleable condition or are damaged.
All returns are evaluated before being processed.
Unless faulty, medicines, food, personalised gifts or cosmetics products which have been opened cannot be refunded or exchanged.
Faulty items will be accepted up to the manufacturer’s warranty terms.
Any Boots Advantage Card points earned against items you return for a refund will be removed in accordance with the Boots Advantage Card terms and conditions.
Large items should be dismantled to a reasonable degree prior to collection.
This section 2.5 does not affect your statutory rights

Privacy Policy

Boots’ Privacy Policy https://www.boots.com//privacypolicy sets out the terms on which we process and use any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us. By using the Boots URLs you consent to such processing and terms and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate. Our privacy policy also contains information on our use of cookies.

Marketing

From time to time we may use any of the information you submit to us, including personal data, to provide you with marketing information about us. This is also explained in our Privacy Policy https://www.boots.com//privacypolicy.

TRADE MARKS & Publicity

In these Terms and Conditions no licence has been granted to use any Boots Trademarks.

You must not:

Bid directly or indirectly on any search engine for any brand name or term that features a Boots Brand or a Boots Trademark or any confusingly similar trade marks to, or misspellings or derivatives of the Boots Trademarks. We strongly recommend you set the Boots Brands terms as a “negative match” in your search campaigns.
Use the Boots Trademarks, or misspellings or confusingly similar variations of the Boots Trademarks, in written copy of any adverts on pay-per-click search engines;
Pass yourself off as owning any of the Boots Trademarks;
Take any action which is likely to confuse or mislead third parties into believing that you own the Boots Trademarks;
Use the Boots Trademarks or reference the Affiliate Programme in any ‘bulk email’ without our prior written consent;

Use the Boots Trademarks:-

For any purpose which has not been expressly authorised by Boots;
for the purpose of diverting customers to websites not owned by the Boots Companies or to give priority to websites not owned by the Boots Companies over the web site www.boots.com;
for the purpose of registering any URLs that include any of the Boots Trademarks, or any version that could be mistaken for an official web site of the Boots Companies;
for the purpose of using "add to favourite" campaigns that would mislead consumers to think that they are bookmarking a web site of the Boots Companies when in fact they are bookmarking a web site of an Affiliate or other third party;
for the purpose of using creatives of the Boots Companies in pop-up or pop-under windows, or to link to any web site of the Boots Companies by embedding them in a frame from the Affiliate’s web site. It should also be clear to consumers that by clicking on the Affiliate Link to a Boots URL they have left the web site of the Affiliate and are now on a web site owned by the Boots Companies and that the URL should not be masked in any way;
without Boot’s prior written consent, use, represent, reference or mention any Boots Company, Boots Company trading name, Boots Company logo, Boots Brand or Boots Trademark, in any press releases or other communications.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this these Terms and Conditions, you will not (without Boots’ prior written consent): (i) advertise or disclose to any third party that you are a participant in an Affiliate Programme; or (ii) use the names, brands, logos or other trademarks of any of the Boots Companies.

SOCIAL MEDIA TERMS

This section 6 applies to any Affiliate who will publish any post or carry out any other activity on a social media platform in connection with the Affiliate Programme.

You must not post, comment or otherwise interact with any social media platform operated by or affiliated with a Boots Company in order to attempt to drive visitors to your Affiliate Link or Codes;
You must not promote content posted by you in connection with the Affiliate programme via paid social media or paid search activity without the prior written consent of Boots.
All content you post on social media in connection with the Affiliate Programme (“Content”) must be compliant with all Applicable Laws, including but not limited to Advertising Standards Agency and Competitions and Markets Authority requirements and the CAP Code. By way of example only, You should use hashtag disclosures to indicate that it is an advert in accordance with Applicable Laws (such as ensuring #ad in the United Kingdom (“UK”) is placed prominently on all Content, and that such label is visible to the viewer prior to the viewer engaging with such Content) as well as specific disclosures or form of words required by Boots. Where applicable, you will comply with ASA/CAP guidance on Nutrition and Health Claims, the EU Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, the Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, the Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 and the Department of Health Nutrition and Health claims guidance.
You remain the legal owner of any Content you upload and post to social media channels in connection with the Affiliate Programme, except to the extent such Content contains Boots Trademarks, or other intellectual property which is owned by a Boots Company or any other third party.
By uploading Content to social media channels which is connected with the Affiliate Programme, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual, worldwide licence to use, adapt, modify, enhance or create derivative works from such Content, as necessary or desirable for the purposes of providing, improving, expanding and promoting the products and services of the Boots Companies including paid advertising campaigns and any other products or services we may offer or provide from time to time. You agree that the Boots Companies may identify you by name, username, likeness, or social media handle when reposting or sharing your content.
We reserve the right to require the removal by you of any Content connected with the Affiliate Programme or the Boots Companies from publication (on any social media platform, or elsewhere) immediately on notice.
You warrant that: (a) the Content is original and does not infringe or misappropriate the rights (including intellectual property rights) of any third party (b) any opinions and views stated in the Content are genuinely held by you and that the Content does not contain any representations or material which you know or suspect to be false, misleading or deceptive; and (c) you are at least 18 years of age.
You will: (a) ensure that the Content is not defamatory, libellous, slanderous, obscene or likely to cause offence; (b) ensure that the image/video quality of the Content is of a high standard and clear resolution.
You will not use social media in any way or perform any actions or make any statements, at any time that may be defamatory, false or misleading, or that may bring the Boots Companies into disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule or damage its business interests (whether directly or indirectly).
You warrant and undertake that neither you nor any associated person will: (a) engage in an activity, practice or conduct which could constitute an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 or other anti-corruption legislation (“ABAC Laws”) or implicate Boots in such an offence, or is otherwise contrary to ABAC Laws.
Your relationship to Boots is that of an independent contractor, and nothing in this agreement will constitute you as an employee of Boots.

CONTACT

For general enquiries relating to the Affiliate Programme or these Terms and Conditions p lease email the Boots Team at lucy.budge@boots.com