Quicksilver Scientific (US)

Program Terms

Program Restrictions

Unless explicitly authorized otherwise by Quicksilver Scientific Inc, the following Program restrictions apply:

•             This is a consumer based program and does NOT pay commission on whole sale or practitioner orders

•             Affiliates are not permitted to purchase, own or bid on any domain names with the word ‘Quicksilver Scientific’ or misspellings of ‘Quicksilver Scientific’ in the URL. For example, quicksilverscientific.com.

•             Affiliates must not include Quicksilver Scientific Brand Terms, or misspelt variations of the same, in the sub-domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://quicksilverscientific.affiliate.com.

•             Affiliates may use correctly spelt Quicksilver Scientific Brand Terms after the domain of their website’s URL. For example, http://www.affiliate.com/quicksilverscientific

•  Affiliates are not allowed to register the brand Quicksilver Scientific 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 Quicksilver Scientific social media platform in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. Quicksilver Scientific social media platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.

•             Direct linking to Myprotein websites from paid social media is prohibited.

Any affiliates who do not abide by these rules risk having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.

PPC Policy

Brand bidding, along with permutatuions, is not permitted on any search engine, (no problem with generic).

Restrictions include, but are not limited to the following:

Quicksilver Scientific

Quicksilverscientific.com

www.quicksilverscientific.com

quicksilverlife.com

any web address with quicksilver scientific in it

thr.com

www.thr.com

any web address with thr in it

quinton.com

www.quinton.com

any web address with quinton in it

quintessential.com

www.quintessential.com

any web address with quintessential.com

Dr. Chris Shade

www.drchrisshade.com

drchrisshade.com

any we address with Dr. Chris Shade, Dr. Shade, etc, in it

PPC affiliates are NOT allowed to bid on any of the following Google banned terms or misspellings, or derivatives including but not isolated to:

Sea Water

Please do not use the word ‘official’ in your advertisements.

We are happy for affiliates to bid on generic terms, however direct linking is prohibited. Any affiliates who do not abide by these rules are at risk of having their commissions set to zero and possible suspension.

Discount Codes

Affiliates may only promote codes that are provided through the Quicksilver Scientific affiliate program 

Quicksilver Scientific reserves the right to withhold payment of commission if unauthorized coupon codes are used in an affiliate sale. We appreciate that consumers may use coupon codes that they have found via a site other than that which is awarded the sale and this will be investigated before decisions on commission payment are made. Any affiliate found to be displaying unauthorized codes may also have their commission set to zero until the code(s) are removed.

Where coupon codes are issued with an expiration date this should be clearly displayed, and codes should be removed or explicitly marked as expired after this due date unless you are advised otherwise. Any affiliates displaying expired codes without marking them as being expired may be suspended from the program. Please also ensure that you observe IAB voucher code best practice guidelines.

Social Media Advertising

Affiliates must not post on any Quicksilver Scientific social media page in order to attempt to drive visitors to their webpage. Quicksilver Scientific social media pages include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and TikTok. 

De-duplication Policy

All affiliate sales are de-duplicated against other online advertising channels using a local cookie on the merchant platform. De-duplication channels include :

• PPC Brand
• PPC Generic
• Email Advertising
• Direct Partnerships
• Price Comparison
• Display & retargeting advertising
• Other Affiliate Networks

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. More information here: https://www.awin.com/gb/news-and-events/industry-news/affiliate-links-on-instagram-stories.

Validation Policy

Quicksilver Scientific validate in-line with their returns policy which is 30 days with a look back window 31 days.