Our PPC Policy:
- Although PPC affiliates are welcome to apply to the program, Samsung operates a closed PPC policy and any such approved affiliates would need to adhere to the following terms:
- Affiliates are requested to not direct traffic directly to any Samsung brand website
- No Samsung or associated brand terms can appear in your Display URL, Title or description. This includes upper and lower case terms
- Affiliates shall not purchase any domains that include any variation or misspell of the Samsung brand terms.
- Affiliates are not allowed to display their ads when Samsung or variations Samsung, including misspellings, are entered as search keywords. No brand bidding at all is allowed and where possible brand terms should be added as negative matches
- Unless permission has been given by Samsung, affiliates should avoid bidding on brand name + generic terms - this includes brand + voucher.
- Samsung reserves the right to suspend any affiliates from the programme immediately if they are found to be in breach of the above terms and conditions. If you are not sure about what you can and cannot do, please contact the program’s account manager prior to undertaking any activity.
Our Voucher Policy:
- Voucher Codes Affiliates are permitted to promote any generic coupons or promotional codes that are provided through the Awin affiliate program or otherwise available to the public.
- Transactions whereby a code not intended for the affiliate channel has been used will be paid out at 0% commission.
Other:
- Social Media Affiliates are permitted to promote Samsung through social media.
- Sub-network affiliates are permitted on the Samsung program however this must be disclosed to the Account Manager during application.
- Email Affiliates who wish to promote Samsung via email must have the permission of Samsung or the Account Manager before any such activity is conducted.
Affiliates promoting Samsung offers must adhere to the copy provided in the weekly communications email sent out to all affiliates by the Samsung Awin affiliate team. This copy has been signed off by the Samsung legal team and must not be altered. Affiliates promoting incorrect or altered offers could be at risk of suspension or having commissions reversed.
All booked tenancy/exposure placements require approval from the Samsung affiliate team prior to go live. Please submit a preview of the placement to uk-samsung@awin.com and the team will be able to review and approve.
Our Legal & Compliance Policy
- All Affiliates must comply with and be bound by all applicable laws, rules and regulations as well as all applicable Samsung policies and procedures available at https://www.samsung.com/global/sustainability/digital-library/policy-document/.
- In accordance with applicable data and privacy protection legislation (such as General Data Protection regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), Directive 2002/58/EC, Laws 4624/2019, 3471/2016) and guidelines or decisions, Affiliates must obtain a prior, freely given, specific informed, unambiguous and revocable consent of all users before they receive AWIN cookies as a result of a Click. The AWIN cookies must be placed under the cookie level: Advertising / Targeting Cookies and provide users with a possibility to adjust their preferences in relation to these cookies or proceed without accepting any within Affiliates Websites/Applications.
- Affiliates may only advertise on the registered AWIN Publisher Network Websites/Applications.
- The use of sub-Affiliates is allowed in the Programme, but this must be agreed with the Programme’s account manager at the time of application.
Samsung brand compliance policy
- Affiliates promoting Samsung offers must only use materials provided by Samsung or the Samsung Awin Affiliate Team. These materials cannot be altered.
- If an Affiliate wishes to use materials that have not been provided by Samsung or Samsung Awin Affiliate team, on which the Samsung brand is proposed to be used, this Affiliate must submit specific materials for Samsung’s written approval by sending email to global-uksamsung@awin.com. Samsung may withhold such approval or grant it on conditions as Samsung thinks fit.
- All booked tenancy / exposure placements require prior written approval from Samsung or Samsung Awin Affiliate team prior to go live. Please submit a review of the placement by sending email to global-uksamsung@awin.com and the respective team will be able to review and approve in writing.
- Affiliate Websites/Applications that contain or are related to the following content are not permitted:
o Banner lists or sites with a click request/compulsory click (e.g. SMS dispatch, forced clicks, paid-for-action sites)
o Paid link collections
o Sites with content that glorifies gratuitous violence or criminal activity, is discriminatory and/or defamatory or contains negative portrayals of race, religion, sexual identity, or local culture, pornographic or contains sexually explicit subjects, harmful to young people or illegal, with a bias toward or against any political party or candidate, promotes drug or alcohol abuse, describes a health condition in a derogatory or inflammatory way or other potentially divisive subject matter.
o Sites that contain or install malware and/or spyware on the users of Web
o Content that violates morality and applicable laws or the rights of third parties comparative advertising, in particular aggressive comparative advertising that can create problems with other advertisers, as well as aggressive competing claims that are not substantiated, negative or inaccurate portrayal of competitors or their products and misleading claims and product information.
Confidentiality
• Publishers undertake to maintain the confidentiality of all information shared in context of the Programme (“Confidential Information”), such as information about Samsung products and planned Samsung advertising campaigns or other Samsung activities that have not yet been made public by Samsung, that is:
o Information about products before their official launch,
o Information about planned marketing, advertising, promotional activities of Samsung prior to their commencement;
o Marketing material, including press releases, prior to its publication by Samsung or Samsung's consent to its publication.
and any other Samsung information or data whether or not marked as confidential, either oral, visual, written or any other form and whether or not such information or data is also a trade secret as defined in applicable legislation.
• Samsung's Confidential Information may only be disclosed after the secrecy period has expired or with the written consent of Samsung.
• Publishers undertake to keep Confidential Information confidential in particular, by
o Refraining from disseminating them in such a way that everyone will be able to read them,
o Refraining from disclosing them to any third party;
o Providing Samsung's Confidential Information with at least the same protection as the Publisher's own confidential information;
o Allowing access to Samsung Confidential Information to only those employees or associates of the Publisher who reasonably need to know the same for the purpose of the Programme and provided that these persons are placed under confidentiality obligations. Publishers shall be liable to Samsung as for all their acts or omissions
Non compliance
- Samsung reserves the right to suspend any Affiliates from the Programme immediately if they are found to be in breach of the above terms and conditions.
Contact Us
- If you are not sure about what you can and cannot do, please contact the Programme’s account manager at global-uksamsung@awin.com prior to undertaking any activity.
