Programme Rules
Please read through the Hearst Magazines UK programme rules below. Any affiliates found to be breaking these terms and conditions will be removed from the programme with immediate effect and have any due commissions set to zero.
PPC Restrictions
Hearst Magazines UK
Subscription PPC Restrictions
Brand name (ie magazine name) subscriptions cannot be bid against
General
You should ensure that it is clear that you are an affiliates/ third parties and do not represent yourself as qualitymagazines.co.uk, hearstmagazines.co.uk. Hearst Magazines UK, or any of the titles it represents, in all advertising and website text.
Ad Title and Ad Text
You are not allowed to use trademarks in your Ad Copy Title/Text.
You are not allowed to show the brand terms Hearst Digital or Hearst Magazines UK in the Ad Copy Title/Text.
You are not allowed to use misspellings of the term Qualitymagazines.co.uk, hearstmagzines.co.uk, Hearst Magazines UK or any of our title websites in the Ad Copy Title/Text.
The pricing stated in your Ad Text must be up to date and mirror the offer to which you are sending the customer.
Keywords
As Hearst Magazines UK has their own PPC programme, they will be linking directly to their site (www.qualitymagazines.co.uk, hearstmagazines.co.uk and title websites), and therefore affiliates bidding on generic keywords should ensure their traffic is directed to their own websites first.
URLs
You cannot use the domain name or any variation of display name (hearst.co.uk, qualitymagazines.co.uk, hearstmagazines.co.uk or title websites) in PPC campaigns.
Example: www.qualitymagazines.co.uk, www.qualitymagazines.com, www. Quality-magazines.co.uk
You cannot include trademarks, the term Hearst.co.uk, HearstMagazines or QualityMagazines and any magazine titles published by Hearst Magazines UK in the sub domain of the display URL's in PPC campaigns. -
Example: www.qualitymagazines.AffiliateSite.com, www.cosmo.AffiliateSite.com
You cannot include trademarks, the term hearst.co.uk, HearstMagazines or QualityMagazines and any magazine titles published Hearst Magazines UK in the sub folders of the display URL's in PPC campaigns.
Example: www.AffiliateSite.com/goodhousekeeping, www.AffiliateSite.com/qualitymagazines
You cannot operate domains which contain trademarks for the sole purpose of driving traffic from Search Engines.
Examples: www.qualitymagazines.co.uk, www.qualitymagazinesnow.co.uk, subscribe.hearstmags.com
You can feature the domain name www.qualitymagazines.co.uk on an affiliate website, email or newsletter which links directly to www.qualitymagazines.co.uk, www.hearstmagazines.co.uk or https://subscribe.hearstmags.com as long as it is clear that you do not represent yourself as Hearst Magazines UK, Hearstmagazines, QualityMagazines or any of our titles (e.g., Cosmopolitan) and the URL does not form a part of any PPC campaign.
Graphical elements
There is a wide selection of creative available within the Affiliate Window interface for you to use to promote this programme. If these are not satisfactory for your requirements then new designs may be submitted to Hearst Magazines UK for approval. No new banners may be used in the public domain until sign-off has been gained from Hearst Magazines UK.
Email policy
You are not permitted to send any unsolicited email ("spam") under this Affiliate programme.
Purchasing of domain names
Affiliates cannot use any domain names that include Hearst Magazines UK, Quality Magazines, subscribe.hearstmagazines or Individual Magazine brands such as Good Housekeeping etc.
Reward sites
Hearst Magazines UK encourages loyalty and cashback to promote the campaign; however we will only pay commission on subscriptions still active at time of validation which is within 6 weeks of order process and acquired via our Affiliate Window special landing page www.hearstmagazines.co.uk/aw15/
Commissions
Hearst Magazines UK will only pay commissions on subscriptions still active at time of validation which is within 6 weeks of order process and acquired via our Affiliate Window special landing page www.hearstmagazines.co.uk/aw
